Eddie Fisher, man with three beautiful wives, dies at 82
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One of the most popular American singers of the Fifties — known for marrying some of Hollywood's most beautiful women — has died aged 82.
Eddie Fisher sold millions of records and had his own television show but it was marriages to Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor and Connie Stevens that catapulted him to fame.
His daughter, Tricia Leigh Fisher of Los Angeles, said he died on Wednesday night at his home in Berkeley, California, after suffering complications from hip surgery. His other daughter, Carrie Fisher, 53, who played rebel leader Princess Leia in the original Star Wars movies, had hinted at his deteriorating health this year when she wrote on Twitter that he was "kind of losing it" and was getting confused about his whereabouts and friends.
"Late last evening the world lost a true American icon," Fisher's family said in a statement. "One of the greatest voices of the century passed away. He was an extraordinary talent and a true mensch."
Fisher, who was born in Philadelphia, had his first hit in 1950 with his song Thinking Of You.
In 1955, Fisher married Reynolds, known as "America's Sweetheart". But four years later "America's favourite couple" sensationally split with a tabloid scandal when he divorced her for Elizabeth Taylor.
They married after Taylor's husband and Fisher's best friend, Mike Todd, was killed in a plane crash. But that too ended after five years and Fisher went on to marry Stevens.
Fisher had 32 hit songs and co-starred in the films Bundle Of Joy (with Reynolds) and Butterfield 8 (with Taylor), before rock'n'roll and scandal ruined his career.
In 1962, he suffered a breakdown. He later admitted that he had been fighting drug addiction.