Rapper Flo Rida Wins $82 Million In Lawsuit Against Celsius Energy Drinks

Rapper Flo Rida, best known for his hits like “Low” and “Right Round,” was awarded more than $82 million on Wednesday by a Florida jury in his lawsuit against Celsius energy drinks, after he claimed the company owed him money and stock options over an endorsement deal.

Flo Rida, whose real name is Tramar Dillard, was awarded $82,640,450 in damages.

Flo Rida’s team initially sought at leasht $30,000 in damages, according to Insider, though his lawyer said in closing arguments he wanted the 1% ownership of the company he was previously promised, and not necessarily a dollar amount, according to Law&Crime

Over $27 million of the damages represent 250,000 shares in Celsius the rapper said he was owed by the company.

The jury found that Celsius breached its 2014 agreement with Flo Rida, and fraudulently concealed information relating to the breach.

Flo Rida signed an endorsement deal with Celsius in 2014, and renewed it in 2016. In 2021, the rapper sued the brand, claiming he was not given stock options and other bonuses he was promised in his contract with them. These bonuses were promised if certain sales achievements were met, however, Flo Rida’s team argued the contract was vague, which prevented him from cashing in on them. "He's entitled to 500,000 shares of stock via the contract, and entitled to 250,000 shares of stock if certain things happen—one of those yardsticks is that a certain number of units of products need to be sold, but unfortunately the contract doesn't specify which type of unit—is it a box, is it a drink? And there's no timeframe or deadline," lawyer John Uustal told Insider. Flo Rida said he was also not privy to the Celsius’ financials, and he was not alerted when the company surpassed such goals, and didn’t know that he did. Lawyers for Celsius had argued in documents that the statute of limitations for Flo Rida to bring the complaint had passed, and that its deal with him had ended in 2018. Flo Rida claimed his endorsement of the brand helped them rise to success. Shares of Celsius Inc. Holdings trade at over $100.

 

Todd and Julie Chrisley report to federal prisons to begin sentences

Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley are now in the custody of federal prison officials, according to their attorney Alex Little.

The couple, who last month were sentenced in November to prison for fraud and tax crimes, reported to their assigned prisons in Florida and Kentucky before the deadline on Tuesday, which was noon local time, Little told CNN.

Todd Chrisley is serving 12 years at FPC Pensacola, a minimum-security facility in Pensacola, Florida.

Julie Chrisley is serving her seven-year sentence at FMC Lexington, Kentucky, which is described as an “administrative security federal medical center with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp” on the prison’s website.

The Chrisleys, known for their reality program “Chrisley Knows Best,” were found guilty in June in a Georgia court for conspiring to defraud banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans.

The couple and their accountant were also convicted of several tax crimes, including attempting to defraud the IRS and evade collection of delinquent taxes, according to the Department of Justice.

The Chrisleys maintain their innocence and are appealing their cases.

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Kylie Jenner Wore the Shortest Romper and Knee-High Boots for a Photoshoot in the Middle of Nowhere

It's giving Windows XP screensaver vibes

The KarJenner sisters are known for taking photos in some very questionable locations (see: their public restroom snapshots from several years ago, or the time Kim staged an Instagram photoshoot inside an outdated home that definitely wasn't hers). But Kylie's latest photo-op might be the most head-scratching of all, with followers questioning, "where in the world is Kylie Jenner?"

On Monday, the makeup mogul shared a slideshow of pictures of herself posing in a field of grassy hills seemingly far from her native Calabasas. In the snaps, which were captioned "kyventures," Kylie wore a super-short black romper with a back cutout and a pair of matching knee-high boots. She pulled her dark hair back into a sleek bun to reveal a pair of tiny silver hoops earrings below, and she sported full-on glam — including dark nude lipstick and a generous amount of highlighter.

While many of the comments on Kylie's post were about where she took the photos (it's a toss between the real-life Windows XP screensaver field or Teletubbie's Tubby Hill), sister Kim Kardashian, ever the businesswoman, called her out for wearing a look from her brand and not mentioning it in her post.

Kylie said, hinting that she didn't receive a promo box of goodies like everyone else did in the family.

