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[Link] Convicted Fyre Festival Fraudster Is Planning Another Bahamas Venture, But the Bahamas Don't Want Him
Read: 29/11/2022 www.vice.com
Billy McFarland, the Fyre Festival founder who went to jail for defrauding investors to the tune of $26 million, is back at it again with another venture in the Bahamas.
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[Link] Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay $4.1m over false Sandy Hook claims
Read: 5/8/2022 www.theguardian.com
The jury in Alex Jones’s defamation trial on Thursday ordered the far-right conspiracy theorist to pay $4.1m in damages over his repeated claims that the deadly Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
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[Link] Sean Penn calls for billionaire to step up and buy aircraft for Ukraine
Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Hollywood actor Sean Penn has called for a billionaire to come forward and buy two squadrons of F-15 or F-16 aircraft for Ukraine in an unlikely attempt to tip the scales against the Russian invaders in the five-week-old war.
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[Link] Bruce Willis’s ‘worst performance’ award from Razzies show revoked after diagnosis
Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
The organizers of the Razzies parody awards show have rescinded Bruce Willis’s 2021 award in light of the actor’s recently disclosed aphasia diagnosis.
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[Link] 'You're not being told the truth': Schwarzenegger speaks out, pleading to end Ukraine war
Read: 18/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has told the Russian people they were being fed misinformation about their country's assault on Ukraine and he appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the attack.
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[Link] Wu-Tang Clan Producer Suing NYPD After Wrongfully Spending 4 Years in Rikers
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Former Wu-Tang Clan producer “True Master” spent four years at Rikers Island after being falsely accused of a rape that DNA evidence proved he didn’t commit. Now, he wants justice—with the help of star civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
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[Link] Dwayne Johnson appears to withdraw Joe Rogan support after N-word video
Read: 8/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Dwayne Johnson, the actor and former wrestling star known as The Rock, has retracted what had seemed his unconditional support for Joe Rogan, amid continued fallout from the controversial podcaster’s use of racist language.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell retrial arguments must be public, prosecutors tell judge
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal arguments involving the juror who might not have disclosed childhood sexual abuse during jury selection should be public, prosecutors said in a letter Friday.
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[Link] Ezra Miller Tells Beulaville, NC KKK Members to Kill Themselves or ‘We’ll Do It’
Read: 30/1/2022 www.vice.com
Actor Ezra Miller posted a cryptic video to Instagram last night, calling out members of the Beulaville, NC Klu Klux Klan.
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[Link] Drake withdraws his two 2022 Grammy nominations
Read: 8/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Drake has decided to withdraw his two Grammy nominations.
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[Link] The Rise and Fall of the Comedian Who Revolutionized Stand-Up
Read: 6/12/2021 slate.com
Mort Sahl, who died on Tuesday at 94, may be unknown to most people who are younger than half that age, but in his prime in the 1950s, he sparked a revolution in stand-up comedy that persists to this day.
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[Link] Lara Trump claims pricier turkeys are a liberal plot against Thanksgiving
Read: 27/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Lara Trump, the Fox News contributor and wife of Eric Trump, has bizarrely claimed that the rising cost of the Thanksgiving turkey is part of a liberal plot to “chip away” at American traditions.
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[Link] Carole Baskin refuses interviews in investigation into ex-husband’s disappearance
Read: 19/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Cpl Moises Garcia of the Hillsborough county sheriff’s office in Tampa held a news conference to provide an update on the investigation into Don Lewis’s disappearance.
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[Link] Rapper Young Dolph shot dead while buying cookies
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Rapper Young Dolph, who was widely admired in the hip-hop community for his authenticity and fierce independence, has been shot dead at a cookie shop in the US city of Memphis, Tennessee.
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[Link] An Olive Branch to My Enemy Mayim Bialik
Read: 18/11/2021 www.gawker.com
Twice now, I have used my platform to decry all things Mayim Bialik. I don’t think she’s very charismatic, and I think her whole nerdy contrarian thing is extremely grating. However, I am not above admitting that there is one acting role that clearly should have gone to her.
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[Link] Why Music Drives Us to Mayhem
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
Mr. Ayers is a musician, writer and the U.S. head of the British record label 4AD. His memoir will be published by Viking in 2022.
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[Link] Kanye West condemns #MeToo movement as ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four mind control’
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Kanye West has condemned the #MeToo movement that has spoken out against sexual assault in the entertainment industry and beyond, describing it as “mob mentality … Nineteen Eighty-Four mind control”.
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[Link] Hundreds of QAnon Fans Are Going to Texas to See JFK Return. No, Seriously.
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Hundreds of QAnon supporters are currently traveling from all across the U.S. to Dallas, where they expect to see John F. Kennedy suddenly reappear on Tuesday night and ordain former President Donald Trump as the “king of kings.
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[Link] 'She was my friend': Alec Baldwin breaks silence on death of Halyna Hutchins for first time on camera
Read: 31/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Actor Alec Baldwin has spoken publicly for the first time on camera about the accidental shooting on the set of a film that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, in a video released by TMZ.
