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    • Sep 26, 1994
    Forbes magazine's list of the highest-earning entertainers includes Garth Brooks, ranked #11, for making $41 million in the previous year; Jimmy Buffett, #35, $26 million; and Billy Ray Cyrus, #37, $25 million
    Oct 14, 1994
    With Conway Twitty's estate embroiled in legal bedlam, 2,000 items are auctioned off for $1 million at Twitty City in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Among them: a 1985 Pacer, for $27,500; and a script for the movie "Sex Kittens Go To College," $1,800
    Oct 22, 1994
    The Shreveport Regional Arts Council sponsors the construction of a $25,000 statue downtown to honor Lead Belly, the blues and folk artist who wrote the Moon Mullican hit "Goodnight Irene"
    May 18, 1995
    Disney puts down $30 million toward the $140 million purchase of the California Angels baseball team from Country Music Hall of Famer Gene Autry
    May 28, 1995
    Mary Chapin Carpenter and Kevin Welch are the top draws at a Songs For The Heartland concert in Oklahoma City. It raises $17,000 for families of the victims in the bombing of the federal building the previous month
    Jul 23, 1995
    A truck carrying concert equipment for Ricky Skaggs cracks granite slabs at a public fountain at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg. Skaggs pays more than $10,000 to repair the damage
    Oct 17, 1995
    A London court sentences the former financial advisor for pop singer Sting to six years in jail for embezzling $9.4 million. Sting is destined to appear in country music, joining Toby Keith on a remake of "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying"
    Nov 13, 1995
    Jimmy Dean and Charley Pride testify on behalf of fiddler Tommy Williams in a Virginia court as the "Hee Haw" musician's $20-million lawsuit against the Republican party over a disabling 1992 campaign accident opens. The two sides settle that same night for $725,000
    Mar 12, 1996
    The National Enquirer reports that two of Conway Twitty's children, Kathi and Joni, have contacted the FBI about $80 million in overseas accounts that are missing from their father's estate. His executors claim they know nothing of the accounts
    Jun 24, 1996
    Jim Reeves' widow, Mary Reeves Davis, sells the rights to the singer's name and royalties, plus the site of a Reeves museum, for $7.3 million to carnival company United Shows of America



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