Welcome Back, Kotter's Juan Epstein, Robert Hegyes, Dead at 60


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"Welcome Back Kotter" actor Robert Hegyes has died. According to New Jersey's The Star-Ledger, he was 60 years old.

By Claire Noland Robert Hegyes, an actor whose character, Juan Epstein, was one of the Sweathogs on the 1970s TV sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," died Thursday of an apparent heart attack in New Jersey. He was 60. Hegyes, of Hungarian and Italian descent