Rod Stewart at the 32nd Anniversary Carousel Of Hope Ball, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA. 10-23-10
That celebrities live life of luxury and glamour is a well known fact, but the truth is that we never really know to what extent that luxury goes. Well, not until we see it ourselves.
Just recently, legendary British rock and pop legend Rod Stewart listed his $70 million home for sale, and as expected, the mansion was sold in no time and now we get to see how it looks on the inside, and trust us, it took our breath away.
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Stewart, who was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 as a solo artist, the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006, and was inducted a second time into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 as a member of Faces, is a father of six. He has his children with four different women, but it wasn’t until he met his current wife, supermodel Penny Lancaster, that he turned into a dedicated husband.
The two dated for seven years before Stewart got on one knee and proposed to her in front of the Eiffel Tower. There is an age gap of 24 years between the two, with Steward being Lancaster’s senior, but that isn’t a big deal as the two are very much in love.
Speaking of her, the singer said, “I am lost for words. They have not invented the words for how I feel about her. She is everything.”
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However, despite loving her endlessly, Steward always puts his kids before everything else and says “I cannot get enough of them.”
Stewart’s Beverly Hills home is probably one of the most extravagant we’ve ever seen.
Located in one of the most sought-after neighborhoods in Los Angeles; the gated exclusive community of North Beverly Park, the mansion resembles a dream castle.
It is placed on 3 acres of land and was designed by the famous Los Angeles architect Richard Landry in the 1990s.
The mansion boasts 14 bedrooms, including a massive screening room, a family room, a rec room, a library, a gym, a gorgeous hand-painted bar, and a formal dining room that seats up to 20 people. Now if you think this is more than enough of what such place needs, let us tell you that there is a lot more.
The floors are made of marble and the chandeliers are crystal. Further, the place features elaborate wood paneling and a tennis court which can easily be converted into football field. There is also an outdoor kitchen, a fireplace, a pool, and a spa.
However, what is probably the best feature of this magnificent place is the incredible view of the city.
Of course, there are plenty of guest rooms as well.
What do you think of Sir Rod Stewart’s home?
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Weeks following King Charles’ coronation, Prince Harry is back to his homeland, but this time, his visit isn’t related to his nearly ‘estranged’ family. In fact, the Prince is back in Britain for a court case against The Sun and Daily Mirror whom he sued back in 2019 for unlawfully stealing his voicemails after hacking his phone.
The claims against the Mirror Group Newspapers were filed in the High Court of Justice on Harry’s behalf, involving “illegal interception of voicemail messages,” Buckingham Palace confirmed, but no further details had been revealed back then.
Harry’s relationship with the British press has never been a friendly one as he believes they are to be partially blamed for his mother’s car crash, who died while being chased by the paparazzi. Further, Harry claimed that the tabloids have been attacking his wife, Meghan Markle, in a similar manner to that they used with late Princess Diana.
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Harry isn’t the sole celebrity who’s suing the newspapers. On the contrary, over 100 other people, including the estate of the late George Michael, are suing the Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) for alleged misuse of private information between 1991 and 2011. It includes phone hacking and intercepting voicemails. Allegedly, senior executives were aware of the hacking and turned a blind eye.
According to Harry’s claim, over 140 published stories by the newspapers that were written about him were the result of unlawful behavior, and the trial involves just 33 of them.
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“As a teenager and in my early 20s, I ended up feeling as though I was playing up to a lot of the headlines and stereotypes that [the tabloid press] wanted to pin on me mainly because I thought that, if they are printing this rubbish about me and people were believing it, I may as well ‘do the crime,’ so to speak,” Harry said in the statement, further adding that these articles played a destructive role during his childhood and teenage years.
“It was a downward spiral, whereby the tabloids would constantly try and coax me, a ‘damaged’ young man, into doing something stupid that would make a good story and sell lots of newspapers.
“Looking back on it now, such behavior on their part is utterly vile.”
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Among the many things that got destructed by these published articles involving Harry was his relationship with ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy. When Harry entered the High Court on Wednesday, he opened up about his former relationship and said that it was doomed because of “the prying eyes of the tabloids.”
“It was just that feeling of being under surveillance all the time,” the 38-year-old wrote. “I believe Chelsy found this even more difficult to deal with when she lived in England … everyone has a limit as to what they can endure,” The Duke of Sussex said as reported by The New York Times.
