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Preppy fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger has had to slash the price of his Miami mansion which has been on the market for almost a year. The 14,075-square-foot home is now going for an asking price $23.5 million, down from $27.5 million. The home sits on  an acre of land and backs up to its own private beach.  But no matter how warm and inviting the turquoise waters, it is the inside of the home that is the star of the show. Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger has put his beachfront Miami mansion up for sale with a $27.5million asking price The home includes many pieces by modern and pop-art artists. The family even put a sculpture by Keith Haring next to the pool (above) Hilfiger and his wife Dee Ocleppo decorated the Miami home with artwork that didn't fit 'conceptionally or size-wise' in their other homes in Connecticut and Mustique Hilfiger is pictured above with his wife at the Jane Hotel In New York City on February 11, 2017  more videos 1 2 3 … [Read more...] about Sale now on! Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger chops another $4 million off the price of his colorful, pop art-filled Florida mansion complete with scratch- and-sniff wallpaper

There’s been much curiosity - and concern - over how much of The Conjuring is real-life since its release in 2013. The film, directed by James Wan, grossed $319.5 million at the box office, and cost $20 million to make. So was Bathsheba real? And did the Warrens really carry out an exorcism? The answer to the first question is yes (sort of). Not everything in the 2013 hit actually happened, but there were even some events that were too dramatic to be included in the film. After all, real life can be more disturbing than the movies. Here’s the truth behind The Conjuring. Who are Ed and Lorraine Warren? Ed and Lorraine Warren were no strangers to haunting experiences. The pair, who investigated the Perron case, were both experts in their field. Ed was a demonologist, and Lorraine was a medium. They set up the New England Society for Psychic Research - the oldest hunting group in New England. They investigated the famous Enfield case, and came into contact with the notorious … [Read more...] about True story of The Conjuring – real-life story of Satanist Bathsheba and the Perron family who suffered for nine years

Lord Rose, the chairman of Britain Stronger in Europe, will try to defuse the claim that pro-Europeans are unpatriotic by launching the campaign to keep Britain inside the EU with the claim that true patriots do not withdraw, retreat and become inward-looking. Rose will also deride those calling for British withdrawal from the EU as quitters, saying that they have no true idea of Britain’s future outside the EU as he unveils the new board of the Britain Stronger in Europe group. Neither David Cameron nor Jeremy Corbyn will be present at the high-profile launch event, but three previous prime ministers – Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and John Major – will all endorse the campaign. Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron accused Corbyn and Cameron of pathetic prevarication, adding: “I believe we must lead, not leave”. Rose, the former executive chairman of Marks and Spencer, and currently chairman of online grocer Ocado, has been chosen to head up the campaign in a … [Read more...] about Stuart Rose to launch EU campaign saying true patriots are not inward-looking

Debates are raging again over who should be allowed to compete in women’s sport. Take two recent examples that inflamed the internet. First the Sunday Times reported that the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) intended to classify women with higher natural testosterone as “biological males”– just as 800m runner Caster Semenya was headed to court to challenge IAAF regulations that would exclude her and others from competing owing to higher than typical testosterone levels. Then tennis great Martina Navratilova asserted that trans women “biologically, are still men”, and shouldn’t be allowed to compete in women’s events. The IAAF and Navratilova quickly backed away from these claims, but the damage was done. Many journalists intent on covering a mind-bogglingly complicated subject with authority have asked me the same question recently: “Are women with high T [testosterone] ‘biological males’?” … [Read more...] about Stop talking about testosterone – there’s no such thing as a ‘true sex’

The war in eastern Ukraine, rumbling into life once more after the collapse of an unsteady ceasefire, has created a widening breach between Russia and the west, with relations now worse than they have been in decades. In Russia, the hardening of the domestic consensus behind Putin has been helped along by the media’s increasingly strident nationalism, and by a propaganda chorus about western plots to undermine and destroy the country. The Kremlin’s control of the airwaves has been central to this effort; indeed, the capacity to bend public perceptions has been an integral part of Putin’s rule since he first came to power 15 years ago. But although his PR gurus have proved adept at blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality, they didn’t create the widespread disorientation on which Putinism thrives. As Peter Pomerantsev’s new book makes clear, it has much deeper roots, in the tumult and delirium of the country’s post-Soviet … [Read more...] about Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev review – Putinism and the oil-boom years