 

Graceland Will Go to Lisa Marie Presley's Daughters Following Her Death

The fate of Graceland has been revealed. Following the shocking death of Lisa Marie Presley at age 54, the Presley family legacy will continue on.

Lisa Marie's rep has confirmed to ET that Graceland, the former home of her father, Elvis Presley, will go to her daughters -- 33-year-old Riley Keough and14-year-old  twins, Harper and Finley Lockwood. 

Last week, Lisa Marie was rushed to the hospital after going into full cardiac arrest at her home in Calabasas, California. Responders performed CPR before transporting her to the hospital. Lisa Marie died shortly thereafter.

ET learned on Friday that Lisa Marie will be laid to rest alongside her father and other family members at Graceland. A rep for Lisa Marie's daughter, Riley Keough, told ET that the singer's final resting place will be at the estate in Memphis, Tennessee, next to her son, Benjamin, who died in 2020. 

A public memorial service for Lisa Marie has been scheduled on the front lawn of Graceland at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 22 in Memphis. In lieu of flowers, the family encourages all who wish to send something to do so in the form of a donation to The Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation. 

In addition to Elvis and Benjamin, Elvis' parents, Vernon and Gladys, and his grandmother, Minnie Mae, are all buried at Graceland. There is also a smaller memorial stone for Elvis' twin brother, Jessie, who died at birth.

ET sat down with Lisa Marie at Graceland in 2013, where she opened up about the legacy of Elvis' legendary home and rumors about its future.

"It is absolutely 100 percent mine and it has always been mine, Graceland," she shared. "It will always be. And when it is no longer mine, it will be my children's. And that is that."

Lisa Marie also noted at the time that caring for and preserving Graceland, along with her father's legacy, was a "constant job."

"You have to keep striving for quality and preserving and being very protective," she said. "It's a non-stop focus and job for all of us."

As for her favorite memento or memory from Graceland, Lisa Marie said there were too many to pick just one. "Everything [in] there is kind of everything that was close to him or whatever, so it's all very important and meaningful," she noted.

Prince Harry criticized for "shifting to extremes" and "losing public" support, without information about specific actions or statements.

Prince Harry is a public figure and his actions and statements are subject to scrutiny and interpretation by the media and the public. It is not possible for me to determine whether he is "shifting to extremes" or "losing the public" without more information about the specific actions or statements in question. Additionally, public perception can change over time, so any statement about his current popularity would be subject to change.

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have recently stepped back from their roles as senior members of the British Royal Family and moved to North America. Since then, they have been making a number of public appearances, speeches and interviews. They have also been involved in various charitable and philanthropic initiatives. Some of the things they have said and done have been praised, while others have been criticized. Some people have praised their decision to step back from the royal family, saying that it allows them to live more authentic lives, while others have criticized them for being hypocritical or for not showing enough respect for the institution of the monarchy. Some people have also criticized Prince Harry for his recent comments on social media and in interviews, as they perceive them as divisive or extreme. However, it's worth noting that opinions on the matter are quite polarized and there are a lot of people who still support Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

 

Italy's most-wanted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro arrested in Sicily

Italy's most-wanted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested in Sicily after 30 years on the run.

Messina Denaro was reportedly detained in a private clinic in Sicily's capital, Palermo, where he was receiving treatment for cancer.

He is alleged to be a boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra Mafia and he was tried and sentenced to life in jail in absentia in 2002 over numerous murders.

More than 100 members of the armed forces were involved in his arrest.

Italian media reported that Messina Denaro was captured just before 10:00 (09:00 GMT) and taken to a secret location by the Carabinieri. He was reportedly visiting the clinic under a fake name for a course of chemotherapy.

A video circulated by Italian media appears to show people standing in the street and applauding the Italian police as Messina Denaro is led away.

These are some of the murders he was convicted over:

• the 1992 killing of anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino,
• the deadly 1993 bomb attacks in Milan, Florence and Rome
• the kidnapping, torture and killing of the 11-year-old son of a mafioso-turned-state witness

Messina Denaro once boasted he could "fill a cemetery" with his victims.

The Mafia boss also oversaw racketeering, illegal waste dumping, money-laundering and drug-trafficking for the powerful Cosa Nostra organised crime syndicate.

