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AMERICAN GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
SEPARATE ACCOUNT VL-R
LEGACY PLUS
FLEXIBLE PREMIUM VARIABLE LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES
SUPPLEMENT DATED MAY 3, 1999
TO
PROSPECTUS DATED APRIL 30, 1999
Effective May 3, 1999, American General Life Insurance Company ("AGL") is
amending the available investment options for the Legacy Plus Policies described
on Pages 1 and 3 of the prospectus. The purpose for amending the prospectus is
to set out the currently available investment options.
INVESTMENT OPTIONS
ON PAGE 1 OF THE PROSPECTUS, THE ENTIRE SECTION UNDER "INVESTMENT OPTIONS"
IS DELETED IN ITS ENTIRETY AND REPLACED WITH THE FOLLOWING:
Investment options. You may use AGL's Separate Account VL-R ("Separate
Account") to invest in the following variable investment options and change your
selections from time to time:
AIM VARIABLE AMERICAN GENERAL SERIES BT INSURANCE FUNDS TRUST
INSURANCE FUNDS, PORTFOLIO COMPANY
INC.
. AIM V.I. Value . Money Market Fund . Equity 500 Index
Fund . EAFE Equity Index
A I M Advisors, The Variable Annuity Life Bankers Trust Company*
Inc. * Insurance Company *
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MORGAN STANLEY DEAN ROYCE CAPITAL FUND
WITTER UNIVERSAL
FUNDS, INC. . Royce Total Return
. Equity Growth Royce & Associates, Inc.*
Morgan Stanley Dean
Witter Investment
Management Inc.*
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*The Investment Adviser of the investment option
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ON PAGE 3 OF THE PROSPECTUS, THE ENTIRE SECTION UNDER "NEW INVESTMENT OPTIONS"
IS DELETED IN ITS ENTIRETY AND REPLACED WITH THE FOLLOWING NEW SECTION CALLED
"INVESTMENT OPTIONS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE":
Investment Options currently not available: The following eight investment
options, although we disclose certain information about them, are currently not
available as investment options:
. AIM VARIABLE INSURANCE FUNDS, . TEMPLETON VARIABLE PRODUCTS SERIES
INC. FUND
AIM V.I. International Equity Fund Franklin Small Cap Investments Fund
. MFS VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST Templeton Developing Markets Fund
MFS Emerging Growth Series Templeton International Fund
. PUTNAM VARIABLE TRUST . OPPENHEIMER VARIABLE ACCOUNT FUNDS
Putnam VT Diversified Income Fund Oppenheimer High Income
Putnam VT Growth and Income Fund
We plan to make these 8 investment options available in the future and will file
a new prospectus supplement at such time. As of the date of this supplement, we
have 6 available investment options only.
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