Wayne Newton

Has been diagnosed with a viral infection to the heart known as cardiomyopathy. Doctors told him that he should be recovered in two months' time. [November 15, 2007].

Presented a prestigious award at the July 2006 National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Continental Congress in Washington DC for his work with the USO.

Newton and attorney wife Kathleen announced in April 2002 they are expecting a girl in May, and that they are using a surrogate mother to have this, their first child.

Plays to a sold-out crowd six nights a week at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas. [September 2001]

Singer Tony Orlando sued him for locking him out of the Branson, Missouri, night club that the two co-owned. [April 1999]

Declared bankruptcy in 1992, yet was once listed in the Guinness Book as the world's highest-paid entertainer.

Following actress Dana Plato's first arrest for armed robbery in 1991, he posted the $13,000 bail.

As a direct descendant of Chief Powhatan, he intended to repatriate the coffin of Matoaka (Pocahontas) to Virginia from Gravesend, England's Saint George Church in 1990. Ten years later, he sent Doctor Henry Lee for this mission. Unfortunately, the exact location of Matoaka's final resting place has been lost since 1727 when a fire destroyed the original Anglican church.

He is an actor, known for Licence To Kill (1989), The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) and Vegas Vacation (1997).

Wayne Newton was born on April 3, 1942 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA as Carson Wayne Newton.