A female fan was sentenced to six years for breaking into her home with a rifle in 1990.
Gless, who was best known for her role as Chris Cagney on the police series Cagney & Lacey (1981), married the producer of the series, Barney Rosenzweig, in 1991. A year earlier, Rosenzweig had divorced his wife of 11 years, Barbara Corday, who was the creator/writer of Cagney & Lacey (1981).
By 1982, she was the last remaining performer to be working under a
standard studio contract, having been signed to a 10-year contract in
1974.
Gless performed to positive reviews on the London stage in "Misery", a 1992 stage version of the horror film, playing Kathy Bates' role, and in 1996, starred with Tom Conti in Neil Simon's "Chapter Two".
She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television in a double ceremony with Tyne Daly.