Jarrod

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Pie baker extraordinaire who also happens to be a screenwriter/actor.

The World’s Oldest Working Model

Carmen Dell’Orefice turned 80 on June 3, 2011. However,  she isn’t just your run of the mill American octogenarian. Granted, I do know quite a few people over the age of 80 that still go play tennis regularly and go to the casino with their great-grandchildren but I don’t know many who are still working. Dell’Orefice is not just working. She is making money in one of the most fickle fields possible.

Dell’Orefice started modeling at a young age and was featured on the cover of Vogue at the age of 15. Most recently she walked in the Alberta Ferretti show in Italy on January 11, 2011 and in the Vittadini Mercedes-Benz Fall 2011 show in New York on February 16, 2011. Continue reading →

The Tale of a Bankrupt Billionaire

Patricia Kluge and her newest husband, Bill Moses

I’m not sure how one squanders a divorce settlement whose value was rumored to range from one billion dollars to less than a million dollars a year but apparently it is possible.  In 1990 Patricia Kluge divorced from John Kluge, a man once considered the richest person in America. In the divorce, Pat received a sprawling 45-room, 26,000-square-foot home near Charlottesville, VA and a boatload of cash which most people agree was $1.6 million a week. Since then she has opened a successful winery whose wine was even served at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding last July and entered into a variety of other ventures. However,  the debts have been mounting as rumors of financial trouble started when her $100 million dollar estate was auctioned off and repossesed by Bank of America for $15.6 million. Recently, Kluge and her newest husband have also been auctioning off a lot of her own personal items in what has been viewed as an effort to pay down their debts which have been tallied at around $46 million dollars.

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Forbes Releases Celebrity 100 List

“Holy shitballs!” was how Bethenny Frankel described her feelings about being on the cover of the most recent Celebrity 100 edition of Forbes magazine. Holy shitballs is right. This year Bethenny made about $55 million dollars. It feels like just the other day she was the poor, downtrodden Real Housewife of New York City peddling her brand Bethenny Bakes at every function imaginable but now everything has changed. The reality shows that made her famous only “earned” her about $700,000 last year but she definitely owes alot of her success to them. She has multiple best-selling books and other business ventures including her brand SkinnyGirl Cocktails and its premier drink the SkinnyGirl Margarita. In fact, she recently inked a deal for her brand of drinks which netted her a reported $100-$120 million dollars. All of things considered, she is now probably the wealthiest of all the New York City Housewives and she isn’t even on the show anymore. Continue reading →

Celebrity Real Estate Porn: Ellen Degeneres and Portia De Rossi

Ellen and Portia are looking to sell their massive estate in Beverly Hills for $60 million dollars. I know, I know, this may not be as unlived in and well kept as Huguette Clark’s 42-room Fifth Avenue Manhattan apartment,  $32 million Cold War bomb shelter in Connecticut, or her Santa Barbara estate but it does look pretty nice. I mean, Ellen did buy it for $29 million initially and has put $19 million towards snapping up surrounding mansions. The new, even more massive estate sprawls across an impressive 24,000 square feet which is not too shabby for the star of Mr.Wrong.
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Netflix is Winning the Internet at the Expense of Cable Companies

Netflix has basically won the internet by garnering almost 30 percent of peak internet traffic per day which is up from 20 percent almost six months ago.

Late to the party as usual, cable companies are now searching for ways to tame the beast. They have decided to put a cap on the amount of data a customer can use each month in hopes that they will keep their cable services in lieu of watching shows online. They could have gone the Hollywood route and tried to work with Netflix, but no they want viewers all to themselves.  They want world domination AND a happy ending. Little do they know, this will do nothing to curtail the impending thousand year rule of Netflix.

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Say No To Grandpa Joe

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Both the book and its two movie counterparts have many perceived villains. But, when you think about it, none of them are actually villains in the first place. Slugworth, the obvious culprit, is actually just a moral test placed in the children’s way by Willy Wonka.  You could also consider Willy Wonka a villain; but in the end he is just trying to find an heir to his empire. The true villain in the series is Grandpa Joe.

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