Danish inventor is charged with killing and dismembering reporter Kim Wall on his submarine
The Danish inventor at the center of the mysterious death of Swedish freelance journalist Kim Wall, whose dismembered body was found off the coast of Copenhagen in August, was formally charged with killing her Tuesday.
Prosecutors say that during a trip on his private submarine, Peter Madsen, 47, either strangled or cut Wall’s throat before severing her body and tossing it into the sea. Madsen is charged with homicide, dismemberment and the indecent handling of a corpse.
“This is a very unusual and extremely brutal case which has had tragic consequences for Kim Wall and her relatives,” prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen said in a statement from the Danish prosecution authority.
Wall’s disappearance and gruesome death has drawn international attention, demonstrating the risks female freelance journalists can face. Friends and family say Wall, 30, was a brave reporter who had reported from Sri Lanka, the Marshall Islands and North Korea.
Madsen in October denied killing Wall and said she died of carbon monoxide poisoning inside his submarine while he was on deck. Wall boarded the submarine on Aug. 10 to report a story about Madsen, according to her family. Madsen is known in Denmark for raising money through crowdfunding to build rockets and submarines.
She was reported missing the next day. Madsen was rescued from Koge Bay, according to police, after purposely sinking his vessel, a 60-foot UC3 Nautilus.
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Aziz Ansari Accused of Sexual Misconduct
An anonymous woman recounted how the comedian attempted to pressure her into sex on a date
Aziz Ansari, the Parks and Recreation and Master of Nonestar who has built a career out of using comedy as a means to explore modern relationships, has been accused of sexual misconduct by an anonymous woman who says she went out on a date with him shortly after the 2017 Emmy Awards.
Twenty-three-year-old photographer “Grace” described the encounter to babe, saying she met Ansari while she was taking photos at the Emmy Awards after-party. The two bonded over Ansari’s camera and eventually exchanged phone numbers. According to the woman, Ansari invited her out on a date on Monday, September 25.
On the night in question, the two allegedly met at Ansari’s TriBeCa apartment and walked over to Grand Banks, an oyster bar aboard a schooner. Grace said that they left abruptly to go back to his apartment, where Ansari began to kiss her. She told babe that she was uncomfortable with how quickly the situation escalated. “It was really quick,” she said. “Everything was pretty much touched and done within ten minutes of hooking up, except for actual sex.”
Grace said she attempted to indicate her disinterest, but Ansari followed her around the apartment as though he was executing “a football play.” “It was 30 minutes of me getting up and moving and him following and sticking his fingers down my throat again,” she said. “It was really repetitive. It felt like a fucking game.” She said he then suggested they move to the couch, where he continued to attempt to initiate sex, though she wasn’t interested: “I know I was physically giving off cues that I wasn’t interested. I don’t think that was noticed at all, or if it was, it was ignored.”
She tried to verbally communicate her disinterest: “I said I don’t want to feel forced because then I’ll hate you, and I’d rather not hate you,” she said. Ansari appeared to understand at first, but soon continued his overtures. She said he only appeared to get the message when she emphatically said ‘no’ after he’d bent her over in front of a large mirror. He suggested they “just chill” on his couch.
Afterward, Ansari called her a car. Grace said she cried the whole trip home. She texted Ansari after the date, explaining how uncomfortable she’d felt: “Last night might’ve been fun for you, but it wasn’t for me. When we got back to your place, you ignored clear non-verbal cues; you kept going with advances. You had to have noticed I was uncomfortable.” She explained she was telling him this so that “maybe the next girl doesn‘t have to cry on the ride home.” Ansari reportedly responded, “Clearly, I misread things in the moment and I’m truly sorry.”
“I believe that I was taken advantage of by Aziz,” Grace told babe. “I was not listened to and ignored. It was by far the worst experience with a man I’ve ever had.”
Ansari has delved into the nature of sexual assault and harassment both during live sets and on his show, Master of None. During his 2015 Madison Square Garden special, he asked women in the crowd who had been followed home by “creepy dudes” to raise their hands. “What I’ve learned, as a guy, is to just ask women questions and listen to what they have to say,” he told the Daily Beast of the bit. “You’ll get blown away by the things they tell you. You’ll think, ‘What the fuck? This is way darker than anything I’d imagined.’”
Read more via: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/01/aziz-ansari-accused-of-sexual-misconduct
Lawyer paid $130k to silence adult-film star over sexual encounter with Trump
A lawyer for President Trump reportedly arranged a six-figure payment to a former adult-film star to keep her from discussing a sexual encounter with Trump, according to a new report Friday.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Michael Cohen, an attorney for the Trump Organization at the time and now Trump’s personal lawyer, arranged for Stephanie Clifford, known in the industry as Stormy Daniels, to receive $130,000 as part of a nondisclosure agreement one month before the 2016 presidential election.
