Holiday died in Room 6A12 in Harlem’s Metropolitan Hospital in July 1959 at age 44. The cause of death was heart failure brought on by cirrhosis of the liver — in short, alcoholism.

S ixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence ...

Billie Holiday was a pre-eminent jazz vocalist, ... One or more police were posted outside her hospital room to bar drug dealers, but they left their post when charges were dropped.

In 1959, during what would be the final months of her life, Billie Holiday was unwell. The singer—who had honed her art in the brothels of Baltimore, ... Yet she refused to go to the hospital.

(The Conversation) — Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby ...

The daughter of William Bankhead, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives between 1936 and 1940, called up J. Edgar Hoover to upbraid him for FBI harassment of Holiday, which actually was mild ...

On July 17, 1958, exactly one year before she died, Billie Holiday performed on the television show “Art Ford’s Jazz Party.” Ford, like most jazz lovers, was a Holiday devotee, and he almost ...

Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence ...