Gwyneth Paltrow Denies Amber Rose’s Claim That She’s Beyonce’s ‘Becky with the Good Hair’
Gwyneth Paltrow is shutting down Amber Rose‘s claim that she is the alleged mistress whom Beyoncé references in her Lemonade track, “Sorry.”
Rose recently named the Oscar-winning actress as the identity behind “Becky with the good hair,” the woman at the center of the JAY Z cheating rumors in April 2016 when Beyoncé released the latest solo album that contained many revelations of her marriage to the rapper.
However, a rep for Paltrow tells PEOPLE that Rose’s allegations are “completely absurd and 100 percent false.”
A source also adds, “Gwyneth and Beyoncé and JAY Z are still very close friends so none of this makes any sense.”
“It was literally a joke on a podcast!” says a source close to Rose. “She was only kidding.”
Rose made the joke during the latest episode of Spencer and Heidi Pratt’s podcast, Make Speidi Famous Again, telling The Hills couple, “I definitely think that Gwyneth Paltrow is ‘Becky with the good hair.’ I really feel like she’s the one who was, like, f—ing JAY Z.”
Rose also speculated that Paltrow has not been seen publicly with Beyoncé and/or JAY Z. “They were like friends, and then, like, you don’t see Gwyneth Paltrow with Beyoncé anymore. But like Beyonce’s still with Jay,” she said.
Paltrow has had a very public friendship with Beyoncé and JAY Z with both of their children growing up together.
The music-mogul couple has been part of Apple, 14, and 12-year-old Moses Martin’s lives for a long time. The Goop creator even dedicated her 2016 cookbook, It’s All Easy, to Bey and Jay’s daughter Blue Ivy, now 6.
Paltrow and her Coldplay frontman ex also were among the select few to attend Beyoncé and JAY Z’s low-key wedding in 2008.
When Beyoncé released “Sorry,” she left all women named Becky cringing, and everyone else wondering who the mystery mistress she seemed to be referencing, could be.
Following 2014’s elevator-gate, when video surfaced of sister Solange Knowles attacking JAY Z as Beyoncé stood and watched, reports circulated that the incident was related to JAY Z having a mistress, though the alleged “Becky” was never verified.
After Beyoncé’s Lemonade HBO special, some fans accused designer Rachel Roy as being “Becky,” after she reportedly “provoked” Solange in the infamous elevator incident. Roy later denied the “Becky” rumors, telling PEOPLE she respects “love, marriages, families and strength.”
Marvel’s new Infinity Wars arc kicks off with a major Thanos twist
A new hunt for the Infinity Stones upends expectations
Marvel’s latest cosmic epic is coming to a head with this week’s Infinity Wars Prime #1. The stage is set, the Infinity Stones are in play, Thanos controls an army of Chitauri warriors and the mysterious Requiem is on a mysterious quest for mysterious vengeance.
At last week’s San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel teased that writer Gerry Duggan’s Infinity Wars Prime #1 would change the face of the Marvel Universe in a way no-one was ready for. The company was telling the truth.
[Warning: The rest of this article is going to feature heavy spoilers for Infinity Wars Prime #1]
With the first issue out, the fate of Thanos, one of the most recognizable Marvel characters, is sealed, clearing the deck for a new war for the Infinity Stones which will stretch through every corner of the Marvel Universe. Here’s what happened.
THE END IS A BEGINNING
When you think of the Infinity Stones, you think Thanos. Even before the Avengers: Infinity War film came out, the big, purple combatant had been associated with a quest for the gems’ power, being the first to assemble them back in Jim Starlin, George Perez and Ron Lim’s Infinity Gauntlet.
So with the return of the Infinity Stones, it’s only natural for Thanos to become involved in the quest to unite them again. He’s placed himself as the leader of the Chitauri — the bad guys from 2012’s The Avengers — in order to track them down. Unfortunately, in Infinity Wars Prime #1, Thanos finds himself at the receiving end of Requiem’s cosmic sword. The mysterious new character slices up the Mad Titan, sending him into the embrace of his one true love, Mistress Death.
It takes a few blows to take Thanos down, and we won’t spoil the most satisfying panels, but here’s one uncomfortable strike.
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This isn’t by any means Thanos’ first comic book death — and it’s unlikely to be his last. He was first “killed” in 1977’s Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2 when he was turned to stone by Adam Warlock. He stayed that way for 13 years until he was revived by Mistress Death to correct the population imbalance in the universe through any means necessary.
