News about Terry Lewis

Clarence Avant, the 'godfather of Black Music', died at the age of 92, almost two years after his wife was shot and killed by an attacker during a home invasion. Avant was a Grammy-winning executive, concert promoter, and boss who chaired the influential Motown Records in the 1990s. Bill Withers, Little Willie John, L.A. Reid, Babyface, Jimmy Jam, and Terry Lewis all supported musicians during his long career.

Terry Lewis, one of the most prominent victims of former Queensland's landmark 1987-89 inquiry into misconduct, was sentenced along with three government ministers. After being found guilty of hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, the state's youngest police commissioner and holder of a knighthood for services to the force was declared traitor to his oath, but he maintained his innocence until his death on Friday, aged 95.

Tony Soprano, a Brisbane based Mafia figure, has died at the age of 80. Gerardo Bellino, who was banned following the Fitzgerald Inquiry into crime and police abuse, ran a multimillion-dollar empire of illicit brothels and gambling dens. Bellino paid for the security of his vice rackets in Fortitude Valley to crooked police who took hundreds from 'Uncle Gerry.'