Table of contents for April 27, 2026 in Globe

PHYPERS FORCED TO PONY UP! MIRED in an ugly divorce with estranged wife DENISE RICHARDS and claiming he’s broke, former wellness guru AARON PHYPERS has now been slammed as a fraud and has to shell out $160,000 to pay a default judgment. The wallop in the wallet comes from an L.A. court that ordered him to pay widower RUPERT PERRY, who says his wife, ELINA KATSIOULA-BEALL, passed away in May 2024 after battling sarcoma cancer. Earlier in November 2023, Rupert claims Elina, desperate because her cancer treatments weren’t working, went to Aaron, who was running a wellness center that offered stem-cell procedures that would cure or “ameliorate” her condition. He claims Aaron bragged about a 98 percent success rate and promised a 50 percent refund if his cure didn’t work.…

CRAFTY King Charles bestowed a royal honor on brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s longtime private secretary, a material witness in the criminal investigation into the former prince’s dealings with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — and sources say the suspicious decision points to a royal plot to sabotage the police probe and protect the $30 billion monarchy. Charlotte Manley, 68, who worked with Andrew from 1996 to 2003 during his heyday with now-dead pedophile Epstein, was recently made a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order at a Windsor Castle ceremony. Now, critics are calling the move a “cover-up” as Manley’s prestigious honor came weeks after it became known that she’s scheduled to be interrogated by police investigating whether Andrew sold state secrets to financier Epstein while serving as the U.K.’s trade envoy.…

SHODDY police work and overreliance on artificial intelligence is leading to wrongful arrests of innocent Americans who were linked to crimes only because an AI software program goofed and matched their faces to a perp’s, a GLOBE investigation has found. These terrible blunders are occurring with alarming regularity across the nation, warn civil liberty advocates, who cite disturbing instances of bungles like the July 2025 arrest of Tennessee grandma Angela Lipps, 50, as proof of the hazard. In that case, armed U.S. Marshals acting at the request of North Dakota’s Fargo Police busted the mom of three at her Elizabethton home where she was babysitting four kids, because a facial recognition program (FRP) misidentified her driver’s license photo from a sprawling database as the face of a woman wanted for…

LEGENDARY rocker Lindsey Buckingham walked into an ambush by a woman stalker who doused him with an “unknown substance” leaving him shaken, but unharmed, say sources. The 76-year-old singer and guitarist, who once carried on a torrid romance with fellow Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks, was heading for a scheduled appointment in Santa Monica on March 25 when he was attacked by the unnamed gal, who seemingly knew of his engagement and was waiting when he walked into the building, according to sources. The woman fled, but officials say her identity is known to police and she’s been linked to past incidents with the music icon. This wasn’t the Go Your Own Way singer’s only stalking scare. In December 2024, Buckingham got a temporary restraining motion against 52-year-old Michelle Dick,…

NOTORIOUS dwarf Natalia Grace insists she’s not a manipulative, violent liar — and she’s slapped Disney with a lawsuit over a TV series that makes her look like one! The Ukrainian — who’s been accused of lying about her age and “tormenting” her adoptive parents — claims Disney and Hulu are guilty of defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. In her legal papers, Grace argues the drama Good American Family portrayed her as “deceptive, dangerous, manipulative, dishonest, not truly a child, and responsible for acts of abuse, violence or attempted violence.” Although the show included disclaimers that some events were fictionalized, she believes that’s not enough because it’s unclear which parts were fictional and which were real, the legal papers say. Natalia — who’s an estimated 24 years old…

PULL up a seat and have a bite to eat, y’all! From the 1960s through the 1990s, the corn-fed variety show Hee Haw was a television staple, featuring down-home jokes and country music’s biggest stars. Two of the most popular regulars were GRANDPA JONES and MINNIE PEARL, pictured here serving up a tasty Southern supper. Old-timey banjo picker Grandpa — born Louis Marshall Jones — passed away in 1998 at the age of 84. Minnie, born Sarah Ophelia Colley, was 83 when she succumbed to complications from a stroke in 1996.…

