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World-renowned artist Jackie Ferrara has passed away at 95 -- choosing to end her life through medical aid.

Jackie -- whose work is featured in collections at the Museum of Modern Art -- died last Wednesday, her estate and legacy adviser Tina Hejtmanek confirmed. She had traveled to Basel, Switzerland, where she chose to end her life at Pegasos, a nonprofit clinic for assisted dying.

Jackie was based in NYC, where Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) isn’t legal -- and in the U.S. states where it is legal, patients have to be terminally ill, which she wasn’t. That’s why she traveled to Switzerland, where the law doesn’t require someone to be terminally ill.

The third death on Walt Disney World property in 10 days has been ruled a suicide, and two of the people took their lives at Disney's most prominent hotel ... TMZ has learned.

A rep for the Medical Examiner's Office tells TMZ, the third person was identified as 28-year-old Matthew Cohn, who died from multiple traumatic injuries after he jumped to his death from a height at Disney's Contemporary Resort in Florida

This is the third death at Walt Disney World in just over a week. As we reported, a 31-year-old woman died by suicide on October 14 -- also at the Contemporary. Then, on October 21, a man in his 60s died after suffering a medical episode at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground.

NYPD detective Alicia Stone died a week after undergoing a Brazilian butt lift and liposuction in Colombia ... leaving her husband searching for answers.

Detective Stone, a 13-year NYPD veteran in the department's Internal Affairs Bureau, was reportedly rushed to Fundación Valle del Lili Hospital in Cali, Colombia, after she was discovered unresponsive in her hotel room Thursday. According to the Daily News, she was pronounced dead about an hour later from an "unspecified cardiac arrest."

The late detective's husband, Michael Stone, told the Daily News, “The doctor who called me from Colombia just called me and told me my wife had just passed away. She didn’t have any information to tell me when I was asking her ... Something just doesn’t add up.”

A Saudi Airlines jet was turned into a bloody mess after it was hit with a massive bird strike ... which damaged the nose of the aircraft.

According to the Aviation Safety Network, Saudi Airlines flight SV340 hit a flock of birds shortly after takeoff from Houari Boumediene Airport in Algiers Saturday.

While the strike damaged the nose cone of the Boeing 777-300, the plane continued to its destination and landed safely at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Donald Trump isn't ruling out a third run for president ... and he's making it clear he has zero interest in being anyone's VP.

The prez spoke to reporters Monday aboard Air Force One en route to Japan ... when he was asked about Steve Bannon's recent comments, claiming there are plans for Trump to run and potentially win a third term in 2028.

Trump says "I would love to do it" when pressed about the potential presidential bid ... adding, "I have my best numbers ever."

A night of celebration turned tragic at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania when gunfire erupted during homecoming festivities, leaving one person dead and six others injured.

According to the Chester County District Attorney's Office, the shooting happened outside the school's International Cultural Center late Saturday after the homecoming football game.

One person was detained with a firearm, but no charges have been filed. Investigators are also looking into whether a second shooter may have been involved.

The Most Magical Place on Earth has been anything but for the last 10 days -- TMZ has confirmed yet another death occurred on Walt Disney World property ... the third happening yesterday.

In a TikTok video posted Thursday morning, you can see a heavy police presence near a taped-off pool at Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort in Florida. The user wrote ... "We were told it was a 'medical emergency.' Prayers to the family & those involved!"

Later, the Orange County Medical Examiner's Office in Orlando confirmed the death to TMZ, saying, "We are still in the process of completing our exams" on the deceased.

An AI security system spotted a teenager with a gun and promptly alerted the police in Baltimore ... well, at least it thought it did -- but it was only flagging a bag of cheesy goodness.

New body cam footage from Kenwood High School in Baltimore County, Maryland captured the incident where Taki Allen -- a 16-year-old student -- gets patted down while handcuffed after an AI-powered gun detection system flagged him, believing he was carrying.

