In 2024, we've experienced the loss of several luminaries in the world of entertainment. These beloved figures—actors, comedians, musicians, singers, and coaches—have touched our lives with their talent, passion, and dedication. They've left an indelible mark on our hearts and shaped the world of entertainment in ways that will continue to inspire and influence generations to come.
Among the incredible actors who bid farewell this year, we mourn the loss of a true chameleon who effortlessly.
The Connecticut program was stunned and saddened recently by the tragic death of cornerback Jasper Howard, who was stabbed near the campus student union, but the effects of this tragedy have rippled throughout college football, including the ACC.
Clemson starting cornerback Chris Chancellor will wear No. 6 during Saturday’s game at Miami in honor of Howard. Chancellor and Howard were teammates at Miami Edison Senior High School in Miami.
Boston College junior cornerback DeLeon Gause will also wear Howard’s No. 6 when the Eagles face Notre Dame in South Bend this Saturday.
Gause, a Miami native, played against Howard in high school and later became friends with him.
“We played against each other in high school and at the Kickoff Classic,” Gause said. “All I remember is that he was talking about me before the game. He kept saying, ‘tell (Gause) that it’s going to be a big game.’ And he came out there to play. We kept going back and forth.”
Believing that he needed to show his support for Howard, Gause searched for some way to keep his spirit close by when the Eagles play on Saturday.
“I talked with another guy who played with (Jasper), a cornerback at Clemson, Chris Chancellor. It was on his heart to (wear Jasper’s No. 6) and I thought of anything that I could do. I felt like I had to do something.”
Gause asked for and received permission to wear No. 6 from the BC coaching staff. Running back Jeff Smith will continue to wear No. 6 as well in Saturday’s game (the two play on opposite sides of the ball).
Al Martino (he was born Alfred Cini), was an American singer and actor. Allmusicjournalist Steve Huey states, "Martino was one of the great Italian American popcrooners, boasting a string of hit singles and albums that stretched from the early 1950s all the way into the mid 1970s. However, he was perhaps even better known for his role in The Godfather as singer Johnny Fontane, a character supposedly based on Frank Sinatra, but with eerie similarities to Martino's own career."[1]
(born October 7, 1927 – October 13, 2009)
His Italian immigrant parents ran a masonry business, and he worked alongside his brothers as a bricklayer while growing up.[1] However, he was more interested in music, and was inspired by Al Jolson and Perry Como to try his own hand at singing.[1] When his boyhood friend Alfredo Cocozza changed his name to Mario Lanza and became an international operastar, the possibility of a career in music suddenly seemed plausible.[1]
A transatlanticchart-topper, "Here in My Heart" earned Martino a gold disc.[4] Its success secured Martino a record label deal with Capitol Records, and he released three more singles — "Take My Heart," "Rachel," and "When You're Mine" — through 1953, all of which hit the U.S.Top 40.[1] However, Martino's contract was taken over by a Mafia connected management team, which ordered Martino to pay $75,000, as a safeguard for their investment.[1] Martino made a down payment to ensure his family's safety, then fled to the United Kingdom where his popularity allowed him to perform successfully for a time, headlining at the London Palladium.[1] He continued to record in the UK with moderate success, but his work received no exposure back in the U.S.[1] In 1958, thanks to the intervention of a family friend, Martino was allowed to return home and resume his recording career.[1]
Martino faced an uphill battle re-establishing himself, especially with the counteracting arrival of rock and roll.[1] He recorded for 20th Century Fox during the late 1950s, but the label ended up dropping him.[1] A new album, The Exciting Voice of Al Martino (1962) secured a new deal with Capitol, and was followed by a mostly Italian language album, The Italian Voice of Al Martino.[1] He also made several high-profile television appearances to re-establish his visibility.[1]
He scored a major comeback hit with 1963's "I Love You Because."[1]Arranged by Belford Hendricks, Martino's cover version went to number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100chart, and number one on the corresponding Easy Listening chart.[1] The accompanying album of the same name went Top 10 in the Billboard 200, and Martino remained a regular visitor to the charts for over a decade afterwards, with hits including "Painted, Tainted Rose" (1963) plus "Always Together," "I Love You More and More Every Day", "Tears and Roses" and "We Could" (all 1964).[1]
One of the most successful Martino hits was "Spanish Eyes", achieving several gold and platinum discs for sales.[5] Recorded in 1965, the song reached number 5 on the UK Singles Chart when re-issued in 1973.[3] Even today, this classic by composerBert Kaempfert (his original title for the song was "Moon Over Naples") is among the 50 most-played songs worldwide. Another hit was a disco version of "Volare", (also known as "Nel blu, Dipinto di Blu"). In 1976, it reached number one on the Italian and Flemishcharts, and was in the Top Ten in Spain, The Netherlands and France, as well as in many other European countries.
In the U.S., Martino had eleven Top 40 hits in the Billboard pop singles chart in the 1960s and 1970s, with 1963's "I Love You Because" (#3) and 1964's "I Love You More and More Every Day" (#9) both reaching the Top Ten. He also sang the title song for the film, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964).
He returned to acting in 2006, when he played an aging crooner, Sal Stevens, in the short film Cutout, and appeared in film festivals around the world.
Martino died on October 13, 2009 at his childhood home in Springfield, Pennsylvania, 6 days after his 82nd birthday. Martino was survived by his wife Judi and two children.
Captain Louis Vincent Albano[4] died he was 76. Albano was an ItalianAmericanprofessional wrestler, manager and actor. With an over-the-top personality and a penchant for boisterous declarations, "Captain" Lou Albano was the epitome of the antagonistic manager that raised the ire of wrestlers and incited the anger of spectators. Throughout his 42-year career, Albano guided 15 different tag teams and four singles competitors to championship gold.[4] A unique showman, with an elongated beard, rubber band facial piercings, and loud outfits, he was the forefather of the 1980s Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection. Collaborating with Cyndi Lauper, Albano helped usher in wrestling's crossover success with a mainstream audience. Capitalizing on his success, he later ventured into Hollywood with various television, film, and music projects. (July 29, 1933 – October 14, 2009)
Albano achieved moderate success as a tag team performer with partner Tony Altimore.[8] Dubbed The Sicilians, Altimore and Albano competing as a stereotypical Italian gangster combo.[4] Their realistic depiction of their characters caught the attention of actual mafiosi.[4] In 1967, they won the United States Tag Team Championship from Arnold Skaaland and Spiros Arion.[4][8]
Following the encouragement of fellow wrestler Bruno Sammartino, Albano transitioned from wrestling to announcing.[4] He transformed himself into the brash, bombastic manager Captain Lou Albano. With a quick wit and a grating personality, Albano delivered memorable promos that made him wrestling's most villainous manager. He earned the scorn of the wrestling audience as he attempted to dethrone World Wide Wrestling Federation superstar and WWF champion Bruno Sammartino. In 1971, Albano achieved his objective when "Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff ended Sammartino's seven year reign as champion.[4] For the remainder of the 1970s, Albano's cadre of loyal henchmen were unable to resecure the championship once Sammartino won it back.[4]
Albano could also help elevate wrestlers by splitting from them. In 1982, despite being managed by the villainous Albano, "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka was becoming a fan favorite due to his high-flying ring style. An interview segment revealed that Snuka had no legal contract with Albano, and thus was able to leave his manager.[10] Shortly thereafter, a bloody beatdown by Albano, Fred Blassie and Ray Stevens, helped transform Snuka into a sympathetic figure, and triggered the most successful period of his career.[11]
During the 1980s, Albano appeared in Cyndi Lauper's music videos for her hit songs "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "She Bop", and "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" Parlaying the venture, new WWF owner Vince McMahon devised the Rock 'n' Wrestling storyline, a collaboration and cross-promotion between the newly renamed WWF and elements of the music industry.[12] During a public appearance at Madison Square Garden, Albano made sexist comments that outraged the singer and non-wrestling fans.[7] Furthermore, on WWF television, Albano made the audacious claims that he was Lauper's manager, that he had secretly written her songs, and that he was the architect of her success. The two settled their differences on the MTV/WWF special The War to Settle the Score. Following Lauper's victory at the event, Albano apologized to Lauper and instantly became a fan favorite and the voice of Rock 'n' Wrestling. It was also explained that Albano had undergone surgery to remove "calcium deposits" on his medulla oblongata, and that the operation had removed his evil tendencies.[13]
The crossover storyline, coupled with the Hulkamania phenomenon surrounding then-WWF champion Hulk Hogan and the first WrestleMania, triggered a period of unprecedented success for not only the WWF, but for the professional wrestling industry as a whole.[1] Moreover, Albano helped cement wrestling's place within pop culture. Following the colossal success of the Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection, Albano left the WWF in 1986 to focus on various projects. Except for a brief return in 1994 to co-manage The Headshrinkers, Albano was retired from the wrestling industry.
