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Johansen used the name Buster Poindexter in the late 1980s and recorded the hit song “Hot Hot Hot.” Along with the Uptown Horns, he was part of the house band on Saturday Night Live. Johansen also released six solo albums under his own name. As an actor, Johansen starred as the Ghost of Christmas Past in the movie Scrooged in 1988. He also starred in the movies Candy Mountain, Married to the Mob, Let It Ride, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, Freejack, Naked in New York, Mr....

After Richardson’s announcement, several celebrities tweeted their interest in purchasing the team. Chief among them? Music mogul Diddy. https://twitter.com/Diddy/status/942572662311841797 Diddy followed that tweet up with a handful of additional posts, wanting to “make history” by becoming the first majority African-American owner. Diddy also shared a photo of himself wearing a Panthers jersey, taken back in 2003: https://twitter.com/Diddy/status/942596768067411969 A handful of celebrities quickly jumped in on the conversation. Steph Curry said, “I want in!...

Versace designed the Palazzo Versace Australia resort and was also involved in the design of Palazzo Versace Dubai. And in 2005, she designed a MINI Cooper Cabrio to benefit the Life Ball charity event. After Gianni was murdered in 1997 by a deranged fan, Donatella’s daughter Allegra inherited a 50% ownership stake in the Versace fashion empire. Donatella inherited 20% of the company, and her uncle Santo (Gianni’s brother) inherited 30%....

Ira Peskowitz, who is a Palm Beach County (Florida) sheriff’s deputy, is also the father of Danielle Bregoli. In an interview with the Palm Beach Post earlier this year, Peskowitz stated that Bregoli’s mother, Barbara Bregoli, is the root of all of their daughter’s problems. Peskowitz and the elder Bregoli had an agreement in 2004 that gave the mother custody as the “primary residential parent,” which gave her the right to have “sole parental decision-making responsibility,” and gave Peskowitz “open and liberal visitation rights....

Now, French authorities have reopened the case against Kerimov. He has been indicted for tax fraud in connection with the purchase of five luxury villas in the south of France. Jean-Michel Pretre, a prosecutor in Nice, said: He was released on $22.6 million in bail. This latest indictment comes after the money laundering charges were dropped against Kerimov last June. However, French judicial sources now believe that Kerimov bought the villas on the French Riviera in cash....

Wallace earned NBA All-Defensive First Team honors and was named an NBA All-Star in 2010. He led the league in steals four years earlier in 2006. Wallace has played in 32 postseason games with Sacramento, Charlotte, Portland, and Brooklyn, averaging 8.2 points per game overall. His current career regular season average is 12.4 points per game. Wallace is the founder of the Gerald Wallace Foundation, which works with underprivileged children and families in Childersburg, Alabama, and Portland, Oregon....

Giuliana Rancic (née DePandi) established herself as one of entertainment television’s most recognizable personalities during her long tenure as co-anchor of E! News from 2005-2015, returning briefly from 2018-2019. Known for her red carpet interviews with celebrities at major award shows, she became a fixture of E!’s “Live from the Red Carpet” coverage. Beyond her news anchor role, Rancic expanded her television presence as a judge on “Miss USA” and “Miss Universe” pageants and as co-host of E!...

Oprah Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, a city of roughly 7,000 located in the center of the state. Oprah and her teenage mother moved in with her grandmother. The first six years of Oprah’s life were extremely impoverished. She wore potato sacks to school because her family was unable to afford clothing. Despite the hardships, her grandmother stressed the importance of education, and Oprah was able to read by age three....

Think about that for a minute; statistically speaking, only one of your five favorite players won’t go broke. It’s pretty sobering to consider that fact. However, the general public isn’t always so considerate of these players’ situations. They wonder why, if they’re making millions of dollars, how come they go broke? Plenty of people manage on salaries that are much smaller, without the luxury of having endorsement deals to fall back on, they think....

Hoku frequently performed with her father and learned how to write songs as a kid. She received a $300 thousand contract from Geffen Records. She wrote and funded her own EP Listen Up in 2008. Hoku married her high school sweetheart and the couple now serves as Art and Worship Architects at Branches Church which is located in Dana Point, California.

