NYPD releases video it says shows woman attacking Black musician's son after falsely accusing him of stealing her iPhone - CNN

The video was tweeted late Wednesday by NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison, who wrote: "The woman in this video falsely accused an innocent 14-year-old teenager of stealing her cellphone. She then proceeded to physically attack him and fled the location before police officers arrived on scene."

The video includes an image of the woman above the word "Wanted."

The tweet comes days after award-winning jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold posted his own phone video showing the woman making claims against his son on Saturday at the Arlo SoHo boutique hotel.

Police previously told CNN they know the identity of the woman and wanted to speak with her about the incident. The NYPD would not comment on whether she is wanted for questioning or whether charges are forthcoming.

Harrison tweeted the clip with multiple hotel camera angles, showing a woman in a light-colored cap rushing at someone who appears to be Harrison's son in a red cap. The woman grabs him by the waist and the two fall to the floor.

CNN has requested the unedited video from both the NYPD and the Arlo Hotel and both declined to provide a copy.

Harrold and his son are Black and were guests at the hotel in lower Manhattan. The ethnicity of the woman in the video is not clear, although New York police described her as White.

Harrold's video of the encounter has been widely shared on social media, prompting an outcry about what many felt was yet another incident of racial profiling against Black men. The hotel apologized and called the woman's behavior a "baseless accusation, prejudice and assault against an innocent guest."

Harrold said in an Instagram post that he and his son had left their hotel room to get breakfast when they encountered the woman.

The parents of the teenager, Keyon Harrold Jr., and their attorney Ben Crump said Wednesday they were meeting with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. They told CNN's Don Lemon that the DA told them the video is worse than what the father posted on Instagram on Sunday.

The parents and their lawyer contend the incident was a racially motivated, but the NYPD said Tuesday it is not being investigated as a bias crime.

After viewing surveillance video, investigators are considering charging the woman with assault and possibly grand larceny or attempted robbery, Harrison said Tuesday.

The woman's phone was returned to her at the hotel moments after the incident by a ride-share vehicle she used before trying to check in to the hotel, according to Harrison.

The woman has not come forward, but CNN on Tuesday was the first news organization to talk to her by phone. She disputed Harrold's account of what happened.

While the 22-year-old woman claimed she was assaulted during the altercation, CNN hasn't been able to corroborate her account with investigators or with the hotel where the incident took place.

In a 20-minute phone interview in which she acted erratically and was rambling at times, she said the incident unfolded after she first demanded to see the hotel's surveillance video to try to pinpoint who may have taken her phone.

She says she then asked someone else in the hotel lobby to "empty their pocket," before ultimately confronting Keyon Harrold Jr., who she maintained had her phone in his pocket.

"That's when everything got a little bit more serious," the woman said referring to the interaction.

The woman said she would be willing to cooperate, speak with the NYPD and the Harrold family. CNN has made repeated and unsuccessful attempts to contact the woman since Tuesday.

CNN's Faith Karimi, Carma Hassan and Nakia McNabb contributed to this report.

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MF DOOM, Elusive Bard of Hip-Hop, Dead at 49 - Rolling Stone

MF DOOM, the mysterious rapper known for impossibly intricate rhyme schemes and his signature mask, has died at the age of 49. The rapper’s death was first announced by his wife, Jasmine, on his Instagram page. Richie Abbott, MF DOOM’s rep, confirmed his death to Rolling Stone. A cause of death was not immediately disclosed. Abbott confirmed that the rapper, whose real name was Daniel Dumile, died on October 31st of this year, but Dumile’s family did not disclose news of his death until Thursday evening.

“The greatest husband, father, teacher, student, business partner, lover and friend I could ever ask for,” Dumile’s wife, Jasmine, wrote. “Thank you for all the things you have shown, taught and given to me, our children and our family. Thank you for teaching me how to forgive beings and give another chance, not to be so quick to judge and write off.”

“All u ever needed in hip-hop was this record,” Flying Lotus tweeted alongside the album cover to Madvillainy, Dumile’s 2004 album with Madlib. “My soul is crushed.”

“RIP to another Giant your favorite MC’s MC .. MF DOOM!! crushing news…,” Q-Tip tweeted, while El-P wrote, “He was a writer’s writer. Grateful I got to know you a little, king. Proud to be your fan. Thank you for keeping it weird and raw always. You inspired us all and always will.”

