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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Seth Abramovitch / The Hollywood Reporter](https://time.com/author/the-hollywood-reporter/) ## Seth Abramovitch / The Hollywood Reporter Feb 16, 2016 2:15 AM UTC  Vanity 6 on Sept. 12 1982 in Chicago, Il. Vanity 6 on Sept. 12 1982 in Chicago, Il.Paul Natkin—WireImage/Getty Images by [Seth Abramovitch / The Hollywood Reporter](https://time.com/author/the-hollywood-reporter/) ## Seth Abramovitch / The Hollywood Reporter Feb 16, 2016 2:15 AM UTC Denise Matthews — far better known by her stage name, Vanity — has died at age 57 from kidney failure, the result of years of crack cocaine abuse, _The Hollywood Reporter_ has confirmed. The singer and actress died Monday in a hospital in Fremont, Calif., the Bay Area city she called home. “She absolute loved God unto salvation,” her friend MC Hammer [tweeted Monday night](https://twitter.com/MCHammer/status/699387281619210241) as the Grammy Awards got underway. “She fell ill during the night \[and\] ended up on life support.” A sex vixen fashioned in the image of her rock-star mentor and one-time lover, Prince, Matthews had several provocative hits in the early 1980s as lead singer of the group Vanity 6. The biggest by far was 1982’s “Nasty Girl.” An infectious synth-funk single with overtly sexual lyrics, the song stalled on mainstream radio but managed to reach No. 1 on the Billboard dance charts. It has since gone on to become a dance-floor classic. Matthews disbanded Vanity 6 after the group’s debut release and signed with Motown Records in 1984, under which she released two solo records, _Wild Animal_ and _Skin on Skin_. She also embarked on an acting career, starring in the Berry Gordy-produced musical martial-arts film, _The Last Dragon_, in 1985. The following year, she was cast opposite John Stamos in _Never Too Young to Die_, a disastrous send-up of James Bond movies that featured KISS’ Gene Simmons as a cross-dressing villain. “She was pretty wild,” Stamos [recently told _THR_ ](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/never-young-die-john-stamos-837070)about his co-star. “She was like Al Pacino in _Scarface_, blasting these f—ing \[prop\] machine guns all over the place. We weren’t even rolling!” Matthews’ reputation as a hard partier in those early years of fame was both widely known and well-founded. As she cycled through rocker boyfriends (Billy Idol, Adam Ant and Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx, among them), she developed a dangerous addiction to crack cocaine. In 1994, that addiction led to near-fatal renal failure. She later said that Jesus Christ appeared to her at that time and offered her a second chance at life if she abandoned her Vanity persona. Matthews spent the years since sober and a born again Christian. After a kidney transplant in 1997, she became a Christian evangelist. She told her story in a self-published 2010 autobiography, _Blame It on Vanity_. Matthews’ health woes took a turn for the worse late last year, however, and she set up a [crowdfunding effort](https://www.gofundme.com/esiy74) to pay for her medical treatment after being diagnosed with sclerosis encapsulating peritonitis, a severely painful kidney condition. She raised $6,599 of the $50,000 she had sought. 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