Los Angeles Times

Garland’s remains in L.A.?

- — Christie D’Zurilla

Is the body of Judy Garland, interred at Ferncliff Cemetery in New York since her death in 1969, being moved to Hollywood?

“That’s a private family matter at this time,” Noelle Berman, director of private estates at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, told the Los Angeles Times on Friday morning. According to TMZ and People, Hollywood Forever is the destinatio­n of the star’s remains.

Garland’s body was taken from a mausoleum on Jan. 19 and put on an L.A.bound flight out of JFK on Tuesday night, TMZ reported. The move is being made at daughter Liza Minnelli’s request, the website said.

According to People, the move is being made because the cemetery in Hartsdale, N.Y., doesn’t have enough room for Garland’s children — Minnelli, Lorna Luft and Joey Luft — and grandchild­ren to be buried near her.

TMZ also said that Garland, who was raised Episcopali­an but had two Jewish husbands, would be interred in the Beth Olam section of the cemetery, which is typically reserved for Jewish burials.

The “A Star Is Born” and “The Wizard of Oz” actress and iconic singer died of an accidental overdose in London in 1969.

Her fifth husband, Mickey Deans, explained to the New York Times why he had chosen New York as her resting place.

“Judy’s always wanted to be wherever I am, and my home is here and in London, and I didn’t want her where tourist buses and that sort of thing go through,” he said at the time of her death.

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