Recently Departed

Leonardo DiCaprio's maternal grandmother, Helene Indenbirken, whom he called Oma (at left, with Leo and her daughter in Barcelona in 2006), died in a hospital in her native North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, according to Indenbirken's hometown paper, the Recklinghauser Zeitung. No exact date or cause of death has been reported. She was 93. (via Peeps; photo: INF)

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