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Judge Says Aaliyah Producer Can Sue Over Jet Crash
6/4/2004, USRN

Almost three years after Aaliyah's untimely death, a judge has determined that her record label is eligible to sue the video producer who booked the private jet that crashed...  more >

Dr.: Aaliyah's Pilot Had Cocaine in System
11/19/2003, AP

An autopsy found drugs and alcohol in the body of the pilot of the plane that crashed in the Bahamas killing the singer Aaliyah and eight other people in 2001, a doctor...  more >

Nelly, Aaliyah Featured On 'Universal Smash Hits 2'
9/14/2003, USRN

Nelly's chart-topping track "Hot In Herre" and Aaliyah's Number One hit single "Miss You" are among the 18 tracks featured on Universal Smash Hits 2, due September 23. The...  more >

Aaliyah's Parents Settle Plane Crash Negligence Suit
9/9/2003, USRN

Diane and Michael Haughton, parents of late singer-actress Aaliyah, have reached an undisclosed settlement in a lawsuit alleging that negligence and recklessness caused the...  more >

Aaliyah's Mom Asked Psychic To Contact Deceased Star
9/4/2003, USRN

Aaliyah's mother Diane Haughton asked celebrity psychic John Edward to contact her daughter, according to the psychic's new book, After Life. Haughton had a private session...  more >

Aaliyah Releases New Single
8/26/2003, USRN

Fans of deceased R&B singer and actress, Aaliyah, honored the fallen star on Monday (August 25) with a prayer service and candlelight vigil at Ferncliff cemetery in...  more >

Dior Shoe Sales To Benefit Aaliyah Memorial Fund
8/4/2003, USRN

Aaliyah is being remembered by the Christian Dior Couture fashion line. In honor of the late R&B singer, the company is donating profits from the sales of the new Dior Sport...  more >

Aaliyah's 'Miss You' Coming Out On Enhanced CD
4/4/2003, USRN

Late singer Aaliyah's top-10 hit, "Miss You," will be released on a special enhanced CD on April 29. The enhanced CD will include "Miss You (Remix)" featuring Jay-Z, a...  more >

Jay-Z Featured On Remix Of Aaliyah's 'Miss You'
3/12/2003, USRN

Superstar rapper Jay-Z recently added his vocals to a remix of Aaliyah's "Miss You." The song was the lead single from the deceased singer's latest album, I Care 4...  more >

Patti LaBelle Added To Tribute For Mothers Of Aaliyah, Shakur, Big Pun, Lopes & Others
3/10/2003, USRN

Patti LaBelle has been added to the lineup of performers at a tribute to the mothers of Jam Master Jay, Tupac Shakur, Aaliyah, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and other artists who...  more >

Mothers Of Aaliyah, Shakur, Lopes, Big Pun & Others To Be Honored
1/17/2003, USRN

The mothers of Tupac Shakur, Aaliyah, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and other artists who met with untimely deaths are being honored. A tribute to the special women will happen at...  more >

Aaliyah's 'Miss You' Tapped As First Single From Posthumous Album
10/30/2002, USRN

Aaliyah's "Miss You" is the first single from her posthumous album, I Care 4 U, due out December 10 on Blackground/Universal Records. In addition to "Miss You," the album...  more >

Posthumous Aaliyah Album Expected In November
10/8/2002, USRN

Blackground Records and Universal Records expect to release a posthumous Aaliyah album in November, according to a Blackground spokesperson. The album will feature her track...  more >

Jay-Z Pays Tribute To Aaliyah On First Anniversary Of Her Death
8/26/2002, USRN

Jay-Z was among those paying tribute to Aaliyah on the first anniversary of her death. During his headline set at the Sprite Liquid Mix tour stop Sunday (August 25) at the...  more >

Aaliyah Tribute & Gospel Category Cut From Lady Of Soul Due To Time Constraints
8/26/2002, USRN

A tribute to the late Aaliyah, who died in a plane crash on August 25, 2001, and the presentation of the best gospel album award, were cut due to time constraints from the...  more >