He was killed again, decades later, when Drax finally avenged his dead family by driving his fist through the Mad Titan’s chest, ripping out his heart. Since then, Thanos has even died a couple more times; he was abandoned in the Cancerverseand later killed by an all-powerful Doctor Doom on Battleworld. Each time, Thanos found a way back from the brink of death.
Another clue to Thanos’ eventual Infinity Wars fate may lie in Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw’s recent “Thanos Wins” storyline, which sent the character to the far future to meet an older version of himself. The elder Thanos brought his younger self forward to die at his hand so he could finally be with Mistress Death, but the younger Thanos refused and returned to the present. As the future of King Thanos began to fade away, Back to the Future-style, the elder Titan asked Death what his younger self did to change things, to which she replied “he won.” If that still holds true — and it was only a established a couple of months ago — it’s likely we haven’t seen the end of Thanos in Infinity Wars.
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WHO IS REQUIEM?
Now that Thanos is dead, at least for now, the question becomes “who killed him?”
In Infinity Wars’ prequel series, Infinity Countdown, we saw Requiem force one of the trolls responsible for forging Asgardian weapons to create a new set of armor and a cosmically powered sword. But even with the new sword and armor that covers their face, Thanos seems to recognize Requiem before they slice off his head in one swift motion.
There are a couple of candidates for who Requiem could be, but our number one suspect is Nebula, the character played by Doctor Who’s Karen Gillan in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
In the movies, Nebula is Thanos’ daughter and sister to Gamora. In the comics she’s Thanos’ granddaughter — or at least she alleges to be. Created by Roger Stern and John Buscema, she debuted in 1985’s Avengers #257 as a space pirate, captain of the starship Sanctuary II, once Thanos’ own ship. She once wielded the Infinity Gauntlet after Thanos ascended into a cosmic state of being, but aside from that she’s never quite played a heavy-hitter role in the Marvel Universe. She has the potential — and, thanks to the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, she has the notoriety.
On top of all that, the upcoming Asgardians of the Galaxy title spinning off out of Infinity Wars mentions a mission to stop Nebula from taking over the galaxy. Could Marvel have teased the big reveal in the promotion for the upcoming book?
If Requiem isn’t Nebula, there are still a few more candidates. Gamora has been on the side of the heroes for the past decade or so, but her alignment isn’t so black and white, and she can be quite driven when she wants something. In this case, that something is the Soul Stone, which still contains a portion of her own soul. She has already split from the Guardians of the Galaxy in order to find the corrupted Stone.
Starting off with the death of Thanos shows that Infinity Wars isn’t messing around, but we can expect more big deaths than just the Mad Titan. Marvel’s official reading list for the crossover event lists Fallen Guardian #1 for a December release. We don’t know much else about the issue except its title, but that alone suggests that one of the Guardians of the Galaxy is going to meet the same fate as Thanos. Our money’s on Drax, considering how much care and attention Gerry Duggan has put into the Destroyer’s character over the past year, but it really could be anyone and given how easily Requiem took out The Mad Titan, no one is safe from her blade.
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Marvel’s Infinity Wars #1 is out now.
Kelly Rowland Gets Giant Hand Tattoo To Show Love To Demi Lovato
The lion tattoo appears to be temporary.
Taking to her Instagram story, Kelly noted that Demi was on her mind, getting the lion piece sketched out and placed on her own hand. A touching display of love and support, Rowland and Lovato have been friends since their work together on the X Factor. Remaining close since filming, Kelly clearly has a lot of love for Lovato, proving that her heart weighs heavy after a scary hospitalization earlier in the week.
Kelly’s act is the latest in a string of celebrities wishing well for the troubled star. Drug addiction is a difficult disease to overcome but Demi has proven to be capable of pulling through in the past. We’re praying for her to get well soon.
Angry driver follows black man home, repeatedly calls him the N-word *Video Here*
A state contractor from Ohio followed a black man to his home, posted up in front of his driveway and then called him the N-word repeatedly — all because he thought the man cut him off while driving.
“You wanna let me know how much of a n—er I am?” asks Charles Lovett, the black man being accosted.“I just want to let you know what a n—er you’re being,” the contractor says, with cellphone video showing the entire confrontation.
“Yeah, I want to let you personally know how much of a n—er you are,” the contractor fires back.
Questioned by Lovett as to why he is making this assessment, the man says: “Because you’re a rude n—er … You cut me off in my lane.”
He then adds, “You cut me off because you feel entitled — because you get everything for free.”
To which Lovett replies, “You feel entitled because I’m black.”
