A US media icon, Rush Hudson Limbaugh, has reportedly died.
US media reports monitored by African Entertainment indicate that Mr. Limbaugh, one of the leading voices of the Conservative Movement, succumbed to lung cancer on Wednesday, February 17, 2021.
He was aged 70 and his death is reported to have been announced by his widow, Kathryn, on his radio show.
“Losing a loved one is terribly difficult, even more so when that loved one is larger than life,” she is quoted to have said, adding that “Rush will forever be the greatest of all time.”
Mr. Limbaugh was an American radio personality, conservative political commentator, author, and television show host.
He became famous for his popular radio show: The Rush Limbaugh Show. He was born January 12, 1951, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States, and as at 2016, his net worth was a whopping US$500 million (2016).
During his three decades old radio career, he helped to transform talk radio and politics, shaping the modern-day Republican Party.
In January 2020, he was informed that his lung cancer had reached stage IV.
He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom former President Donald Trump at the State of the Union address in 2020.
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