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Everything about this case, everything connected to Jeffrey Epstein is just so gross. And every time you think it’s over, it just gets a little worse…

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The wide reach of Clarence Avant, who was widely known as “the Godfather of Black Entertainment” and died Sunday at the age of 92, was evident from the range of people paying tribute to him on social media after his death was announced Monday morning. His influence spanned music, entertainment, sports, politics and beyond. Within just a couple of hours, former President Bill Clinton, the Rev.

Black American culture as one of the most influential businessmen in entertainment. The Greensboro, North Carolina, native became a pillar in entertainment after moving to Los Angeles in the late 1960s.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Clarence Avant, whose unofficial title of the “Black Godfather” spanned the worlds of music, sports, entertainment and politics, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles, according to a statement from his family. No cause of death was provided; he was 92. “It is with a heavy heart that the Avant/Sarandos family announce the passing of Clarence Alexander Avant,” the statement from his children, Nicole and Alexander and son-in-law Ted Sarandos.

Monica Lewinsky is celebrating a new decade! The activist and public figure turned 50 over the weekend, taking the opportunity to share an Instagram reel and to publish an emotive post where she celebrated her life and achievements. Lea Michele congratulates Beanie Feldstein for ‘Funny Girl’ role: ‘YOU are the greatest star!’Monica Lewinsky asks Beyoncé to consider removing her name from her 2013 song ‘Partition’A post shared by Monica Lewinsky (@monica_lewinsky)The post shows multiple adorable photos of herself when she was a baby, organized in chronological order, until she reaches the age of a young girl. “HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY TO ME!” she wrote in the caption.

President Joe Biden said that Tony Bennett, who died on Friday, “didn’t just sing the classics – he himself was an American classic.”

Robert Lieberman, who directed the sci-fi cult classic Fire in the Sky and won the inaugural DGA Award for Commercials, has died in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer. He was 75.

The Rev. Steven Pieters, a long-time HIV survivor and activist who became famous when interviewed by televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in 1985, died Saturday of complications from gastrointestinal cancer. He was 70. 

Associated Press.“This can be settled any time, on the steps, halfway through trial,” he said. “And hopefully it will be.

posting an article that details his life and impact. Gottlieb was born April 29, 1931, and was raised in the Manhattan borough of New York City. He graduated from Columbia University in 1952 before attending Cambridge University in the U.K for two years.

J. Kim Murphy Robert Gottlieb, an editor extraordinaire who worked with writers as varied as Toni Morrison, John le Carré, Michael Crichton, Robert Caro and Bill Clinton, died Wednesday at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 92. Gottlieb’s death was confirmed to the New York Times by his wife, actor Maria Tucci. Working at publishers Simon & Schuster and Alfred A. Knopf, Gottlieb’s impressive record of shepherding manuscripts into well-regarded, sometimes bestselling and award-winning works earned him a towering reputation among literary elite. John Cheever, Joseph Heller, Doris Lessing, Chaim Potok and Ray Bradbury were among his clients, along with Katharine Graham, the once publisher of the Washington Post.

Robert Gottlieb, the legendary editor at Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker who helped shape the work of many of the world’s greatest writers over the past six decades, has died, according to Knopf and The New Yorker. He was 92.

I Want My MTV,” “completely destroyed. “I mean broken glass tables, broken televisions, a full wet-bar with every glass broken,” the book reveals.Loder’s room was junked as well.Though a smiling Loder denied doing it — MTV kicked in with Nirvana’s tour manager to cover some $30,000 worth of damage — Finnerty has her doubts: “I have a hard time believing Krist would ruin his room and then ruin Kurt’s room, too.”But that was then.

liable for sexual battery and defamation, Alyssa Farah Griffin has high expectations for her political party. According to “The View” host, “every Republican” who criticized Bill Clinton for his sexual scandals should have the “same energy” for Trump.On Tuesday, a jury ruled in favor of E.

