From: davidc@wa-wd.com   
      
   https://www.tmz.com/2025/08/12/whats-happening-danielle-spencer-dead-cancer/   
   'WHAT’S HAPPENING!!' STAR   
   DANIELLE SPENCER DEAD AT 60   
   By TMZ STAFF   
   Published August 12, 2025 8:55 AM PDT | Updated August 12, 2025 3:52 PM   
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   Danielle Spencer -- famous for playing Dee Thomas on the hit ’70s sitcom   
   "What’s Happening!!" -- has died at 60 following complications from   
   cancer, TMZ has learned.   
      
   Her longtime friend and former costar Haywood Nelson -- AKA Dwayne from   
   the sitcom -- tells TMZ Danielle passed away Monday night in a Richmond,   
   Virginia hospital ... with her mom Cheryl and her jazz musician brother   
   Jeremy Pelt by her side.   
      
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