Birdsong in 2004.
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The loved ones of Cindy Birdsong, a former Motown star in the Supremes, is requesting a lawful conservatorship above the singer. In accordance to the New York Periods, Birdsong’s spouse and children is arguing the conservatorship is required the two specified the 83-year-old’s a number of strokes and the allegedly undue influence of a good friend, Rochelle Lander. The loved ones has asked her brother, Ronald Birdsong, and a longtime entertainment manager, Brad Herman, to be named co-conservators, and has signed power of lawyer to Herman. “It has been an open up secret between the Motown family, the tragedy of Cindy,” Herman informed the Times.
Birdsong joined the Supremes soon after Florence Ballard was fired in 1967, and she continued performing with the R&B woman team by their end a 10 years afterwards. As her cash dried up, and soon after she attempted to launch a solo vocation in the 1980s, Birdsong commenced dwelling with Lander, a former actor and performer, in Los Angeles. They bonded over their Christian faith, and amid her well being struggles, Birdsong signed power of attorney to Lander above a ten years back. Birdsong’s loved ones says right after the singer’s second stroke, about seven yrs in the past, Lander started to preserve Birdsong from them at the very same time, they assert, Lander was declining their monetary initiatives to assist Birdsong. “We didn’t even know where Cindy was,” explained Melody Birdsong, her sister.
In 2021, law enforcement taken off Birdsong from Lander’s apartment and took her to a nursing facility, immediately after a request from Birdsong’s spouse and children. In a video clip outside the house her condominium, Lander reportedly instructed police of Birdsong, “No one particular would enable her.” A listening to is now scheduled for August.
