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In 1953, months after Hank Sr.'s death, Williams paid his second wife, Billie Jean Jones, $30,000 to relinquish the title of "Hank Williams's Widow". Both women had been using the description professionally. Billie Jean agreed to Williams's terms. [citation needed]
Billie Jean Horton (née Jones; born June 6, 1933) is an American former country-music singer-songwriter and music promoter.She had high profile marriages, briefly, until his death, to country musician and singer-songwriter Hank Williams in 1952 until 1953 and subsequently to singer Johnny Horton from 1953 until 1960.
In 1967, Hank Williams, Jr. was declared the only heir to the estate by a second judge. [190] In 1969, the guardianship of the estate was transferred to lawyer Robert Stewart after Irene was arrested and sentenced to a jail term for possession of cocaine by a Texas court. [182] Hank Williams, Jr. reached legal adulthood in 1970. [188]
Hank Williams Jr.'s sons and daughters have followed in his musical footsteps ... son Hank Williams III, with his ex-wife Gwen Yeargain. ... Hank and Becky welcomed their second child, daughter ...
In 1965 the song appeared as an overdubbed duet by Williams and his son Hank Williams, Jr. Also, on February 15; 1965, a version by Johnny Horton was released by Columbia Records. Horton's parts had been recorded in October 1960, just days before his untimely death. (Incidentally, Horton was married to Williams' second wife, Billie Jean ...
Hank Williams Jr. and his wife, Brandi Williams, were friends for two decades before tying the knot. The country singer and his now-wife got engaged in May 2023 — a little over a year after Hank ...
Williams was an American singer-songwriter and musician regarded as one of the most significant country music artists of all time. Williams was born with a mild undiagnosed case of spina bifida occulta, a disorder of the spinal column, which gave him lifelong pain—a factor in his later abuse of alcohol and other drugs. In 1951, Williams fell ...
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