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arrangements. Sinatra initially offered one million dollars, but Keenan demanded significantly less instead: $ 240,000. (In 2022 terms, the demand paid would be the equivalent of $ 2.32 million, and the amount
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He was 82. He was in a tremendous amount of physical pain. He's free now... Maybe, wherever he is, he's sitting pretty at the big table with a White
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