Nadia Santiago
Nadia Santiago is a writer who lives between the clouds and the coastline, and writes about all the things your heart knows but your mouth can never quite say.
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Eleanor Coppola Spent the ‘Marie Antoinette’ Shoot Filming Her Daughter Sofia Direct It. Sofia Just Finished the Documentary Eleanor Didn’t Live to Make, with Diane Lane Reading Her Mother’s Journals
The footage runs about 80 hours, shot on 16mm and digital at Versailles in 2005. The finished documentary is called “Making Marie Antoinette.” MUBI is releasing it worldwide. “She was on set as a filmmaker and also my mother, so I found it so moving to go back through the material and to see our…
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‘New Girl’ Creator Liz Meriwether Is Reportedly Writing Britney Spears’ Biopic and Reuniting the ‘Wicked’ Team
Liz Meriwether, who created ‘New Girl’ and wrote the Elizabeth Holmes series ‘The Dropout,’ is reportedly set to write a Universal biopic based on Britney Spears’ 2023 memoir ‘The Woman in Me,’ according to The Hollywood Reporter. Britney Spears’ ‘The Woman in Me’ sold more than 1.1 million copies in its first week when it…
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A Youth Pastor Pushed His Wife Off Angels Landing in 2006 and Collected $567,000. Prosecutors Charged Him 20 Years Later. He Killed Himself in Jail Three Days After His Arrest
Bernadette Vander Meer, 29, fell about 1,200 feet from Angels Landing in Zion National Park before dawn on August 22, 2006, on a 10th-anniversary hike with her husband, David. Her death was ruled an accident. Nearly two decades later, prosecutors say David pushed her and collected $567,439 on a life insurance policy he’d raised months…
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Graham Platner Is Out of the Maine Senate Race After 2 Former Girlfriends Said One Encounter Was Nonconsensual and Another Involved Him Removing a Condom Without Consent
Graham Platner, the Maine Democrat and combat veteran challenging Republican Sen. Susan Collins, suspended his campaign on the night of Wednesday, July 8, 2026. The move came days after 2 former girlfriends came forward on the record, one alleging a nonconsensual encounter and the other alleging he removed a condom without consent. Platner was the…
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No, Patrick Dempsey Is Not Replacing Graham Platner on Maine’s Senate Ballot Following Sexual Assault Allegations, but He Wrote an Op-Ed to Explain Why
“So no, I’m not running for office,” he wrote in an op-ed. “But I am asking something of the people who do. Lead with humility. Tell the truth. Put people before party.” Democrat Graham Platner won the June 2026 primary for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Sen. Susan Collins, then faced sexual assault…
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Diddy’s 19-Year-Old Twin Daughters Launched a Luxury Streetwear Brand This Week. He Sent His Statement of Support to TMZ from Behind Bars
Jessie and D’Lila Combs, the 19-year-old twin daughters of Diddy and the late Kim Porter, launched their unisex streetwear label 12TWINTY1 this week, opening with a debut “777 Collection” they say they designed in-house. Their father, serving a 50-month federal sentence at Fort Dix, sent a statement to TMZ: “I’m incredibly proud of Jessie and…
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Rob Reiner Received a Posthumous Emmy Nomination for ‘the Bear,’ Nearly 7 Months After He and His Wife Were Found Dead in Their Home
On July 8, the Television Academy nominated him for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for “The Bear” Season 4, where he played Albert Schnurr, a restaurant consultant brought in to mentor Ebraheim. It’s his first acting nomination in decades. The ceremony is set for September 14. The recognition comes nearly seven months after…
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Maren Morris and Cassadee Pope Just Hard Launched on Instagram with a Kiss
Cassadee Pope posted the photo to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday: the two of them mid-kiss, Pope holding Morris’s face. She captioned it, “She won’t go out with you because she’s out with me, silly.” Maren Morris came out as bisexual in June 2024 with a simple Instagram post: “Happy to be the B in…
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Cher Was Madly in Love with Val Kilmer. He Walked Away, Then Decades Later He Was Vomiting Blood on the Floor and She Was the One He Called
