Jerry Lee Lewis, known for helping rock and roll go mainstream with his flashy piano performances — as well as for his numerous offstage controversies and seven marriages — has died at age 87. Lewis’s representative confirmed the newsafter his death was erroneously reported two days prior. A cause of death was not reported, but Lewis had been too ill to attend his Country Music Hall of Fame induction on October 16.
Lewis’s career experienced a sharp downturn in the late 1950s amid reports of his marriage to his 13-year-old first cousin once removed, Myra Gale Brown. Lewis was 22 at the time of their marriage, and she was his third wife; she filed for divorce after over a decade, citing Lewis’s alleged abuse. Some
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