Capitalizing on his new found celebrity, Albano began appearing in a vast array of television and film projects. Throughout the late 1980s, Albano appeared in Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, 227, Miami Vice, Hey Dude, Brian De Palma's Wiseguys, "Complex World" and the 1987 wrestling movie Body Slam. Expanding into music, Albano managed and performed with rockers NRBQ. He was immortalized in the song "Captain Lou" on their Lou and the Q album. Albano also periodically appeared on the John Davidson version of Hollywood Squares.
In March 1989, on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, Albano had his trademark beard shaved on the air in order to star as the iconic video game character Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!. Along with Danny Wells, he co-starred in live action segments during interludes of the Mario cartoon, as well as providing the voice of his animated counterpart.
In 1992, Albano appeared in the John Ritter film Stay Tuned as the ring announcer for a wrestling match of the "Underworld Wrestling Federation" pitting Ritter and Pam Dawber's characters against two demonic wrestlers.
In 1996, Albano was inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame.[1] Two years later, he co-authored the book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pro-Wrestling along with Bert Sugar.[14] In his final years, Albano was semi-active in the wrestling industry with appearances at reunion events, conventions, and WWE programming.[15][16]
During the 1990s and early 2000s, Albano could often be found on local cable television promoting small businesses in Putnam, Westchester, and Dutchess counties, NY, employing the same over the top style that characterized his 1980s stardom.
During the 1990s, Albano shed 150 pounds (70 kg) following a health scare. In May 2005, Albano suffered a heart attack, but later recovered. He lived in Carmel, New York (Putnam County).
In 2008 he released his autobiography, "Often Imitated, Never Duplicated"[17] with the foreword written by Cyndi Lauper.
Albano was one of five children born to Dr. Carmen Louis and Eleanor Albano, both deceased. The other Albano siblings are Vincent, George, Eleanor, and Carl.[18]
Albano's brother, Carl, taught health for 32 years at Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and was head of the Ridgewood High health department from 1974 until 2001.[18] Carl Albano's students have noted that he used his brother Lou as an example of the difference between crazy and unique.
Albano died of natural causes on October 14, 2009, aged 76, while under hospice care at his home.[19] He is survived by his wife Geri, four children and 14 grandchildren.
Stephen Patrick David Gately died he was 33. Gately was an Irishpopsinger, songwriter and actor, who, with Ronan Keating, was one of two lead singers of the pop group Boyzone.[1] All of Boyzone's studio albums hit number one in the UK, their third and last being their most successful internationally. With Boyzone Gately had a record-breaking sixteen consecutive singles enter the top five of the UK Singles Chart.[2] He performed for millions of fans globally.[3] He released his only solo album in 2000, after the group's initial breakup, which charted in the UK top ten and yielded three UK hit singles including the top three hit "New Beginning." Gately went on to appear variously in successful stage productions and on television programmes as well as contributing further solo tracks to various compilations and soundtracks. In 2008, he rejoined his colleagues as Boyzone reformed for a series of concerts and recordings.
Gately wed Andrew Cowles, first in a commitment ceremony in Las Vegas in 2003 and more formally in a civil partnership ceremony in London in 2006. In 1999, he became one of the first pop stars to come out as gay.[4][5] He was also the first ever boyband member to do so.[6] Upon Boyzone's reformation, Gately featured as part of the first gay couple in a boyband's music video in what was to be his last music video with the band, for the song "Better".[7] He was discovered dead at an apartment he owned with Cowles in Majorca, Spain on 10 October 2009. Tim Teeman of The Times heralded Gately as a hero of gay rights for his response to being "smoked out of the closet".[8]
Gately grew up in severe poverty in the poor, working-class Sheriff Street area of Dublin.[9] He was the fourth of five children; his father Martin is a decorator and his mother, Margaret (born 1949) a cleaner.[10] His siblings are Michelle, Tony, Alan and Mark.[11] As a teenager he appeared in various musicals and theatre performances at school, such as Juno and the Paycock.[10]
Gately split from his first boyfriend, Stephen Howard, in 1993. Howard became a heroin addict and in 1995 committed suicide by hanging.[10]
On 16 June 1999, The Sun newspaper covered its front page with what it described as a "World Exclusive" and the headline, "Boyzone Stephen: I'm gay and I'm in love".[4] At the age of 23, Gately sold his story to the newspaper because he feared a former member of Boyzone's security was about to sell the story. The Sun had two further pages on the story as well as an editorial. Gately also revealed that in 1998 he had started a relationship with the then 27 year-old Eloy de Jong, who had been in the Dutch boy band Caught in the Act.[4] They had first met in 1995.
