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New York Post
2 days ago
- Business
- New York Post
Defunct NYC wine shop Sherry-Lehmann sues ex-owners, Pulitzer-winning NYT journalist over ‘press smear campaign'
Defunct New York City wine shop Sherry-Lehmann has filed a bizarre lawsuit that blames its spectacular implosion two years ago on its former owners — as well as a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. The ill-fated vintner's current proprietors — who shuttered the posh Park Avenue store in March 2023 amid mounting customer complaints over missing wine orders — claim New York Times columnist James B. Stewart conspired with Sherry-Lehmann's former owners to create a 'press smear campaign' against the shop for their 'financial benefit and personal gain.' The suit claims the 73-year-old scribe — best known for his 1991 book 'Den of Thieves' about the Michael Milken insider trading scandal — also egged on law enforcement to raid Sherry-Lehmann, allegedly telling the US attorney for the Southern District of New York that the wine shop 'was the greatest Ponzi scheme of all time.' 6 James B. Stewart is a Pulitzer-winning journalist for The New York times. Getty Images The suit goes on to make the claim that Stewart and three of the shop's former owners 'orchestrated' a series of 'false articles' in other publications — including the New York Post — that allegedly misrepresented Sherry-Lehmann to the public and to law enforcement. That, Sherry-Lehmann's owners alleged, amounts to a violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, according to the May 27 suit filed in Manhattan federal court. A spokesperson for The New York Times denied the RICO allegations, saying in a statement, 'There is no merit to the claims and we plan to defend against the suit vigorously.' In response to the allegations concerning The New York Post, a spokeswoman said in a statement, 'These allegations are absurd, and show a complete lack of understanding of how journalism works.' 6 Shyda Gilmer is a co-owner of Sherry-Lehmann. New York Post Sherry-Lehmann's complaint alleges that Peter Hellman, a reporter for the trade publication Wine Spectator, collaborated with Stewart 'in researching and writing their articles for Wine Spectator and The New York Times, with Hellman claiming to a representative for Sherry-Lehmann that he was the 'gumshoe reporter' for Stewart's article.' The suit also claims that Hellman tried to 'impersonate an HVAC repairman' to enter Sherry-Lehmann's temperature controlled Wine Caves facility in Pearl River, NY 'before he was escorted from the premises.' The complaint likewise alleges that Stewart allegedly 'impersonated a customer of Wine Caves (which Stewart never was)' to gather information for his article and that he allegedly told a Sherry-Lehman rep that 'this will win a Pulitzer Prize.' 6 A lawsuit filed on behalf of Kris Green (on the left) and Shyda Gilmer names New York Times columnist James B. Stewart as a Gotham Magazine Stewart has already won a Pulitzer — in 1987 for his coverage of the stock market crash when he was a writer for The Wall Street Journal. A source familiar with the lawsuit told The Post that Stewart and Hellman have never met. Stewart declined to comment. Hellman and Wine Spectator also declined to comment, citing 'pending litigation.' The lawsuit, filed on behalf of owners Kris Green and Shyda Gilmer, claims they missed out on a $20 million 'merger' offer from 'one of the largest vineyard owners in France' because of the negative press and that the former owners wanted to deep six the deal to sell the business, according to the complaint. 6 FBI agents raided the Park Avenue store in July 2023. James Keivom Gilmer and Green also claim the company was in the red long before they took over and blame the previous ownership's management for its woes. 'The co-conspirators…have engaged in a strategic, well-coordinated collaboration… to spread damaging false information about Sherry-Lehmann … with the sole intention of sabotaging its reputation and destroying its operations so they might profit,' according to the complaint. The suit singles out Stewart for a May 25, 2023, exposé in the Gray Lady entitled 'An Iconic Wine Store and the Mystery of the Missing Bottles' which reported that some of the wine belonging to storage customers was illegally sold to others. Sherry-Lehman denied this in its complaint. Sherry-Lehmann had been shuttered two months earlier after the State Liquor Authority issued a cease and desist order because the business had failed to renew its liquor license. 6 Sherry-Lehmann's landlord, Glorious Sun, is suing previous owners of the store for unpaid rent. James Keivom The nearly century-old, debt-ridden wine shop failed to pay its landlord, vendors and state taxes while also reportedly stiffing its customers out of wine they had paid for. A separate wine storage business – Wine Caves – went dark on customers who tried in vain get their booze back, as The Post reported. At the same time, the previous owners were dishing on Sherry-Lehmann's current owners, according to the lawsuit, because they wanted to be absolved of potential liability from the landlord who is owed millions of dollars. The previous owners, Michael Aaron, whose family founded Sherry-Lehman, Michael Yurch and Chris Adams are being sued in a separate lawsuit filed last year by Sherry-Lehmann's landlord Glorious Sun, which claims they are liable for the unpaid rent. Aaron, Adams and Yurch declined to comment on either of the lawsuits. 6 The store closed temporarily in March 2023 and never reopened. New York Post/Lisa Fickenscher The previous owners argue that they long ago severed ties with the business and have no stake in it, according to court documents. The final nail in the coffin for the business were multiple raids by the FBI, NYPD and US Postal Inspection Service on its store and wine storage facility in Pearl River, NY in July 2023. The 'unnecessary raids' in 2023 and as recently as 2024 resulted in canceled orders from customers, and potential acquirers, according to the complaint. But notably, there have been 'no indictments or arrests' as a result of these investigations, the suit claims. 'After withstanding [a] highly damaged reputation for over two years,' the lawsuit states, '[Sherry-Lehmann] can now finally come forward to tell the real story and to seek a remedy against all co-conspirators who profited from their misconduct, while fleecing Sherry-Lehmann in the process.' A US Postal Inspection Service spokesperson told The Post that its investigation of Sherry-Lehmann is 'active and ongoing.'
Express Tribune
3 days ago
- Express Tribune
Elon Musk shares drug test results following White House ketamine rumours
Elon Musk has addressed recent drug use allegations by publicly sharing the results of a lab-certified drug test, which returned negative across 19 substances. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO released the report on Twitter, captioning it simply with 'lol.' The test, conducted on June 11 2025, screened for a range of drugs including amphetamines, ketamine, cocaine, MDMA, and others. The results show Musk tested negative for all substances, directly responding to claims made in a recent New York Times report. The NYT article cited anonymous sources who alleged Musk had taken various substances regularly, including ketamine, ecstasy, psychedelic mushrooms, and Adderall—sometimes on a daily basis. It was also suggested he travelled with a pill box and suffered bladder issues from frequent use. The allegations surfaced after Musk left his position at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), ending his informal White House partnership with President Donald Trump. Their fallout quickly became public, with both parties exchanging sharp remarks. Musk linked Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, while Trump reportedly referred to Musk as a 'big-time drug addict' in private. Musk, who has denied using illegal substances, told Fox News that he once tried prescription ketamine but hasn't used it since. He strongly rejected the NYT claims, accusing the publication of dishonesty and referring to its Pulitzer-winning Russia investigation coverage as 'false.'
Winnipeg Free Press
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
No last stop in sight for Streetcar
Stanley, Blanche and, of course, Stella! Nearly 80 years since Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden and director Elia Kazan made A Streetcar Named Desire the stuff of theatre legend, the play that Tennessee Williams often said was the best work of his illustrious career refuses to slow down. 'I was reading in a book that before COVID, somewhere in the world, A Streetcar Named Desire was playing every hour,' says George Toles, who is directing the Pulitzer-winning drama for the independent theatre company the 28th Minute. Arthur MacKinnon photo From left: Kevin Ramberran, Heather Roberts, Justin Fry and Sophie George star in Tennessee Williams' most famous work. 'Kazan said that if it's cast properly, it always works, and that's because of its dramatic shape, its characterizations, its vitality, its humour.' When the play debuted in 1947, it disinterred deeply rooted taboos, paving the way for a stream of theatre — sweaty, lurid, streetwise and feverishly realistic about the politics of sex — that forever changed the form, adds Toles, a longtime film and theatre professor at the University of Manitoba who has directed Williams' Confessional (2018) and Suddenly, Last Summer (2014) for the 28th Minute. 'The emotional challenges it brings up have in no sense been resolved, tamed or domesticated,' the director says. Over the course of an hour-long roundtable, the director and his principal cast — Heather Roberts, Justin Fry, Sophie George and Kevin Ramberran — could hardly contain their enthusiasm for a piece of work Toles describes as having a 'primordial energy,' achieved by its mingling of poetry and realistic prose. In Williams' hands, the two were one in the same. Roberts, who takes on the indelible role of Blanche DuBois, says there's no character she's encountered in her career more intricately layered and challenging to reconstruct than the southern educator. 'I think Blanche is always the smartest person in the room. I feel she's constantly speaking butterfly language to caterpillar people,' says Roberts. It's a role that actors often dream of taking on — that is, until they're tasked with embodying DuBois' raw emotion on a nightly basis. In Truly, Madly, Stephen Galloway's book on Vivian Leigh's tumultuous marriage to Laurence Olivier, he quotes Leigh as saying that playing DuBois 'tipped me into madness,' Roberts has maintained her affection for DuBois. She says the character reveals Williams' intent to craft Streetcar as 'a plea for the understanding of delicate people.' 'I feel if there's a question in this play, it's how to stay soft in a hard world. How do you maintain the vision of beauty and wonder and not fall prey to those external, rocky influences?' Fry, who plays Stanley Kowalski, a role immortalized by Brando, extends Roberts' thought by considering the play as an exploration of methods of survival. 'Stanley is very much about practicality,' says Fry, who has long yearned to portray the brutish young man. 'Being able to survive in this world means needing to be focused on the right things, and poetry is not one of them.' 'As much as Blanche lives for the hope of it all, she does fail at practicality,' says Roberts. 