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Esther Gordy Edwards, who helped build Motown Records alongside her brother Berry Gordy Jr. and led efforts to turn its original Detroit headquarters into a museum, has died. She was 91.

Amy Winehouse is still hitting music milestones after her untimely death last month. Britain's Official Charts Company says Winehouse's Grammy-award winning "Back to Black" has become the best-selling album in the U.K. in the 21st century.

Toxicology tests have found that "no illegal substances" were in singer Amy Winehouse's system at the time of her death last month, her family said Tuesday.

Mr. Ashford and his songwriting partner and later wife, Valerie Simpson, composed hits for Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Ray Charles, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan and themselves.

The death of the Warrant singer is being investigated as a possible accidental overdose but may also have been from natural causes, the site reported.

Former NFL defensive star Bubba Smith, who found a successful second career as an actor, has died in Los Angeles at age 66.

Friends and family were saying goodbye to Amy Winehouse Tuesday at a private funeral ceremony in London.

Sources say the singer may have been dead for as many as six hours before being found by a security guard, alone in her bed with no signs of drugs nearby.

Singer Amy Winehouse, 27, has been found dead at her home, the Press Association reports. A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed that a 27-year-old woman had died in Camden and that the cause of death was as yet unexplained.

Actress Googie Withers, best known for appearing in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, has died at her home in Australia aged 94.