Wednesday Reads

Obituary:  Reality TV star Beth Chapman, a bail bondsperson by trade and married to her co-star, bounty hunter Duane Chapman, has died after a battle with lung cancer.  She was only 51 years old.

She and her husband knew each other for years before they got married in 2006.  Beth was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2017; it was successfully treated.  Unfortunately, cancer returned only this time the deadly stage IV lung cancer.
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Another obituary of note:  Steve Dunleavy, an Australian-born tabloid writer, has reportedly died.  He was known for his work on A Current Affair.

I doubt he needed the money, though.  He must have made millions upon millions of dollars having penned the as-told-to "bodyguard" book Elvis:  What Happened?  The book actually came out right before Presley died in 1977, and he had known about it.  He was not happy with the revelations presented in the book by his Memphis Mafia associates, Red and Sonny West, along with Dave Hebler, especially regarding his prescription drug abuse.  That book was a massive bestseller, so I was always kind of surprised Dunleavy ever needed to work again.  Maybe he didn't, but he just enjoyed dishing the dirt.

Steve Dunleavy was 81.
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