I'm glad they both crossed over and didn't witness the end of the life of their 1st born and precious child. Sad is an understatement.her death would have literally killed both my mother, and my father. Tragic,surreal, and such a sad ending to a life not yet discovered by her or anyone until now. I am sad and pleased at the same time that people saw my BEAUTIFUL sister more than likely on Ice T's doc Portrait of a Pimp. It is hard to see the question "how did Camille Beck die?" on a google search but also an obvious realization that my fathers work is so much bigger than the family could have ever have imagined. "Unfortunately she battled with drug addiction. I quote Misty's response to these inquiries. To the many who have asked me about Camille Beck. This post was on, supposedly a facebook post on her sister, Misty's facebook: Beck is featured in the forthcoming documentary "Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp," featuring actor and rapper Ice T. “Hell, it took us a lot of getting to know each other and figuring out how we would make a life together, let alone figuring out how to get Bob’s name on the map… A man who people called ‘Iceberg Slim,’ you might imagine, wasn’t always the easiest fellow to live with.”īetty Beck collaborated on other Slim books, including "Trick Baby," which became a film. “It took us a great deal of time and work to get to that point,” Betty Beck recalled. By 1969, she had assisted Beck in writing and publishing "Pimp: The Story of My Life," which influenced author Donald Goines and many writers who followed. Betty Mae Beck had begun preparing a memoir about her life with Iceberg Slim before she passed away last week due to prolonged illness.īorn in Austin, Texas, Betty Beck met Iceberg Slim in California where they became a couple and eventually had two daughters together. The woman who helped propel bestselling street fiction author Robert “Iceberg Slim” Beck into literary fame has died. The following article appeared on website bet dot com on April 21, 2009: In 2016, this post was added to the lore of Camille: Posted December 28, 2016 The lawsuit and a subsequent film caused an uproar and curiosity about the blended Beck family. Camille claimed that her sister Melody and stepmother, Diane, conspired to pass off a book written by her step-mother's brother as "the real thing." Her father had written seven earlier books. Her father was a writer and supposedly wrote "Doom Fox", over which Camille sued her stepmother, saying that the novel is a counterfeit. You can read more about Camille's mother, Betty Mae, at Iceberg Slim’s Wife, Collaborator Dies. She had half siblings James, Bellisa, and another half-sister. Wikipedia reports that Robert was a former pimp who later became an author. Camille Mary Beck's father was Robert Maupin Beck (1918 - 1992), a clerk in 1961 at Bank of America, known as "Iceberg Slim", and her mother was Betty Mae Shew (1936 - 2009), his common law wife in the 1960s.
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