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Bella Hadid moves to Fort Worth to be with Texas cowboy ‘partner,’ ride cutting horses

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Bella Hadid

Supermodel Bella Hadid is opening up about her life in Texas and living in Fort Worth.

Hadid, 27, has appeared in fashion and fragrance campaigns for over a decade amassing an estimated net worth of $25 million. She is one of the more well-known runway models in the business, accumulating over 60 million followers on Instagram.

The model was spotted in the Fort Worth Stockyards last year with Adan Banuelos, 35, a celebrated horse rider and trainer.

Now several months after Hadid and Banuelos relationship went public, the supermodel is opening up about her life with Allure magazine.

She said the move to Texas marked an unofficial step back from modeling to focus on her mental and physical health. Hadid returned to amateur cutting horse competitions after taking a hiatus due to her bout with Lyme disease.

On the National Cutting Horse Association 2024 “Amateur Rider of the Year” list, Hadid is in 89th place with over $13,000 in earnings.

Banuelos, whom Hadid refers to as “my partner,” rose to great success in the cutting horse world and was named National Cutting Horse Association leading open rider in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Hadid’s past flames include massively popular musicians Drake and The Weeknd.

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Dave Chappelle

A man who rushed the stage and attacked comedian Dave Chappelle during a show in 2022 is now suing the venue where the incident took place and the security who failed to stop him.

Isaiah Lee, who served 270 days in jail after pleading no contest to charges related to the attack, is now claiming the Hollywood Bowl’s security brutally beat him and also allowed Chappelle’s people to attack him during the event.

Lee says he rushed the stage because he was triggered by Chappelle’s jokes, reported TMZ.

Because the venue knew of Chappelle’s propensity to tell controversial jokes, Lee claims they should have prepared a more thorough security detail, and is suing them for negligence and battery.

He says he suffered back injuries, loss of mobility and a dislocated elbow in the incident, and adds that a knife in the shape of a gun, which was found on the scene, fell out of his pocket when he rushed the stage and was not something he pulled on Chappelle.

Chappelle himself is not a defendant in the lawsuit. Lee is taking aim at only the Hollywood Bowl and its security.

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Kevin Spacey

LONDON — Kevin Spacey, the Oscar-winning actor, has denied new allegations of inappropriate behavior from men who will feature in a documentary on British television due to be released next week.

In an online interview with journalist Dan Wootton, Spacey said he has never done anything illegal and admitted that he has struggled to get back to work after being acquitted last year of criminal charges in a London court.

“I can’t go through this again, allowing myself to be baselessly attacked without defending myself," he said in the interview entitled “Kevin Spacey: Right Of Reply” which was aired late Friday on Wootton’s YouTube channel.

Last July, a London jury acquitted Spacey on sexual assault charges stemming from allegations by four men dating back 20 years. The court victory was his second since he saw off a $40 million lawsuit in 2022 in New York brought by “Star Trek: Discovery” actor Anthony Rapp.

The documentary “Spacey Unmasked” is set to be aired on May 6 and 7 on Channel 4 in Britain and streamed on Max in the U.S.

The documentary is said to feature testimony from men regarding events between 1976 and 2013, the actor revealed during the interview.

“I take full responsibility for my past behaviour and my actions, but I cannot and will not take responsibility or apologize to anyone who’s made up stuff about me or exaggerated stories about me,” said Spacey.

“I’ve never told someone that if they give me sexual favors, then I will help them out with their career, never," he added.

Spacey, who served as artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre in London from 2004 to 2015, again admitted that he was a “flirt” with men in their 20s and that he made “clumsy” passes at times.

“Each time I have been given the time and a proper forum to defend myself, the allegations have failed under scrutiny and I have been exonerated,” he added.

Spacey said he has struggled to get back to work after being acquitted of all criminal charges, describing his experience as a “life sentence.”

His acting career has been adversely affected since 2017 when he was first publicly accused of inappropriate behaviour at the beginning of the #MeToo movement. He then lost his lead role as Frank Underwood in the Netflix drama “House of Cards”.

From combined wire services

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