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Spokane, Wash. Gypsy leader Jimmy Marks, who battled local officials for decades and placed a curse on this city, died today at Sacred Heart...
SPOKANE, Wash.
Gypsy leader Jimmy Marks, who battled local officials for decades and placed a curse on this city, died today at Sacred Heart Medical Center.
Marks, 62, had been in critical condition at the hospital since last Friday when he suffered a heart attack at his dentist's office.
His death was confirmed by the hospital and by attorney Russell Jones, a family friend.
Marks became famous in 1986, when police raided his home and that of his father, Grover Marks, looking for stolen silverware.
Courts later ruled those raids were illegal, and in 1997 the city agreed to pay the Marks family $1.43 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit.
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