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Entertainment
‘Creed 2’ Opens Strong Over
Robert De Niro And
5-Day Thanksgiving Weekend
Wife Grace Hightower
According to early weekend estimates, the massive domes- tic debut Ralph Breaks the In- ternet is the second best Thanksgiving opening of all time behind fellow Disney An- imation feature Frozen ($93.6 million).
Creed II serves as the eighth installment in the Rocky film series and centers on the son of heavyweight champ Apollo Creed. Stallone reprises his role as Rocky Balboa. The original film grossed over $55 million.
Creed II and Ralph Breaks The Internet have been a hit with critics and audiences. “Ralph” has a 86% score on Rotten Tomatoes while “Creed II” holds a 82% score.
Even though it came in at No. 2, Creed II opened strong over Thanksgiving weekend
Tessa Thompson and Michael B. Jordan attend 'Creed II' New York Premiere.
Robert De Niro and Grace Hightower have gone their separate ways after more than 20 years of marriage, The Hollywood Reporter and sev- eral other news outlets have reported.
A rep for De Niro declined to comment on the news.
The two, who married in 1997, have a 20-year-old son and a 6-year-old daughter.
The “Raging Bull” Oscar winner and Hightower had filed for divorce in 1999. The two began a contentious cus- tody battle over their son, El- liott, the New York Daily News reported. But the two scrapped the legal proceedings and renewed their vows five years later.
ROBERT DE NIRO AND WIFE GRACE HIGHTOWER
De Niro was previously married to Diahnne Abbott. They share two children as well. He also has two kids with ex-girlfriend Toukie Smith. De Niro, 75, and Hightower, 63, met at a restaurant in Lon- don where Hightower worked as a hostess in the 1980s.
With $55.8M Debut
Reportedly Split
with a box office debut of $55.8M across 5 days.
The sequel to the 2015 orig- inal, which reunites stars Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson and Sylvester Stallone, dominated the box office along with Disney’s Ralph Breaks the Internet. The
animated sequel starring John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverma took the top spot with an estimated $84.5 mil- lion for the 5-day holiday weekend. The original, Wreck It Ralph, bagged $49 million over its first three days of re- lease.
XXXTENTACION's Mother
Aretha Franklin’s Detroit Mansion Sells For $300K
Unveils His Unborn
Baby's Name
“There are no other Detroit properties” that were owned by Franklin, said Sabrina Gar- rett-Owens, the personal representative of Franklin’s estate, in an email to The De- troit News. “There is no link with the new owner,” she added.
The mansion boasts five bedrooms, six bathrooms, three fireplaces, leaded glass windows, a three-car garage and a backyard adjacent to the Detroit Golf Club.
Franklin’s 4,148-square- foot Colonial-style house in
Aretha Franklin waves after her performance at the Inter- national Jazz Day Concert
Detroit’s Bloomfield Township
is still on the market for $800,000.
The last property owned in Detroit by late singing leg- end Aretha Franklin, a 5,600-square-foot mansion, has been sold for less than half a million dollars.
According to public records, the brick home, which was built in 1927, fetched $300,000 in a sale last month. The Detroit News re- ports that the Queen of Soul purchased the home in 1993 but nearly lost it in 2008 due to unpaid property taxes.
XXXTENTACION was fa- tally shot in June, but he left behind what his mother called his “final gift” — a baby boy.
On Saturday (November 24), X’s mother, Cleopatra Bernard, held a baby shower for the unborn baby. Not long after, she revealed the name of X’s baby is Gekyume, a word X came up with before he died.
According to an Instagram Live video X posted back in March, Gekyume means “a different state” or “next” uni- verse of thought.
XXXTENTACION
Future's Alleged 6th Baby Mama Claims He Wants Her And Unborn Child ‘Dead’
Unveils 20th Anniversary
Tupac Shakur Estate
‘Greatest Hits’ Merch
Future has been accused of threatening a woman who is al- legedly pregnant with his child. Model/entrepreneur Eliza Reign claims she started a sex- ual relationship with the plat- inum-selling rapper roughly two years ago.
According to an Instagram post obtained by Baller Alert, Reign says Future threatened her life and the life of her unborn baby.
“Eventually I found out I was pregnant and I let him know,” her statement reads in part. “He obviously wasn’t happy about it but wasn’t very forceful strong about getting rid of it either. However, he asked me to have
FUTURE
an abortion. I thought seriously about it but waited a few weeks.”
Reign goes on to explain that she ultimately decided to follow through with the pregnancy. Shortly after, she alleges Fu- ture and members of his team started threatening her.
“I got the courage to basically inform him that I didn’t go through with the procedure and decided to keep the child,” she continues. “He went ballistic! Having members of his camp call me and friends come by my job asking about me. It got so bad, Out of fear, I started to slow down on working.”
Despite her fears, Reign con- tinued sending Future updates and sonograms until he eventu- ally blocked her on social media.
The estate of the late Tupac Shakur posted a cryptic announcement to its Twitter page earlier this week. It promised something related to the late legendary MC was arriving on Saturday (Novem- ber 24).
It turns out the big reveal was a new 2Pac merch line to commemorate the 20th an- niversary of his Greatest Hits album, which was re- leased on November 24, 1998. The limited edition merch in- cludes 13 items with three variations of the album — a clear vinyl version, a standard vinyl version and a digital download of the double-disk
TUPAC
project.
The line also features hats,
t-shirts, listographs and hood- ies.
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