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Aaliyah: 8 Years After Her Death
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by Jordan Yerman | August 25, 2009 at 07:01 am
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Aaliyah, pop star and actress, was killed in a plane crash on August 25, 2001. Born Aaliyah Dana Haughton, the star was 22 years old when the twin-engine Cessna carrying her and her entrourage crashed just after takeoff in the Bahamas. The pilot was found to have had traces of alcohol and cocaine in his blood, and Blackwawk International Airways was sued for wrongful death.
It wasn't just the death of a star that saddened the public, but the public passing of someone whose potential had not yet been reached, the same as any time we hear of a young person dying too soon.
Her credits are easy to remember: three albums that were each certified double-platinum along with the aforementioned "Romeo Must Die," which helped to put her on Hollywood's map. Another film, "Queen of the Damned," was released after she passed.
After she died, "Aaliyah" became one of the top 100 most popular names for newborn girls in the US.
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at 20:54 on August 25th, 2009
Without Aaliyah music ain't the same, so many people try to be like Aaliyah but there is only one Aaliyah and she is truly missed and loved and will live in me and all of her fans forever. Aaliyah and family will remian in my prayers
at 10:47 on September 10th, 2009
I LOVE ALL HER MUSIC EVERYTHANG ABOUT AALIYAH SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL AND VERY TALENTED AND I KNOW SHE IS TRULY MISSED RIP AALIYAH DANA HAUGHTON 1979-2001
at 09:02 on September 29th, 2009
she was my inspiration i loved all her music everthing about her was on point she will be truly missed rock tha boat was one of my favorite song she had came out with she sold records world wide and she will foreva be missed r.i.p aaliyah