celebrity deaths

His voice was known by millions.

On August 27th, 2019, Jessi Combs took to the Alvord Desert again with the intention of breaking her own land speed record. Unfortunately, she was killed in an accident on the track. She was 39.

Ed Koch, who was mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989, died today from congestive heart failure. He was 88 years old. Older New York residents might remember him as the mayor whose terms were plagued by the crack and AIDS epidemics of the '80s, as well as police brutality and corruption...

Veteran hip-hop mogul Chris Lighty died on Thursday morning (Aug. 30) from an apparent suicide. Details are scarce, but according to the New York Daily News, the executive was found dead in his apartment with a self-inflicted gun wound to the head.

It’s been a year since the world lost one of her generation’s most prolific singer-songwriters in Amy Winehouse. More tragically, it’s been a year since Mitch Winehouse lost his beloved daughter. Tissues out!

Michael Jackson‘s family is making the blockbuster claim that the late King of Pop’s will was faked by John Branca and John McClain, the executors of his estate. The family is asking the men to resign from their posts immediately.

When North Korean dictator and dear leader Kim Jong-il died on Sunday night, the world was shaken — especially the rap world.

Even if Dr. Conrad Murray was looking to capitalize off of his story concerning Michael Jackson‘s death, one man is claiming he was writing about the pop star’s untimely passing long before the media. In what is surely one of the most twisted and bizarre lawsuits of all time, a man named Everett Watson is looking to sue MSNBC over an interview with Conrad Murray after the death of Michael Jackson.

The verdict in the Michael Jackson case is in. The jury convicted Dr. Conrad Murray on charges of involuntary manslaughter, meaning he was found guilty of the charges against him. All 12 members of the jury found Murray guilty, and he now faces up to four years in jail and the loss of his medical license.

The prosecution and the defense have both presented and rested their cases, so now the fate of Dr. Conrad Murray will be decided by a jury. The decision on whether or not Murray is guilty of involuntary manslaughter regarding the late, great King of Pop Michael Jackson now rests in the jury’s hands. Deliberations are underway today for a jury comprised of seven men and five women, reports Billboar

Amy Winehouse‘s father Mitch has made it his mission to preserve his daughter’s memory, and what better way than in a book? Since the 27-year-old British pop star died on July 23 of unknown causes, her dad has already set up the Amy Winehouse Foundation to help others like his daughter deal with substance-abuse. And now he’ll write a memoir.

The self-proclaimed “King of Infomercials” Don Lapre, 47, was found dead in his cell of an apparent suicide on Sunday, although an investigation is still underway. Lapre was jailed in an Arizona federal jail without bond on charges of defrauding at least 220,000 people out of nearly $52 million.