Aretha Franklin's Son Hospitalized After Beating

Eddie Franklin beaten badly by younger men, woman
By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff
Posted Sep 21, 2010 12:34 PM CDT
Aretha Franklin's Son Hospitalized After Beating
In a Tuesday, July 27, 2010 file photo, Aretha Franklin performs at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia.   (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Aretha Franklin’s son Eddie is undergoing emergency surgery today, after being brutally beaten at a gas station in Detroit last night. Franklin, 52, was attacked by two men and a woman, the Detroit News reports. An unidentified bystander, an acquaintance of Franklin's, came forward to take him to the hospital. (More Aretha Franklin stories.)

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