Profiles, life stories and untold details about the people shaping pop culture.
Curtis Francois is the owner and CEO of World Wide Technology Raceway (WWTR), a motorsports facility in Madison, Illinois, just outside St. Louis. He’s known for something rare in sports business: he didn’t just buy a successful venue, he saved…
Most people know the name Selena Quintanilla. Fewer know the woman who raised her. Marcella Samora rarely sought attention, yet she became one of the most recognised mothers in Latin music history simply by being Selena’s mom. Her home in…
Boogie Tillmon isn’t an actor, a musician, or a public figure by trade. She became known to the public for one reason: her marriage to Trey Parker, the co-creator of South Park and The Book of Mormon. The two were…
Molly Elizabeth Brolin has spent her career doing the opposite of what her last name might suggest. While her father James Brolin and her half-brother Josh Brolin built careers in front of the camera, Molly chose production, art direction, and…
Tammy Slaton went from a private life in rural Kentucky to one of TLC’s most recognised faces almost overnight. Her show, 1000-Lb. Sisters, didn’t turn her into a celebrity because of a glossy transformation story. It turned her into one…
Richard Giannotti spent nine years chasing a professional baseball career before quietly building a second one that’s proven far more lasting: helping professional athletes manage the money they earn during careers that often end just as suddenly as his did.…
Teruko Nakagami is a Japanese-American woman known for her marriages to jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter (1961) and actor Billy Dee Williams (1972). She has two daughters, Miyako and Hanako, and has kept a private, low-profile life despite decades of connection…
Search “Jeff Greenstein”, and you’ll get two very different people. One is a television writer known for Will & Grace. The other built and sold a $25 billion investment firm to BlackRock. This article is about the second one: Jeff…
Lucy Lyster is the former wife of British comedian Harry Enfield. They married in February 1997, had three children — Archie, Poppy Sophia, and Nell — and separated in August 2020 after 23 years together. Lucy has kept a private,…
Jacelyn Reeves has spent decades avoiding the spotlight, yet her name keeps coming up. That’s because she’s the mother of actor Scott Eastwood and screenwriter Kathryn Eastwood — and, for several years in the 1980s, she was involved with their…
