Kessler twins Ellen and Alice, singer-dancers who performed with Sinatra and Belafonte, dead at 89

German twin entertainers Alice and Ellen Kessler died together in Munich at 89 through medically assisted death, inseparable until their end.

The sisters performed with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Harry Belafonte and Fred Astaire, launching an international career in 1955 after fleeing a few years earlier from East Germany to what was then West Germany.

The women never married and requested to be buried together in one urn alongside their mother and beloved dog.

They performed together with Frank Sinatra. With Harry Belafonte. With Fred Astaire. And on Monday, Germany’s Kessler twins — Alice and Ellen — ended their lives together at age 89.

Police confirmed the death to the Associated Press , stating in an email that it was a “joint suicide.” The women shared a house in the suburb of