TLC Reality Show to Find Replacement for "Left Eye" on UPN - Page 3

fuji · #31 04-29-2002, 07:52 PM

It has also been reported that reporters broke into the morgue where Left Eye's body is held and opened the coffin and was taking pictures! What is wrong with the world today?!?! I love me some TLC and that is just soo disrespectful to do to the dead. Let her rest in peace!
RIP Left Eye! You are surely missed!

I just found the whole story:

Left Eye" Funeral Services Set
by Josh Grossberg
Apr 29, 2002, 11:00 AM PT

The body of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes is on its way home to Atlanta, where funeral services will take place Thursday.

According to her publicist, police in Honduras released the remains of the TLC star to her brother, who is currently bringing her home to Atlanta. Lopes' family has scheduled a private wake for Wednesday evening.

Meanwhile, new details have surfaced about another car accident involving Lopes three weeks before her death--which resulted in the death of a 10-year-old boy--as well as gruesome photos of Lopes' body that have now surfaced on the Internet.

Lopes was killed Thursday night after she lost control of the Mitsubishi Montero SUV she was driving just outside the city of Jutiapa.

According to investigators, the rapper-singer was coming from an herbal healing center in the city of La Ceiba and attempted to pass another car on a two-lane highway when an oncoming truck forced her to swerve to the left. The vehicle, carrying eight passengers, ran off the road, flipped over several times and struck two trees.

Lopes, the so-called "crazy" member of the Grammy-winning Atlanta-based R&B trio, suffered fractures and internal injuries. She died at the scene.

The other passengers survived the crash and were hospitalized. All are expected to recover.

Honduran Police cited speeding as the cause of the accident, though Police Inspector John Cole said investigators are still trying to determine exactly how fast she was driving.

An autopsy was reportedly scheduled to be performed before her body was shipped back to Atlanta Monday for burial.

Meanwhile, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Lopes was involved in a car accident April 6 that resulted in the death of a 10-year-old Honduran boy. The singer's personal assistant, Stephanie Patterson, was behind the wheel (Lopes was a passenger) when she struck and killed Bayron Isaul Fuentes after he stepped off the curb to chase after his sisters and brothers.

The accident was not reported to local police and no autopsy was performed. Patrick James Bennett, a lawyer representing Lopes in a number of legal matters in Honduras who confirmed the story to the Journal-Constitution, said that since the child purportedly "jumped" in front of their car, the family declined to press charges.

Bennett added that Lopes paid about $3,700 for the boy's medical care and funeral, and also gave the family about $925.

"[Lopes and Patterson] did everything that was possible to be done. They paid the expenses and the funeral, and the family was contented. They didn't call the police," he said.

Lopes publicist Jay Marose confirmed the accident, but noted that in no way did "Lisa try to use her money to buy her assistant out of a problem." He said Lopes and her assistant did "more than what they were supposed to do" to help the boy, including making sure he got to a better hospital nearby.

"The basic rundown of some of the facts are correct but the spirit of the [press report] is wildly off base," said Marose. "It's kind of being framed that they were ugly Americans and they paid somebody to get away with it, but that's not the case at all."

Marose says the family expressed amazement that Lopes and Patterson even stopped after the accident. "In Honduras, people don't even stop," he said, adding that the boy's family was hesitant to accept anything because of local customs.

Lopes' family, meanwhile, has been horrified to hear that photos taken of Lopes' body have turned up in local Honduran newspapers as well as on the Internet.

"She was dropped off at the morgue by her brother and her assistant, who personally had to physically bring her there in a coffin and place her in a refrigerated room," said Marose. "Within an hour, someone from the U.S. Embassy went there and found 15 to 20 reporters in the morgue shooting photographs and video. They removed the coffin, removed the lid, and tilted it on its side to get a better vantage point."

Marose said the family is "disgusted" and "horrified" and has called on the media not to print the photos. The family also said it disapproves of attempts by people to profit from her death and sell footage of the crash site.

AKA2D '91 · #32 04-29-2002, 08:06 PM

I saw the picture of her in the coffin and the bruises she had. It seems like they put her in pajamas...

DableST_1 · #33 04-29-2002, 08:51 PM

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Originally posted by AKA2D '91
I saw the picture of her in the coffin and the bruises she had. It seems like they put her in pajamas...

I agree.......but she does look as if she is resting!!!!

R.I.P. Lisa, you will be missed

Honeykiss1974 · #34 04-30-2002, 09:55 AM

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Originally posted by AKA2D '91
I saw the picture of her in the coffin and the bruises she had. It seems like they put her in pajamas...