He was reportedly the protege of Totò Riina, head of the Corleone clan, who was arrested in 1993 after 23 years on the run.

Clans nicknamed Messina Denaro "Diabolik" - the name of an uncatchable thief in a comic book series - and "U Siccu" (Skinny).

He is thought to be Cosa Nostra's last "secret-keeper". Many informers and prosecutors believe that he holds all the information and the names of those involved in several of the most high-profile crimes by the Mafia, including the bomb attacks that killed magistrates Falcone and Borsellino.

Although Messina Denaro had been a fugitive since 1993, he was thought to have still been issuing orders to his subordinates from various secret locations.

Over the decades, Italian investigators often came close to catching Messina Denaro by monitoring those closest to him.

This resulted in the arrest of his sister Patrizia and several other of his associates in 2013. Police also seized valuable businesses linked to Messina Denaro, leaving him increasingly isolated.

However, few photos of Messina Denaro existed and police had to rely on digital composites to reconstruct his appearance in the decades after he went on the run. A recording of his voice was not released until 2021.

In September 2021, a Formula 1 fan from Liverpool was arrested at gunpoint in a restaurant in the Netherlands after being mistaken for Messina Denaro.

Italians were glued to their screens on Monday morning when news of the arrest of the mafia boss broke.

For years, Messina Denaro had been a symbol of the state's inability to reach the upper echelons of the organised crime syndicates.

His arrest will be an unexpected sign of hope that the Mafia can be eradicated even in the southern regions of the country, where the state is perceived as largely absent and ineffective.

University of Essex criminology professor Anna Sergi told the BBC that Messina Denaro's arrest was "symbolic not just because he was the boss of Cosa Nostra, but because he represents the last fugitive the Italian state really wanted to get its hands on."

She said the reason people applauded in Palermo and the state felt "triumphant" was because the news felt like closure.

However, questions are likely to arise over the timing of the arrest.

Prof Sergi suggested it was still unclear how the morning raid on the clinic came about, who tipped the authorities off and crucially, how it was possible for Messina Denaro to "run around Sicily, presumably protected, for 30 years".

Messina Denaro was being treated for cancer so was "quite sick", the professor said, adding people were speculating that someone in the crime world had decided he was no longer useful.

"This means he was likely still part of structure where there is an exchange of favours between the Mafia and state, and where one can be given up in return for something," she explained.

But at a press conference on Monday afternoon the Carabinieri appeared to deny that they had received a tip-off on the whereabouts of Messina Denaro and emphasised the hard work of investigators who tracked the mafia boss down in a "painstaking and extremely delicate" operation.

The authorities said Messina Denaro did not attempt to run when he realised the operation was taking place, and that he admitted to being the man the Carabinieri were searching for as soon as they approached him.

They also said that the fugitive was "looking well, well dressed and wearing high-end clothing": "We certainly did not find a destroyed man… we found a well-groomed man in a good economic condition."

General Pasquale Angelosanto of the ROS special force unit of the Carabinieri added that Messina Denaro was wearing a Rolex watch worth 35,000 euros ($37,880, £31,067) when officers detained him.

"Obviously the mafia has not been defeated, and it would be a mistake to think it so," said the Palermo prosecutor general Maurizio De Lucia.

De Lucia also told reporters that Messina Denaro spent the last three decades hiding out in many parts of Italy, most recently in Sicily.

After the arrest, tributes to the work of the armed forces poured in from across the political spectrum.

Gian Carlo Caselli, a judge and former prosecutor general, said that the arrest of Messina Denaro was an "exceptional... simply historical event" that might lead to significant developments in the ongoing inquiries into the 1993 bomb attacks that killed 10 people across Italy.

Italy's president, Sergio Mattarella, whose brother Piersanti was killed by Cosa Nostra in 1980, congratulated the minister of the interior and the carabinieri military police.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni travelled to Sicily today and visited the memorial to Giuseppe Falcone and the other victims of the 1992 bombing near Palermo, where she observed a minute's silence.

Ms Meloni also thanked the armed forces for their work in detaining the "most important member of the mafia criminal group", adding: "This is a great victory for the state."