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[Link] Mac Miller’s Drug Supplier Admits to Distributing Fentanyl-Laced Pills
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Stephen Andrew Walter—one of three men charged in connection with Miller’s death—agreed to a plea deal Monday, according to court documents filed in federal court in the Central District of California.
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[Link] More Live Bullets Found on ‘Rust’ Set After Alec Baldwin Shooting, Police Say
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Police have recovered three guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, both dummy and live, from the Rust movie set, according to a press conference Wednesday. Among the evidence collected was the Colt .
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[Link] Paris Hilton Just Spoke Out About Her Time in the “Troubled Teen Industry”
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. This week, Paris Hilton showed up in a somewhat unusual spot for the queen of early-aughts reality TV: Congress.
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[Link] Marvel Enthusiasts Angered by Non-Spoiler
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Marvel fans are apoplectic that a journalist who attended a preview screening of the upcoming Eternals had spoiled the movie. It’s unclear what, exactly, was spoiled.
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[Link] Hasan Piker Said He Went to a Brothel, Igniting Sex Work Debate
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Tweets and past comments from Leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker have kicked off yet another argument online about whether sex work is inherently exploitative. On Thursday, Piker tweeted a video from inside of a strip club, where a young man wearing one of his t-shirts gets a lap dance.
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[Link] Right-Wing Radio Host ‘Kept Hugging People’ to Give Himself COVID
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Right-wing radio host and YouTube personality Dennis Prager apparently really, really wanted to get COVID-19. Mission accomplished.
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[Link] The Big Bang Theory Star Explains Their Falling Out With Neil Patrick Harris
Read: 17/10/2021 comicbook.com
Retelling, and giving more detail to, a story she has told before, The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik took to late night recently to revive an old conflict she had with How I Met Your Mother's Neil Patrick Harris.
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[Link] ‘I’m team Terf’: Dave Chappelle under fire over pro-JK Rowling trans stance
Read: 9/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special is facing a wave of intense backlash after the comedian once again made jokes directed toward the LGBTQ+ community and defended the author JK Rowling, who has been previously accused of transphobia.
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[Link] R. Kelly's Defense in His Sex Trafficking Trial Did Not Go Well
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. R. Kelly was charged in federal court more than two years ago, but it took less than three days for the testimony called in his defense to draw to a close. And it was a somewhat less-than-stellar showing, per multiple media reports.
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[Link] R. Kelly Allegedly Forced a Woman to Have Sex as “Punishment”
Read: 24/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The woman, who is identified as Jane Doe 5 in court documents, testified on both Monday and Tuesday in New York court, Vulture reported.
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[Link] R Kelly accuser describes physical abuse from singer when she was 16
Read: 20/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
A key accuser at the R Kelly sex-trafficking trial returned to the witness stand on Thursday, saying he often videotaped their sexual encounters and demanded she dress like a Girl Scout during a relationship that began when she was a minor.
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[Link] Cardi B Is the Queen of Features That Break The Internet
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Cardi B is no stranger to breaking the internet. She’s more than capable of dominating the conversation herself, as she did when she stood atop two exotic dancers on a stripper pole in 2018’s “Money,” or when she shared that questionable three-way kiss in “Up” at the height of COVID-19.
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[Link] Sam Pepper investigated by LA police in July
Read: 14/8/2021 www.bbc.com
Police in Los Angeles have told Newsbeat they investigated YouTube star Sam Pepper in July on suspicion of a sexual offence against a woman. LAPD have confirmed he was not contacted, questioned or arrested.
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[Link] Why Chef Roy Choi Is Subbing Plant-Based Meat in Traditionally Meat-Heavy Dishes
Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com
This article was created in partnership with Field Roast. Roy Choi thinks of himself as a chef standing with a foot in two generations: “The first was where there was a big river between the guest and the establishment, between fine dining and everyday eats,” he says.
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[Link] Paris Hilton Is, Like, A Chef Now
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Paris Hilton glides down the aisles of a Gelson’s, a high-end Southern California grocery store where most people don’t typically pick out cereal in a Pepto-pink gown that’s giving Marilyn Monroe.
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[Link] DaBaby Could Still Get Paid by the Festivals That Dropped Him
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Seven major music festivals have now cut DaBaby from their lineups after the rapper went on a homophobic rant at Rolling Loud in Miami last week, then immediately doubled down, spouting off comments that were arguably even more offensive than what he said at first.
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[Link] Does Canceling DaBaby's Shows Actually Help Hip-Hop's Homophobia Issue?
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
DaBaby is the most talked about rapper this week, and unfortunately, the commotion has nothing to do with new music.
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[Link] David Dobrik Just Threw Himself A Party
Read: 7/8/2021 www.mtv.com.au
This year we’ve seen YouTuber David Dobrik make headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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[Link] Britney Spears’ Dad Tried to Cancel Her Vacation, Lawyer Says
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Britney Spears doesn’t want to wait to kick her dad out of the conservatorship that’s controlled her life since 2008. At this point, the pop star says, it’s a matter of saving her mental health—and her finances.
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[Link] Matt Damon reveals he only recently stopped using homophobic slur
Read: 3/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Matt Damon has been heavily criticized after revealing that he has only recently stopped using a well-known homophobic slur, after being told by his daughter that it was unacceptable.
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