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Odd, the timing, but ALLEGEDLY Tom Girardi, who is
being sued for embezzling millions in settlement payments to the family of
victims of an air disaster, is claiming he has health issues. Sorry, grifter, not sorry. Attorneys for the estranged
husband of reality “star” Erika Jayne say Girardi suffered a “serious illness”
in recent months for which he needed to be hospitalized. The documents further
claim that Girardi “couched everything” related to his ongoing case due to his
illness, which caused him to be away from his law firm, and that Girardi’s
hospitalization was the “mistake” that caused some families to not be paid in
full. Oh, the sin of ‘I was sick’? Bull shiz. Erika needed more
ugly couture, and you’d do anything to have a Barbie doll on your arm. PS In addition the air disaster suit, Girardi is also
being sued by Wells Fargo Financial Services for ALLEGEDLY
breaching a written agreement with the bank. And his law firm partner, Robert
Keese, is suing to dissolve their law firm; and Keese, joined by Robert
Finnerty and Jill O’Callahan, ALLEGES Girardi never paid them the
approximately $315,000 in income from the partnership, claiming he took the
money “for his own personal gain”, AKA Erika Jayne’s shoe closet, I’m guessing. Again, sorry not sorry, Mr. and Mrs. Grifter. |
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When last we left my arch-enemy Naomi Campbell, she was
trying to steal my sequined thunder at a holiday party. But, from the looks of
things, that may have been the last time Naomi was fierce. You see, before lockdown, before social distancing, before
masks, before we were using the term COVID-19, Naomi knew it was gonna get real, and she set about protecting
what she values most: herself. Last March, Naomi began wearing …wait for it, it’s
so fashion WTF … a head-to-toe hazmat suit. And she’s still wearing them—except
to that damned party—and buying in bulk from Amazon: “I bought [the hazmat suits] in bulk and I bought them on subscription, so they keep coming. There was one point when my subscription hadn’t come because they’d run out, and I panicked, even though I wasn’t going anywhere.” So, she has closets full of hazmat couture, but she doesn’t go
anywhere? Maybe that’s because after she began walking around London dressed
like an extra from Contagion, people thought she was being selfish: “It was funny because when I first wore one people were like, ‘She should give that to the hospital. Why’s she stealing?’ They were acting like I was stealing supplies from the hospital … So, I started answering back, saying, ‘I got it on Amazon! I got it on Amazon!’ I bought it fair and square on the internet.” But, Naomi, darrrrrrrrrrrrling. If you aren’t going anywhere,
and the hazmat suits keep coming, you could polish up your image by donating
the unused ones, you know. DUCK! Here comes a phone! |
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I never watched Heroes when it was on, though I did have my
gaydar piqued at the arrival of not-quite-out-all-the-way, soon to be
Husband-In-My-Head, Zachary Quinto, but I have learned that it wasn’t
always the most diverse place to work. The show ALLEGEDLY fired many actors
of color during its first few seasons, and Leonard Roberts was one of
those actors. He played DL Hawkins, who was married to white actress Ali
Larter’s character, and now he’s spilling the tea, saying he was let go because
Larter is a racist. He says his character was supposed to be introduced in the pilot, but: “After the show was picked up to series, I learned my character had been removed from the pilot and would be introduced in the second episode. I briefly wondered if Black folks in the TV game suffered the same fate as our counterparts in pre-Jordan Peele horror films, and were the first to go upon a new show’s pickup.” Then came the photo shoot for ads touting the show, when the three lone actors of color were, as Roberts says, “relegated to the back and sides of photo after photo because, we were told, we were ‘tall’.” He was then told his character wouldn’t be introduced in the second episode after all, but he’d make his debut by episode 5 …or 6. And then came Ali Larter. As episode 6 began filming, his character, D.L. Hawkins, was in an interracial marriage with Niki Sanders [Ali Larter], and Larter took issue with a scene involving intimacy: “[During] the staging of a bedroom scene, [Larter] took umbrage with the level of intimacy being suggested between our characters. … Our director asked if she was willing to lower the straps of the top … and expose her bare shoulders only above the sheet… [Larter] refused … and I was instantly aware of the tension on the set. … [Larter] insisted she was … being asked to remove her top completely, and rehearsal was cut. She then demanded a meeting with [the director] Greg Beeman and the producers who were on set and proceeded to have an intense and loud conversation in which she expressed she had never been so disrespected—as an actress, a woman or a human being.” But Roberts says that Larter had already shot a love scene with white actor Adrian Pasdar and had no issues with being asked to appear naked onscreen. He also talked of the promises from producers that his job was secure for the second season, only to find himself unemployed as the season ended. He asked for a sit down with producers who told him his firing was due to “the Ali Larter situation” and said they couldn’t figure out a way to include his character in the show if Larter didn’t like him. Now, while Roberts clearly is no fan of Larter, he’s placing most of the blame on the higher-ups for allowing Larter’s ALLEGED views to drive the show and drive him off
the show. Still as soon as his piece came out in Variety, Larter spewed
this: “I am deeply saddened to hear about Leonard Roberts’ experience on Heroes and I am heartbroken reading his perception of our relationship, which absolutely doesn’t match my memory nor experience on the show. I respect Leonard as an artist and I applaud him or anyone using their voice and platform. I am truly sorry for any role I may have played in his painful experience during that time and I wish him and his family the very best.” She’s sorry he thinks she’s racist, but she doesn’t remember
being a racist, but if she was being racist, she certainly didn’t mean it. Uh huh. |
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Well, to cleanse that story from my mind, here’s this: Jeff
Bezos, owner of Amazon and some 92% of the entire planet, has been dragged during
the pandemic for forcing his employees to work, and for pocketing millions and
millions during the pandemic as everyone shops from home, and keeping most of those
coins in his pockets. And it just got a little worse because Jeff’s ex-wife,
MacKenzie Scott, who took half his fortune in the divorce, keeps giving money
away, while he hoards it. MacKenzie, worth an estimated $60B, has given away
another $4B last month, following the $2B she gave away in July. And while she is currently listed as the 18th richest
person in the world, she seems to be making good on her post-divorce and
post-settlement promise to give away all her wealth “until the safe is empty.” And
with this latest giveaway—to financial service providers for under-resourced
communities, education for marginalized and underserved
individuals, civil rights advocacy groups, legal defense funds that take on
institutional discrimination, local chapters of Goodwill, Meals on Wheels, YMCA
and United Way; the NAACP; Global Fund for Women; and ACE [Access to Capital
for Entrepreneurs], which provides affordable loans to underserved small
businesses—she also took her ex-husband to task, in saying: “This pandemic has been a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans already struggling. Economic losses and health outcomes alike have been worse for women, for people of color, and for people living in poverty. Meanwhile, it has substantially increased the wealth of billionaires.” Sure, it’s a drop in the bucket considering her Amazon
stocks have soared this year, but when we all decide to eat the rich, maybe we’ll
just nibble on her after we pick clean the bones of Jeff. Just sayin’. |
