Новости за 05.09.2018

Here’s a fun quirk of history: It was the expertise involved in developing the innovative Playtex Living Girdle that helped create the spacesuits that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin wore all the way to the moon.

Over the weekend, Lily Allen announced in an Instagram post, “I slept with female escorts when I was on tour, cause I was lost and lonely and looking for something.” She continued, “I’m not proud, but I’m not ashamed. I don’t do it anymore.” The singer explained that someone had leaked portions of her upcoming…

A former principal dancer for the New York City Ballet is the subject of a lawsuit exposing a culture of sexual exploitation that implicates dancers and donors alike.

In May, my colleague Megan Reynolds wrote a smart piece unpacking a particular phenomenon within the wellness scam: Celebrities like the Kardashians selling fad diets, waist trainers and the like to women on social media through paid promotions labeled #ads. From this relatively new trend of weight-loss sponcon came…

In 2017, a UCLA student filed a Title IX complaint against another student for sexually assaulting her and won. (Her attacker, Blake Lobato, was expelled.) She is now suing two fraternities and a student group representing the interests of other frats on campus in order to change “a culture of alcohol abuse and…

When 64-year-old South Carolina man Steven Clayton tumbled down the stairs of his enormous lakeside mansion modeled after Mount Vernon, authorities thought he had died from the fall. But if, like me, you’re also caught up on true crime series The Staircase, you’re probably aware that staircase deaths aren’t always…

We know Kevin Spacey won’t appear in Season 6 of House of Cards—he was fired from the show after actor Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of making unwanted sexual advances when Rapp was 14. But there will be a tombstone for Spacey’s character Frank Underwood. In the teaser for the show’s final season (which premieres…

Failed blood-testing start-up Theranos, a $10-billion company that in 2015 was discovered to be an elaborate scam, is finally shutting down.

We are exactly one month out from one of the most significant cultural events of our generation: the release of Bradley Cooper’s remake of a remake of (depending on how you interpret things, another remake of) A Star Is Born, starring not Stefani Germanotta (the name I once predicted she’d use), but Lady Gaga herself.

Here is a historical blind item.

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ET and TMZ report that Kim Kardashian is trying to secure a pardon for another person facing a life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense. Kardashian is reportedly back at the White House on Wednesday to discuss the case of Chris Young, a man whose 2010 arrest for marijuana and cocaine possession led to a life…

Donald Trump, who loves free speech when the speeches are his own, wants to crush dissent again, if you can believe it. “I don’t know why they don’t take care of a situation like that,” Trump said during a Tuesday interview with the Daily Caller about the protesters who interrupted Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate…

Any of us could list off 10 or more things we love about Janet Jackson in a heartbeat—but when she was younger, she says she had a hard time looking in the mirror and doing that herself.

Asia Argento has hired a new attorney named Mark Jay Heller following claims she sexually assaulted actor Jimmy Bennett when he was just 17 years old. Heller released a statement to Page Six explaining that his client will not pay the remainder of the hush money, per an agreement arranged by the late Anthony Bourdain.

At this point you have to be living under a rock to not know that the “healing” advice purveyed on Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop is sus. Watchdog groups, medical professionals, and critics have consistently called out Goop’s recommendations, from bee-sting therapy to putting a jade egg up your vagina, dangerous. And now as a…

Get beautiful and get free stuff at the same time. Pick up a $20 Amazon luxury beauty box, which is a little more fancy-schmancy than the typical beauty box, and receive equivalent credit to use on a number of featured products. It’s basically free money that you can use to further your beauty obsession.

On Tuesday night, 44-year-old Boston city councilor Ayanna Pressley won the Democratic primary for the seventh congressional district in Massachusetts against 10-term incumbent Representative Michael Capuano. Since there is no Republican running on the ballot for that district in November, she is expected to take that…

Whatever is happening here, it feels like a long con.

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Jerry O’Connell’s forthcoming talk show about how it’s OK for men to watch Bravo started off on the wrong foot. The show was first supposed to be called Real Men Watch Bravo, which ignited a huge backlash, and eventually prompted an apology from O’Connell himself. Now the show has been renamed Bravo’s Play by Play,…

This may come as a bit of a shock but…Kourtney Kardashian and Younes Bendjima, fresh from their break-up a mere month ago, have been, well, interacting. In public.

Stepping in bear trap. Bad? Not anymore! For you see…

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The latest police procedural sprung from the mind of Dick Wolf is the self-explanatory Law & Order: Hate Crimes.

After a solid month of fake dating, SoundCloud rapper Lil Xan and up-and-coming singer Noah Cyrus, little sister to Miley, have called it quits. The teen dream of a couple broke up last night, allegedly after Cyrus shared a meme of Charlie Puth’s face on a porn star’s body and Xan (real name Diego Leanos) accused her…

Kristen Stewart is deeply over Hollywood’s reticent depictions of female sexuality and taking matters into her own hands, so to speak.

Viola Davis is ready for folks to focus on the pay gap between white women and women of color in the entertainment industry.