Inhaltsverzeichnis für December 12, 2022 in Globe

COUNTRY legend Willie Nelson is treating Annie D’Angelo — his devoted wife of 31 years — to a romantic second honeymoon in Maui, tipsters dish. “Annie’s stuck by him through the good, bad and ugly — and he knows how lucky he is,” squeals an insider. The Red Headed Stranger, 89, plans to kick back with his 66-year-old sweetie after a difficult few months, sources spill. “It’s no secret he nearly died of COVID this year,” confides the insider. “If any two people have reason to celebrate, it’s Willie and Annie.” Sources snitch the Texas-based duo’s getaway will also be a family affair because the singer’s seven kids — including the two sons he shares with his spouse — were invited to spend Christmas with the couple. “But Willie and Annie…

SHANIA TWAIN is ready to end her record-breaking singing career rather than go under the knife again to save her ravaged vocal cords, insiders tell GLOBE! Country music’s all-time best-selling female artist underwent two grueling open-throat surgeries in 2018 to treat dysphonia — a disorder of the vocal cords the 57-year-old believes was caused by contracting Lyme disease. “But her doctors have told her while her surgeries were successful, the results aren’t likely to last and she will need another operation,” dishes a source. Now, the You’re Still the One singer, who just released her highly anticipated new album, Queen of Me, and is launching a 50-date concert tour next spring, tells friends she may be facing her swan song as a performer. “After her last surgeries, Shania basically had…

MARIAH CAREY won’t be getting all she wants for Christmas this year! The All I Want for Christmas Is You songbird, 52, tried to trademark the moniker Queen of Christmas, but lost a legal battle with Elizabeth Chan, who bills herself as the world’s only full-time Christmas recording artist. Chan also blocked Mariah’s bid to trademark Princess Christmas and even “QOC.” Mariah apparently wanted the rights to market various products ranging from perfumes to sunglasses.…

WORLDWIDE media outlets went into a frenzy when North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un finally acknowledged his secret daughter in public a couple weeks back — but GLOBE readers knew about nine-year-old Kim Ju-ae TWO MONTHS ago! The warmongering dictator brought the girl and her mom, Ri Sol-ju, to witness the launch of his new intercontinental ballistic missile on Nov. 18 — and it was hard to tell which he was prouder of — the deadly rocket he boasts can plop an A-bomb on the U.S. — or his child. The pint-sized, 38-year-old chubster proudly strolled arm in arm with pretty Ju-ae through the military base, looking at the deadly weapons as if they were viewing attractions at a Disney theme park. Ju-ae seemed to enjoy her family outing, chatting with…

Modern Family star JESSE TYLER FERGUSON, 47, and husband JUSTIN MIKITA, 37, welcomed their second son via surrogate mother. SULLIVAN LOUIS FERGUSON-MIKITA joins big brother BECKETT, 2. Dancing with the Stars pro WITNEY CARSON and husband CARSON McALLISTER, both 29, are expecting their second child. Their son, LEO, is almost 2. Hard to believe, 16 and Pregnant/Teen Mom star AMBER PORTWOOD’s baby LEAH SHIRLEY has turned 14! Posts proud pop GARY SHIRLEY, 36, who’s raising his daughter: “I couldn’t ask for a better kid.” Chump change? Grammy-winning singer DRAKE, 36, reportedly lost a whopping $2 million betting on a UFC fight. KURT COBAIN’s smashed guitar sold for nearly $500,000 at auction. The late singer played the prized instrument during two 1989 performances on Nirvana’s first U.S. tour. Killing Me Softly singer ROBERTA…

STAGE and screen veteran David Bradley, 80, has carved out a lasting career as a character actor. As a novice performer in England during the ’70s, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and appeared in a string of BBC TV shows. But younger generations will recognize him as grizzled grump Argus Filch, the nonmagical Hogwarts caretaker in the Harry Potter film series, and vengeful Walder Frey in Game of Thrones. He’s also lent his voice to the recently released animated flick Pinocchio, portraying heartbroken woodcarver Geppetto, who crafts the titular fairy tale puppet. Here are ten things you don’t know about David. 1 He was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1942. 2 During his youth, he was a member of the choir at St. George’s Secondary Modern School. 3 After…

