Howard Ruby, husband of late actress Yvette Mimieux, died Monday in Los Angeles' natural cause, a public relations officer announced. He is 90 years old.

Ruby and Mimieux, known for her turn in the movie Where is the boy,,,,, Lights in the square,,,,, Jackson County Jail and Toys in the atticWedding began in December 1986 until she died in January 2022 at the age of 80.

Mimieux Married Singing in the rain Director Stanley Donen divorced from 1972 to 1985.

Born in Cleveland on March 28, 1935, Ruby graduated from Wharton and then joined the U.S. Navy, where he was a supply officer. After the service, he established a real estate partnership in California, leading to the establishment of the R&B Realty Group in 1960.

In 1965, R&B opened the South Bay Club, the first Marina del Rey to offer a single apartment. The concept was a well-equipped apartment with household items and chores in the 1970s, and the company's locations in 50 states and 86 countries will continue to be the world's largest provider of furniture apartments.

2014 wealth The magazine calls him the "father of corporate housing." (Oakwood was sold to Singapore-based Ascott Limited in 2022).

Despite being diagnosed with retinitis pigment, a hereditary, degenerative eye disease that causes severe visual impairment, Ruby is an avid photographer who traveled several times to the Arctic to photograph polar bears and cubs.

He was transferred to the website for creating a climate classroom for children and eventually worked with the National Wildlife Federation to develop an educational outreach program that used photos of his melted ice and threatened animals to point out the threat of global warming.

Ruby also donated photos to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and the University of California Santa Barbara School of Environmental Sciences, and was named the NWF as the 2007 Conservation Photographer of the Year.

His philanthropy also includes gifts to the University of Iowa Institute for Vision Research to speed up its efforts to create retinal grafts from patient-derived stem cells.

As his retinitis pigmentosa developed, Ruby began rowing and racing until his late 1980s.

Survivors include his children, Steven, Michael and Donna, 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.