{"id":37878,"date":"2019-06-13T16:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T20:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=37878"},"modified":"2019-06-13T16:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T20:22:58","slug":"mary-max-takes-her-own-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2019\/06\/mary-max-takes-her-own-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Max Takes Her Own Life."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunate news broke this week that Mary Max, wife of psychedelic pop artist, Peter Max, took her life Tuesday evening.\u00a0 Her ultimate choice to end her life stems from a long and vicious legal dispute over the care for her husband and his studio.\u00a0 According to the NYT, Adam Cosmo, Mr. Max\u2019s son from a previous marriage, took a larger role in his father\u2019s studio as his mental abilities began to deteriorate due to dementia, forcing Mary out of the business.\u00a0 Mary claimed that Adam \u201ckidnapped his father\u201d alleging she abused him, but he was later ordered to return his father to his stepmother&#8217;s care.<\/p>\n<p>Before taking her life, Mrs. Max left a long voicemail to a friend in London, saying her farewells to the people she loved the most, including her husband, closes friends, brother, and mother.\u00a0 While the cause of death is still under investigation, her lawyer, Mr. Markham, commented: \u201cIt\u2019s very sad that she could not convince some others that she was as dedicated as she was &#8230; She finally gave up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/11\/nyregion\/mary-max-suicide.html?utm_source=Breakfast+with+ARTnews&amp;utm_campaign=aabd3bb01c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_11_09_43&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c5d7f10ceb-aabd3bb01c-293337445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mary Max, Wife of Pop Artist Peter Max, Dies by Apparent Suicide<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunate news broke this week that Mary Max, wife of psychedelic pop artist, Peter Max, took her life Tuesday evening.\u00a0 Her ultimate choice to end her life stems from a long and vicious legal dispute over the care for her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2019\/06\/mary-max-takes-her-own-life\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":31277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-37878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-the-dark-side"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mary Max Takes Her Own Life. - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2019\/06\/mary-max-takes-her-own-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mary Max Takes Her Own Life.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Unfortunate news broke this week that Mary Max, wife of psychedelic pop artist, Peter Max, took her life Tuesday evening.\u00a0 Her ultimate choice to end her life stems from a long and vicious legal dispute over the care for her &hellip; More...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2019\/06\/mary-max-takes-her-own-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/howard.rehs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-13T20:22:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tales-from-the-dark-side.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"315\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Howard L. 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