BLAKE LIVELY Leo& Gigi Expecting Baby No.4 With Ryan! A RFOLIMRATYNCNEEW Their Private Pain &Fragile Reunion Prince George Queen Elizabeth’s and Princess family say their Charlotte’s final farewells as brave tribute tensions continue to ‘Grannie’ between William and Harry October 3, 2022
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: DIMITRIOS KAMBOURIS/GETTY IMAGES; DIA DIPASUPIL/GETTY IMAGES; ERIK PENDZICH/SHUTTERSTOCK; chatterOctober 3, 2022 ‘It’s kind of like DOMINIK BINDL/GETTY IMAGES; STEPHANE CARDINALECORBIS/GETTY IMAGES; JUAN PABLO RICO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES being on ‘I didn’t want to look like a big white a very creative marshmallow on the construction beach in Hawaii, so site—there’s I got a spray tan. . . . By a lot of port- the time I got off the a-loos, a lot of flight, I had to go to sitting on the the emergency room’ ground’ —JENNIFER COOLIDGE, —MARGOT ROBBIE, on an allergic reaction on the non-glamorous side of before filming her Emmy-winning role in The making movies, to People White Lotus, to Allure ‘I think it’s ‘People gonna be, like, always tell you [a] scientist, your life will neuroscientist, change. And I was like, “Oh, biochemist, doctor, attorney’ that’s BS.” Yeah, it did, —KIM overnight. KARDASHIAN, I woke up and on the profession of her I turned on the TV; every next boyfriend, on time I switch The Late Late Show With a channel, I heard my James Corden name’ ‘There’s 14 or 15 sharks —SHERYL LEE RALPH, in there, black tips, on winning an Emmy, white tips. . . . to People She wanted to study, so ‘It was very clear I put, like, to me in the eight tanks in the house’ conversations that we had that —TRACY MORGAN, she loved CSI and on how he supports anything that had his 9-year-old daughter Maven’s dream of a crime scene or becoming a marine Mark Harmon in it’ biologist, on The Kelly Clarkson Show —COLIN FARRELL, 1 on his friend Elizabeth Taylor, at the Elizabeth Taylor Ball to End AIDS
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editor’s letter The Queen’s Last Act I have hazy memories of Princess Diana’s meticulously planned day was its poi- wedding—her wave to the crowds, her gnant ending: The Queen, her coffin quickkisswithCharles.Oneofmychild- having traveled more than 500 miles hood friends got a replica doll that we throughaseriesofprocessions,waslaid could occasionally, very carefully take to rest at the King George VI Memorial down from the shelf and to ooh and aah Chapel alongside her parents, the ash- over the details of her dress es of her sister Princess and crown. I remember Margaret and her hus- much more clearly the day band, Philip. Only family the news came in that was allowed to attend the Diana had been in a car ac- burial service. cident in Paris; my room- It is poetic that a wom- mate and I sat on the couch an who devoted her life to together in our tiny New public service chose a very York City apartment as the private goodbye. It feels sun rose, thinking about like both a reclamation of what this would mean for We’ve been following the herself and a final wish: to and Camilla, William and Catherine, her two boys—William, royals for nearly 50 years, bring her family together. and Harry and Meghan can find a way then 15, and Harry, 12. including this Nov. 11, 1974, An onlooker in London forward together. After all, most end- cover of Prince Charles. told me that the mood of ings mark a new beginning. The Queen’s funeral WENDY NAUGLE, proved equally memora- many in his country right EDITOR IN CHIEF ble. Our team sent this issue to press now is that of “underlying anxiety, as if Follow me @wendy_naugle just hours after prime ministers and thewholethingmightunravel.”Indeed, heads of state, including President as you’ll read on page 34, People’s TOP RIGHT: ARI & LOUISE; HAIR: MITCHELL RAMAZON; MAKEUP: TAYLOR FITZGERALD; STYLIST: LIZZY ROSENBERG; BOTTOM RIGHT: HUNTER BERRY/CMA Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, reporting found that a divide remains came together to pay tribute to the late between William and Harry just as the monarch. The world will likely never world looks to them, and their father, again see such a gathering of royalty King Charles, for how the next royal and political power. chapter might unfold. Perhaps in the What struck me most about the hallowed space of the chapel, Charles A Celebration BPEEHTOHIPNELDE of Country This week’s issue includes a special section (see page 61) devoted to your favorite Nashville stars, brought to you by Fox’s buzzy new show Monarch. Among the contributors: senior news editor Sarah Michaud, who won the CMA media achievement award last year (TJ, left, and John Osborne of Brothers Osborne were there to present her trophy). “The community is such a warm and welcoming one,” she says. “I am grateful they consider me a small part of it.” October 3, 2022 5
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ROSS HALFIN STEVEN GETS BACK ONSTAGE Las Vegas, Sept. 14 Steven Tyler—who, following a relapse, canceled several Aerosmith summer concerts to seek treatment for substance abuse in May— triumphantly returned to the stage for the band’s Deuces Are Wild residency at the Dolby Live theater at Park MGM. While Tyler never directly addressed his stint in treatment, he told a woman in the crowd, “It’s either too much or too little all the time. I’m a big fan of too much,” before singing “Toys in the Attic.” October 3, 2022 7
