 Inmates held her in such regard that after her car was stolen from the prison parking lot it was immediately returned once it was discovered that it was her car that had been taken.In addition to her apartment on the Upper East Side, she also had residences in Quogue, New York and Tourrettes-sur-Loup, France.Margolis died at age 79 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan on July 3, 2009, due to complications from cancer.