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Tennessee's state Supreme Court has vacated a ruling that required police to publicly release their investigation of country singer Naomi Judd's death. The Supreme Court did not rule on whether the records can be released, but sent the case back to the lower court for another hearing.  Judd's f…

Wynonna Judd says she remains “incredibly angry”, months after the death of her mother, Naomi Judd, by suicide. "I did not know that she was at the place she was at when she ended it," Judd told CBS News correspondent Lee Cowan on CBS News Sunday Morning. "Because she had had episodes before and she got better. And…

EXCLUSIVE: Anyone who tuned into the first two episodes of Monarch, Fox’s primetime soap that stars Susan Sarandon and Trace Adkins as the king and queen of country music, saw uncomfortable parallels to the real-life death of Naomi Judd. Besides depicting how Dottie Cantrell Roman (Sarandon) orchestrates her own…

In a heartfelt new column for The New York Times, actor and activist Ashley Judd is calling for revisions to law enforcement and court practices that “wreak havoc on mourning families” coping with the deaths by suicide of loved ones. Recalling the “most shattering day” of her life – April 30, 2022, when mother Naomi…

UPDATED: An autopsy report obtained by the Associated Press today regarding country music superstar Naomi Judd’s death earlier this year confirmed Ashley Judd’s assertion that her mother died after she shot herself with a gun. The report also indicated the presence of prescription drugs in the Judd matriarch's system…

Wynonna Judd is sharing her thoughts on how she is doing a month after her mother, Naomi, died by suicide at the age of 76. In a moving message on Instagram, Judd writes, “Checking in. There is so much happening in the world right now. So before I sat down to write this, I thought, ‘No…I just don’t know what to say…

The country music community gathered today at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville to remember one of their own. As  might be expected, the best way to honor and memorialize one of the genre’s greatest hitmakers was found in song. Naomi Judd: A River of Time was carried live and commercial-free on CMT. “It’s so weird…

Updated, 5:33 p.m.: Brad Paisley, Carly Pearce, and Jamey Johnson have signed up to perform at the memorial service for five-time Grammy winner Naomi Judd, with Bette Midler, Reba McEntire and Reese Witherspoon being enlisted to deliver special messages, and Judd’s husband Larry Strickland being added to the list of…

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will continue with its medallion ceremony on Sunday, May 1st in Nashville following news of the death of country music icon Naomi Judd, who, along with her daughter Wynonna, was set to be inducted as The Judds. According to a Country Music Hall of Fame rep, Wynonna Judd is…

Country icon Naomi Judd, who died suddenly at age 76, and her daughter Wynonna are the subjects of the first installment of Icon, an anthology series in the works at Fox that sets out to profile some of the world's biggest music legends. The project, from producer Gail Berman and top country music manager Jason Owen…

News of the death of superstar Naomi Judd rocked the country music community this afternoon, as colleagues, collaborators and friends remembered a sweet woman whose talents were among the most popular in the genre. Some of the early reactions: Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery Country music lost a true…

Naomi Judd, the Kentucky-born singer of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds and mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd, has died. She was 76. The daughters announced her death on Saturday in a statement provided to The Associated Press and released on social media. Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery “Today we…