Former Hollywood actress and sex symbol Jane Russell has died the age of 89.

好莱坞前女演员、性感的象征——简·拉塞尔逝世，享年89岁。

Russell married three times and adopted three children
The brunette（浅黑肤色的女人） was discovered by eccentric（古怪的） billionaire Howard Hughes, who cast her in his 1943 Western The Outlaw¹.

Some of her most memorable² parts include the The Paleface (1948) with Bob Hope and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) with Marilyn Monroe.

She died on Monday at her home in California of a respiratory（呼吸的） -related illness, her daughter-in-law confirmed.

"She always said I'm going to die in the saddle, I'm not going to sit at home and become an old woman. And that's exactly what she did, she died in the saddle," Etta Waterfield said, recounting that Russell had remained active in her local community until illness intervened in recent weeks.

Russell married three times and adopted three children.

After experiencing problems during the adoption³ process, she founded World Adoption International Agency, which has helped organise⁴ the adoptions⁵ in the US of tens of thousands of children from overseas.