For the late Diane Keaton, Palm Springs was a refuge.

The Academy Award-winning actress, who died Oct. 11 at age 79 , spent several months in the Coachella Valley after wildfires damaged her Los Angeles home in January 2025.

Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager recently told PEOPLE that she saw Keaton two to three weeks before her death, after the actress returned home from Palm Springs, and was "stunned by how much weight she'd lost."

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