Milestones

By Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Autumn De Leon, Daniel S. Levy, Lina Lofaro, Chris Taylor and David E. Thigpen

DIVORCING. PHYLLIS REDSTONE, 74, and Viacom CEO SUMNER REDSTONE, 76; after 52 years of marriage. The marriage reportedly foundered because of the media mogul's affair with a 46-year-old production-company executive.

WILL FILED. For the estate of JOHN F. KENNEDY JR.; in a Manhattan court; two months after his death in an airplane crash. His personal belongings, including his father's scrimshaw collection, and his share of family real estate will go to the children of his sister Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg.

DIED. RAISA GORBACHEV, 67, wife of the former Soviet President; of leukemia; in Germany (see Eulogy below).

DIED. GEORGE C. SCOTT, 71, raspy-voiced, imperious actor whose roles in The Hustler and Dr. Strangelove earned him Academy Award nominations, and who won and then declined an Oscar for Patton; of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm; at his home in Los Angeles. He won three Emmys and was nominated for four Tonys, but Scott's personal life was messy. He was married five times, twice to actress Colleen Dewhurst. He attributed his heavy drinking habits to a four-year stint digging graves for the Marines in Arlington National Cemetery. "I became an actor," he once said, "to escape my own personality."

DIED. DR. WILLIAM ECKERT, 73, forensic pathologist; of congestive heart failure; in New Orleans; on Sept. 17. Eckert, who worked on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the Charles Manson murders, was a pioneer who encouraged collaboration between law-enforcement and forensics teams.

DIED. FREDERICK P. ROSE, 75, builder and philanthropist; after a brief illness; in Rye, N.Y.; on Sept. 14. Enthusiastic and mercurial (he made origami animals out of foreign currency), Rose donated more than $95 million to such New York institutions as Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Hayden Planetarium.