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Naomi Osaka, rapper Cordae break up after 5 years together

Naomi Osaka, rapper Cordae break up after 5 years together

It’s splitsville for tennis star Naomi Osaka and rapper Cordae after a five-year relationship. The former couple, who welcomed a baby girl named Shai in 2023, are officially over, according to the four-time Grand Slam champ. “Hi everyone, just wanted to say that Cordae and I are no longer in a relationship. No bad blood at all, he’s a great person and an awesome dad,” she shared on Instagram ...

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Naomi Osaka, rapper Cordae break up after 5 years together

It’s splitsville for tennis star Naomi Osaka and rapper Cordae after a five-year relationship. The former couple, who welcomed a baby girl named Shai in 2023, are officially over, according to the four-time Grand Slam champ. “Hi everyone, just wanted to say that Cordae and I are no longer in a relationship. No bad blood at all, he’s a great person and an awesome dad,” she shared on Instagram ...
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Attorneys for Diddy accusers rail against Nikki Glaser’s Golden Globes jokes

Attorneys representing multiple Sean “Diddy” Combs accusers aren’t happy with the jokes made by comedian Nikki Glaser at the Golden Globes on Sunday night. Ariel Mitchell, who represents Ashley Parham and others, told TMZ that Glaser’s jokes are the type that keep other sexual assault survivors from coming forward. Tyrone Blackburn, who represents Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, told the gossip site ...
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Zendaya and Tom Holland are engaged

“Spider-Man: Homecoming” co-stars Zendaya Coleman and Tom Holland are engaged according to several media reports, nearly nine years after meeting on set of the superhero film. Despite the 28-year-old ‘Dune” star’s solo appearance on the Golden Globes red carpet Sunday, eagle-eyed red carpet onlookers on Sunday spotted a ring on Zendaya’s left hand that fueled engagement speculation, especially ...
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Marv from ‘Home Alone’ has a new calling card: Tangerines and sculpture

Stern, 67, best known for playing one of the not-so-wily Wet Bandits in the movie, has been an actor in Hollywood for more than 40 years. These days he is a prolific bronze sculptor and helps around his family's ranch and citrus orchard in Ventura County, California, where he dazzles his six grandchildren with the trademark physical comedy he used in two "Home Alone" movies, as well as in "City Slickers" and "Bushwhacked."
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Blake Lively complaint against Justin Baldoni all too familiar, Amber Heard says

Amber Heard stepped into the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni fray on Monday after learning that the crisis control PR firm Baldoni had hired was the same one ex-husband Johnny Depp used during their 2022 defamation trial. “Social media is the absolute personification of the classic saying ‘A lie travels halfway around the world before truth can get its boots on,’ ” she told NBC News. “I saw this ...
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Paris Hilton returns to Capitol Hill to push ‘troubled teen’ reform

Reality star Paris Hilton was back on Capitol Hill on Monday, meeting with representatives in hopes of passing a bill to reform residential treatment facilities for troubled teens. Hilton, 43, has been in Washington, D.C., numerous times over the past three years to advance the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, which passed the Senate unanimously last week. However, there is only one week ...
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Former OJ Simpson bodyguard claims to have recording of murder confession

Police in Minnesota may have a recording of O.J. Simpson confessing to the 1994 double murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, obtained as part of a search warrant in a separate investigation. The recording is said to be on a thumb drive that belonged to the accused killer‘s former bodyguard, according to the warrant obtained by TMZ. Police say Simpson may have also implicated a ...
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Bids for ruby slippers stolen from Minnesota museum surpass $1 million in online auction

MINNEAPOLIS — A storied pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz,” stolen from a museum display in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, then reportedly buried in a clear container in a suburban Minneapolis backyard have a high bid of $1,150,000 through Tuesday morning on Heritage Auctions’ online auction. The initial bid, when the auction opened more than a month ago, was $500,000. ...
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Beyoncé named the greatest pop star of the 21st century by Billboard

Beyoncé has officially been named the greatest pop star of the 21st century by Billboard. The music industry magazine made the announcement on Tuesday as part of its ongoing series highlighting the artists “who have most defined pop stardom for the last 25 years.” “The reasons why Beyoncé captured the top spot on our list were beyond numerous,” Billboard said, “ranging from her 25 years of ...
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The PlayStation shattered the status quo, only to become it

Sony debuted the PlayStation on Dec. 3, 1994 with the expressed intent of re-creating the extravagance of big-ticket entertainment in a living room. For gaming at the time, that meant arcade machines priced around a car’s down payment. But anyone who turned on their very first PlayStation game - in my case it was “Ridge Racer” - saw PlayStation vanish the arcade business into obsolescence.
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Police responded to bomb threat at Arnold Schwarzenegger’s home on Thanksgiving morning

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police officers responded to a spurious bomb threat at former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Brentwood mansion on Thanksgiving morning before giving the all clear. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department was not able to confirm that the department responded to Schwarzenegger's house but said there was a call regarding a suspicious package at around 10:30 ...
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Ms. Rachel’s improbable journey From toddler whisperer to holiday toy story

About a year and a half ago, Laura Henderson, a toy company executive and 38-year-old mother in Toronto, was at the tail end of maternity leave with her second child. She was bleary-eyed and overwhelmed, as mothers juggling an infant and toddler tend to be, when she started scrolling TikTok and stumbled upon the children’s personality known as Ms. Rachel.
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Inside the ‘Wicked’ musical number that could win Ariana Grande an Oscar

LOS ANGELES — When Ariana Grande learned she was to play Glinda in the movie "Wicked," she made a vow. "I love her so much," she told director Jon M. Chu through tears on a video call in 2021. "I'm gonna take such good care of her." Grande made good on that promise. But where co-star Cynthia Erivo seems likely to attract awards buzz for the deeply emotional "Defying Gravity," Grande's chops, ...
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Inside Sotheby’s $6 million sale of a banana

In the Sotheby’s Auction House sale room - an intimate, carpeted seventh-floor auditorium on the Upper East Side - it’s not uncommon to see standing-room-only attendance. Or for the bidding crowd, many holding martinis or champagne glasses, to crane their necks around one another to get a glimpse of what’s spotlighted against the richly blue wall at the front.
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