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I actually cannot consider extra individuals do not speak concerning the Katy Perry vs. nuns debacle. Primarily, Perry purchased a former convent in 2015 — solely the nuns of Most Holy and Immaculate Coronary heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary had already offered it to restaurateur Dana Hollister, who had moved in. The archdiocese, who offered the property to Perry, claimed the nuns hadn’t had the proper to promote the property, and a messy authorized battle started. In a single post-judgement listening to (after the decide dominated in opposition to the nuns), one of many nuns, 89-year-old Catherine Rose Holzman, collapsed and died.
Hours earlier than her demise, Holzman spoke to the press, saying she and the opposite nuns had requested the Vatican for assist. Holzman pleaded with Perry “to please cease” pursuing the acquisition, saying, “It isn’t doing anybody any good besides hurting lots of people.” The final surviving nun, Sister Mary Callinan, instructed the New York Publish in 2019 that Perry has “blood on her arms.” It is unclear if the sale even ever truly went by means of, and it does not seem like Perry has ever lived there.
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Talking of Perry — I really feel like most individuals aren’t conscious of her sexual misconduct allegations, past the viral uncomfortable video of her kissing an American Idol contestant. She’s moreover been accused of touching and kissing a Russian TV host with out consent and exposing mannequin Josh Kloss’s genitals to others at a celebration. Oh, and keep in mind the time she squeezed 18-year-old Shawn Mendes’s butt?
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I additionally really feel like Jenny McCarthy did not get fairly sufficient flack for forcibly grabbing and kissing Justin Bieber onstage on the 2012 American Music Awards. Justin, who was 18 on the time, even stated instantly after the incident that he felt “violated.” McCarthy later stated, “I couldn’t assist it, he was simply so scrumptious, so little, and simply, ahhhk, I needed to tear his head off and eat it,” and that she “form of molested him.” She added, “I need some Bieber fever — and I need a Bieber rash. It’d be like cougar rape.”
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I really feel just like the controversy individuals discuss surrounding Nicki Minaj is often associated to her vaccine-related tweets, however the one they need to be speaking about is much worse. Again in 2021, Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty had been sued for intimidating a girl (Jennifer Hough) who had beforehand accused Petty of raping her at gunpoint. In actual fact, Petty had been convicted of tried rape again in 1994 and served 4 and a half years in jail. Within the lawsuit, Hough alleged Minaj had “instantly and not directly intimidated, harassed, and threatened [Jennifer Hough] to recant her respectable declare that Defendant Petty raped her.”
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Shia LaBeouf garnered essential popularity of his movie Honey Boy, which was meant to be primarily based on his childhood. Notably, within the movie, the primary character’s father is abusive. Besides LaBeouf later admitted that the depiction of his father as abusive was “fucking nonsense” and that he’d “vilified [him] on a grand scale.” He continued, “My dad was so loving to me my entire life. Fractured, positive. Crooked, positive. Wonky, for positive. However by no means was not loving, by no means was not there. He was at all times there…and I’d finished a world press tour about how f***ed he was as a person. … My dad by no means hit me, by no means.”
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Kevin Hart admitted to home violence in his memoir I Cannot Make This Up: Life Classes, even saying he as soon as spent the evening in jail after an argument together with his then-partner Torrei turned bodily. He described considering, “When it acquired violent the place we’re preventing — Am I actually preventing? Am I holding my arms up as if she’s a person proper now? Oh my God. That is…I’m out. I’ve actually acquired my arms as much as not defend, however counter. Like, I’m ready so that you can throw a punch. Cuz I’m about to counter the s*** out of you.”
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Jamie Dornan as soon as stalked a girl with the intention to put together to play serial killer Paul Spector in The Fall. “This can be a actually unhealthy reveal: I, like, adopted a girl off the prepare sooner or later to see what it felt wish to pursue somebody like that. I actually stored my distance,” he revealed to the LA Instances. “She acquired off a couple of stops sooner than I used to be planning so I stated proper, I’ve to decide to this. I adopted her round a few road corners after which was like: What are you doing?”
“It felt form of thrilling, in a very kind of soiled approach. I’m kind of not pleased with myself,” Dornan continued. “However I do actually suppose I discovered one thing from it, as a result of I’ve clearly by no means finished any of that. It was intriguing and fascinating to enter that strategy of ‘what are you following her for?’ and ‘what are you looking for out?’”
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Joe Jonas reportedly requested out Gigi Hadid when she was solely 13 years outdated. “He requested me to a baseball sport, and I stated no,” Hadid revealed. “I used to be so nervous; I actually did not even know what it meant to hang around with a boy.” If Hadid’s timeline is correct, Jonas would’ve been 19 on the time, however since Hadid says this occurred on the Grammys, it was extra possible when Hadid was 14 and Jonas was 20 (as this was the primary time Hadid attended the Grammys). After Hadid instructed Jonas “possibly subsequent time,” she says Joe “wrote his quantity on a chunk of paper and gave it to my mother.” The 2 later dated in 2015, when Hadid was 20 and Jonas was 26.
