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“The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks.”In a lengthy Facebook post on Thursday, Barnett denied that she nor her ex-husband Michael Barnett ever abused Grace, whom they adopted from Ukraine in 2010.“Natalia was a very much loved and cared for member of my family,” Kristine wrote Thursday. “She was not abused by anyone in my family.

wild Investigation Discovery docuseries, “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace,” ended its second season on Wednesday with a shocker. Titled “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks,” Season 2 features Natalia and Michael (her former adoptive father), having a confrontation in which he entirely blames his ex-wife, Kristine, for the couple’s abandonment of Natalia. He asks for forgiveness, which Natalia grants.

kidnap-for-ransom case. In March 2015, armed intruders wearing scuba suits allegedly invaded the home of California physical therapist Aaron Quinn, where they terrorized him and his girlfriend, Denise Huskins. The scuba burglars told the couple that this incident was part of an organized group that collected financial debt.

directed by Adrian Buitenhuis, traces Reynolds’ storied Hollywood career — he was, in the 1970s, the world’s biggest movie star and sex symbol — from his early television roles to his breakout movies (“Deliverance,” “The Longest Yard,” “Smokey and the Bandit”) to his romances, including his marriage to Loni Anderson and their headlining divorce.Reynolds, who also won an Emmy for the CBS sitcom “Evening Shade,” died in 2018 at the age of 82.“I Am Burt Reynolds” premieres Dec. 30 (8 p.m.) on The CW as the first installment of its “I Am Films” series.“Burt’s story is the thread of someone who had been around since old Hollywood and how [the industry] evolved through him,” Buitenhuis told The Post.

now-resolved writers and actors strikes, 2023 boasted an embarrassment of riches for unscripted TV. And, it wasn’t your mother’s classy Ken Burns documentaries. This year’s documentaries covered conspiracy theories, people who believed they were deities, murders, oddball subcultures and news stories so strange that it’s hard to believe they’re true.And yes, there’s always an endless supply of cults.

infamous “sausage fingers” during the coronation earlier this year, a new royal documentary reveals.The monarch’s meaty mitts have been a topic of discussion since the historic occasion, and have often made the King the butt end of the joke on several occasions.But it seems as though there are no hard feelings on his part, as even he joined in on the quips during a conversation with his eldest son and heir to the throne, Prince William.As William uses his hands to close a small clasp holding a lavish robe around his father in the coronation rehearsal, the King’s sense of humor shines through.“On the day, that’s not going to go in,” William can be heard telling Charles, who hilariously references his own hands by responding, “No, you haven’t got sausage fingers like mine.”The funny exchange was captured in the “Charles III: The Coronation Year” documentary, set to air on Dec.

the 90-year-old country music icon — who is still on tour at his advanced age. The four-part series covers everything from his early days in Texas to his troubled drinking days, affairs and shoot-outs with former family members, accompanied by commentary from Nelson and his kids.

Heiress and actress Nicola Peltz and Brooklyn Beckham’s wedding may have been considered the “celebrity wedding of the year” in 2022, but it reportedly didn’t happen without major bumps.In the new documentary, “Peltz Beckhams Vs The Planners,” the original lawsuit filed by Nicola’s billionaire father, Nelson Peltz, against Plan Design Events (PDE) is broken down, telling the story of the legal battle from both sides.The Peltzes’ side is told first, and the lawsuit is presented. Nelson is suing the wedding planners for a $159,000 deposit he made before firing wedding planners Nicole Braghin and Arianna Grijalba nine days after hiring them.

heard for the first time, revealing how he gunned down the Beatle when a voice in his head said “Do it! Do it!” The killer’s words will be part of a new Apple TV+ documentary, “John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial,” released Wednesday, ahead of the 43rd anniversary of the murder on Friday. It will also detail the Beatle’s last moments described on camera for the first time by two of the witnesses to his murder — and how his final words were: “I’m shot.”The documentary casts new light on how Chapman, 68, who has repeatedly failed in his bids to be paroled for the murder, confessed to it behind bars, claiming he shot Lennon because he was “a phony.”Under hypnosis, in preparation for a trial that was slated to have him pleading insanity, Chapman recalled sitting on the curb, seeing a black limo pull up to the building. The door opened and Yoko Ono emerged.

