{"id":13995,"date":"2011-08-04T19:10:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T23:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=13995"},"modified":"2011-08-04T19:10:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T23:10:40","slug":"annette-charles-dead-grease-star-passes-away-the-inside-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=13995","title":{"rendered":"Annette Charles DEAD: Grease Star Passes Away \u2013 THE INSIDE STORY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=13995\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13996\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"charles header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/charles-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Geno McGahee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Annette Charles, best known for playing the role of \u201cCha Cha Digregorio\u201d in the hit 1978 musical \u201cGREASE,\u201d passed away last night due to complications with cancer.  The 63 year old actress died in her LA home.<\/p>\n<p>Charles played the girlfriend of the leader of the gang of \u201cScorpions,\u201d dancing up a storm with the lead, John Travolta.  She is the second GREASE star that has died recently.  Jeff Conaway passed away after a long battle with drugs and alcohol.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>RIP Annette Charles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1309134704&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/family-secret-ad-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/BookDetail.aspx?Book=232300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11989\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"boxing interviews ad bio\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/boxing-interviews-ad-bio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Yesterdays-News-Pamela-Jean-Murawski\/dp\/1607036185\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1310486560&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/yesterdays-news-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11990\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"advertise header2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/advertise-header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geno McGahee Annette Charles, best known for playing the role of \u201cCha Cha Digregorio\u201d in the hit 1978 musical \u201cGREASE,\u201d passed away last night due to complications with cancer. The 63 year old actress died in her LA home. Charles played the girlfriend of the leader of the gang of \u201cScorpions,\u201d dancing up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4423,2825,3450,2278],"class_list":["post-13995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-annette-charles","tag-dead","tag-grease","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}