- Her longtime boyfriend Jeremy Blake committed suicide by drowning at age 35, 7 days after her death.
- Relative of Mary Duncan.
- She was an American video game designer, blogger, filmmaker and critic.
- On New Year's Eve in 2007, she published her last blog post, titled "New Beginning", which quoted T. S. Eliot's poem East Coker, but after her death, two posts appeared on her web log (presumably written prior to her death).
- Duncan also published frequently. She wrote articles for publications like Artforum, Slate, Feed Magazine, and Bald Ego, and published her own blog called The Wit of the Staircase.
- The Law & Order episode "Bogeyman" in season 18 is loosely based on the deaths of Duncan and Blake. In the episode, the body of the character paralleling Theresa Duncan has forensic evidence that calls into question her suicide, while the Jeremy Blake parallel character survives his suicide attempt. A legal case against him is disrupted by the cult group, resulting in a near mistrial followed by a plea accepted after the ADA implies both he and the judge are connected to the cult.
- Baron von Luxxury's 2012 album The Last Seduction features several songs about Duncan and Blake, who were his friends.
- The circumstances of Duncan's death led to much media attention, including major articles in Vanity Fair and New York magazine.
- Duncan created three influential CD-ROM computer games for young girls in the second half of the 1990s: Chop Suey, Smarty, and Zero Zero. These games were designed as alternatives to her traditionally male-oriented field where the few "girls' games" created embodied a "model of boy-catching self-fulfillment".
- At her blog, Duncan listed her interests as "film, philology, Vietnam War memorabilia, rare and discontinued perfume, book collecting, philately, card and coin tricks, futurism, Napoleon Bonaparte, the history of electricity.".
- By the late 1990s, she was recognized as one of the most critically acclaimed game designers for young girls.
- In 2000, Duncan created The History of Glamour, a digitally animated hour-long video.
- According to friends of the couple, Duncan and Blake believed that they were being followed and harassed by Scientologists up to the point of their deaths.
- Duncan was found dead in the East Village, Manhattan apartment she shared with Blake on July 10, 2007. The official cause of death was suicide as a result of the combined ingestion of Tylenol PM-a combination of acetaminophen and diphenhydramine-and alcohol.
- She lived with partner Jeremy Blake in New York during the nineties while working for an interactive agency, and in Los Angeles until 2007, after which Duncan and Blake moved to back to Manhattan.
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