How Singer Tulisa Contostavlos helped supply cocaine and Try an ice-cream looks suspiciously like a condom

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Stranger pays $128Gs for dying woman's treatment

OTTAWA -- She knows he's tall, slender and generous, but she does not know the name of the man who anonymously donated $128,000 so she can receive "life-saving" stem cell treatment in Chicago. "We just can't believe it. The future is incredible right now," said



Stephanie Headley, 47, who uses an oxygen tank due to damaged lungs. The single mother of four was diagnosed in 2002 with an aggressive form of systemic scleroderma, an autoimmune disease that hardens the skin and organs.

Doctors didn't expect her to survive this long, but she credits a positive outlook and the support from her parents after her marriage fell apart. Nonetheless, the disease is progressing and Headley was expecting to die sooner than later from heart failure. Her family launched a fundraising campaign on youcaring.com, titled Please Save Our Mom, two months ago for a stem cell transplant at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Headley was stunned when a man delivered a $128,000 bank draft on July 3."He's given me my life," said Headley.

"He's saved my kids enormous pain." She said the man phoned and wanted to stop by with a donation. The middle-aged man arrived, she said, wearing oversized sunglasses and a jacket and silently handed her an envelope. She gave him a thank-you card, "and then I said 'Bless you,' and then he turned and smiled." Headley said she opened the envelope and "I literally fell on the floor, collapsed. I started crying.... Of course, by the time we opened the door and looked, he was long gone."

U.S. beauty pageant winner sues after being stripped of crown

A beauty pageant winner who was stripped of her Miss Delaware crown for being a few months too old is suing the Miss America organization, saying officials knew her age and disqualified her unfairly, court documents filed on Wednesday show. The lawsuit filed in Delaware's Court of Chancery by Amanda Longacre seeks $3 million in damages and her reinstatement as Miss Delaware so she can compete in the Miss America pageant in September.

She said she did nothing wrong and was honest when she applied to take part in the pageant, providing her birth certificate, driver's license and other documents. Rules for the pageant, the state preliminary for Miss America, require that Miss Delaware contestants be no older than 24, and say they cannot turn 25 before the end of the year. Longacre's 25th birthday will be on Oct. 22. Sam Haskell, chief executive and board chairman of the Miss America pageant, said Longacre would get the $9,000 scholarship given to the winner, as would the new Miss Delaware. Longacre won the title on June 14, but was replaced in late June by the first runner-up, 23-year-old Brittany Lewis of Wilmington, Delaware. When pageant officials initially told Longacre she would lose the scholarship money and her title, a senior official at the Miss Delaware Scholarship Organization offered to make it up to her by hosting a wine and cheese pajama party, according to the court documents.

Romanian princess admits running cockfighting ring in Oregon

 

PORTLAND, Ore. - A Romanian princess and her husband pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one charge of running an illegal gambling operation for their involvement in a cockfighting ring in rural Oregon. Irina Walker, 61, daughter of exiled former Romanian King Michael, and her husband John Walker, 68, appeared in federal court in Portland in connection with cockfights they held in Irrigon, Ore., in 2012 and 2013. They had originally denied any wrongdoing, but Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Peifer said that, under the agreement to change their plea, the couple will sell their ranch and forfeit $200,000 to the government in lieu of incarceration.

Cockfighting is illegal under federal law, and under the laws of every state. The Walkers were originally charged with 12 counts including operating an illegal gaming business, conspiracy and violating the Animal Welfare Act. Each count had carried a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000. They initially held the contests outside at their ranch but later built a barn-like structure "used as an arena," Peifer told the court. He said they rented portable toilets, hired someone to cook Mexican food, and also sold alcoholic drinks.

Try an ice-cream looks suspiciously like a condom

A condom-shaped ice-cream is growing in popularity among children in China. The oddly-packaged treats, known as ‘Bubble Cream’, has attracted criticism from parents.  It’s wrapped in a rubber sheath and requires biting through the tip. Controversy was ignited after photos of children buying the prophylactic treat in Shenyang were posted on a microblogging site by a user with the surname Jiang. The Global Times report him as saying: ‘I was stunned that it looked just like a condom. ‘I would feel embarrassed to eat it as an adult, let alone giving it to a child. How can they sell products like that to children?’ The father of a primary school student, Mr Wang, added: ‘I don’t know how to explain to my kid why he shouldn’t eat it. He’s so little. It’s really embarrassing.’

Tulisa Contostavlos  ‘helped supply cocaine after she was told she could land Hollywood film role’Nicole Le Marie

Singer Tulisa Contostavlos helped supply cocaine to an undercover reporter after he said he could get her a movie role ahead of Kate Winslet and Keira Knightley, a court heard yesterday.

The former X Factor judge fell for the sting set up by ‘fake sheikh’ Mazher Mahmood, who posed as a ‘big shot’ film producer. During their meetings in Las Vegas and Mayfair, he promised the 26-year-old singer he could ‘get her a part in a big movie that was coming up’, with Leonardo Di Caprio as a possible co-star. He told her she was more suited to the role than Winslet or Knightley. In return, the former N-Dubz star allegedly boasted she could ‘sort out’ drugs for a boys’ night out she was arranging for him. The 26-year-old put him in touch with her rapper friend, Mike GLC, who brought the cocaine to London’s five-star Dorchester Hotel, jurors heard.Contostavlos’s alleged drug deal was taped and exposed in a story in The Sun On Sunday last May. During discussions about a visit to a pole-dancing club called Whites, Mr Mahmood asked: ‘Talking of white, what about white sweets?’

Contostavlos allegedly said: ‘Definitely on the day. What I will do, I can definitely sort it, I just need to make some more calls.’ Two days later, she was arrested and told police: ‘The undercover journalist persuaded me that I was to play a leading role in a major film and that I would be paid a lot of money. I was led to believe that the lead character was similar to me, at that time I was trying to find a role in a film.’Contostavlos denies helping to supply drugs. Mike GLC, real name Michael Coombs, has admitted supplying drugs. While he gave evidence, Mahmood insisted the court was cleared – including the Press box – and gave evidence from behind a screen. Journalists and members of the public were told to leave the court briefly while he entered the room to ensure he was not seen.

He told Southwark Cown Court he pretended to be an Indian film producer called Samir Khan when he met Contostavlos at London’s Metropolitan hotel on May 10 last year, where she raised the topic of drugs. ‘She brought it up with words to the effect that she would go home tonight and have a drink and she might have cannabis to go to sleep,’ he told the court.She spoke about being able to get ‘white sweets’ – a slang for cocaine – and ‘green sweets’, meaning cannabis, he added. The 36-year-old assured Mahmood the drug was high quality but it was later found to be just 37 per cent pure. After her arrest, Contostavlos told police she answered Mahmood in an ‘exaggerated manner’ and was ‘playing a role’ when he asked her about her private life.