Alice and Ellen Kessler, twin dancers and singers who launched their career in the 1950s and performed with Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra and Harry Belafonte, among others, have died, police in Germany said Tuesday. They were 89.

The death of the twins in Grünwald, a prosperous suburb of Munich where they shared a house, was reported by German newspaper Bild and news agency dpa on Monday, without named sources. Munich police on Tuesday confirmed the deaths, saying in an emailed statement that it was a "joint suicide." In a statement , the German Society for Humane Dying confirmed to Bavarian Broadcasting that it was an assisted suicide.

German twin dancers Alice and Ellen Kessler hold gorilla twin babies Alice and Ellen, they feed with milk bottles on August 30, 1967 at the Zoo in Frankf

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