Veteran journalist Nikki Finke, founder of the entertainment trade site Deadline and in her heyday an elbows-out columnist known for juicy industry scoops and gossip that skewered Hollywood's rich and powerful, has died at age 68.
According to a family representative, Finke died Sunday morning in Boca Raton, Florida, after a prolonged illness.
Finke was revered and feared in the industry for exposing secrets, first through her L.A. Weekly column, Deadline Hollywood, which she eventually built into a website.
