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jakeXT

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2. The underage thing was always a problem for Americans in Britain.. see Jerry Lee Lewis
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 07:40 AM
Dec 2014
Meeting the star at the airport, Tanfield noticed that there was a very young girl in The Killer’s party. Tanfield asked whom she might be.

"I’m Myra," answered the girl. "Jerry’s wife."

Tanfield was astonished. "And how old is Myra?" he asked Jerry Lee.

"Fifteen," the singer replied, obviously thinking that sounded suitably mature.

It wasn’t. Despite Lewis’s assertions that Myra was "a grown woman", as far as Britain was concerned, she was below the age of consent.

The headlines the next day were not good for the star’s first day in Britain.

But they were about to get much worse when it was quickly discovered that Lewis, 22 at the time of the wedding, had been lying.

Myra wasn’t 15. She was 13, and, therefore, absolutely not a "grown woman"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1021569/Great-Balls-Scandal-How-Jerry-Lee-Lewis-marriage-13-year-old-wrecked-career.html


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