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Evel Knievel never denied his scrapes with the law — the late motorcycle daredevil often reveled in them. But even he objected to a 1970s FBI investigation of whether he was involved in a string of beatings.
Mourners began gathering Monday for the funeral of Evel Knievel, the motorcycle daredevil who helped put his hometown on the map with death-defying stunts and near-fatal crashes that made him an international icon.
The final tribute to Evel Knievel will include a fireworks show and a funeral officiated by the televangelist Robert H. Schuller, the family of the motorcycle stuntman.
Of all the bones Evel Knievel broke over the years, the costliest may have been the left arm of a PR man by the name of Shelly Saltman. Saltman won $12.75 million in damages against Knievel after the motorcycle daredevil attacked him with a baseball bat in 1977 in a rage over a book Saltman had written about the showman.
Evel Knievel's hard life killed him — it just took longer than he or anyone else might have expected. The hard-living motorcycle daredevil, whose bone-breaking, rocket-powered jumps and stunts made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
Evel Knievel and Kanye West have worked it out. The 69-year-old iconic motorcycle daredevil said he and West met at his Clearwater condo recently. They settled a federal lawsuit over the use of Knievel's trademarked image in a popular West music video.
Evel Knievel has sued Kanye West, taking issue with a music video in which the rapper takes on the persona of "Evel Kanyevel" and tries to jump a rocket-powered motorcycle over a canyon.
Evel Knievel Has Crossed Over To The Other ShoreEvel Knievel the red white and blue spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses live sharks and Idaho Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s died Friday Nov 30 2007.
Een amerikaanse legendeOh no, poor Evel. Unfortunately, everybody expected him to die from an accident or a mishap at one of his stunts. It was not in his cards... Seeya Evel!
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Evel Knievel Dies at 69Evel Knievel died Friday after 69 years, which is more than twice as long as it by all rights should have taken him. Knievel, who had been in poor health...
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