'I would say that the same question of survival emerges for Stella,' says Toles, who believes the character's method of self-preservation is in self-censorship and selective invisibility amid the chaos around her. 'One of the most challenging parts for me in playing her is living in the quiet. Stella says, 'I just got used to being quiet because he never gave me a chance to talk.' That's difficult as an actor to play, especially from the start. So being able to find the emotions Stella is feeling, not just what she's saying. The most helpful thing for me is approaching her without any judgment.' The omnipresence of impending doom and the whims required to evade it suffuse the production, possibly because when he wrote Streetcar, Williams, who was 36, was under the impression that he was dying. 'Without that sense of fatigue and that idea of imminently approaching death, I doubt I could have created Blanche DuBois,' the writer, who wouldn't have a funeral until 1983, told Esquire's Rex Reed in 1971, on the occasion of the playwright's 60th birthday. 'Death haunts this play for sure,' agrees Toles. The 28th Minute mounts one production every year, with each performance serving as a showcase for its cast and crew, who prepare in a basement studio at the University of Manitoba. Under Toles' tutelage, each participant brings a studious approach to both character and craft, often remaining for hours after rehearsal finishes to fine-tune their performances. By producing carefully selected works by playwrights such as Annie Baker, Kenneth Lonergan and Will Eno, the company sets its actors up for career-altering roles. Weekly A weekly look at what's happening in Winnipeg's arts and entertainment scene. Fry made his Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre debut earlier this season in the backcourt dramedy King James, parlaying years of success in indie settings to a starting role for the province's largest company. For the actor, who is currently pursuing a master's degree in counselling psychology, the role of the intermittently stable Kowalski provides a professional opportunity for personal development. 'When you work with fictitious people written this well, what you have is really a study of human behaviour and understanding who we are,' Fry says. For Toles, who calls it his favourite play, Streetcar comes as close as any work of modern theatre to answering that eternal question. Ben WaldmanReporter Ben Waldman is a National Newspaper Award-nominated reporter on the Arts & Life desk at the Free Press. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Ben completed three internships with the Free Press while earning his degree at Ryerson University's (now Toronto Metropolitan University's) School of Journalism before joining the newsroom full-time in 2019. Read more about Ben. Every piece of reporting Ben produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. 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Economic Times
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Economic Times
NYT Mini Crossword answers June 10: crack today's puzzle fast with Jaws, James and more pop-culture clues
NYT Mini Crossword answers for June 10 are here to help you solve today's tricky clues with ease. If 5-Down got you stumped, it's a nod to the 1975 film Jaws, just in time for its 50th anniversary. With answers like 'JAMES' (the 2024 Pulitzer-winning novel) and 'MALIA,' today's puzzle was a fun mix of pop culture and smart trivia. Whether you're a crossword fan or new to the Mini, this breakdown makes solving quick and enjoyable. Want help with today's NYT Wordle, Strands, and Connections too? We've got those hints covered as well. NYT Mini Crossword answers for June 10 bring you every clue and solution, from the 1975 shark thriller Jaws to 2024's Pulitzer-winning novel James. Crack today's puzzle fast and check out hints for Wordle, Strands, and Connections too! Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads What are the NYT Mini Crossword across clues and answers for June 10? 1A: Displays at a trailhead Answer: MAPS This one's a straightforward clue. If you've ever hiked, you know trailheads often feature large maps to guide hikers. Answer: MAPS This one's a straightforward clue. If you've ever hiked, you know trailheads often feature large maps to guide hikers. 5A: Pulitzer-winning 2024 novel that reimagined 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' from Jim's perspective Answer: JAMES This refers to the celebrated 2024 novel 'James' by Percival Everett. The book won the Pulitzer Prize and retells Twain's classic story through the eyes of the enslaved character Jim. Answer: JAMES This refers to the celebrated 2024 novel 'James' by Percival Everett. The book won the Pulitzer Prize and retells Twain's classic story through the eyes of the enslaved character Jim. 6A: Invader in a sci-fi movie Answer: ALIEN Classic sci-fi clue, and a nod to Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien, among others. Answer: ALIEN Classic sci-fi clue, and a nod to Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien, among others. 