Cher was turning 36 the spring they met. Val Kilmer was 22, freshly out of Juilliard, doing Shakespeare in the Park, and completely unknown. The party was for her birthday. They became friends before anything else. “We became friends because we laughed at the same things constantly,” she told People. He started sleeping over, just…
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Rex Heuermann’s Jailhouse Therapist Counseled Him for 3 Years Without a License, Prosecutors Say
Alison Winter spent nearly 3 years as Rex Heuermann’s therapist inside the Suffolk County jail, meeting with him while he was jailed for the Gilgo Beach murders, a case that ended when he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in 2026. A Newsday investigation and Suffolk County prosecutors now allege she was doing that…
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Benny Blanco Told Hunter Biden He Could Be a Model. Hunter Had Another Line of Work in Mind
On his podcast, Benny Blanco told Hunter Biden: “You should model.” Hunter: “Are you saying I should do OnlyFans? I could put up all my old stuff on the Only Fans.” Music producer Benny Blanco hosts a podcast called Friends Keep Secrets. During his episode with Hunter Biden, he started in on the compliments, telling…
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Peter Weber’s Bachelor Producer Says They Got Involved While His Season Aired. He Isn’t Denying It, but Says She Broke His Trust
In her new memoir “The Love Producer,” Julie LaPlaca writes that the emotional bond she formed with Peter Weber while producing Season 24 of The Bachelor turned physical in early 2020, after his off-camera breakup with Hannah Ann Sluss and while the season was still airing. She was his main producer and confidant throughout filming,…
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Emily Ratajkowski Says She Stopped Sleeping with Her Husband Before She Found Out He Was Allegedly Cheating
In her new essay, she lays out the timeline: sex stopped six months after their son was born, and the marriage was over less than a year after that. The cheating reports came around the same time she walked away. “Six months after my son was born, my husband and I stopped having sex. Less…
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Robert Irwin Turned Up on a New York Sidewalk with Zac Efron’s Younger Brother Dylan
Robert Irwin and Dylan Efron were photographed together in New York on July 7, 2026, according to Getty’s celebrity sightings collection. Irwin is the son of the late Steve Irwin, the Australia Zoo conservationist who built a global following before his death in 2006. Dylan is the younger brother of actor Zac Efron and has…
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Nara Smith Says Running Her Fingers Through Her 2-Year-Old Daughter’s Hair, Only to Find It Falling Out, Has Been One of the Hardest Parts of Her Cancer Journey
A week after telling the world her toddler was in cancer treatment, Nara Smith went back to the small losses no one warns you about. The strands on the pillow. The curls she used to tuck behind Whimsy’s ears. Whimsy Smith is 2 years old, in the middle of chemotherapy, and losing her hair. Her…
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Aaron and Sam Taylor-Johnson Still Can’t Keep Their Hands Off Each Other, 14 Years into Their Marriage
The couple got caught sharing a kiss in the stands at Wimbledon this month, sneaking in a little PDA between matches. Their two daughters came along for what was a rare full-family outing. Aaron and Sam met in 2009 when she directed him in Nowhere Boy. They married in 2012, he took her surname, and…
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Zendaya and Charlize Theron Stepped Out at the Trocadero in Paris for Christopher Nolan’s ‘the Odyssey’ Photocall
Theron ran a back-to-back two-country loop for “The Odyssey,” hitting the world premiere at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London on July 6, the Trocadéro premiere and photocall in Paris on July 7, and Oswald’s in Mayfair on both nights. She wasn’t alone in the Paris rotation. Lupita Nyong’o, Tom Holland and Anne Hathaway all…
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Mormon Wives Star Layla Taylor Came Out as Bisexual, Then Captioned a New Video “Thanks I’m Dating A Woman Now.”
A week after coming out, Layla Taylor is holding a mystery woman’s hand in a new Instagram video and letting the caption do the talking. The woman never fully enters the frame in the July 7 clip, just a tattooed forearm and a hand in Layla’s own, while Layla grins in a way she hasn’t…