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Queen of Egypt, she had a relationship with Julius Caesar and later with Marc Anthony.
Mindy McCready was an American country singer who hit the charts in 1996 with Ten Thousand Angels. After an abusive relationship sent her ex-boyfriend to jail for attempted murder, McCready suffered an addiction to drugs and alcohol that spiraled out of control. After arrests for faux prescriptions and alleged identity theft, McCready did a stint [...]
Mark Balelo was best known for appearing on the A&E reality show Storage Wars. He was also the former owner of a chain of thrift stores, according to the Huffington Post.
Aaron Swartz founded Infogami, which merged with Reddit in Reddit’s early days. In addition to being a programmer, writer and activist. He also co-authored the RSS 1.0 specification of RSS, and built web.py and the architecture for the Open Library. Swartz was a member of the Harvard University Center for Ethics, founded the online group [...]
Bob Welch was a guitarist and vocalist who played with the American band Fleetwood Mac in their early years. He lived in Paris as a young man and studied French before coming back to the U.S., where he met up with the other band members in the early ’70s. They recorded five albums together before [...]
Jovan Belcher was a linebacker in the National Football League. He spent his short career as a Kansas City Chief, after the team picked him up as an undrafted free agent. He played his college ball at Maine, where he played defensive end.
David Oliver Relin was the co-author of the highly successful and controversial book “Three Cups Of Tea”, which told the allegedly true story of Greg Mortenson, who developed a charity foundation to help build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A “60 Minutes” segment claimed that large sections of the book were fabricated, and accusations were [...]
Chris Lighty was a well-known hip-hop music executive from Bronx, New York. He is mostly known for founding and directing the Violator music company, and was noted as “one of the most powerful figures in the hip-hop business” by the New York Times. Lighty found the Violator music company in the 1990s, which is responsible [...]
Tony Scott was a highly-regarded film director responsible for such movies as “Top Gun”, “True Romance”, and “Crimson Tide”. He has been known for his love of action and was often blasted by critics for sacrificing story for fast-paced imagery, especially when compared to his brother, fellow director Ridley Scott (“Alien”). Scott committed suicide by [...]