Aaliyah Remembered With Candlelight Vigil
8/23/2002, USRN

A candlelight vigil has been planned in New York's Times Square to honor deceased singer and actor Aaliyah on the one-year anniversary of her death. Fans are expected to...  more >

Aaliyah's Former Record Label Accused Of Refusing To Pay Funeral Home Costs
8/12/2002, USRN

Nearly a year after singer/actress Aaliyahand eight others were killed in a plane crash in the Bahamas on August 25, a local funeral home claims that Aaliyah's former label...  more >

Aaliyah's Pilot Used Cocaine & Alcohol
7/17/2002, USRN

Aaliyah's pilot used cocaine and alcohol, according to a report filed by Bahamian aviation officials on Tuesday (July 16). Aaliyah, seven other passengers, and the pilot...  more >

Left Eye And Aaliyah Tribute Planned For BET Awards
5/28/2002, USRN

TLC's Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and Aaliyah will be remembered in a special tribute during the second Annual BET Awards airing live June 25 at 6 p.m. PT. Curtis Gadson, BET's...  more >

Aaliyah Lands Four BET Awards Nominations
5/15/2002, USRN

Late R&B singer and actress Aaliyah is up for a total of four honors at the second Annual BET Awards, the organizers announced Tuesday (May 14) at the press conference for...  more >

Aaliyah's Parents Sue Virgin Records
5/14/2002, USRN

Diane and Michael Haughton, parents of late singer-actress Aaliyah, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday (May 13) alleging that negligence and...  more >

Aaliyah Crash Investigation Coming To A Close
5/13/2002, USRN

The investigation into the plane crash that killed R&B singer-actress Aaliyah and others is drawing to a close, and the Bahamian government has listed three primary causes...  more >

Marvin Gaye's Daughter: From 'Ali' To Aaliyah's Role In 'Matrix: Reloaded'
4/11/2002, USRN

Actress Nona Gaye--daughter of slain singing legend Marvin Gaye--will replace Aaliyah in Matrix: Reloaded--the role was left vacant when the singer-actress's life was cut...  more >

New Aaliyah Single To Be Released From Timbaland & Magoo Album
3/5/2002, USRN

Hip-hop duo Timbaland & Magoo are preparing to release a remix of Aaliyah's "I Am Music" as the second single from their third album, Indecent Proposal. The new version of...  more >

Aaliyah Plane Crash Prompts Wrongful-Death Lawsuits
2/28/2002, USRN

The families of hair stylists Eric Forman, 29, and Anthony Dodd, 34--who were killed with Aaliyah and six others in a plane crash in the Bahamas on August 25--have filed...  more >

Aaliyah's Brother Describes Dubbing Her Voice As 'Therapeutic'
2/21/2002, USRN

The voice one hears coming from the late singer-actress Aaliyah in the new film Queen Of The Damned is not her own--rather, it belongs to her brother, Rashad Haughton....  more >

Aaliyah Screen Time Limited In 'Queen Of The Damned'
2/15/2002, USRN

Aaliyah fans beware: Although the deceased singer-actress is featured prominently in the trailers and advertisements for Queen Of The Damned, her actual screen time is...  more >

Aaliyah's Performance In 'Queen Of The Damned' Praised
2/11/2002, USRN

Late singer-actress Aaliyah's performance in the upcoming film Queen Of The Damned is being praised by author Anne Rice, who wrote the novel upon which the movie was based....  more >

Aaliyah Deserved Awards Regardless Of Death, Says Luther Vandross
1/10/2002, USRN

Aaliyah didn't win her two American Music Awards Wednesday night (January 9) simply because she died in a plane crash last August, or so says Luther Vandross. The veteran...  more >

Alicia, Aaliyah, Destiny's & McGraw Win Big At AMAs
1/9/2002, USRN

The 29th Annual American Music Awards were primarily dominated by women, as Destiny's Child, Alicia Keys, and the late Aaliyah each earned two AMAs on Wednesday night in Los...  more >

Flashback 2001: Singer/Actress Aaliyah Dies In Plane Crash
12/30/2001, USRN

Singer and actress Aaliyah was killed in a plane crash on the evening of Saturday,...  more >

