Latest Kris Kristofferson News

The year in review: Influential people who died in 2024

Dec. 27, 2024 11:42 AM EST

It was a murder case almost everyone had an opinion on. O.J. Simpson 's “trial of the century” over the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and her friend bared divisions over race and law enforcement in America and brought an intersection of sports, crime, entertainment and class that was hard to...

Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Martin Scorsese and more stars pay tribute to Kris Kristofferson

Sep. 30, 2024 17:40 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Reaction to the death of Kris Kristofferson. The singer-songwriter and actor died Saturday at his home in Hawaii surrounded by family at age 88. ___ “The first time I saw Kris performing at the Troubadour club in L.A. I knew he was something...

Kris Kristofferson was 'a walking contradiction,' a renegade and pilgrim surrounded by friends

Sep. 30, 2024 17:16 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — If Kris Kristofferson's life were fiction, it would feel a little implausible. He was a Texas-born Golden Gloves boxer and star football player, a Rhodes Scholar and a helicopter-flying U.S. Army captain who walked away from a West Point faculty gig to briefly...

Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter and actor, dies at 88

Sep. 30, 2024 09:32 AM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and an A-list Hollywood actor, has died. Kristofferson died at his home on Maui, Hawaii, on Saturday, family spokeswoman Ebie McFarland said in...

Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter and actor who brought gritty realism to country music, has died at 88

Sep. 29, 2024 18:35 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter and actor who brought gritty realism to country music, has died at 88.