She had recently fallen and been in declining health since.
Comic legend Phyllis Diller, known for her loud cackle laugh, died at her Los Angeles home on Monday surrounded by family. She was 95.
USA Today reported she had recently fallen, hurting her wrist and hip, and her health had been on the decline ever since. Diller had been living in hospice care at her home. She suffered a heart attack in 1999 and was later fitted with a pacemaker.
She created a stage persona of a wild-haired, eccentrically dressed housewife who makes self-deprecating jokes about her looks and a husband named "Fang."
Diller co-starred in such films as "Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!" and "The Sunshine Boys." She appeared in numerous TV shows and starred in the short-lived "The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show" in 1968. She appeared in two episodes of the CBS soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" earlier this year.
She wrote her autobiography in 2005, titled "Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse."
Diller, who was twice divorced, had six children from her marriage to her first husband, Sherwood Anderson Diller.