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Billionaire CEO, Tom Brady, Kevin Hart Thrill Fans At NJ Trading Card Shop (VIDEO) Billionaire CEO, Tom Brady, Kevin Hart Thrill Fans At NJ Trading Card Shop (VIDEO)
Billionaire CEO, Tom Brady, Kevin Hart Thrill Fans At NJ Trading Card Shop (Video) Some of the biggest names in sports stopped by a small New Jersey trading card shop over the weekend, thrilling fans young and old alike. Michael Rubin, the billionaire CEO of Fanatics brought Tom Brady, Kevin Hart, and Travis Scott to Wax, Packs, and Throwbacks in Linwood Saturday, Sept. 30, as part of a nationwide sports card trading event, Topps Hobby Rip Night. The shop's co-owner Jon Riffle said he and his business partner Daniel Gordon were well-prepared for the event, but had no idea that the A-list athlete, comic, rapper, and businessman — who's worth an estimated $11.5 billion — w…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Englewood Killer Sentenced To Life For Shooting Rapper, Then Dumping Burned Body In Paramus Englewood Killer Sentenced To Life For Shooting Rapper, Then Dumping Burned Body In Paramus
Englewood Killer Sentenced To Life For Shooting Rapper, Then Dumping Burned Body In Paramus UPDATE: An ex-con convicted a second time of shooting an aspiring rapper in a vacant home in Englewood, then burning the body and dumping it on a quiet Paramus cul-de-sac was sentenced to life in prison, authorities said. "There is nothing more cowardly than shooting someone in the back," Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Gary Donatello said before Randy Manning was sentenced in Superior Court in Hackensack for killing Rhian “Kampane” Stoute in 2011. Manning was originally convicted for the same crime and sent to state prison for life in 2014, but he got the conviction overturned in 2020 …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Trenton High School Dropout Jay-Z Worth $2.5 Billion, Forbes Says Trenton High School Dropout Jay-Z Worth $2.5 Billion, Forbes Says
Trenton High School Dropout Jay-Z Worth $2.5 Billion, Forbes Says Who said you need a high school diploma to earn billions? Not Jay-Z, that's who. The rapper, whose real name is Shawn Corey Carter and dropped out of Trenton Central High School during his sophomore year, was named the world's first billionaire rapper by Forbes in 2019. His net wealth is now estimated at $2.5 billion, the business mag said. Sean "Diddy" Combs is a distant second-place finisher at about $1 billion. Jay-Z, who is married to Beyonce, once relied on dealing crack cocaine for income, according to his lyrics and interviews. Much of his wealth comes from …

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by Jon Craig
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Proud Mama Rents South Jersey Billboard After Daughter Becomes Doctor Proud Mama Rents South Jersey Billboard After Daughter Becomes Doctor
Proud Mama Rents South Jersey Billboard After Daughter Becomes Doctor Drive down Route 130 and you'll see Kristine Small's smiling face. Dr. Kristine Smalls, that is. That's all thanks to her proud mom, Kendra Busbee, who rented the billboard for $1,250 after her 30-year-old daughter received her doctorate in psychology from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine on July 29. "Let me reintroduce myself..." the billboard reads. "Dr. Kristine S. Smalls. Dr. Smiles. Look what good came out of Camden!" Smalls has wanted to be a doctor since she was 5 years old and completed grades K through 12 without a single absence, according to abc7 and th…

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by Cecilia Levine
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HOOP SCHEMES: Onetime Phenom, Ex-NJ Net Among 18 Charged By Feds With $4M NBA Health Care Fraud HOOP SCHEMES: Onetime Phenom, Ex-NJ Net Among 18 Charged By Feds With $4M NBA Health Care Fraud
Hoop Schemes: Onetime Phenom, Ex-NJ Net Among 18 Charged By Feds With $4M NBA Health Care Fraud Disgraced onetime phenom Sebastian Telfair and more than a dozen other NBA veterans are charged with scamming the league's health plan out of millions of dollars, federal authorities announced Thursday. Darius Miles and Glen Davis are also among the 18 defendants named in an indictment returned by a grand jury in Manhattan that alleges they filed nearly $4 million in fake medical and dental claims to the NBA’s Health and Welfare Benefit Plan for active and retired players. Former New Jersey Nets shooting guard Terrence Williams ran the scam, supplying letters that justified medical services…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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DMX Marks Spot: Hip-Hop Legend Drops Final Track On Day He Dies DMX Marks Spot: Hip-Hop Legend Drops Final Track On Day He Dies
DMX Marks Spot: Hip-Hop Legend Drops Final Track On Day He Dies “I make moves to get me where I’m going,” DMX announces on a unique track released just hours before the hardcore hip-hop artist and actor died on Friday. DMX – whose real name was Earl Simmons – teamed up on “X Moves” with fellow legend Bootsy Collins, formerly of Parliament-Funkadelic, as well as Steve Howe, formerly of Yes and Asia, and Deep Purple dummer Ian Paice. DMX, 50, had been on life support at White Plains Hospital since suffering an overdose-induced “catastrophic” heart attack at his Westchester home a week ago Friday. "We are deeply saddened to announce today that our loved o…

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by Jerry DeMarco