R.F. Kass, Apple Records Founder

Ronald F. Kass, the founding president of Apple Records, the Beatles organization, was buried in a private ceremony Tuesday, a funeral home spokesman said.

Kass died Friday in Los Angeles, but his family asked that no information be released until after the funeral services, said Dick Fisher of Forest Lawn Mortuary Memorial-Park in Hollywood Hills.

The cause of his death was not reported. He was believed to be about 60.

He was the third husband of Joan Collins, who attended his funeral.

The British-born Miss Collins met Kass in London in the late 1960s, when she was working in English films and television and Kass, an American, was president of Apple Records, which the Beatles formed in 1968.

The couple married in 1972, and Kass began producing television specials and motion pictures, the first of which was “The Stud,” based on a novel by Miss Collins’ sister, Jackie.

Kass and Collins separated in January, 1983.