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**Aalisha Vicenzo O'Sullivan** (/ə-LEE-shə ó súilleabháin; born December 30, 1991), is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. One the most popular contemporary recording artist, frequent focus of paparazzi and tabloids, recognized as the fastest best-selling female in history of music.

Begin her career as actres, she appearing in commercials and in plays television series and films such as *10-8: Officers on Dufy* (2004), *School of Life* (2005), *Boston Legal*, *Amazing Grace* (2006), *Pineapple Express* (2008), and *Kyle XY* (2009). After signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records, she release her debut studio album *Aalisha O'Sullivan* (2010), which spread the hits singles "Hush", "Foolish Heart", and "If You Go Away (Close the Door)". The album sold over 7 million copies worlwide. At At 2011 Grammy Awards ceremony, she won her first Grammy Awards for Best New Artist. Her follow-up second and third successful albums, *A Pocketful of Love* (2011), and *Let Yourself* (2013), made her an icon pop. The albums spread five US *Billboard* Hot 100 numbers one, "Soldier Boy", "A Pocketful of Love", "Get Out Of My Mind", "Powerless" and "All My Love", becoming best-selling singles worldwide. The albums sold more than 20 million worldwide, and make her Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album winner for two years consecutive, being the only female artist to achieve this record. Her concert film released in 2014, became the second highest-grossing concert movie in the history, worldwide revenue gross was in total $258.2 million. In 2015, she star as Alex in the spy comedy film *Totally Spies!*, and released her fourth album *On the Loose* (2015), including the number ones singles "Fallin'", and "Get On My Feet". The album won Best Electronic/Dance Album winner, and make her the only female artist to have three consecutive albums with sales of more than 20 million copies worlwide.

As 2017, she has sold an estimated 246 million, becoming one of best-selling recording artist of all time. Her achievements include several Guinness World Records, 3 Brit Awards, 21 Billboard Music Awards, 5 MTV Video Music Awards, 12 Grammy Awards, also received awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She became youngest person to appeared in *Time*s 100 most influential people in the world, also included in *Forbes* lists: 100 most powerful women Celebrity 100 and top-earning women in music, and was named *Billboard*'s Woman of the Year in 2014. In 2015, *Forbes* ranked her the third most powerful celebrity. Enjoys a highly successful business career, she realese own fashion line, wich became top selling celebrity clothing empire, also she is known for her philanthropic work with own foundation, and other entanglements with several humanitarian causes.

## Personal life

Aalisha Vicenzo O'Sullivan was born in Santa Monica, California on December 30, 1991, the only daughter of the Spanish former english teacher Elizabeth "Eliza" Vicenzo (born. September 30, 1975– death. August 18, 2017), and Dean O'Sullivan (born February 23, 1974), a former American mechanical engineer. She's Vince O'Sullivan's niece, a retired male racewalker from the United States. During her childhood, she started going to singing class, classical ballet, piano and guitar, and at the age of seven she began going to acting classes, where he came to present several theatre plays.

In mid-2004, O'Sullivan parentes separated, O'Sullivan and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California, while her father moved to, Lisbon, Portugal.
After many years trying to get back together, they remarried in 2009. In an interview in 2013, O'Sullivan said who preferred her parents separate than they did together, because their fights made her very unhappy. Despite remarriage, their relationship remained the same. They remain together until Eliza to die on the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Augustu 18, 2017, due suffering a stroke. Despite media pressure, O'Sullivan says she prefers not to talk about his mother's death publicly. In honor of her mother, she made a Celine Dion's "Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)" cover and posted on its YouTube channel, and received 14 million views in less than 24 hours,
also made the tattoo of the letter E, in his ear, also has other tattoo; "Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander and my faith will be made stronger" on his back, what is an excerpt from the "Hillsong United's Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) song.

**Attempted murder**

At the end of December 2016, O'Sullivan spent his Christmas holidays with your family in your hometown of Santa Monica, California. Due to being a small town, she was accompanied by two bodyguards. She used to stay in a family home, which had no such security, since she didn't care much, since the city was very quiet and the paparazzi didn't have much access to locale.

An obsessed fan, named Patrick Hanson, who had approached her in several different situations, managed to enter the House in which she was after an oversight of your security, Marco Martinez, who by your time, was in the garden. At 5:40 p.m., Hanson managed to climb up to the room in which O'Sullivan was screaming, he began to plead. Because of the noise, his security guards envadiram the room and found Hanson pointing a gun on Renee of O'Sullivan, after much swearing and screaming. Hanson fired three shots, one of them hitting the safety of O'Sullivan. The police was assionada at 6:01 p.m., surrounding the House.

Hanson said that if security didn't let alone with her, he was going to kill her in front of them. After a lot of negotiations, Hanson decided to turn himself in to police. The news about the attack began to spread, becoming an international news in few minutes. The trial of Hanson, took place on 16 July 2017, about 230 paparazzi and several TV channels followed the trial from outside. Hanson was sentenced to jail time of 15 years imprisonment in the scheme closed. On occasion, he was granted the right to appeal in liberty.

**Controversy and health issue**

In February 2015, O'Sullivan filed a $40 million lawsuit against tabloid magazine *Star*, which cited that she had fourced an abortion. She also sued American blogger Perez Hilton for posting pictures of a naked woman claiming to be her.

Since fifteen years old, O'Sullivan took some types of remedios devivo to your anxiety and insomnia. She was taken to the hospital several times during the year of 2015, due to your anxiety. After death of your mother, she developed a kind of Clonazepam addiction. She began to treat your addiction in mid December 2017,remained three weeks in a rehabilitation clinic. O'Sullivan during a personal video posted on your twitter account, she told your bad experience with Clonazepam, and warned that only can be taken with prescription, if not, you're killing yourself.

In March 2018, she posted an open letter to thank their fans for their support and saying he was sober of Clonazepam, and not taking two months. In the same month gave a lecture, telling your experience during the addiction.