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Jeffrey Epstein’s Estate Will Have To Pay Virgin Islands $105M

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Virgin Islands announced Wednesday that it reached a settlement of more than $105 million in a sex trafficking case against the estate of financier Jeffrey Epstein. The settlement ends a nearly three-year legal saga for officials in the U.S. territory, which sought to hold Epstein accountable after he was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls and of causing environmental damage on the two tiny islands...

Gaylord Jackson Perry, 84

Gaylord Jackson Perry (September 15, 1938 – December 1, 2022) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher for eight different teams from 1962 to 1983. During a 22-year baseball career, Perry compiled 314 wins, 3,534 strikeouts, and a 3.11 earned run average. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his third year of eligibility in 1991. Perry, a five-time All-Star, was the first pitcher...

Jamie Lee Curtis to receive AARP Career Achievement Award

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Scream Queen" Jamie Lee Curtis will be this year's recipient of AARP The Magazine's Movies for Grownups Awards career achievement honor. Curtis will receive the honor at the AARP's annual Best Movies and TV for Grownups ceremony, the group announced Thursday. Alan Cumming returns to host the ceremony, which will be telecast on "Great Performances" on PBS on Feb. 17 at 9 p.m. Eastern. "Jamie Lee Curtis' longstanding, ever-increasing career shatters Hollywood's...

Irene Cara, Oscar-winning singer of title tracks to ‘Flashdance,’ ‘Fame’ dies at 63

KABC – Irene Cara Escalera, the Oscar-winning singer of the title tracks to "Fame" and "Flashdance," has died in her Florida home of an undisclosed cause. Cara was trained in music, dance and acting as a child and appeared on stage and on television, including appearances on PBS and on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show," at a young age in the 1970s. But she rocketed to fame when she was cast in the 1980 musical "Fame."...

Jay Leno released from the hospital after burn injuries

Jay Leno has been discharged from the hospital after sustaining burn injuries in a gasoline fire about nine days ago.

HEALTH UPDATE: Alan Jackson

US MAGAZINE – Country superstar Alan Jackson has been battling Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease for more than a decade, but he didn’t go public with his diagnosis until September 2021. “I have this neuropathy and neurological disease,” the Country Music Hall of Fame member explained during a Today show interview at the time. “It’s genetic that I inherited from my daddy. … There’s no cure for it, but it’s been affecting me for years. And it’s getting...

Alec Baldwin files lawsuit for ‘Rust’ shooting, accuses crew of negligence

Baldwin sued four members from the crew, including armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed.

A Pussy Riot member describes what Brittney Griner can look forward to in Russian penal colony

Maria "Masha" Alyokhina is a Russian political activist. She is a member of the anti-Putinist original gulag system from the 1950s," says Alyokhina, reached by NPR on tour in the United Kingdom. "But the sense is the same. It is a labor camp." Aloykhina says while most Americans imagine prison cells with bars, Griner can expect to live in "the zone" — a set of barracks with 80 to 100 women sleeping to a room...

Toby Keith Puts A Boot In Cancer’s A**

CINCINNATI.COM – After a year of battling cancer, country music star Toby Keith took the stage at a well-known area restaurant. On Friday, Nov. 4, Keith surprised patrons with an impromptu performance at Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse in Lexington. Keith and Ruby performed a duet of the song "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding, which the musician said was a favorite of Ruby's. Keith also performed his 2003 chart-topper, “I Love This Bar," Lynyrd...

King Charles, Prince William erupted into ‘torrents of profanity’ over Trump’s Kate Middleton comments

NEW YORK POST – King Charles and Prince William erupted into “torrents of profanity” after hearing comments from Donald Trump about Kate Middleton’s 2012 topless photo scandal, a new biography revealed this week. Kate, then the Duchess of Cambridge, was infamously photographed that year sunbathing topless on private property in France while vacationing with her husband, Prince William. The pictures were subsequently published in the French tabloid Closer, eliciting titillation and outcry in equal measure. Trump tweeted...

Raiders Hall of Famer Ray Guy, considered the greatest punter ever, dies at age 72

Ray Guy American football player, punter

Tom Brady, Gisele Bündchen announce divorce after 13 years

AP – Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen have finalized their divorce, they announced Friday, ending the 13-year marriage between two superstars who respectively reached the pinnacles of football and fashion. Divorce documents were filed Friday in Glades County, Florida, a rural location near Lake Okeechobee far from the big-city limelight, according to court records. The divorce was made final the same day. "The marriage of the parties is dissolved because the marriage is irretrievably broken, and...

Jerry Lee Lewis, outrageous rock ‘n’ roll star, dies at 87

AP – Jerry Lee Lewis, the untamable rock 'n' roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such definitive records as "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and sustained a career otherwise upended by personal scandal, died Friday morning at 87. The last survivor of a generation of groundbreaking performers that included Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Little Richard, Lewis died at his Mississippi home, south of Memphis, Tennessee,...

Brett Favre says he’s ‘unjustly smeared’ in welfare case

Mississippi's largest public corruption case in state history, in which tens of millions of dollars earmarked for needy families was misspent, involves a number of sports figures with ties to the state — including NFL royalty Brett Favre and a famous former pro wrestler.

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