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MAY 2018 Volume 49 Number 5 Issue 579
Editor Duncan Warwick
Contributors David Allan, Janet Aspley, Donnie Ayers, Craig Baguley, Larry Delaney, Don Cusic, Julie Flaskett, Kelly Gregory, Michael Hingston, Tony Ives, Spencer Leigh, John Lomax III,, Douglas McPherson, Stephen O’ Hanlon, Roland Purdy, Adrian Peel, Paul Riley, Wayne Smart, Chris Smith, Alison Stokes, Tom Travis, Walt Trott, Jack Watkins
Assistant editor / Special projects coordinator Kelly Gregory
Photographers Patricia Presley, Barry Dixon, Billie McAleer
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News
Walt Trott in Nashville Duncan Warwick in London
Campbell claims
Not sure we’ ve heard one like this before, but Kimberly Campbell is seeking reimbursement for funds spent on behalf of“ Rhinestone Cowboy” Glen Campbell’ s assisted living care, including a security fence installed for protection, and legal fees for filing this action in Davidson County Probate Court in Nashville. Her husband died Aug. 8, 2017, at age 81, following a fight with Alzheimer’ s Disease, while also touring more than year in a Farewell
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performance she arranged with their three children.
Campbell’ s estate, estimated at about $ 50 million, included an ownership stake in the Arizona Diamondbacks ball team. Glen’ s will reportedly covered Kim, their three, and two children from earlier marriages. Three more of Glen’ s children by previous wives, contested the will filed by Kim that excludes them as heirs. Judge David Kennedy appointed Glen’ s former manageraccountant Stanley Schneider as temporary administrator, scheduling a hearing within 90 days.
Meantime, spouse Kim seeks an additional $ 506,380 from the estate, apart from that awarded as his widow. Further, she’ d filed another claim for $ 14,246 to recover insurance premiums she asserts were erroneously paid the estate. Glen’ s estate also covered property owned in Agoura Hills, Calif., on the market for nearly a million dollars; and a two-acre resident property on Battery Lane, Nashville, purchased for $ 1.8 million. The widow serves as trustee for those properties. In 2015, Glen was placed in a conservatorship, but court filings in his case have thus far been sealed.
Becky Brown, widow of Opry singer Jim Ed Brown, has a book about their tumultuous togetherness, just released:“ Going Our Way: My Life With Jim Ed Brown”( Clovercroft Publishing). The former Becky Perry hails from Pine Bluff, Ark., and herself was a model and dance instructor. She was Mrs. Brown 54 years, when the singer died in 2015.
In collaboration with writer Roxanne Atwood, Becky shares the good times, some bad times, lessons learned and sets straight some rumours.“ History should reflect the truth,” notes Becky. Reportedly, she talks about her handsome hubby’ s affair with blonde duet partner Helen Cornelius( their # 1: I Don’ t Wanna Have To Marry You, which he didn’ t), before returning to Becky’ s arms. Covered, too, are his early days in The Browns( The Three Bells), as well as his solo stardom( Pop-A-Top), and being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, while on his hospital death bed. He died of lung cancer at age 81, and singer-sister Bonnie died a year later from lung cancer at 77, while elder sister-vocalist Maxine is now in ill health.
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