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What Happened To Bobby Gentry. It wasnt until 2016 that any concrete news about Gentry was discovered when an investigation by The Washington Post found that she was living in a gated community near Memphis Tennessee. But 37 years later since 1981 this country music legend comes back stronger. With no apparent money woes she walked away from the glitz glamour and public existence of a show-biz life at an age when many artists are still hitting their creative stride. Since then she left the limelight without a trace and her sudden disappearance rocked the country music world.
Her height is 5 feet 7 inches tall and her weight is 64. In it Murtha cites reports from Savannah papers that a Bobbie Gentry lived in the Georgia city in the late 1990s but had since moved. Bobbie Gentry born Roberta Lee Streeter was just 23 years old when her timeless ballad Ode To Billie Joe hit the charts and took off like wildfire selling more than three million copies and topping the country pop rock and easy listening charts. From there Bobbie Gentry was reportedly living a private life in Los Angeles while remaining a part owner of the Phoenix Suns basketball team from 1968 through 1987. While Bobbie Gentry admits the story is fictionalized she did explain that it was inspired by the 1954 murder of Emmett Till. The track spent four weeks at No.
In 1983 BobbieGentry vanished but not literally.
From there Bobbie Gentry was reportedly living a private life in Los Angeles while remaining a part owner of the Phoenix Suns basketball team from 1968 through 1987. The track spent four weeks at No. Till was only 14 years old when he was shot and thrown over the Black Bayou Bridge in Mississippi for offending a woman in a grocery store. Bobbie Gentry had a massive hit with 1967s Ode to Billie Joe Four years and seven albums later though she dropped out of the public. Last June a Washington Post reporter tracked Gentry to a 15 million house. Since then Bobbie Gentry has not recorded music performed live or been interviewed.