Just a few days after his lawsuit settlement with Kanye West, Evel Knievel is dead. It’s a good thing that he wasn’t a rapper and that he was in bad health. Not good in the sense that it is good news (come on, the guy was an American icon, of course it’s a loss), but good in the sense that I’m not tempted to speculate some funny business.

May everyone rest easier now…

Evel Knievel and Kanye West have worked it out.  The 69-year-old iconic motorcycle daredevil said he and West met at his Clearwater condo recently. They settled a federal lawsuit over the use of Knievel’s trademarked image in a popular West music video.

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