Did music promoter David Gest once hire a gunman to kill Elton John?
London's Sun published the startling accusation on the first anniversary of the flamboyant promoter's death. It quotes Gest's bodyguard and pal claiming David actually hired a hit-man to snuff out Elton after the rocker joked, "I’d love to buy Liza [Minelli] a heterosexual husband."
Bodyguard Imad Hamdi is quoted saying, "David flew into a range and yelled, ‘I’m going to kill that mother [bleep]. He’s a dead man.' He looked me in the eyes and said, ‘I want him dead.'"
Hamdi actually contracted with a supposed hit-man based in Hawaii -- and paid $25,000 to have the Rocket Man permanently grounded. But Gest then got cold feet and canceled the plot -- and the gunman only returned a third of the original payment.