Otago Daily Times

Dustin Diamond (44)

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THE Saved by the Bell star died on February 1 after a threeweek fight with cancer.

Diamond, best known for playing Samuel ``Screech'' Powers on the hit 1990s sitcom, was hospitalis­ed last month in Florida and his team disclosed later he had carcinoma.

Diamond was sued several times for delinquent taxes and in foreclosur­e proceeding­s for missing mortgage payments. In 2015, he was sentenced to serve four months’ jail for his part in a Wisconsin bar room stabbing.

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