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31.07.2021 / 22:15
Dolly Parton used royalties from Whitney Houston smash to invest in black neighborhood
told Oprah Winfrey last year she had to pull over the car she was driving so she wouldn’t crash it.Houston’s version, which became one of the all-time biggest singles, also netted Parton, who’s a world-class songwriter in addition to being a singer, about $10 million in royalties in the 1990s and the checks keep coming.Parton had a great idea about how to spend that money: She used it to help a Black neighborhood in Nashville.“I bought my big office complex down in Nashville,” she told Andy