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Kandi Burruss has released an official statement regarding the death of Ashely “AJ” Jewel, her ex-fiance who died early Saturday morning after a brawl in front of the strip club he co-owned:
I am devastated by the loss of AJ. His death comes on the heels of the death of my beloved Uncle Ralph and with both of them gone, my heart is heavy with grief. I had spoken to AJ two hours before I got the call that he was in the hospital. Never in a thousand years did I think it was going to be the last time I heard his voice. He was taken way too soon. There are so many things that I should have said to him, wanted to say to him? {MORE}
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