From 2000 to 2002, Gately suffered from depression and addiction to prescription drugs.[10]
Gately and de Jong split up in January 2002; Gately subsequently moved back to Dublin. After remaining single for a while, Gately started dating internet businessman Andrew Cowles, who had been introduced to him by mutual friends Elton John and David Furnish. Gately and Cowles held a commitment ceremony in a wedding chapel whilst on holiday in Las Vegas in 2003. On 19 March 2006, Gately entered into a civil partnership with Cowles in a ceremony in London.[21]
His manager Louis Walsh was unaware of Gately's sexuality when he selected him for Boyzone and has said that, had he known, he would have thought twice before picking him, claiming that "it wasn't cool then to have a gay guy in a band".[7]
On 6 October 2009, Gately posted on Twitter, saying: "Still busy, lots going on. Focussing on finishing my book next so may be quiet here".[22][23]
Gately's body was discovered on 10 October 2009 in the apartment which he owned with Cowles near Port d'Andratx on the western tip of Majorca in Spain.[24][25][26][27][28] Spanish police were alerted at 1:45 pm.[29] It was reported that he had "gone out for drinks, returned to his accommodation and fallen asleep, but never woke up."[24] He was found squatting in an awkward way on a sofa, dressed in his pyjamas.[23] Police said they had no reason to believe the death was related to abuse of substances such as drugs or alcohol and no suicide note or signs of violence were located on the corpse.[29] The Gately family have enlisted celebrity solicitor Gerald Kean as their official spokesperson; Kean ruled out foul play and suicide, describing it as "just a tragic accident".[6][30][31]
Fans responded with messages of sympathy on the social networking website Facebook.[22] Boyzone manager Louis Walsh is quoted as saying: "We're all absolutely devastated. I'm in complete shock. I was only with him on Monday at an awards ceremony. We don't know much about what's happened yet. I only heard after The X Factor [UK television talent show on which Walsh is a judge] and we will rally around each other this week. He was a great man."[22][32] Walsh dropped out of the 11 October 2009 live televised results episode of The X Factor as a direct result of Gately's death.[30][33][34]Simon Cowell addressed the issue at the start of the programme.[30]
Irish boyband Westlife said: "We are, like everyone else, in shock today. We met Stephen Gately back in ‘98 when we first started out and since then have had the pleasure of meeting him many times. He and the Boyzone lads paved the way for us as a band. He was a friendly, positive spirit and a passionate performer. Our thoughts are with Andy and the rest of his family, his friends, his legions of fans and of course his bandmates Keith, Mikey, Shane and Ronan who will be devastated at the loss of a truly beautiful person.".[35] Former TaoiseachBertie Ahern said: "It's so sad. Boyzone and Stephen, they've all been part of Irish life and far wider than that, the last 15 years, and so successful, so it's a huge, huge tragedy. He was 33 years of age, 15 years at the top, a fine musician, it's just a huge tragedy to Irish entertainment, Irish music and further afield as well".[36]Minister for Arts, Sport and TourismMartin Cullen paid tribute: "Stephen Gately was a gifted young man with a talent for singing which brought him tremendous success as a member of Boyzone and also as a West End star. There was a joy about his music making, and his death at such a young age is both a personal and professional loss".[36]Andrew Lloyd Webber said it is "a great loss to the musical world".[23]Elton John said he and his partner David Furnish were "stunned" when they heard the news.[36]Katherine Jenkins twittered of "memories 2 cherish" from a night out in the weeks leading up to his death.[36]Stephen Fry described Gately's demise as "a dreadful shock".[36] "This was not supposed to happen. This was not in the script", said music historian Paul Gambaccini.[37]
Gately's bandmates flew out to Majorca on 11 October 2009.[23][30] Louis Walsh is expected to join them soon. The surviving members of Boyzone, Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Ronan Keating and Shane Lynch, issued a joint statement:
We are completely devastated by the loss of our friend and brother, Stephen. We have shared such wonderful times together over the years and were all looking forward to sharing many more. Stephen was a beautiful person in both body and spirit. He lit up our lives and those of the many friends he had all over the world. Our love and sympathy go out to Andrew and Stephen's family. We love you and will miss you forever, 'Steo'.[38]
An investigation into the circumstances of Gately's death was underway, with police concentrating on a night out he had with Cowles.[23] A post-mortem and toxicology tests took place on 13 October and this examination showed that Gately died of natural causes due to pulmonary oedema.[39] On 16 October, his body will be brought from Majorca to Dublin where his funeral will take place at the Church of St Laurence O'Toole the following day.[40][41
Irving Penn studied under Alexey Brodovitch at the Philadelphia Museum School from which he graduated 1938. Penn's drawings were published by Harper's Bazaar and he also painted. As his career in photography blossomed, he became known for post World War II feminine chic and glamour photography.
