Let's stay focused
Philadelphia Inquirer: PI
> Philadelphia Daily News: PDN
> Entertainment Tonight: ET
> (1) (2)…separate articles
>
>
> JUNE 2, 1991
> Sunday
> PI
> "Ruffin's girlfriend, Dianne Showers, who said she had lived with
the
> singer in Philadelphia since July 1989, said she was greatly
saddened
> but not shocked by his death. She said Ruffin had used cocaine in
the
> past.
> "He walked in the line of fire," Showers said. "I asked his ex-
wife
> and daughters a lot of times to have him committed somewhere for
> approximately two years…He usually denied that he was doing
anything."
> Showers said she and Ruffin were considering marriage in January
> 1992. "He was very special in my heart, very special," she said. "I
> loved him so much."
>
> [Note: This is Sunday, the briefcase had already been taken to
> Showers, why is there no mention of the "missing" money on Sunday?]
>
> JUNE 3, 1991
> Monday
> PI
> "Dianne Showers can't say she was surprised when she got the call
> Saturday that her fiancé, former Temptation singer David Ruffin,
was
> dead.
> `He always told her he never expected to live a long life, she
said.
> He always sought out the roughest neighborhoods in cities he
> visited', she said. `And for more than 20 years, she said, he had
> been addicted to drugs.
> But there is something about his death from a suspected drug
overdose
> over the weekend that she said doesn't add up.
> Forty thousand dollars is missing', she said.
> Showers, who had been living with Ruffin for several years in West
> Philadelphia, said she never saw the $40,000, but she knew that he
> was supposed to have it, and that he was supposed to have wired it
to
> his partners last week.
> The last time Showers saw Ruffin was a week before he died. They
> watched television.
> `He seemed relaxed, happy, Showers said. Then he left, telling her
> what he always did when he walked out the door, He said he loved me.
> It was not unusual for him to away and not come back. Showers said
> she never asked him where he was going or when he would return. He
is
> a celebrity, and it's a different type of relationship than a
normal
> one', she said.
> `He was always skinny', said Showers…….
> `He never thought he would live a long time," Showers said. `He
used
> to tell me that he wasn't supposed to live as a baby. He had a
> breathing ailment and couldn't play sports and play like the other
> children.'"
>
> [Note: "Ruffin's New York agent agrees. `Something is just not
right
> here,' said Ruth Bowen, the agent. `I don't know if David
overdosed,
> or if someone overdosed him, but the money is gone.' Bowen said
> Ruffin had been wearing a money belt with at least $40,000 in it.'
> Bowen she alerted Philadelphia detectives…'"Did Ruth alert
> police "about" the money and Showers alerted them that he "had it
on
> him?"]
>
>
> JUNE 3, 1991
> Monday
> PDN
> "'When David had a lot of money he would be able to do thing that
he
> wanted to do,' said Showers. `And for instance, if he needed
privacy
> he would go to a hotel; Things that he wanted to do that I would
not
> approve of – Drugs.' `Ruffin had collected the money from the
> promoter and was to send his fellow singers their share,' Showers
> said.
>
> JUNE 4, 1991
> Tuesday
> PDN
> (1) "Ruffin's girlfriend and others said Ruffin had had a chronic
> drug problem for many years."
> (2) `I was helpless,' Showers, 38, said last night. `If I had my
> choice, he would have stayed right here in this house." She said
she
> neither drinks, smokes cigarettes nor used drugs, and didn't
tolerate
> Ruffin doing drugs at home.' `I told him he needed to be protected
> from himself,' she said. Showers said Ruffin often performed while
> high, `but he never missed a beat. He did miss more than a few
> performances though, because he didn't feel like showing up, his
> fiancé said. Diane Showers last saw the man of her dreams on May
26,
> his last Sunday on earth. He watched some TV. Took a shower. `He
was
> fine." Then around 8 p.m., he abruptly got up, told Showers he
loved
> her, and `just left' without giving her his usual hug before going
> out. She didn't ask where he was going. She knew. `So unnecessary,'
> sighed Showers.
>
>
> JUNE 5, 1991
> Wednesday
> PI
> "I loved him so much," she said.
> His fiancée estimated that $40,000 – proceeds from his recent tour
of
> England – was missing.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> JUNE 5, 1991
> Wednesday
> PDN
> "Ruffin, 50, lead singer of the popular 1960s group the
Temptations,
> was reported by his fiancée to have had as much as $40,000 in a
money
> belt and an undetermined amount of British traveler's checks when
he
> went to the alleged crack house on 52nd Street near Columbia
Avenue."
>
> [NOTE: "Police investigators are not convinced that singer David
> Ruffin had a large amount of cash on him when he overdosed on crack
> cocaine early Saturday morning in a suspected drug house in West
> Philadelphia."--This is where the police started to question the
> validity of the story. I wished they had not of dropped the ball
> here. ]
>
>
> JUNE 11, 1991
> Tuesday
> ET
> "I had hoped that was in a luxury hotel Jacuzzi sine he had that
much
> money," Showers said.