Clifford has privately told sources interviewed by the Journal that she and Trump had a consensual sexual encounter in 2006, the year after he and Melania Trump were married. Clifford was 27 years old at the time of the alleged encounter in Lake Tahoe.
A White House official declined to comment to the Journal about the payment, but said that the allegations of the interaction between Trump and Clifford were “old, recycled reports, which were published and strongly denied prior to the election.”
Cohen told the Journal in a statement that Trump “once again vehemently denies” the encounter, but did not comment on the alleged $130,00 payment.
“This is now the second time that you are raising outlandish allegations against my client,” Cohen said in the statement. “You have attempted to perpetuate this false narrative for over a year; a narrative that has been consistently denied by all parties since at least 2011.”
Cohen’s reference to previous allegations may include the Journal’s reportin the days before the election that Clifford intended to appear on “Good Morning America” to discuss the alleged affair. She reportedly chose not to appear on the show at that time without explanation.
Cohen sent the paper a statement signed by “Stormy Daniels” denying the sexual encounter with Trump and saying that hush money rumors are “completely false.”
Clifford did not comment directly to the Journal, and Clifford’s lawyer declined to comment on the matter.
Clifford reportedly received the payment through her lawyer’s client-trust account. A spokeswoman for the bank where the account is held declined to comment.
The payment was allegedly made around the time that the “Access Hollywood” tape surfaced, in which Trump made a comment about grabbing women “by the p—-.”
Sexual harassment and assault allegations against Trump from more than a dozen women surfaced during the campaign, and again during the rise of the “Me Too” movement. Trump has repeatedly denied the allegations, and the official White House position is that the women are lying.
Article via: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/368779-trump-lawyer-arranged-130k-payment-to-adult-film-star-to-stay-quiet
Youtube Finally Acts On Logan Paul
The Paul Brothers have been criticized time and time again. This year, Logan Paul ushered in the new year by posting a video of him in the Aokigahara Forest (the Suicide Forest) filming a dead body, watch Lovelyti’s video on that here. Logan Paul’s video stayed up for about two days and even landed on the trending page, after major backlash he finally decided to delete it.
Now YouTube announced it was dropping Paul from the YouTube Red comedy, “Foursome.”
The smoking gun though came from Google Preferred (the top 5% of most-viewed YouTube content) which says it will no longer aggregate Paul’s multimillion-subscriber channels for advertisers. That basically means he’s cut off from his main source of YouTube income.
Despite all of this, Paul’s father says his son will be returning to vlogging soon.
Article via: http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/10/logan-paul-youtube-cuts-ties-foursome-suicide-forest-video/
Usher’s Herpes Accuser’s Medical Information Leaked
Usher’s Herpes Accuser: “Insurance Companies Outed My Medical Info”
One of the the women who sued Usher for allegedly giving her herpes, is now suing insurance companies … claiming they outed her medical records.
Laura Helm is going after the insurers because she says her application for insurance ended up in a blog post which revealed her “private sensitive health information.” According to the suit, Laura filed her application with an insurance broker — representing 3 companies — on July 31, 2017.
In the suit, Laura says the broker took screenshots of her application and gave them to the blog. She’s suing the 3 companies … United Heathcare, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana and Golden Rule Insurance Company — as well as the blog.
Laura also claims the blog defamed her by saying she committed insurance fraud.
Helm initially sued Usher anonymously in July. The blog posts with her medical info were published in August — and she only revealed her name in docs subsequently filed in September.
As TMZ first reported, Helm dismissed the lawsuit against Usher.
Article via: http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/09/usher-herpes-accuser-laura-helm-sues-insurance-company/
Florida Teen Fake Doctor Is Sentenced to 3 Years
FLORIDA TEEN WHO FAKED BEING A DOCTOR WITH HIS OWN MEDICAL PRACTICE SENTENCED TO 3 YEARS IN PRISON
Dr. Love, not to be confused with former P. Diddy Brother Love, Dr. Malachai Love Robinson received notoriety when he posed as a doctor with his own medical practice in West Palm Beach, Florida, three years ago.
He was just 17 at the time and a police report said he peeked in on at least one gynecological exam while at St. Mary’s Medical Center.
Well, the now 20-year-old is trading in his white lab coat for jail scrubs because he’s going away. According to the Miami Herald, he admitted to being a con and was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison with credit for 16 months served. He got off pretty good considering he was looking at up to 90 years behind bars.
On Thursday, January 4, he pled guilty to a number of charges, including practicing medicine without a license, using false statements to obtain credit, forgery and grand theft.
The Paul Brothers Being Racist, #JustAnotherSunday :)
The Paul Bros are the gift from Ohio that keeps giving (us content to talk about). The brothers are no strangers to controversy, the first wave of which began with the younger brother, Jake Paul (former Disney channel star), facing criticism for being a public nuisance in his neighborhood and allegedly abusing his live in employees (especially his on again off again girlfriend) part of Team10.
