He is well known and very talented basketball player. He has a number of tattoos on his body, but none of them have to do with his basketball career. 1  Tattooed apology. 2  Kobe Bryant has a tattoo of his wife's name and a crown on his arm.
If Gene Simmons had had even a small part of a cowâs tongue grafted onto his own, he must have had his mouth enlarged to make room for it at the same time. (Either that or he just started folding it up to keep it in his mouth.)
Simmons was sentenced to death sixteen times, and after refusing to appeal his sentence, was executed by Arkansas in 1990. Early life and military career Ronald Gene Simmons was born on July 15, 1940, in Chicago , Illinois , to Loretta and William Simmons. On January 31, 1943, William Simmons died of a stroke , and within a year Simmons's mother had remarried, this time to William D. Griffen, a civil engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers .