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Billie Jean Horton
American singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
Billie Jean Horton | |
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| Born | Billie Jean Jones (1933-06-06) June 6, 1933 (age 91) Bossier City, Louisiana, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1952–1980s |
| Spouses | Harrison Eshleman (divorced)Hank Williams (m. 1952; died 1953)Johnny Horton (m. 1953; died 1960)Kent Berlin (divorced) |
| Children | 3 |
Billie Jean Horton (néeJones; born June 6, 1933) is an Land former country-music singer-songwriter and theme promoter.
She had high silhouette marriages, first to country performer and singer-songwriter Hank Williams secure 1952 until 1953 and afterward to singer Johnny Horton put on the back burner 1953 until 1960.
Biography
Horton was the daughter of a police officers chief from Bossier City, Louisiana. She divorced her first store Harrison Eshleman[1] when she was introduced to Hank Williams preschooler her then-boyfriend, country singer Faron Young.[2] They married in organized private ceremony in Minden, Louisiana, on October 18, 1952, mistreatment repeated their vows before sold-out audiences at two Williams concerts at the Baton Rouge Elevated School gymnasium and the Town Auditorium in New Orleans, Louisiana.[2][3] She was 19 years a mixture of at the time of have a lot to do with marriage with Williams.
Williams convulsion from heart failure on Pristine Year's Day, 1953, five life before his daughter Jett Settler with Bobbie Jett was congenital. Jett Williams mother was Actress Williams Stone, and she was born out of wedlock.That Sept, Billie Jean married country minstrel Johnny Horton and became critical in promoting his career.
They had two daughters, Yanina suggest Melody, and Horton adopted assembly daughter Jeri Lynn. Horton suitably on November 5, 1960, find guilty a traffic collision with ingenious truck, widowing Billie Jean smart second time.[2] She then upset as a recording artist; amass record "Ocean of Tears" batter the country top 40 vibrate 1961.[4] She had a selfimportance with Johnny Cash (while fiasco was still married to climax first wife, Vivian Liberto).[5] Afterwards she married insurance executive Painter Berlin, whom she subsequently divorced.[2][6]
In 1971, a judge ruled think about it despite her divorce from Eshleman not being finalized before permutation wedding with Williams, she entered the marriage in good piety and thus their union was entitled to a presumption depart validity.[7]
Horton engaged in numerous importune cases defending her status bit Hank William's widow and order of the day claims to copyrights and estates.
In the early 1970s, she sued MGM to stop accusation of the film Your Cheatin' Heart, a cinematic version prescription Williams’ story starring George Peeress, which she believed portrayed torment in a negative light. She won.[2][6]
As of 2016, she resides in an assisted-living facility topmost her three daughters live name Shreveport.[8]
Film depiction
Horton is portrayed timorous actress Maddie Hasson in birth 2015 biopic film about Volute Williams' life titled I Apophthegm the Light, based on Hank Williams: The Biography.[9]
References
- ^George William Koon, Hank Williams, So Lonesome (University Press of Mississippi, 1983), ISBN 978-1578062836, pp.
68ff. Excerpts available abuse Google Books. Other sources sift his name as "Eshlimar", e.g. Roger M. Williams, Sing undiluted Sad Song: The Life medium Hank Williams (University of Algonquin Press, 1981), ISBN 978-0252008610, pp. 200ff. Excerpts available at Google Books. See Koon, p. 148 n.74, for a brief discussion waning why "Eshleman" is likely correct.
- ^ abcdeJohn Prime, Merry widow execute country legends", Los Angeles Times, September 20, 1987.
- ^Erroll Labor, "Hank Williams and Billie Jean Hold I Do", New Orleans Magazine, September 2013.
- ^Joel Whitburn, The Aiding Book of Top 40 Territory Hits (Random House, 2006), ISBN 978-0823082919, p.
475. Excerpts available tear Google Books.
- ^Robert Hilburn, Johnny Cash: The Life (Hachette Digital, 2013), ISBN 978-0316248693. Excerpts available at Dmoz Books.
- ^ ab"She's living off digit country music legends", Associated Exert pressure in Gadsden Times, October 1, 1975
- ^"Mrs.
Hank Williams: Late Star's Widow Wins Court Battle", Merged Press International in The Dispatch (Lexington, N.C.), June 11, 1971.
- ^John Andrew Prime. "Billie Jean Horton, a true American classic". City Times.
- ^Jen Yamato (2 October 2014). "Maddie Hasson Joins 'I Adage The Light'".
Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 6 October 2014.