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Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorA Los Angeles benefit for Democratic Party efforts, co-hosted by Jeffrey Katzenberg, raised nearly $2.5 million Friday with President Joe Biden in attendance.“The money raised today will help get people to the polls on election day in November,” said Katzenberg. “Just the idea of Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell in charge should be enough to get people out to vote.”Biden has been in Los Angeles this week for the Summit of the Americas, which concludes Friday.The event is being held at the home of Ellen Bronfman Hauptman and Andrew Hauptman.
Andrew Hauptman is the chair of Andell Holdings and was a top Biden-Harris national fundraiser.The funds raised by the group of roughly 30 donors will go to the Democratic National Committee’s Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund, which provides funding to state Democratic parties and their grassroots infrastructure. “Ellen and I are proud to open our home in support of Democratic Party efforts throughout the country,” said Hauptman.
“With the Senate and House in play and so many other critical races this November up and down the ballot, we need to do all we can to support President Biden right now.”Events led by Hauptman and Katzenberg have raised more than $13 million in support of the Biden-Harris campaign, and nearly $5 million for the Senate Majority PAC in the last election cycle.Katzenberg is also a major fundraiser for mayoral candidate Karen Bass, who will run against Rick Caruso after both advanced in the primary earlier this week. He has also supported Robert Luna, a former Long Beach police chief who is running against incumbent Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva.The event’s organizers were Jennifer Gonring, Jennifer Lin and Andy Spahn
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Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for trafficking underage girls.
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Ghislaine Maxwell has officially received her sentencing.
sexually abuse underage girls for at least a decade between the 1990s and 2000s. The British former socialite, whose late father rose to prominence in the U.K.
Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentGhislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years for facilitating financier Jeffrey Epstein in sexually abusing underage girls.The British socialite and close confidante to Epstein was convicted in December on federal sex trafficking charges for luring underage girls to engage in sex acts with Epstein.On Tuesday morning, Maxwell was brought into the courtroom in ankle shackles where judge Alison J. Nathan said, “I find that the defendant’s criminal activity was extensive,” according to the New York Times.Numerous victims impact statements were made ahead of the sentencing, including from one of Epstein’s most prominent accusers, Virginia Giuffre, whose lawyer read her statement to Maxwell.
“Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” fits in with that whole “Clifford the Big Red Dog” genre of kids’ stories where it’s so ridiculous that you have to leave your common sense at the door. It’s a story about a family that sorta, kinda becomes the caretakers of a talking crocodile who also is a world-class singer.
Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are teaming up for another movie together.
Apple and Skydance have unveiled the voice cast for their upcoming animated musical film “Spellbound,” adding Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem to lead the cast alongside the previously announced Rachel Zegler (“West Side Story”). Vicky Jenson (“Shrek”) is directing “Spellbound.” Additional cast includes John Lithgow, Jenifer Lewis, Nathan Lane, André De Shields and Jordan Fisher. Kidman will voice the role of Ellsmere, Lumbria’s kind and just queen; Bardem will voice Solon, the boastful and big-hearted king.
EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Schlesinger, who was previously President, Warner Bros Worldwide Television Distribution, has invested in and joined the advisory board of online sales platform Vuulr.
Other witnesses include Chris Stirewalt, a former Fox News editor, who was part of the team that made the decision to call Arizona for eventual election winner Joe Biden in November 2020. The decision reportedly infuriated Trump, who reached out directly to Fox News leadership to complain. Stirewalt has become an outspoken critic of political media since leaving the network.
President Joe Biden will headline two fundraisers in Los Angeles on Friday, starting with an event in Brentwood that is expected to raise almost $2.5 million for the Democratic National Committee.
Chris Stirewalt, the Fox News political editor let go from the network in January, 2021, said that he has been called to testify before the January 6th Committee and will do so on Monday.
CBS News has tapped Adam Verdugo as the next executive producer of CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.
President Joe Biden will headline two fundraisers on Friday as he winds down his swing through Los Angeles, raising money for the Democratic National Committee at the events that are expected to draw a significant number of Hollywood donors.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterDemocrats are sounding the alarm about Rick Caruso’s first-place finish in the race for Los Angeles mayor in Tuesday’s primary, as the billionaire mall developer heads to a runoff against Rep. Karen Bass.Caruso, who has run on addressing homelessness and crime, took 42% of the vote, leading Bass by more than five percentage points.
Joe Biden appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Wednesday night to discuss the recent string of mass shootings in the U.S., including one in Uvalde, Texas, which left 19 elementary school children and two teachers dead.In a preview clip on Twitter before the show aired, Kimmel asks Biden: “Can’t you issue an executive order? Trump passed those out like Halloween candy.”In response, Biden said that he doesn’t want to “emulate Trump’s abuse of the constitution” by issuing many executive orders. “I have issued executive orders, within the power of the presidency, to be able to deal with these — everything having to do with guns, gun ownership — all the things within my power,” Biden said.
The President of Mexico may have dropped out of the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week, but the hosting President of the United States is coming to town for a flurry of fêtes.