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		</div><h6><span style="color: #050000;"><strong>Chicago PD investigating social services report singer Dennis Edwards, was abused by his wife </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #050000;"><strong>Reports say Brenda Edwards, 60 tried to suffocate her 74-year-old husband and hid his hearing aids&#8217; before his death last week, reveal legal documents </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #050000;"><strong>Temptations lead singer Edwards died Thursday following complications due to meningitis</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #050000;"><strong>Brenda was ordered to stay away from her husband Jan 18, after an adult protective services investigator visited the couple who were married 18 years</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #050000;"><strong>The investigator accused Brenda of attempting to suffocate her 74-year-old husband and hiding his hearing aids</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #050000;"><strong>The protective order was vacated after the musician died last week </strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #050000;">Brenda denied the accusations in a statement on Monday, saying she &#8216;would have never done anything to harm&#8217; her husban</span></strong><span style="color: #050000;">d </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #050000;">Previously married to Ruth Pointer of The Pointer Sisters, Edwards is survived by five daughters, a son and several grandchildren </span></h6>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-289594" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Dennis-and-Brenda-Edwards-4.jpg" alt="Dennis and Brenda Edwards 4.jpg" width="800" height="576" /><strong>Chicago police had been investigating reports that Temptations singer Dennis Edwards [right] was abused by his wife Brenda [left], before his death last week. The couple is seen here at the 2013 Grammys</strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Chicago Police confirmed Monday that they are investigating whether Temptations singer Dennis Edwards was abused by his wife before his death last week.<br />
The 74-year-old musician passed away at a city hospital on Thursday due to complications from meningitis.<br />
Shortly before his death, his wife Brenda Edwards was ordered to stay away from him after the couple were visited at their apartment by an adult protective services investigator.<br />
The investigator filed a protective order on Edwards&#8217; behalf on January 12, alleging that his wife had tried to suffocate him by holding his head facedown on a bed.</p>
<h6 class="adHolder molads_inread_player_top" data-adverts-ad="{";pos";:";inread_player_top";,";size";:[[480,270]],";id";:";inread_player_top";,";parentId";:";inread_player_top";,";type";:";480x270";,";extraZoneOptions";:{}}" data-google-query-id="COiJzeyAktkCFREONwodUdIDTQ"> <strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-289595" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Temptations-1.jpg" alt="Temptations 1.jpg" width="1200" height="808" />Dennis</strong> <strong>Edwards [second right] was one of the lead singers of the Motown chart-topping group, The Temptations, after he replaced David Ruffin in 1968. Here he is with other members of the group, from left: Otis Williams, </strong><strong>Richard Street, </strong><strong>Melvin Franklin, Edwards and Glenn Beonard. </strong></h6>
<div class="teads-inread sm-screen">The document also says Brenda took her &#8216;bed bound and immobile&#8217; husband&#8217;s hearing aids away from him.<br />
The order was granted on January 18, barring Brenda from having contact with her husband.<br />
By that point, Dennis had been removed from his home anyway due to medical issues.</div>
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<h6 class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery"> <img class="alignnone wp-image-289589" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Dennis-Edwards-and-his-wife-Brenda-1-.png" alt="Dennis Edwards and his wife Brenda 1 .png" width="674" height="992" /><b>Dennis and Brenda Edwards at the Grammys in 2015. Authorities are investigating reports that 74-year-old musician Dennis Edwards (left) was abused by his wife Brenda &#8211; Edwards died Jan 1 </b></h6>
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<div class="container-3zJLP vertical-2XJd5">An adult protective services investigator claimed in a report last month that Brenda tried to suffocate her bed bound husband.</div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">A hearing was set for Friday in the case, in which Brenda would have been given the opportunity to respond to the allegations. But in the wake of her husband&#8217;s death, the protective order was vacated and the hearing cancelled.<br />
That doesn&#8217;t mean Brenda is off the hook yet though. The Chicago Police Department confirmed Monday that they are investigating the allegations.<br />
Brenda denied the allegations in a statement the same day.<br />
&#8216;I loved Dennis, and we were married for 18 years. I would have never done anything to harm him. These allegations are false and defamatory and will be proven as such. Until this is all over, I have no further comment,&#8217; she said, according to the<a class="" href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/temptations-singer-dennis-edwards-was-abused-before-his-death-court/article_e3c2e88c-5686-5871-9222-d9f72a1e9833.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"> St. Louis Post-Dispatch</a>.<br />
Edwards was one of the lead singers of the Motown Records vocal group The Temptations.<br />
He has a list of hit songs on his resume. One is Papa Was A Rollin&#8217; Stone, which was released in early 1972 and hit the 24th spot on the the R&;B Charts.<br />
It was included on The Undisputed Truth&#8217;s 1973 album Law of the Land.<br />
Another big song was Cloud Nine as well as Ball Of Confusion and I Can&#8217;t Get Next to You.</p>
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<p class="imageCaption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-289593" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Dennis-edwards-center-and-the-The-Temptations-8.jpg" alt="Dennis edwards [center], and the The Temptations 8.jpg" width="617" height="573" />Edwards [seating], joined the group in 1968 and left to pursue a solo career in 1977. He returned to the band in 1980.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">In 1989 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with The Temptations. In 2013, they received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.<br />
Born in 1943 in Fairfield, Alabama, Edwards began singing as a child.<br />
When the family moved to Detroit, he began singing in his church’s choir. He went on to join several different groups, but none of them stuck.<br />
Then in 1968 he replaced David Ruffin in The Temptations and the hits started coming like Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me).<br />
He left the band in 1977 to pursue a solo career.<br />
His first solo album, Don’t Look Any Further, reached the number two spot on the R&;B charts. His next album, also had the R&;B Top 30 hit Coolin’ Out.<br />
He returned to The Temptations in 1980 when they left Atlantic Records to return to Motown.<br />
Previously married to Ruth Pointer of The Pointer Sisters, [1976 to 1977], he is survived by five daughters, a son and several grandchildren.</p>
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Cops investigate reports Temptations singer Dennis Edwards, 74, ‘was abused by his 60-year-old wife, who tried to suffocate him and hid his hearing aids’ before his death last week
