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Adam Levine offers to pay for slain singer’s funeral

(JTA) — Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine has offered to pay for the funeral for slain singer Christina Grimmie. Grimmie’s brother, Marcus, announced Monday, June 13, in a post on his Facebook page that Levine — Grimmie’s coach on the sixth season of “The Voice” — had offered to pay for the cost of the funeral and flying her body home from Orlando, Florida, where she was killed June 10 by a deranged fan while she was signing autographs following a concert. He also said a GoFundMe page set up to help defray the costs of the burial had reached $100,000. “I found out this morning, that Adam Levine personally called my mother and said he will pay for the funeral and her plane flight, and I was blown away,” Marcus Grimmie wrote. “Now a friend just told me to look at the gofundme page and I see it is at 100k. Words cannot express…literally I have no words.”

In a Twitter post Saturday, Levine, who is Jewish, said he and his wife were “absolutely devastated and heartbroken” at the news of Grimmie’s death. Grimmie, who lived in Marlton, New Jersey, finished in third place on “The Voice,” the NBC reality singing competition. She had released two albums and remained popular with fans.

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