On October 2, 1985, actor Rock Hudson, 59, became the first major U.S. celebrity to die of complications from AIDS.

Elizabeth Taylor felt helpless learning a close friend's fate along with the world. The HIV/AIDS epidemic touched many people throughout the 1980s, and the actress was no exception. In the final ...

Rock Hudson and Lee Garlington’s love story was brief, but it was the greatest love of the legendary actor’s life. On Sunday, PEOPLE confirmed that Garlington died at age 86 in December, nearly four ...

Gossip columnist Army Archerd died this week in Los Angeles at the age of 87. He was the first journalist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. One of Archerd's biggest scoops was the ...

Marc Christian, who won a multimillion-dollar settlement in 1991 from the estate of actor Rock Hudson, his former lover, after convincing a jury that Hudson had knowingly exposed him to AIDS, died ...

In “Giant Love,” the novelist’s great-niece chronicles the Texas saga’s divisive reception and the epic film adaptation that’s now better known than the book. By Alexandra Jacobs Stephan Kijak’s new ...