For nearly 20 years, Joan Rivers was the one person Johnny Carson trusted with his stage. She was the one he called when he needed someone to hold down the Tonight Show while he was gone. She was the one the audience accepted in his chair. And then in the spring of…
not all success stories have Happy Endings especially in Hollywood some of the brightest stars rise from humble beginnings with inspiring rags to Rich’s Tales only to lose their way later whether it’s due to struggles with addiction mental health challenges or poor financial decisions some famous celebrities have shockingly ended up…
The year is 1946. A newborn baby girl is welcomed into the world. One of 12 children in a family so poor that legend has it her parents paid the doctor who delivered her with nothing more than a sack of cornmeal. That little girl was Dolly Rebecca Parton. A name that…
What if someone you saw everyday, someone you felt like you knew, suddenly looked like a stranger? That is what fans are saying right now about Rachel Ray. The face we all knew, the smiling, bubbly chef, has been replaced by someone fans say they do not even recognize. And everyone is…
Al Pacino sets his watch on the dresser. He slides the pinky ring off his finger. He kisses his wife and he tells her that if Donnie calls, she should say that if it was going to be anyone, he was glad it was him. Then he walks out the door. For almost…
February 2019, Chicago. A man is dead. Not just any man. The highest ranking black disciple on the outside. The closest thing to a king that one of Chicago’s oldest and most feared street organizations had walking free. When the news spread, Chicago police didn’t just open a homicide file. They braced…
April 14th, 2013. Morning. Somewhere in Dalton, Illinois, a quiet suburb just south of Chicago, a man reads a text message telling him that two people want him dead. He reads it and then somehow he goes about his day. What does it take to read something like that and just stay?…
It’s just after 3:00 in the morning on the 23rd of June 2019. A man in his early 50s is moving through a ventilation duct in the central prison of Montevideo. He is slim, quiet, and deliberate. He has been in this building for roughly 21 months waiting on an extradition that…
On February 26, 1988, a 22-year-old police officer named Edward Byrne sat alone in his patrol car on 107th Avenue and Inwood Street in South Jamaica, Queens. It was 3:30 in the morning. He had been on the force for less than a year. His assignment that night was simple. Guard a…
November 15th, 1986, 2:45 in the afternoon, a federal courtroom in Lower Manhattan. Mickey Featherstone raised his right hand, swore to tell the truth, and sat down across from the man who had tried to have him buried in concrete. Jimmy Coonan didn’t blink. He just stared at his best friend. The…
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