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Entertainment
Meghan And Harry Discuss
Aretha Franklin Estate
Reaches Deal With IRS
Princess Diana, Life As Royals
To Pay Off Claimed
In Upcoming Oprah Interview
$7.8M Tax Debt
In newly released teaser clips of an Oprah Winfrey interview with Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, set for broadcast Sunday, the couple return to the concerns that led them to step back from life as working members of the royal family.
“You’ve said some pretty shocking things here,” Win- frey says to the pair, who lost their royal patronages and honorary military titles last month after announcing last year that they would turn away from life as senior royals.
The widely anticipated two-hour interview will be broadcast as a CBS special on March 7 in the United States
R. Kelly Gets Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19 In Chicago Prison
R. KELLY
While R. Kelly is strug- gling with his legal problems, he is lucky to be fully vacci- nated against COVID-19 be- fore most of the US population.
TMZ reports that the vet- eran singer received his sec- ond dose of vaccine this month which makes him fully vacci- nated. He is currently held at the prisons at Metropolitan Correctional Centre Chicago, where he is awaiting trial over sexual assault charges follow- ing his arrest in 2019.
About 63 inmates at MCC Chicago have been fully vacci- nated so far, along with 128 staff members. Kelly has tried twice but failed both times to get released from prison early due to the pandemic for risk of contracting the virus.
When Aretha Franklin died in 2018, a powerful cred- itor came calling: the Internal Revenue Service.
The IRS claimed the singer’s estate owed more than $7.8 million in unpaid income taxes, interest and penalties, piled up from 2010 to 2017. Even while other thorny dra- mas in the Queen of Soul’s ongoing probate battle played out, sometimes pitting family against family, the IRS re- mained the mightiest hammer hanging overhead.
Now, in a major break- through, Franklin’s four sons and the IRS have reached an agreement that would speed up payment of the re-
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ARETHA FRANKLIN
maining tax burden — while giving the sons an injection of money from their late mother’s fortune.
At the moment, the heirs receive no money from the es- tate because of the IRS situa- tion. Franklin's net worth is $17 million with unlimited royalties from her music.
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, spoke with Oprah Winfrey about turning away from life as senior royals in an interview airing on March 7.
and is expected to be shown in the United Kingdom shortly after, according to British media. “I just want to make it
clear: There is no subject that is off limits,” Winfrey says in one of the clips released by the network.
Bunny Wailer, Last Surviving
Founder Member Of The
NBA All-Star Game 2021
Wailers, Dies At Age 73
Here's the schedule for Sunday March 7, all of which will air on TNT:
- 6:30 p.m. ET (3:30 p.m. PT): Taco Bell Skills Chal- lenge and MTN Dew 3-Point Contest
- 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT): All-Star Game
- Halftime of All-Star Game: AT&T Slam Dunk Contest
See more on page 13-B in this edition.
Bunny Wailer, the co- founder and last living mem- ber of Jamaican reggae group the Wailers, who took Bob Marley to global stardom, has died aged 73.
His manager Maxine Stowe confirmed his death to the Jamaica Observer. Wailer had been frequently hospitalised since suffering a stroke in July 2020.
Born Neville Livingston in 1947 in Kingston, he and Marley became friends as toddlers, and formed the Wailers in 1963, which set- tled into a core trio of the pair alongside Peter Tosh. They released their debut album, The Wailing Wailers, in 1965 (which included their Ja- maican chart-topper Simmer Down), before going on hiatus when Marley moved to Delaware in the US. Wailer was convicted for marijuana
BUNNY WAILER
possession in 1967, and served a 14 month sentence.
They reconvened after Marley’s return and Wailer’s release, teaming with producer Lee “Scratch” Perry and his group the Up- setters, and began recording tracks in the new, slower reg- gae style that had emerged out of ska.
The original trio split in 1974, when Wailer left along- side Tosh. He began a solo ca- reer, beginning with 1976’s acclaimed Blackheart Man.
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