Eleanor Mondale Dies, Daughter of Former Vice President Walter Mondale

Eleanor Mondale dies, daughter of former Vice President Walter Mondale

Eleanor Mondale, the vivacious daughter of former Vice President Walter Mondale who forged his own reputation as an entertainment journalist in radio and print media, died Saturday at his home in Minnesota. He was 51.

Mondale, who was diagnosed several years ago with brain cancer, died early Saturday, the family spokeswoman Lynda Pedersen.

In a statement emailed to friends, former vice president said he and his wife “we must report that our beautiful daughter, Eleanor Mondale Poling, after his long and courageous battle against cancer last night went up to heaven to be with his angel. “

Eleanor Mondale stopped working at the radio station WCCO-AM in Minneapolis on March 19, 2009, announcing that a malignant brain tumor reappeared. He underwent surgery to remove the tumor on August 12, 2009 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and a publication on its website CaringBridge surgery called a success.

Mondale, the median of the three daughters of Walter and Joan Mondale, assisted in the unsuccessful campaign to defeat his father in 1998 to President Ronald Reagan. Mondale won in one of the 50 states, Minnesota. He returned to work on the Mondale unsuccessful campaign to replace Senator Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash days before the election.

A very attractive blonde who liked to amuse young Eleanor Mondale generated numerous rumors. His affair with the late rocker Warren Zevon were described in “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon” (I’ll sleep when I’m dead: licentious life and times of Warren Zevnon), a biography published posthumously in 2007 by the former wife of musician.

Mondale began as an aspiring actress with small roles in TV series “Three’s Company” (Three’s Company or Three’s a Crowd) and “Dynasty.”

He began his career as an entertainment journalist in 1989 at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis.

In 1998, CBS reported that Mondale was one of the four women criticized by the White House intern Monica Lewinsky in recorded conversations because of the attention given to those President Bill Clinton. Mondale issued a statement that his relationship with the president and his wife Hillary was “purely friendly.”

Mondale was married three times: with the Chicago Bears player Keith Van Horne, with his colleague on the radio and Thunder Greg Chan Poling rocker from the band The Suburbs.