Speaking of the time the two met, Harry said that Davy knew very little about his family. “Unlike so many girls I met, she wasn’t visibly fitting herself for a crown the moment she shook my hand… Not only was she uninterested in my title, she seemed bored by it,” he wrote in his all-tell memoir Spare.
At the time, he believed she was the one, but it was the media that caused him troubles as he was worried that they “would cost me another person I cared about.”
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Allegedly, in the 55-page-long submission to the High Court, Harry revealed he flirted with another woman while dating Davy, calling himself “immature” and stating he made a “stupid decision.”
“I hadn’t really thought about my actions, and I had made a stupid decision,” Harry said as per The Sun. “It was a challenging period for me.”
In an article titled Chelsy Is Not Happy, the author wrote how Davy learned Harry visited a lap-dancing club back in 2006 and was furious because of that. She allegedly screamed to him on the phone. “It said she slammed the phone down because she was too angry and then called back to scream at me for half an hour,” Harry said of the article and added he doesn’t recall that to be true.
“To the best of my recollection, I don’t think Chelsy did go mad about me going there. We did speak about it over the phone, but I promised her that I hadn’t had a lap dance and stayed with the three other cadets that had girlfriends,” Harry added.
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Following his witnessing, experts took stands over whether flirting is in fact cheating, and according to most of them, it is.
For example, licensed family therapist Christie Tcharkhoutian said: “I think the biggest misconception is that cheating has to be physical— that’s not the case. It can be emotional, and it can be flirting… If you don’t ask yourself the deeper questions, flirting may become a gateway drug to cheating down the line.”
Harry and Chelsy Davy called their relationship quits in 2011 but remained good friends. She attended Kate and William’s wedding, and later, Harry and Meghan’s as well.
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In 2022, Davy married husband Sam Cutmore-Scott and they welcomed a son together.
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For two people to love each other unconditionally and be together for a long time, they definitely don’t have to be married, and one of the cutest and most adorable Hollywood couples, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russel, are just the perfect proof of that.
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In fact, they once said that the reason their relationship lasted for that many years is exactly the fact that they never tied the knot.
“So as long as my emotional state is in a state of devotion, honesty, caring, and loving, then we’re fine. I like waking up every day and seeing that he is there and knowing that I have a choice. There is really no reason to marry,” Goldie explained in an interview with Woman’s Day in 2007.
Today, the couple is happier than ever with their grandchildren. Yes, believe it or not, bombshell Goldie is a grandmother and one of her granddaughters, Rio, looks exactly like her famous granny.
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When the actress’ daughter, Kate Hudson, gave birth to her youngest child, baby Rani Rose Hudson Fujikawa, last year, Goldie was in the delivery room and witnessed the precious moment of seeing her granddaughter entering the world. She shared the one-of-a-time experience she will cherish forever on the Ellen’s Show. “The doctor was in there and I could see the head and then it disappeared,” the proud grandma said. “And I’m looking over his shoulder, then the doctor turned to me and said ‘Goldie if you get any closer you’re gonna fall in.’”
Goldie has two other grandchildren from her daughter, boys Ryder Russell, 15, and Bingham Hawn Bellamy, 8.
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TheChristmas Chronicles stars have three other grandchildren from Goldie’s son Oliver Hudson.
The couple is always sharing photos of the little ones and have said in many occasions that their grandkids make them happiest grandparents ever. When baby Rani Rose was married, Kate shared an adorable photo of Goldie and Kurt cuddling with her, and people loved the devotion they showed, saying it was a representation of the purest form of love there is.
Goldie loves spending time with the little ones and enjoys their presence in her life. A photo of her with sweet Rio at a MindUp event where singer Barry Manilow was honored stole the hearts of many of Goldie’s fans. It was captioned, “Couldn’t have picked a better date than my granddaughter.”
“I look at our kids and grandchildren and there’s nothing in the world that could make me as proud as I am of all them,” Goldie said, as per Australian Women’s Weekly. “Being a grandmother is amazing, I love it. It brings incredible joy. Family is so important.” Her grandkids called her “GoGo” and we thing that’s adorable.
Kurt agrees that the most important thing in the couple’s life are their kids and grandchildren.
