Singer Connie Francis, best recognized for her recently viral observe “Pretty Little Little one” along with “Foolish Cupid,” has died.

Connie’s dying was confirmed by her longtime good pal Ron Roberts on Thursday by means of Fb — merely 2 weeks after TMZ broke the knowledge she was throughout the ICU for unknown medical factors.

Ron launched Connie handed Wednesday, together with … “I do know that Connie would approve that her followers are among the many many first to check of this sad data.”

He acknowledged additional particulars will adjust to, nevertheless has not launched one thing further.

Connie had a prolific singing occupation, rising to develop to be in all probability probably the most well-liked singers throughout the Nineteen Fifties and early Nineteen Sixties. She had had various Excessive 10 singles paying homage to “Who’s Sorry Now?,” “Don’t Break The Coronary coronary heart That Loves You,” “My Coronary coronary heart Has A Ideas Of Its Private” and “The place the Boys Are”.

She was the first woman to achieve the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Scorching 100 due to her 1960 hit “All individuals’s Any particular person’s Fool.”

Though her occupation is extensively identified, it was virtually a miss. Connie was about to be dropped by her report label, MGM Information, in 1957 when her father glad her to report a mannequin of “Who’s Sorry Now?” as a last-ditch effort to get her on the charts — and it skyrocketed her into success.

With the expert success received right here some non-public woes, as Connie was raped in a Prolonged Island motel room in 1974 and shortly misplaced her voice 3 years afterward account of a nasal surgical process. And just a few years after in 1981, her brother George was murdered by the mafia.

She was ready for a occupation comeback in 1981 — nevertheless her music didn’t resonate with followers, which severely impacted her psychological nicely being. Her apprehensive father had her devoted to various psychological nicely being institutions, and in 1984, she survived a suicide attempt — the an identical 12 months she revealed her first memoir, “Who’s Sorry Now?”

After overcoming her psychological nicely being struggles, Connie used her hardships to help others, even teaming up with Ronald Reagan‘s administration on a violent crime job strain and turning into an advocate for rape and trauma victims.

As we reported, Connie had been hospitalized in early July, telling followers in a put up shared by Ron that she was “once more throughout the hospital” to bear assessments to search out out why she was feeling “extreme ache.”

On July 9, Ron confirmed she was nonetheless in hospital care and and nonetheless feeling discomfort.

Connie was 87. She is survived by her adopted son, Joseph Garzilli Jr.