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Patrick Swayze’s Widow Lisa Niemi To Appear On ‘Oprah’
Posted on 27. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
Patrick Swayze’s widow, Lisa Niemi, will sit down for a intimate conversation with Oprah Winfrey during an episode of Oprah airing this Friday.
According to a press statement from Harpo Productions, O has snagged Neimi’s “first one-on-one interview since the death of her husband.” The beloved actor died Sept. 14 at age 57 of pancreatic cancer.
Patrick and Lisa met and fell in love when a then-16-year-old Lisa was student at his mother’s dance studio. The pair were married for 34 years. Lisa will promote the book she wrote with Swayze, The Time of My Life.
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Shiloh Pepin, Young Girl With “Mermaid Syndrome” Passes Away At Age 10
Posted on 25. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
Shiloh Pepin, a girl born with a rare condition often called “Mermaid Syndrome,” has died. She was only 10-years-old.
Shiloh was born with Sirenomelia, a condition which caused her legs to be fused from the waist down. The condition is about as rare as conjoined twins and is usually fatal within a day or two of birth. Shiloh died Friday afternoon at Maine Medical Center, hospital spokesman John Lamb told The Associated Press. She had been hospitalized in critical condition since last week.
Little Shiloh’s health battles took her to The Oprah Show and TLC. Just last month, Shiloh sat down with Oprah and said she didn’t mind being called “mermaid girl” and let the world know she had no interest in getting her legs separated.
Rest in peace, Shiloh….
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Fan Dies During Kelly Clarkson Boston University Concert
Posted on 16. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
Kelly Clarkson’s Tuesday night concert in Boston, Massachusetts was marred by tragedy after a fan suffered a fatal heart attack.
A 38-year-old man collapsed while the pop star was onstage at Boston University’s Agganis Arena. He was unconscious and in cardiac arrest when paramedics arrived on the scene at approximately 10PM to transport him by ambulance to a nearby hospital. He was later pronounced dead, Boston University spokesman Colin Riley said.
“It’s terribly tragic, unfortunate,” he said. “But the EMTs did everything they can and I’m sure they’re very saddened that they weren’t able to revive the individual.”
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Michael Brewer Set On Fire By Classmates He Feared
Posted on 15. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
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The mother of a Florida teen lit on fire and seriously burned in a retaliatory squabble over video games and a bike says her son was “petrified” of the boys at his school.
Five teenagers in Deerfield Beach, Florida have been arrested and charged with dousing 15-year-old Michael Brewer with alcohol and setting him on fire on Tuesday. Michael tore off his shirt and jumped into an apartment complex pool after being set ablaze The young man was burned over 80% of his body, with many of the scars covering his torso and arms. Michael remains hospitalized at Jackson Memorial Hospital’s burn center, where he is listed in critical condition with mostly second-degree burns.
Some of the teens charged in the attack laughed when investigators confronted them, a spokesperson for the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said.
Just proof that some children are NOT our future. I can’t imagine anyone being so cruel. This is definitely a case where the juvenile offenders should be charged as adults. They knew exactly what they were doing. Praying Michael recovers — physically and emotionally.
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“So You Think You Can Dance” Judge Mary Murphy Details Her Violent Marriage And How She Survived
Posted on 15. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
Vivacious So You Think You Can Dance judge Mary Murphy is over the top and larger than life on the hit FOX dance competition, but the pint-sized TV star with the boisterous laugh is revealing her personal piece of Hell in the Oct. 26 issue of Us Weekly. Mary recalls the explosive details of her abusive nine-year marriage, during which she was repeatedly raped and beaten by her savage ex.
She tells Us that three months after they wed, her now ex-husband raped her for the first time — and continued to do so for more than a decade. For years, “I’d have black eyes and bruises,” she tells Us. “But I never called the police or went to the hospital. I didn’t want anybody to know.”
In 1985, Mary discovered that her husband – from a wealthy family in the Middle East – had proposed to another woman during one of his trips. “This is what motivated me to leave him,” she says.
Her ex-husband says Mary’s claims are “flat-out lies.”