The contractor — identified by ABC 6 and FOX 28 as Jeffrey Whitman — is a white man from Columbus who owns a company called Uriah’s Heating and Cooling. He was driving a work van on Tuesday, which had the company’s logo and state contracting info on it, when the incident occurred.
“I’m glad I got all this information, that I’ll be sending to the state, since you’re a state contractor,” Lovett tells Whitman on the video.
He posted the footage on Facebook Tuesday, along with a description of what allegedly went down.
“So this is happened to me this morning,” Lovett said. “A man followed me from the interstate exit to my house, and then proceeded to berate me with the most disrespectful word to any African American. I wasn’t going to post it, because I felt that I should’ve known and did better in handling the situation, by just walking away and going into my house. But I’m human.”
The confrontation is just the latest example of racism caught on camera — with countless people getting recorded and losing their jobs in recent months.
“Nobody, African American Mexican Puerto Rican deserves what’s been happening to us across the United States here lately,” Lovett said. “This incident is just one of many sadly.”
Whitman has apologized for his racist rant, but he only did so after his company started getting blasted online. He was initially unapologetic.
“I didn’t follow him home,” Whitman claimed during an interview with NBC4.
“The way I confronted him, I confront him as ‘Hey, you cut me off,’” he said. “I don’t know if it makes it right or wrong, all I can say is I grew up with it and not a big deal for me.”
Lovett later filed a police report against Whitman, though it’s unclear if police plan to pursue charges. None had been filed as of 11 p.m. Wednesday.
“I never would have expected it to happen to me,” Lovett told NBC. “But [that’s] the world we live in nowadays.”
via: https://nypost.com/2018/07/26/angry-driver-follows-black-man-home-repeatedly-calls-him-the-n-word/
Pennsylvania Board Finds Bill Cosby Is a Sexually Violent Predator
Pennsylvania’s Sexual Offenders Assessment Board found that Bill Cosby is a sexually violent predator and should be classified as such, according to a court filing in his sexual assault case.
Still, the ultimate decision on Cosby’s status will be up to Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill at an upcoming hearing, according to Kate Delano, public information officer for the Montgomery County district attorney’s office.
In April, Cosby, who turned 81 this month, was found guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in a Philadelphia suburb in 2004. Cosby’s defense counsel said afterward that the comedian planned to appeal the case.
He faces up to 10 years in prison on each count, although legal experts said he is likely to spend much less time, if any, behind bars.
The Sexual Offenders Assessment Board is responsible for conducting assessments of convicted sex offenders to help courts determine whether they meet the legal criteria to be classified as a sexually violent predator, according to the board’s website. The distinction would mean that Cosby is subject to lifetime registration with state police, lifetime sex offender counseling and community notification.
Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele filed a motion Tuesday requesting a hearing to determine whether Cosby is a sexually violent predator after receiving the board’s assessment.
In response, Cosby’s attorneys said in a new court filing that the process used by the board is unconstitutional, and they rejected the assessment.
The defense argued that the single board member who did the assessment did not conduct a hearing and considered largely “irrelevant and improper information.”
“Confrontation and cross-examination” was not a part of the process, they said, basing their argument a 2017 Pennsylvania Supreme Court case.
“The true facts establish that this defendant is not a sexually violent predator,” they said.
Additionally, the defense asked the judge to declare as unconstitutional a recent state law that updates registration by sex offenders.
The hearing on Cosby’s sexually violent predator status will take place before his criminal sentencing, according to Delano. Sentencing is currently scheduled for September 24.
At the status hearing, the prosecution and the defense will call expert witnesses to make their arguments, and then the judge will issue his ruling, Delano said.
The determination does not affect Cosby’s potential sentence for the assault charges. Since Cosby was convicted of aggravated indecent assault, he is already required to register under Megan’s Law.
The sexually violent predator report was sent to the prosecution, and it shared the report with the defense, but it has not been made public.
via: https://ktla.com/2018/07/25/pennsylvania-board-finds-bill-cosby-is-a-sexually-violent-predator/
Guess who’s moving? You!’: Apartment eviction notice goes viral
Wow this was bold.
MEMPHIS — An eviction notice posted at a Memphis, Tennessee apartment complex is going viral.
The notice was printed on orange paper with a smiling emoji and said, “Guess who’s moving, You!!!!”
The notice also reads, “Rent was due on the first of the month, not whenever,” and “This is not free housing!”
The apartment director defended the notice. She told WREG she wasn’t surprised by the tone of the notice and “that’s just part of the collections in that market.”
According to WREG, the apartment where the notice was posted is now empty.
