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Some of the former billionaires had rather spectacular downfalls, including fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. Sales of their eponymous brand dropped 20% last year. Additionally, the company caught serious flack for an ad campaign that was deemed racist. In mid-November 2018, D&G launched three short videos in support of the fashion house’s upcoming Shanghai runway show on the Chinese social media network Weibo. The videos featured an Asian woman dressed in a D&G dress trying to eat spaghetti, pizza and cannoli....

Ultimately, Ridley didn’t forfeit any money due to his gambling. The $11.1 million he would have made in 2022 was deferred to 2023. His suspension could wipe out a later contract since he missed a full year of playing — or he could come back stronger after a season off and earn himself a big contract next offseason. Yet Ridley isn’t the only player to bet on games. NBC Sports reported that a league source said one unnamed player lost $8 million while gambling on games in 2022....

Early Life Andrei Arlovski was born on February 4, 1979 in Babruysk, Belarus. Growing up, he was often bullied, and so at the age of 14 he began lifting weights and building his muscles so he could defend himself. This led to Arlovski taking up martial arts when he was 16. Sambo Career Having become well-versed in martial arts, Arlovski enrolled at a police academy in Minsk. There, he demonstrated his combat prowess in the required police defense course in the martial art Sambo....

However, the Pelicans just shut down Davis for the rest of the season, and it may end up costing him $24 million. Why? Last off-season, the Pelicans signed Davis to a five-year, $145 million extension. That’s the maximum they could pay him, though the deal was assuming Davis would satisfy the criteria of the “Rose Rule.” A quick recap: Normally, NBA rules dictate that a player with Davis’s level of NBA experience (between zero and six years) can earn up to 25 percent of the salary cap per year....

Here’s a pop quiz: Out of all of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s massive blockbuster movies, can you guess which one ended up generating his biggest single paycheck? Terminator 2? Nope. True Lies? It has to be True Lies, right? Written and directed by James Cameron, co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Arnold?! Wrong. Last Action Hero? Very incorrect. Maybe Batman & Robin? You are Freeze-ing cold. The actual correct answer, the movie that gave Arnold his single largest acting payday, is totally unexpected....

Early Life Benito Santiago was born Benito Santiago Rivera on March 9, 1965, in Ponce, Puerto Rico. His father, José, was a truck driver who died after an accident with his rig when Benito was just 3 years old. Shortly after, Santiago was abandoned by his mother, who gave him to friends that lived on the opposite side of Puerto Rico. Career In September 1982, the San Diego Padres signed Santiago as an amateur free agent....

At a press conference in Jupiter, Florida, near where the police sting took place, police identified Kraft as one of the more than 24 people being charged: “He is one of the individuals. That would be Mr. Robert Kraft…He is being charged with the same offense as the others, and that is soliciting another to commit prostitution…We’re as equally stunned as anyone else.” The charges come with some potential embarrassment in the political field as well, leading some to draw a connection between Kraft’s friend and associate President Trump and his recent support of four anti-“human trafficking” bills in the Oval Office....

Early Life Butch Vig was born Bryan David Vig on August 2, 1955, in Viroqua, Wisconsin. His father, DeVerne, was a doctor, and his mother, Betty, was a music teacher. Vig grew up with two siblings, Lisa and Chris, and he was given the nickname “Butch” during his childhood after his father gave him a crew cut. Vig spent six years studying piano, then he switched to drums after seeing The Who on “The Smothers Brothers....

A poor choice of words on Wynn’s part, especially if the comments get a lot of coverage in the media and online in a climate increasingly dominated by economic disparity. Making such a generalization is always a bad PR move but seems especially ill-advised in Wynn’s case, given his proclivity for hugely expensive collections of art and cars, and his overall net worth of $3.6 billion. But in Wynn’s defense, if you read a little more of what he said, it doesn’t come off quite as badly as it might seem at first:

After his playing days were over, Mullin was hired as a special assistant by the Warriors, and was named Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations for the team in April of 2004. In 2009, the team announced that Mullin’s expiring contract would not be renewed. In 2013, the Sacramento Kings hired him as an advisor. In 2010, Mullin was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the Dream Team....

