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TIL that L.A.-based commercial artist and Vietnam War veteran Patrick Nagel, who became famous the 1980s for his art of women for 'Playboy' and Duran Duran's 1982 album 'Rio', died of a heart attack after a celebrity Aerobathon in 1984, aged 38.

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