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I truthfully cannot consider extra folks do not discuss in regards to the Katy Perry vs. nuns debacle. Basically, 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 towards the nuns), one of many nuns, 89-year-old Catherine Rose Holzman, collapsed and died.
Hours earlier than her dying, 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 really went by way of, and it would 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 mentioned instantly after the incident that he felt “violated.” McCarthy later mentioned, “I couldn’t assist it, he was simply so scrumptious, so little, and simply, ahhhk, I wished to tear his head off and eat it,” and that she “type of molested him.” She added, “I need some Bieber fever — and I desire a Bieber rash. It’d be like cougar rape.”
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I really feel just like the controversy folks discuss surrounding Nicki Minaj is often associated to her vaccine-related tweets, however the one they need to be speaking about is way worse. Again in 2021, Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty had been sued for intimidating a lady (Jennifer Hough) who had beforehand accused Petty of raping her at gunpoint. The truth is, 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 reputable declare that Defendant Petty raped her.”
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Shia LaBeouf garnered essential approval for his movie Honey Boy, which was meant to be primarily based on his childhood. Notably, within the movie, the principle 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, certain. Crooked, certain. Wonky, for certain. However by no means was not loving, by no means was not there. He was all the time there…and I’d executed 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 night time in jail after an argument along with his then-partner Torrei turned bodily. He described pondering, “When it obtained 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 obtained 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 lady so as to put together to play serial killer Paul Spector in The Fall. “It is a actually unhealthy reveal: I, like, adopted a lady off the practice in the future to see what it felt prefer to pursue somebody like that. I actually saved my distance,” he revealed to the LA Instances. “She obtained off a number of stops sooner than I used to be planning so I mentioned 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 type of thrilling, in a extremely form of soiled method. I’m form of not happy with myself,” Dornan continued. “However I do truthfully suppose I realized one thing from it, as a result of I’ve clearly by no means executed 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 mentioned 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 true, Jonas would’ve been 19 on the time, however since Hadid says this occurred on the Grammys, it was extra doubtless 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 bit 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 provided $100,000 to anybody who might show that vaccines are secure? 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 wished 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 in regards to the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp defamation trial, however one half that constantly will get neglected is Paul Bettany’s half. Bettany, a good friend of Depp’s, exchanged quite a few texts with Depp about Heard, a few of which involved burning and drowning her. “I’m undecided we must always burn Amber,” Bettany wrote after Depp urged it. “She is pleasant firm and pleasing on the attention. We might after all do the English plan of action and carry out a drowning check. Ideas? You may have a swimming pool.”
Depp reportedly wrote again, “Let’s drown her earlier than we burn her!!! I’ll fuck her burnt corpse afterwards to verify she’s useless.” Bettany reportedly replied, “My ideas totally. 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 counsel that Depp was investigated by the LAPD and the Division of Household Companies 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 costs to not be filed.
“I requested him afterwards, I mentioned, ‘It will need to have gone fairly effectively,’ and he mentioned, ‘Yeah,'” the witness, who seems to be his former agent Tracey Jacobs*, described. “I mentioned, ‘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 considered one of her exes, a widely known star, as soon as “hit her so exhausting, 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 once 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 damage and traumatic circumstances,” 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 toddler) of beating her so badly that she needed to get cosmetic surgery on her nostril to restore the harm. 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 mentioned he typically gave her black eyes proper earlier than she’d shoot music movies. In line with Michel’le, in addition they began a relationship when she was solely 17.
Dr. Dre later publicly apologized for his previous conduct 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 towards 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. Mainly, Maguire and DiCaprio starred in a film that was basically a few group of terrible folks speaking in a diner. The film was by no means launched within the US, and in actual fact isn’t allowed to be launched within the US after a authorized battle the place Maguire and DiCaprio claimed they’d 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 executed all the things in his energy to bury this movie and me together with it.”
Wheatley additionally alleged horrifying conduct 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, certain, however I nonetheless suppose this entire saga is fairly wild, and there is a lot we do not know.
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