Vanessa Bryant Reflects on First Meeting With Late Husband Kobe Bryant

Vanessa Bryant Honors Kobe Bryant for His 45th Birthday

Vanessa Bryant is looking back at how her love story with Kobe Bryant all began. 

The wife of the late Lakers legend marked the anniversary of when they met by sharing their first photo together. 

"24 years ago…. Day 1," she captioned the throwback on Nov. 27. "#1999 11/27/99." 

Kobe previously reflected on meeting Vanessa on a video set in 1999, back when he was pursuing a music career before reaching basketball stardom.   

Vanessa Bryant Reflects on First Meeting With Late Husband Kobe Bryant

The Best Advent Calendars of 2023- Finds for Kids, Pets, Foodies, Fashionistas & More

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The holidays are almost here, and you could spend every day in December watching the sun set a little sooner, feeling the weather get cooler, and sensing the new year approaching (um, how is it almost January already?). Or you could make the whole month a little brighter with a themed advent calendar. Whether you love food and drinks, fashion and beauty, or jus…

You’ll Be Charmed by Olivia Flowers’ Holiday Gift Guide Picks, Which Include a $6 Must-Have

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Southern Charm fans adore Olivia Flowers for her vulnerability, composure amidst the drama, and fashion, of course. Whether she's dressing up, going casual, or participating in a themed cast event, the Bravo star is consistently on point with her style and glam.

Olivia is a proud outfit repeater, rocking activewear from lululemon and Devon Windsor on the show. Fans …

Louis Gossett Jr. Dies at 87

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries Roots, has died. He was 87.

Gossett’s first cousin Neal L. Gossett told The Associated Press that the actor died in Santa Monica, California. A statement from the family said Gossett died Friday morning. No cause of death was revealed.

Gossett’s cousin remembered a man who walked with Nelson Mandela and who also was a great joke teller, a relative who faced and fought racism with dignity and humor.

“Never mind the awards, never mind the glitz and glamor, the Rolls-Royces and the big houses in Malibu. It’s about the humanity of the people that he stood for,” his cousin said.

Louis Goss…

Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Rare Photo of Her 2 Kids Apple and Moses on Easter Vacation

Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Rare Photo of Her Teenagers Apple and Moses

Gwyneth Paltrow hopped on a plane this Easter. 

After all, the Goop founder shared a rare look into family time with her kids Apple, 19, and Moses, 17—who she shares with ex Chris Martin—in a photo dump from their holiday weekend to Nashville. 

Among the highlights from their trip? A weekend of cuisine, including a visit to a local farm to table spot and along with a Japanese restaurant. The Oscar winner also shared a photo posing with her teens in a booth during a family pizza outing.

Alongside a bunny and a heart emoji, Gwyneth captioned the March 31 post, "Easter Weekend in Nashville."

Apple gushed over t…

Shakira Shares How 11-Year-Old Son Milan Processed Her Split From Gerard Piqué

Shakira’s Adorable Date Night With Sons At Latin Grammys

Whenever, wherever, Shakira's family will always have music to turn to.

In fact, as the Grammy winner was processing her split from ex Gerard Piqué through songs, their 11-year-old son Milan was on a similar journey.

"They know that this is one of the one of my own ways to heal and to express myself, through my music," she told Apple Music's Zane Lowe in an interview published March 20. "Milan, I remember he wrote two beautiful songs during the whole separation process and they just—they would make anyone cry. He wrote two songs on piano, and lyrics."

She continued, "Whenever he feels a little dow…

Grand Jury Indicts Alec Baldwin in Rust Shooting

A grand jury indicted Alec Baldwin on Friday on an involuntary manslaughter charge in a 2021 fatal shooting during a rehearsal on a movie set in New Mexico, reviving a dormant case against the A-list actor.

Special prosecutors brought the case before a grand jury in Santa Fe this week, months after receiving a new analysis of the gun that was used.

Baldwin, the lead actor and a co-producer on the Western movie “Rust,” was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal on a movie set outside Santa Fe in October 2021 when the gun went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza.

Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer, but not the trigger, and the gun fired.

Judges recently agreed to put on hold several civil lawsuits seeking compensa…

Peter Parker Showed Me What an Imperfect Hero Could Be

When I think of my childhood, I think of all the trappings of the late 1980s and early ’90s—beatable video games, quick-melting Popsicles, dares and double-dares and double-dog-dares. But what was just as present as all these were the color-splashed covers of comic books, the thin periodicals trapped between plastic and cardboard, lined up in a box in my older brother’s room. A superhero Rolodex. He treated them like my mother treated her record collection. Sacred. Special. Celebrated like trophies, revered like jewels. Like ancient artifacts to be peered at and preserved.

Truthfully, I never had my own. And because of that—because they were always at a distance—I thought of them as something to be careful with. Something off-limits to me. My brother,…

Rap Lyrics Can Be Used as Evidence in Young Thug Trial

When rapper Young Thug goes to trial later this month on gang and racketeering charges, prosecutors will be allowed to use rap lyrics as evidence against him, a judge ruled Thursday.

Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville said in court he would allow prosecutors to introduce 17 sets of lyrics they have identified as long as they can show that the lyrics are related to crimes that the rapper and others are accused of committing. Defense attorneys had asked the judge to exclude them, arguing the lyrics are constitutionally protected speech and would be unfairly prejudicial.

Young Thug, whose given name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, was indicted last year along with more than two dozen others. After some defendants reached plea deals and others were separated to b…