Month: June 2021

George Rivera, the father of late Glee star Naya Rivera, has revealed the tragic details of his last FaceTime call with his daughter, just hours before his grandson, Josey was found alone and Naya was reported missing. Five days later, Naya’s body would be found floating in a remote section of Lake Piru; she had drowned while trying to save her son from the same fate.

On the afternoon of July 8th, 2020, Naya rented a boat when she decided to call her dad to ask about swimming in the lake. George talked about this in conversation recently in a new interview with People, revealing, “She would always bounce stuff off me. And she wanted to go swimming with Josey out in the middle of the lake.” Naya then informed her father that the rented boat had no anchor, “I could see that the wind was blowing and my stomach was just cringing.”

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George is an avid boater and when he heard about the boat being anchorless and saw it was windy, he told his daughter not to go swimming. “I kept telling her, ‘Don’t get out of the boat! Don’t get out of the boat! It will drift away when you’re in the water,” however, after about three minutes the call cut out.

“It was just heartbreaking,” added George, “I had this bad feeling that was just killing me.”Rivera was left staring at a screencap he had taken of his daughter in sunglasses and a baseball cap along with the boat’s canopy in the background and the blue sky behind it. “It’s still pretty much a big blur of pain almost a year later,” he continued, “Things are slowly coming a little more into focus, but I don’t know if I’ll ever find closure from this. I miss her every day.”

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A Pennsylvania man is facing a slew of serious charges after prosecutors alleged he defrauded Trump supporters. During former President Donald Trump‘s reelection campaign, his dedicated following was more than happy to open their wallets. This type of commitment made room for scammers to swoop in, and authorities believe that Joshua Hall, 22, took advantage of those who believed that they were donating to an organization that would help Trump.

The Washington Post reports that Hall pretended to be several of Trump’s relatives including his brother and his minor son Barron. Hall is said to have created a pro-Trump group that collected thousands of dollars worth of donations that he kept for himself while operating several social media accounts. Robert Trump even retweeted Hall’s account and added that the alleged fraudster had his “complete and total endorsement.”

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However, prosecutors stated that the pro-Trump group wasn’t real and it was all a ruse for financial gain. Hall, who describes himself as a “bisexual Trump supporter,” reportedly fed into Trump conspiracy theorists with posts about COVID-19 being a scam and shared several QAnon ideas. “Hall led hundreds of people to believe they were donating to an organization that didn’t exist by pretending to be someone he wasn’t,” said FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney Jr.

In an interview with The New York Times, Hall reportedly admitted to the publication that he did pretend to be members of the Trump family through various fake accounts, but he didn’t do anything maliciously. “I was just trying to rally up MAGA supporters and have fun,” Hall reportedly said. He was able to rack up over 100,000 followers online, many of which believed he was truly a Trump ally, especially after launching a “Gay Voices for Trump” group.

“I should have used better judgment and stuff. But I didn’t deliberately try and dupe people out of money,” said Hall. Prosecutors disagree and they claim Hall made repeated pleas for the public to give donations. It’s unclear how much jail time he’s looking at if convicted, but Hall has been arrested and charged with fraud and identity theft.

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Over Memorial Day Weekend, the El Mula Banquet Hall in Miami became a frightening site after a deadly ambush took place. Gunfire rang out resulting in the deaths of three people while 23 others were injured. Suspects have yet to be named, but a local rapper named Tigoose managed to avoid getting himself hurt. According to his father, who goes by the name “Goose,” Christopher “Tigoose” Osuna was scheduled to perform at El Mula before the shooting occurred. Tigoose wasn’t injured, but days later, he reportedly died in a fiery car crash.

According to WSVN 7News in Miami, Tigoose was in a vehicle with another person when they collided with an SUV driven by a pregnant mother who was riding with her six children. “My son was in the back seat,” the mother reportedly said. “He just had blood and everything coming from his nose. It was just crazy.”

“There was another car that left the scene,” she added. “That wasn’t just no make a mistake and you get in the wrong lane.” It’s reported that an Infiniti involved in the incident, said to be Tigoose and another person, was seen driving down the road on the wrong side of the road. Following the crash, the vehicle “burst into flames.”

Tigoose’s father reflected on his son avoiding injury in the shooting days prior. “Everyone else got hit but him,” said Goose. “To me, it’s like final destination. It ain’t happened that day but something happened to him another day.” He believes that the third car seen on surveillance footage fleeing the scene is somehow involved.

We send our condolences to Tigoose’s loved ones.

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Michael Jordan’s inclusion in ESPN’s acclaimed The Last Dance docuseries was hailed by sports fans, but not everyone was happy with the final product. The documentary chronicled Jordan’s biggest Chicago Bulls moments, many that took place alongside Scottie Pippen, but the latter would later express his dissatisfaction with how he was portrayed.

“I don’t think it was that accurate in terms of really defining what was accomplished in one of the greatest eras of basketball, but also by two of the greatest players – and one could even put that aside and say the greatest team of all time,” Pippen told The Guardian in December 2020. “I didn’t think those things stood out in the documentary. I thought it was more about Michael trying to uplift himself and to be glorified. I think it also backfired to some degree in that people got a chance to see what kind of personality Michael had.”

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Pippen is preparing to tell his story courtesy of his memoir Unguarded, and fans believe that the sports legend is using the opportunity to send a few shots Jordan’s way. In the description shared by Simon & Schuster, they write:

“Scottie Pippen has been called one of the greatest NBA players for good reason. Simply put, without Pippen, there are no championship banners—let alone six—hanging from the United Center rafters. There’s no Last Dance documentary. There’s no “Michael Jordan” as we know him. The 1990s Chicago Bulls teams would not exist as we know them.

Elsewhere in the description, the publisher added that Pippen “cringed at being labeled Jordan’s sidekick” and in the book, he spoke about how the media, as well as the Bulls’ management team, should have treated him with more respect. “He discusses what it was like dealing with Jordan on a day-to-day basis, while serving as the real leader within the Bulls locker room.”

Unguarded is set to hit shelves this November, so check out Pippen’s Instagram announcement below and let us know if you’ll be picking this up.

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