Meanwhile, a private memorial was held at Paisley Park on Saturday where family and friends paid their respects to the 57-year-old pop icon.
He found a concrete spot on Sesame Street as Mr. Handford, who ran Hooper's Store on the show from 1990 to 1998. Fans took to Twitter to offer condolences to the beloved actor.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Garry Shandling, who as an actor and comedian masterminded a brand of self-inflicted phony docudrama with “The Larry Sanders Show,” has died of an apparent heart attack. Shandling’s spokesman Alan Nierob said doctors at a hospital where the comedian was pronounced dead said it appeared he died of a heart attack. […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Natalie Cole was remembered as a loyal friend, “the best and bossiest big sister,” and a worthy successor to her famous father’s legacy in a joyous and music-filled funeral highlighting her Baptist faith on Monday. The two-hour, 50-minute service at West Angeles Church of God in Christ was filled with affection […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Natalie Cole’s family said the singer’s cause of death was idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, which led to heart failure. Her family said in a statement to The Associated Press on Thursday that after Cole received a kidney transplant in 2009, she was diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare lung disease […]
On Christmas Eve, the legendary singer passed away from congestive heart failure.
NEW YORK (AP) — Internet searchers had celebrities on the mind this year: Famous names made up eight of the top 10 searches on Yahoo in 2015. The Internet company said that the late Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of late singer Whitney Houston, was the year’s most searched term. Brown died at age 22 in […]
Moses Malone devoured rebounds so easily it sometimes seemed he missed shots on purpose to pad his total before scoring. All those points and rebounds made Malone an NBA great. A few words, and one championship, made him a Philadelphia sports icon. Malone, a three-time NBA MVP and one of basketball’s most ferocious rebounders, died […]
NEW YORK (AP) — From the football field to the broadcast booth, Frank Gifford was a star. And a winner. An NFL championship in 1956 with the New York Giants. An Emmy award in 1976-77 as television’s “outstanding sports personality.” Induction in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in ’77. Gifford, as well known for […]
She was introduced to the world in her mother’s music video for the remake of “I’m Every Woman.” For years, she accompanied her famous parents to red carpet and to awards show appearances. We watched her grow up on her family’s reality TV show. She even sang on one of her mother’s records. Now the […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Medical examiners found no evidence to prove the allegation that blues legend B.B. King was poisoned before he died of natural causes in May, according to autopsy findings made public Monday. Tests conducted after two of the musical icon’s 11 adult children said their father had been murdered showed the cause […]
Some of B.B. King’s heirs are due in a Las Vegas court today (June 25) to ask a judge not to turn over control of his estate to the longtime business manager he named as executor. But a lawyer for the B.B. King estate and designated executor LaVerne Toney says the family’s claim that Toney […]
