Sara Spary and Hannah Ryan, CNN A 16th century drawing by one of the key figures of the German Renaissance has been valued in excess of $10 million after it was initially purchased at a yard sale for just $30 in 2017. According to Agnews Gallery — the London auction house in possession of the
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Cheslie Kryst’s mother is speaking out about her daughter’s death, saying she has “never known a pain as deep as this. I am forever changed.” April Simpkins shared a statement with “Extra” where Kryst had worked as an entertainment correspondent. The 30-year-old attorney and former Miss USA died after jumping
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By Marianne Garvey Channing Tatum says he is traumatized after his dreams of playing a Marvel superhero fell apart. The “Magic Mike” star was set to play X-Men character Gambit in his own movie in 2016, but after production delays, the movie never happened. Tatum and his producing partner, Reid Carolin, were producing the movie
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Two judges on “The Masked Singer” walked off after Rudy Giuliani unmasked himself at the end of a show taping, a source close to the show told CNN Wednesday. Robin Thicke and Ken Jeong walked off stage following the revelation of Giuliani as a contestant on the popular Fox reality show
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By Forrest Brown, CNN Sun and water can cooperate to make a visit to Yosemite National Park in California potentially extra special. It’s a glorious, orange-tinged nature show called “Firefall.” For the 2022 season, the first one is coming up this February. (A possible second one occurs in fall.) The lava-lookalike spectacle happens at Horsetail
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Rihanna has given us another glimpse of her pregnancy. The singer and beauty mogul this week revealed that she and her boyfriend, rapper A$AP Rocky, are expecting their first child. On Wednesday, Rihanna shared previously published photos of her baby bump — plus a new one. “How the gang pulled
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By Will McGough, CNN Perhaps no travel destination in the world has had a rougher go of things these past few years than Puerto Rico. In addition to the pandemic, the Caribbean archipelago has faced an eye-popping string of disasters in the past half-decade. They include the Zika epidemic in 2016, Hurricanes Irma and Maria
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By Sara Spary, CNN Irish actor Cillian Murphy has said it was “very strange” to film the final series of “Peaky Blinders” without Helen McCrory, as he remembered his “brave” and “magnificent” former co-star. Murphy, who plays protagonist Tommy Shelby in the hit series, said in an interview with Esquire on Tuesday that McCrory was
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Oscar Holland, CNN From Joe DiMaggio to Albert Einstein, Princess Diana to Victoria Beckham, watchmaker Patek Philippe has long been a celebrity favorite. But the Swiss brand’s reputation has taken an unexpected turn in recent years. Namedropping luxury labels may be nothing new in hip-hop, but lyrical references to Patek Phillippe exploded in 2017. That
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN Though still in its first season, “Abbott Elementary” has captured the hearts of millions. The show, a new mockumentary comedy on ABC, follows a group of teachers at an underfunded elementary school in Philadelphia, who are just trying to make things work. Sure, the lights flicker. And the textbooks are so
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By Janelle Davis, CNN. Photographs by Will Lanzoni, CNN Orecchiette is a pasta specialty from the Puglia region — down in Italy’s southern “heel.” It’s one of the country’s flattest and most fertile regions, with wheat and olive oil produced in abundance. This is where Stanley Tucci‘s friend and writer Kay Plunkett-Hogge picked up the
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By Mirna Alsharif and Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Four men have been arrested for allegedly being part of a drug trafficking organization that sold deadly fentanyl-laced heroin to actor and producer Michael K. Williams, according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York. Williams, best known for
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By Janelle Davis, CNN. Photographs by Will Lanzoni and Heather Fulbright, CNN “There is some truth to the old adage ‘Most of the world eats to live but Italians live to eat,’” Stanley Tucci has said. He grew up in an Italian American family and lived in Italy during his childhood — and, true to
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Livia Borghese and Hannah Ryan, CNN Monica Vitti — a revered star of Italian cinema — has died at the age of 90, according to Italian politician and family friend Walter Veltroni, who made the announcement on Twitter. “Roberto Russo, her life companion for many years, asked me to announce that Monica Vitti is no
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Some former Playboy employees and Playboy Playmates are coming to the defense of Hugh Hefner after the recent debut of A&E’s “Secrets of Playboy” docuseries. Hefner, who died in 2017, and his empire are examined in the series. It highlights the power disparity between some of the young women who worked
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Weeks after she announced the postponement of her eagerly awaited Las Vegas residency, Adele has shared a few places where she can be seen. The singer posted on her verified Instagram account Tuesday that she plans to perform on the Brit Awards next week and will appear on an upcoming
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Dolly Parton and A Tribe Called Quest don’t have much in common aside from a propensity for making great music. But now, the beloved country songstress and mythic rap group from Queens might belong to the same class of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees. They’re among the nominees for
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Cheslie Kryst’s grandfather is struggling to make sense of her death. Gary Simpkins talked the New York Daily News about the former Miss USA, attorney and entertainment correspondent who died by suicide over the weekend, according to the New York City Medical Examiner. Simpkins said his granddaughter was “a light
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Leah Dolan, CNN Gwyneth Paltrow began building her dream home in 2015, after she happened upon a derelict lot for sale in Montecito, California,on a real estate app. Now, as she opens the finished property’s doors to Architectural Digest magazine, the Oscar-winning actor turned lifestyle guru has recounted the “long and arduous journey” that transformed
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Recipe from Stanley Tucci, CNN. Photographs by Heather Fulbright, CNN This dessert recipe was created by Chef Gianni Scappin’s sister, Livia. Scappin, coauthor of “The Tucci Cookbook” and chef-owner of restaurants Cucina and Market St. in New York’s Hudson Valley, loves her tiramisu because it’s not too sweet or heavy. Her secret is a well-beaten
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