Sam Simon, a co-creator of "The Simpsons" and animal-rights advocate who made a midlife career shift into philanthropy and channeled much of his personal fortune into social causes, has died. Simon ...

The estate of screenwriter and philanthropist Sam Simon has created a new, eponymous foundation that will focus its grant making on improving the treatment of animals and supporting programs that aid ...

Sam Simon's death was announced today on Facebook, without further details, by the foundation created in his name. He was 59 and had learned in 2012 that he had colon cancer. It is with much sadness ...

Animal-welfare and anti-hunger efforts will be prime beneficiaries of the $100-million fortune to be left by Sam Simon, a co-creator of The Simpsons who is in the final stages of a battle with colon ...

April 15 (Reuters) - Artwork worth $400,000 has been stolen from the Sam Simon Foundation in Malibu, California, set up by late "The Simpsons" co-creator Sam Simon, the California wire agency City ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sam Simon, a co-creator of Fox's long-running hit animated series "The Simpsons" and an ardent philanthropist for animals, died after a battle with colon cancer, his agent said ...

Sam Simon, co-creator of The Simpsons, shown here in 2013 at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., died Sunday at 59. Sam Simon, the philanthropist and multiple Emmy-award winning TV producer and ...