In addition to her work in films, she has also appeared in a number of television shows including The Twilight Zone, Life as We Know It, Arrested Development, Private Practice, Covington Cross, and The Fearing Mind. Skye is a practicing Buddhist and is also a painter. She wrote a children’s book called, My Yiddish Vacation that was published by Henry Holt and Company in May of 2014. She has been married twice, first to Adam Horovitz, a member of the Beastie Boys, and more recently to Australian musician, Ben Lee....

Related Post: Ray Bitar Net Worth Full Tilt Poker and its main competitors, PokerStars and Absolute Poker, first made big headlines in April when the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, filed a $3 billion civil lawsuit against them. The lawsuit claims that both online poker companies laundered their customers’ money buy disguising it as payments through fake online stores. The suit claims that Ray Bitar, CEO of Full Tilt Poker has set up online stores solely to divert portions of his customers’ money through and into his, Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson and other company partners’ personal accounts....

The Go-Go’s formed in 1978 and were the first and only all-female band to write their own songs and play their own instruments that topped the “Billboard” album charts. Their debut studio album, “Beauty and the Beast,” was released in 1981 and reached #1 in the US and #2 in Canada. The Go-Go’s also released the albums “Vacation” (1982), “Talk Show” (1984), and “God Bless the Go-Go’s” (2001). Their best-known singles include “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “We Got the Beat,” and “Vacation....

Richardson became the first former NFL player since George Halas to become an owner when the Carolinas were unanimously awarded the NFL’s 29th franchise. Richardson and a group of minority partners put up $206 million, the majority of which came from Jerry’s personal bank account, to acquire the franchise rights. Today the Panthers are worth between $1.6 and $2 billion. The team generates $325 million in revenue per year and $80 million in profit....

Many critics have compared her to Lotte Lehmann. Norman currently lives at a secluded and private estate in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. In the 1990a, she featured at Tchaikovsky’s 150th Birthday Gala and debuted at the Lyric Opera House of Chicago. She appeared and performed at the second inauguration of President Bill Clinton in 1997. In 2003, a tuition-free arts school, known as the Jessye Norman School of Arts, was opened in Augusta, Georgia....

Joe has experienced a number of legal problems over the years. In 2003, Joe was arrested in Panama City, Florida, on charges of soliciting minors, racketeering, child abuse, filming minors in a sex act, and possession and intent to distribute drugs. Unrelated, he served nearly a year in prison in Reno, Nevada, on tax evasion charges. He was eventually sentenced to roughly the same prison term for the Florida case but was granted release for time served in Nevada....

Through the JuJu Foundation, Smith-Schuster paid off more than $25,000 worth of layaway gifts for families in need. The foundation worked with Pay Away the Layaway volunteers and Burlington Stores in Pittsburgh, PA and Compton, Calif. to pay off Christmas gifts and essential products for more than 170 families. “I am truly blessed to be able to give back to families in Pittsburgh and California during the holidays,” Smith-Schuster said of the donation....

Over the past two years that data has been made available, 2012 and 2013, Jordan Brand shoes have made $4.5 billion. By comparison, the next four highest-grossing individual player shoe brands–a list that includes James, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant and Derrick Rose–made just $990 million during that same timeframe. Jordan earns more than 10% of that on his own every single year. He earns an estimated $100 million annually. And for your “This Is Absolutely Crazy” stat of the day, that $100 million he earned last year?...

Ken Xie was born in Beijing, China in 1963. He graduated from Tsinghua University with a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering. He then earned an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. In 1993 Ken founded the network security company Systems Integration Solutions (SIS). A few years later he built the world’s first ASIC-based firewall/VPN appliance. It was a revolutionary achievement. He built the app in his garage in Palo Alto, California....

He also scuffled with former head coach Matt Patricia, who was fired toward the end of the year. That led to some concern, but Golladay put those fears to rest while interviewing with other teams. And that resulted in a massive new contract offer from the New York Giants. Golladay, 27, and the Giants just agreed to a four-year, $72 million deal. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the deal could be worth up to $76 million and includes a $40 million signing bonus....