'I am forever indebted to Orlando and he will be sorely missed,' Madonna tells Billboard
"He was so passionate about that song that on his own he went and got everyone to do mixes for it, and really with no budget," Warren recalls. It was the power of the remixes, Warren says, that helped convince various teams to release the original, which became the first to be nominated for a Grammy, Emmy and Oscar award in the same year. Puerta and Warren remained friends since the collaboration.
"I loved him," she says."He was so kind, so lovely and lovable. Just a sweet guy. He went with his heart. We need more people like that. We can’t afford to lose people like that." Warren says a mutual friend sent an ambulance to Puerta's house in Los Angeles this past Friday night , because they knew he was in poor health, although Puerta declined to go to the hospital."He [didn't] really take care of himself," says Warren."He [cared] so much about the music, and his company, and his friends, and his animals, but he [didn't] put that same care into himself.
A prolific animal lover, Puerta had recently sent his pet pig, Charlotte, to live on Warren's animal rescue ranch. His five chihuahuas also arrived at her ranch today, just around the time Warren learned of his passing. "In a time when we need kindness and we need good people," she says,"to lose such a kind, good person is just tragic."
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