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Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in 1974; the two decades it took Gast to bring his footage of the fight to the screen were vindicated when the film triumphed at the Oscars in 1996. The bout was staged in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) by the promoter Don King, who had convinced the country’s dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, to put up a purse of $10 million on the basis that the televising of the fight would hugely enhance Zaire’s profile.

dogged pursuit of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who sued him and won a restraining order, has died at age 91.Galella died Saturday at his home in Montville, N.J. said Geoffrey Croft, a spokesperson and the editor of Galella's most recent book, “100 Iconic Photographs — A Retrospective.” The cause was congestive heart failure, Croft said.Galella amassed millions of images in a career that began in the 1960s, earning sobriquets like the “paparazzo extraordinaire” for his up-close, candid shots of the rich and famous.

Leon Gast, the celebrated Oscar-winning documentarian behind When We Were Kings, which chronicled the 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" bout between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, has died. He was 85.

tweeted. “Leon passed away peacefully this morning at his home.

Leon Gast, the veteran filmmaker who won a Documentary Feature Oscar for helming the 1996 “Rumble in the Jungle” pic When We Were Kings, died Monday. He was 85.

Natalie Oganesyan editorLeon Gast, the Academy Award-winning director behind sport documentary “When We Were Kings,” died on Monday, according to Meira Blaustein, his close friend and the co-founder of Woodstock Film Festival. He was 85.Blaustein shared the news of Gast’s death in a Facebook post.