When Ashley Graham walked onstage in December to interview Serena Williams for the season finale of her podcast, Pretty Big Deal, she felt intimidated. As the crowd erupted into deafening cheers for the tennis icon, Graham gave herself a pep talk: “Own this shit, girl. You got it.” It’s a …
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UPDATE: Robert Kraft has pleaded not guilty to charges of solicitation. His attorneys have asked for a bench trial, forgoing a jury. **** Robert Kraft, the 77-year-old owner of the New England Patriots, has officially been charged with soliciting a woman in connection with prostitution, a first-degree misdemeanor, according to …
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Last Wednesday, I was on assignment at a high school basketball game in Chicago’s north suburbs, conducting interviews for a magazine profile about one of the nation’s top young recruits, when I received a startling text message from a fellow journalist: “Jill Abramson bit from one of your stories.” In …
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Leslie Van Houten, who was 19 when she joined other followers of Charles Manson on a 1969 murder spree, is asking the state of California to release her on parole. Over the past five decades, the convict, now 69, has made nearly two dozen attempts to be freed from the …
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Not since the The Full Monty has there been this much anticipation building around singing strippers on a theater stage. On Thursday, the producers of Magic Mike the Musical — Channing Tatum, Steven Soderbergh, Gregory Jacobs, Nick Wechsler, Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan — announced the stage show will premiere …
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Mariah Carey’s former personal assistant, Lianna Shakhnazaryan (also known as Lianna Azarian), claimed she was subjected to sexual battery and harassment during her approximately two years of employment before being wrongfully terminated by the singer in 2017. That’s according to a new lawsuit filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court …
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The rise and downfall of televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker is the focus of a new 20/20 special titled “Unfaithfully Yours,” and in this exclusive clip from the episode, Ted Koppel recounts an interview with the Bakkers in the aftermath of their sex and financial fraud scandals. The Bakkers’ …
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Broadway legend Carol Channing, who starred in such Golden Age hits as Hello, Dolly! and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, died Tuesday at her home in California, The New York Times reports. She was 97. Channing’s publicist, B. Harlan Boll, confirmed her death, saying Channing had suffered two strokes over the past …
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Nestled among thick Redwood trees nearly 300 miles north of San Francisco is one of the most prolific cannabis producing regions in the United States: Humboldt County. Long known for its cultivation of the plant, Humboldt is one-third of the famed “Emerald Triangle” of Northern California (Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity …
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Remember the scene in A Star Is Born where Lady Gaga is onstage at the Grammys and Bradley Cooper collapses in a boozy stupor and she tells the audience how much fun they’re having? The 2019 Golden Globes made that moment last over three hours. That’s the point — this …
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