USA: Singer Eddie Fisher, a teen idol in the 1950s who sparked an international scandal when he left his wife Debbie Reynolds for Elizabeth Taylor, has died at the age of 82

Record ID: 677490

  • Title: USA: Singer Eddie Fisher, a teen idol in the 1950s who sparked an international scandal when he left his wife Debbie Reynolds for Elizabeth Taylor, has died at the age of 82
  • Date: 26th September 2010
  • Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA (FILE) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) "WISHFUL DRINKING" FRONT OF BROADWAY THEATRE SOUNDBITE (English) CARRIE FISHER SAYING: "I will give away the end, I live. Its touch and go there for a while but I do actually survive. I tell the things that happen in my life that were difficult for me to get to the other side of but I battle through and I make my weaknesses my strength. These difficult things that happen to me, I make them funny."
  • Embargoed: 11th October 2010 13:00
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  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment / Showbiz
  • Reuters ID: LVABFRQR77RAUMBHZ73G82YMN6LH
  • Story Text: Singer Eddie Fisher died in Berkeley, California, on Wednesday (September 22) due to complications and a decline in health from recent hip surgery, his family said in a statement on Thursday (September 23).
    His actress daughter Carrie Fisher highlighted his ailing health earlier this year when she wrote Twitter messages saying her father, who was confined to a wheelchair, was "kind of losing it" with confusion over his whereabouts and friends.
    Eddie Fisher was a chart-topping teen idol in the early 1950s with songs like "Thinking of You" and "Oh! My Pa-Pa," before rock 'n' roll and scandal ruined his career.
    He left Reynolds, Carrie's mother and the first of his five wives, after four years of marriage to marry family friend Taylor in 1959. His marriage to Taylor lasted five years.
    He had two children with Debbie Reynolds -- Carrie and Todd -- and two with his third wife Connie Stevens.
    Carrie Fisher, 53, who played the feisty rebel leader Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" movies, detailed her entangled family history as well as her own personal battles in her recent one-woman Broadway show "Wishful Drinking."
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