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Am I the one one who did not know that Robert De Niro, together with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as soon as supplied $100,000 to anybody who might show that vaccines are protected? This got here after taking part in a panel that flouted debunked vaccine claims, together with that they trigger autism. (De Niro’s son has autism.) Oh, and De Niro needed to place an anti-vax movie within the Tribeca Movie Competition, calling it “very private” to him, although he later pulled it.
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We additionally clearly know concerning the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp defamation trial, however one half that constantly will get ignored is Paul Bettany’s half. Bettany, a pal of Depp’s, exchanged quite a few texts with Depp about Heard, a few of which involved burning and drowning her. “I’m unsure we must always burn Amber,” Bettany wrote after Depp urged it. “She is pleasant firm and pleasing on the attention. We might in fact do the English plan of action and carry out a drowning take a look at. Ideas? You’ve got a swimming pool.”
Depp reportedly wrote again, “Let’s drown her earlier than we burn her!!! I’ll fuck her burnt corpse afterwards to ensure she’s useless.” Bettany reportedly replied, “My ideas solely. Let’s be sure earlier than we pronounce her a witch.”
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Talking of Depp — unsealed courtroom paperwork from the identical defamation trial recommend that Depp was investigated by the LAPD and the Division of Household Providers for permitting his then-15-year-old daughter, Lily-Rose, to reside along with her 23-year-old boyfriend subsequent door to him in his apartment. No fees had been filed, and Depp has by no means publicly responded to those allegations, although the witness within the paperwork testified that they felt Depp had made false statements to ensure that the fees to not be filed.
“I requested him afterwards, I stated, ‘It will need to have gone fairly effectively,’ and he stated, ‘Yeah,'” the witness, who seems to be his former agent Tracey Jacobs*, described. “I stated, ‘Nicely you could not have instructed them the reality.’ And he simply smiled.”
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Whereas Halle Berry has by no means publicly named her attacker, she has claimed that one in every of her exes, a widely known star, as soon as “hit her so laborious, her left eardrum was punctured” inflicting her to flee so rapidly “there have been skid marks.” Singer Christopher Williams, who dated Halle, later alleged that the attacker was Wesley Snipes. Ex-boyfriend David Justice later claimed the identical in a sequence of now-deleted tweets that had been supported by Berry’s ex-husband Eric Benét.
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Sean Penn was additionally accused of attacking Madonna after they had been married. He allegedly tied her to a chair for 9 hours, till she was capable of escape and run to the police station. Initially, Penn was charged with battery and inflicting “corporal harm and traumatic situations,” however Madonna later pulled the complaints, although she did file for divorce.
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R&B singer Michel’le has publicly accused Dr. Dre (with whom she shares a baby) of beating her so badly that she needed to get cosmetic surgery on her nostril to restore the injury. Within the Season 1 reunion particular of R&B Divas: Los Angeles, when host Wendy Williams identified that she needed to be referring to Dr. Dre, Michel’le replied, “He is aware of it. That was very public,” and stated he typically gave her black eyes proper earlier than she’d shoot music movies. Based on Michel’le, in addition they began a relationship when she was solely 17.
Dr. Dre later publicly apologized for his previous habits towards girls (which Michel’le did not really feel was real as a result of it was public and never personally to her), and acknowledged that some allegations in opposition to him had been true, although he then denied having abused Michel’le.
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And at last, we’ll finish on the scandal surrounding the never-released Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio film Don’s Plum. Principally, Maguire and DiCaprio starred in a film that was primarily a couple of group of terrible individuals speaking in a diner. The film was by no means launched within the US, and actually isn’t allowed to be launched within the US after a authorized battle the place Maguire and DiCaprio claimed that they had by no means been knowledgeable the movie was a characteristic with a business launch. (Director R. D. Robb and producer Dale Wheatley later settled with Maguire and DiCaprio.) Years later, Wheatley made the movie accessible through request on his web site freedonsplum, writing “Leonardo DiCaprio has finished all the pieces in his energy to bury this movie and me together with it.”
Wheatley additionally alleged scary habits from Maguire, who he says screamed at him for 12 hours about releasing the movie. Oh, and he is additionally tweeted that “Leo is Tobey’s little bitch,” and that “there’s one thing unusual about their relationship — I do consider Tobey has one thing on Leo.” One man’s opinion, positive, however I nonetheless suppose this entire saga is fairly wild, and there is a lot we do not know.
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