Aaliyah's 'More Than A Woman' Video Release In Limbo, New Album In Works
12/28/2001, USRN

The release of Aaliyah's "More Than A Woman" video has yet to be scheduled, due to conflicts between the late singer's label, Blackground, and its former distributor Virgin...  more >

Aaliyah's Life Story Told In 'Aaliyah: More Than A Woman'
12/11/2001, USRN

Aaliyah's life story is recounted in Aaliyah: More Than A Woman, a new book due out later this month. The bio was penned by noted journalist Christopher John Farley and...  more >

New Aaliyah Video Coming Soon
11/29/2001, USRN

Fans of singer-actress Aaliyah will be happy to know that the video for "More Than A Woman" will be released in the coming weeks. The song is the third single from the late...  more >

'Now 8' Dedicated To Aaliyah
11/16/2001, USRN

Aaliyah, Destiny's Child, Janet Jackson, and U2 are among the artists featured on the eighth volume of the wildly popular, multi-artist album series Now That's What I Call...  more >

Aaliyah Fans Fight To Keep The Deceased Actress In 'Matrix 2'
11/13/2001, USRN

Thousands of fans of the late singer-actress Aaliyah have started an online petition at petitiononline.com to keep the scenes that the actress shot for Matrix 2 in the final...  more >

Ron Isley Dedicates 'At Your Best' To Aaliyah
10/16/2001, USRN

Ron Isley dedicated the Isley Brother's classic "At Your Best" to Aaliyah Friday (October 12) when he played the Universal Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. The...  more >

Aaliyah's Life And Last Days Chronicled In Two Upcoming Television Programs
10/8/2001, USRN

Pop star and actress Aaliyah, who was killed along with eight others in a Bahamian plane crash on August 25, will be the subject of BET's Access Granted: Aaliyah 'Rock The...  more >

Investigation Into Aaliyah's Death Continues
9/27/2001, USRN

Last week the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspector who gave Luis Morales--the pilot of the 10-seat Cessna 402-B that crashed and killed Aaliyah and seven others...  more >

Aaliyah's Plane Too Heavy, Report Says
9/10/2001, USRN

National Transportation Safety Board officials have determined that an overloaded plane likely caused the crash that killed actress-singer Aaliyah and eight others in the...  more >

Janet, Missy & Ginuwine Pay Tribute To Aaliyah
9/6/2001, USRN

Late singer-actress Aaliyah was honored Thursday night (September 6) at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards by Janet Jackson, Missy Elliott, Timbaland, Ginuwine, and Aaliyah's...  more >

Aaliyah Rises To Number One, Mary J. Blige Debuts At Two
9/5/2001, USRN

In a fitting tribute to the memory of R&B singer Aaliyah (Aaliyah Dana Haughton), her self-titled album--which came out July 17--rises from Number 19 to Number One on the...  more >

Detroit Memorial For Aaliyah Planned, Scholarship Fund Created
9/2/2001, USRN

A memorial is being planned and there is now a scholarship fund that honors the memory of Aaliyah in Detroit, the city where the New York-born singer-actress was raised and...  more >

New York Disc Jockey Suspended Over Aaliyah Joke
8/31/2001, USRN

A New York City disc jockey has been suspended for mocking singer-actress Aaliyah's death on the air with a sound-effects tape that contained a woman's bloodcurdling screams...  more >

Aaliyah's Bodyguards Might Have Doomed Flight
8/31/2001, USRN

While National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) experts have already admitted that the chartered Cessna in which singer-actress Aaliyah died was dangerously overloaded...  more >

Family, Friends & Fans Say Goodbye To Aaliyah
8/31/2001, USRN

A glass-paneled carriage towed by a pair of tan horses brought actress-singer Aaliyah's silver coffin from the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home on Manhattan's Upper West Side...  more >

Mariah Offers Condolences Following Aaliyah's Death
8/30/2001, USRN

While Mariah Carey continues to recover from her mental breakdown earlier this summer, the vocalist offered her condolences to the family of Aaliyah following the plane...  more >

