When Aaliyah passed away, a certain “label” reneged on $68k funeral bill. Out of the kindness of his heart, Maxwell paid for Aaliyah’s funeral expenses 🥺…….See More

Aaliyah mortician says label reneged on $68K bill.

The Bahamian funeral home that prepared the bodies of the singer and her entourage for shipping last year says Virgin still hasn’t paid up after a year It’s been almost a year since Aaliyah’s death in a plane crash in the Bahamas, but the legal and financial disputes over her untimely end are only heating up. The latest battle is over the cost of preparing for burial the bodies of the singer and her entourage. According to published reports, the Nassau mortuary that prepared and shipped the bodies back to the U.S. claims that Virgin Records backed out on a promise to pay the $68,000 cost of the funeral preparations.Loretta Turner, director of Butler’s Funeral Home, said Virgin Records executives Ken and Nancy Berry agreed to pay the expenses after the Aug. 25 crash. ”Because Aaliyah was, in their words, ‘high profile,’ they asked us to expedite things.

So we were working over the weekend to get the bodies out as quickly as possible,” Turner told E! ”[The deal] was all verbal, but the truth of the matter is, , that they would be responsible.”