PREVIOUSLY, 10:25 AM: The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said its deputies shot and killed a man who was suspected of stabbing a woman to death at the home of Ron Ely, who played TV’s Tarzan in ...

SANTA BARBARA, California -- The wife of "Tarzan" actor Ron Ely was stabbed to death in their California home by their 30-year-old son, who was then shot and killed by sheriff's deputies, authorities ...

A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s, has died at 80. But other accounts call that claim into question. Debbie Cobb, outreach ...

SANTA BARBARA, California -- The son of "Tarzan" actor Ron Ely is suspected of stabbing and killing his 62-year-old mother before he was fatally shot by deputies at his home Tuesday night, authorities ...

“Tarzan” star Ron Ely’s cause of death has been revealed. The actor, who passed away on Sept. 29, died from “end-stage heart disease,” according to his death certificate, obtained by TMZ. The document ...

Officers responded on Oct. 15, 2019, to a 911 call placed by Ron’s son, Cameron, 30, reporting that his mother, Valerie Lundeen Ely, 62, had been attacked by the now-82-year-old television star.

The attorney for “Tarzan” actor Ron Ely and his family has challenged a Santa Barbara County District Attorney report that the fatal shooting of his son was justifiable. Attorney John Burris said in a ...

Ron Ely’s cause of death was revealed seven weeks after his death on Sunday, Sept. 29, at the age of 86. According to his death certificate obtained by TMZ, the Tarzan star died from "end-stage heart ...