7A: Thin strands Answer: WISPS A common term for fine strands, often used in reference to hair, smoke, or clouds. Answer: WISPS A common term for fine strands, often used in reference to hair, smoke, or clouds. 8A: 'Tude Answer: SASS Slang for attitude — a common crossword clue/answer combo. What are the NYT Mini Crossword down clues and answers for June 10? 1D: One of Michelle Obama's daughters Answer: MALIA Malia Obama, the eldest daughter of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. Answer: MALIA Malia Obama, the eldest daughter of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. 2D: A little out of whack Answer: AMISS A synonym often used when something feels slightly off. Answer: AMISS A synonym often used when something feels slightly off. 3D: Marshmallow treats in Easter baskets Answer: PEEPS These brightly colored marshmallow candies are a springtime staple. Answer: PEEPS These brightly colored marshmallow candies are a springtime staple. 4D: I.R.S. IDs Answer: SSNS Short for Social Security Numbers, commonly used for tax identification in the U.S. Answer: SSNS Short for Social Security Numbers, commonly used for tax identification in the U.S. 5D: 1975 film with a 25-foot animatronic shark Answer: JAWS Steven Spielberg's blockbuster Jaws is turning 50 next year. The mechanical shark became legendary — both for the movie's suspense and the production nightmares it caused. Why is today's NYT Mini Crossword answer 'Jaws' important? What are other trending NYT puzzles today? Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads NYT Connections Answer for June 10 NYT Strands Puzzle Answer for June 10 NYT Wordle Answer for June 10 Connections: Sports Edition for June 10 How can I get better at solving the NYT Mini Crossword? Start with the shorter clues — they're often more direct. Look for wordplay or puns in trickier clues. Play every day — patterns and frequent answers will start to stick. Check clue types — for instance, clues with abbreviations usually signal abbreviated answers. FAQs: Looking for today's NYT Mini Crossword answers for Tuesday, June 10? You're in the right place. If today's clues had you scratching your head — especially 5-Down, which nods to a famous summer movie turning 50 this year — we've broken it all down for you with simple, clear answers. Here's everything you need to know about the puzzle, along with clues and correct NYT Mini Crossword for June 10, 2025, featured five across clues that tested players on literature, sci-fi, and vocabulary. Here's a complete breakdown:The down clues today offered a mix of pop culture, history, and a touch of clue for 5D celebrates the upcoming 50th anniversary of Jaws, which hit theaters in 1975. This film is widely credited with inventing the summer blockbuster and set a new standard for suspense thrillers. Its inclusion in the crossword is both timely and a fun way to honor movie you've already solved the Mini Crossword, check out these trending puzzles from Tuesday, June 10, 2025:If you're just getting into daily puzzles or want to improve your skills, here are a few tips:You can also explore guides and strategy articles like 'Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword', available on major puzzle and gaming sites.A1: It's JAWS, the 1975 shark movie.A2: It reimagines Huckleberry Finn.
Hypebeast
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
Kendrick Lamar Confirms "Grand National Tour" Dates in Sydney and Melbourne
Summary Kendrick Lamaris going bigger thanSpilt Milk. The Pulitzer-winning rapper has officially announced two massive headline shows in Australia this December as part of his 'Grand National Tour,' performing at Melbourne's AAMI Park on December 3, 2025 and Sydney's Allianz Stadium on December 10, 2025. While fans already clocked his return to the country when he was named the main act for Spilt Milk 2025 earlier this year, this new announcement confirms stadium-level solo shows, marking his largest Australian performances since 'The Big Steppers Tour' in 2022. Running alongside his appearances at Spilt Milk in Ballarat, Canberra, the Gold Coast and Perth, the 'Grand National Tour' brings Kendrick's commanding live presence to two of the country's biggest stages. Between Spilt Milk and the 'Grand National' stops, Kendrick's Australian run is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated live moments of the year. Miss it at your own risk. Tickets go on sale Monday, June 16 via Ticketek at 9am AEST for Sydney at 12pm for Melbourne. Vodafone and Live Nation presales open earlier, starting Thursday, June 12 and Friday, June 13, respectively.
