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Harry And Meghan’s
Business Manager Guilty Of Defrauding Ne-Yo, Brian McKnight
Wedding Outfits To Go
On Public Display
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A fed- eral jury has convicted a busi- ness manager of defrauding R&B artists Ne-Yo and Brian McKnight in a sports bever- age scheme.
The panel in Ohio found 42- year-old Kevin Foster of Montclair, New Jersey, guilty of wire fraud, money launder- ing, bankruptcy fraud, tax eva- sion and filing false tax returns last week.
Prosecutors say Foster in- duced Ne-Yo, whose real name is Shaffer Smith, to in-
under false representations. They say Foster invested an additional $1.5 million of Smith’s money without his consent and took out lines of credit by forging Smith’s name.
Authorities say he also de- frauded McKnight to fund the operation and his lavish lifestyle of luxury cars, de- signer watches and season tickets to the New York Knicks and Giants.
Two others were previously convicted in the scheme.
LONDON — The outfits Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wore at their wedding are to go on public display later this year at the cere- mony’s venue, Windsor Castle. Royal fashion fans will be able to get a close look at the bride’s silk Givenchy wedding dress and 16-foot (5-meter) veil, as well as the diamond-and-plat- inum tiara loaned to Meghan by Queen Elizabeth II.
There will also be a copy of the frock-coat uniform of the Blues and Royals regiment that Harry wore for the May 19 service, which was watched by millions around the world. The exhibition “A Royal Wed- ding: The Duke And Duchess Of Sussex” will be at Windsor
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Castle from Oct. 26 to Jan. 6, and at Holyrood Palace in Ed- inburgh, Scotland, from June 14 to Oct. 6, 2019.
Chadwick Boseman Action Thriller ‘17 Bridges’ Targets Summer 2019 Release
Comedian Kevin Hart Backs New MMA League
No other major studio re- lease is set for that date yet. Disney’s live-action take on The Lion King arrives on July 19, an untitled New Line Annabelle movie arriving on July 3, and Sony/Mar- vel’s Spider-Man: Far From Home swinging in on July 5.
Brian Kirk (Luther, Game of Thrones) is directing from a script by Adam Mervis with rewrites by Matthew Carna- han. 17 Bridges follows a dis- graced NYPD detective (Boseman) who is given a
thrust into a citywide manhunt for a cop killer.
The Russo Brothers are producing with Boseman and his writing and producing partner Logan Coles, while Mike Larocca will serve as the EP via the brothers’ AG- BObanner. STXfilms’ Drew Simon and Kate Vorhoff are overseeing the film’s pro- duction. The studio, which ac- quired the spec script two years ago, reportedly beat out Sony, Warner Bros and Uni- versal for the project.
Kevin Hart had a bit in his standup routine where his at- tempt to trash-talk his way out of a fight ended up with the comic offering a hug instead.
“This is dumb. I don’t want to fight you,” Hart says to laughter. “This is stupid. You’ve got to have a purpose, man. I’m not that guy.”
Hart will leave fighting to professionals.
But he’s not against sitting cage side, especially for a Pro- fessional Fighters League card, where he’s an investor in the upstart MMA promotion.
“I want to be the guy where people can say, he’s actually there. We see him at the fights,” Hart told The Associ- ated Press. “We see him sup- porting it. We see he’s a true fan of the sport.”
The PFL ends its first regu- lar season Thursday at Ocean Resort Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, before a break for a postseason that will award championship winnings out of a $10 million prize pool.
The PFL emerged from the ashes of World Series of Fight- ing and has fights streamed on Facebook and televised on NBC Sports Network. The top fighters in six weight classes
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shot at redemption after being
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will make the playoffs and the championship bouts will be held on Dec. 31 at Madison Square Garden.
The Atlantic City card — PFL7 — airs at 9 p.m. on NBCSN.
The league was formed when Donn Davis, Mark Leschly and Russ Ramsey invested $25 million into the WSOF in 2017 and rebranded the organization into a tourna- ment style — think March Madness in a cage — league. The PFL landed two-time Olympic judo gold medalist Kayla Harrison as its star, who won her first two profes- sional fights this summer.
Spike Lee Responds To Boots Riley’s Criticism Of ‘BlacKkKlansmen’
Spike Lee has responded to criticism of his latest film, “BlacKkKlansmen,” from “Sorry to Bother You” film- maker Boots Riley. In an in- terview with the U. K. publication The Times, Lee said he would not comment on the matter before issuing a re- sponse. Last week, Riley took to Twitter to criticize the film, writing that it was “being pushed as a true story and it is precisely its untrue elements that make a cop a hero against racism.”
Lee said he wasn’t going to comment on the charges, but then he elaborated. “Look at my films: they’ve been very
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critical of the police, but on the other hand I’m never going to say all police are corrupt, that
all police hate people of color,” he said. “I’m not going to say that. I mean, we need police. Unfortunately, police in a lot of instances have not upheld the law; they have broken the law.” “BlacKkKlansman” stars John David Washington as Ron Stallworth, who teamed with two white police detec- tives in the 1970s to thwart a potential attack from the Ku Klux Klan. The film is one of the biggest hits of the summer, having picked up the Cannes Film Festival’s Grand Prix award earlier this year; it has already earned a solid $26 mil- lion at the box office since its August 10 release.
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