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Clint Black and Lisa Hartman at the 2009 TV Land Awards. Gibson Amphitheatre, Universal City, CA. 04-19-09
Lisa Hartman Black and husband Clint have been married for over 31 years, proving it wrong that unions between celebrities are short-lived.
The gorgeous blonde beauty rose to prominence with her role in Knots Landing, which aired from 1982 to 1986. At the same time, Lisa pursued a career in music, releasing the hit If Love Must Go.
On June 1, Lisa celebrated her 67th birthday, and it’s safe to say that she defies age as she looks as stunning as ever.
Today, she and her husband, together with their daughter Lily Pearl Black, live a quieter life.
Over the years, Lisa and Clint made music together and released several songs, and now their daughter is joining the club. Back in 2021, the family announced they are taking the music road with their first-ever tour, Mostly Hits & the Mrs. Lily joined her parents after taking a gap year from studying music at Belmont University in Nashville. When they asked her to be part of their tour, the family was having dinner together and Lily’s reaction was overwhelming. She started screaming and crying out of excitement.
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“She’s always been an actor and able to assume characters,” Clint told People of his daughter whom he and Lisa welcomed into their lives after ten years of marriage.
“She would walk in and be a British concierge,” Lisa recalled about one of her daughter’s childhood flights of fancy.
“Yeah, only traveling parents can raise a pretend concierge!” Clint added smiling.
Being their only child, Lily is the main focus of Lisa and Clint’s lives. Back in the day, when Lily was born, Lisa put her career on hold to be able to raise her and be there for her every step of the way. Watching her parents sing and make music, Lily fell in love with the profession herself and decided to follow into their footsteps. What’s most, she not only inherited her mom’s talent, but also her beauty. Watching them side by side, it’s easy to see the uncanny resemblance.
Asked what the secret to a long-lasting marriage is, Clint simply shared, “Love is something that you nurture and protect. We’ve grown together in our relationship and never apart.” He added that his wife has been a major influence on his life and from the moment he met her, each love song that he has written is a tribute to her.
What a beautiful family.
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Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, who enchanted millions with her iconic song The Girl from Ipanema, has died aged 83.
This song was the first ever that this singer recorded and it remained her greatest hit which helped her rise to stardom. Even today, The Girl from Ipanema is considered one of the most famous and most influential bossa nova recordings which impacted Brazilian music profoundly.
Almost overnight, Astrud helped create what became known as a new global pop music fashion, introducing sophisticated Brazilian musical style to the people from the States and all around the world.
Over the years, she recorded 16 albums and worked with some of the greatest names in the music industry such as Quincy Jones and George Michael.
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The news of the singer’s passing was shared by her granddaughter.
“I’m here to bring you the sad news that my grandmother became a star today, and is next to my grandfather João Gilberto,” wrote Sofia, who is also a musician.
“She was a pioneer and the best. At the age of 22, she gave voice to the English version of Girl from Ipanema and gained international fame.”
Another person close to the late singer, Paul Ricci, a New York based guitarist who collaborated with Astrud, also took to the social media to share the sad news.
“I just got word from her son Marcelo that we have lost Astrud Gilberto,” he wrote. “He asked for this to be posted. “She was an important part of ALL that is Brazilian music in the world and she changed many lives with her energy. RIP from ‘the chief’, as she called me.”
How Astrud came to perform the English version of her iconic song is not certain, but there are different versions surrounding that story. According to Astrud herself, it was her husband, João Gilberto, the Brazilian guitarist called the “father of bossa nova,” who suggested it in 1963, at a recording session in New York with jazz great Stan Getz for an album called Getz/Gilberto. “João casually asked me to join in and sing a chorus in English after he had just sung the first chorus in Portuguese,” she recalled in an interview.
Astrud wasn’t credited for her vocals and only got $120 for the session, but she recorded her solo version after that.
American saxophonist Stan Getz made an estimated million dollars off the track and “made sure that [Astrud] got nothing,” referring to her as to a “housewife.”
“I had fun doing it, and I enjoy being a part of it,” she explained in a 1978 interview with WHYY’s Fresh Air. “But I have never envisioned it as becoming an important thing in my life, or the beginning of a career, or anything like it.”