She did launch a pajama line in 2000. Maybe it was like tribute to that business venture

Diva_56 · #35 04-30-2002, 12:31 PM

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Originally posted by kiml122
Just something to make you think about

I am really sad to hear about the news about Left Eye as I posted earlier....but....isn't it kind of suspect that 7 people were in the car, and no one else was hurt or much worse died but her. Also didn't she just sign to Death Row Records....also I heard that another Death Row artist or employee was killed at a gas station last week I think, or early this week....like I said just something to make you go hmmmmm as Arsenio would say.

I heard 3 months ago that Left Eye was trying to fake her death on an internet newsletter...

It's suspect too....

lil_sunshine · #36 04-30-2002, 02:07 PM

For All We Know by Donny Hathaway

For all we know
We may never meet again
Before you go
Make this moment sweet again
We won't say good night
Until the last minute
I'll hold out my hand
And my heart will be in it
For all we know
This may only be a dream
We come and we go
Like the ripples of a stream
So love me, love me tonight
Tomorrow was made for some
Tomorrow may never come
For all we know

R.I.P. Aaliyah and Left Eye. You will be missed by your family, friends and devoted fans.

lil_sunshine · #37 05-03-2002, 02:07 PM

It's been said that death always works in threes. When I heard about Left Eye, I was packing up to go to Alabama for the weekend. That Friday night, I had a dream that the third female entertainer to pass was WHITNEY HOUSTON!!!! In the dream, I was watching the news and she was being wheeled out of her house in NJ by EMT's with a white sheet over her face. Bobby was being carried away by the cops and Whitney's mother and daughter were screaming crying. The news reporter said that the reason why Bobby was being arrested was b/c he supplied Whitney some cocaine that was too pure for her system and she overdosed. Yikes, talk about eerie......

Dionysus · #38 05-03-2002, 02:17 PM

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Originally posted by lil_sunshine
It's been said that death always works in threes.

Who was the second?

lil_sunshine · #39 05-03-2002, 02:52 PM

Aaliyah was first and Left Eye was second.

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Originally posted by Dionysus

Who was the second?

1Babygirl2000 · #40 05-03-2002, 04:03 PM

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Originally posted by lil_sunshine
Aaliyah was first and Left Eye was second.

Actually Aaliyah was first, the female lead singer from La Bouche (Melanie THornton) was second and Left Eye was third.

strobelitehoney · #41 05-06-2002, 01:50 PM

how did the girl from la bouche die? I didn't hear about that one?

Honeykiss1974 · #42 05-06-2002, 02:11 PM

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Originally posted by strobelitehoney
how did the girl from la bouche die? I didn't hear about that one?

here is her bio. she did ina plane crash also.

Melanie Thornton was born in May 1967 in South Carolina in the USA. She studied singing as a child and began working with US jazz and blues bands. She found success in Germany, where she arrived in 1992 with just $15.

Spotted by Frank Farian (Boney M., Milli Vanilli) in Frankfurt, she went on to front dance act La Bouche with rapper Lane McCray. La Bouche had a series of No. 1 hits including the singles Be My Lover, Sweet Dreams and Falling In Love.

The Sweet Dreams album was a major success in Europe and the group made two more, Moment of Love in 1998 and SOS in 1999. But Ms. Thornton left the group in February 2000 for an independent career.

Her first solo single, Love How You Love Me, was a hit in Germany in November 2000. Singles like Heartbeat and Making Oohh Oohh followed. Beautiful Dream - Holidays Are Coming has been chosen as the song for a new Coca-Cola TV commercial.

Before this song and her album "Ready to Fly" was released, Melanie tragically died in a plane crash on the 24th of November, 2001.

lil_sunshine · #43 05-06-2002, 02:22 PM

Thanks for the clarification, 1Babygirl2000. I totally forgot about her. I do remember hearing about her passing though. It seems really eerie that she passed one day before the three month anniversary of Aaliyah's passing. The weirdest thing is that they all died in crashes, although Left Eye's was in an SUV.

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Originally posted by 1Babygirl2000

Actually Aaliyah was first, the female lead singer from La Bouche (Melanie THornton) was second and Left Eye was third.

lil_sunshine · #44 05-06-2002, 02:55 PM

I finally saw the pics. My mother's cousin e-mailed them to me. She does look like she's sleeping in pajamas....

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Originally posted by AKA2D '91
I saw the picture of her in the coffin and the bruises she had. It seems like they put her in pajamas...

skeeliteful · #45 05-06-2002, 05:14 PM

Where are these pics everyone is talking about?