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Susan Klebold ‘O’ Essay, “I Will Never Know Why” On Her Son Dylan Klebolds Hand In The Columbine Tragedy
Posted on 15. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
Susan Klebold has published an essay in O, The Oprah Magazine, talking about her son Dylan and his role in the Columbine school shootings that took place a decade ago. This essay is easily the biggest public statement by any of the parents involved in the Columbine shootings.
Klebold says in the essay that she had no idea her son was depressed or suicidal. The essay is entitled “I will never know why” and Susan Klebold goes on to write:
On suicide: “Dylan’s participation in the massacre was impossible for me to accept until I began to connect it to his own death. Once I saw his journals, it was clear to me that Dylan entered the school with the intention of dying there. And so in order to understand what he might have been thinking, I started to learn all I could about suicide.”
If my research has taught me one thing, it’s this: Anyone can be touched by suicide. But for those who are feeling suicidal or who have lost someone to suicide, help is available—through resources provided by nonprofits like the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and the American Association of Suicidology.
On depression: “From the writings Dylan left behind, criminal psychologists have concluded that he was depressed and suicidal. When I first saw copied pages of these writings, they broke my heart. I’d had no inkling of the battle Dylan was waging in his mind.”
Looking ahead: “For the rest of my life, I will be haunted by the horror and anguish Dylan caused. I cannot look at a child in a grocery store or on the street without thinking about how my son’s schoolmates spent the last moments of their lives. Dylan changed everything I believed about myself, about God, about family, and about love.”
For Susan’s complete essay pickup a copy of the November issue of O, on newsstands now.
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Jaycee Dugard Photo Revealed ‘PEOPLE’ Magazine
Posted on 14. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
After being held against her will in a backyard for 18 years, kidnapping survivor Jaycee Dugard breaks her silence to PEOPLE Magazine…..
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Jaycee was kidnapped outside her home in South Lake Tahoe, California in June 1991, allegedly by convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy. During her nearly two decade ordeal, Jaycee bore Garrido’s two daughters, Angel, 15, and Starlit, 11.
“I’m so happy to be back,” reads the headline on the cover of the Oct. 26 issue, which hits newsstands this Friday. “Nothing is more important than the unconditional love and support I have from them,” the now 29-year-old added. The cover photo of Jaycee is the first since she was rescued on Aug. 26. The 10-page article is accompanied by many pictures of Jaycee and her mother, Terry.
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Mike Tyson Oprah Winfrey Sneak Peek Interview Video
Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
In an emotional interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show Monday, former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson tells Oprah that he was enraged over the death of his 4-year-old daughter Exodus last May. The little girl choked in a fatal treadmill accident in her mother’s Arizona mansion, but Tyson says he doesn’t want to know what went wrong.
“You don’t want to know?” Oprah asked
“If I know, then there might be a blame for it,” Iron Mike replied. “And if there’s somebody to blame for it, there will be a problem.”
He added: “My first instinct was a lot of rage, you know, and I was so happy that I had the tools in life, you know, to not go in that direction because I’ve been that direction. I know where that’s gonna lead me. I know I’m not gonna win.”
The interview airs later today.
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Latest Update In The Death Of A.J. Jewell Ex-Fiance To Kandi Burruss, “The Real Housewives Of Atlanta”
Posted on 07. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
The ex-fiance of “Housewives” star Kandi Burruss was walking and talking after the fight that led to his death.
Initial reports made it seem like Ashley “A.J.” Jewell was left for dead after the fight — which occurred outside of a strip club in Atlanta on Friday night — but law enforcement sources say that wasn’t the case.
Witnesses told authorities A.J. was walking and talking after the fight — and he didn’t even take an ambulance to the hospital, instead hitching a ride with one of his friends.
Suspect Fredrick Richardson is being held without bail and has been charged with voluntary manslaughter.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office says A.J.’s body showed evidence of a physical altercation — and they’re trying to determine the extent of those injuries while also looking to see if there “was another cause of death.”
The M.E.’s Office also says contrary to other reports, there were no stab wounds found on Jewell’s body.
Fredrick Richardson is being represented by Atlanta defense attorney Dennis Scheib.
