Lopes was a star in the music world with the group TLC and also a talented dancer and music producer. Besides writing much of TLC’s music, she designed many of the group’s wardrobes and helped handle artwork and other aspects of marketing. She earned four Grammy Awards. Lopes also embarked on a solo career and reached No. 1 once on the British charts and the top 10 twice in the United States. Lisa Lopes turned herself in to police on June 10, 1994, the day after a fire at NFL star Andre Rison’s mansion heavily damaged the million-dollar structure. She entered rehab less than a week later and was ultimately convicted of arson and sentenced to live at a halfway house and serve five years of probation. Lopes contended that the fire starting in a bathtub was an accident resulting from her trying to burn some sneakers Rison had just purchased, but it was just another incident in a volatile relationship that reportedly included an extended physical altercation that night. Risen was one of the NFL’s best wide receivers and a Super Bowl champion. He was also dating Lopes, who was a member of the iconic girl group TLC. They were definitely one of the most popular couples of the '90s, but despite their combined success, their relationship was swarming with anger and violence. In 1993, both were arrested over a domestic dispute outside of an Atlanta nightclub. They stayed together despite the incident — but on June 9th, 1994, their hostilities were taken to a new level. The two reportedly started to fight early in the morning after Rison returned from a club. Both claimed that the other escalated the fight to blows, then Risen took a walk to cool down. While he was gone, Lopes gathered a pile of expensive sneakers he’d recently purchased, thrown them in the bath tub and set them on fire. She was unable to contain the flames and the entire mansion was burned down. A day later, she was arrested and charged with arson, but was able to lesson her punishment to probation an

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