December 12, 2011
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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December 12, 2011
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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December 12, 2011
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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December 12, 2011
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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December 12, 2011
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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December 12, 2011
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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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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December 12, 2011
Urinator takes a wild swing at star lefty. Read more: Baseball Star Attacked After Confronting Man Peeing on His Car
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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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December 12, 2011
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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