In the documentary “1946,” director Sharon “Rocky” Roggio combines personal experiences with thrilling historical exploration to uncover a great mystery that could shift understanding of the Bible.

Cabbage Patch Kid had such a bloodless introduction to their loving homes.In a new documentary out Friday, “Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids,” director Andrew Jenks peels back the layers of cabbage leaves to tell the zany story how these baby sized cuddly dolls became a pop-culture juggernaut — and ushered in an era of Black Friday retail violence.Forty years ago, adults flooded malls and toy stores, physically brawling to get their hands on this “It” toy. In November 1983, the stories — and the injuries — racked up quickly.

“JFK: One Day in America“HuluThis National Geographic three-part series — which premiered Nov. 5 and is now streaming on Hulu — is a comprehensive account of what happened in Dallas and was produced in collaboration with the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. It features archival footage, some colorized for the first, and interviews with the last surviving witnesses.“Capturing Oswald“Nov.

on Max), Aldarondo and her co-director, Sarah Enid Hagey, explore humiliating moments from Aldarondo’s youth through a mixture of voiceover narration, interviews with old classmates at her 20-year high school reunion and taking the unusual step of hiring young actors to reenact her memories.“What inspired [this film] was a combination of petty resentment and morbid curiosity,” Aldarondo, 43, told The Post. “I grew up in a very white suburb [Winter Park, Florida], I’m Puerto Rican, I was a misfit. I hated high school.

“JFK: One Day in America“HuluThis National Geographic three-part series — which premiered Nov. 5 and is now streaming on Hulu — is a comprehensive account of what happened in Dallas and was produced in collaboration with The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. It features archival footage, some colorized for the first, and interviews with the last surviving witnesses.“Capturing Oswald“Nov.

“Maxine’s Baby.”The 54-year-old multi-talented Oscar winner appeared on the daytime talk show to promote the Prime Video doc, which dives into his traumatic childhood and surviving his abusive father, the uneasy road to box office success, and his mother Maxine’s unwavering love. Willie Maxine Perry, after whom Tyler modeled his famous Madea character after, died of cancer in December 2009.“This film, I will watch every time I need my own power,” Haines raved to Perry at “The View” table on Tuesday. “I wanted to run laps.

according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.It is slated to surpass the $100 million mark in a total of just eight days, according to Deadline.The film, which was released on Oct. 27 in theaters and on Peacock, also had the biggest-ever five-day debut on the streaming service.In second place was “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” with $3.6 million in sales.The concert movie, based on the pop star’s tour, has already earned $150 million domestically and more than $200 million globally, according to CNBC.It is also predicted to take in another $10 million domestically this weekend.Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” landed in third, earning $1.945 million.The Western crime drama is based on a 2017 non-fiction book by David Grann about a series of murders of Native Americans from the tribe Osage Nation.

trailer released Wednesday for HBO’s documentary “David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived” introduces Holmes as a teen gymnast who had “no concept of fear,” according to his parents, and landed the “best job in the world” as Radcliffe’s adventurous stand-in.Radcliffe added that Holmes “seemed like a cool older brother” while filming the movies throughout his adolescence. But that all changed when Holmes was involved in a stunt gone wrong that resulted in him instantly breaking his neck and spending six months in the hospital.

first place for two weekends in a row. The supernatural horror film, based on the video game franchise, raked in $39.46 million on its opening night, according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.It is slated to enjoy a $78 million opening weekend, according to the Hollywood Reporter.“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” which held the top honor at the box office since its opening two weeks ago, fell to second, with earnings of $4.8 million.

Find below The Post’s guide to the best murder mystery and serial killer true crime documentaries.This 2017 Netflix documentary is sure to send shivers down your spine and will most likely keep you up at night wanting to know what happens next. Based on the unsolved murder of beloved nun Cathy Cesnik, “The Keepers” follows filmmakers as they attempt to solve the mysterious murder of the Baltimore native who disappeared in November 1979 only to be found dead two months later.

Fab Morvan recalls one of the last times he saw his “Girl You Know It’s True” partner Rob Pilatus before his death from an accidental overdose in 1998.It was outside the Viper Room rock club in Hollywood, California, where the fallen pop star — disgraced after the lip-syncing scandal that forced the duo to return the Best New Artist Grammy it won in 1990 — was now far from the green-eyed heartthrob he once was when they were MTV sensations.“I see a dude stumbling across the way,” says Morvan, 57, in the doc. “As he was falling, his body turned, and I looked into his eyes, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is not true.’ I’m looking at Rob Pilatus.”Then Morvan took Pilatus home — to what appeared to be a crack house.Nine years after Milli Vanilli had a string of chart-topping hits in 1989 — “Girl You Know It’s True” was followed by consecutive No.

