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5:45 PM ET, July 11, 2018

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Natalie Robehmed / Forbes:
How 20-Year-Old Kylie Jenner Built A $900 Million Fortune In Less Than 3 Years  —  What her half-sister Kim Kardashian West did for booty, Jenner has done for full lips.  Like Kardashian West, she has leveraged her assets to gain both fame and money.  But while her sister is best-known for the former …
Katie Connor / ELLE:
ARIANA GRANDE IS HERE TO SAVE US  —  To her millions of fans, Grande is a guiding light of unabashed femininity—and feminism.  —  Ariana Grande is a star.  A really big star.  For millions of Arianators, as her fans are known, she's a radiant, life-giving force they wake up with in the morning and go to bed with at night.
TMZ.com:
Cardi B Gives Birth to Baby Girl Kulture Kiari Cephus  —  Cardi B — Gives Birth to Baby Girl!!!  —  BREAKING NEWS  —  Cardi B's a new mama after delivering a beautiful baby girl into the world.  —  Cardi had her daughter, Kulture Kiari Cephus Tuesday night in an Atlanta hospital with her husband, Offset, at her side.
Janine Rubenstein / People.com:
Read Cissy Houston's Emotional Full Statement About Claim That Whitney Houston was Molested  —  It's been nearly two months since the new documentary Whitney debuted at Cannes on May 16, making public a shocking claim that the late superstar was molested as a child by Dee Dee Warwick, her cousin and Dionne Warwick's sister.
Discussion: Stereogum
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Janine Rubenstein / People.com:   Whitney Houston's Mother Expresses ‘Horror’ Over New Claims the Singer Was Molested By Dee Dee Warwick
Abid Rahman / Hollywood Reporter:
'Handmaid's Tale' Wine Canceled After Social Media Backlash  —  Twitter users were quick to condemn the tone-deaf collection inspired by Offred, Offglen and Serena Joy.  —  Blessed be the fruit?  —  Not quite, as MGM's attempts to produce a wine tie-in to its hit dystopian series …
Esme Douglas / EW.com:
Dwayne Johnson reveals why he stopped going by The Rock for a short time  —  After building a brand as WWE superstar “The Rock,” there was a short time more than a decade ago when the entertainer dropped the famous moniker and went by his birth name, Dwayne Johnson.
Discussion: The Wrap
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Paul Chi / Vanity Fair:
The Rock Isn't Running for President in 2020 After All
Discussion: Dlisted and Page Six
Rachel Wallace / Us Weekly:
Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin Are Planning a ‘Very Small’ Wedding … They're hearing wedding bells!  Days after Justin Bieber popped the question to Hailey Baldwin on July 7, the lovebirds are “discussing having a very small wedding,” a source close to the 21-year-old model reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly .
Discussion: POPSUGAR, PerezHilton and Brides
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Noah Kirsch / Forbes:
Papa John's Founder Used N-Word On Conference Call  —  Papa John's founder and CEO John Schnatter at the Indy 500 in Indianapolis, Indiana in May 2015.  (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images)  —  John Schnatter—the founder, chairman and public face of pizza chain Papa John's …
TMZ.com:
Tekashi69 Arrested in NYC for Alleged Texas Mall Attack  —  Tekashi69 is no longer a wanted man in Texas, because cops nabbed him in NYC on an outstanding arrest warrant ... TMZ has learned.  —  Tekashi was arrested Wednesday at JFK Airport right after he returned from a European tour.
Discussion: Page Six, Bossip and Rap-Up
Sarah Palin:
Yup - we were duped.  Ya' got me, Sacha.  Feel better now?  —  I join a long list of American public personalities who have fallen victim to the evil, exploitive, sick “humor” of the British “comedian” Sacha Baron Cohen, enabled and sponsored by CBS/Showtime.
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and The Wrap
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Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
Joaquin Phoenix's Joker Origin Movie a Go at Warner Bros.  —  Phoenix recently finalized his deal to star as Batman's iconic arch-nemesis in this villain origin story.  —  The Joker origin movie is officially a go at Warner Bros.  —  Joaquin Phoenix recently finalized his deal to star …
Discussion: Egotastic, POPSUGAR, Page Six and PAPER
Simon Perry / People.com:
Prince Harry Just Said No to a Big Family: 5 Kids Is ‘Too Many!’  —  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle know they want to start a family, but don't expect them to have a big brood!  —  The royal brushed off a suggestion that he should follow in the footsteps of a well wisher in Ireland — and have five children.
Discussion: Brides
Jodi Guglielmi / People.com:
Catfish's Nev Schulman on Being Cleared of Sexual Misconduct Allegations: ‘I Felt So Powerless’  —  Nev Schulman is doing his best to move on after facing allegations of sexual misconduct on his hit show Catfish: The TV Show.  —  In June, MTV closed an internal investigation after a woman …
Discussion: PerezHilton
Emily Longeretta / Us Weekly:
Teen Mom OG's Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra Applaud MTV for Firing Farrah Abraham … Speaking out.  Teen Mom OG's Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra sat down with Dr. Oz for a Teen Mom intervention episode, in which they discussed their relationship, their mental health struggles and their time on the MTV reality show.
Discussion: RADAR and PerezHilton
Page Six:
George Clooney's ‘Catch-22’ to resume production following scooter crash  —  Production on George Clooney's “Catch-22” is continuing as planned following his frightening scooter accident in Italy.  —  A source told Page Six over the weekend that production on the limited series would be wrapping …
Discussion: Daily Mail, TMZ.com, BBC, Telegraph and TV Tattle
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Chelsea White / People.com:
George Clooney Released from Hospital After Scooter Collides with Car in Italy: Reports
 
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People.com:
Kylie Jenner Is ‘More Natural’ Since Stormi's Birth, Source Says, as New Mom Removes Lip Fillers
Discussion: PerezHilton
Joseph Person / The Charlotte Observer:
Owner David Tepper: Panthers blessed with Ron Rivera, ‘a pretty good football side’
Leanne Aciz-Stanton / Us Weekly:
Why Katie Holmes Is ‘Smitten’ With Jamie Foxx and 'Won't Let Go'
Discussion: Cele|bitchy
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Alexia Fernandez / People.com:
Tori Spelling Says Her 15-Month-Old Son Beau Was ‘Stabbed’ by Nails at the Four Seasons Hotel
Discussion: Dlisted and PerezHilton
Leanne Aciz-Stanton / Us Weekly:
Taylor Swift Is the 'Happiest She's Ever Been,' Enjoying Private Romance With Joe Alwyn
Discussion: PerezHilton
Derrick Bryson Taylor / Page Six:
‘View’ co-host Sunny Hostin racially harassed on Hamptons vacation
 

 
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
CalMatters, a nonprofit focused on CA politics and policy, acquires tech news nonprofit The Markup; CalMatters has ~$12.5M in funding and The Markup has $5M

Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $9.37B, vs. $9.28B est., paid users up 16% YoY to 269.6M, vs. 264.2M est., and net income $2.3B, up from $1.3B YoY

Neel Dhanesha / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Erica Heilman, host of “Rumble Strip”, an independent podcast she created in 2013 that chronicles how Vermont changed over the years

 
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