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Media mogul Barry Diller says Hollywood executives, top actors should take 25% pay cut to end strikes – CBS News
- Media mogul Barry Diller says Hollywood executives, top actors should take 25% pay cut to end strikes CBS News
- Prolonged Hollywood strikes could lead to ‘an absolute collapse of an entire industry,’ says IAC Chair Diller CNBC
- Barry Diller Warns Hollywood Faces ‘Absolute Collapse’ if Double Strike Isn’t Resolved Yahoo Entertainment
- Media mogul Barry Diller says Hollywood execs, top actors should take 25% pay cut to end strikes Face the Nation
- Media Titan Barry Diller Delivers Doomsday Forecast: Actor and Writer Strikes Could Lead to Hollywood’s ‘Absolute Collapse’ Mediaite
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Cash App founder dead – latest: Bystanders ‘failed to help tech mogul’ after fatal San Francisco stabbing – The Independent
- Cash App founder dead – latest: Bystanders ‘failed to help tech mogul’ after fatal San Francisco stabbing The Independent
- Tech exec Bob Lee fatally stabbed in San Francisco NBC News
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- Sources say surveillance video shows tech exec Bob Lee walking down SF street with stab wounds ABC7 News Bay Area
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Gwyneth Paltrow trial – live: Goop mogul owes Terry Sanderson $3.2m for charm lost in ski crash, lawyers claim – The Independent
- Gwyneth Paltrow trial – live: Goop mogul owes Terry Sanderson $3.2m for charm lost in ski crash, lawyers claim The Independent
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- OJ Simpson throws weight behind Gwyneth Paltrow in her 2016 ski crash trial: ‘I had two smashes with same woman on those slopes’ msnNOW
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- What the newly uncovered group chat in the Gwyneth Paltrow ski collision trial reveals The Independent
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‘Sex-obsessed’ mogul Sumner Redstone asked grandson to set him up: book – Page Six
- ‘Sex-obsessed’ mogul Sumner Redstone asked grandson to set him up: book Page Six
- Les Moonves Lies, Shari Pushes, Philippe Dauman Falls, Sumner Steals His Grandson’s Girlfriend And Other Tales In New Book On The Redstones Deadline
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- New Redstone Tell-All Book: “A Cross Between ‘King Lear’ and ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’” Hollywood Reporter
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Music mogul Simon Cowell ‘did not give himself a salary in 2022’
One Direction
One of company’s biggest names was One Direction, who signed to the record company after coming third on the X-Factor in 2010.
The group is comprised of Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan – who have all since forged successful solo careers after their split in 2016.
Little Mix
Little Mix became the first group to win the X-Factor in 2011, and have since emerged as one of the show’s most successful acts.
The group have been named as one of the greatest girl groups of all time, the biggest girl group of the 2010s, and been described as ‘the biggest girl group in the world.’
Band members include Perrie Edwards, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall – with Jesy Nelson leaving in 2020.
Camila Cabello
Camila Cabello is a Cuban-born American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence as a member of the girl group Fifth Harmony, formed on The X Factor in 2012.
She has amassed billions of streams on music platforms, and her song Havana became the best selling digital single of 2018.
Leona Lewis
Another star included Leona Lewis, who won the third series of the X-Factor in 2006.
The lead single on her debut album Bleeding Love spent seven weeks at number one in 2007.
Leona became the first British female solo artist to reach the top five with eight singles after the release of her Christmas single with One More Sleep.
Fifth Harmony
Fifth Harmony finished third on the American version of the X-Factor in 2012, and subsequently signed a record deal with Syco.
Members include Ally Brooke, Dinah Jane, Lauren Jauregui, and Normani Kordei.
Camilla Cabello was also in the band before deciding to go solo.
Westlife
Westlife consists of Shane Filan, Markus Feehily, Kian Egan, Nicky Byrne and formerly Brian McFadden.
In Ireland, they have 11 number-one albums with a total of 13 top two albums, 16 number-one singles as well as 34 top-fifty singles.
