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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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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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