{"id":7694,"date":"2014-09-06T17:56:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/195.21.21.161\/epop\/?p=7694"},"modified":"2015-01-17T22:49:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T22:49:29","slug":"simone-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2014\/09\/simone-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic Death of Simone Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/simonebattle.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7695\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2014\/09\/simone-battle\/simonebattle\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/simonebattle.jpg?fit=653%2C653&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"653,653\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;THE X FACTOR:TOP 17: Simone Battle. Age: 22. \\nHometown: Los Angeles, CA.\\nCurrently Resides: Los Angeles, CA. CR Nino Munoz \/ FOX&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1318940764&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;65&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"simonebattle\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;THE X FACTOR:TOP 17: Simone Battle. Age: 22.&lt;br \/&gt;\nHometown: Los Angeles, CA.&lt;br \/&gt;\nCurrently Resides: Los Angeles, CA. CR Nino Munoz \/ FOX&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/simonebattle.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7695\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/simonebattle.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"simonebattle\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reports are mixed about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2746043\/X-Factor-singer-Simone-Battle-dead-25.html\" target=\"_blank\">death<\/a> of Simone Battle, member of G.R.L. Battle was found in her Los Angeles home earlier today. Her cause of death is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Simone, 25, was mentored by Simon Cowell in series 1 of the now defunct X Factor USA in 2011, and joined what was initially a replacement lineup for the Pussycat Dolls, in 2012. It was announced in 2013 that the group would rename itself G.R.L. Their eponymous debut EP was released in July this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Simone had been an actress before becoming a recording artist, and appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Everybody_Hates_Chris\" target=\"_blank\">Everybody Hates Chris<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zoey_101\" target=\"_blank\">Zoey 101<\/a>, both in 2006.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">G.R.L&#8217;s debut single, &#8220;Ugly Heart&#8221;, was released on 3 June. It peaked at Number 2 in Australia, Number 3 in Ireland, and Number 4 in New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports are mixed about the death of Simone Battle, member of G.R.L. Battle was found in her Los Angeles home earlier today. Her cause&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[73,235,314,315,27,316,154,317,318,145],"class_list":["post-7694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-australia","tag-death","tag-everybody-hates-chris","tag-grl","tag-los-angeles","tag-new-zealand","tag-simon-cowell","tag-simone-battle","tag-ugly-heart","tag-xfactor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-206","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45689,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/01\/prettymuch-blind\/","url_meta":{"origin":7694,"position":0},"title":"PRETTYMUCH &#8211; &#8216;Blind&#8217;","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"28\/01\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"'Blind' is the latest single from SYCOs newest boy band, PRETTYMUCH. 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