Alexandra Burke
Alexandra Burke won the fifth series of X-Factor in 2008,
Burke released the winner’s single Hallelujah, which became the European record holder for the most singles sold over a period of 24 hours, selling 105,000 in one day.
In June 2014, Burke replaced Beverley Knight in the lead role of Rachel Marron in the West End musical The Bodyguard
Ella Henderson
Ella Henderson came sixth in the 2012 series of the X-Factor, despite being a favourite to win.
Her debut album included the song Ghost, which topped the charts of 2014.
Nas House Burglarized As Mogul Celebrates “King’s Disease III”
Nas was in full celebration mode over the weekend and, while he was, some unscrupulous individuals were robbing the rapper mogul.
Two men broke into the rapper’s Calabasas property over the weekend and managed to get away. The alleged incident occurred, approximately 8:30 PM Saturday night. The bandits smashed a rear door to get entry into the home, alerting a security camera.
Police confirmed the matter to TMZ.
A Ring camera captured the entire incident from the exterior of the home. The rapper’s team apparently saw the bandits as they departed on the security camera and called police. By the time law-enforcement made it to the home, the men were gone. Nobody else was in the house when the men gained entry into the rappers house.
At the time of the robbery, Nas was in New York City, celebrating the album release of King’s Disease III, his latest.
It is unclear exactly what the thieves stole, but they did ransack the residence, likely looking for valuables.
Nas is reportedly going to return soon to take inventory of what was stolen and relay that to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, who is investigating the matter.
Judge ends DOJ lobbying suit against casino mogul Steve Wynn, who grew up in CNY
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit that sought to force longtime casino developer Steve Wynn to register as a foreign agent because of lobbying work it said he conducted at the behest of the Chinese government during the Trump administration.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg did not address in his 20-page order whether Wynn was functioning as a Beijing agent. Instead, he said he agreed with Wynn’s lawyers that the department could not compel him now to register as a foreign agent because any relationship Wynn had with the Chinese government ended in 2017.
The order is a setback for stepped-up Justice Department efforts to enforce a decades-old law known as the Foreign Agents Registration Act. It requires anyone who lobbies on behalf of a foreign government or entity to register their work with the U.S. government.
“We are delighted that the District Court today dismissed the government’s ill-conceived lawsuit against Steve Wynn,” his lawyers, Reid Weingarten and Robert Luskin, said in a statement. “Mr. Wynn never acted as an agent of the Chinese government and never lobbied on its behalf.”
The Justice Department said in a statement that it “respectfully disagrees with today’s ruling and is considering options in the litigation and more generally,” and remains committed to enforcing the lobbying law.
The department had repeatedly advised Wynn over the past four years to register. It sued him in May to try to force him to do so, describing the suit as the first of its kind in more than three decades.
The complaint alleged that Wynn, a prolific Republican donor and onetime finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, lobbied then-President Donald Trump and members of his administration for several months in 2017 to expel from the United States a Chinese citizen who had been charged with corruption in China and was seeking political asylum in America. Efforts to send the man back to China were ultimately unsuccessful.
According to the complaint, the lobbying effort was conducted on behalf of senior Chinese government officials, including Sun Lijun, the then-vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security who sought Wynn’s help in trying to get the Chinese man’s new U.S. visa application denied.
The lobbying effort also included conversations over dinner with Trump and by telephone, and multiple visits to the White House by Wynn for apparently unscheduled meetings with the issue was discussed.
The complaint said Wynn was motivated to protect his business interests in China. At the time, his company owned and operated casinos in the Chinese territory of Macau. The government in Macau had restricted the number of gaming tables and machines that could be operated at Wynn’s casino, the Justice Department said, and he was scheduled to renegotiate licenses to operate casinos in 2019.
Lawyers for Wynn denied at the time of the suit that he had acted as an agent of the Chinese government or that he had had an obligation to register. They later moved to dismiss the lawsuit, noting that his relationship with the Chinese government had ended in 2017.