Aaliyah Memorial Service To Be Held In New York
8/30/2001, USRN

A public memorial service for Aaliyah, the 22-year-old singer and actress who was one of the nine people killed in a plane crash Saturday (August 25), will be held Friday...  more >

Ludacris Expresses His Grief Over Aaliyah's Death; Pilot Wasn't Authorized For Flight
8/30/2001, USRN

Luis Morales III, the pilot of the fatal plane crash that killed singer and actress Aaliyah on Saturday (August 25), and eight others including himself, was reportedly not...  more >

Ja Rule On Aaliyah's Death
8/29/2001, USRN

As funeral preparations were being made for singer and actress Aaliyah, who died in a tragic plane crash in the Bahamas on Saturday (August 25), her friends continue to...  more >

Gladys Knight Mourns Niece Aaliyah
8/29/2001, USRN

Gladys Knight, aunt of R&B singer-actress Aaliyah, is one of the many family members, fans, and friends mourning the death of the talented 22-year-old. Aaliyah was killed...  more >

Disc Jockey Apolgizes For Joking About Aaliyah's Death
8/28/2001, USRN

A New York City disc jockey has apologized for mocking singer-actress Aaliyah's death on the air with a sound-effects tape that contained a woman's bloodcurdling screams...  more >

Details Of Aaliyah's Fatal Plane Crash Slowly Surfacing
8/27/2001, USRN

R&B singer and actress Aaliyah, who was killed in a plane crash in the Bahamas with eight others on Saturday (August 25), was supposed to take another flight according to...  more >

Singer And Actress Aaliyah Dies In Plane Crash
8/26/2001, USRN

Singer and actress Aaliyah was killed in a plane crash Saturday evening, when a small aircraft transporting her and eight others crashed and burst into flames as it was...  more >

Aaliyah First Actor Attached To 'Some Kind Of Blue'
5/2/2001, USRN

Aaliyah's "We Need A Resolution," featuring Timbaland, entered the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Sales & Tracks charts last week at Number 45. And while she's keeping busy...  more >

Aaliyah's New Single Calls For A 'Resolution'
3/28/2001, USRN

R&B/pop singer and actress Aaliyah will release her new single "We Need A Resolution" on April 13. The song will be the first single from her still-untitled third album...  more >

Aaliyah Loves Film Location, Discusses Album Plans
9/8/2000, USRN

Singer-actress Aaliyah won two awards Thursday night (September 7) at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York. Both awards were for her hit "Try Again" from the Romeo Must...  more >

Aaliyah Makes Long Trip Worthwhile
9/7/2000, USRN

Aaliyah took home two statues at the MTV Video Music Awards tonight. Prior to the broadcast, "Try Again" -- from the film Romeo Must Die -- won the honor of best video from...  more >

Aaliyah On Upcoming Projects
6/20/2000, USRN

LAUNCH encountered singer-actress Aaliyah at the Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles this weekend, and she told us she hopes to release a new album later this...  more >

Aaliyah Working On New Album
5/16/2000, USRN

Aaliyah starred in the blockbuster Romeo Must Die and helped propel its soundtrack to the top of the pop music charts, but she had to make some sacrifices in order to work...  more >

Aaliyah A Virgin?
5/9/2000, USRN

Singer, actress, and Tommy Hilfiger model Aaliyah is reportedly moving to Virgin Records with Barry Hankerson's Blackground Records, which recently closed a deal with...  more >

Aaliyah Among Hot Girls With Hits
4/5/2000, USRN

Missy Elliott's song, "Hot Boyz," is cooling off, but new singles for Aaliyah, Mya, Angie Stone, Kelly Price, and Blaque are heating up the singles charts. Aaliyah's new...  more >

Aaliyah Fights In 'Romeo Must Die'
3/20/2000, USRN

R&B singer Aaliyah drops her sexy ways during a pivotal scene in Romeo Must Die, a new action film that also stars Jet Li, DMX, Delroy Lindo, and Isaiah Washington. In the...  more >

Oscar Picks His Singers
3/9/1998, USRN

Big belters will belt 'em out at the March 23rd Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences show, better known as the Oscars. Singing nominated original songs will be...  more >

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