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JUSSIE SMOLLETT’S NEIGHBOR SPEAKS OUT: Following the attack on Jussie Smollett (which many are labeling a hate crime), his neighbor has told police that she may have seen one of the two suspected attackers, TMZ reports. The woman, who asked to remain anonymous and lives in his Chicago building, tells TMZ that she walked outside their building early Tuesday morning to walk her dogs and saw a man who looked “out of place” hanging around their building’s entrance with a rope. He was smoking a cigarette, and she says he “creeped” her out, and caused her to go back into the building. Smollett was attacked soon after. (TMZ)
JENNI ‘JWOWW’ FARLEY ACCUSES EX OF ABUSE: In a lengthy letter posted to her website Wednesday night, Jenni “JWoww” Farley accuses her estranged husband Roger Mathews of abuse, laying out the specifics in great detail. The Jersey Shore claims he plotted with one of her exes to extort her; when she exposed him, he was arrested. Later, he reached out to another one of her exes who she says “brutally beat me so badly I was hospitalized.” She continued: “You chose to reach out to this unspeakable person in order to intimidate me,” before going on to accused Mathews himself of physically abusing her. “If this was not enough, you have spit at me. You have pushed me. You have shoved me. You have aggressively thrown me to the ground.” She added several videos to the letter, one of which appears to show him throwing her to the ground. (Vulture)
WILL CAITLYN JENNER’S SKINCARE LINE FAIL TO LAUNCH? The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has rejected Caitlyn Jenner‘s application to register “Jenner Skincare” and “Skincare by Jenner” as too similar to registrations by Kylie, Kendall and Kris Jenner, The Blast reports. (The Blast)
BETHENNY FRANKEL IS AFRAID TO BE ALONE: The almost fatal allergic reaction Bethenny Frankel suffered December 16th due to shellfish has her spooked. “It’s crazy. I don’t like to be alone anymore,” she told Dr. Oz on his daytime show. “I don’t want to be at restaurants alone, and I’m not that type of person. It’s very scary. It changes your whole entire life.” She shared insight into the incident. “I felt a little tickle in my throat, something seemed a little off – not crazy at all – less than before in my life. By the time he came back, I was unconscious. He said I was drooling. I was unconscious and he managed to get a Benadryl down my throat while calling 911. Then, I guess 15 minutes later, I woke up disoriented,” she said. “There were cops. There were medics, and then I vaguely remember them taking me on a stretcher into the ambulance, but thinking, ‘I’m having a stroke and dying.’”