Marie Osmond says her kids won't get an inheritance: All it does is 'breed laziness and entitlement'

Marie Osmond

 isn't budging on her plan to leave her children out of her inheritance.

The former country singer, 63, opened up about her plans to donate her wealth to charity instead of leaving it to her seven kids.

"Honestly, why would you enable your child to not try to be something? I don’t know anybody who becomes anything if they’re just handed money,” Osmond told Us Weekly. “To me, the greatest gift you can give your child is a passion to search out who they are inside and to work. I mean, I’ve done so many things from designing dolls and much more. I love trying and I wanna try everything. I’m a finisher.”

Osmond, who found fame at a young age as a member of the famous Osmond family, is mother to eight children: Stephen, 39, Rachael, 31, Jessica, 35, Brandon, 26, Brianna, 24, Matthew, 23, and Abigail, 18. In 2010, her 18-year-old son, Michael, died by suicide.

The singer firmly believes that leaving wealth can discourage the younger generation from working hard.

"That’s one of my rules with my kids. If you start it, you finish it, you don’t ever have to do it again, but you gotta finish. And, I just think all an inheritance does is breed laziness and entitlement. I worked hard and I’m gonna spend it all and have fun with my husband," shared Osmond, who remarried ex-husband Stephen Craig in 2011, more than 25 years after their divorce.

Osmond first revealed her financial plans back in 2020 during a segment on The Talk in which the hosts were discussing Kirk Douglas, who died in February of that year at age 103. The movie star left most of his multimillion-dollar fortune to charity 

I'm not leaving any money to my children,” Osmond explained to her co-hosts. “Congratulations, kids. My husband and I decided that ... I think you do a great disservice to your children to just hand them a fortune because you take away the one most important gift you can give your children, and that’s the ability to work."

Osmond added that children of wealthy families often “don’t know what to do” and “get in trouble." “Let them be proud of what they make, and I’m going to give mine to my charity," she added.

Despite her statements, Osmond elaborated that she has no problem helping out her children financially through their lives, whether it's to purchase a home or a car.

Encouraging her children to find financial success on their own is an important lesson for Osmond, who previously explained that she has found tremendous value throughout her six-decade career in the entertainment industry.

"I've been very blessed to see my work as work and my life as life," she told Yahoo Life in January 2022. "I think that's where in show business a lot of people get lost. Maybe their self-worth is invested only in their work. But I love life and I don't have to be on stage to be happy. I can always be happy."

 

 

Pamela Anderson on surviving abuse, paparazzi, and the infamous sex tape

Pamela Anderson is a Canadian actress and model who rose to fame in the 1990s as the star of the television series "Baywatch." She has been open about her experiences with abuse, both in her personal life and in her interactions with the paparazzi. In a 2018 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Anderson revealed that she had been physically and emotionally abused by ex-boyfriends and had also been stalked and harassed by paparazzi. She has also been vocal about the impact of the infamous sex tape featuring her and her then-husband Tommy Lee, which was leaked in 1995. In the same interview, Anderson said the tape "devastated" her and that she felt "violated."

Despite these challenges, Anderson has continued to work in the entertainment industry and has also been an advocate for various social and political causes.

 

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Shakira is a Colombian singer, songwriter, and actress. She began her career in the music industry at the age of 13 and has since released several successful albums, including "Laundry Service" and "She Wolf". She is known for her unique vocal style and her ability to blend different musical genres, including pop, rock, and Latin music. In addition to her music career, Shakira is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and has been involved in various philanthropic efforts throughout her career.

Shakira has released several albums throughout her career, some of the most notable titles include:

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• "Peligro" (1993)
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• "Laundry Service" (2001)
• "Fijación Oral Vol. 1" (2005)
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• "She Wolf" (2009)
• "Sale el Sol" (2010)
• "Shakira" (2014)
• "El Dorado" (2017)
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She also released several collaborations and live albums.

She has also been featured in many articles, magazines, and newspapers around the world, regarding her career, music, and philanthropy work.

Brighton vs Liverpool: Seagulls Look to Soar Past the Reds in Premier League Clash"

Brighton and Hove Albion will host Liverpool at the American Express Community Stadium on Wednesday, January 13th. The match will be a crucial one for both teams as they look to secure a spot in the top half of the Premier League table.

Brighton comes into the match with a solid record at home, having won four of their last five matches at the American Express Community Stadium. They will be led by manager Graham Potter, who has done a good job of organizing his team defensively and creating scoring opportunities.

Liverpool, on the other hand, will be looking to bounce back after a disappointing run of results. They have struggled with injuries to key players, but will have a full squad available for this match. Manager Jurgen Klopp will be expecting his team to come out strong and secure all three points.

