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The Kardashian Klan are arguably one of the most famous families on the planet, but heartbreakingly their beloved father Robert Kardashian never lived to see the incredible success they enjoy today.

Robert, a hotshot Los Angeles lawyer, died 17 years ago in September 2003 - just two months after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer.

The patriarch's sudden decline in health came like a bolt out of the blue to his stunned family.

Robert didn't smoke or drink and there was no history of cancer in the family when he died at the age of 59, leaving his children bereft.

"It was so surreal, the knowledge he had cancer was one thing, but to think it would actually take his life, I never in a million years thought that would happen to him," Kris Jenner later said of his sudden passing.

Daughter Khloe later said that she could only put her father's untimely death down to st