A trove of documents that were in the possession of disgraced financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein reportedly show he interacted with people who included a former Israeli prime minister, a former treasury secretary, other high-powered financiers and Woody Allen. The documents revealed Epstein's scheduled meetings with former Treasury Secretary and Harvard President Emeritus Lawrence Summers, billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black and others, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Whoever killed Jeffrey Epstein — whether it was Epstein himself or not — was pretty clearly determined to keep his stable of clients a secret.

debuted on Amazon Music and Audible on Thursday — details how the King of Pop pored over market research in which people would make harsh comments about his looks and idiosyncrasies.“He wanted to know … I would take stacks of surveys, and some things that you or I would not be able to take as a human being — he took it all in,” said Dan Beck, who, as an executive at Epic Records, began working with Jackson right before the release of his 1991 album “Dangerous.”“At that time, some of the non-musical issues were surfacing, some of the tabloid stuff — you know, plastic surgery, all that stuff. And we were very, very concerned about these things getting in the way of Michael’s music.”“There was a concern that pop radio would turn on Michael because he was just too weird to be a pop star,” added Jay Smooth, who co-hosts “Think Twice” with Leon Neyakh.As sales of “Dangerous” were plummeting — by his lofty standards — at the beginning of 1993, Jackson set out to change “the weirdo narrative,” as Smooth describes it.“Michael and his team wanted to wash all that away and replace it with the idea that he was not just a generational talent but a historic artist in a lineage with the greats,” said Smooth.As part of that concerted “myth-making campaign,” as Smooth describes it, Jackson gave high-profile performances at Bill Clinton’s presidential inauguration gala and at the American Music Awards, where he was given the International Artist Award of Excellence — an honor that he personally negotiated for with the producers.

LL Cool J went on an arena tour in 1996, Bill Clinton was in office, Beanie Babies were crazy popular and the internet was still in its infancy.Now, in 2023, he’s back at it again.Starting June 25, LL Cool J will take off on his ‘THE F.O.R.C.E. Tour’ (Frequencies Of Real Creative Energy) that will send him all over North America including stops at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on June 27 and Newark’s Prudential Center on June 28.But the “Mama Said Knock You Out” rapper isn’t going it alone this summer.On select dates, he’ll be bringing along titans of hip-hop Big Boi, Salt-N-Pepa, The Roots, DJ Jazzy Jeff and Queen Latifah along for the ride.That’s not all though.Common, Ice-T, Rakim, MC Lyte, Method Man and Redman will be there too for certain concerts on the run.Let’s not forget Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony, De La Soul, Goodie Mob, Jadakiss, Juvenile, Rick Ross and Doug E.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Bungalow 8 is back – for one night only. Gucci is hosting a Bungalow pop-up in New York City on April 29, two nights ahead of the Met Gala. The fashion house isn’t commenting, but I got my hands on the official invite, which reads, “Amy Sacco & Gucci invite you to Bungalow Gucci.” Idris Elba will deejay the late-night soirée. Sacco opened the original Bungalow 8 in Chelsea in 2001. The small venue at 515 W. 27th St. went onto to become the hottest nightclub in the early and mid-aughts, attracting an A-List crowd — including George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Colin Farrell, Naomi Campbell and every other supermodel, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Justin Timberlake, John Mayer, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Heidi Klum — before closing in 2009. Even former President Bill Clinton hosted a fundraiser for his presidential library at the club in 2003.

regularity of school shootings? The host noted that such violence dates all the way back to Columbine, when Clinton was president and many thought of the tragedy “as a one-off.” “Well, one thing’s pretty clear is, whatever we do, we need to do it more together,” Clinton said. “And I think we need to start talking across this divide.”The former president’s main takeaway is that constituents and voters on both sides of the argument need to talk to each other to find common ground at the polls: “Neighbors have to talk to neighbors,” Clinton said.“A big problem with gun owners is they say, ‘Well, you know, what these people wanna do sounds reasonable, but it’s a slippery slope.

