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Director and Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis was arrested in Italy Sunday on sexual assault charges, per Variety. Haggis is accused of forcing a young “foreign” woman, someone who is not Italian, into engaging in sexual intercourse over two days in the city of Ostuni, where he’s been allegedly staying ahead of the Allora Fest, which begins […]
Seven bodies were located following a helicopter crash in a mountainous area of Italy, the Associated Press reports. The bodies were found after a mountain runner said he saw what looked to be part of a helicopter while on Mount Cusna on Saturday morning. Air crews then went to the scene and located the first five […]
Local churches are calling on the Russian Orthodox Church to condemn Russia’s assault on Ukraine. ABC News reports the head of the Polish bishops’ conference this week pushed for the Russian Orthodox Church to urge Vladimir Putin to end Russia’s war against the embattled country. In a letter to Patriarch Kirill, Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki warned, […]
In the latest installment of the weirdest ways to store-and-transport drugs: Officials at a Colombian port found 20,000 coconuts full of liquid cocaine in a shipment that was headed for Italy. Vice reports that the coconuts were being kept in 500 canvas bags on a container that was leaving Colombia’s Cartagena port en route to Genoa, […]
A former member of the Sicilian mafia group known as Stidda was arrested last month after he was found living in Spain on Google Maps, nearly two decades after escaping prison, Reuters reports. Gioacchino Gammino, 61, had been living in the town of Galapagar where he owned a fruit and vegetable shop called El Huerto de Manu, or Manu’s Garden, a possible […]
Italian anti-vaccine and COVID-19 skeptic radio personality Maurizio Buratti has died from the novel coronavirus after boasting about his maskless escapades. Per the Daily Beast, Buratti, who called himself a “plague spreader,” was hospitalized earlier this month, and died following COVID-19 health complications on Monday, Dec. 27. The controversial radio personality, who also goes by the […]
A 50-year-old man is facing criminal charges after he showed up to a COVID vaccine clinic with a prosthetic arm. According to la Repubblica, the incident happened in the northern Italy last month, after the government signed a decree making a COVID “super green pass” mandatory at bars, theatres, gyms, and other public spaces beginning next week. Not having the […]
Tom Ford doesn’t quite know what to make of Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci. In a review published by Air Mail, the designer/filmmaker shared his honest, mixed opinions about the crime drama centered on the Gucci family starring Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jared Leto, Salma Hayek, and more. Ford, who served as label’s creative director in the […]
Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri, the company that’s producing the upcoming animated Super Mario Bros. film with Nintendo, defended the decision to cast Chris Pratt in the role Mario. In a conversation with TooFab, Meledandri called Pratt’s voice acting in the movie “phenomenal.” “All I can tell you is the voice that he’s doing for us and Mario is phenomenal. Yeah I can’t […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets Kanye West performed at a Venice, Italy wedding on Saturday night, playing a number of his classic songs. The […]
