Celine Dion husband René Angélil, who began his career as a singer and later devoted his life to Celine’s career, has died after a 20-year battle with throat cancer.
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Dion has won a number of Grammy awards during her successful career, including for the Titanic theme My Heart Will Go On. It added: “All of us at AEG and at Caesars Palace have Celine and her children in our thoughts and prayers”. Coroner John Fudenberg said in a statement that Angelil died of throat cancer and no further investigation into his death was expected.
Angelil was first diagnosed with cancer in 1999, and in September 2015, Celine revealed that her husband’s cancer was terminal.
He is survived by their children Rene-Charles, 14, and 5-year-old twins Nelson and Eddy, and his adult children from a previous relationship-Anne-Marie, Patrick and Jean-Pierre. After managing groups in Canada, he was approached to manage Dion by her parents when she was aged 12. He stepped down as her manager in 2014.
The Montreal Gazette says he mortgaged his house to finance her first album.
An official announcement confirmed that she’s not scheduled to resume her residency until February 23.
René sidelined his own career and became Dion’s mentor and manager. Sometimes he just wants me to enter into a different place with him.
Eventually the couple landed in Las Vegas where Dion played almost 1,000 shows, earning her more millions.
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The couple, who were 26 years apart in age, married in an elaborate ceremony in 1994.