Now footage has been released to TMZ in which Jake is dropping N-bombs during a freestyle rap during Coachella last year. Jake freestyled over Rae Sremmurd‘s “Throw Sum Mo” beat, and early in the video, around 7 seconds, he raps something about … “little ass n***as.”
Later he says, “I whip it like my n***a Richie Vetter, he make the pu**y so wet it gets wetter.”
“A source connected to Jake tells us the 20-year-old isn’t racist” (TMZ). TMZ’s Jake source says the actor and YouTube sensation has matured a lot since this video was shot 8 months ago. Okay.
Jake Paul was known to be the annoying younger brother, and Logan Paul was assumed to be older, more mature, with more sense in the head. Unfortunately, that is not the case as these brothers are two branches off the same tree.
Logan received Youtube wide backlash where he proceeded to film in the Aokigahara forest (also known as the Suicide Forest, where many venture into to commit suicide). While in the Forest, Paul wore a hideous green hat, that provided an offensive contrast to the seriousness of the Forest’s nature. This hat may also be representative of his childish mindset and how he is so far removed from reality, especially so when he filmed someone who committed suicide. Logan posted the video to Youtube and set the body as a Youtube thumbnail.
After the backlash Logan posted an apology to Twitter, a narcissistic non-apology no less.
After even more backlash Logan posted a more somber apology video to Youtube, which went #1 on the trending page, watch that here.
Logan eventually concluded that his social media fame has led him to blur the line between the Internet and the real world, and so he will be taking a break from the Internet. We hope that he will take his brother with him, and they both come back with more wholesome content.
It should be noted that Logan Paul has a history of racism, especially against Asian people, watch Keren Joy’s video here.
Read more via: http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/05/jake-paul-freestyle-raps-n-word/
Fetty Wap’s New Baby Is Still In The Hospital
Fetty Wap’s Baby Mama Gives Birth 3 Months Early: 1-LB. Baby Placed In An Incubator
Alexis Skyy gave birth to Alayia, who has been placed in an incubator after reportedly weighing a little over 1 pound at birth. Alayia is stable according to The Shade Room. We’re told Fetty was by Alexis’ side the whole time and he’s still with her at the hospital.
Alexis underwent a C-section after her water broke early Tuesday. She’s reportedly also doing fine. This is Alexis’ first baby and at least Fetty’s fourth. He has 1 more on the way with a different baby mama.
Fetty, a premature baby himself, didn’t seem worried based on the video they posted earlier this week.
Read more via: http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/05/fetty-wap-baby-mama-birth-girl-premature/
Why Caitlyn Jenner Didn’t Tell Kardashians About Reassignment Surgery: I Didn’t ‘Trust’ Them
Kim Kardashian West hasn’t spoken to Caitlyn Jenner in over a year because she says she was hurt over things the Olympic gold medalist wrote in her memoir Secrets of My Life that opened old wounds surrounding her decision to transition from male to female in 2015.
But in a new interview for ITV’s Piers Morgan’s Life Stories airing Thursday, Caitlyn, 68, claims that family members were all given copies of the entire book before publication in April “except for the last few pages when I talked about gender confirmation [surgery].”
Her reasoning?
“I didn’t want them to leak it to the press, okay?” Caitlyn told host Piers Morgan. “And there was no reason for them to know about it.”
Wow, even their father knows how starved for attention the Kardahsian Klan is.
Asked whether she didn’t trust the Kardashians, Caitlyn admitted: “Of course not — of course I didn’t trust them.”
Read more via: http://people.com/tv/caitlyn-jenner-didnt-trust-kardashians/
SZA, girl, Solange Knowles Is Not Your Friend
I was watching SZA’s SNL performance of her song The Weekend, and many #MessyBetties said that they came from another video: the official video for The Weekend.
We have waited for this video ever since SZA dropped that single. And so I raced to watch the video and honestly… I enjoyed it. Even though SZA did not have a… storyline like most music videos (involving cheating significant others) I still enjoyed the interpretive dancing, the hair (I love me some SZA hair), the care free black girl aesthetic and all. When I found out the Solange Knowles directed the video it made it that much better, I was ecstatic because it was true #blackgirlmagic!
But everyone was clowning SZA in the comments section saying how this was Cranes In The Garbage, and how this is what happens when you contact the wrong Knowles sister, or even how this was Solange’s revenge for SZA’s old tweet about Beyonce:
Apparently, that was 9 years ago, when SZA was 19. I will leave it at that.
Check out Khadi Don’s hilarious parody of the music video here.
But the more likely reason why everyone felt that Solange ‘sabotaged’ SZA is that the song The Weekend is promoting side chick culture, and if Solange would beat down JayZ in the elevator for allegedly cheating on her sister then maybe she is capable of this…
The Internet, proves to be too much sometimes. I loved the video, but if everyone else thought it was strange then maybe Solange simply missed the mark on this one.