Richard Pryor's Widow Jennifer Lee Calls His 1980 Fire Incident a Suicide Attempt: 'He Warned Me' The late comedian set himself on fire at his Los Angeles home, resulting in severe burns covering ...

Pam Grier was only romantically involved with comedian Richard Pryor for about a year during the 1970s. However, the “Foxy Brown” star, 73, still remembers the impact their relationship had on ...

On his comedy special “Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip,” he detailed the incident, saying he said he did it while freebasing cocaine. He suffered severe burns on more than 50% of his body.

Despite his stratospheric success, there was also much tragedy in Pryor’s history, including self-inflicted burns while freebasing cocaine (1980), a heart attack at age 36 and hard drug and ...

An estate in L.A.’s Northridge neighborhood once owned by Richard Pryor — and the site where the late comedian famously set himself on fire in 1980 — has hit the market. Known as Hacienda de ...

The comedian suffered burns covering more than 50 percent of his body. Pryor would go on to later joke about the incident in his comedy routines. Pryor sold the 2.2-acre estate in 1989 for $940,000.