Dolly Parton used royalties from Whitney Houston smash to invest in black neighborhood

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told Oprah Winfrey last year she had to pull over the car she was driving so she wouldn’t crash it.Houston’s version, which became one of the all-time biggest singles, also netted Parton, who’s a world-class songwriter in addition to being a singer, about $10 million in royalties in the 1990s and the checks keep coming.Parton had a great idea about how to spend that money: She used it to help a Black neighborhood in Nashville.“I bought my big office complex down in Nashville,” she told Andy Cohen on Thursday’s episode of “Watch What Happens Live” (via Yahoo). “So I thought, ‘well this is a wonderful place to be.'”“I bought a property down in what was the Black area of town, and it was mostly just Black families and people that lived around.