Karen Carpenter began struggling with eating disorders in the mid-1970s, losing a significant amount of weight and canceling a European tour to spend time recovering in the hospital and at her parents' home. She eventually moved to New York to get treatment for anorexia nervosa and, seeemingly on the mend, returned to California. She collapsed at her parent's home the morning of February 4, 1983 and was taken to the hospital. She couldn't be revived, and Karen Carpenter died of heart failure at just 32 years old, as reported by Biography.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, she had just $2,000 in her bank account at the time of her death, but her total net worth was $6 million — about $14 million today, after adjusting for inflation. Her wealth was tied up in non-liquid assets, which led to a huge amount of taxes incurred by her estate; in the end, over 60 percent of her fortune went to "final expenses and taxes." According to 2010's Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter by Randy L. Schmidt, she had willed her money to her parents and her brother, Richard.
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