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The Getty Family’s Trust Issues
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Even compared with other wealthy skinflints, Paul was strikingly parsimonious. He installed a pay phone at Sutton Place, his seventy-two-room mansion in the English countryside, to avoid paying for guests’ long-distance calls. His last wife, a singer named Teddy Getty, had to beseech him to pay for maternity clothes, pointing out that he could deduct…
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Sam Corlett ‘Vikings: Valhalla’ Interview
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Sam Corlett looks almost unrecognizable, at least if you only know him from his star-making turn on Netflix’s global hit Vikings: Valhalla, which returned Friday for its sophomore installment. The 26-year-old Australian dons long hair, a beard, and, often, a somber, worn-down look while playing iconic explorer Leif Erikson. And yet, talking to me over…
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Is Selena Gomez Dating Drew Taggart of The Chainsmokers?
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Image Source: Getty / Matt Winkelmeyer and Getty / Matt Phillip Faraone Selena Gomez is reportedly dating The Chainsmokers’ Drew Taggart, as confirmed to Us Weekly by an anonymous source. The songstress, 30, and musician, 33, have seemingly been spending time together in public places, such as the movie theater and bowling alley. The insider…
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Chris Wallace Grills Andy Cohen On ‘The Real Housewives’ & Hoping ‘RHOSLC’ Star Jen Shah Got No Jail Time Despite Guilty Plea In Fraud Case
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Andy Cohen is usually the one asking the questions but the tables were flipped when The Real Housewives executive producer made an appearance on HBO Max’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? Chris Wallace put Cohen in the hot seat when he brought up The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah, who was…
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Life Is Too Short | The New Yorker
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Life is short. Why not spend it mired in regret? Why not spend your evenings sitting side by side at the dining-room table with your spouse, trying to determine whether your downstairs neighbors’ ceiling fan is making the floor tremble? Our existence on this planet is statistically insignificant when compared with the history of the…
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‘Southern Hospitality’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap
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Photo: Bravo/Jeff Gentner/Bravo I can’t believe I’m somehow already recapping the penultimate episode of this freshman franchise, considering how much story and world-building (no, seriously) producers and cast members managed to cram into its first six episodes. Sure, at times, the pace felt a little breakneck. Yeah, at other moments, I wondered if I could…
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Gina Lollobrigida, known as the face of Italian film, dies
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There she is, waving from the backseat of a convertible on the eve of the Cannes Film Festival. And here she is again, stepping to the tarmac from a jet in Paris, her scarf billowing perfectly in the evening breeze. And again, cloaked in emerald — dress and rings, both — in her villa outside…
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Why Are They ‘Stars’?
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It makes so much sense to refer to certain kinds of celebrities as “stars.” At their heights, those people inspire the rest of us. They shine, larger than life, above us, and around us. They suggest, in their insistent omnipresence, a certain order to the world. To see the stars—or, more specifically, to believe in…
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How Do Democrats Recover From This?
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Every Democratic activist, strategist, and lawmaker in America has spent at least a brief moment this fall staring at the ceiling in desperation, probably thinking to him- or herself: Something’s gotta give. Democrats were already facing an inconvenient truth going into next year’s elections: The incumbent president’s party usually gets smoked in the midterms. But…
