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AMAs
Last night live at the Microsoft Theater in L.A., Jennifer Lopez hosted the American Music Awards show which she opened with a bootyfied mashup performance of the years biggest hits. Celine Dion introduced by Jared Leto who lost a friend in the Bataclan concert hall attack, sang an Edith Piaf song ‘Hymne à l’Amour’ in tribute to the Paris attacks; Alanis Morissette teamed up with Demi Lovato for a rendition of “You Oughta Know;” Justin Bieber closed out the show with a wet performance. Award winners included One Direction, Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande.
ALLERGAN & PFIZER
Creating what is being touted as the largest drug maker, Pfizer maker of drugs including Lyrica, Viagra and Botox maker Allergan will cap off an M&A filled year with the largest deal ever in the healthcare history with a stock transaction worth about $160 billion. If the new company is able to establish itself abroad for a lower tax rate, it will be the biggest tax inversion deal in history, YUUUUGE!
SNIPPETS
Euric Cain is wanted by New Orleans police for attempted first-degree murder, second-degree kidnapping and armed robbery; he shot Tulane University medical student Peter Gold in the stomach as he tried to help a woman being dragged down a sidewalk toward a vehicle on Friday…Also in New Orleans, a shootout between two groups in a New Orleans park where hundreds of people were gathered for a block party and the filming of a music video has left 16 people injured…Migrants stranded on Greece’s northern border with Macedonia are demanding passage to western Europe and one of them has sewed his lips shut together, declaring a hunger strike…Limited number of Starwood Hotels & Resorts’ point of sale systems were infected with malware, enabling unauthorized parties to access payment card data of some customers but there is no indication that the company’s guest reservation or Starwood Preferred Guest membership systems were impacted…Argentina has a new President, Mauricio Macri.
ENTERTAINMENT
Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello are officially married as of last night at The Breakers Resort near Palm Beach, Florida. She wore Zuhair Murad, he wore John Varvatos; Lorraine Schwartz jewelry.
FASHION
Is the French government looking to patent a design indigenous to inhabitants of the municipality of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca. The patent document reportedly filed by the French government for Isabel Marant and Antik Batik is laying claim to to the Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec embroided blouses design and the Mexican community of Oaxaca will need to pay copyright fees in order to sell them, according to reports though Marant denies existence of such document. [VOGUE UK]
LOOK OF THE DAY
Ciara @ AMAs
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