Here’s what the AJC had to say about yesterday’s court appearance:
Richardson, his right fingers in a cast, said little during his first court appearance Tuesday morning.
Coming into the jail courtroom, Richardson waived to his 70-year-old mother and one of three children sitting in the rear, behind a glass partition. He spoke only to acknowledged to the judge that he understood the charges against him and that he had an attorney.
While waiting for the hearing to start, Scheib told reporters Jewell started the dispute with Richardson, the general manager at the club since May.
Scheib said Jewell was stretched out on Richardson’s sofa in his office “with a gun” beside him earlier in the day Friday.
Richardson said to Jewell “‘what are you doing?’ He [Jewell] said ‘I’ve got something for you,’” Scheib said.
According to Richardson, Scheib said, Jewell then pulled back the slide on the handgun.
Later in the parking lot, “A.J. comes out and says ‘I’ve got something for you.’ He takes off his shirt.. and hits Richardson twice,” Scheib said.
The two exchange blows and then Richardson leaves the parking lot. He went to the hospital to have his broken index finger treated. Scheib said. As Richardson was driving out of the parking lot, “A.J. was walking away. He wasn’t beaten to death,” Scheib said.
Jewell died later that night at Piedmont Hospital
“We don’t know what killed him,” Scheib said, complaining that a manslaughter charge is premature.
Scheib said Jewell may have had a health problem that caused his death.
Detectives said the deadly argument apparently came out of a slight and a disagreement over the club.
“They had some words about a business decision,” said Lt. Keith Meadows, head of the Atlanta Police Department’s homicide unit. “It seems like there was a struggle for power over the club.”
Fredrick is due back in court on October 20.
It is going to be very interesting to hear all the facts come out in this case. From the argument Fredrick’s attorney is making, it appears Jewell may have been the cause of his own fate.
On a sidenote: The Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion show was set to tape today-no word on if that has been postponed or how involved Kandi will be.
**AJ’s funeral will be held Friday at the Ray of Hope Christian Church on Snapfinger Road in DeKalb County. The time has not yet been determined. A visitation will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Donald Trimble Mortuary in Decatur.
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“The Real Housewives Of Atlanta” Kandi Burruss Releases Statement Following Death Of Her Ex-Fiance Ashley ‘A.J.’ Jewell
Posted on 05. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Kandi Burruss is “heavy with grief” after the weekend beating death of her former fiance, Ashley “A.J.” Jewell, outside a local strip club.
On Friday night, Jewell, 34, died from “massive head injuries” sustained during a fight, which took place in the parking lot of a strip club he co-owned, The Associated Press reports.
“I am devastated by the loss of A.J.,” she said in a statement releassed Sunday. “His death comes on the heels of the death of my beloved Uncle Ralph and with both of them gone, my heart is heavy with grief.”
Kandi and A.J. split in August. Nonetheless, the loss came as a shock for the Grammy-winning songwriter, who spoke to A.J. just hours before his death.
“I had spoken to AJ two hours before I got the call that he was in the hospital,” she said. “Never in a thousand years did I think it was going to be the last time I heard his voice. He was taken way too soon. There are so many things that I should have said to him, wanted to say to him… But now it’s too late. I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to all of my family and friends — and that means my twitter and facebook friends as well — for the beautiful words of encouragement, prayers, and the sweet condolences. I make it through these difficult days because of you.”
The 33-year-old former Xscape singer-turned-reality-star is urging fans to recognize their loved ones while they still can.
“I know this is cliche but I urge everyone to treat each day as if it’s your last and tell that special someone you love them today,” Kandi said. “Don’t wait. It may be too late. Please pray for his children, his family and Riley – they too are grieving the loss of an incredible man, son, brother and father. I wish you all had gotten to know the AJ we all knew and loved.”
The man charged with the voluntary manslaughter of A.J. is still receiving medical attention at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Police refuse to release any other information on the mans condition other than as soon as he is released he will be taken to Fulton County Correctional Facility.
It is being reported that the two men worked together at the stip club, Body Tap. However, it is unclear what position each man held- some reports have both men listed as managers while another has A.J. listed as co-owner. The cause for their brawl is still unknown.
