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Karl Lagerfeld dead aged 85 - Chanel designer dies in hospital after secret cancer battle Iconic Chanel fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has died in Paris at the age of 85 after more than three decades as the face of the French design house Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld has died aged 85 after a cancer battle. The iconic designer, who was the creative director of Chanel, is believed to have been unwell for two weeks before his death in a Paris hospital. The House of Chanel has now confirmed his death. According to sources close to him, Lagerfeld was rushed to hospital on Monday while suffering from pancreatic cancer. "He hadn't gone on about his illness, but battled it very bravely," said one insider. "Karl was very proud of his fitness and healthy living, so the pancreatic cancer came as a huge shock." Another source in Paris said: "The state of his health had been a cause of concern for a number of weeks. "He had not been seen at fashion shows t...

Marley—whose parents were Norval Sinclair Marley, a white rural overseer, and the former Cedella Malcolm, the black daughter of a local custos(respected backwoods squire)—would forever remain the unique product of parallel worlds. His poetic worldview was shaped by the countryside, his music by the tough West Kingston ghetto streets. Marley’s maternal grandfather was not just a prosperous farmer but also a bush doctor adept at the mysticism-steeped herbal healing that guaranteed respect in Jamaica’s remote hill country. As a child Marley was known for his shy aloofness, his startling stare, and his penchant for palm reading. Virtually kidnapped by his absentee father (who had been disinherited by his own prominent family for marrying a black woman), the preadolescent Marley was taken to live with an elderly woman in Kingston until a family friend rediscovered the boy by chance and returned him to Nine Miles. By his early teens Marley was back in West Kingston, living in a government-s...