What’s a Camelot without a little magic?

Julia Child espoused, “Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it’s done right.

Tech and social entrepreneur Adam Werbach has joined Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment in the newly created position of Head Of Digital. With his hire, the indie studio is launching Kapital Digital, a new division focused on digital content.

Mark Russell, the political satirist who delivered his wisecracks to the tunes of his piano on PBS specials for nearly 30 years, died today of prostate cancer at his home in Washington, D.C. He was 90.

wrote to Donald Trump that it was “too bad we’re not running for office” because they would make a successful “team”. The chat show host’s letter was one of 150 set to be published by Mr Trump next month in a collection of his correspondence with celebrities, politicians, heads of state and members of the Royal family. Letters to Trump is expected to also include correspondence from Diana, Princess of Wales, Hillary Clinton and Kim Jong-un.

old friend Bill Clinton to help him with his Oscar campaigns, a new book has claimed.Michael Schulman’s book “Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears” used sourcing from a former Miramax employee to dive deep into the disgraced producer’s Academy Award exploits.The anonymous staffer revealed that Weinstein, 70, asked Clinton, 76, for ideas to help promote Billy Bob Thornton’s 1996 film “Sling Blade,” according to an excerpt shared by IndieWire. Ultimately, Thornton scored a nomination for Best Actor a year later and won Best Adapted Screenplay for penning the script, which was set in Clinton’s native Arkansas.“I was so appalled that the president of the United States would spend half an hour with us on the phone,” the Miramax worker alleged.

EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood set it sights on the wild story of fallen crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried and his FTX empire last year with the likes of Apple, Amazon and Vice all getting in on the action.

For almost four years of siege in the 1990s, the city of Sarajevo concussed from shelling, the rumblings of armored vehicles and the repeated pop of sniper fire.

"He has the full support of his family and his medical team," it continued. "The Carter family asks for privacy during this time and is grateful for the concern shown by his many admirers."President Carter led the United States for four years between 1977 and 1981.

Bethenny Frankel is getting candid about some bad blood between herself and Martha Stewart.The 52-year-old reality star and businesswoman opened up about the unexpected feud with the 81-year-old lifestyle expert during a recent episode of her podcast, «We're definitely not friends, but we almost did this TV project together despite the fact that she can't stand me,» Frankel shared. «And I can't really stand her either.»Frankel admitted, «I've always respected her work ethic, and that she's a ball-buster going for it her own way, and whether or not she'll admit it or not, she feels the same way about me.»However, the friction between the pair began all the way back in 2005 when Frankel was a contestant on  — a spin-off of starring Stewart as the big boss.According to Frankel, a series of misunderstandings and awkward moments that occurred between them poisoned any potential friendliness.

program this Thursday, at a White House event to mark the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act. Joined on stage by Vice President , and former President Bill Clinton, President Biden said: “94 percent of our lowest wage workers, mostly women and workers of color, have no paid family leave at all. I remain committed to changing that by passing a national program of paid leave for all.”“It's about being a country where women and all people can both work and raise a family,” he said.

Hindsight is 20/20. Monica Lewinsky marked the 25th anniversary of her affair with Bill Clinton in a new essay — and shared her tips on coping with sudden fame.

Aubrey Plaza has been waiting to host Saturday Night Live for a while.

Aubrey Plaza reached new levels of notoriety after starring in the second season of White Lotus. Years before landing on the acclaimed HBO series, Plaza auditioned to be a cast member of Saturday Night Live and recently opened up about the characters she created for that process.

Oh, Monica! Oh, Bill! 2008’s Made of Honor proved to fans that your best friend can be your soulmate — even if the friendship happened by drunk luck.

Barbara Walters was a broadcasting pioneer, interviewing dozens of famous faces from former President Richard Nixon to pop star Taylor Swift.