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Sinead O’Connor’s brief marriage ends
LONDON
A statement on Sinead O’Connor’s website says her brief marriage to therapist Barry Herridge has ended amicably.
The statement on sineadoconnor.com says “the marriage was 16 days. We lived together for 7 days only. Until Xmas eve.”
The statement says “from the moment myself and my husband got together ... there was intense pressure placed upon him by certain people in his life, not to be involved with me.”
She adds: “As my good friend said ‘well, at least you got married in Vegas in a pink Cadillac! Can’t get more Rock n Roll than that.”’
Roman Szendrey, who maintains the site, told The Associated Press by phone Wednesday the report is accurate and was personally posted by O’Connor.
Was it chimp from ’30s Tarzan flicks that died?
PALM HARBOR, Fla.
A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s, has died at 80. But other accounts call that claim into question.
Debbie Cobb, outreach director at the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor, said Wednesday that her grandparents acquired Cheetah around 1960 from “Tarzan” star Johnny Weissmuller and that the chimp appeared in Tarzan films between 1932 and 1934. During that period, Weissmuller made “Tarzan the Ape Man” and “Tarzan and His Mate.”
But Cobb offered no documentation, saying it was destroyed in a 1995 fire.
Also, some Hollywood accounts indicate a chimpanzee by the name of Jiggs or Mr. Jiggs played Cheetah alongside Weissmuller early on and died in 1938.
In addition, an 80-year-old chimpanzee would be extraordinarily old, perhaps the oldest ever known. According to many experts and Save the Chimps, another Florida sanctuary, chimpanzees in captivity generally live to between 40 and 60, though Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee, Fla., says it has one that is around 73.
Vindicator wire services