In a now-infamous anecdote told in Netflix’s Fyre documentary, Andy King, an event producer for the disastrous fest, revealed that he was tasked with taking “one big thing for the team” by performing oral sex on a customs officer in order to clear four truckloads of water for the then-impending …
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Anna Delvey, the so-called Soho Grifter was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of scamming hotels, restaurants, banks and more out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, The New York Times reports. Last month, Delvey (born Anna Sorokin) was found guilty of eight of …
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Corey Feldman has seen and done it all. A former child star who appeared in more than 100 commercials, Feldman got his big break when he was cast in the mid-1980s hits Stand by MeandGoonies,then became a tabloid staple due to his hard-partying ways and close friendship with fellow child …
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As advocacy groups have battled for legalization on both the state and federal level, the CBD and marijuana markets in the United States have experienced enormous growth in the past few years, to the degree that one estimate suggests the legal marijuana market will be worth more than $146 billion …
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Hosted by childhood friends Lucy Fitzgerald, Kenyon Laing and Amanda Jacobson, the Wine and Crime podcast, which launched in February 2017, is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a discussion of various true crimes, ranging from the bizarre (think Russian necrophiliacs) to the more serious (an episode devoted to …
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A 24-year-old Staten Island man was arrested Saturday in the shooting death of a reputed Gambino crime family boss, and investigators reportedly believe the murder of Francesco Cali outside his home was a domestic incident and not a mob slaying. Anthony Comello was apprehended in New Jersey Saturday on charges …
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Keith Raniere, the leader of the alleged self-empowerment sex cult NXIVM, is already facing a wide range of criminal charges, from sex trafficking to forced labor conspiracy. Now, he’s facing an entirely new charge: possession of child pornography. Earlier this week, federal prosecutors brought the new charges against Raniere, claiming …
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As the opioid crisis in the United States has mounted, pharmaceutical manufacturers have been hit with lawsuits claiming that they used deceptive marketing tools to push the drugs to doctors and failed to advise patients about prospective risks. Now, the once seemingly infallible pharmaceutical companies are beginning to show signs …
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A witness testifying against alleged drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán told prosecutors that Guzmán drugged and raped underage trafficking victims as young as 13, referring to the youngest girls as his “vitamins” because he believed that having sex with them gave him “life,” according to previously sealed court filings …
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Lawmakers are planting the seeds of legal weed in Minnesota—introducing legislation on Monday that would end marijuana prohibition in the state, creating a system of taxation and regulation for adult use. Senator Melisa Franzen and Representative Mike Feiberg, both of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, and Senator Scott Jensen, a Republican, sponsored …
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