CHER was “stunned” after recently learning she has a 15-year-old granddaughter, a source tells GLOBE! “The girl actually has lived near Cher in Malibu for years!” spills the source. The singer, 79, was first told in 2021 about rumors that the teenager existed, but it wasn’t until last year that Cher found out it was true, claims the source. The girl is said to be the daughter of the pop star’s troubled son Elijah Blue Allman, who is currently languishing in a jail cell after cops busted him on trespassing and break-in charges in late February/early March. The source reveals: “Elijah first told Cher about this in 2021. Cher apparently knew that she had a potential grandchild but didn’t know it was true until recently, as she’s had contact with…

Actress MARY BETH HURT, who starred in the ’70s hits The World According to Garp and Woody Allen’s Interiors, has passed away at age 79 in a New Jersey assisted living facility following a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Her hubby, PAUL SCHRADER, who wrote Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and American Gigolo, and their daughter, MOLLY, posted on Instagram: “She was an actress, a wife, a sister, a mother, an aunt, a friend, and she took on all those [roles] with grace and a kind ferocity.” TAYLOR SWIFT’s a billionaire so she’ll be able to afford paying if she loses a trademark lawsuit by MAREN WADE, a Las Vegas singer, TV host and columnist who claims the title of Taylor’s latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, was taken from her…

PENNY-PINCHED Americans are scoring big bucks by claiming money they didn’t even know they were owed — and you can join their ranks through just a few free and easy steps! As a public service to our readers, GLOBE is highlighting the incredible $70 billion in abandoned funds languishing in state treasuries across the country — money that could have originated from forgotten bank accounts, uncashed checks, utility deposits, tax refunds, unclaimed life insurance policies, matured policies and even premium refunds. By law, corporations must turn that money over to state treasurers — typically after two to five years — who then hold it in trust until those legally entitled to the dough make a claim. One in seven Americans have money awaiting them, say experts, with the average…

WOLVERINE stud Hugh Jackman is desperate to end his festering war with exwife Deborra-Lee Furness, and he intends to do it by finally fessing up to beastly behavior during their relationship, sources reveal. “He’s ready to take total responsibility for his part in the breakdown of their marriage,” confirms an insider. “Hugh never intended to hurt Deb.” Rumors have swirled that the pair’s decades-long union exploded in 2023 after he got inappropriately close to younger Broadway costar Sutton Foster. Deb, 70, all but confirmed the sordid affair when she filed for divorce in May 2025 — four months after the Missing Link actor, 57, and the Bunheads star, 51, went public with their forbidden offstage romance. “My heart and compassion goes out to everyone who has traversed the traumatic journey…

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REALITY fraudster Jen Shah had a jailhouse feud with Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted sex trafficker madam Ghislaine Maxwell, calling her a pampered prison princess who is provided perks behind bars that other federal inmates can only dream of. In a no-holds-barred interview, the former Bravo beauty, 52, who served 33 months in the same federal lockup as Maxwell, claimed she saw the British socialite get private, late-night workout sessions, special meals, bottled water, spur-of-the-moment legal calls and other luxury extras. “Everybody witnessed it,” says Shah, a former castmate on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, who was sentenced to six and a half years in 2023 after pleading guilty to pushing phony get-rich schemes on thousands of victims through a nationwide telemarketing scam. “And I know that firsthand because I…

ALLERGY EDITION: More than 80 million Americans suffer from allergies to tree, grass and ragweed pollen. The most common food allergies are to peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs and seafood. Two of the rarest types: an allergy to water, which affects only about 100 people worldwide, and an allergy to physical exercise, which affects .05 percent of the population. Cats and dogs can get hay fever, too — symptoms include excessive scratching, fatigue, and red eyes, ears and paws. Climate change is making allergies worse — as the Earth gets warmer, trees and other plants are starting to pollinate earlier. People started saying “God bless you” when someone achoo-ed because it was believed sneezing allowed evil spirits to enter the body.…