RETIRED Kansas City police detective Roger Golubski has been arrested on charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting girls as young as 13! A federal indictment charges Golubski took bribes to protect a local drug kingpin and two other men who were sex trafficking the girls from 1996 to 1998. G-men claim the kids were repeatedly beaten, raped and threatened while being locked in a Kansas City apartment for as long as a year! According to a source, two teenage girls told a federal grand jury they witnessed Golubski being paid by the pimp and having sex with girls, adding he “primarily chose young Black girls, ranging in age from 13 to 17 years old.” Golubski is facing a potential life sentence. He denies the allegations.…

THE parents of tragic beauty Gabby Petito won $3 million from the estate of her murderer, boyfriend Brian Laundrie, in a settlement with his parents. Gabby’s mom and dad, Nicole Schmidt and Joseph Petito, had accused Brian’s parents, Christopher and Roberta, of malice and wrongful death, charging they knew he’d killed their 22-year-old daughter, but intended to help him flee the country. In August 2021, Brian, 23, strangled Gabby in a Wyoming national park during a cross-country trek, showed up at his Florida family home in her van and later fled to a remote swamp, where he killed himself. During that time, his parents hired a lawyer and stonewalled cops from questioning him or telling where he was. Despite the large settlement amount, the Laundries’ attorney says his estate has “only…

ROLY-POLY Russell Crowe is apparently at peace with his plus-sized figure these days, but sources dish his snoring is such an unbearable nightmare that fiancée-in-waiting Britney Theriot has fled from his bed! Sources snitch the 58-year-old Gladiator chunk and the 31-year-old realtor and former actress are sleeping in separate rooms so Britney can get some shut-eye! “Russell’s friends have always said he could wake up half a neighborhood with his snoring,” spills an insider. “It’s been a kind of in-joke for years but lately and sadly for Britney, it’s gone up another level. “He’s retiring to the bedroom with a smile on his face after a full belly of food and wine, but almost immediately after he’s nodded off the snoring starts and it’s insufferable. “Often, she’ll go to a…

UNLIKE tens and twenties, the dollar bill’s design hasn’t been changed in 50 years — because the U.S. Treasury Department says crooks can’t be bothered making counterfeits. PRESIDENT George Washington never had kids — and the macho misogynist blamed his wife, Martha! But doctors say George’s infertility was caused by a childhood bout with tuberculosis. AMERICANS celebrate Christmas by cutting down 36 million live evergreens! Scientists are divided over the tradition’s environmental impact. SCIENTISTS claim the hippopotamus is the only critter that can’t be tamed. The massive mammals kill more people every year than lions, rhinos, leopards, buffaloes and elephants combined. CRUSTY comic Charlie Chaplin had a bizarre secret fetish — the black-and-white movie star loved throwing pies at naked gals! Seriously.…

WOMANIZING rocker John Mellencamp has been flaunting his beautiful new galpal — and sources claim it’s part of a creepy mind game to make ex-fiancée Meg Ryan see what she’s missing! Insiders snitch the 71-year-old Jack & Diane legend is still stuck on the 61-year-old When Harry Met Sally beauty and pesters her with calls — three years after they split following a bumpy eight-year relationship. Meanwhile, Meg “just wants to move on. She doesn’t understand why he calls her so much, especially now that he’s got another girlfriend,” spills spy. The Hurts So Good singer was spotted holding hands with 44-year-old skincare expert Marianelly Agosto at the Nov. 14 Serious Fun Gala in New York City. GLOBE has learned he’s been seeing her since August. “Meg can’t figure it, if…

AFTER half a century the baffling mystery of the sudden death of martial arts movie icon Bruce Lee has been solved — top docs say the super-fit star drank too much water and it killed him. When the 32-year-old Enter the Dragon actor, who was in tiptop shape, died in the apartment of an Asian actress in Hong Kong in 1973 an official autopsy blamed brain swelling caused by his use of painkillers. But wild conspiracy theories flew that Lee had been poisoned by a jealous lover, murdered by Chinese gangsters, suffered heatstroke or even was the victim of a curse. Now, nearly 50 years later, the Clinical Kidney Journal medical experts reveal TV’s original Kato died of brain swelling caused by an excess of water — a condition called…

A SHOCKING final police report on Alec Baldwin’s doomed Rust movie set reveals guns accidentally went off TWICE in one day the week before the star shot and killed cameragal Halyna Hutchins. Crewmember Reese Price told investigators movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was prepping six guns when an “accidental discharge” fired toward her foot. “The ‘armorer girl’ had the gun pointed down, when it went off accidentally,” the Santa Fe, N.M., police report says. “The second time, one of the stunt actors went to cock the gun and it went off accidentally inside a shack.” Reese says the “discharges” are “something that is not supposed to happen,” and triggered chaos on the set, where six cameramen walked off that same day and their leader wrote a letter to the production company squawking…

