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Dolly Parton, singer, actress, philanthropist and cultural icon, dies at 80

IOL · 26 August 2026 at 13:03

Dolly Parton, singer, actress, philanthropist and cultural icon, dies at 80

In a life described as taking her from “rags to rhinestones,” Dolly Parton and her blond bouffant - that mountain of hair even taller, it sometimes seemed, than the Tennessee foothills where she first strummed a guitar - carved out a singular place in our cultural life.

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