Erroll Morris reveals that John le Carré had a life as intriguing as his acclaimed spy novels. The film, which premieres today on Apple TV+ and captures the English-born le Carré, who died in December 2020 at the age of 89, reflecting on his personal and professional life.

emailinvitation from Pax Labsfor the launch party of the company’s “revolutionary new vapor product, Juul.” When she walked into Jack Studios in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, in June 2015, the teen — who was an occasional cigarette smoker — saw a dance floor full of influencers and tastemakers, all puffing on sleek 4-inch devices that looked like USB drives and tasted of flavors such as mint, crème brulée and mango. Above her, screens flashed hashtags like #Juul and #JuulVapor along with real-time Polaroids of attendees vaping.

accused of preselecting then-Miss Texas R’Bonney Gabriel — who went on to win Miss Universe — as the 2022 winner. The allegations would eventually cause Miss Universe — which owns Miss USA — to kick Stewart out of her role.After the parent organization cut ties with Stewart and her pageant training company Miss Brand, it announced it would conduct a third-party investigation through the Holland & Knight law firm.

Australian outback town, where there’s no cellphone service or police station — but there is a local crocodile, a bar and just under a dozen eccentric residents including Fran Hodgetts, known for her prickly attitude and her pies. The documentary dives into the town’s history, the sharp-tongued residents’ various squabbles and the missing persons cold case of Paddy Moriarty, 70, who vanished in December 2017 along with his dog, prompting a police investigation.“Early on, I showed [footage] I had to an Australian person.

It seemed too good to be true — and it was.In scenes akin to the ‘Fyre’ Netflix documentary, which follows a charming man conning partygoers into a fantasy luxury festival on a posh island, David Prince-Popovich flew a group of new friends on a private jet to enjoy the best weekend of their lives.But little did they know, he fraudulently booked the eye-watering $18,963 flight — and he was not who he made out to be.Court documents obtained by news.com.au reveal 23-year-old Prince-Popovich, from Waterloo in Sydney, Australia has been found guilty of a string of financial crimes in New South Wales, Australia — adding to his “extensive criminal history” for similar offenses in Queensland.While the multistate fraudster worked a mundane job as an administrative officer at recycling company Sell and Parker, he posed as a high-flying recipient of a lucrative family inheritance.That’s according to police facts tendered to Downing Centre Local Court, which state it all started when Prince-Popovich was a guest at the Vibe Hotel in Darling Harbour in November 2020 and “formed a relationship” with a staff member there named Daniel.Prince-Popovich told Daniel he “had a lot of money due to family inheritance” and offered to take Daniel and his mates on a trip as “he was in town alone and didn’t have anyone else to hang out with.”Meanwhile, Prince-Popovich contacted the sales and marketing manager of Navair Jet Services to book a return private charter flight from Bankstown in southwest Sydney to the New South Wales coastal town of Ballina.Going by the name of David Matahi, he purported to be the personal assistant of his company’s director, Morgan Parker, and said he was booking the flight on Ms.

a clip from the documentary obtained by EW, scenes from the episode show a shirtless McConaughey mowing the lawn before meeting a fatal end in his garage. “Matthew McConaughey had to do a fairly robust death scene,” a producer said in the clip. “He was working in his garage and he was shot by a man who pulled up with a shotgun.

pic.twitter.com/HMYqq8S3arPespas has struggled with heroin addiction in the past but said that he had stopped using the drug later in the docuseries. He relies on methadone to survive his past addiction, according to his wife.

friends called me and they said, ‘Let’s go steal.’I got my things and I remember taking Xanax and I left. It really sounds psychotic, but I still felt that FOMO,” she recalls in the Max documentary “The Ringleader: The Case of the Bling Ring,” airing and streaming Sunday.It’s the first time Lee, now 33, has ever publicly spoken about being the ringleader of the notorious Bling Ring: a band of LA teens who went on a Hollywood crime spree between October 2008 and August 2009, robbing celebrities including Lohan, Paris Hilton, Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green, and Orlando Bloom of more than $3 million in luxury goods — Louis Vuitton luggage, Rolexes — as well as handguns.In the documentary, Lee recalls her last adrenaline-filled heist, in which the group made off with $130,000 worth of clothing, jewelry, and personal items from Lohan’s Hollywood Hills home.

