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  • To Amy Winehouse's family, the singer/songwriter's death was not unexpected. It was "only a matter of time," her mother, Janis Winehouse, was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mirror. She'd visited her daughter the day before she died, and said, "She seemed out of it. But her passing still hasn't hit me."

    She said their final encounter had ended with the weakened Amy saying "I love you, mum." "Those are the words I will always treasure," Janis said. "I'm glad I saw her when I did."

    Father Mitch Winehouse had been in New York preparing to do a series of showcases for his new jazz album. He canceled the shows and was seen at JFK a few hours after the news hit. "I'm completely devastated," he was reported as saying. "I'm coming home. I have to be with Amy. I can't crack up, for her sake. My family needs me."  

    Mitch Winehouse had been vocal in the past—too vocal, for Amy's tastes—about his daughter's substance abuse. As far back as three years ago, he was raising the specter of her possible

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  • LONDON (AP) - Amy Winehouse's mother said the singer was not well when they met a day before she died, a British newspaper reported Sunday, while her family mourned the loss of "a wonderful daughter, sister, niece."

    The Sunday Mirror quoted Janis Winehouse as saying she believed it was "only a matter of time" before her daughter died. The 27-year-old singer was found dead at her London home on Saturday.

    "She seemed out of it. But her passing so suddenly still hasn't hit me," Janis told the tabloid.

    Ambulance crews called to her home in north London's Camden area Saturday afternoon found the singer dead before they arrived. Police said the cause of her death is being treated as "unexplained," rejecting speculation that she died from a drug overdose as "inappropriate." A post-mortem is expected Monday or Tuesday.

    The Winehouse family said in a statement it was remembering her, and request for privacy.

    "Our family has been left bereft by the loss of Amy, a wonderful daughter, sister,

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  • Back in March 2007, Yahoo! Music went to South By Southwest, the annual Austin music festival where so many up-and-coming artists flock to kickstart their careers in America, and booked a studio where SXSW 2007's buzziest buzz acts came through to perform for the Y! cameras. All sorts of impressive musicians stopped by--Mika, Peter Bjorn & John, Albert Hammond Jr. of the Strokes, Brandi Carlile. But the moment I remember most from that whirlwind weekend is, unsurprisingly, when the infamously rehab-resistant, beehived British bad-girl, Amy Winehouse, sauntered through the door.

    Part of what made Amy's appearance at Yahoo!'s SXSW headquarters that hot Austin day so memorable was the fact that she showed up at all. While Amy wasn't quite a superstar yet, she'd already established a reputation for being troubled, flaky, and living up to her apparently autobiographical hit, "Rehab." That year at SXSW she was probably the most hyped act of the entire festival, and she was scheduled to

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  • LONDON (AP) - Amy Winehouse, the beehived soul-jazz diva whose self-destructive habits overshadowed a distinctive musical talent, was found dead Saturday in her London home, police said. She was 27.

    Winehouse shot to fame in 2006 with the album "Back to Black," whose blend of jazz, soul, rock and classic pop was a global hit. It won five Grammys and made Winehouse - with her black beehive hairdoand old-fashioned sailor tattoos - one of music's most recognizable stars. But her personal life, with its drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders and destructive relationships, soon took over her career.

    Police confirmed that a 27-year-old female was pronounced dead at the home in Camden Square northern London; the cause of death was not immediately known. London Ambulance Services said Winehouse had died before the two ambulance crews it sent arrived at the scene.

    Singer and actress Kelly Osbourne, who helped Winehouse check into a drug addiction treatment facility in 2008, was one of many

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  • Now that Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have announcedtheir plans to end their seven-year marriage, insiders are recalling signs thatmay have indicated that the couple was having problems.

    Us Weekly reports that Anthony wanted to select Lopez's wardrobe lastyear during a photo shoot for her Style Icon Of TheDecade spread.

    Anthony urged the magazine not to use a photo of Lopez heconsidered to be "too sexy and unbecoming for a 40-year-old mother of two," anunnamed source told Us.

    "He would make her feel terrible about herself if she wantedto wear something sexy," added another source. "He likes her to dress in ademure, 'wife' style. He hated the fact that she was a sex symbol."

    Marc was described as generally being "very dominating" byyet another insider. "He wants to control everything Jennifer does."

    A spokesperson for Anthony did not respond to Yahoo! bypress time.

    On July 2 -- 13 days before Lopez and Anthony released astatement about their impending divorce -- Lopez appeared on HSN

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  • While not everyone can say their wedding was the best day of their lives, for one lucky couple, it will ring true even if things don't work out. This past weekend, pop sensation Justin Bieber and singer girlfriend Selena Gomez decided to crash Rob and Jeanine McCool's wedding, and it's caught on video! Most brides would be more than miffed to let anything or anyone outshine her on her wedding day, but I'm sure this bride took exception.

    According to a cousin of the new couple who attended the wedding, Bieber overheard the reception karaoke-ing his song "One Less Lonely Girl" (appropriate wedding song) while driving by and pulled over to see what the scene was about. In true form, he caused a riot among the flabbergasted guests and happily posed for pictures with guests and the bride and groom. Gomez, playing patient girlfriend, stayed to the side during the commotion and waited for Bieber by his car. The appearance only lasted about ten minutes, but like all weddings, the memories will

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