FORMER Power Rangers star and MMA fighter Jason David Frank committed suicide just months after his second wife, Tammie, filed for divorce. The 49-year-old actor, who played Tommy Oliver, the green Mighty Morphin Power Ranger, from 1993 to 2014, died in Texas, says rep Justine Hunt. A martial arts expert, he also won four MMA fights from 2009 to 2010. Frank was the father of three children with first wife Shawna and one with Tammie, 57, who accused him of cheating in her divorce filing.…

THOR HAMMERED BY GENETIC SHOCK! Hammer-slinging Norse movie god CHRIS HEMSWORTH has been struck by a proverbial lightning bolt — genetic tests indicate he’s very likely to end his days suffering from mind-destroying Alzheimer’s disease! Hollywood’s muscle-bound Thor, 39, reveals he has two copies of the APOE4 gene believed to cause the devastating condition, which makes him “eight to ten times more likely” to get Alzheimer’s than average folks. DNA tests showed both his parents carry the gene and he admits “the reality” of his future “is sinking in.” JENNA BUSH GOES COMMANDO! Today co-host JENNA BUSH HAGER, 41, doesn’t wear panties — and has given her co-stars an eyeful in the dressing room, spies tattle. But the former first daughter brazenly defends her decision to go commando, explaining, “It makes a…

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HOTEL heirhead Paris Hilton has pooh-poohed the claims of her socialite mom, Kathy, who tattled the twiggy blonde and hubby Carter Reum are having fertility troubles! After The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills regular, 63, moaned about her daughter’s “struggle,” the Simple Life reality babe, 41, huffed, “I don’t know where she got that.” Paris insists she and Carter have “tons of embryos” from IVF and adds, “It’s never been a struggle at all.”…

PEDOPHILE Jeffrey Epstein planned to blackmail Queen Elizabeth over her son Prince Andrew’s sexual antics, according to the man who was caught on camera sucking then-married Duchess Fergie’s toes! Texan John Bryan, a former lover of Andrew’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, insists the prince never did anything wrong, but was set up by Epstein, who was found dead in his jail cell while awaiting trial for child sex trafficking. Epstein’s 2019 death was ruled a suicide, but investigators believe he was murdered. As GLOBE reported, some point the finger at an MI6 hit team operating under royal orders. “People always ask how Epstein made his money. He was supposed to be this tax wizard, but it was all a con,” Bryan says. “He blackmailed rich men and then made them pay to…

NOTORIOUS creep Kevin Spacey was slapped with seven new sex crime charges in the U.K., where the former House of Cards villain is facing a 2023 trial for attacks on multiple men! Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service recently piled on the additional charges — three of indecent assault, three of sexual assault and one of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent — for crimes they say were against one victim between 2001 and 2004. Spacey, 63, has pleaded not guilty to five earlier incidents connected to the case. In October, the scandal-scarred star scored a victory in NYC civil court when a jury cleared him of sexually abusing Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp, then 14, in 1986. The two-time Oscar winner denies all accusations.…

COUGAR Olivia Wilde and boytoy crooner Harry Styles have split after two years, claiming there’s “no bad blood,” but “different priorities are keeping them apart.” The 38-year-old knockout, mom of Otis, 8, and Daisy, 6, with ex-fiancé and former SNL funnyman Jason Sudeikis, first met Styles, 28, when he was cast in the 2020 flick Don’t Worry Darling, which she directed. Sources say Olivia’s now concentrating on her kids while Harry’s going touring. “Harry didn’t dump Olivia, or vice versa,” tattles a source. “This is the longest relationship Harry’s ever had, so clearly they have a special bond. They’re on a break. It’s impossible to have a relationship when he’s in every continent next year and Olivia has her job and her kids. “This is the right thing for both…

SUPERSTAR Tom Cruise is notorious for overseeing every detail in his flicks, but he apparently thinks nothing of disrupting the shooting of other stars’ TV drama with his noisy personal helicopter! The rude Top Gun hunk, who has a pilot’s license, triggered an uproar by flying and landing his noisy whirlybird near where Call the Midwife is filming in Surrey, England, gripes 69-year-old actress Jenny Agutter. Fresh off the billion-dollar-plus box office of his Top Gun sequel, the tomcat is in England shooting Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part Two, using his chopper to commute. Agutter, who plays a nun in the TV drama, says she’d love to scold the star in her habit, saying: “Excuse me, Tom, but look, we’re trying to film, just get your helicopter out of…

