A New Resting Place for Karen Carpenter?

Kooperman · February 20, 2004

A New Resting Place for Karen Carpenter?

February 19, 2004

Twenty-one years ago this month, platinum-pop crooner KAREN CARPENTER died from heart failure due to chronic anorexia. Her body was laid to rest in an ornate family crypt in Cypress, CA.

But the location proved to be too far from her family. Tonight on ET, we have the details on the relocation of Karen's body -- and her new resting place.

The cemetery in Cypress where Karen was first interred is reportedly more than an hour's drive from brother RICHARD CARPENTER's home. Her current resting place is now the much-closer Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, CA.

Without a ceremony, Karen was moved with her late parents, AGNES and HAROLD, to the Carpenter Private Mausoleum in December. With room for six, the 46,000-pound, Partenope-style structure was constructed in Texas over seven months. It is polished sunset red with beautiful warmth and color and lively crystal patterns. Similar structures have a price range of $600,000.

THE CARPENTERS were one of the most successful soft pop groups of the '70s with hits like "Close To You," "We've Only Just Begun," and "Top of the World." The Grammy-winning duo racked up eight gold albums and five platinum, plus a variety of top 10 hits. But behind the saccharine facade, Karen struggled with weight issues and chronic anorexia for seven years. Karen would regularly starve herself, purge, use laxatives and take thyroid pills. She succumbed to her disease in February 1983.

http://et.tv.yahoo.com/music/2004/02/19/ka...penternewgrave/