Smokey Robinson, who was Ross’s former neighbor, connected them with Motown titan Berry Gordy.Īfter singing backup and clapping on other artists’ albums, in 1961 they released their first record and were called The Supremes.
According to the Clark County medical examiner, she died from natural causes from hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.Īt the age of 15, when she was living at the Brewster-Douglass Projects in Detroit, Wilson, along with singers Betty McGlown, Florence Ballard and Diana Ross, who also lived at the public housing apartments and had known one another since childhood, formed the group the Primettes. 8, 2021 at her home in Henderson, Nevada. Mary Wilson, an original and founding member of The Supremes, passed away on Feb. (Sherry Rayn Barnett /Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Mary Wilson Years later, when reflecting on his crimes he said, “I’d do it again for my president.” His program was on the air until he retired in 2012. He appeared on Miami Vice and in 1992, began his successful radio show, The G. Liddy ultimately became a celebrity-writing books, including a memoir, Will, and spoke on the lecture circuit. After serving 52 months, President Jimmy Carter, in 1977, commuted his sentence.
Refusing to testify, Liddy was convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping and sentenced to 6 to 20 years in jail. He was the force behind the Watergate scandal which led to Nixon’s 1974 resignation. In the 1970s, during President Nixon’s re-election campaign, Liddy masterminded all kinds of dirty tricks to bungle the 1972 Democratic National Convention and take down the president’s adversaries. According to his son, his cause of death was Parkinson’s disease. Gordon Liddy, the ex-FBI agent who was a key player behind the burglary that resulted in the Watergate scandal Died March 30, 2021, at his daughter’s home in Mount Vernon, Virginia.