Allison Holker claims Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss left her with $1 million tax debt following death
Allison Holker claims Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss left her with $1 million tax debt following death
Allison Holker claims her late husband, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, left her with massive amounts of debt following his December 2022 suicide.
“It’s a misconception that I inherited Stephen’s wealth,” the “So You Think You Can Dance” judge, 36, writes in her controversial memoir, “This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light,” released on Tuesday.
“The reality is quite different,” she says, alleging the former “Ellen DeGeneres Show” executive producer “had given away substantial sums of money to family and friends and spent recklessly on drugs and his weird art collections.”
She also claims he left her with a tax bill amounting to $1 million for the year he died, as well as unpaid homeowner’s insurance.
Holker says she was blindsided not only by Boss’ suicide at age 40 but the gravity of his finances, given that they’d “always maintained separate bank accounts” throughout their nine-year marriage and simply “divvied up the bills.”
“In truth, nothing was easy. I’m still jumping through endless bureaucratic hoops because Stephen didn’t leave a will,” Holker says of Boss, with whom she shared three children.
“I couldn’t solely focus on mourning in those first few months because I was preoccupied with reworking contracts, rebuilding my business network and getting my finances in order,” she writes, adding that she’s “still in the trenches” when it comes to money.
Holker wonders if it would have “made any difference” had her husband “known how much of our hard-earned money would go to pay lawyers’ fees to clean up the mess he left me with.”
“I’d like to believe it would have,” she says. “Stephen left me with double the work, double the noise, double the hardships, double the confusion — and half the household earnings.”
Holker is currently at odds with Boss’ family, who’ve accused her of tarnishing his legacy, especially after she wrote in her memoir about his alleged drug use and childhood traumas.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar reportedly plots return as Buffy the Vampire Slayer
NEW YORK — Sarah Michelle Gellar is reportedly deep into negotiations to reprise her role as a stake-wielding killer of the undead in a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” pilot series coming to Hulu.
The 47-year-old Upper East Side native would again play the Buffy Summers character she brought to life from 1997 to 2003 in her WB, then UPN series, according to Variety. But rather than portraying a high school student tasked with saving the world from evil, Gellar will reportedly have a recurring role in support of a new vampire slayer.
It’s not clear who that young slayer will be. Gellar said in 2022 that Zendaya, now 28, had her vote. A year earlier, Gellar told interviewer and actor Mario Lopez that as a middle-aged adult, she was no longer the right candidate for that role.
The new show would be produced by Gellar and previous “Buffy” producers Gail Berman, Fran Kuzui and Kaz Kuzui, as well as singer Dolly Parton, according to Variety. Hulu hasn’t confirmed that report.
Parton told Business Insider in January 2024 that a “Buffy” reboot was in the works.
Despite being a creative force behind the original “Buffy” series, Joss Whedon doesn’t appear to be involved in the reported revamp. Several female performers who worked with Whedon, including Gellar, have distanced themselves from the famed showrunner since he was accused of contributing to a toxic work environment.
Whedon admitted to New York Magazine he was sometimes not well-mannered in his younger days and yelled on set because “ sometimes you had to yell” when “Buffy” shoots turned into a party environment.
Whedon wrote the 1992 “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” film that birthed the series. That movie starred Kristy Swanson in the title role and featured Donald Sutherland, Luke Perry, Paul Reubens and Hilary Swank.
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Ariana Grande says making music saved her life amid depression, anxiety and PTSD
Ariana Grande is opening up on the darkest time of her life, and how making music led her through it.
On the latest episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast, the Oscar-nominated “Wicked” star said releasing two albums in less than six months was instrumental in helping her deal with grief, depression, anxiety and PTSD.
Grande’s album “Sweetener” was released in August 2018 and marked her first new music following the 2017 terrorist attack at her concert in Manchester, England. The suicide bombing left 22 people dead and wounded hundreds of others.
In February 2019, she followed that up with her chart-topper “Thank U, Next,” mere months after the overdose death of her ex-boyfriend Mac Miller and the end of her engagement to “SNL” funnyman Pete Davidson.
“I think I needed to be doing that,” she said of throwing herself into that music. “I was doing so much therapy, and I was dealing with PTSD and all different kinds of grief and depression, and anxiety. I was, of course, treating it very seriously, but having music be a part of that remedy was absolutely contributing to saving my life.”
According to Grande, her music label, Republic Records, tried to slow down the release of “Thank U, Next” immediately after “Sweetener,” but she insisted on moving forward as “a means of survival.”
“I just said, ‘I don’t really care about the formula. I don’t want to play by the rules at this moment, because this is what I need for my soul,'” she recalled. “It felt really healing and freeing. It was just such a beautiful moment of connection.”
The prioritization paid off well, mentally, emotionally and commercially. “Thank U, Next” went multiplatinum in several countries and garnered Grande four Grammy Award nominations. It ranked as No. 1 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 50 Best Albums of 2019.
Five years later, the former Nickelodeon star is riding a career high in Jon M. Chu’s blockbuster adaptation of Broadway’s “Wicked,” for which she’s netted Oscar, Golden Globe and SAG nominations. She’s also romantically linked to co-star Ethan Slater after rebounding from her near two-year marriage to Dalton Gomez.
From combined wire services