After searching him, they found nothing ... an officer on the body cam tries to explain it away as the AI system firing off the alarm because of "the way you guys were eating chips, Doritos whatever, it picked it up as a gun."

If you're looking for a politically correct Halloween costume idea ... you ain't gonna find one with Kid Rock.

Check out this wild clip from the country crooner's chat with Fox News host Jesse Watters this week -- he puts on a face mask and tells Jesse he's going to be an 'R'-word for Halloween, insinuating that folks who wear masks are ... well, you get the idea.

Jesse immediately cracks up, and Kid Rock seems pleased to have put a smile on his face.

Kamala Harris isn't ruling out a presidential run.

The former VP says she could "possibly" be the next president in an interview set to air on BBC Sunday morning, teasing that she may throw her hat back in the ring in the future.

While she insists she has not yet decided if she's going to run for the presidency -- nor when that would be if she did jump in -- she confirms she's "not done" and brushes aside polls that say her chances are unfavorable.

Halloween is just around the corner, and most people know it's not a good idea to dress up as a Nazi -- except for one dude from Georgia who had to learn that lesson the hard way.

Check out this shocking video of a man dressed as a member of Hitler's German Gestapo secret police force while hanging out Friday night with a glass beer stein in hand outside a bar in the college town of Athens, GA.

As you can see ... several patrons standing around him are fuming over his costume, made even more offensive by his arm band emblazoned with a Nazi symbol.

Bill Maher has taken note of studies showing Gen Z folks are not having much sex, and he has offered some helpful and hilarious ways they can re-set things.

It seems to be true ... there are studies showing Gen Z is not getting down the way their elders did.

The "Real Time" host says there could be political consequences, because Trump World is urging their youngins to procreate for their leader.

So Bill is offering his own ideas of how Gen Z can ignite that spark ... and it's really funny.

A woman allegedly held her stepson captive for more than two decades in Connecticut ... and creepy new photos capture the inside of the badly burned residence.

Kimberly Sullivan's house -- where prosecutors allege she kept her 32-year-old stepson, identified only as "S," captive for years -- is a blackened mess after "S" allegedly burned the place down in order to escape.

A half-melted Marilyn Monroe poster sits on a table in one room ... while bare beams are completely exposed ... all the drywall and wallpaper burned away.

A plane crash in Venezuela claimed the lives of two people onboard ... and, the whole incident was captured on shocking video.

According to the local paper El Nacional, a Cheyenne model plane crashed as it was taking off from Paramillo Airport in Táchira -- a state in western Venezuela that's crossed by the Andes Mountains -- Wednesday morning.

Check out the clip ... the small aircraft barely gets off the ground when the airplane starts to turn widely to the left. The craft doesn't have enough momentum to propel itself through the turn -- and, it comes down in a crash on one of its wings, tumbling over and bursting into flames.

The Department of War has ordered the destruction of another boat allegedly carrying "narco-terrorists" ... and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth released video of the fatal strike on social media.

Hegseth posted the clip Wednesday morning ... explaining in the caption the strike went down Tuesday, and was carried out on a boat operated by a member of a "Designated Terrorist Organization" -- though he doesn't specify which one -- cutting through the water in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

The video shows the boat moving at a high speed ... before it's stopped abruptly by a barrage of missiles. A massive fireball engulfs the ship and burns atop the water before the 23-second clip ends.

10/21 3:45 PM PT -- Denver Police clarified to TMZ Tuesday ... the man arrested this weekend, Jose Cardenas, is actually the person suspected of stealing the victim's glasses off his face ... Cardenas is not the man suspected of tripping the victim in the street.

A Denver Police rep said ... "Cardenas is now under investigation for Theft from a Person and not Second Degree Assault." The person who tripped the victim remains unidentified, and police are asking for the public's help in identifying him.

A "No Kings" demonstrator has been arrested after cops say he's the guy who tripped a man who yelled out a gay slur at protesters in a video now going viral.