She and Frankie became teenaged lovers in while they were on an Alan Freed bus tour of 81 one-nighters, each performing with their group along with an all-star cast. Zola testified that their affair continued off and on for several more years. He then called Elizabeth and urged her to join him. Each woman suspected he was sleeping with the other, and both were apparently correct. When she and Frankie fought about it, Elizabeth told the court, he pulled a gun on her and fled.
The following month, Zola testified that she and Frankie drove to Tijuana and got married in a tiny chapel. The small wedding party celebrated by getting very drunk, not an uncommon state for Frankie at the time. Span wrote that back in Los Angeles, the club where Zola was performing tossed a celebration with a cake and champagne.
Zola Taylor Lymon. Unfortunately for Zola, she was unable to locate records documenting her Mexican wedding to Frankie, or documentation of her Mexican divorce from her previous marriage her second.
Maybe it was the afterglow from her Tijuana marriage that induced Zola to trust a junkie like Frankie to take care of her financial affairs when she left to tour Japan with the Platters in December She let him live in her hillside house with instructions to pay bills out of an allowance forwarded to him by her attorney.
When she returned in April, the house was in foreclosure and Frankie was gone with the money. Zola never saw him alive again. Frankie had a very bad year in In lieu of sentencing, Frankie was allowed to undergo another rehab programAfter completing another rehab program and was inducted into the Army in December Whie serving at Ft.
Gordon in Georgia, Frankie married again. His bride was Emira Eagle, an elementary school teacher who lived with her family in nearby Augusta. Emira Eagle Lymon. Frankie marrying a schoolteacher? Zola and Elizabeth didn't get close to Emira; and she didn't have anything much to say to them either during the 10 days they spent in court reliving the past.
Zola Taylor Lymon, who was 50, had flown in from Los Angeles. Span wrote that she was conscious of her stardom and arrived at court daily in a limousine. Zola got to be pretty friendly with the first wife. All three women used the surname Lymon in court documents at least part of the time. Elizabeth, now 46, said she had been born again, but she still strove for glamor, her skirt fashionably above the knee, her fingernails long and orange.
She knew a soldier. Frankie was interviewed by The Augusta Chronicle while he was stationed at Ft. Army discipline, I think, teaches a man how to protect himself.
It teaches him responsibility and how to stand on his own two feet. It makes him not only a good soldier, but a better individual. Span wrote that Frankie was a soldier for most of his brief marriage to Emira. He was a master manipulator, however, and it was just two months after his less than honorable discharge for repeatedly being AWOL that he went to New York, telling Emira that he wanted to see about reviving his career while also secretly planning to contact lady friends and drug pushers in the city.
At the trial, Elizabeth testified that she saw Frankie on that visit, as she had a number of times both before and after his wedding to Emira, which she said she knew nothing of.
Elizabeth went on to testify that she also saw Frankie the day before he took his last, fatal dose of heroin. A headstone was not part of the package, however, and Frankie Lymon was buried in an unmarked grave at St. According to Paula Span, people sometimes compared Frankie with the young Michael Jackson, who also knew how to combine innocence and knowingness.
It was painfully revealed in court testimony, however, that Frankie Lymon, for all his talent, was a bigamist, hustler, liar, and thief. Consequently, he left behind a tangled and miserable legal and financial mess along with three wounded women. None of the three women in court, all of whom he deceived and betrayed, seemed willing to condemn him. I feel sorry for him, most of all," echoed Zola. She told Span that she never recovered financially from the loss of her home and still feels "cheated.
When did Frankie Lymon die? February 27, Who did Frankie Lymon have a child with? Francine Lymon Daughter. Is Frankie Lymon still alive? Deceased — Where did Frankie Lymon die? Harlem, New York, United States. Is the Frankie Lymon story true? The singer-songwriter, played by Larenz Tate, died at 26 from a drug overdose in As the film shows, there was a trial nearly two decades later to determine which of his three widows played by Halle Berry, Vivica A.
Did Frankie Lymon have a child? He struggled with substance abuse, lived a troubled life, and was bankrupt before taking his final breath in After his death, his three wives, Zola, Elizabeth, and Emira, contested what was left of their husband's fortune.
There were numbered court sessions scheduled to answer the question of the most qualified candidate to inherit. These three women with different job descriptions, the radar school teacher from Georgia, the singer from California, and a part-time bill collector from Philadelphia still had the name Lymon attached to their names and spoke kind words concerning their deceased spouse.
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