Both teams are evenly matched and it should be an exciting match. Brighton will look to use their home advantage to their advantage while Liverpool will look to continue their dominance over Brighton. In the end, it will be a close match, but Liverpool's quality and experience may give them the edge they need to secure a win.

Overall, it will be a tough match for both teams, but Liverpool should come out on top. However, Brighton will give them a good fight and will not make it easy for them. It will be a great match to watch for the Premier League fans

 

The Price of Glee review: A cheap rehash of other people's tragedy

 The three-part series from Investigation Discovery is a tawdry exercise in misery porn.

The Price of Glee is full of low points, but the lowest has got to be the interview with the guy who calls himself a "celebrity researcher."

In episode 2 of Investigation Discovery's three-part schlockudrama, said researcher — who posts video tours of landmarks related to celebrity deaths on his YouTube channel — stands outside the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel in Vancouver, where Glee star Cory Monteith was found dead in 2013. He repeats some of the well-known facts about Monteith's accidental overdose, and then wonders aloud: "Why did this celebrity relapse.

That dude has no idea. Nor does The Price of Glee have answers about any of the Glee-related subjects it examines with such ghoulish intensity: Monteith's overdoseNaya Rivera's drowning; Mark Salling's suicide; Melissa Benoist's experience as a survivor of domestic violence; Lea Michele's reputation for being "difficult." The program is, as expected, a tawdry and slight exercise in misery porn, a rehash of tragedy told largely by talking heads,crew members, and people who call themselves friends of the deceased. (No cast members or family members appear in the series, with the exception of Rivera's father, George Rivera.)

The first hour recaps the Glee phenomenon, which began ith the show's premiere in spring 2009. Patching together news clips with shaky fan-cam footage and video from public events, The Price of Glee chronicles the cast's transformation from fresh-faced newcomers doing autograph signings at Hot Topic to international stars who literally could not go anywhere without being mobbed by screaming fans. The head of the hair department from season 3 says the cast became competitive about who could amass the most followers on social media. A psychotherapist who did not work with the cast says that sudden-onset fame can present a tremendous mental health challenge. Chris Colfer's stand-in says that Monteith, who struggled with drug and alcohol addiction since the age of 13, "wasn't always coming to set prepared." Do you need to take a shower yet?

When The Price of Glee is done speculating about why Monteith lost his battle with substance use disorder — Was it the show's punishing schedule? The actor's insecurities about his ability as a dancer? — the series turns its attention to his costar and former girlfriend, Lea Michele.

"Lea's a narcissist," sniffs a man who worked as an assistant to an executive producer in season 1. "It was about her, always," notes a set director from seasons 1 and 2. The second episode features an interview with a background player who says the actress slighted him during a lunch break. Reader, we all know Michele has never been in the running for Miss Congeniality, but The Price of Glee works overtime to paint her as a heartless shrew who demanded that everyone go back to work two weeks after Monteith's death. As creator Ryan Murphy has said many times publicly, he and the producers made the decision together after consulting with Michele. Truth is overrated; sexism is forever.

The rapid-fire final hour hits several beats, including the story of Mark Salling, who died by suicide in 2018 after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography. The Price of Glee reminds us that Salling played bad boy Puck, a lothario who prided himself on his many sexual conquests; that the actor and Rivera had a tumultuous romantic relationship; that no one on set had any idea that Salling was so deeply troubled. "What really was going on inside of him, I'm really not sure," says Glee's key assistant location manager (seasons 1-4).

Rivera's father, meanwhile, reminisces about his daughter as a driven and talented performer, one who transformed Glee's Santana from a barely supporting part into a lead role through the sheer force of her undeniable charisma. Rather than leave it there, though, producers also feel the need to interview a former coroner who did not write Rivera's autopsy report but nonetheless has "some theories" about the awful boating accident that ended her life as her toddler son watched. Cool.

The Price of Glee has nothing new to tell us about any of these terribly sad events — and even if it did, do we really need more information? The true tragedy of this show is that networks and streamers will continue to crank out junk like it as long as viewers continue to watch. Skipping it, however, doesn't cost a thing. Grade: D-

 

Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis, dies at 54 after a brief hospitalization

Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, has died at age 54.

“It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley said in a statement to The Associated Press. “She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known.”

A statement sent to USA TODAY on behalf of Priscilla and the Presley family expressed shock at “the tragic death of their beloved Lisa Marie. They are profoundly grateful for the support, love and prayers of everyone, and ask for privacy during this very difficult time.

Presley had started the week in a festive mood, first celebrating what would have been her father's 88th birthday with fans at Elvis' Memphis home, Graceland, and later tearfully applauding alongside her mother as Austin Butler received a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of the King of Rock 'n' Roll in Baz Luhrmann's biopic "Elvis."

