Miley cyrus bus crash

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Miley Cyrus came into this world named Destiny Hope Cyrus November 23, 1992, but has legally had her name changed to Miley. When she was a baby, she was always smiling so everyone called her smiley. Her brother couldn't say smiley so he called her Miley, and so it started.

Just last year, she decided to have it legally changed. She is just 16, turning 17 any day now. She sings, acts, songwrites and dances. She is Hannah Montana. There are Hannah Montana shows, games, videos, toys and clothing all graced with images of Miley Cyrus on them.

My friend worked for Disney and was one of the programmers for Hannah Montana II, the game. He got to meet her and said she was surprising cordial, nice and smiling. She released her first soundtrack in 2006 which were all songs from the Hannah Montana show.

Since then, Miley has strated her own singing career as Miley Cyrus rather than Hannah Montana. She has starred in movies too, Bolt, Hannah Montana, the Movie. Time magazine considers Miley Cyrus one of the top 100 people in the world and Forbes ranked her #35 on their Celebrity 100 list. She earned 25 million dollars in 2008 at 15 years of age.

In spite of her seemingly charmed life, things are not always easy for Miss Cyrus. She has had a lawsuit filed against her for discrimination because she made slanted eyes on her face along with some of her friend. Miley has twice apologized and the judge dismissed the case. But things were even worse this week.

Miley Cyrus was not on her tour bus when it overturned and killed one person Friday. The Miley Cyrus bus crash occurred on interstate 85 in Virginia. The bus driver, William Douglas, had a heart attack while driving the bus and died. Thankfully, Miley was not on the bus and none of her band members were injured, but Miley has to be grieving for her bus driver, who was her friend, I'm sure. This is lot to go through for a 16 year old.