VENGEFUL Angelina Jolie flew into a bitter rage over ex-hubby Brad Pitt’s hot new romance and is threatening to raise hell if he lets his new honey near their six kids. A source snitches the 47-year-old Maleficent movie witch exploded over the 58-year-old hunk’s stunning new squeeze, jewelry mogul Ines de Ramon, 29, and “is spewing venom and threatening hell if Brad brings his kids within half a yard of this woman. “Brad is happy to have this special new lady in his life and wants to chill and have fun in peace and harmony, but it’s hard when Angie’s twisting the knife and causing pain and stress!” Angie’s threat is the latest twist in the pair’s never-ending battle over custody and bucks that’s raged since their 2016 split. GLOBE…

ROMANCE ain’t over yet for single and ready to tingle HODA KOTB, 58, who’s psychically certain Mr. Right’s just around the corner! “My sister said to me once, ‘Are you afraid of being by yourself?’ And I know this is so weird, but I said to her, ‘I am not going to be by myself,’” says the Today host, who split with financier fiancé JOEL SCHIFFMAN, 64, after an eight-year relationship and two adopted kids, HALEY, 5, and HOPE, 3. “Like, I actually know it. I know with certainty — and it’s the strangest feeling to know that. Like, I can sometimes feel him, but I don’t see what he looks like, but I feel like it will happen. I’m not on the hunt, but I have a weird, like,…

REAL Housewives of Atlanta alum NeNe Leakes has good news and bad news! On the plus side, the 54-year-old widow’s new man, fashion designer Nyonisela Sioh, has filed for divorce from his estranged wife, Malomine Tehmeh-Sioh. But spurned Malomine has thrown a wrench into the budding romance by suing NeNe for carrying on an “adulterous affair” that caused her split with Nyonisela. “Ain’t nobody out there stealing husbands,” declares NeNe. “I would never!”…

SPURNED husband Zarbab “Bobby” Ali ambushed estranged baby mom Rachel Castillo in her California home and cut her to ribbons before dumping the corpse in the desert near Antelope Valley, lawmen charge. Simi Valley resident Rachel, 25, disappeared on the night of Nov. 10, but her phone, keys and car were still at the apartment she shared with her sister Emily. When Emily returned home and saw blood, she called local cops who quickly determined the place was a crime scene. Three days later, Rachel’s body was found in a remote desert area of Los Angeles County. Later that day, police arrested Ali, 25, at his parents’ home in Victorville. He’s charged with murder, lying in wait and using a knife to commit a crime. The suspect entered an innocent plea…

SHOCKING images claiming to prove time travel — showing people in today’s clothes holding portable phones in photos snapped during the World War II era — have been posted on social media triggering a firestorm of speculation. A video containing one of the photos was posted by Jimmy the Filmmaker, who claims a soldier in a World War II photo is his grandfather Papa George — and he’s holding an iPhone! Jimmy claims his grandpa was like Marvel comic book hero Captain America, who traveled to the present day and returned to the early 1940s — bringing with him a modern cell phone! Jimmy’s got 10,000 followers, including some like one doubter, who posted that the object identified as a 21st-century iPhone actually “is a mirror, often used to flash…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 A new hobby someone suggests could reveal your hidden talent, Ram. Give it a try while the sun and Saturn align Monday. But don’t overdo it. You’ll need lots of energy for the fun weekend ahead. Love lurks where carols are sung — the one you meet now could be the soul mate you’ve dreamed of. GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Misbehaving Mars stirs up trouble with your cash flow early in the week and paperwork could go astray. But when the moon shifts into Virgo midweek, you’ll sort it all out. Friday, you could be choosing between two invites that sound equally fun, but the stars say: There’s a third option — it’s even better. LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 Family…

GLUM glamour-puss Elizabeth Taylor became a drunken junkie in the ’70s because of her unhappy marriage to Sen. John Warner, sources dish. The late screen siren was so miserable after tying the knot with the Virginia politician, who passed away last year, she drowned her sorrows in whiskey, vodka and champagne and shot up opioids, insiders spill. According to the upcoming tell-all Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon, the Hollywood legend — who chalked up seven divorces before her death at age 79 in 2011 — even begged one of her adult sons to inject her with the painkiller Demerol! Christopher Wilding — whose dad was British actor Michael Wilding, Taylor’s second husband — recalls being summoned to his mom’s room. “She was pretty f**ked up on…