Jean Harris, killer of 'Scarsdale Diet' doctor, dies at 89

By Michael Melia Associated Press Comments Zoom Jean Harris, shown in 1993, spent 12 years in prison for the 1980 killing of her longtime lover, “Scarsdale Diet” doctor Herman Tarnower, in a case that rallied feminists and inspired television movies. (AP Photo, File) New Haven, Conn. — Jean Harris, the patrician girls' school headmistress who spent 12 years in prison for the 1980 killing of her longtime lover, "Scarsdale Diet" doctor Herman Tarnower, in a case that rallied feminists and inspired television movies, has died. She was 89. Harris died Sunday at an assisted-living facility in New Haven, her son, James Harris, said Friday. She had claimed the shooting of Tarnower, 69, was an...