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But on Thursday, she suffered apparent cardiac arrest at her home in Calabasas, just north of Los Angeles, and was taken to a local hospital, according to TMZ, the first to report the news. She died hours later. 

Although Presley was famous from the moment she was born and a singer in her own right, releasing three albums, she truly leaped into the pop culture vortex with her surprise marriage to embattled pop superstar Michael Jackson and, later, Elvis aficionado and actor Nicolas Cage.

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Both those marriages were short-lived, although more lasting unions brought four children, including her son, Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020 and was laid to rest at Graceland.

Mostly, Presley, with her hooded eyes and smoldering looks that were patently reminiscent of Elvis, became known largely as keeper of his legacy and inheritor of his estate.

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Lisa Marie Presley recently celebrated Elvis' 88th birthday with fans at Graceland

Four days before her death, Presley was at Graceland to help fans celebrate what would have been her father's 88th birthday. 

“It’s been a while. I missed you," she told the crowd Sunday. "I keep saying you’re the only people that can bring me out of my house. I’m not kidding."

Two nights ago, Butler thanked her from the Golden Globes stage for her dedication to honoring her father.

"Thank you for opening your hearts, your memories, your home to me," he told the Presleys in his acceptance speech. "Lisa Marie, Priscilla, I love you forever."

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Lisa Marie Presley grew up in the shadow of her father's fame – her name even adorning his jet – until her parents' divorce in 1973. She seemed destined to lead a life in the public eye, thanks to looks that mirrored those of her father and a notable singing voice to match.

Despite being the only child of a global icon, Presley at times seemed to wonder what all the fuss over her was about.

“I thought it was an amusing notion, but I didn’t really see how other people would find it interesting," she told USA TODAY in 2012, discussing a new Graceland exhibit called "Elvis ...Through His Daughter's Eyes." 

Among the more touching personal effects were a blue record player that spun her first 45s, her footprints stamped on a hospital birth record, and a re-creation of Presley’s nursery. "It’s all so personal and subjective," she said. "But it turned out well.”

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She made pop culture waves in 1994 when she divorced musician Danny Keough, the father of her children Riley and Benjamin, and married Jackson. Less than two years later, they divorced, although Presley remained a staunch defender throughout years of accusations of child abuse brought against the star.

She married Cage in 2002, but that lasted just a few months before they split. In 2006, she married guitarist Michael Lockwood; they divorced in 2021 and have twin daughters together, Finley and Harper, 11. 

If Presley found solace amid the storm of being the only child of Elvis, it was overseas in Kent, a bucolic English suburb southeast of London that claimed a lot of her time and heart about a decade ago.

Speaking to USA TODAY in 2012 before the release of her album "Storm & Grace," Presley said she was eager to get back to her non-celebrity life in England.

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"I just love it over there," she said. "I garden, go on long walks, cook. I have really sweet neighbors – we'll often meet up down at the local pub. Not that we can keep up with them there. It's so fun, though, it's where you see everyone from the village."

In that same interview, Presley spoke of feeling emotionally and fiscally robbed by her closest confidants.

"I was slowly starting to self-destruct, and I didn't know where that was coming from," Presley told USA TODAY, and suggested the damage was both personal and professional. "I got bad advice. I was insulated with no grip on reality. They were taking my soul, my money, my everything."

Overcoming opioid addiction left Lisa Marie Presley feeling 'grateful to be alive

Presley's demons also included drug addiction. In 2019, she detailed her dependence on opioids in a foreword to the book "The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain."

Noting that she felt "grateful to be alive," Presley said painkillers prescribed after the birth of her twins eventually led to a full-blown addiction.

"It's a difficult path to overcome this dependence, and to put my life back together," she wrote. "Even in recent years, I have seen too many people I loved struggle with addiction and die tragically from this epidemic. It is time for us to say goodbye to shame about addiction. We have to stop blaming and judging ourselves and the people around us. … That starts with sharing our stories."

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Presley would be forced to confront a different kind of pain in 2020, when her 27-year-old son died by suicide. This past fall, in honor of National Grief Awareness day, Presley wrote an essay for People about the pain her family has dealt with since her son's death. 

“My and my three daughters’ lives as we knew it were completely detonated and destroyed by his death. We live in this every. Single. Day,” she wrote. “Grief is something you will have to carry with you for the rest of your life, in spite of what certain people or our culture wants us to believe. You do not ‘get over it,’ you do not ‘move on,’ period.” 

In the end, Presley might well have found the peace she sought throughout her life if she had only been able to spend more time in the place she truly called home.

"I love Graceland," she told USA TODAY in 2012. "My heart will always be there."

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