Author: Baiden Gideon

In May 2023, Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) of Mississippi announced that she has cosponsored comprehensive legislation to protect children online and hold Big Tech accountable. The Kids Online Safety Act of 2023 (S.1409) aims to provide young people and parents with the tools, safeguards, and transparency they need to protect themselves from online harms, while…

Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby Jr. was born on May 3, 1903 in Tacoma, Washington to parents Catherine Harrigan & Harry Lincoln Crosby. Bing Crosby was born in a house built by his father at 1112 North J Street. Crosby’s father was of Scottish and English descent; an ancestor, Simon Crosby, emigrated from England to New…

Dixie Lee, born Wilma Winifred Wyatt was the first wife of Bing Crosby. The couple got were married on 1930 until her death in 1952. They had four children: Gary, twins Dennis and Phillip, and Lindsay. Born on November 4, 1909, Wilma was an American actress, dancer, and singer. In May 1928, while in Chicago,…

Bing Crosby was married twice and had seven children: Mary Crosby, Gary Crosby, Dennis Crosby, Phillip Crosby, Harry Crosby, Lindsay Crosby & Nathaniel Crosby. Crosby’s first wife was actress and nightclub singer Dixie Lee. They were married from 1930 until her death from ovarian cancer in 1952. They had four sons: Gary, twins Dennis and…

Kathryn Crosby, born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff was Bing Crosby’s second wife. They tied the knot in 1957 and were married for two decades, until Crosby’s death in 1977. Born on November 25, 1933, Kathryn is a retired American actress and singer who performed in films under the stage names Kathryn Grant and Kathryn Grandstaff. In…

Legendary American singer, actor and comedian Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby Jr. was married twice and had seven children: Mary Crosby, Gary Crosby, Dennis Crosby, Phillip Crosby, Harry Crosby, Lindsay Crosby & Nathaniel Crosby. Crosby’s first wife was actress and nightclub singer Dixie Lee, to whom he was married from 1930 until her death from ovarian…

American singer, actor and comedian Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby Jr. had an estimated net worth of $50 million at the time he died. Crosby’s estimated net worth was accrued from decades in the entertainment industry as well as his investments in real estate, mines, oil wells, cattle ranches, race horses, music publishing, baseball teams, and…

American singer and actor Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby Jr. died on October 14, 1977 at the La Moraleja Golf Course near Madrid at age 74. Crosby flew alone to Spain to play golf and hunt partridge on October 13, 1977. On October 14, at the La Moraleja Golf Course near Madrid, Crosby played 18 holes…

Bing Crosby’s will left everything to his second wife Kathryn Grant. He gave a her a cash gift of $150,000. He gave his niece Carolyn Miller, $15,000. and then St. Aloysius Church, $5,000, Spokane, Washington, Gonzaga University $50,000 then Gonzaga High School, $50,000. Born on May 3, 1903, Crosby became one of the richest men…

Bing Crosby acquired the nickname Bing from a neighbor—Valentine Hobart, circa 1910—who had named him “Bingo from Bingville” after a comic feature in the local paper The Bingville Bugle. On November 8, 1937, after Lux Radio Theatre’s adaptation of She Loves Me Not, Crosby narrated how he got his nickname to Joan Blondell. Crosby said:…