THE 3 STRANGEST CELEBRITY LAWSUITS
Stories about celebrities can be enjoyable or awkward, but no matter what happens, they usually create great material for Buzzfeed or Reddit users. This also includes celebrity stories involving the law, which bring on a lot of head-scratching and legal action — like these three strange cases.
Ivy, in 2012. Internet trolls who saw her pregnant belly roll as she sat down for an interview fanned the flames of this theory, and soon, a lawsuit emerged. A woman claimed she was the true biological mother of Blue Ivy, and she asked for compensation and DNA testing to prove it. Previously, the same woman claimed to be the birth mother of North West, the daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, but the court threw out the case.
Simon Cowell pays for a chef’s disappearing shoes.
Mila Kunis ruffles some feathers.
Known for his unrelenting critiques and setting the stage for some of the world’s biggest names in show business, Simon Cowell has amassed enough wealth to afford a private chef. When one such chef came by his house for a job interview, she was asked to remove her shoes, but according to court documents, she never received her shoes back. The chef claims to have tried multiple times to retrieve the shoes — which were outfitted with $500 orthopedic insoles — but never succeeded. She sued Cowell for the shoes and gas money, and the “America’s Got Talent” star shelled out.
Actress Mila Kunis was sued for $5,000 by her childhood friend, Kristina Karo, in 2015 because Kunis allegedly stole a chicken from Karo when they were still children in Ukraine. Karo, an aspiring singer, claimed the theft resulted
in extreme emotional distress and prevented her from pursuing the American dream. According to Kunis, the theft occurred when she was 7 years old and Karo was just 1 month old. Kunis and her husband, actor Ashton Kutcher, speculated that the case was all a publicity stunt to promote Karo’s upcoming music video, and the case was eventually dropped.
Internet conspiracy theory results in a court case against Beyoncé.
The internet is a wild place, and conspiracy theories are often born on its digital channels. One such theory was that Beyoncé and her husband, Jay-Z, hired a surrogate to give birth to their daughter, Blue
THE LEGACY OF NATIONAL NURSES WEEK
Our calendar has a week with a special holiday you might not have noticed before: National Nurses Week. In 2021 , this year ’s celebration is more important than ever. The celebration was first proposed in 1953. Dorothy Sutherland from the U.S. Department of
Nightingale was an apt figure to promote, as she represents what many nurses today strive to achieve in their communities. However, this unofficial recognition did not become an annual celebration until 1974. In 1974, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) chose May 12, the birthday of Nightingale, to serve as International Nurse Day. The U.S. government started getting on board soon after. President Nixon declared that a week in February would be celebrated as National Nurse Week. Then in 1982, after many efforts by local governors and the American Nurses Association (ANA), President Reagan declared May 6 to be the official national Recognition Day for Nurses. By 1991, the celebration grew to a week again — and now, each day of the week has specific celebrations: May 6 is National School Nurse Day, May 8 is National Student Nurses Day, and May 12 is International Nurses Day! But no matter what type of nurse they are, nurses need to be recognized for their personal sacrifices during COVID-19, when they were often separated from their own households for weeks and months at a time. For all the nurses in your life and community, try to do a little something extra or express a note of thanks for their work. During a still uncertain pandemic situation, you may be surprised how much your words may mean to them.
Health, Education, and Welfare sent a letter to President Eisenhower, asking for a “Nurse Day” annually in October. Unfortunately, President Eisenhower never made a proclamation for it. So, as Americans do, we took matters into our own hands. In 1954, the first Nurses Week took place from Oct. 11–16, marking the 100-year anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s work in the Crimean War. She was an English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. As a prodigious and versatile writer, she wrote many books that helped spread medical knowledge to the public.
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