Leslie Gore—a singer-songwriter who topped the charts in 1963 with her song “It’s My Party” and followed it with the hits “Judy’s Turn to Cry” and “You Don’t Own Me”—has died at age 68, according to Newstalk1010.com.
According to her partner of 33 years, Gore died Feb. 16 of cancer at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan.
Quincy Jones discovered Gore as a teenager and signed her to Mercury Records.
In a 2005 interview with AfterEllen, Gore said she knew her true sexual orientation in her twenties.
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