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Births, Deaths, and Marriages is a column about what's happening to persons of interest in Gawker society. Send us your tips about breakups, hookups, knock-ups, and everything else that completes the circle of media-life. Today: one oddly-named celeb infant, one knockup, one breakup, and rabid right-wingers in luv:
Births, Deaths, and Marriages is a column about what's happening to persons of interest in Gawker society. Send us your tips about breakups, hookups, knock-ups, and everything else that completes the circle of media-life. Today's roundup: hotelier Ian Schrager, Hugh Hefner and Kendra Wilkinson, late Obama campaigner Terence Tolbert, and a rare pygmy hippo baby:
Baby Sanjae Obama Fisher was born in Florida. It's the first Obama-named baby! [AP]
A rare pygmy hippo was born in an Australian zoo. They're endangered—only about 3,000 left worldwide. Videogum has footage of the lil' cutie. [Metro UK]
Terence Tolbert, a longtime politico and Nevada director of the Obama campaign (he also worked on Bloomberg's 2005 re-election campaign), died of a heart attack two days before the election. He was 44. We're sure he knew he had it in the bag. [Newsday]
Kenneth Johnson, newspaperman. "As editor of The Dallas Times Herald in the 1970s and ’80s transformed it into one of the most respected newspapers in the nation while fighting a spirited but ultimately losing old-fashioned newspaper war with The Dallas Morning News." He was 74. [NYT]
Ian Schrager, Inventor of the boutique hotel (um, thanks) and Studio 54 guy, will wed Tania Wahlstedt, a ballerina. His previous wife was a ballerina, too. What an amazing coincidence! [Page Six]
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, 82—desperately clinging to his youth and virility with the help of Viagra—will walk his ex-girlfriend, 23-year-old "model" Kendra Wilkinson, down the aisle when she marries her new boyfriend, Philadelphia Eagles footballer Hank Baskett. Makes sense: traditionally a woman's father gives her away, and Hef is certainly old enough to be her dad grandpa. [SF Chronicle]
We hear that the owner of a preppy douche-magnet bar in SoHo, engaged to marry next week, has called off the much-hyped Massachusetts wedding.
Welcome to our new feature about what's happening to persons of interest in Gawker society. Send us your tips about breakups, hookups, knock-ups, and everything else that completes the circle of media-life. Today's roundup: Maer Roshan, Sam Champion, and Joshua David Stein:
Britney and Adnan in Mexico (1/8)
Star magazine claims that Britney Spears married boyfriend Adnan Ghalib early last month in Mexico. The New York Daily News reports:
The glossy says she “secretly wed” lens-lizard Adnan Ghalib during the visit - which is legally meaningless, as he has not yet divorced his previous wife, AzLynn Berry.
Star’s Candace Trunzo tells me: “Our source on this was not in Rosarito Beach at the ceremony, but is very familiar with the fact that [wedding] documents exist.”
More interestingly, the mag says Spears gave Ghalib $250,000 to grease AzLynn’s exit. She allegedly told her lawyers, who had imposed a grand-a-day spending limit, that she needed the cash for a new Mercedes. (Source)
Man, this guy Adnan is living the American dream. One day you’re digging through someone’s garbage and taking upskirt pics of them, and the next they’re whisking you off to some exotic beach to get married. The only thing this guy needs to do now is follow the K-Fed model (get her knocked up/dump her/appear to be the sane one) and he’ll be set for life. By the way, considering the fact that Briney has so many personalities, is Adnan now considered a polygamist?
