Marilyn Lovell Matz [SEP] cause of death
onset of the AIDS epidemic during the 1980s. Lovell and her husband, Peter Matz, held fundraisers which raised thousands of dollars for AIDS Project Los Angeles.
Lovell continued her therapy practice during the 1990s. She simultaneously returned to the entertainment industry singing at jazz clubs and cabarets in the Los Angeles area, including the Jazz Bakery and Cinegrill. She was cast in a small role in the 1996 film, "Ghosts of Mississippi", directed by Rob Reiner.
Matz died of complications from multiple sclerosis, which she
married 20 years. In 1981, Matz married Marilyn Lovell Matz, an actress and AIDS activist. The couple remained together until Matz's death in 2002.
In the early 1960s, Matz began working with Barbra Streisand on her first album, which won several Grammy Awards and brought her stardom. He continued arranging and conducting on her next four albums and won a Grammy Award himself for her 1964 album, "People". Later, Matz won an Emmy Award for her 1965 television special "My Name Is Barbra"