Dumile was born in London in 1971 and moved to Long Island, NY with his family early in his childhood. He started performing as a teenager under the name Zev Love X as part of the hip-hop group KMD, which he started with his younger brother DJ Subroc. The group released their critically acclaimed debut — 1991’s Mr. Hood — and were recording their follow-up Black Bastards when Subroc was killed in a car accident in 1993.

Following his brother’s death, Dumile disappeared from public life, only to re-emerge in the late 1990s at the Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe in Manhattan where he performed, unannounced, wearing a stocking over his face. The concern with anonymity would become a calling card, as Dumile adopted various means of subterfuge, most notably adorning what would become his signature mask modeled after the Marvel villain Doctor Doom.

In 1999, he released his debut as MF DOOM, Operation: Doomsday, setting the stage for a spree of releases under a range of different monikers (alongside numerous other tracks and beat compilations) as well as a trail of collaborations and inspirations left in his wake. As a musician, DOOM’s wit and intellect outpaced the world around him. It was the controversial album art for KMD’s record Black Bastards — a reinterpretation of the Sambo trope being lynched — that resulted in the group being dropped by their label, notwithstanding the cover’s artistic merit.

Dumile’s 2004 collaboration with the equally enigmatic producer Madlib would solidify his position as an otherworldly soothsayer. Under the name Madvillain, the duo released Madvillainy, a record so dense with concepts that it still stands as an example of the dexterity and endurance of rap as a medium. That same year, Mm..Food took DOOM’s penchant for storytelling to the masses. The record displayed DOOM’s almost-delirious ability to create endless and playful metaphors about niche interests like snacks and food, turning them into near-existential concerns.

He would follow up Madvillainy with several releases in the span of a few years, including The Mouse and the Mask with Danger Mouse, Born Like This and more releases in his prolific instrumental beat series Special Herbs. By 2009, MF DOOM and his various pseudonyms released six full-length albums.

Beyond his official releases, MF DOOM’s impact on music is hard to overstate. As a producer, he was nimble and fleet, repurposing various ephemera of pop culture for gloom-filled autopsies of the human condition. As a lyricist, he was uncompromising,  representing a kind of introspection that at once dug inward and maintained a perspective 10,000 feet above it all. He mined America’s myths around Blackness to investigate a larger truth. The young rappers he inspired, from the brash ethos of groups like Odd Future to the boisterous rockstar energy of Playboi Carti, operate on a framework for Black liberation mapped out by MF DOOM’s monotone treatises. (Safe travels villain,” Tyler, the Creator tweeted.)

All this while navigating personal tragedy. In 2017, he announced the death of his son Malachi, yet another major loss the rapper suffered through the course of his career. Still, the output remained steady. Through the past several years, it wasn’t uncommon to see a new MF DOOM feature or single pop up. Earlier this month, he was featured on a track with BADBADNOTGOOD called “The Chocolate Conquistadors,” as part of Rockstar Games’ expansion of the GTAV universe.

“Thank you for showing how not to be afraid to love and be the best person I could ever be. My world will never be the same without you,” his wife’s statement continues. “Words will never express what you and Malachi mean to me, I love both and adore you always. May THE ALL continue to bless you, our family and the planet.”

MF DOOM – “Hoe Cakes”

MF DOOM – “Rhymes Like Dimes”

Danger Doom – “Sofa King”

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The Bachelor's Peter Weber and Kelley Flanagan Have Broken Up - Cosmopolitan.com

• Peter Weber and Kelley Flanagan have broken up.
• The couple started dating after Peter's season of The Bachelor.

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Sad news from Bachelor nation: Peter Weber and Kelley Flanagan have broken up. Peter announced the split on Instagram in an emotional post, writing "Love is a funny thing. It can make you you feel on top of the world and it can make you feel a pain you wish didn’t exist. I’m here to share that Kelley and I have decided to go our separate ways. While our relationship was filled with countless beautiful memories, our relationship simply didn’t work out in the end."

He continued, writing "Kelley is someone I will always have a special love for. Someone I have learned more from than she will ever understand. Someone I am so thankful came into my life and someone who I will always wish all of life’s greatest blessings on. These moments in life always hurt, but in my opinion that shows you it was worth the time you spent together. Thank you Kelley."

