Dolly Parton, country music legend, dies at age 80 after brief cancer battle

Dolly Parton, one of the most groundbreaking and successful musicians in the history of country music, with a hitmaking career that spanned six decades and launched her into TV and movie stardom, died Tuesday after a brief cancer battle. She was 80. "After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer, Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center surrounded by loved ones," her team said in a statement to CBS News. Her nephew Bryan Seaver, who was his aunt's head of security, announced her death in a prerecorded video posted to social media. At the White House, President Trump called her death "a true loss for millions of people" and ordered the American flag lowered across the country starting Tuesday evening. "There has never been anyone like her, and never will," Mr. Trump said. A prolific songwriter, she won 10 Grammys and earned 55 nominations. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Parton donated $1 million for medical research at Vanderbilt University that helped lead to the lifesaving Moderna vaccine.