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In the mid-1980s, Jill Dodd was a 20-year-old model working in Paris when she got an unexpected offer from her agent: She was invited to a gala pirate-themed party on the beach in Monte Carlo being thrown by the billionaire Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. Dodd had no idea who Khashoggi was or why she was invited. But, she says, being “naive and gullible,” she jumped at the chance and soon found herself on the beach dancing with the short, pudgy Saudi mogul. He ended up writing “I… Source link

SALT LAKE CITY — Ja Morant’s dad, Tee, entered Vivint Arena at 6:15 p.m. and took his courtside seat to watch his son warm up in the pregame shootaround.  Morant, who averaged 30 points per game in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, strolled over to greet his dad and five close friends following his pregame warm-up. Fans had yet to enter the arena, but every Utah Jazz fan seated near the Morant family was vetted by the Jazz staff to avoid any conflict. Both Ja and Tee… Source link

Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith has offered a premium package for friends and family of Ja Morant to attend Wednesday’s Game 5 against the Memphis Grizzlies in Salt Lake City. Morant’s father, Tee Morant, and others are taking Smith up on the offer. His mother, Jamie Morant, is not. She’ll remain in Memphis to watch the game on TV. “She said her anxiety couldn’t take it,” Tee Morant told ESPN on Tuesday.  Ja Morant’s family was targeted with abusive language Smith made the offer after Morant’s… Source link

The NBA went 3-for-3 with fans getting banned during Wednesday’s slate of NBA playoff games. A day after a Philadelphia 76ers fan got tossed and banned for dumping popcorn on Russell Westbrook and hours after the New York Knicks banned a fan for spitting on Trae Young, the Utah Jazz announced they had ejected and indefinitely banned three fans for a “verbal altercation” during Game 2 against the Memphis Grizzlies. From The New York Times’ Marc Stein: The Utah Jazz have zero tolerance for… Source link

Ariel Young (Tiffany Verhulst via GoFundMe) When it came to raising Ariel Young, the challenge was almost always the same — containing her, corralling her. She was 5 years old and full of life, a free spirit always looking to run and play. Big smiles. Bigger energy. Ariel was joy; personified. She was en route, all who knew her agreed, to one heck of a life. Today she can’t walk. She can’t talk. She is fed via a gastrostomy tube that connects into her stomach. When her mother, Felicia… Source link

Tech companies like Google have been putting their technology in cars for years, but a new collaboration marks the first time drivers will be able to motor around in an actual Google-branded car. Fiat recently unveiled the new special edition Fiat 500 “Hey Google” family of vehicles, which have Google Assistant technology that lets owners communicate with their cars remotely and bear Google logos and design features on both the outside and inside of the cars. The Italian automaker, owned by… Source link

A brutal note sparked by an unfortunate oversight has made for a family’s sour introduction to a new neighbourhood. In the midst of moving into a new home in Avondale, in New Zealand’s Central Auckland area, the family’s newly installed alarm system incorrectly sounded one night and apparently kept their new neighbours awake.  The family were that night staying in their former home in Waterview, about two kilometres away, and having not met anyone in Avondale yet, could not be contacted nor… Source link

Kyrie Irving will miss the Brooklyn Nets’ next three games while dealing with a “family matter,” the team announced on Monday. Irving will miss a three-game road trip for the Nets, where they will take on the Portland Trail Blazers, Utah Jazz and Detroit Pistons. It’s unclear specifically what Irving’s “family matter” is. Kyrie Irving will not accompany the team on this week’s three-game road trip (POR/UTA/DET) in order to tend to a family matter. — Brooklyn Nets… Source link

Bloomberg Singapore Property Dynasty’s China Deal Is a Cautionary Tale (Bloomberg) — When Singapore’s richest property family invested in a Chinese real estate group, the deal was touted as “game-changing” for its expansion in Asia’s largest economy. Almost a year later, it has instead become a cautionary tale for firms looking to invest in Chinese developers.In a case of a dream turning into a burden, City Developments Ltd. last month revealed a S$1.78 billion ($1.3 billion)… Source link

Meghan Markle nearly left Oprah speechless in an interview that aired on CBS on Sunday, when she made not-so-veiled allegations of racism within the royal family. Meghan, who is of mixed race, claimed that when she was pregnant with her and Prince Harry’s first child, Archie, a member of the family expressed concerns to Harry about the possibility of their child having a dark skin tone. On top of that, Meghan said she and Harry were told that Archie, the first person of color born into the… Source link