Penn worked for many years doing fashion photography for Vogue magazine. He was among the first photographers to pose subjects against a simple grey or white backdrop and used this simplicity more effectively than other photographers. Expanding his austere studio surroundings, Penn constructed a set of upright angled backdrops, to form a stark, acute corner. Posing his subjects within this tight, unorthodox space, Penn brought an unprecedented sense of drama to his portraits, driving the viewer's focus onto the person and their expression. In many photos, the subjects appeared wedged into the corner. Subjects photographed with this technique included Martha Graham, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O'Keeffe, W. H. Auden, Igor Stravinsky and Marlene Dietrich.
While a master of the studio flash, most of Penn's portraits are lit with window light. For travelling to New Guinea and other locations to photograph indigenous people, Penn created a portable studio with a skylight deployed facing north with impressive results. These pictures had the same feel as his portraits of celebrities; fully adorned, naturally lighted, yet placed before the neutral backdrop, his tribal subjects appear as strangely defined models for a 19th-century ethnographic investigation.
In 1950, Penn married his favorite model, Lisa Fonssagrives and he founded his studio in 1953. They had one son together, who is named Tom.
Penn's younger brother is movie director, Arthur Penn.
Clarity, composition, careful arrangement of objects or people, form, and the use of light characterize Penn's work. Penn also photographs still life objects and found objects in unusual arrangements with great detail and clarity.
While his prints are always clean and clear, Penn's subjects vary widely. Many times his photographs are so ahead of their time that they only came to be appreciated as important works in the modernist canon years after their creation. For example, a series of posed nudes whose physical shapes range from thin to plump were shot in 1949-1950, but were not exhibited until 1980.
His still life compositions are skillfully arranged assemblages of food or objects; at once spare and highly organized, the objects are raised to a graphic perfection, articulating the abstract interplay of line and volume.
He has published numerous books including the recent, "A Notebook at Random" which offers a generous selection of photographs, paintings, and documents of his working methods. Penn's wife, Lisa Fonssagrives, died in 1992.
In 2002, 53 photos were shown in a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In many of this prints, the subjects appear sculptural and like a primitive Venus. The graphic detail and clarity of his images would not have been possible to put on display in earlier years.
Between January and April 2008, 67 portraits are shown at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City in an exhibit titled "Close Encounters".
In September 2009, the J. Paul Getty Museum plans to exhibit the most extensive collection of Irving Penn's works. The Small Trades is a collection of 252 full-length portraits by Penn from 1950 to 1951. Penn's subjects were from New York, Paris, and London.[3]
Irving Penn died aged 92 on 7th October 2009, at his home in Manhattan.
Tony Fein died he was 27. Fein was an Iraq war veteran and NFL rookie linebacker who played with the Baltimore Ravens during the preseason, has died of unexplained causes after collapsing at a friend's house in what his agent said appears to be "an accidental situation." Fein, 27, an undrafted rookie free agent from Mississippi, was lying face down and unconscious, vomiting and barely breathing when medics arrived at a house outside Port Orchard on the Kitsap Peninsula on Tuesday morning local time, said Mike Wernet, a battalion chief and medical officer with South Kitsap Fire & Rescue.
Tony Fein. (File / Associated Press)
A man and woman who were present described Fein as a friend who was staying with them. They told the aid crew they awoke to find him unresponsive and vomiting.
"They didn't really give us a lot of information about what had happened the night before," apparently because they were upset, Wernet said. "They didn't indicate anything out of the ordinary."
There were no obvious wounds or signs of alcohol or other drug abuse, and nothing indicated foul play, he added.
Kitsap County sheriff's Deputy Scott E. Wilson said a detective was assigned to the case Wednesday because the death seemed unusual.
"We don't have any indication of anything suspicious ... or foul play," Wilson said.
