Formed in 1981, Wham! enjoyed international success, marked by catchy, danceable hits, stylish music videos, and charismatic performances. They broke onto the scene with their debut album, “Fantastic,” which topped the UK charts in 1983 and spawned several hit singles. Their second album, “Make It Big” (1984), was a global success, reaching number one in both the UK and the US. That album went 4x Platinum in the U.K. and 6x Platinum in the United States....
Many of the ex-board members have some grievances. There are disagreements over the total number of bonuses that will be forfeited and each individual’s share. Achleitner hopes the former executives will help pay for fines the lender suffered due to their past misconduct. The Frankfurt-based lender is also seeking a simultaneous agreement with the former board members. The bank said in a 2015 report that it had decided to suspend bonuses for ten former management board members and one incumbent....
Early Life Bartolo Colón was born on May 24, 1973, in Altamira, Dominican Republic. He grew up here working long days with his father, Miguel, harvesting fruit and coffee beans. Bartolo credits his strength and the longevity of his career to this hard work as a child. Baseball Career Colón landed an amateur free agent deal with the Cleveland Indians in 1993, where he would begin his career in their minor league system....
Potter purchased Hill Top Farms and won prizes breeding Herdwick sheep. She left most of her property to the National Trust. Beatrix Potter passed away on December 22, 1943 at 77 years old from pneumonia and heart disease.
Rinaldi has earned critical acclaim for her role as Isaura on “A Escrava Isaura”. In 2001, she launched her own line of clothing in her native country. She often goes by the nickname “Bibi” and has become the public face of the fight against Mucopolysaccharidosis disease. Rinaldi has been married to her husband Eduardo Menga since 2002, and gave birth to twin girls seven years later.
Owning ten homes on “Billionaire’s Beach” is such an expensive feat that you might expect Ellison to skimp when it comes to the house itself, but it’s not so: He reportedly dropped $48 million to acquire the five-bedroom, 7,700-square-foot house designed by Getty Center architect Richard Meier. Meier originally completed the home in 1986 for Lissette Ackerberg, widow of late real estate developer Norman Ackerberg, but she sold and vacated the property following the protracted legal battle over a public access point to the adjacent beach....
From there, he went on to work for BBC Sport until 1990. He then shifted his focus to New Age philosophy and energetic healing, and began publishing books about his thoughts. After a press conference, in which he predicted the end of the world backfired, and the subsequent interviews about the press conference which further alienated his sports audience, he was dropped by the BBC. He ended up creating a new career focused on writing, lecturing, and teaching New Age conspiracism....
The band gained popularity through self-promotion via MySpace; they were selected as the official MySpace band on the Warped Tour 2006. At the end of 2007, it was announced that Meg & Dia would open for Angels & Airwaves on a 2008 US tour. In 2008, the band embarked on its first overseas tour in Europe, and received positive reviews by many European critics. Meg & Dia also made their first UK appearance at the annual Give It A Name festival in 2008....
Dick Cavett hosted “The Dick Cavett Show” in various formats from 1968 to 2007. On the show, he was known for his sophisticated, intellectual style of interviewing and for showcasing a wide range of guests, some of them controversial. In his later years, Cavett began writing an online column for the New York Times. Early Life and Education Dick Cavett was born on November 19, 1936, in Gibbon, Nebraska, to teachers Alva and Erabel....
That advice, as Wade shared it, had to do with his well-known penchant for collecting automobiles: he says he was advised by his financial advisor “[t]o get rid of about 16 cars.” That included a Maybach that Wade says he never drove but that he was nevertheless paying about $6,000 a month just to have the privilege of owning. It may sound like simple advice, but he says he declined to follow it at first, but the wisdom of age has led him to eventually get rid of all but “a modest Audi Q8....
After Depp filed a $25 million lawsuit against his former managers, they decided to make correspondence between their former client and their office public to prove that Depp had been well aware of his overspending for years. Deadline obtained emails from late 2009 that reveal Depp’s accounts were overdrawn by $4 million. TMG partner Joel Mandel emailed Depp to advise him to keep his holiday spending and travel within reasonable amounts....
According to a report, Floyd Mayweather is extremely confident in his chances to win tonight’s fight against Conor McGregor, so much so that he is considering putting up $5 million to bet on himself to win the fight. RJ Bell of Inside Las Vegas reported the news from a “trusted Vegas source,” who said that the 40-year-old boxer is considering putting up the money. Mayweather is no stranger to putting up large amounts of money....
In terms of his film work, Byrne is probably best known for his work in films like “Miller’s Crossing,” “The Usual Suspects,” and “Hereditary.” His television work includes a recent TV series adaptation of “War of the Worlds.” He is considered one of the most prominent faces in the Irish entertainment world, and he was awarded an Irish Film and Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also considered to be one of Ireland’s greatest-ever actors....
Ward has been a famous actor for more than five decades, but he was popular in the days before TV stars made crazy money. At the beginning of Batman’s three-season run, Ward was paid $350 per week ($2,751 adjusted for inflation). In fact, during the filming of the classic television show Batman, Ward was required to perform his own stunts because his costume revealed more of his face, making it less practical for all of his stunts to be performed by a stunt double....
The origins of “Happy Birthday” date back to 1893, when a pair of sisters named Patty and Mildred Hill co-wrote a song called “Good Morning To All”. The sisters were also school teachers and they soon introduced the song to their kindergarten class. Their students loved the song so much that Patty and Mildred decided to include it in a book they were co-writing called “Song Stories for the Kindergarten”....
“In the coming 30 years, the world’s pain will be much more than happiness, because there are many more problems that we have come across,” Ma said. He warned of potential job disruptions caused by technology. He warned that technology may have a “huge impact” on every industry and walk of life – far more so than it already has. The billionaire e-commerce mogul also reminded the assembled crowd that 15 years ago he gave 200 to 300 speeches warning people about the danger of the impact of e-commerce and the internet on traditional brick and mortar businesses....
Janice Pennington was born in Seattle, Washington in July 1942. She was the longest running model on the television series The Price Is Right, from 1972 to 2000. Pennington was the Playboy Playmate of the Month in May 1971. She younger sister Ann Pennington is also a model. Janice Pennington co-founded the Hollywood Film Festival. She handed the microphone off to Bob Barker on more than 5,000 episodes of The Price Is Right....
In 2020, HBO Max released a Gremlins prequel series with Dante serving as a consulting producer.
Psychic lawsuit: In 2013, Jude sued a family of psychics who had allegedly fleeced her out of $20 million over 17 years. She claimed that the family held her mentally hostage and used the money to amass a fleet of cars, a mansion and nearly $2 million worth of gold coins.
The agreement hopes to attract additional investors to Kushner Companies, which has been struggling financially. Anbang will receive an equity stake in the partnership. Anbang’s murky connections to the Chinese power structure have raised a few national security concerns over their investments in U.S. businesses. The document released to the press offers a rare glimpse at a major deal by a close Trump family member. It’s unclear whether the deal will prompt a federal review....
