Eddie Money’s estate sues USC’s Keck Hospital claiming medical negligence and wrongful death in singer’s 2019 passing
Eddie Money’s estate has filed a lawsuit for medical negligence and wrongful death in the singer’s September 2019 death at 70.
The estate for the Baby Hold On artist also named doctors Mark Cunningham, Leonard Clavijo and John Anderson-Dam in the suit, TMZ reported on Monday, citing court docs.
The estate said in court docs that the staff was not competently tried to care for the Two Tickets to Paradise artist, who entered the Los Angeles facility for cardiac issues, and later caught pneumonia.
The latest: Eddie Money’s estate has filed a lawsuit for medical negligence and wrongful death in the singer’s September 2019 death at 70. He was snapped less than four months before his death performing in Michigan
A source told the site that a heart valve procedure at the medical facility led to the singer’s death.
The singer died September 13, 2019, with his rep saying, ‘It’s so hard to imagine our world without him, however he will live on forever through his music.’
The month before, he said on his reality series Real Money that he was informed of a Stage 4 esophageal cancer diagnosis following a routine checkup. He had to cancel a planned tour in the summer of 2019 as result of his ailment.
The singer, a mainstay on the charts in 1970s and ’80s, was nominated in 1987 for a Grammy for best rock vocal for Take Me Home Tonight, which had a cameo from Ronnie Spector.
The rocker said on his reality series Real Money that he was informed of his cancer diagnosis following a routine checkup
Details: The estate said in court docs that the staff was not competently tried to care for the Two Tickets to Paradise artist, pictured in 2013
He opened up in 2015 about the collaboration with the 1960s hitmaker with hippopress.com, and how it came to be.
‘I said, “Ronnie, I got this song that’s truly amazing and it’s a tribute to you. It would be so great if you came out and did it with me,”‘ Money said. ‘When she got there, she didn’t even remember it; she had a mental block against [her ex-husband Phil] Spector.
‘But then she came out and did the song.’