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Nearly 45 years since Grease debuted in theaters, the beloved film is due to receive a prequel series that will look at how the 'Pink Ladies', the infamous clique, came to be. Entitled Grease: The Rise of the Pink Ladies, the forthcoming Paraphrasedoutput, is set to take place four years before the Grease performances, and it will feature Marisa Davila, Cheyenne Isabel Wells, Ari Notartomaso, and Tricia Fukuhara as the Pink Ladies we all know and love. Thanks to their matching pink jackets, tight bond, and fierce personalities, the Pink Ladies instantly became a central part of the franchise, but what ever happened to the women who starred as the original girl gang? FEMAIL has revealed what the original Pink Ladies are doing now as the world prepares for the new series. Here's everything you'll learn about the women who played the Pink Ladies in the original Grease from their other appearances and success to their marriage lives and scandals.

Olivia Newton-John Easterling's husband, John Easterling, announced on Monday morning that she died on Monday morning at the age of 73. When she first took on the role of sweet and innocent Sandy Olsson in the 1978 musical Grease, she was best known as a singer and had three Grammy Awards under her belt. The Australian native received her fourth Grammy Award for her 1981 hit single Physical. Newton-John was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, and she was in remission until the disease was recovered in 2013 for the second time in 2013. She cancer had erupted and spread to her bones in 2017, but the reason for her death is unknown. She Grease co-star John Travolta, who lost his wife, Kelly Preston, to breast cancer in 2020, was among the first to pay their respects to Newton-John on Monday. FEMAIL has taken a look back at everything she and the rest of the Grease cast have accomplished in the four decades following the actor's death.