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Had no idea he was in on the Casamigos deal
George Clooney posed with his wife Amal and his 14 closest friends (known as "The Boys") at a dinner party in September 2013, where he famously gifted each of them a Tumi suitcase containing $1 million in cash ($14 million total) along with covering their yearly taxes...
The story was made public in 2017 by Clooney’s friend Rande Gerber, who was at the dinner. He said Clooney invited the group over, then wheeled in the suitcases one by one.
Gerber said he tried to turn the money down, but Clooney told him that if he didn’t take it, no one would. Clooney also reportedly paid the taxes on all of the gifts, so his friends wouldn’t owe anything.
Clooney later confirmed the story. He said many of the friends had helped him when he was broke and struggling as a young actor in Los Angeles in the 1980s, and that some of them were going through hard times of their own.
The total gift came to $14 million.
Clooney could afford it. In 2013, he co-founded the tequila brand Casamigos with Rande Gerber and businessman Mike Meldman. Four years later, they sold it for up to $1 billion.
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D Green retweeted
RIP. Let’s remember that techno was invented in Detroit by black kids, not in Berlin.
Juan Atkins, the Detroit producer and DJ who co-founded techno music, has died
pitchfork.com/story/juan-atk…
D Green retweeted
And this is one of the many reasons why there cant be a marvin gaye biopic
When Marvin Gaye married Berry Gordy’s sister Anna in 1963, the couple intended to raise a family. The problem, however, was Anna’s age — she was already in her forties at the time and unable to conceive a child. Gaye did not want to just adopt a kid, it was important for him to feel a biological connection to the child.
So Anna Gordy suggested they get another girl to birth the child for them. She then mentioned she had a fifteen-year-old niece, Denise Gordy. If Marvin impregnates her, the child will have a biological connection to both Anna as well as Marvin. So it was decided — I suppose Denise’s feelings mattered little.
Marvin Gaye and his wife groomed her teenage niece; he impregnated her, and when she was sixteen, she gave birth to his first son, Marvin Gaye III. The couple subsequently legally adopted the child and kept his true parentage from him.
And Marvin Gaye got away with it. He continued to to enjoy his fame for another decade or so until his own father murdered him inside their family home.
D Green retweeted
Ok i see why yall get into it on vacation but das da difference wit niccas i woulda told bro “fuc nicca I’m eating.” They woulda been like “my bad foo” dat woulda been da end of dat.
D Green retweeted
Same people who act the victim rn btw
THEY PUT A BLACK DOLL IN A COFFIN TO TERROR*ZE A SIX-YEAR-OLD GIRL WHOSE ONLY "CRIME" WAS WALKING INTO A WHITE SCHOOL.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The photo shows a Nov. 23, 1960, mock funeral protest at Louisiana's State Capitol in Baton Rouge for Judge J. Skelly Wright, not an incident at Ruby Bridges' New Orleans school. Bridges has described a similar taunt outside her school.
snopes.com/fact-check/rub…
npr.org/2010/12/01/131…
alamy.com/parents-of-chi…
D Green retweeted
And all that’s gonna happen is imma drink the shot and we’re gonna laugh at you cause you thought that was some fly shit
