Inside Olivia Newton-John's life - Grease fame, music ban and tragic cancer battle

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Hollywood actress and musician, has tragically died of breast cancer aged 73 years old at her ranch in California.Throughout her life she was nominated for two Golden Globe awards and was best known for her role in 1978’s cult classic film Grease.She also represented the UK during Eurovision back in 1974 with Long Live Love, but lost out at fourth place against ABBA with Waterloo.READ MORE: John Travolta leads celeb tributes to Olivia Newton-John following death aged 73In light of her recent passing, take a look back at some of the highs and lows of Olivia’s career.Sandy projected Olivia to stardom and her global music sales reached a whopping 100million, making her one of the most successful artists in the modern era.Olivia was a four time Grammy Award winner and following her role in Grease, she landed five number one singles with another 10 Top Tens that followed.You’re The One That I Want featuring John Travolta is one of the best selling singles of all time and Physical was Billboard Top 100s single of the 1980s.Back in June 2006, the star’s company ON-J Productions Ltd filed for a lawsuit against Universal Music Group.The lawsuit was made for $1m (£828k) in unpaid royalties which should have been obtained by Newton-John after the Grease soundtrack was released.A year later in 2007, it was made public that Olivia and UMG had reached a decision and landed on a “conditional settlement”.She had also had a previous run-in with MCA after she entered a two year, four album deal.However, Newton-John’s fourth album was released late which led them to extend her contract, so she filed a $10m (£8.3m) lawsuit against them while MCA’s counter asked for $1m (£828k) in damages.Olivia was banned from working with another service.