CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel has
died.
His granddaughter, Krysten Knievel, has confirmed the death.
Knievel had been in failing health for years, suffering from
diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition
that scarred his lungs. He had undergone a liver transplant in 1999
after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a
blood transfusion after one of his bone-shattering spills.
Knievel was 69.
His death comes just two days after it was announced that he and
rapper Kanye West had settled a federal lawsuit over the use of
Knievel's trademarked image in a popular West music video.
Knievel was best known for a failed 1974 attempt to jump an
Idaho canyon on a rocket-powered cycle and a spectacular crash at
Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. He suffered nearly 40 broken bones
before he retired in 1980.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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