NATION WOOD — a onetime security staffer for former President Joe Biden — was collared in California for allegedly killing his girlfriend. Wood, 25, has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in relation to the gunshot death of Samantha Emge, 22. He was arrested hours after the mortally wounded interior designer died at a hospital. According to a source familiar with the case, Wood claimed to be “dry-firing” his gun at his San Francisco apartment and didn’t realize it was loaded when a bullet went through the wall and struck Emge, who was showering. “It does seem like a horrific accident,” says Doug Welch with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, which is representing Wood. The suspect reportedly identifies himself online as a former part-timer who began working with Biden’s…

8/10 JENNIFER GAREIS The soap siren is stunning from her head to her red-painted toes in a bold minidress 3/10 OLIVIA MUNN The X-Men villain needs a superhero to save her from a dress that looks like a tablecloth toga 0/10 CHERYL PORTER The singer looks bananas in a colorful gown reminiscent of a cartoonish Carmen Miranda 2/10 SOPHIE SUMNER The America’s Next Top Model alum gives good taste the slip in a sheer and shapeless gown 9/10 SKAI JACKSON The Sheroes star is the cat’s meow in an animal print dress and purr-fectly strappy stilettos…

ENTERTAINER Jaafar Jackson may not be a household name — but he plays one as he portrays his late uncle Michael Jackson in the King of Pop’s namesake biopic. Jaafar, who is the son of MJ’s brother Jermaine Jackson and now ex-wife Alejandra Genevieve Oaziaza, says he was eager to prove himself in his acting debut and admits, “I actually danced until my feet would bleed or go numb.” Here are 10 things you don’t know about Michael’s 29-year-old leading man. 1 He is of African-American descent on his Jackson 5 father’s side and Colombian on his fashion designer mother’s. 2 Jaafar has two half-siblings who are also cousins as his mom had two children with Jaafar’s uncle Randy Jackson before getting hitched to Jermaine. 3 He was 12 when MJ died…

EMOTIONAL Melissa Gilbert admits “life as we knew it is over” following the arrest of her husband, Timothy Busfield, on suspicion of child sex abuse. The Little House on the Prairie legend, 61, describes the legal ordeal as “hell” and calls it “the most traumatizing experience of our lives.” Busfield, 68, is accused of engaging in unlawful sexual conduct with twin boys, now 11, in 2022, while they worked on The Cleaning Lady, a TV series he directed in New Mexico. He is charged with two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse. Busfield has vehemently denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty. Gilbert, who is standing by her man, shares, “We are grieving what we had … Even if he’s exonerated, he…

THE kingpin of Mexico’s bloodthirsty Jalisco New Generation Cartel may be tougher to take down — because he is an American! U.S. intelligence sources say they face legal hurdles in capturing or taking out 41-year-old California-born Juan Carlos Valencia González because they are handcuffed by the investigative tools they use on American citizens and aren’t allowed by our neighbors to the south to conduct police operations in their country. As GLOBE was among the first to report, the violent career criminal seized control of the drug-smuggling operation when his stepfather, former Jalisco godfather Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, was killed by Mexican special forces trained by U.S. Navy SEALs. But experts say getting to his California kid may prove to be a slippery proposition. “Can the government kill a U.S. person…

JOHN TRAVOLTA and Sandra Bullock are being tapped to star in a romcom — and pals hope their natural chemistry blossoms into a real-life romance, sources tell GLOBE. The two have known each other for decades and both are fan favorites who would make an ideal on-screen couple, insiders say. “John has had such a long run in action films and dramas. That’s been his bread and butter but the truth is he’s actually more of a rom-com guy,” tattles a mole. “Those are the movies he loves watching and he wants to try making one before it’s too late. “The hunt is on for the right script and the right costar but most people on his team are pushing to pair him up with Sandra. She’s a sure bet…