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Post by emerald on Aug 10, 2016 15:51:09 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Aug 13, 2016 6:04:36 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Aug 18, 2016 3:23:43 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Aug 18, 2016 5:51:00 GMT -5
Leonardo DiCaprio, the Malaysian Money Scandal, and His 'Unusual' Foundation On the evening of July 20, under a tent at a vineyard in St. Tropez brimming to his specifications with booze, billionaires and babes, Leonardo DiCaprio was preparing to host one of the glitziest charitable events of the year: the third annual fundraiser for his Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. Earlier that same day, under far less glamorous auspices half a world away, the U.S. Department of Justice was filing a complaint with the U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles that suggested the recent Oscar winner is a bit player in the planet’s largest embezzlement case, totaling more than $3 billion siphoned from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund called 1MDB. While the complaint does not target DiCaprio — he’s referred to twice in the 136-page document and only as “Hollywood Actor 1” — the scandal shines an unfamiliar light on the charitable foundation of the most powerful actor in Hollywood thanks to the way the LDF has benefited directly from DiCaprio’s relationship with key figures in the saga. And much like the gala in St. Tropez, with its expressions of one-percenter excess ostensibly in support of saving the environment (guests helicoptering in to dine on whole sea bass after watching a short film about the dangers of overfishing), a closer look at the LDF itself raises questions about its ties to the 1MDB players as well as the lack of transparency often required (or offered in this case) for the specific structure the actor has chosen for his endeavor. www.yahoo.com/movies/leonardo-dicaprio-malaysian-money-scandal-142500954.html
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Post by emerald on Aug 19, 2016 3:26:06 GMT -5
EXCLUSIVE - The tragedy of Renee's first love: Never-before-seen images shows young actress madly in love with handsome bass player before their break-up led to his suicide Twenty years ago, Bridget Jones' Baby star Renee Zellweger was on her way to becoming a household name. She'd just landed a plum role opposite Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire, and was dating handsome bass player Sims Ellison. Together for around five years in the early 1990s, Renee and Sims were one of the hottest couples in the famous alternative music scene in Austin, Texas. But their love story ended in the worst kind of tragedy. On June 6, 1996, following his relationship breakdown and the band being dumped from Geffen Records, 27-year-old Sims, who suffered from depression, put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3745977/Mother-Renee-Zellweger-s-love-reveals-actress-s-pain-losing-boyfriend-suicide.html
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Post by emerald on Aug 19, 2016 5:05:26 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Aug 21, 2016 4:52:53 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Aug 22, 2016 4:32:10 GMT -5
Former Cuomo aide, four others including 10-year-old boy on way to birthday party, killed in crash on Long Island Expressway A 10-year-old boy died Sunday on the way to his own birthday party in a horrific Long Island Expressway crash that also killed his father and three others. One of the victims of the three-car wreck was Scott Martella, a 29-year-old former aide to Gov. Cuomo who was set to marry his high school sweetheart. Young Christopher Pinales turned 10 last week and was on his way to the Splish Splash water park in Calverton, L.I., to celebrate, when his father, Carmelo, lost control of his Subaru Outback as he drove east on the highway by Exit 68 in Manorville shortly after 9:30 a.m. www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cuomo-aide-killed-crash-long-island-expressway-article-1.2760114
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Post by emerald on Aug 23, 2016 6:38:43 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Aug 27, 2016 15:31:00 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Aug 28, 2016 6:23:07 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Aug 28, 2016 15:39:25 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Aug 30, 2016 13:34:57 GMT -5
FORMER MODELS FOR DONALD TRUMP'S AGENCY SAY THEY VIOLATED IMMIGRATION RULES AND WORKED ILLEGALLY Republican nominee Donald Trump has placed immigration at the core of his presidential campaign. He has claimed that undocumented immigrants are "taking our jobs" and "taking our money," pledged to deport them en masse, and vowed to build a wall on the Mexican border. At one point he demanded a ban on Muslims entering the country. Speaking to supporters in Iowa on Saturday, Trump said he would crack down on visitors to the United States who overstay their visas and declared that when any American citizen "loses their job to an illegal immigrant, the rights of that American citizen have been violated." And he is scheduled to give a major address on immigration in Arizona on Wednesday night. But the mogul's New York modeling agency, Trump Model Management, has profited from using foreign models who came to the United States on tourist visas that did not permit them to work here, according to three former Trump models, all noncitizens, who shared their stories with Mother Jones. Financial and immigration records included in a recent lawsuit filed by a fourth former Trump model show that she, too, worked for Trump's agency in the United States without a proper visa. www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration
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