Author: Michael

You know the feeling: your jeans and sweater look fine, but something’s missing. The outfit reads “running errands” when you wanted it to read “lunch at the hotel bar.” The fix isn’t a new handbag or another pair of loafers. It’s statement outerwear. Statement outerwear does the heavy lifting that the rest of your closet can’t. A sculptural coat, a buttery leather trench or a leopard-print topper instantly makes everything underneath look considered and expensive, even if it came from Amazon. We rounded up 12 standout pieces that pull this trick off beautifully, from quiet-luxury neutrals to the kind of…

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Sony Pictures has emerged as the frontrunner and is in talks to land the Electronic Arts’ “Battlefield” package that hit the market back in the spring, TheWrap has exclusively learned. Christopher McQuarrie is set to write, direct and produce an adaptation of the bestselling video game series, while recent “Sinners” Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan is onboard to produce and potentially star. As TheWrap first reported, Warner Bros. Discovery, Amazon MGM Studios, Sony, Universal and Netflix all submitted bids in the fight for what is shaping up to be the biggest bidding war of the year. Producing the project are Jesse Stern…

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A mother in Georgia will spend the next several decades in prison after it was exposed that she was abusing her adopted 11-year-old son, who escaped her home by breaking through a bedroom closet drywall and jumping from a second-story window. Coweta Superior Court Judge Emory Palmer sentenced Chloe Jackson-Jones to 40 years in a state correctional facility on Wednesday, September 30, which will be followed by 20 years of probation. Jackson-Jones, 42, was sentenced after she pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated assault with family violence, two counts of false imprisonment and 17 counts of first-degree cruelty to…

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A South Carolina woman is charged with homicide by child abuse after deputies found her two young daughters dead inside her home. Justine Marie May told detectives she had been “in a ‘blur’ for the past two weeks” leading up to the discovery of the girls’ bodies on Tuesday, September 29, according to an arrest affidavit provided to Us by the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office. May, 31, also said she “did not remember the last time” she fed the children, ages 1 and 2, or gave them something to drink, the affidavit states. Deputies and a family case worker had…

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Tobey Maguire and jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer have finalized their divorce a decade after their separation. Maguire, 51, and Meyer, 49, were each declared legally single in September court documents obtained by Us, in which the exes’ marital status was officially terminated. (Page Six was first to report the news.) “[A] judgment of dissolution is entered,” the docs state. “Marital or domestic partnership status is terminated and the parties are restored to the status of single persons.” Maguire and Meyer’s judgement is bifurcated, separating various undisclosed legal issues from their petition for divorce. Jennifer Meyer Details Overcoming ‘Big Hurdles’ With…

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