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Kendall Jenner has partnered with the luxury resort SLS Baha Mar to brand her tequila on an international level. On Saturday, she hosted the opening on the grounds of Baha Bay, the resort’s adult water park. Jenner says she’s excited about the launch. This is the first time the model and influencer has brought her […]
Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean islands have hit the market for $125 million. According the Wall Street Journal, the properties include the 160-plus-acre Great St. James and the 72-acre Little St. James, located near St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The late financier reportedly purchased the latter—widely known as “Pedophile Island” and “Orgy Island”—in 1998 for around $8 million. […]
A Black American woman has been targeted by the Indonesian government over a viral Twitter thread about her life in Bali. According to BuzzFeed News, “digital nomad” Kristen Gray is facing deportation for allegedly misusing her visa and making several “unsettling” statements about the resort island. Indonesian officials reportedly summoned Gray after she took to Twitter to promote her $30 e-book, Our Bali Life Is Yours, in which […]
Cast Away could’ve been a lot shorter. Three men were rescued from a small Pacific island after drawing a massive SOS signal in the sand that was spotted from the air, authorities told the Associated Press. The men were stranded on Pikelot Island—an uninhabited spot in the Micronesia archipelago—for nearly three days before searchers on an Australian […]
Though we live in a time when social distancing is encouraged, one man found himself so isolated he was forced to call for help. According to the Gothamist, a kayaker who was missing for twelve hours was rescued Thursday from a remote island near Queens. The 36-year-old man, whose identity has not been made public, was found […]
Indonesia‘s famous Anak Krakatau volcano has erupted again, shooting ash, smoke, and lava into the sky. Per the Indonesian Centre for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation, the volcanic island between Java and Sumatra was continuously erupting Friday night into Saturday morning. People as far as the country’s capital of Jakarta—about 90 miles away from the island—claim to […]
Dana White really wants the fight(s) to go on despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Speaking to TMZ Sports, the president of the UFC said that he’s “a day or two away from securing” a deal that would allow fights to go down on a private island. “We’re getting the infrastructure put in now so I’ma start […]
Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran’s brother John, 60, was found dead in his Dominican Republic hotel room while on vacation with a friend in April, TMZ reports. While an autopsy has not been performed, Barbara was told that her brother suddenly died of a heart attack, which if true, coincides with an eerie string of American tourist deaths that have occurred in similar […]
We’ve become used to quietly terrible billionaires, the type who use their wealth to reshape laws and practices to their benefit and use their gravity-shifting hoarding of resources to make the world slightly/greatly worse. But the type of barons who inspired works like The World’s Most Dangerous Game are still out there. Take the anonymous rich guy who is […]