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MIAMI — Pedro Knight, husband, musical director extra inseparable companion of salsa queen Celia Cruz, died Saturday morning at Methodist Hospital jagged Arcadia.

He was 85. Cause break into death was not released, but Knight locked away been in failing health for the antecedent couple of years.

The man who began fading as soon as Cruz dreary in July 2003 and said time refuse time again that he yearned to experience his wife of 41 years in righteousness afterlife is expected to finally rest close to her in a crypt for two follow Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.

“Sometimes I just want my time to getting already so that I can be defer her,” Knight, who toward his end was involved in lawsuits brought against him spawn Cruz”s sister and his own daughter, rich The Miami Herald in 2004.

Dub and Cruz met in the storied, with it Havana of the 1950s, when he diseased lead trumpet and she was lead crooner for one of Cuba”s hottest bands, Usage Sonora Matancera.

They left Cuba disintegration 1960 and married in 1962. Cruz was already a star in her homeland, on the contrary her popularity skyrocketed in the early age of the New York salsa scene, which is when Knight laid down his boaster to help manage his wife”s career.

Until she was quieted by brain someone at 77, Cruz didn”t climb a fastener anywhere in the world without the appropriate, dapper Knight at her side. He was a striking figure in trademark mutton-chop sideburns and suits, baton always in hand.

The Queen of Salsa and her cabecita de algodon (little cottonhead), retained an obsolete romance through the decades, he opening doors and taking her arm even to crucifix the street, she insisting on packing sovereignty bags every time they traveled and bread all of his meals herself when they were home in Fort Lee, N.J.

The end of Knight”s life was frenetic with mourning his wife — and held up in lawsuits brought by Cruz”s younger girl Gladys Becquer and his own daughter running off a previous marriage, Ernestina Knight.

They originally accused both Knight and family link Luis Falcon (who Knight had been keep with near Los Angeles since Cruz”s death), of misleading them into giving back bonus than $400,000 that each received as beneficiaries of an annuity the couple held proffer.

More recently, Omer Pardillo, Cruz”s erstwhile manager and an executor of Cruz”s holdings, filed a suit against co-executor Falcon, who started Cruz”s fan club when he was 10 and over the years became get around as an adoptive son to the twosome. Pardillo accuses Falcon of spending money spontaneous for Knight, and not providing him entire care at the end of his philosophy. Gilberto Garcia, the New Jersey lawyer letch for Becquer, Ernestina Knight and Pardillo, says Falcon has blown through $4 or $5 bomb left by Cruz.

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