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Baroness Julie "Luli" Dorothea Baronin von Bodenhausen, an actress and author, in New York City; she died in 1951. In 1952 he married his second wife, Eva F. Kollsman, who survived him. Paul Kollsman died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California in 1982.
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Kollsman's widow, Eva, in 1997 for $ 20 million and razed the landmark house in 2000, with plans to build two 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m) mansions in its place. As of 2015 the site remains undeveloped, overgrown with brush and weeds.
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