Crews worked on the marker at 6710 Hollywood Boulevard on Tuesday, a week after Dolly Parton‘s death, following a fan report that her name had been damaged and flowers removed.
Repair crews were at work on Dolly Parton‘s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday, after her name was reported scratched and flowers left by fans were taken.
Footage from KNX showed workers replacing the marker on Hollywood Boulevard. According to TMZ, Ana Martinez, a spokesperson for the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, said a fan had reported on Monday night that someone had taken flowers from the star and scratched it.
There is a detail worth noting alongside that. Martinez also said the star already had cracks in it and that the chamber had scheduled it for repair on Tuesday regardless. The work seen in the footage had been booked before the report came in.
No suspects have been identified, and no motive has been established.
Parton‘s star sits at 6710 Hollywood Boulevard and was dedicated in 1984. Sylvester Stallone attended the ceremony, the two having appeared together that year in “Rhinestone“.
Since her death it has served as an informal gathering point, with fans leaving flowers and notes there through the past week. That is what makes the theft of the tributes sting more than the damage to the terrazzo, which is routine maintenance work the chamber carries out across the Walk of Fame.
Parton died on Tuesday, August 25 at the age of 80, at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, with her family around her, after a short illness. The announcement came through her PR firm, True Public Relations, alongside a video message recorded by her nephew Bryan Seaver, who had been asked years earlier to deliver it.
Her estate has since set out how it intends to mark her life. Rather than a conventional memorial service, which representatives say is not what Parton wanted, a two-day festival is planned for 2027 across consecutive weekends in Nashville and London, an idea the estate says came from her.
The response over the past week has come from well beyond country music, which is consistent with a career that crossed into film, publishing, philanthropy and, latterly, rock.
Among the tributes, Bad Wolves released their version of “Jolene” on Monday, a recording Parton had heard, approved and was preparing to add her own vocals to before she died. Proceeds go to her Imagination Library, the literacy programme that has now sent more than 200 million books to children.
Parton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022, an honour she initially tried to turn down on the grounds that she had not earned it in that genre, then answered with Rockstar in 2023, a 49th solo album featuring Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Steven Tyler, Elton John and Stevie Nicks.
Repairs are underway at Dolly Parton's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame after it was vandalized. Video on social media showed Parton's name scratched off. No word on any suspects, but has anyone seen Jolene lately? pic.twitter.com/2WAuvb7dEJ
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