Celeb makeup artist Paul Starr found dead at home

Celebrity makeup artist Paul Starr was found dead yesterday in his Silver Lake-Echo Park home.

Friends and neighbors became concerned when they had not heard or seen the A-list makeup artist for several days.

They called the police, who arrived, forced their way in and found Starr dead, possibly of natural causes. He was 48.

He had worked with classic beauties Sophia Loren and Michelle Pfeiffer as well as current hotties Cameron Diaz, Jessica Alba, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Garner, to name just a few. He was a founding beauty editor of Flaunt magazine from 1998 to 2001. His book, "Paul Starr on Beauty: Conversations With Thirty Celebrated Women," was published in 2005.

I first met Paul in 2007, backstage at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscar Fashion Retrospective, put on by Vogue editor Andre Leon Talley and Laura Ziskin. He was handsome, charming, funny, self-effacing and extremely talented.

To see some of his work that day, click here.

He will be missed. It's safe to say that the world will be less beautiful without him.

Photo: Paul Starr and pal Joni Mitchell in New York in 2007.
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