Carlos Santana was the O.G. hippie in the ’60s, think again.In fact, the 76-year-old guitar hero was once an anti-weed warrior as his namesake band was huffing — and puffing — to succeed in the San Francisco scene alongside groups such as the Grateful Dead.“I’d been around marijuana all my life since I was a child, but I never toked,” reveals Santana in the new documentary “Carlos,” which opens in theaters on Friday.Indeed, the “Smooth” operator was that guy who was a downer to the doobies — in part, to protect his own good name and reputation.“You’re building a band around me, and I noticed that they smoke weed.

ABC News, the Los Angeles Times, CBS News and on National Public Radio. Robert Powell, the nanotechnology engineer whose investigation helped document the large UFO via Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) radar data, appears in the doc.

eponymous Netflix documentary.One special visit was to the Harlem public school 123 Mahalia Jackson — a stopover that caused the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s aides to scramble and also provide a “gag order” for the educational institution.Their Archwell team had to rush to make sure that the couple had a comfortable visit, including bringing cushions and a new carpet to the school, according to emails obtained by the Daily Mail. The availability of an outdoor space was also requested.

Sky’s docseries “House of Kardashian,” which is set to be released on Oct. 8.A trailer for the tell-all series teases an interview with Jenner, 73, claiming that her former stepdaughter Kim Kardashian “calculated” famefrom early on.“Kimberly calculated from the beginning, ‘How do I become famous?’” Jenner states.She also utters an evil laugh when asked what it was like working with Kris, who managed Caitlyn’s career after the Olympic decathlon in 1976.“I was happy to participate in the interview process to share my side which points to the strength, influence, and prowess my family has in captivating the world’s attention and keeping it over the years,” Caitlyn said in a statement on her decision to participate in “House of Kardashian.”“I am incredibly proud of all my children and stepchildren,” she added.Caitlyn is stepdad to Kim, Khloe, Kourtney and Robert Kardashian.

walking out the front door. Alt-rock group Nickelback discussed how they dealt with nearly two decades of mockery in their tell-all documentary “Hate to Love: Nickelback,” which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival this weekend, reports Entertainment Weekly.“Nobody picks up a guitar to be the most hated band in the world,” said vocalist Ryan Peake, 50, in the new film.

Secrets of Penthouse,” which premieres on A&E on Sept. 4. The now-retired adult actress, who worked for Penthouse for 12 years, was fascinated with the men’s magazine from an early age.

the release of the new A&E documentary series “Secrets of Prince Andrew.”The Duke of York’s checkered past and friendship with dead financier Jeffrey Epstein was explored in the recent bombshell doc.Andrew, 63, has retreated to the royal’s summer residence with his family as the dust settles from the show’s explosive claims coming to light, according to a report.Royal expert Pelham Turner revealed to Fox News that the disgraced prince accepted the invite to stay in Scotland from his brother King Charles.“The royal clans are descending on Balmoral,” Turner divulged.“It will be interesting to see how many olive branches grow on royal trees,” he added.The Post has reached out to reps at Buckingham Palace for comment.This summer will be the first time the royals visit Balmoral following the death of Queen Elizabeth last September.The Duke will soon be joined by other members of the fam, including his daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, as well as Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince Edward and his wife Sophie.Turner went on to note that King Charles, 74, could be going easy on Andrew due to his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson’s breast cancer battle.Ferguson, 63, was diagnosed with the illness earlier this year and underwent a mastectomy.“To Di For Daily” podcast host Kinsey Schofield echoed Turner’s thoughts, saying: “This could be King Charles’ soft heart on display — giving Prince Andrew and Fergie a bit of peace while she recovers from a breast cancer scare.”The radio personality continued: “[Andrew] is lucky to have Fergie and his girls. He continues to be a liability to the royal family.

abuelas. So, in 1998, when a rash of killings seemed to be targeting Mexico City’s elderly women, many of whom were grannies, residents were up in arms. The mysterious murderer was a shadowy figure who came to be known as the Old Lady Killer.