All Blog Posts Tagged 'dead' (37)

A 34-year-old woman was found dead at a Dallas salon last month after receiving what family members said was her fourth black-market butt injection, the Dallas News reported this week.

Wykesha Reid, a mother who worked at a nursing home, "got hooked on them booty…

A German airliner carrying 142 passengers and six crew members has reportedly crashed in France.

The plane, which was operated by Germanwings -- a budget airline owned by Lufthansa, left from Barcelona, Spain and was en route to Dusseldorf, Germany. The cause of…

Windell D. Middlebrooks, the actor best known for playing the straight-talking Miller High Life delivery man, died suddenly at his home yesterday.

Sources close to Middlebrooks tell us he was found unconscious at home in the San Fernando Valley Monday morning  and was transported by ambulance to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.

TMZ was told that…

Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut “Star Trek,” died on Friday morning at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. He was 83.…

Jazz trumpet and flugelhorn virtuoso Clark Terry, whose illustrious career spanned more than seven decades, died in the company of family, friends and students on Saturday. He was 94.

“We will miss him every minute of every day, but he will live on through the…

Not everyone is excited for Ozone magazine founder Julia Beverly's biography of the late Pimp C. His widow, Chinara Butler, is trying to keep it from ever getting published.

Beverly says she's been working on the book, titled Sweet Jones: Pimp C's Trill Life Story, for four years, with the blessing of…

Geoffrey Holder, a Tony Award-winning stage director, artist and actor, died at a New York City hospital Sunday from complications of pneumonia. He was 84.

Holder won a pair of Tony Awards for stage direction and costume design for the 1975 musical "The Wiz," and is well-known for his roles in the film…

"It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my mother, Joan Rivers," Melissa Rivers said in a written statement today. "She passed peacefully at 1:17 p.m. surrounded by family and close friends. My son and I would like to thank the doctors, nurses, and staff of Mount Sinai Hospital for the amazing care they provided…

Kenneth Douglass has admitted to having sex with corpses while employed at the morgue.

He worked night shifts at the Hamilton County morgue from 1976 until 1992, said in a deposition he had sex with up to 100 dead bodies, often while drunk or high on drugs, WCPO Cincinnati reports.…

According to KTLA News

Family members said Tuesday that a 25-year-old man was complying with police orders when he was fatally shot by LAPD officers in the Florence neighborhood South Los Angeles.

Patrol officers had “conducted an investigative…

As reported by NY Daily News:

An 18-year-old Missouri teen was shot dead by a cop Saturday, triggering outrage among residents who gathered at the scene shouting “kill the police.”

Michael Brown was on his way to his grandmother’s house in the city of Ferguson when he was gunned down at about 2:15 p.m., police and relatives said.

What…

Meshach Taylor who was best known from his role as "Anthony Bouvier" on "Designing Women" passed away last night  from a terminal illness. Taylor was at his Los Angeles home surrounded by his wife, kids, grandchildren and his mother. He had been battling the illness for a while but it took a turn for the worse in the past couple of…

"Homeland" star James Rebhorn died at his home in New Jersey Friday night ... after a long battle with skin cancer

Rebhorn's wife Rebecca tells us the actor was diagnosed with melanoma in 1992 ... and he's been getting treatments ever since.

We're told his condition drastically worsened recently and he began receiving hospice care at his New Jersey…

LOS ANGELES—Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48.

Publicist Kristen Foster said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the…

One of everyone's favorite Old School Rappers "Heavy D", the Overweight Lover passed away today after a freak accident.

Details are sketchy, but as of now, all that is known is that he fell down a flight of stairs at his Beverly Hills Mansion.

Stay Tuned…

Sylvia Robinson, a.k.a. the Mother of Hip-Hop, died this morning of heart failure. She was the CEO of Sugar Hill Records and the producer Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" was 75.  Sylvia was also an artist best known for her hit "Pillow…

Is Nicolas Cage a vampire? At least one guy thinks so.

An antique photo collector is selling a Civil War era pic of a man who is a dead-ringer for the actor. The seller says, "Personally, I believe...[Nic] is some sort of walking undead /…