The Coen Brothers are film directors, screenwriters, producers, and editors who have won numerous awards, including four Academy Awards. They are known for films such as “Raising Arizona” (1987), “The Hudsucker Proxy” (1994), “Fargo” (1996), “The Big Lebowski” (1998), “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” (2000), “No Country for Old Men” (2007), “Burn After Reading” (2008), “A Serious Man” (2009), “True Grit” (2010), and “Inside Llewyn Davis” (2013). The Coen Brothers have also written several films that they did not direct, including “Crimewave” (1985), “Gambit” (2012), “Unbroken” (2014), and “Bridge of Spies” (2015)....

Early Life Country Joe McDonald was born Joseph Allen McDonald on January 1, 1942, in Washington, D.C. He is the son of Worden McDonald and Florence Plotnick. His father was from Oklahoma and worked for a telephone company, while his mother was the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants and served for many years on the Berkeley City Council. Joe’s parents were both Communist party members in their youth and named their son after Joseph Stalin before ultimately renouncing the cause....

Coleman’s filmography is equally impressive, with the actor starring in numerous critically acclaimed movies over the years. Some of his most memorable roles include playing Franklin Hart Jr. in the 1980 comedy “9 to 5,” alongside Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton and portraying Jack Flack and Hal Osborne in the 1984 adventure film “Cloak & Dagger.” Additionally, Coleman delivered standout performances in films like “Tootsie” (1982), “WarGames” (1983), “On Golden Pond” (1981), and “The Beverly Hillbillies” (1993)....

Early Life Dakotaz was born Brett Hoffman on July 13, 1986, in Dearborn, Michigan. His twin brother is also a streamer and plays “Fortnite” under the name Hofmvn. Career Dakotaz launched his Twitch channel in 2012 and started out streaming the zombie game “The War Z” (which was later renamed “Infestation: Survivor Stories”), followed by the battle royale games “H1Z1” and “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.” His Twitch channel eventually amassed 4.7 million followers....

Dante Fowler was drafted #3 overall by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2015 NFL Draft. He played for the Jaguars from 2015 to 2018 and joined the Los Angeles Rams in 2018. During his first four seasons he had 83 tackles, 16 sacks, four forced fumbles, four fumble recoveries, and a defensive touchdown. Dante Fowler signed a four year deal for $23.5 million with a $15.3 signing bonus in 2015 and in 2019 he signed a one year deal for $14 million....

Early Life David Annable was born on September 15, 1979 in Suffem, New York. He was raised in the small town of Walden. Growing up he was active in sports, playing baseball, rugby and hockey. He graduated from Valley Central High School in 1997. He became involved with the student-ran TV station Plattsburgh State Television (PSTV) while attending the State University of New York at Plattsburgh (SUNY Plattsburgh). At PSTV Annable contributed to both the production behind the scenes as well as on air....

While he was a child he appeared in the 1953 movie A Lion Is in the Streets. He produced Renaissance and Dickens Christmas fairs. In 2018 his husband was admitted to the hospital and Day went missing with his case being featured on Dateline NBC. In June 2019 it was confirmed that remains found belonged to Day and the next month a man was charged with several crimes including manslaughter....

Dick’s Sporting Goods’ Olympics 2016 advertising campaign emphasizes that there’s a little bit of gold in everybody, from Olympic athletes, on down. That’s a fun metaphor for the athletic potential in all of us, but as the campaign points out, it’s also a literal fact, since the human body contains, on average, 0.2 milligrams of gold as part of its chemical composition. Stack himself has buoyed this Olympic gold obsession by announcing in a recent email to Dick’s Sporting Goods customers his pledge to donate $1,000 to various charitable causes for every Olympic medal (silver and bronze included) won over the course of the games by Team USA....

One good piece of news from El Chapo’s point of view is that as part of the conditional extradition agreement, Mexico demanded that the United States forego the death penalty, since the Mexican government is opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy. Nevertheless, Guzman and his attorneys are appealing the decision, a process that his lead attorney Jose Refugio Rodriguez has said could take up to another three years before all of his options within the Mexican prison system has been exhausted....

At the 2015 World Championships she won a gold medal in the 4×100 meter relay and a silver medal in the 200 meters. Thompson won a bronze medal in the 60 meters at the 2016 World Indoor Championships. At the 2016 Rio Olympic Games she won a gold medal in the 100 meters. Her personal bests are 7.04 seconds in the 60 meters, 10.7 seconds in the 100 meters, and 21....