Fein's agent, Milton D. Hobbs, a lawyer in Oxford, Mississppi, said he knew of no medical condition or previous severe illness in Fein.
"As I understand it, it was an accidental situation," Hobbs said. "As far as I understand it from family members, there's nothing to indicate that he intended to hurt himself."
An autopsy won't be conducted before Thursday and no report will be issued before all toxicology and other tests are complete, likely in six to eight weeks, said Allen G. Gerdes, Kitsap County chief deputy coroner.
Guy Dalrymple, a fire and rescue duty chief, did not immediately return a telephone call to The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Fein, a native of Port Orchard, was released by the Ravens in their last major round of roster cuts on Sept. 5.
His agent, Milton D. Hobbs, a lawyer in Oxford, Mississippi, said he last spoke with Fein on Friday and since the death had talked with the Fein's sister, mother and some friends. He would not discuss a possible cause of death.
"He was working out and we were discussing football opportunities. That was still his goal," Hobbs said. "We talked about Canada."
Some Canadian Football League teams had expressed interest in Fein before he joined the Ravens but there had been no contacts since he was cut, the agent said.
Fein was arrested on Aug. 23 and charged with misdemeanor assault on a police officer after an incident at a restaurant at Baltimore's Inner Harbor in which the officer reportedly mistook his cellular telephone for a handgun. Fein said he was innocent.
Fein played quarterback for South Kitsap High School before graduating in 2000. At age 19 he enlisted and spent 3 1/2 years in the Army, including duty in Iraq as a 19 Delta reconnaissance scout, according to the Ravens' Web site.
He later enrolled at Scottsdale, Arizona, Community College, became one of the nation's top junior college recruits and played for the University of Mississippi in 2007 and 2008. In two seasons at Ole Miss, he had 136 tackles (77 solo) in 24 games, according to the school's Web site.
Ashley Jewell death news: Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss Fiance Ashley Jewell was murdered at the age of 34. Real Housewives of Atlanta star, former Xscape lead singer, and songwriter Kandi Burruss continues to mourn the beating and death of her fiance Ashley Jewell as Atlanta Police make one arrest and charge Fredrick Richardson with voluntary manslaughter.
A.J. Jewell was 34 years old and according to Police worked at the Body Tap, a strip bar where an altercation with in the parking lot would end his life.
Burruss’ representative said that they had no other statement other than Kadi Burruss was mourning the death of her uncle as well as her fiance and asked for privacy. Burruss Tweeted that she could not believe what had happened and asked everyone to pray for Jewell’s children.
Atlanta Housewives and fans are still reaching to the death of of Kandi’s ex fiance Ashley Jewell (aka AJ Jewell). Ashley Jewell’s death resulted in Fredrick Richardson’s arrest last weekend.
Lisa Wu Hartwell, to Kim Zolciak, and Kandi herself are left without words over the tragic death of Jewell who appears on screen with Kandi in the current season of Atlanta Housewives. Outside the show, the couple would split just weeks before its season premiere.
On Friday night, Ashley Jewell suffered head trauma in the parking lot of Body Tap. He is survived by six children. Bravo issued the following statement to Jewell’s family on Saturday: “Our thoughts and prayers are with Kandi and her family,
A.J. Jewell was 34 years old and according to Police worked at the Body Tap, a strip bar where an altercation with in the parking lot would end his life.
Burruss’ representative said that they had no other statement other than Kadi Burruss was mourning the death of her uncle as well as her fiance and asked for privacy. Burruss Tweeted that she could not believe what had happened and asked everyone to pray for Jewell’s children.
Atlanta Housewives and fans are still reaching to the death of of Kandi’s ex fiance Ashley Jewell (aka AJ Jewell). Ashley Jewell’s death resulted in Fredrick Richardson’s arrest last weekend.
Lisa Wu Hartwell, to Kim Zolciak, and Kandi herself are left without words over the tragic death of Jewell who appears on screen with Kandi in the current season of Atlanta Housewives. Outside the show, the couple would split just weeks before its season premiere.
On Friday night, Ashley Jewell suffered head trauma in the parking lot of Body Tap. He is survived by six children. Bravo issued the following statement to Jewell’s family on Saturday: “Our thoughts and prayers are with Kandi and her family,
The Connecticut program was stunned and saddened recently by the tragic death of cornerback Jasper Howard, who was stabbed near the campus student union, but the effects of this tragedy have rippled throughout college football, including the ACC.
