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… 12-29) 17:43 PST Oakland, Calif. (AP) — Police are searching for clues in the death of a former stripper whose nude body was found in the Oakland hills at the entrance to a bike trail. Authorities have identified the…
Dimebag close friend in mysterious death
Soulmate stripper’s body found after she spirals into depression after guitarist’s murder Published: Wednesday, December 29th, 2010. © Rock AAA.
A close friend of Dimebag Darrell Abbott has been found dead after she spiralled into depression following the guitarist’s murder.
Pantera and Damageplan icon Dimebag was shot on stage in December 2004, but soulmate Jill Marie Abbott never recovered from the shock, friends say.
The 40-year-old stripper’s body was found naked in Oakland, California last week, and police are continuing to investigate the circumstances.
The pair met through mutual friends in Slayer. Although they weren’t related Dimebag used to take advantage of their shared surname to tell people they were brother and sister. She dated Pantera singer Phil Anselmo for a short time when the band were together.
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Abbott grew up in Sunnyvale and later worked strip clubs in Los Angeles before moving back to the Bay Area in 2004. She had lived with Walker most of that time.
Abbott had a drinking problem and took anti-depressants, but she never struggled with hard drugs, he said. She wouldn’t drink daily; when she drank, he said, she drank hard. She had some run-ins with police over the years, all related to alcohol, Walker said, including one DUI while she sat in her parked car with the heat and music blaring. She managed somehow to keep her thick sense of humor.
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Walker said that Abbott probably worked as an exotic dancer just a handful of times in the past year and preferred waiting nightclub tables. As a Catholic, she tried to hide the stripper work from family and friends.
… Antonio McDyess, of the San Antonio Spurs, asked if coach Gregg Popovich does wacky things to motivate the team: “Besides flipping tables and cursing you out? No.”
– Rece Davis of ESPN, after James Madison’s upset of Virginia Tech: “James Madison’s best work since the Federalist Papers.”
– Manu Ginobili, of the San Antonio Spurs, on shooting just 40 percent from the field: “I think somebody shrank the rims and I wasn’t notified.”
– Reggie Hayes of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel: “Former Michigan point guard Rumeal Robinson was convicted of borrowing more than $700,000 in a fraud scheme, which included selling his mother’s home without her knowledge. He spent $44,000 on vehicles, $3,000 at strip clubs and $1,000 on a dog. In his defense, it was a really nice dog.”
Blackburn has been bought by the Rao family, which owns an Indian company that originally made its money selling chickens. They began at Blackburn by getting rid of a solid if slightly downmarket footballing man, Sam Allardyce. Clearly the priority for the new owners is something other than football. This is football as costume jewellery.
8: Wayne Rooney’s pout
Rooney, already something of a comic character after the escort girls and the Marlboro, then performed a public pout and declared that he was ready to leave Manchester United. Now, a few million quid later, he is loyal to the core. United’s season has taken a few knocks along the way, but that doesn’t trouble a man on more than £200,000 a week. You can get so much more out of football than mere glory these days and you’d be a fool not to take it.
But, above all, beat officers credit the drop in violence to the evolution of the geographic, patrol-based community policing plan that began in 2006.
“I was in investigations for six years before I came back out into patrol. I hardly recognized the place,” said Officer Mike Rood, rolling down Macdonald Avenue on a rainy night. “It’s night and day. This is a ghost town.”
Rood, a beat officer assigned to the Iron Triangle, works in a neighborhood transformed like no other.
Throughout the decade, the lower Macdonald corridor seethed with activity at all hours. Nevin Park, long an open-air drug market, now sits empty at 9 p.m.
In the past, a predictable crowd of drug dealers, prostitutes and their customers cluttered side streets, generating crime and also presenting reliable targets for drive-by shooters when disputes broke out among rival neighborhood factions.
Feb. 11: British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, 40, commits suicide a month before presenting his collection in Paris. Known for coupling British tailoring with French couture, he was internationally acclaimed for wildly imaginative clothing and fashion shows that doubled as performance art.
Feb. 19: Levi’s collaborated with New York shopkeepers-cum-coolmakers Opening Ceremony for a Pantone-hued collection of cords and jackets, and rolled it off with a happening party.
‘Mad’ runway style
Feb 25: “Mad Men” TV fashions go international as Miuccia Prada focuses her fall 2010 collection on the early ’60s sexy silhouettes and ladylike styles, inspired by the show’s costume designer, Janie Bryant.
March 2: In a sign of San Francisco’s retail significance, Bulgari opens a 13,000-square-foot West Coast flagship at Stockton and Geary streets on Union Square, with a caviar-and-Champagne party for 600 guests, attended by Nicola Bulgari himself.
March 7: Best-dressed Oscar winner Sandra Bullock’s shimmery silver velvet and lace Marchesa Oscar gown is forever entwined in our memories with worst-dressed images of her then-husband’s tattooed stripper mistress.
But, above all, beat officers credit the drop in violence to the evolution of the geographic, patrol-based community policing plan that began in 2006.
“I was in investigations for six years before I came back out into patrol. I hardly recognized the place,” said Officer Mike Rood, rolling down Macdonald Avenue on a rainy night. “It’s night and day. This is a ghost town.”
Rood, a beat officer assigned to the Iron Triangle, works in a neighborhood transformed like no other.
Throughout the decade, the lower Macdonald corridor seethed with activity at all hours. Nevin Park, long an open-air drug market, now sits empty at 9 p.m.
In the past, a predictable crowd of drug dealers, prostitutes and their customers cluttered side streets, generating crime and also presenting reliable targets for drive-by shooters when disputes broke out among rival neighborhood factions.
6/ 14/2005 –Oakland, CA –Oakland City Councilman Ignacio De La Fuente , (photographed 6/154/2005) has spearheaded a campaign to fight prostitution by arresting the Johns. (San Jose Mercury News/Pauline Lubens)
6/ 14/2005 –Oakland, CA –Oakland City Councilman Ignacio De La Fuente , (photographed 6/154/2005) has spearheaded a campaign to fight prostitution by arresting the Johns. (San Jose Mercury News/Pauline Lubens)
