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Dublin Live
a day ago
- Sport
- Dublin Live
Conor McGregor breaks silence after Ibiza nightclub incident with 15-word message
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Conor McGregor has finally spoken out after a video surfaced showing the ex-dual-weight UFC champ allegedly involved in a scrap at an Ibiza nightclub. An alleged altercation is said to have taken place at Pacha nightclub early on Tuesday. The Sun released footage where McGregor appears to lean over to speak to an unidentified man on the dance floor. Shortly after, he's seen allegedly throwing two punches, landing the second one. The man appears to hit the deck right after what looks like the impact of the second punch. Almost immediately, several people close to McGregor seem to intervene, and look to separate him from other partygoers. Eyewitnesses have since described the scene, with one individual telling The Sun: "Clearly something's been said to annoy him and he's reacted very badly. "The guy seemed to fall to the floor, and his mates came to pick him up and get him away. There [didn't appear to be any] consequences for Conor, but the guy he punched was taken away, and I didn't see him again." Another witness remarked: "Someone approached them and when Conor struck him, about five people toppled over as the guy staggered back. "It was a bit like bowling pins, but the guy was really shaken by the hits. About a minute later, the bouncers came and got him on the back and took him out of the club, because he had annoyed Conor. "It was right before close anyway. There was no messing around; they just removed him. Conor left through the garden a bit later; he didn't look very happy that they got into a fight." (Image: David Becker via Getty Images) McGregor, 36, has now said his first words since the alleged incident. The Irishman uploaded several posts to his social media accounts with a message, reports the Mirror. On Wednesday evening, in a post uploaded to X, formerly known as Twitter, he wrote: "You won't speak bad about my country and its people and that's ever. Vote McGregor." A few hours later, the 'Notorious' posted several photographs of himself, including one with a group of men to his Instagram story, alongside a snap of himself underneath a photograph of Al Pacino in the 1983 film Scarface. Earlier in the week, McGregor was seen on the party island with TV personality Katie Price. The Irishman could be seen wearing a hat and sunglasses in a photo taken with Price and her friend Ryan Mira. McGregor has not fought in the UFC since losing to long-time rival Dustin Poirier back in 2021. The clash was stopped in the first round after the Irishman suffered a broken leg. He was scheduled to make his comeback last year against former Bellator lightweight champion Michael Chandler. However, the 'Notorious' withdrew from the contest after picking up an injury in training.
Boston Globe
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Stars convene for amfAR gala to raise millions for AIDS research
During the meal guests were also entertained with musical performances from Ciara, who opened the night, Adam Lambert and headlining the dinner with Duran Duran. Guest shimmied from their tables to the front of the room to stand in front of the stage and sing along to hits like 'Notorious' and 'View to a Kill' (which wouldn't be the only James Bond reference of the night). The sale included artwork from Brody — sold for 375,000 euros ($423,755) with lunch with the star thrown in — and Franco — (sold for 325,000 euros ($367,254) also with a lunch offered with the winning bid. Another highlight was a May 2025 George Condo painting that raised 1.15 million euros ($1.26 million). Advertisement Lee came to the stage and offered a surprise lot, a walk-on part in his next movie. Part of the way through the bidding he added tickets to sit next to him courtside at a New York Nicks game next season, driving the price up to 400,000 euros ($452,005). Advertisement The fashion show is a regular feature of the auction curated by Carine Roitfeld, this year was Bond-inspired and saw 27 models turn the middle of the dinning room into a catwalk as they paraded through the room waving at guests they recognized and posing for photos on route. The collection made 450,000 euros ($508,505) for the charity, auctioned off as one complete lot. The Foundation for AIDS Research, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of AIDS research, HIV prevention, treatment education, and advocacy. Since 1985, amfAR has raised nearly $950 million (841 million euros) in support of its programs and has awarded more than 3,800 grants to research teams worldwide.
