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Monday, December 16, 2013
Khloe Kardashian files for divorce from Lamar Odom
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Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — After months of speculation, Khloe Kardashian is ending her four-year marriage to Lamar Odom. The reality TV star filed for divorce Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences. She also wants her last name restored to Kardashian from Kardashian Odom. The filing comes days after Odom pleaded no contest on Monday to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge. The 34-year-old athlete was arrested last August after his Mercedes-Benz SUV was seen weaving on an LA freeway. He seemed to address rumors of personal problems when he tweeted a cryptic message in September, saying he had been “Seeing the Snakes.” Only the Kardashian family, Odom said then, was standing by him. The 6-foot-10-inch power forward has been out of the NBA since going unsigned as a free agent after a miserable season last year. Odom last played for the Los Angeles Clippers during the 2012-13 season, averaging a career-low 4.0 points and 5.9 rebounds. Clippers coach Doc Rivers met with him last month, but apparently nothing came of those talks. He had his best years with the Los Angeles Lakers between 2004 and 2011. The team won NBA championships in 2010 and 2011 and
Odom won the NBA’s sixth man award during that second championship run. Kardashian, 29, is best known for starring with her sisters Kim and Kourtney, and her mother, Kris Jenner, in the long-running reality TV series “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” She also runs an upscale clothing store with her sisters and was featured in the short-lived reality series with Odom, called “Khloe & Lamar.” The two were married in 2009 in a large ceremony that was taped for the E! network, following a whirlwind engagement that was also filmed. Kardashian laughed last spring when asked about critics who said that the marriage wouldn’t last. “I think everyone said it wouldn’t last, but I can totally understand why,” she said. “We knew each other for only 30 days and then we got married. ... I just felt it and same with Lamar. Thank God it worked because it very well could’ve gone the other way.” In recent episodes of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” Odom hasn’t been featured and the show has hinted at marital issues. TMZ first reported Friday’s divorce filing.
Miley Cyrus, Macklemore perform at Jingle Ball
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Associated Press Writer
Lindsay Lohan attends Z100’s Jingle Ball presented by Aeropostale on Friday, Dec. 13, 2013 in New York.
NEW YORK — Miley Cyrus headlined the annual Jingle Ball concert at Madison Square Garden, performing her hits “Wrecking Ball” and “We Can’t Stop.” Lindsay Lohan introduced the singer Friday night, saying she loves that Cyrus is being “herself.” Wild child Cyrus sang onstage in a shimmery red ensemble resembling a Christmas ornament. Other performers included Selena Gomez, Enrique Iglesias and Robin Thicke, who asked the crowd: “I wonder who Miley Cyrus will twerk on tonight?” Ariana Grande shined as she belted songs such as “The Way” and “Honeymoon Avenue” in Mariah Carey form. Girl group Fifth Harmony also impressed vocally, while Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Pitbull ignited the crowd during their high energy sets. Paramore, Jason Derulo, Fall Out Boy and Austin Mahone also performed.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File
FILE - This April 30, 2012 file photo shows TV personality Khloe Kardashian Odom and professional basketball player Lamar Odom from the show “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” at an E! Network upfront event in New York.
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Monday, December 16, 2013
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Mandela laid to rest at state funeral
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Family and friends listen to speakers during the funeral services for former South African President Nelson Mandela in Qunu, South Africa, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013.
Agence France-Presse
QUNU - A 21-gun salute and full honour guard escorted the coffin of Nelson Mandela as his state funeral got underway Sunday in the rolling hills of his rural boyhood home. A Xhosa hymn, “Fulfill Your Promise”, sounded the start of the ceremony, organised to reflect the traditions of his tribe and the pride of the country he transformed as dissident and president. The specially constructed marquee venue held 4,500 people, with pride of place going to Mandela’s family, including his widow Graca Machel and ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela who sat on either side of President Jacob Zuma. Mandela’s flag-draped casket was placed on cow skins and sur-
rounded by 95 candles -- each signifying a year of his extraordinary life, which saw him make the journey from prisoner to president. “The person who lies here is South Africa’s greatest son,” said ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa. Top government officials and foreign dignitaries and celebrities, ranging from Britain’s Prince Charles to US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, were also in attendance. The funeral closes the final chapter on a towering public figure
whose courage and moral fortitude turned him into a global symbol of freedom and hope. And it ends 10 days of national mourning during which hundreds of thousands of South Africans turned out in torrential rain and searing sunshine to grieve, remember and celebrate the life of their first elected black leader. The formal section of the state funeral was to last two hours and was broadcast around the world. The public was shut out of the interment itself, which the family insisted would be a private affair with close friends. The graveyard sits on the sprawling family estate Mandela built in Qunu after his release from prison in 1990. “It was in that village that I spent
some of the happiest years of my boyhood and whence I trace my earliest memories,” he wrote in his autobiography. Overseen by male members of his clan, the burial will include the slaughter of an ox -- a ritual performed through various milestones of a person’s life under the clan’s traditions. During the ceremony, Mandela will be referred to as Dalibhunga -- the name given to him at the age of 16 after undergoing the initiation to adulthood Mourners will wear traditional Xhosa regalia, with blue and white beaded headgear and necklaces. Xhosa speakers are divided into several groups, including the Thembu people, of which Mandela is a member.
Although Mandela never publicly declared his religious denomination, his family comes from a Methodist background. Tutu attends burial Funeral plans were briefly overshadowed by an outcry after Mandela’s old friend and fellow Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu said he had not been invited. In the end Tutu did attend, and the government tried to brush off the confusion as a misunderstanding. Tutu -- who baptised South Africa the “Rainbow Nation” -- has been a persistent critic of the government of President Jacob Zuma and has also spoken out against infighting in Mandela’s family. Continued on page 6