Former Bond actress and That '70s Show star Tanya Roberts has died from a urinary tract infection at a Los Angeles hospital, her publicist said Tuesday, a day after premature reports of her passing were retracted.

Roberts' long-term partner Lance O'Brien had mistakenly announced her death to media late Sunday following a "miscommunication" with Cedars-Sinai hospital, publicist Mike Pingel said.

Multiple media outlets published obituaries that had to be withdrawn.

She succumbed late Monday after the infection spread to her kidney, gallbladder, liver and then blood stream, Pingel told AFP.

Several US media outlets including The New York Times on Tuesday also confirmed Roberts' passing, citing O'Brien.

Roberts is best known for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill, which starred Roger Moore in his last appearance as 007.

Beside her Bond outing, Roberts starred in the 1982 sword-and-sorcery fantasy The Beastmaster and as the title character in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, a female version of Tarzan which was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards and has gone on to become a cult classic. 

Other notable movie appearances included Body Slam and Night Eyes.

Born in the Bronx, New York, in 1955, Roberts did some modelling and commercial work before getting her big acting break on the final season of Charlie's Angels, where she played private investigator Julie Rogers helping the team of female crime fighters.

"It was my first steady job, and it launched my career," Roberts said on her website.

Nowadays Roberts is probably best known for her role in the sitcom That '70s Show, where she played Midge Pinciotti, the dim-witted mother of Donna, played by Laura Prepon.