Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes of Grammy-winning band TLC dies in Honduras car wreck
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Posted 1:59PM on Friday, April 26, 2002
Officials say Lisa ``Left Eye'' Lopes -- the effervescent, sometimes volatile member of the Grammy-winning trio TLC -- was killed in a car crash while visiting Honduras. <br>
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Lopes -- who would have turned 31 next month -- was traveling in the Central America nation when the accident happened Thursday night. <br>
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The crash happened near Jutiapa -- 150 miles north of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. <br>
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A police spokesman said the car rolled for unknown reasons. The other six people in the car were taken to a hospital. Authorities did not identify them. <br>
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Spokesman Jay Marose said Friday that Lopes often escaped to her condo on Honduras' northern coast. She attended a nearby healing village, which promotes and practices a form of African herbal medicine. He said she also was working on a line of clothing and a book. <br>
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Lopes' manager flew to Honduras to bring her body home. <br>
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TLC -- which also includes Tionne ``T-Boz'' Watkins and Rozonda ``Chilli'' Thomas -- had such hits as ``Waterfall,'' ``No Scrubs'' and ``Unpretty.'' Their latest album was ``FanMail.'' <br>
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Lopes' nickname came from her habit of replacing one lens of her glasses with a condom during performances. <br>
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In 1994, Lopes pleaded guilty to arson in a fire that destroyed the mansion of former Atlanta Falcons receiver Andre Rison, her boyfriend. She was sentenced to a halfway house and five years probation, plus a $10,000 fine.