She said she was victimized by the comedian in 1965 when she was 17.
Welles died Monday at a hospice care center in Downey, California, after a brief battle with lung cancer, her son, Shaun O’Banion, announced.
Welles was born Nancy Kay Rihl in Caracas, Venezuela. Her father, Eugene, was an executive with Pan Am Airways, and her mother, Marykay, was a television story editor. The family came to the U.S. when she was 3.and took her stage name as a teenager from her nickname “Sunshine” and the surname of screenwriter Halsted Welles , who was a surrogate father.
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