Editing Russ Meyer (section)

== Final years ==
[[File:Russ Meyer gravestone.jpg|thumb|Meyer's gravestone, located in the Stockton Rural Cemetery in Stockton, California]]
Meyer owned the rights to nearly all of his films and spent the majority of the 1980s and 1990s making millions reselling his films on the [[home video]] and [[DVD]] market. He worked out of his Los Angeles home and usually took telephone orders in person. A major retrospective of his work was given at the [[British Film Institute]] which Meyer attended in 1982. The Chicago Film Festival honored his work in 1985, for which he also made a personal appearance, and many revival movie houses booked his films for [[midnight movie]] marathons.

He also worked obsessively for over a decade on a massive three-volume autobiography, titled ''[[A Clean Breast]]''. Finally printed in 2000, it features numerous excerpts of reviews, clever details of each of his films and countless photos and [[Eroticism|erotic]] musings.

Starting in the mid-1990s, Meyer had frequent fits and bouts of [[Amnesia|memory loss]]. By 2000, he was diagnosed with [[Alzheimer's disease]], and his health and well-being were thereafter looked after by Janice Cowart, his secretary and estate executor. That same year, with no wife or children to claim his wealth, Meyer willed that the majority of his money and estate would be sent to the [[Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center]] in honor of his late mother.

Russ Meyer died at his home in the [[Hollywood Hills]] (from complications of [[pneumonia]]), on September 18, 2004, at the age of 82.<ref>{{Cite news | last=Martin | first=Douglas | title=Russ Meyer, 82, a Filmmaker of Classics in a Lusty Genre, Dies | work=The New York Times | date=September 23, 2004 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/23/arts/23meyer.html | access-date=August 1, 2008}}</ref>  Meyer's grave is located at Stockton Rural Cemetery in [[San Joaquin County, California]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=E5fySoLnhGYC&dq=russ+meyer+stockton+rural+cemetery&pg=PT341 ''Big Bosoms and Square Jaws'']</ref>
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