Natalie Cole dead: Singer, daughter of jazz legend Nat ‘King’ Cole was 65

Natalie Cole Singer Natalie Cole performs at “An Evening of SeriousFun Celebrating the Legacy of Paul Newman”, hosted by the SeriousFun Children’s Network at Avery Fisher Hall on March 2, 2015, in New York. Natalie Cole has died at age 65. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

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LOS ANGELES — Singer Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat “King” Cole who carried on his musical legacy, has die

Publicist Maureen O’Connor says Cole died Thursday night. She was 65. O’Connor had no details about how or where Cole died.

Cole had battled drug problems and hepatitis that forced her to undergo a kidney transplant in May 2009.

Cole’s 1991 album, “Unforgettable … With Love,” sold some 14 million copies and won six Grammys. It featured reworked versions of some of her father’s best-known songs.