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Woman Who Died After Queen Mary Fall Suffered Blunt Force Trauma

December 12, 2011
Woman Who Died After Queen Mary Fall Suffered Blunt Force Trauma

Updates surrounding the death of Kelly Ryann Dorrell, the 26-year-old woman who fell 75 feet off the Queen Mary on December 5, report that Dorrell was not arguing with her boyfriend before the incident and that she suffered blunt force trauma. more › Read the rest here: Woman Who Died After Queen Mary Fall Suffered Blunt Force Trauma

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YouTube Threat Forces Local High School to Cancel Classes Today

December 12, 2011
YouTube Threat Forces Local High School to Cancel Classes Today

A Catholic High School in Torrance is closed for the day as authorities investigate an unspecified threat made late last week, according to City News Service. All classes at Bishop Montgomery High School are canceled today due to the threat, which was reportedly made on YouTube. more › View original post here: YouTube Threat Forces Local High School to Cancel Classes Today

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UPDATE: Sue Mengers House Sells

December 12, 2011
UPDATE: Sue Mengers House Sells

SELLER: estate of Sue Mengers BUYER: Allen and Deborah Grubman LOCATION: Beverly Hills, CA PRICE: currently unknown YOUR MAMAS NOTES: It was only a few short weeks ago that Your Mama and just about every other celebrity real estate and/or property gossip went bat shit crazy about the legendary John Elgin-Woolf-designed Beverly Hills, CA residence of recently deceased Hollywood über-agent Sue Mengers. The house, a touchstone of high-Hollywood real estate if there ever was one, was listed (mostly) to architectural oohs and aahs with an asking price of $4,995,000 just a few short weeks after the kaftan-clad pint-size dynamo went to meet her maker in mid-October 2011. The somewhat out-dated, old-school and divinely enigmatic property, according to the New York Post , has been sold to New York City-based law man Allen J. Grubman and his wife Deborah Grubman, a superstar slinger of swanky New York City condos, co-ops and townhouses. The sale price was not reported but Your Mama hears from an usually very well-informed Bev Hills real estate mover and shaker that Mister and Missus Grubman paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $6,500,000 for the single-story abode situated in a prime neck of the Beverly Hills woods just above Sunset Boulevard and–super conveniently–an easy stumble and bumble to the various hooch and food emporiums at the Beverly Hills Hotel . Miz Mengers , a star in her own right, purchased the house in the spring of 1988 and spent the better part of the last 20-some years kibitzing with everyone who is (or was) anyone in Showbiz. As far as we know, which is nothing, none of the Kardashians ever kibitzed with Miz Mengers but Fran Lebowitz, Barry Diller, Tina Fey, Warren Beatty and Angelica Huston, Elton John, Sidney Poitier, and Jennifers Lopez and Aniston did , to name just a few. The very modestly-scaled by Beverly Hills standards house

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Threat Prompts Closure of High School

December 12, 2011
Threat Prompts Closure of High School

Bishop Montgomery High School in Torrance will be closed today while authorities investigate a threat, the Torrance Police Department reported. See more here: Threat Prompts Closure of High School

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Nets Owner to Challenge Putin for Presidency

December 12, 2011
Nets Owner to Challenge Putin for Presidency

Russia’s third-richest man could become its most powerful. See the article here: Nets Owner to Challenge Putin for Presidency

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Kobe Bryant: Losing Lamar Hurts

December 12, 2011
Kobe Bryant: Losing Lamar Hurts

Lakers star Kobe Bryant reacts with candid criticism of the Lamar Odom trade. See the article here: Kobe Bryant: Losing Lamar Hurts

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Michael Jackson fans leave tribute at auction site

December 12, 2011

A sign is posted on the wall describing lot 434 up for auction, a rooster chalkboard with a note written on it from Michael Jackson ‘s children reading “love Daddy/I [heart] Daddy/SMILE it’s for free,” one of the items from 100 North Carolwood Drive, the singer’s final home, during a private preview of the contents at Julien’s Auctions on Sunday, … (more) More: Michael Jackson fans leave tribute at auction site

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Baseball Star Attacked After Confronting Man Peeing on His Car

December 12, 2011
Baseball Star Attacked After Confronting Man Peeing on His Car

Urinator takes a wild swing at star lefty. Read more: Baseball Star Attacked After Confronting Man Peeing on His Car

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Ron Fletcher Dies at 90; Opened First West Coast Pilates Studio in Beverly Hills

December 12, 2011

Ron Fletcher, who opened the first West Coast Pilates studio in Beverly Hills in 1972, died of congestive heart failure last week at his home in Stonewall, Texas. He was 90.  Few people outside of New York, where the Pilates method of exercise was developed, knew about the fitness regime until Fletcher opened his studio above a salon on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Drive. It attracted 1970s celebrities such as Candice Bergen, Barbra Streisand, Raquel Welch and Cher.  Click here to read Fletcher’s obituary from the Los Angeles Times . Be sure to follow Beverly Hills Patch on  Twitter  and “Like” us on  Facebook . Read more here: Ron Fletcher Dies at 90; Opened First West Coast Pilates Studio in Beverly Hills

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Extra, Extra: Hollywood Shooting Victim Still in Critical Condition, Cilantro Recalled & Paris Jackson Goes Into the Family Biz

December 12, 2011
Extra, Extra: Hollywood Shooting Victim Still in Critical Condition, Cilantro Recalled & Paris Jackson Goes Into the Family Biz

In tonight’s Extra, Extra, we check in on the status of the Hollywood shooting victim, thousands of cartons of cilantro is recalled and Paris Jackson is getting into the entertainment game. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook , and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports . more › Continued here: Extra, Extra: Hollywood Shooting Victim Still in Critical Condition, Cilantro Recalled & Paris Jackson Goes Into the Family Biz

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