May 12, 2011
CHICAGO, Ill.
Before Oprah Winfrey looks west to Los Angeles and her new cable station the talk show queen finds herself saying goodbye to her beloved Chicago.
“It feels like Scarlett leaving Tara,” Winfrey told The Associated Press in December before the Oprah Winfrey Network’s launch.
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May 05, 2011
CHICAGO, Ill.
Oprah Winfrey has given the world 25 years of poets and politicians, A-list actors and musicians and talk show topics that defined and reflected American culture.
As “The Oprah Winfrey Show” ends, with 16 episodes left as of May 4, her millions of fans around the globe are waiting to see how she will close out a show that engineered a media empire.
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December 09, 2010
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Despite suffering from new-mom sleep-deprivation, Celine Dion is still displaying her heart of gold and platinum pipes. The multi-Grammy Award-winning artist, and mother of newborn twin boys, spoke with Larry King on Wednesday night about her fertility struggles, meeting Nelson Mandela, her return to Vegas and the challenges of being a working mom.
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August 10, 2010
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands
Naomi Campbell’s former agent fended off defense accusations Tuesday that she lied to the war crimes court to further her own lawsuit against Campbell, insisting the model knew she was receiving diamonds from Charles Taylor.
Taylor, the former Liberian president, faces 11 counts of war crimes linked to allegations he supported rebels during Sierra Leone’s vicious 11-year civil war, which ended in 2002 with an estimated 100,000 dead. Prosecutors accuse him of trading in so-called blood diamonds — gems used to finance wars — in exchange for supporting the rebels. Taylor denies the charges.
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August 06, 2010
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Naomi Campbell’s friend said Friday that he had handed over three small uncut diamonds to South African authorities after the supermodel testified at an international war crimes court that she had given him the “dirty-looking stones.”
A spokesman for the police special investigations unit said Jeremy Ractliffe handed over the stones on Thursday and that the police have given them to the local diamond regulation authority for examination.
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July 02, 2010
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Paris Hilton has been arrested in South Africa, according to reports.
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