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Just last week, Peter confirmed on Instagram Stories that he and Kelley would be moving to New York City together, so this breakup news definitely comes as a surprise. At the time, Peter said "So grateful Kell was on board with the move! I had actually made it a goal of mine when I turned 20 that I wanted to live in New York City before my 20s were up and I'm just barely crossing it off the list!"

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Phyllis McGuire of 1950s singing trio the McGuire Sisters dies aged 89 - Daily Mail

The McGuire Sisters star Phyllis McGuire dead at 89: Singer who had infamous affair with mob boss Sam Giancana passes away in Las Vegas

By Sameer Suri For Dailymail.com

Published: 22:23 GMT, 31 December 2020 | Updated: 00:33 GMT, 1 January 2021

Phyllis McGuire of the 1950s singing trio the McGuire Sisters died this Tuesday aged 89 at her sprawling mansion in Las Vegas.

She was the youngest and last surviving member of the group, dying exactly two years and one day after her sister Christine.

The Palm Eastern Mortuary confirmed her death to the New York Times on New Year's Eve without stating a specific cause.

Dearly departed: Phyllis McGuire of the 1950s singing trio the McGuire Sisters died this Tuesday aged 89 at her home in Las Vegas; pictured in 2007

Throwback to 1955: She was the youngest and last surviving member of the group; she is pictured between her sisters Christine (left) and Dorothy (right)

She and her sisters were a showbiz sensation - but their squeaky clean all-American image was tarnished by Phyllis' affair with notorious mafioso Sam Giancana.

Phyllis was born on Valentine's Day 1931 and was only four years old when she began singing with her sisters Dorothy and Christine while they grew up in small-town Ohio.

They performed at the church where their mother Lillie served as a minister and then broke out into such venues as military bases during World War II.

However the year they became stars was 1952 - they got a record deal with Coral and got a rapturous audience response to their shot on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts.

The McGuire Sisters' squeaky clean all-American image was tarnished by Phyllis' affair with notorious mafioso Sam Giancana; they are pictured in London in 1961

That year Phyllis tied the knot with a radio personality called Neal Van Ells, but the marriage had fallen apart by 1956.

The McGuire Sisters' biggest hit recordings were Sugartime, Sincerely and Picnic, all released during the middle part of the 1950s.

With their coordinated costumes and choreography, they became regular favorites on the variety TV circuit including The Ed Sullivan Show.

Her troubles began one night in 1959 when she was at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas for a singing engagement with her sisters. 

Seen around New York: Their biggest hit recordings were Sugartime, Sincerely and Picnic, all from the middle of the 1950s; they are pictured at Manhattan's El Morocco Nightclub in 1956

Sam Giancana saw her onstage and fell for her, instructing the pit boss to 'eat the marker' on the thousands of dollars of debt she owed at the blackjack tables.

Their sizzling romance became the stuff of infamy, throwing up roadblocks in the McGuire Sisters' career during the 1960s.

'When I met him I did not know who he was, and he was not married and I was an unmarried woman, and according to the way I was brought up there was nothing wrong with that. And I didn't find out until sometime later really who he was, and I was already in love,' Phyllis insisted to Barbara Walters decades later.

She tried to leave him 'a couple of times' as 'it was really hurting the career and it was really breaking my parents' heart, and I also had an ultimatum from my sister's husband that if this didn't end that the trio would be over. So that was very painful for me to think of, and so I tried twice but it didn't work.'

Later life: After the trio broke up in 1968 Dorothy and Christine became homemakers and Phyllis embarked on a solo career; they are pictured performing on TV in 1966

At one point she and Sam disembarked a plane in Chicago, the site of his mob operation, and were ambushed by the FBI.

To avoid facing a subpoena Phyllis consented to be interviewed right then, and while she was taken off separately Sam was stuck holding her handbag, much to the amusement of the agents who were standing by.

'I know all about the Kennedys and Phyllis knows a lot more about the Kennedys and one of these days we are going to tell all,' he thundered according to the FBI report.

During the Kennedy administration Sam was part of a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. Sam and the American president also had a mutual mistress, Judith Exner. 