“The funny thing is that after my success, stories abound as to Stan Getz or Creed Taylor having ‘discovered me’, when in fact, nothing is further from the truth,” she said in 1982. “I guess it made them look important to have been the one that had the ‘wisdom’ to recognise potential in my singing.
“I suppose I should feel flattered by the importance that they lend to this, but I can’t help but feel annoyed that they resorted to lying.”
Singer Astrud Gilberto attends the March 15th Grammy Awards dinner presented by New York chapter of National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
When the song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, it became an international hit which brought Astrud the Grammy Award for Song of the Year, and a nomination for Best Vocal Performance by a Female.
None of her other songs ever reached the fame of The Girl from Ipanema, but Astrud did have a very successful career as a singer in her home country.
No further details surrounding her passing have been revealed. May she rest in peace.
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Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger sat down with Interview Magazine recently and what he had to say left many speechless. His words, considered by many believers as controversial, caused a stir on the social media.
Speaking of what happens to us after we die, the seven time Mr. Olympia said that everyone who believes in the afterlife is a “f****** liar.”
When asked “What’s in the future for us?” the former California wasn’t afraid to speak his mind.
“It reminds me of Howard Stern’s question to me,” Arnie replied. “‘Tell me, governor, what happens to us when we die?’
“I said, ‘Nothing. You’re six feet under. Anyone that tells you something else is a f****** liar’.”
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He further said that once we die, we’ll never see each other the way we see us now.
“I said, ‘We don’t know what happens with the soul and all this spiritual stuff that I’m not an expert in, but I know that the body as we see each other now, we will never see each other again like that.”
His interview made many angry and he experienced backlash, but that didn’t prevent him from expressing his honest opinion stating later in the interview that he believed the idea of heaven to be mere “fantasy.”
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“When people talk about, ‘I will see them again in heaven’, it sounds so good, but the reality is that we won’t see each other again after we’re gone,” Schwarzenegger said. “That’s the sad part. I know people feel comfortable with death, but I don’t.”
Schwarzenegger’s upcoming Netflix documentary Arnold is set to be released on June 7.
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When you think about it, it is the kindness that we offer to those around us that makes this world a much beautiful place. Whether it is the smile we offer to a neighbor or someone who’s feeling down, or we go to greater lengths to help someone in need, being kind is the most rewarding trait a person can possess.
A man named Chris was taking a ride with his wife Tara and their two children when they spotted an elderly man mowing the lawn. Doing such an activity at advanced age seemed like a tiring task to Chris who stopped his car and landed a helping hand. He got outside and offered to mow the lawn. The elderly man was surprised but gladly accepted the help.
At that moment, Tara and her kids, who are probably still too young to understand how much their dad’s action meant to the elderly man, felt proud of Chris.
“There are many reasons I adore my husband, but one is his thoughtfulness. Chris instructed me to go home first, and he would come to pick me up today when I returned home from picking up our kids. Although I did not understand what was happening, I knew Chris had a strategy. He had stopped at a flower shop and purchased some flowers for me. It turned out. I was pleasantly surprised and delighted by the lovely gesture,” Tara said.
Tara hopes her boys will become good people just like their dad who teaches them the right values through examples.
Most times, being kind doesn’t require much effort and it can still mean the world to those who receive it. And as the proverb goes, “When given the choice between being right or being kind always choose kindness.”
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For a huge number of Britons, Queen Elizabeth II was more than just a monarch who led their country for incredible 70 years. She was their strength and a motherly figure, thus her passing brought immense grief and sadness.
When the news of her ill-heatlh was shared in the media on the day of her passing, a huge number of people gathered together and filled the streets of the major cities around United Kingdom as a sign of support. The number of those that arrived at Balmoral Castle, the Queen’s summer residence where she passed away, was even bigger.
When members of the royalty started arriving one by one, everyone assumed the Queen was living her last moments. Sadly, that happened to be the truth which left millions of people from all around the world heartbroken.
In a statement on Thursday, September 8, Buckingham Palace said:
“The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and the Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.”
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Following her passing, people started speculating of what the exact cause of death could be. Back then, The Daily Mail reported how a Scottish government department had been accused of being secretive and blocking legitimate attempts to obtain a copy of Her Majesty’s death certificate, although many believed it should be a matter of public record.
“Despite MailOnline and other media outlets attempting to obtain the information from the National Records of Scotland (NRS), the public body has blocked its staff from providing any details relating to the Queen’s death on September 8,” the Daily Mail wrote.
