Globe October 18, 2021

HOLY SCARECROW! Batman hunk BEN AFFLECK appears ghostly and gaunt while visiting the Big Apple BARKING MAD Twiggy Men in Trees actress ANNE HECHE looks loony outside a West Hollywood restaurant STONE AGE ROCKERS Geezers MICK JAGGER, 78, and KEITH RICHARDS, 77, kick off the Rolling Stones’ No Filter tour in Missouri ROLL MODEL Fashion heavyweight TESS HOLLIDAY pulls her own weight when it comes to maintaining her massive figure! BIG SOFTIE Cobra Kai’s MARTIN KOVE pampers his piggies in L.A. after practice at the Dancing with the Stars studio BUGGING OUT Movie legend SOPHIA LOREN gets gussied up for an L.A. bash — but her spider lashes are a fright…

MEN in Black hunk Will Smith has made a shocking confession: He and wife Jada Pinkett Smith have an open marriage and are allowed to have sex with other people! But the 53-year-old Bad Boys star has been wed to Matrix beauty Jada, 50, since 1997 and is dad of her two kids, Jaden, 23, and Willow, 20. “Marriage for us can’t be a prison,” he declares, adding, “Jada never believed in conventional marriage. Jada had family members that had an unconventional relationship.” He says “for the large part of our relationship, monogamy was what we chose,” but they don’t think monogamy is “the only relational perfection.” Jada has already shockingly admitted to an affair with August Alsina two years ago when she was 48 and the studly singer was…

JAPAN’S Princess Mako is proving she believes in love, not money — she’s giving up a whopping $1.35 million to marry her commoner beau, Kei Komuro. The blown bucks are from a taxpayer-funded payout the 29-year-old royal would normally get for tying the knot with an approved blue blood. But the beauty has been stuck on Kei, 30, since the sweethearts hooked up at a Tokyo eatery while they were studying at the city’s International Christian University. Not only will the niece of Emperor Naruhito be poorer when she weds her true love Kei, who has since graduated from New York’s Fordham Law School, she’ll also lose her title like her aunt, Princess Sayako. Sayako abdicated when she became the first Japanese royal to marry a commoner in 2005. Asked about the…

SEEMS paradise is lost for good this time after on-again, off-again Bachelorette couple Dale Moss and Clare Crawley have gone their separate ways! Hairstylist Clare, 40, chose former football hunk Dale, 33, during the reality dating show’s 16th season in 2020, but they reportedly clashed over where to live and when to have kids. “Building a relationship, in general, is tough, especially when you’re doing it in the public eye,” the NFL alum explained during one of their painful partings.…

EXPLOSIVE leaked emails reveal scandal-scarred President Joe Biden’s son Hunter tried to secretly peddle his political influence for $2 million to help unfreeze $150 billion in Libyan blood money seized by the United Nations, investigators claim. According to the documents, Hunter pushed his connections to prove he could help release the cash seized by the UN Security Council in February 2011 to punish Libyan tyrant Muammar Gaddafi for having his military shoot civilians protesting his 41-year rule. At the time, Hunter’s dad was commander in chief Barack Obama’s vice president — and the administration froze some $37 billion itself! Rebel forces deposed and killed Gaddafi that October, then waged a desperate attempt to unfreeze the assets for their new government. Sources say Hunter tried to peddle his lobbying abilities for…

SHOCKING new research suggests a terrified majority of Americans believe the deadliest days of the COVID pandemic lie ahead — and top doctors tell GLOBE they’re right! “The worst is yet to come,” says Dr. Edward Salib, of Punta Gorda, Fla. “However, I do think that the spring of 2022 may be the light at the end of the tunnel!” A disturbing national survey from Pew Research arrives as America remains mired in virus restrictions, with less than 55 percent of the adult population fully vaccinated amid a new push for mandatory masking. Pew surveyed 10,348 U.S. adults and found 54 percent remain convinced the pandemic will only get uglier before things turn around! The country is still being battered with roughly 150,000 new COVID infections EVERY DAY as the…