Simone Rethel-Heesters

BERLIN ( Reuters Life!) - Actor and singer Johannes Heesters has given up smoking for love -- at age 106. "I did it for love, for my wonderful wife," Heesters, who is better known as "Jopie" in Germany where he has spent most of his 90-year career, told the German entertainment magazine Bunte. "She should have me as long as possible." Dutch-born Heesters, who will turn 107 Sunday, has been married to German actress Simone Rethel , 61, since 1992. Heesters said he quit smoking three weeks ago...Read Full Story

A German court says entertainer Johannes Heesters has settled a lawsuit over a claim he sang for Nazi guards at a concentration camp during World War II. The Berlin state court says in a statement released Thursday that the 106-year-old singer gave up asking retraction from the German author and documentary maker Volker Kuehn, who said in 2008 that the entertainer sang for SS troops at Dachau concentration camp in 1941. Kuehn reiterated his position, but accepted not to call Heesters a liar...Read Full Story

Berlin — Actor and singer Johannes Heesters has given up smoking for love -- at age 106. "I did it for love, for my wonderful wife," Heesters, who is better known as "Jopie" in Germany where he has spent most of his 90-year career, told the German entertainment magazine Bunte. "She should have me as long as possible." Dutch-born Heesters, who will turn 107 on Sunday, has been married to German actress Simone Rethel, 61, since 1992. Heesters said he quit smoking three weeks ago. Heesters, who...Read Full Story

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