Split: 'Oh, we lost our confidence at different times - me less than Dorothy and Christine,' Phyllis told Dominick Dunne; she is pictured on the Joey Bishop Show in 1968

In 1963 Phyllis had a small part in the movie Come Blow Your Horn which was led by the erstwhile Kennedy pal Frank Sinatra.

'He is the most talented but most contradictory person. He has surrounded himself with an entourage who yes him to death. How can you expand yourself surrounded by yes-men?' she told Dominick Dunne of Vanity Fair in the late 1980s.

'I've stayed in his house, and he has bored me to death. He tells the sa-a-ame stories he's been telling for years, and all I ever heard were his records, which he played over and over again,' she recalled.

By the late 1960s the McGuire Sisters were kaput, giving a farewell performance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1968 and then breaking up. 

Seems like old times: She reunited onstage with Dorothy and Christine in 1986 for a series of sporadic public appearances; pictured in 1989

Dorothy and Christine receded from public life entirely to become homemakers but Phyllis carried on a solo career as a live singing act.

'Oh, we lost our confidence at different times - me less than Dorothy and Christine. Dorothy got married. Christine got married. They had guilt trips thinking they should be home with their children,' she dished to Dominick.

A year before the group broke up she had bought her 55,000 square foot Las Vegas estate with money she attributed to her oil and gas investments.

Her embellishments included swan-shaped gold bathroom fixtures, a 19th century chandelier, a swan moat and a replica of the Eiffel Tower that went 45 feet high.

Only the best: In 1963 Phyllis also had a small part in the movie Come Blow Your Horn which was led by the erstwhile Kennedy pal Frank Sinatra

Phyllis spent a long time involved with 'Tiger Mike' Davis, who had risen from a chauffeur to an oil and gas tycoon and was known as the 'world's grumpiest boss.'

She was still running around with Sam Giancana when she first attracted the attention of Tiger Mike in the 1960s.

The situation was so alarming to her that she once told Mike: 'You better stay away from me. Do you want to end up on the bottom of Lake Mead?'

Phyllis, who was friends with Mike's first wife Helen Bonfils, had a lengthy romance with him but they never married and she never had children. 

All gone: Dorothy eventually died in 2012 at the age of 84 and Christine, who was the eldest of the trio, followed six years later at the age of 92; the three sisters are pictured in 1997

She reunited onstage with Dorothy and Christine in 1986 for a series of sporadic public appearances into the early 21st century.

In 1995 Phyllis was played by Mary Louise Parker in an HBO movie about the Giancana affair called Sugartime, after the hit McGuire Sisters record.

Dorothy eventually died in 2012 at the age of 84 and Christine, who was the eldest of the trio, followed six years later at the age of 92.

Phyllis told Vanity Fair in the 1980s: 'I don't fear living, and I don't fear dying. You only live once, and I'm going to live it to the fullest, until away I go.'

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Alexander Wang Responds to Assault Allegations - The New York Times

A model alleged he was groped by Mr. Wang, setting off a wave of accusations against the fashion designer. “I never engaged in the atrocious behavior described,” Mr. Wang said.

This week, Owen Mooney, a male model and graphic designer, said that he was groped by Alexander Wang, an influential fashion designer, in a New York City nightclub in 2017.

Mr. Mooney made the accusations in a pair of videos he posted on social media. Soon after, further allegations of sexual assault and nonconsensual encounters were made against the 37-year-old designer, posted by Instagram accounts that did not identify the accusers.

Today, after days of silence, Mr. Wang responded to the claims — and the barrage of criticism he has faced online.

“Over the last few days, I have been on the receiving end of baseless and grotesquely false accusations,” the designer wrote in a statement sent to The New York Times. “These claims have been wrongfully amplified by social media accounts infamous for posting defamatory material from undisclosed and/or anonymous sources with zero evidence or any fact-checking whatsoever."

The allegations were compiled and reposted on Instagram by two accounts with large followings that have established themselves as fashion industry watchdogs: Diet Prada, run by Tony Liu and Lindsey Schuyler, and another account dedicated to exposing the inner workings of the modeling industry. The New York Times has not independently corroborated the allegations. Mr. Mooney did not respond to requests via email and direct message for comment.

