Reclusive '80s Icon Cut Off Friends Until Final Months of His Life originally appeared on Parade. Richard Simmons was a larger than life personality for most of his life — until he completely ...

"I was concerned about the abruptness of it," Michael Catalano, Simmons's longtime manager, tells PEOPLE Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on human interest, crime and sports ...

But in the months before his death, Simmons was energized by a new project - a potential Broadway musical about his life After years in the spotlight, Richard Simmons, the once-ubiquitous fitness and ...

Richard Simmons was a larger than life personality for most of his life — until he completely disappeared from the spotlight in early 2014. Not only did the '80s fitness icon retreat from public life, ...

Nearly a year after Richard Simmons' death at age 76, those closest to the fitness guru reflect on his roughly decade-long public absence "He just went cold turkey on everyone," says his former ...