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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Maila Nurmi, whose "Vampira" TV persona pioneered the spooky-yet-sexy Goth aesthetic, has died, coroner's officials said. She was 85.
Nurmi died Thursday afternoon at her Hollywood home, Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. Fred Corral said. The cause of death has not been determined, Corral said.
Nurmi created her Vampira character - reminiscent of Charles Addams' spooky New Yorker cartoons - to host horror movie broadcasts on KABC TV in Los Angeles in 1954.
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
