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Beyoncé’s ‘Homecoming’ Loses Emmy To ‘Carpool Karaoke’
Berry Gordy Donates $4M For Motown Museum’s Multi- Million Expansion Campaign
Mac Miller’s $11M Fortune Reportedly Divided Between Family & Friend
LOS ANGELES, CA – Mac Miller reportedly left behind roughly $11.3 million. Accord- ing toTMZ, the late rapper’s fortune will be divided be- tween his friends and family. Legal docs state Miller’s family gets more than $5 mil- lion in assets, including bank and brokerage accounts. Miller’s trust gave specific instructions to put his most personal items in the hands of his closet friends.
A friend named Dylan Rectenwald will get all of Miller’s music equipment and instruments, including a $5,000 guitar. Another friend, identified as Q Chan- dler-Cuff, will also get 20 pieces of jewelry, valued at tens of thousands of dollars.
Miller’s house furniture
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will go to Jimmy Murton, while Bryan Johnson will receive all of his clothing and electronics such as his TV, laptop, and iPad.
Miller died at 26 from an accidental overdose on Sep- tember 7, 2018.
Granted, Paul McCartney was in the “Carpool Karaoke” that won a Creative Arts Emmy Saturday night. But many pop culture reviewers and fans felt it hardly held a candle to Bey- oncé’s Netflix concert film and documentary extrava- ganza “Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé,” which has had glowing reviews.
It didn’t get any better for Beyoncé after losing top hon- ors to “Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool” in the category of Outstanding Vari- ety Special (Pre-recorded).
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Though “Homecoming” and Beyoncé had been nomi- nated for a total of six awards, they didn’t grab a single one. Beyoncé lost the directing nod to “Springsteen on Broad- way,” Outstanding Production
Design for a Variety Special to “Rent,” the writing Emmy to Hannah Gadsby’s “Nan- nette,” and Outstanding Music Direction honors to “Fosse/Verdon.” “Homecom- ing” also lost to “RuPaul’s Drag Race” for Outstanding Costumes for Variety, Nonfic- tion or Reality Programming.
“Homecoming” combined footage from Beyoncé’s 2018 Coachella concert featuring the singer and 100 other perform- ers with behind-the-scenes footage providing an intimate look at the world of a per- former.
Berry Gordy attends a photocall for “Motown – The Musical” at The Hospital Club on October 5, 2015 in London, England.
Motown founder Berry Gordy announced Wednes- day that he will donate $4 million to the Motown Mu- seum’s expansion project, and the move comes ahead of the label’s 60th anniversary later this month.
“I’m excited about the fu- ture of Motown Museum and happy to support it,” Gordy said in a press release, ac-
cording to the Associated Press. “Not only will the ex- panded museum entertain and tell the stories of tal- ented and creative people who succeeded against al odds, but it will also inspire and create opportunity for people to explore their dreams the way I did mine. I couldn’t be prouder to be a part of that.”
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