80s pop star Vanity's ex charged with four counts of murder

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80s pop star Vanity's ex charged with four counts of murder

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While the entertainer formerly known as Vanity continues to undergo daily sessions of peritoneal dialysis due to the ill-effects years of drug use and abuse have had on her kidneys, the 1980s R&B pop star's ex-husband is now in a fight for his life.

Anthony Wayne Smith was awaiting retrial in a 2008 homicide case that ended in a hung jury when the former Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders defensive end was charged with the role he may have played in three additional killings from previous years.

Smith has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder.

According to court documents filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Smith also faces allegations of torture, kidnapping and robbery.

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