When the registered cause of death was listed, it was revealed that the late monarch died of ‘old age.’
The document – signed by the Queen’s daughter, Princess Anne – states that Her Majesty passed away at 3.10 P.M. on September 8 at Balmoral Castle. Buckingham Palace announced Queen Elizabeth’s passing around three hours after she died.
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Prince Harry, the Queen’s grandson, spoke of his beloved grandmother in an interview with 60 Minutes and gave details about the tumultuous hours surrounding her majesty’s passing.
“I asked my brother — I said, ‘What are your plans? How are you and Kate getting up there?’ And then, a couple of hours later, you know, all of the family members that live within the Windsor and Ascot area were jumping on a plane together,” Harry told Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes.
Harry only learned his grandma passed away as he landed, so he didn’t get the chance to see her alive for one last time.
“I walked into the hall and [Princess Anne] was there to greet me,” Harry told 60 Minutes. “And she asked me if I wanted to see her. I thought about it for about five seconds, thinking, ‘Is this a good idea?’ And I was, like, ‘You know what? You can do this. You need to say goodbye.’ So went upstairs, took my jacket off and walked in and just spent some time with her alone.”
Harry continued: “She was in her bedroom. [She] was actually — I was really happy for her. Because she’d finished life. She’d completed life, and her husband [Prince Philip] was waiting for her. And the two of them are buried together.”
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In his all-tell memoir Spare, Harry wrote of his grandmother and her sudden passing.
In his memoir, Harry wrote more about getting to say his last goodbyes to the Queen.
“I stayed in one place without moving, gazing at her for a long time, gathered strength and continued going forward,” Harry recalled and added that he whispered a very precious thing to her.
“I hoped she was happy and that she was with grandpa,” he whispered to the Queen, telling her how he “admired her for having carried out her functions to the end… the Jubilee, welcoming the new Prime Minister.”
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Despite the official document stating the cause of death to be old age, royal author Gyles Brandreth wrote in a serialization in the Daily Mail that the late Queen had bone cancer which explained the “tiredness and weight loss and those ‘mobility issues’ we were often told about during the last year or so of her life.”
Further, the expert claimed, “The most common symptom of myeloma is bone pain, especially in the pelvis and lower back, and multiple myeloma is a disease that often affects the elderly. Currently, there is no known cure, but treatment — including medicines to help regulate the immune system and drugs that help prevent the weakening of the bones — can reduce the severity of its symptoms and extend the patient’s survival by months or two to three years.”
The Royal Palace released this unseen photo of Queen Elizabeth II smiling on Sunday. The photo was taken to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee – the first British Monarch to reach this milestone. (Photo: The Royal Family) https://t.co/LRZRKK0gHspic.twitter.com/w7O9FL4PGO
Other sources believe this might be true and that it is the reason why the Queen withdrew from most public events during the last years of her life.
Royal expert and author Robert Joobson claims that Queen Elizabeth used wheelchair when she wasn’t out in public, as well as during the Platinum Jubilee, but people didn’t notice.
“On her insistence, a military-style exercise was put in place so that no one could see she was having to use a wheelchair,” Jobson wrote. “In considerable discomfort, Her Majesty was taken by wheelchair to the helicopter pad at Windsor.”
“At the Palace, she was wheeled right up to the balcony doors, then helped to her feet so that she could stand – with the aid of a walking stick – alongside Charles and Camilla, plus William and his family.”
“After a firework display, the Queen smiled with delight. It was her last salute to her people,” he concluded.
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Now, a close friend of the late Queen also opened up of her final days and revealed that monarch was in ‘a lot of pain’ and that her sight and hearing had deteriorated considerably in the weeks leading to her death.
“For the last years of her life, certainly from when her husband died [in April 2021], the Queen was in a lot of pain,” the source close to the late Queen’s told The Daily Beast.
“In the final months, of course, it got very much worse; by the time of the Platinum Jubilee, she couldn’t see very much, she couldn’t hear very much, and she was easily confused,” the friend of Queen Elizabeth added.
“She barely moved from her apartments in Windsor Castle. Appearing on the balcony at Windsor Castle for the Jubilee required a titanic effort.”
Queen Elizabeth was a much-love monarch who is still dearly missed.
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