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Elizabeth Waters and Lymon marriage controversy

TFIGLOBAL News Desk by TFIGLOBAL News Desk
December 11, 2021
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Frankie Lymon, the rock and roll icon who composed and performed “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” and died decades ago of a heroin overdose has a legal widow named Elizabeth Waters of Philadelphia. The fact came to notice from a judge during a trial where three middle-aged women (Ash Taylor, Elizabeth Waters, and Amira Eagle) spoke about their miseries.

Elizabeth Waters may be entitled to an estate worth $750,000 in accumulated royalties from Lymon 1956 hit and it’s more modern iterations, according to Surrogate Court Judge Marie Lambert’s ruling.

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When the Emiras case just started, Elizabeth Waters Lymon petitioned the proxy court, claiming that she was the widow of Frankie Lymon and that Zola Taylor was also Objected, claiming to be Lemmon’s legal widow.

The female lawyer stated that the battle began shortly after Emira asked the Georgia court to declare her as the administrator of Lemmons Estate. After learning of this, Elizabeth went to court to request the suspension of the law. The marriage to Eagle is valid, so she is entitled to a fief.

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Royalties from Lymon’s

The first decision was made in Waters’s favor; Eagle appealed, and in 1989 the New York State Supreme Court Appeals Division overturned the original decision and transferred ownership of Lymon to Eagle. Ash Taylor, Elizabeth Waters, and Amira Eagle reached out to Morris Levy, a music entrepreneur who retained Lymons ‘copyrights and copyrights, claiming to be Lymons’ legal widow; Lymon didn’t bother to divorce any of them. In 1986, the women, who were never divorced from Lymon, filed copyright claims in federal court in New York for Lymon’s songs.

The film travels back and forth in time to explore their relationship with the singer. Lymon signed with both 20th Century Fox Records and Columbia Records, but both deals were short-lived. At the age of 13 little Lymon and his group of singers “Teens” signed a recording contract. Lymon was 14 years old when he began dating Zola Taylor (Berry), the lead singer of the Platters in the mid-1950s.

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Frankie Lymon and Elizabeth Waters

Lymon is always short of money, no childhood, and, in most descriptions, lacks calmness, but when a small star appears on the stage, he always steals the limelight. She also stole the hearts of many people and led to a five-year legal battle to answer which of the three women who claimed to be married to the star was the real Mrs. Frankie Lemmon .

This legal drama was made into a movie earlier this year, named after his hit song “Why fools fall in love”. Only after the trial to expose his wife was revealed, Fox was appointed as the producer. She plays Lemmon’s second wife. , A thief turns to prostitution to help Lymon fund his drug addiction.

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Marriage and Divorce

None of whom had ever divorced, was his legal widow and heiress. In January 1964, he began a relationship with Elizabeth Mickey Waters, from whom he gave birth to his only daughter Francine, who died two days later. Elizabeth Waters was not yet divorced when she married Lymon, but the marriage became lawful once her first husband’s divorce was finalized.

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