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The singer-dancers rose to fame in 1950s

November 20, 2025

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They performed together with Frank Sinatra. With Harry Belafonte. With Fred Astaire. And on Monday, Germany’s Kessler twins — Alice and Ellen — ended their lives together at age 89.

- CHRISTIE D’ZURILLA

The singer-dancers rose to fame in 1950s

"STRONGER TOGETHER"

The inseparable Alice, left, and Ellen Kessler with twin llamas in 1965 Rome.

Police confirmed the deaths to the Associated Press, stating in an email that it was a “joint suicide.” The women shared a house in the suburb of Grünwald, just south of Munich.

The sisters, who were born in the town of Nechau on Aug. 20, 1936, “no longer wanted to live” and “had chosen to end their lives together,” the German outlet Bild reported Monday, according to an automated translation. Medically assisted dying is allowed in Germany under certain conditions, the outlet said, for people who are legally capable and acting of their own free will.

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