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Actress Diane Ladd died at 89 on Monday, Nov. 3, just over three months after her husband Robert Charles Hunter died at 77<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Ladd and Hunter, the former CEO of PepsiCo, married in 1999<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Ladd’s daughter Laura Dern, whom she shared with ex-husband Bruce Dern, announced her mother’s death on Nov. 3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
News of Diane Ladd<\/a>‘s death at 89<\/a> comes just three months after she and her family lost her husband Robert Charles Hunter, who died on Aug. 1 at 77.<\/p>\n Ladd’s daughter Laura Dern<\/a> announced that her mother “passed away with me beside her this morning, at her home in Ojai, Calif.,” in a statement on Monday, Nov. 3. “She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created,” Dern, 58, whom Ladd shared<\/a> with her ex-husband Bruce Dern<\/a>, added. “We were blessed to have her. She is flying with her angels now.”<\/p>\n Ladd’s husband Hunter, former CEO of PepsiCo Food Systems, died in Fort Worth, Texas while visiting his children, as The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> reported in August.<\/p>\n Hunter and Ladd co-founded their production company Excel Entertainment in 1999, the same year they married. He made his one and only big screen appearance as a detective in David Lynch<\/a>‘s 2006 movie Inland Empire<\/em>, which Dern and Ladd both starred in.<\/p>\n While Ladd never released a formal statement regarding Hunter’s death, she did share a screengrab of THR’s <\/em>reporting of his passing to Instagram<\/a> on Aug. 3.<\/p>\n