Originally Posted by
midnightman
I'm so tired of that narrative too.
Florence did NOT, and I repeat, did NOT live nor die in poverty. Besides from losing her home, she always had homes to go due to her large family [[she moved in with Maxine for a time). Most impoverished folks can't afford welfare like she could.
That said, after she got her head together in late 1974, she began to put her house [[literally) in order and was set to make a living as a solo artist when she suddenly died. I just wish the media stopped saying "poverty".
If anyone was impoverished at the end of their life, it was Judy Garland. She literally had no money but you don't see anyone saying "Judy Garland died in poverty". No let's call a black singer who rose to international fame as one of the members of one of the most successful vocal groups in history impoverished because it fits the media narrative.
GTFOH! And the surviving Chapman sisters ain't living in poverty either.