Bodybuilding star Lisa Lyon dies at 70

Lisa Lyon – a game-changer in professional women's bodybuilding – has died, TMZ has learned.

A close friend who was helping Lisa and her family tells us Lisa died Friday at her home in the San Fernando Valley, where she was in hospice care. We are told the cause of death was stomach cancer.

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Lisa posed for Playboy in 1980, and the year before she won the first International Federation of Bodybuilders Women's World Bodybuilding Championship. It was a huge achievement that really put women's bodybuilding on the map.

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She has become a fixture on the television talk show circuit, also appearing in numerous health and fitness magazines. She even wrote a book – “Lisa Lyon's Body Magic” – which was published in 1981.

She also modeled for iconic photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

Lisa was inducted into the Federal International Fitness and Bodybuilding Hall of Fame in 2000...for helping to elevate bodybuilding to an art form.

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Lisa Lyon – a game-changer in professional women's bodybuilding – has died, TMZ has learned.

A close friend who was helping Lisa and her family tells us Lisa died Friday at her home in the San Fernando Valley, where she was in hospice care. We are told the cause of death was stomach cancer.

Getty

Lisa posed for Playboy in 1980, and the year before she won the first International Federation of Bodybuilders Women's World Bodybuilding Championship. It was a huge achievement that really put women's bodybuilding on the map.

Getty

She has become a fixture on the television talk show circuit, also appearing in numerous health and fitness magazines. She even wrote a book – “Lisa Lyon's Body Magic” – which was published in 1981.

She also modeled for iconic photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

Lisa was inducted into the Federal International Fitness and Bodybuilding Hall of Fame in 2000...for helping to elevate bodybuilding to an art form.