Wynn’s team cited a 1987 appeals court opinion suggesting that the obligation to register as a foreign agent terminates once the relationship with foreign entity has ended. In his opinion, Boasberg said that ruling required dismissal of the suit.
“The Court will thus do so without ever considering whether Wynn was a PRC agent or not,” Boasberg wrote, using the acronym for the People’s Republic of China.
Wynn grew up in Utica and is a 1959 graduate of The Manlius School, which later merged with Manlius Pebble Hill School. He donated $50 million for a new hospital being built in downtown Utica that will be named after him.
Wynn resigned in 2018 as chairman and CEO of the casino and resorts company bearing his name, after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct. He has denied those allegations.
Justice Department Sues Casino Mogul Steve Wynn Over Relationship With China
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department sued longtime Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn on Tuesday to compel him to register as a foreign agent because of lobbying work it says he performed at the behest of the Chinese government during the Trump administration.
The department said it had advised Wynn repeatedly over the last four years to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, and is suing now because Wynn refused to do so.
Though the Justice Department has ramped up efforts to criminally prosecute people who don’t register as foreign agents, officials described this case as the first lawsuit of its kind in more than three decades.
“Where a foreign government uses an American as its agent to influence policy decisions in the United States, FARA gives the American people a right to know,” Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen, the head of the department’s National Security Division, said in a statement.
A spokesperson for the department declined to comment on why the department had pursued a lawsuit rather than criminal charges.
Wynn’s lawyers said Tuesday that they would contest the suit.
“Steve Wynn has never acted as an agent of the Chinese government and had no obligation to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act,” said a statement from attorneys Reid Weingarten and Brian Heberlig. “We respectfully disagree with the Department of Justice’s legal interpretation of FARA and look forward to proving our case in court.”
The complaint alleges that Wynn, who stepped down from his company, Wynn Resorts, in 2018 after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct, lobbied then-President Donald Trump and members of his administration for several months in 2017 to remove from the United States a Chinese national who had been charged with corruption in China and was seeking political asylum in America. The efforts to have the man removed from the U.S. were ultimately unsuccessful.
The lawsuit says the lobbying effort was done on behalf of senior Chinese government officials, including Sun Lijun, the then-vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security who sought Wynn’s help in trying to get the Chinese national’s new visa application denied, according to the complaint.
The lobbying effort also included conversations over dinner with Trump and by phone, and multiple visits to the White House for apparently unscheduled meetings with the issue was discussed.
The complaint says Wynn was motivated to protect his business interests in China. At the time, his company owned and operated casinos in the Chinese territory of Macau. The government in Macau had restricted the number of gaming tables and machines that could be operated at Wynn’s casino, the Justice Department says, and he was scheduled to renegotiate licenses to operate casinos in 2019.
FARA, enacted in 1938 to unmask Nazi propaganda in the United States, requires people to disclose to the Justice Department when they advocate, lobby or perform public relations work in the U.S. on behalf of a foreign government or political entity.
The complaint alleges that Wynn was drawn into the lobbying effort by Elliott Broidy, a prominent fundraiser for Trump and the Republican Party who pleaded guilty in 2020 in an illicit lobbying campaign aimed at getting the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund and for his role in a covert lobbying effort that sought to arrange for the return of a Chinese dissident living in the U.S.
Broidy was later pardoned by Trump at the end of his administration.
The dissident was not referred to by name by prosecutors, but it matches the description of Guo Wengui. Guo left China in 2014 during an anti-corruption crackdown led by President Xi Jinping that ensnared people close to Guo, including a top intelligence official. Chinese authorities have accused Guo of rape, kidnapping, bribery and other offenses and have sought the return of the self-exiled tycoon.
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A tech mogul, a rockstar and an NBA team owner set new fundraising goal for Utah nonprofit
Encircle founder and CEO Stephenie Larsen speaks during
a press conference at the Silicon Slopes Summit at the Salt Palace
in Salt Lake City on Wednesday. (Deseret News)
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SALT LAKE CITY — An unexpected team of prominent figures in tech, music, sports and politics came together to raise $8 million in eight months to support LGBTQ youth, and now they’re doing it again.
