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Neil Diamond Announces Engagement on Twitter

Seventy-year-old singer will marry for the third time

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September 7, 2011 4:50 PM ET
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Neil Diamond announced earlier today on his Twitter that he is now engaged to a woman named Katie. "Good news coming from sunny LA/ and you're the first I want to tell," he tweeted. "Katie & I just got engaged/ and I hope you wish us well."

In another tweet, the 70-year-old singer shared a photo of his fiancee and wrote "I'd like you to meet Katie. I'm lovestruck. I took this photo in London last month."

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Diamond has not commented further on the engagement, or revealed anything else about his bride-to-be. This will be Diamond's third marriage, and his first since he split from his second wife, Marcia Murphey, in 1995.

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