In 2019, Azealia Banks — a rapper and songwriter who is a former muse and collaborator of Mr. Wang’s — shared a series of anonymous accounts on her Instagram stories of allegations of groping by the designer. In 2017, a person named Nick Ward posted a Twitter thread that claimed Mr. Wang grabbed his genitals at a Brooklyn concert.

In his videos, which were initially posted on TikTok and then widely shared on other platforms, Mr. Mooney said that stories told by others prompted him to go public with his claims. His first TikTok video, made as part of a current meme which asks users to share weird celebrity sightings, described the incident.

“I was by myself at one point and this guy next to me obviously took advantage of the fact that no one could move, and just started touching me up, like, fully up my leg, in my crotch,” Mr. Mooney said (with one obscenity). “And then I looked to my left to see who it was and it was a really famous fashion designer and I just couldn’t believe that he was doing that to me.”

After scores of commenters responded to his video by naming Mr. Wang, Mr. Mooney posted a second video confirming the speculation. “People with this kind of status, they think their power gives them a pass to do this to people,” he said in a second video, referring to Mr. Wang. “It’s so wrong. Any time I see his name mentioned, it just reminds me of what he did.”

In his statement, Mr. Wang said that “seeing these lies about me being perpetuated as truths has been infuriating.”

“I never engaged in the atrocious behavior described and would never conduct myself in the manner that’s been alleged,” he continued. “I intend to get to the bottom of this and hold accountable whoever is responsible for originating these claims and viciously spreading them online.”

On Monday, Mr. Wang’s Instagram account turned off the ability to comment on his latest post. The official Instagram account for his brand did the same on all of its posts this week.

This week, fashion advocacy group Model Alliance issued a statement supporting Mr. Wang’s accusers.

“We at Model Alliance stand in solidarity with those who have shared accusations of sexual abuse by Alexander Wang,” the group stated on Instagram. “Lets be clear: The fashion industry’s lack of transparency and accountability leaves all models vulnerable to abuse, regardless of their sex or gender identity.”

Known for consistently pushing the boundaries of what could be considered high fashion over the course of his 15-year career, Mr. Wang helped usher streetwear and sportswear into the luxury lexicon.

For a time, the American was a young upstart at the design helm of the revered French fashion house Balenciaga. Later, his namesake label pioneered the idea of runway shows as sprawling public spectacles in the earliest days of social media. Often, those events were followed by one of his famous after-parties, where inebriated punters could spray-paint cars, watch strippers writhe while eating Hooters chicken wings or jump on bouncy castles as they rubbed shoulders with celebrity guests.

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Hilaria Baldwin always wanted to be considered Spanish: ex-dance partner - Page Six

Hilaria Baldwin was always a Spanish-wannabe — but she really put her foot in her mouth when she changed her name from Hillary, her old dance partner says.

“The whole ‘Hilaria’ thing is hilarious to me,” Alexander Rechits, who competitively danced with the now-embattled yoga-bending celeb from 2006 to 2009, told the New York Times.

Rechits, who knew the 36-year-old American wife of actor Alec Baldwin by her given name, Hillary Hayward-Thomas, said it was clear even then that she wanted to portray herself as something she wasn’t.

“I understand why she did it,” Rechits said in an interview published Wednesday, adding that he considered Hilaria sweet and talented.

“It was always her desire to be considered Spanish,’’ he said.

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“She had roots in Spain, her brother lived there, she visited there a lot,’’ he said, referring to the fact that Hilaria’s parents now live in Mallorca and her family would travel to Spain when she was a child.

“But Hillary is a very good strong name, so why would you change that when you were born here and you weren’t born in Spain?” said the Belarus native.

“I have a lot of nicknames in Russian. But I’m still Alexander everywhere I go.”

Hilaria, who has no Spanish ancestry, has been under fire for allegedly misrepresenting herself as Spanish — repeatedly publicly referring to Spain as her “home,” adopting a bad thick Spanish accent at times and failing to correct numerous publications and even one of her official web bios that falsely said she was born on Mallorca.

For her wedding to Alec in 2012, she wore a traditional white Spanish mantilla veil and waved a flamenco fan at her groom at an altar in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan, while the pair traded rings inscribed in Spanish and danced to Puerto Rican crooner Luis Miguel.

The lifestyle influencer was forced to take to social media over the weekend to acknowledge she is “a white girl” who was born in Boston, originally named Hillary and went to high school in Massachusetts.

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