 Michelle Franzen, ABC News. I know what you're thinking sometimes in these cases of losses of people that have some effect of us in life. You think things happen in three. I was thinking not today, but in the last hour, breaking news. Shannon Doherty, the Beverly Hills 90210 star whose life and career were roiled by illness and tabloid stories, has now passed at the age of 53. She died yesterday, according to a statement from her publicist.