Los Angeles Times
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
A cranky Kevin Costner and a resilient Uma Thurman: 5 juicy stories from Maureen Dowd's ‘Notorious' interviews
Maureen Dowd has been profiling the rich, famous and powerful for the New York Times since the 1980s. As she writes in her new collection, 'Notorious,' 'I've always been fascinated by how powerful people wield power, how charismatic people create charisma, how talented people nurture or squander their talent.' She has a knack for asking questions that go right up to the edge of intrusion but instead yield thoughtful, intimate insights. 'Notorious' features conversations with everyone from Uma Thurman to Elon Musk, from Paul Newman to Mel Brooks. We picked five of the juiciest tidbits and anecdotes. 'They say life is just a series of snapshots,' Dowd writes. 'This book certainly is. It's pioneering, talented, brilliant people at a certain moment in their lives — and those moments can be illuminating.' Dowd confesses that Costner was once a 'big crush' of hers. That was before she interviewed him in 1991 in New Orleans. 'Things got off to a bad start as we were walking through the French Quarter to his hotel for the interview,' Dowd writes. 'A group of sweet seniors shyly asked Costner to pose for a picture with them as he waited at a red light, tapping his cowboy boot in irritation.' 'OK,' he snapped at the women, 'but can't you see I'm being interviewed?' Dowd writes: 'It was like watching someone kick kittens.' As the interview progressed, Costner asked Dowd, 'with cocky assurance,' if she was going to play the interview tape for her girlfriends. 'I told him starchily, 'I interviewed Paul Newman and didn't play that tape for my girlfriends. So I think I can refrain from playing yours.'' When Dowd interviewed Jane Fonda in 2020, she asked the movie star/workout queen/bête noire of the right wing if she wanted to have sex with Che Guevara. 'No, I don't think about him,' Fonda replied. 'Who I do think about, and what is a great regret, is Marvin Gaye. He wanted to and I didn't. I was married to Tom [Hayden]. I was meeting a lot of performers to try to do concerts for Tom and the woman who was helping me do that introduced me to Marvin Gaye.' Dowd: 'Please tell me his pickup line included the words 'sexual healing.'' Fonda: 'I needed some but he didn't say that, no. But then I read, apparently he had my picture on his refrigerator. I didn't find that out until later, after he was dead.' One of my favorite pieces in 'Notorious' is Dowd's profile of Newman. Published in 1986, shortly before the release of 'The Color of Money' (for which he would finally win his first Oscar), the story shows Newman to be a relatable and humorous conversation partner — and very self-conscious about being seen as a sex symbol. It is worth quoting at length. 'To the public, the actor's cerulean eyes have become a symbol of his stardom. To Newman, they have become a symbol of his long struggle to be thought of as a craftsman. 'To work as hard as I've worked to accomplish anything and then have some yo-yo come up and say, 'Take off those dark glasses and let's have a look at those blue eyes' is really discouraging. 'It's as though someone said, 'Open your mouth and let me see your gums,' or 'Open your blouse and let me see your chest.' The thing I've never figured out is, how do you present eyes? Do you present them coyly? Do you present them boldly? Usually, I just say, 'I would take off my sunglasses, madam, but my pants would fall down.'' In Dowd's 2018 profile of Thurman, the actress talks about dangerous encounters with two men. One is Harvey Weinstein, whose sexual assaults have been well chronicled (Thurman 'wriggled' away from his attacks). The other is Quentin Tarantino, who, Thurman says, had her drive an unsafe car on the set of 'Kill Bill,' which she crashed and was left badly injured. 'Uma Thurman said she didn't want to drive this car,' Dowd writes. 'She said she had been warned that there were issues with it. She felt she had to do it anyway.' 'The steering wheel was at my belly and my legs were jammed under me,' Thurman says. 'I felt this searing pain and thought, 'Oh, my God, I'm never going to walk again.' When I came back from the hospital in a neck brace with my knees damaged and a large egg on my head and a concussion, I wanted to see the car and I was very upset. Quentin and I had an enormous fight, and I accused him of trying to kill me. And he was very angry at that, I guess understandably, because he didn't feel he had tried to kill me.' 'Oftentimes,' Dowd writes, 'famous people are just giving you a well-rehearsed riff that they've given thousands of times before. But sometimes, you can lead them to some weird subject that gets them off script. And occasionally, they'll simply surprise you.' One such surprise came in 2013, when Dowd interviewed Craig. 'The very cool Daniel Craig told me that he and Rachel Weisz had a ban on technology devices in the bedroom and recommended that for everyone,' she writes. ''If the iPad goes to bed, I mean, unless you're both watching porn on the internet, it's a killer,'' he said. And scene.
