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 ...

Sam Simon, a philanthropist best known as the co-creator of the animated sitcom, “The Simpsons,” died on Sunday at age 59, The New York Times reports. He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2012. Mr.

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 ...

He then established the Sam Simon Foundation, which rescues dogs from animal shelters and trains them to assist the disabled. He also donated to Mercy for Animals and the Sea Shepherd Conservation ...