Source: http://abc11.com/business/guess-whos-moving-you-apartment-eviction-notice-goes-viral/3810054/
Trump’s Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star Has Been Obliterated
NOBODY LIKES YOU! Do you GAF? Yes and no.
A man vandalized President Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a pickax on Wednesday, leaving only the star’s outline in the broken sidewalk. He later surrendered to police.
Witnesses told police a man carrying the tool in a guitar case attacked the star on Hollywood Boulevard around 3:30 a.m., according to NBC Los Angeles.
Man with pickax destroys President Trump’s star on walk of fame. @LAPDHQ investigating. No arrests. Suspect took off. He reportedly concealed tool in guitar case. @HollywoodArea @CBSLA @CBSNews @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/4Pjb13YYdf
— JASMINE VIEL (@jasmineviel) July 25, 2018
Reports are coming in that someone has stolen President Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. pic.twitter.com/vgDVg9rRY4
— Greg Angel (@NewsGuyGreg) July 25, 2018
A man vandalized President Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a pickax on Wednesday, leaving only the star’s outline in the broken sidewalk. He later surrendered to police.
Witnesses told police a man carrying the tool in a guitar case attacked the star on Hollywood Boulevard around 3:30 a.m., according to NBC Los Angeles.
The vandal dropped the pickax at the scene, according to pictures taken by passersby. Soon afterward, the man surrendered to Los Angeles police. Details of the arrest weren’t immediately available.
Trump received the star in 2007, long before his presidency. He was the host of NBC’s “The Apprentice” at the time, but the Walk of Fame star honors his role as producer for his Miss Universe shows.
Trump’s star has been attacked before, but not quite so spectacularly. It was smashed by a man in 2016 shortly after the “Access Hollywood” recording of Trump bragging about sexual assault surfaced.
In that case, the vandal used a pickax and a sledgehammer. The attacker later pleaded no contest to one felony count of vandalism. The star was later restored.
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Gun rights activists allowed to post plans for 3-D printed guns online
A judge’s ruling brought a victory for gun advocates on Friday.
People across the country will not only be able to own a gun, but they will have the ability to build it from scratch. All folks will need is a 3D printer.
Beginning Aug. 1 that will be the nation’s new reality.
“This is something we do not need in society right now. Not now, not ever,” said Rosalind Clark-Stewart, resident.
Anyone can simply go online, find a 3D plan for a gun and print it off on their 3D printer.
“To make a law that says you can’t make something or pass on how to make something, that would be hard to do,” said Glenn Duncan, owner of Duncan’s Outdoor Shop.
In 2013, a man named Cody Wilson posted plans for a 3D printed handgun online. The government ordered him to take it down. A court fight ensued and ultimately, they settled the case saying he could publish his plans online.
Duncan said it’s the same thing as a “how to” book.
“Same thing is that you can go to the library and buy a book at the library on how to build a gun, how to build anything. So are we gonna get rid of books,” Duncan said.
The printed guns will not have serial numbers and will be untraceable. Because they will be made out of plastic they could get through metal detectors as well.
“I think this is very frightening. I think this should not be permitted,” Clark-Stewart said.
Like many gun issues, the jury is still out on what’s right or wrong.
“Do we wanna give up rights? That’s gonna be a big battle,” Duncan said.
Teen couple hoping to get married plots murder of girl’s parents, sister
OKLAHOMA — A 15-year-old girl and her 18-year-old boyfriend — frustrated that her parents opposed their plan to get married — tried to murder her mom, dad and sister, officials said.
The girl’s mother was shot in the face in the botched plot to kill her family. The mother is expected to survive — the father and sister were unharmed.
Zachary Sligar, 18, and his unidentified 15-year-old girlfriend allegedly plotted to kill her family in Chandler after the parents would not allow her to be emancipated so they could get hitched.
“They come up with a plan to do a three-way homicide by killing mom, dad and an older sister that lives on the property not in the house,” Sheriff Charlie Dougherty of Lincoln County told WPIX sister station KFOR.
The teens were both armed and had their bags packed when Sligar shot at his girlfriend’s parents shortly after midnight on Friday, the sheriff told KFOR.
“Zach goes into the bedroom. Fires one time at dad and misses. Shoots a hole in his pillow. Immediately turns the gun on mom. Shoots her one time in the face,” Dougherty said.
The girl then allegedly told her boyfriend to go home and come up with a story.
The teens were subsequently arrested.
Sligar is expected to face three counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, one count of shooting with intent to kill, and one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
The girl is expected to face the same charges, but as a youthful offender.
“We prepare for everything, and we get surprised every day. I’ve done this for 38 years and I’ve never hear of stuff like this,” Dougherty said.