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Bon Jovi’s beef with Trump
Jon Bon Jovi has a weird history with former
President Trump, said Hadley Freeman in The
Guardian (U.K.). Back in 2014, the rock singer
and a group of Canadian investors tried to buy
the Buffalo Bills after the NFL team’s longtime
owner died. Trump also coveted the team and
allegedly exaggerated his net worth by more than
$4 billion in order to secure a loan for his bid.
Bon Jovi’s group placed a higher bid, but after unfounded rumors
spread than it planned to move the team to another city, residents
of Buffalo turned on Bon Jovi, with “Bon Jovi–free” zones and
hateful graffiti sprouting up. It later emerged that the anti–Bon Jovi
campaign was led by Michael Caputo, a political strategist hired
by Trump. (As a Trump administration official, Caputo pressured
government scientists to downplay the Covid-19 crisis and put a
positive spin on their research.) “I was really shocked at the depths
[Trump] went to,” says Bon Jovi, 58. “He did this dark shadow
assassination thing, hoping to buy the team at a bargain basement
price. It was seriously scarring.” Neither Bon Jovi nor Trump
ultimately submitted the winning bid, but the rock star wonders
whether, if Trump had succeeded in buying the Bills, he might not
have run for president two years later. “For the sake of the world,”
Bon Jovi says, “he definitely should have got the team.”
Where Duvall went when she quit
Shelley Duvall is a refugee from Hollywood, said Seth Abramovitch
in The Hollywood Reporter. The actress best known for play-
ing Wendy Torrance in The Shining fled Hollywood for Texas
Hill Country 27 years ago, ending a highly successful career that
also included producing innovative children’s programming. After
Duvall walked away, she vanished from the public eye until a pain-
ful 2016 interview with Phil McGraw on Dr. Phil. A confused
Duvall voiced paranoid fantasies and claimed her Popeye co-star
Robin Williams was alive as a “shapeshifter.” Many said McGraw
exploited Duvall. “I found out the kind of person he is the hard
way,” she says. These days, Duvall, 71, spends many days in her
car, chatting with locals who’ve become very protective of her. She
lives with Dan Gilroy, 76, a former member of Madonna’s band.
She celebrated her 70th birthday last year with fans at her favorite
restaurant, Red Lobster, and has vivid memories of filming The
Shining, which took 56 weeks and required Duvall to work herself
into a state of hysteria day after day; for one scene, director Stanley
Kubrick demanded 127 takes. “To wake up and realize you had to
cry all day,” she says, “I don’t know how I did it.”
Ashley Graham is one of the few supermodels who refuses to
starve herself, said Marisa Meltzer in The Wall Street Journal
Magazine. At size 14, Graham became the first plus-size model
to grace the covers of Vogue and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit
issue, but there was a time when luxury fashion brands refused
to dress her. “At this point, my skin is so thick,” says Graham, 33.
Although 68 percent of American women are size 14 or above, less
than 1 percent of runway models are plus-size. As a child, Graham
had to shop in the mature women’s section. “That stuff was either
too big or so matronly, so I would cut up really small clothes and
wear very provocative outfits,” she says. Discovered at a mall at
age 12, she moved to New York five years later. “That’s when I got
my freshman 30,” Graham says. “My self-esteem plummeted. I
had my agents telling me if you don’t lose weight, then you’re not
going to work. Realizing that I didn’t get a job because I was ‘too
fat’ actually gave me the courage and ambition to go fill a void in
an industry.” Since having a child last year, she’s gained 25 pounds,
if you must know. “I hate that I constantly have to discuss my
body,” Graham says. “I don’t know any man that has to do that.”Getty
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QRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)
brazenly cheated on her husband with
both a “polyamorous tantric-sex
guru” and a co-worker, the Daily
Mail (U.K.) alleged last week. An
evangelical mother of three given
to wild conspiracy theories, Greene,
46, allegedly cheated with Craig
Ivey—a polyamorist who lives a
self-described “warrior lifestyle”—
and Justin Tway, Greene’s manager
at a CrossFit gym where she worked.
One of the men showed The New
Yorker a text from Greene admitting
to their affair; he said she was quite
open about her extramarital dalliances.
“She’s not the pro-family, pro-Christian,strong businesswoman she touts herself to
be,” the alleged ex-lover said. Greene called
the report “another attempt to smear my
name because I’m the biggest threat to the
Democrats’ socialist agenda.”
QBruce Springsteen was busted last No-
vember for driving while intoxicated after
police officers allegedly watched him pull
his motorcycle over to take a shot of tequila
with a fan, the New York Post reported last
week. Springsteen, 71, was riding his red-
and-white Triumph through a national park
in Sandy Hook, N.J., when he stopped to
take photos with fans. Police pulled Spring-
steen over after they allegedly saw him
downing a shot with the fans. He refused to
take a Breathalyzer test. The Boss smelled
“strongly of alcohol,” had “glassy eyes,” and
failed a field sobriety test, an officer said.When he was finally tested, Springsteen’s
blood-alcohol level was 0.02—well below
New Jersey’s legal limit of 0.08.
QPrince Harry and Meghan Markle, the
Duchess of Sussex, are expecting their
second child. The baby will be eighth in line
to the British throne, after Harry, 36, and his
21-month-old son, Archie. “We can confirm
that Archie is going to be a big brother,”
a spokesperson for the couple said. In
November, Markle, 39, revealed her “almost
unbearable grief” after she suffered a
miscarriage last summer. Harry and Meghan
have been on frosty terms with Buckingham
Palace since they ditched their royal duties
and moved to Santa Barbara, Calif., but a
palace spokesperson said Queen Elizabeth II,
Prince Philip, and the entire royal family are
“delighted” about the pregnancy news.