Al Green
Detroit minister Laura Lee, an R&B singer who once dated singer Al Green and sang with him, is suing the Mildred Gaddis radio show.
Lee says she was was wrongly accused of being the one who threw a pot of hot grits on soul singer Al Green in the 1970s, reports Matt Helm of the Detroit Free Press. Green, who is now 70, was hospitalized for months back then.
In actuality, it was Green's then-girlfriend Mary Woodson who threw the hot grits on the singer while he was bathing at home in Memphis in October 1974. She then killed herself with Green's gun, the Freep reports.
Lee alleges in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Wayne County Circuit Court that on the March 9 broadcast of the Gaddis' radio show on WCHB-AM (1200), guest Greg Dunmore, a local journalist, said on air that it was Laura Lee "who used to live in Detroit and moved to Chicago was the one who threw grits on Al Green."
The suit alleges that Gaddis and Dunmore knew the statements were false, the Freep reports.
The suit lists as defendants Gaddis, Dunmore, Radio One, WCHB and the radio show, Inside Detroit with Mildred Gaddis.
