B次元官网网址淪aved by the BellB次元官网网址� star Dustin Diamond died Monday after a three-week fight with carcinoma, according to his representative. He was 44.

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Diamond, best known for playing Screech on the hit B次元官网网址�90s sitcom, was hospitalized last month in Florida and his team disclosed later that he had cancer.

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Diamond was sued several times for delinquent taxes and in foreclosure proceedings for missing mortgage payments. He has appeared on reality TV shows, made a sex tape and produced a tell-all documentary on Lifetime TV called B次元官网网址淭he Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story.B次元官网网址� In 2015, he was sentenced to serve four months in jail for his part in a Wisconsin barroom stabbing.

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Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press