Frank Stallone scoured the country last year looking for boxers for The Contender, the upcoming NBC reality show produced by his brother, Sylvester Stallone. Najai Turpin impressed him at the tryouts in Philadelphia because Turpin was "tough, strong and he came to fight," says the veteran musician and actor. Then came the news last week that the 23-year-old Turpin, one of 16 contestants on the show, had committed suicide. His death shocked and mystified both his longtime friends in Philadelphia and the television professionals who worked with him in Los Angeles this fall.
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