Eddie Fisher: 50’s Pop Star Passes Away At 82

Los Angeles (GaeaTimes.com) - Eddie Fisher, 82, one of Hollywood’s original bad boys, died on Wednesday. According to a statement released by his family, he died in Berkley, California, due to complications from recent hip surgery.

The statement said that,

He was loved and will be missed by his four children: Carrie and Todd (with Reynolds), Joely, and Tricia Leigh (with Stevens) as well as his six grandchildren.

He had a life full of scandal with addiction and multiple marriages to Hollywood starlets like Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds, by his first 1955 marriage with Debbie Reynolds, they were named as “America’s favorite couple” and begot two children. Their daughter Carrie Fisher became a film star in her career in the first three “Star Wars” films as Princess Leia, and later as a best-selling author of “Postcards From the Edge”.

Eddie Fisher’s close friend Todd when killed in a 1958 plane crash, Fisher sympathized the widow, Elizabeth Taylor. Then Fisher divorced Reynolds and married Taylor in 1959 but it lasted for 5 years. Again he got married to Connie Stevens and had two daughters.

At the age of 47, Fisher married a 21-year-old beauty, Terry Richard but the marriage didn’t go well and ceased after 10 months.

His fifth marriage, to Betty Lin, a Chinese-born businesswoman, was long lasting than any of the others. It was of no doubt that he was polygamist by nature.

In the 1950’s the singer costarred with Reynolds in a 1956 romantic comedy, “Bundle of Joy,” and “Butterfield 8,” for which Taylor won an Academy Award but the film made the end of his movie career in the era of 1960s.

In 1953 Fisher he used to host his own 15-minute TV show called Coke Time, that was sponsored by the Coca-Cola Company and it became a heartthrob for the teens. Fisher wrote two autobiographies which Carrie declared as : “That’s it. I’m having my DNA fumigated.”