In the latest episode of Start 5Netflix’s ten-part docuseries following five superstar NBA players as they navigate the 2023/34 season, LeBron James is Hailed as the first active player with a net worth of more than $1 billion. It’s a stunning achievement for a 39-year-old at the end of a decades-long career and firmly puts him in an exclusive club of billionaire athletes such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. Jacob’s wealth goes beyond the money he made at court. A diverse portfolio of strategic investments, endorsement deals and philanthropic enterprises Which complements the vast amounts of money he’s earned…
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Warning: Contains discussion of physical and sexual abuse The Netflix documentary The Mendez brothers Centers around the gruesome murders of Jose and Kitty Mendez in Beverly Hills in 1989, a shocking event in which their two sons, 18-year-old Eric and 21-year-old Lyle, took a shotgun to their parents apparently to secure the $20 million inheritance Jose had threatened to deny them. The brothers then went to the movies and a music festival, before returning home to alert the police and tearfully claim that Jose, 45, and Kitty, 47, were the victims of a mafia hit. Their confession led to a…
Contains themes of sexual abuse The Menendez story has dominated the news since Netflix’s twin releases, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menedez Story And The Mendez brothers. The latest documentary is firmly on the view that the murder of the sisters of their parents in 1989 was caused as a result of years of sexual, physical and mental abuse by Jose Mendez, their father. The Mendez brothers Netflix documentary further suggested that after an initial mistrial and hung jury, Judge Stanley Weisberg, stung by the failure to reach a verdict, emphasized much of the abuse Evidence at the retrial led…
Netflix’s new documentary Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare Chronicles the harrowing eight-year ordeal of Kirat Asi, a 30-something marketing executive from London, England, who fell prey to the online scam now known as “Catfishing.” Catfishing involves an individual inventing, or borrowing, an online persona to dupe their victim – usually romantic. Assi’s story is particularly shocking since it is revealed at the end of Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare That her tormentor was her cousin and confidant, Simran Bhogal. Bhogal’s astonishingly intricate web of lies and deception lasted nearly a decade. By stealing the identity of one Bobby Jandu, originally…
Warning: This article contains themes of assault, domestic abuse and murder Netflix’s true crime documentary, Jailbreak: Love on the RunHas divided opinion, especially about The love affair between long-time violent criminal Casey White and Vicki White (families completely coincidental), the assistant director of the Fort Lauderdale County Jail from which the couple escaped in April 2022. Jailbreak: Love on the Run True History examines the origins of White’s relationship, and traces its development through the eyes of Vicky White’s former colleagues, friends and the criminals who were under her supervision. Casey White was serving a 75-year sentence in Bessemer, Alabama…
With the arrival of volumes four and five of Netflix very popular Unsolved mysteries After a two-year hiatus, true-crime-hungry fans are looking forward to a new set of unexplained deaths or perplexing disappearances to get their teeth into. The original Unsolved mysteries Show, which ran from 1988 to 2010, famously had a hand in solving hundreds of the cases it featured, naturally raising the question of whether, since its reboot under Netflix’s banner in 2020, the new show has a similar impact. Solving cases takes time, effort, and often the public’s cooperation. Five volumes and four years after the reboot,…
Netflix’s engrossing new buddy road-trip documentary, Will & HarperFeatures comedy duo Will Ferrell and Harper Steele as they motor across America to celebrate Steele’s transition from male to female. The two icons of American comedy have shared a friendship and very successful working relationship for close to 30 years, From their first meeting in Saturday Night Live to their partnership as founder and creative director respectively of web production company Funny or Die. Will & Harper Marks Ferrell and Steele’s fourth, and first non-fiction, film collaboration. Most famously, they co-wrote the gloriously off-beat movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of…
Netflix’s engrossing new buddy road-trip documentary, Will & HarperFeatures comedy duo Will Ferrell and Harper Steele as they motor across America to celebrate Steele’s transition from male to female. The two icons of American comedy have shared a friendship and very successful working relationship for close to 30 years, From their first meeting in Saturday Night Live to their partnership as founder and creative director respectively of web production company Funny or Die. Will & Harper Marks Ferrell and Steele’s fourth, and first non-fiction, film collaboration. Most famously, they co-wrote the gloriously off-beat movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of…