SILLS SUFFERING FROM CANCER
American opera legend BEVERLY SILLS is reportedly seriously ill with cancer.
The New York City-born singer, 78, resigned her post as chairwoman of the city’s Metropolitan Opera two years ago (05), citing health and family reasons.
Sills was one of America’s best-known opera stars in the 1960s and 1970s, before going on to manage the New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera.
Sills remains chairwoman emerita of the Met, who have neither confirmed or denied reports of her illness.
Sources close to the singer tell the Associated Press agency Sills is at a Manhattan hospital, with her daughter Meredith by her bedside.
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