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Name: Lola Falana

Claim To Fame: Lola is no doubt known as an all around entertainer. Perhaps she's best known for her signature song "Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets."

Where Is She Now: Was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis; after a brief period of (1987) remission, her MS returned in 1996.

"I woke up one day with a crooked face, a crooked mouth, and dragging limbs," Lola told Ebony magazine in 1988. "The whole left side - my arms and legs were dragging. And I woke up one day and said okay, it's not about physical prowess and glamour any more, Falana."

She had been stricken with Multiple Sclerosis. Left in a crippled state, it was impossible to continue performing, forcing the cancellation of nearly $2 million dollars in signed contracts.

With help from family and friends, Lola Falana methodically battled her way back to health and made a triumphant return to Las Vegas in 1989 with several sold-out shows at the Sand's Hotel. But Lola's priorities had shifted during her illness; she turned her back on the entertainment industry after that Vegas gig.

Lola has recovered sufficiently from her second attack of multiple sclerosis in 1996, which sent her to her parents' home in Philadelphia, to make her own home in her beloved Las Vegas.

In 1991 she converted to Catholicism and began giving lectures in churches that are described as part sermon, part personal memoir.

After 9/11, Falana became a spokeswoman for Save Sub-Saharan Orphans but refuses to give interviews about her show biz career it's said she despises her former life and shuns all publicity

Her sole public performance since 1990 was joining Wayne Newton on stage for his 1997 Branson Christmas show.

Today Lola Falana lives a quiet life in the city of Las Vegas.

Comment by: ernestine hill
Posted on: 6/28/2009 11:19:29 PM
Lola Falana you are not forgotton, i am 58 and you were a blessing , and a inspiration to me, to see a black woman with life and fire on the indside, i have not forgotton you , may God give you strength.

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