In February, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Imagine Dragons lead singer Dan Reynolds and Jazz owner Ryan Smith appeared on Good Morning America and announced that they were going to raise $8 million to build eight new homes for Encircle, a Utah-based nonprofit that provides safe spaces and mental health services for LGBTQ youth. They met and then exceeded their goal and, with the sponsorship of the Kahlert Foundation, will be building a ninth Encircle house in the southern end of Salt Lake County.
The team, along with former NBA player Dwyane Wade; Domo founder Josh James and his wife, Rayna; Heather Kahlert of the Kahlert Foundation; as well as Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and his wife Abby, announced a new goal of raising $13 million to sustain the 13 Encircle homes for the next few years at a press conference during the Silicon Slopes Summit Wednesday.
“We know it’s a huge ask. We also know that these mental health services are keeping children alive,” said Encircle founder Stephenie Larsen.
The goal of Encircle is to “bring family and community together to enable LGBT youth to thrive,” she explained. And gathering leaders from so many areas shows those youth that they are supported, she added.
Cook said that reaching that goal and starting a new campaign was “another milestone” and “(it) represents another major step forward.”
The Apple CEO came out as gay in a 2014 editorial for Bloomberg Business, saying, “I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.”
Because of his personal experience, Cook says that he sees himself in many queer youth and knows what it’s like to be isolated and lonely.
“It’s not easy when you’re made to feel different because of who you are,” he said. “Slowly, too slowly, we’ve seen that begin to change, especially through the inspiring efforts of Encircle.”
Smith pointed out that Encircle didn’t happen in Utah merely by chance. Utah was a place that needed it and had the people to support it, he said.
The nonprofit currently has homes in Utah, Idaho, Arizona and Nevada, but Smith said “every city in the United States needs an Encircle.”
Wade, also a part-owner of the Utah Jazz, visited the Salt Lake Encircle home before the Wednesday press conference and invited everyone to go in and see the vision. He explained that he stood there as a representative of the Jazz, but he was also there as a parent.
Wade’s daughter Zaya is transgender, and when she approached her parents about it when she was 8 years old, her parents wanted her to live by who she is; but they also “had to do a lot of learning and a lot of listening,” Wade said.
“We’re living in a world where everyone is different and we all have the same goal to be the best version of ourselves,” he continued.
Reynolds told reporters that his wife, Aja Volkman, who is the lead singer of Nico Vega, was a large part of how his eyes were opened up to LGBTQ issues.
“It’s really easy for straight, white, hetero man to skate through life and not have the difficult conversations,” he said. “The strange thing is that it’s really such an easy concept that we’re all fighting for. Our kids are born knowing this.”
Volkman encouraged LGBTQ youth to be who they are because the world needs “the wholeness of you are.”
“We need evolution,” she said. “We need to grow through this.”
Larsen was thrilled when she first saw billboards from tech company Domo in one of the most conservative counties in Utah that read, “Domo loves LGBTQ+ (and everyone else too!).”
The billboards drew strong reactions from the community — both negative and positive.
“I experienced firsthand what a polarizing issue this topic is,” said Domo founder Josh James.
Even people within his own community and company “came in hot” ready to criticize the billboards, James said; but when he didn’t engage, they eventually came to the conclusion on their own that it does make sense to spread love to vulnerable youth. Josh and Rayna James donated $1 million dollars to Encircle’s February campaign.
Gov. Spencer and Abby Cox also spoke about how children are born with the inherent ability to love people. They raised their children in a rural, conservative community; however, their children still learned this and brought home their LGBTQ friends. One day when Cox came home to a house full of kids and Abby said, “I think we have every color of the rainbow in that room.”
“It was an awesome feeling to see those kids interact,” Cox said, citing data that shows that even one person who accepts someone who comes out decreases suicide rates among LGBTQ youth drastically.
And Encircle is providing that kind of support, he added.
“(Encircle) is the best of Utah,” he said.
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