Los Angeles Times
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Voletta Wallace, mother of rapper Notorious B.I.G. and steward of his legacy, dies at 78
Voletta Wallace, the mother of the late rapper Notorious B.I.G. who worked to elevate his short-lived but influential career to hip-hop greatness, has died. She was 78. 'We suffered a tremendous loss today. Our mother, our matriarch, the woman who dedicated herself to uplifting her son, Christopher Wallace, and preserving his legacy has passed,' Wallace's family said Friday on her Facebook page. 'It is with immense sadness that we share this news with you, and ask that you give our family the space and time needed to grieve this monumental loss. Thank you for your continued outpouring of love, prayers and condolences in this difficult time.' Wallace died Friday morning in Stroudsburg, Penn., the Monroe County coroner, Thomas Yanac, confirmed to the Associated Press. She died of natural causes in hospice care at home, he said. Yanac did not immediately respond to The Times' requests for comment. Wallace's son, who was also known as Biggie, was gunned down in 1997 following a music industry party in the Mid-Wilshire district, just two weeks before releasing his seminal album 'Life After Death.' His mother worked to safeguard the 'Hypnotize' rapper's legacy and pass on his wealth to her grandchildren, 'Notorious' star Christopher Jordan 'C.J.' Wallace and daughter T'yanna Dream Wallace. The family also filed a number of lawsuits alleging wrongful death and conspiracy. She and her family also sued the city of Los Angeles, alleging that officials covered up police involvement in the rapper's slaying. A federal judge dismissed that lawsuit in 2010 after lawyers on both sides said they had reached an agreement allowing for the lawsuit to be filed at a later date. The family brought several other lawsuits stemming from the killing, which remains unsolved. Wallace, a Jamaican immigrant, worked as a preschool teacher and was a single mother. Her son, who was 24 when he died, was killed just six months after rival rapper Tupac Shakur was gunned down in Las Vegas. The Brooklyn emcee and 'Big Poppa' rapper, born Christopher Wallace, was among the most successful acts launched by embattled music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs. Six months after his death, his mother took the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards to accept the prize for rap video ('Hypnotize') on his behalf. 'I know if my son was here tonight, the first thing he would have done is say, 'Big up to Brooklyn,'' she said. Two years later, she and Shakur's mother, Afeni Shakur, put on a united front at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards to 'stand united as mothers preserving their [sons'] legacies. 'The fact that we are even standing here shows what the power of faith, friends, family, loved ones and fans can do to bring us all closer,' Wallace said. The matriarch also worked with the mothers of other late young musicians — Aaliyah, TLC's Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes and Jam Master Jay, among them — through the Christopher Wallace Memorial Foundation and its B.I.G. ('Books Instead of Guns') Night Out. 'It is our way of saying, 'Keep your head up,'' Wallace told the Associated Press in 2003. 'It's the foundation's way just to let these parents know that we love them.' When Combs fell from grace last year, Wallace was among those who spoke out against the music producer after a video of him attacking his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura surfaced and made her 'sick to [her] stomach.' 'I don't want to believe the things that I've heard, but I've seen [the video],' Wallace told Rolling Stone last May. 'I pray that he apologizes to her. I hope that I see Sean one day and the only thing I want to do is slap the daylights out of him. And you can quote me on that. Because I liked him. I didn't want to believe all the awful things, but I'm so ashamed and embarrassed.' Biggie, who released his debut album 'Ready to Die' with Bad Boy Records in 1994, was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020, one of his many achievements that his mother highlighted on her social media accounts that she largely dedicated to him. Last year, she marked 'Hypnotize' reaching 1 billion streams on Spotify after its 1997 release. In an early 1997 profile in The Times, Biggie, describing his own reformation, said: 'What I'm doing now is right. I'm taking care of my mother, my kids and my peers. It's legal, and I'm just using a talent that I have to express myself and get paid, so it's only right that I follow that righteous road.' In 2005, Wallace published a memoir, 'Biggie: Voletta Wallace Remembers Her Son, Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious B.I.G.,' to pay tribute to Biggie, describing losing him so young as feeling like 'a 100-pound lead weighing down in my chest.' The Atria-published book included never-before-published photographs and a foreword from Biggie's widow, singer Faith Evans. The book charted her son's climb to stardom and how Wallace worked to keep 'her bright, precocious son on the straight and narrow.' In it, she also condemned Biggie's friends whom she claimed treated her with little respect after he died, as well as her ongoing quest to identify her son's killers. In 2021, she worked as an executive producer on the Netflix documentary 'Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell.' Prior to that, she served as a producer on the 2009 biopic 'Notorious,' in which Angela Bassett played her, and Biggie's son C.J. played a younger version of him. Jamal Woolard starred as the elder version of the rapper. She visited the set nearly every day, and although she loved the final film, she said, it also made her angry and sad. 'I learned a lot … about my son — a lot that I never knew. But I still love him because he was from [my heart] and the love is still here,' she told CinemaBlend in 2009. 'You can't change love.' To mark Biggie's 50th birthday, she and the rapper's children, along with collaborators Lil' Kim and Lil' Cease, got together at the Empire State Building when it changed its colors to red and white in his honor. New York also commemorated the rapper with a special edition MetroCard and an orchestral tribute to his music at Lincoln Center, Variety reported.
