Diana Ross's ex-husband killed in South Africa mountain accident

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2004

CAPE TOWN (AFP) — A Norwegian mountaineer, Arne Naess, the former husband of pop diva Diana Ross, was killed in a mountain accident in South Africa, police said.

Captain Etienne Terblanche said Naess, from Oslo and in his 60s, fell to his death at 12:30 pm (1030 GMT) on a mountain in the wine producing town of Franschoek, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Cape Town.

"Mr Naess was a guest on the farm Lomarins in Franschoek. He went climbing at 8:00 am this morning and fell to his death at about 12:30 pm," Terblanche said.

"An inquest will be held to determine exactly what happened," he said.

A spokesman for the Norwegian embassy in Pretoria confirmed that a person from the country had died in an accident.

"A Norwegian person died in an...

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