BLAKE EXPECTING BABY NO. 4 New York City, Sept. 15 At the Forbes Power Women’s Summit, Blake Lively revealed that she and husband Ryan Reynolds are expecting their fourth child. After debuting her bump, she shared a series of “real-life” pregnancy photos, including ones with pal Taylor Swift (top) and with Reynolds (bottom). (For more on Lively, see page 80.) RIGHT: TAYLOR HILL/GETTY IMAGES 8 October 3, 2022
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: SEAN ZANNI/GETTY IMAGES; THEO WARGO/GETTY IMAGES; ALAMY; EMILY SHUR; CHELSEA LAUREN/SHUTTERSTOCK NEW FLAME StarTracks Los Angeles, SITTING Sept. 14 PRETTY JoJo Siwa (right) New York and her girlfriend City, Avery Cyrus Sept. 12 made their red carpet debut Jared Leto and at the opening Lil Nas X (with night of Jagged a plush husky) sat front-row for Little Pill. the Vogue World runway show AN AVATAR during New York REUNION Fashion Week. Anaheim, SHAKE IT Calif., OUT Sept. 10 New York City, Avatar stars Sigourney Weaver, Sept. 16 Sam Worthington, Florence Welch Zoe Saldaña danced barefoot and Stephen onstage at the Lang joined forces first of Florence at the D23 Expo + the Machine’s before the two Dance Fever 2009 blockbuster returned to tour stops at theaters on Madison Square Sept. 23. (The film’s sequel, Avatar: The Garden. Way of Water, is due out Dec. 16.) October 3, 2022 9
StarTracks Sarah Michelle Gellar brought her 12-year-old daughter Charlotte as her date to a Sept. 14 screening of her new Netflix dark comedy Do Revenge in L.A. FAMOUS At the season 17 FAMILIES finale of America’s Got Talent on Sept. 13 Simon Cowell walked the red carpet with fiancée Lauren Silverman and their 8-year-old son Eric. On Sept. 14 Madonna sat in the CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: PHILLIP FARAONE/GETTY IMAGES; JOHN SALANGSANG/SHUTTERSTOCK; NINA WESTERVELT/WWD/GETTY IMAGES front row with son Rocco Ritchie, 22, and daughter Lourdes Leon, 25, at Tom Ford’s New York Fashion Week show. 10 October 3, 2022
StyleTracks REGINA HALL IS ON A STYLE STREAK! Two press tours? No problem! The actress wore one eye-catching look after another CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: PARAS GRIFFIN/GETTY IMAGES; JEROD HARRIS/GETTY IMAGES; MATT BARON/BEI/SHUTTERSTOCK; MEDIAPUNCH/SHUTTERSTOCK; MATT BARON/BEI/ Stylist Alison Edmond An Emmys afterparty Hall’s desire for a Edmond calls this SHUTTERSTOCK; CHARLES SYKES/BRAVO/GETTY IMAGES; KRISTINA BUMPHREY/SHUTTERSTOCK; MEDIAPUNCH/BAUER-GRIFFIN/GC IMAGES; MIIKKA SKAFFARI/GETTY IMAGES says Hall “loved” this lace was the “perfect” “feminine” look for her red Elie Saab Zuhair Murad jumpsuit, event for this St. Me Time L.A. premiere led John tux dress and Edmond to a satin top dress, which Hall which she wore to her Stuart Weitzman by The Sei and feathered wore on The Drew Honk for Jesus. Save Your Barrymore Show, Soul. premiere in Atlanta. sandals, Edmond says. skirt by Aliette. “a standout.” This pajama-inspired For her Sunday Today Hall attended the Kate This faux-leather For all of Hall’s Monique Lhuillier look gave With Willie Geist Honk for Jesus. Spade presentation Nanushka dress for Save Your Soul. Hall a “relaxed” vibe at a appearance, Hall went premieres, the San Francisco screening of “biker chic” in an IRO during New York Watch What Happens actress channeled her jacket and pants plus character, who always Honk for Jesus, says Stuart Weitzman heels. Fashion Week in Live With Andy Cohen was overdressed, says Edmond. Edmond. This this bold striped look “comfortable but sexy sequined Elie Saab pantsuit made a by the brand. and chic,” says Edmond. “strong statement.” October 3, 2022 11
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Scoop LEO AND GIGI TAKE MANHATTAN DiCaprio and Hadid were first spotted together on Sept. 10 at Casa Cipriani (left), an exclusive private club and hotel on the waterfront downtown. Recently the actor has been spending more time in the Big Apple, which Hadid calls home. While he’s been exploring and biking around the city, she has recently strutted the runways in New York Fashion Week shows for designers such as Tom Ford. is the type of woman he is usually attracted to.” The first motherhood and a thriving career, including the launch of CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM RIGHT: XAVIER COLLIN/FOX/PICTUREGROUP/SHUTTERSTOCK; CHRISTOPHER PETERSON/SPLASH NEWS; DAVID SUNDBERG/ESTO; BUKAJLO FREDERIC/SIPA/SHUTTERSTOCK source agrees, adding that DiCaprio appreciates that her new line of knitwear, called Guest in Residence, and Hadid has substance and style. “He really likes that she may not be able to focus much of her attention on DiCap- has her life together. She has a child, and she’s mature. He rio. “Gigi has a child and adult respon- wants to be with someone who has the same idea of good sibilities,” says the entertainment causes and political views like he does.” source. “She will not have much But insiders caution that it’s too soon to put a label on free time to spend with him.” this potential new romance. “Leo has not been out of his Regardless of what the relationship with Camila future holds, the pair are long enough to jump head- enjoying getting to know each first into anything,” says a OYOFef fianvrfe&so r other on a more intimate fourth insider, who adds level. “A smart and successful that there is always a chance girl like Gigi would intrigue for a reconciliation between Leo,” says the film source, DiCaprio and Morrone. “I SAYFpfeotlauietrrrs who adds that for now, the am not sure he is completely two “like each other and are finished with Camila. That Their Ex Files having a good time.” was a long romance.” Left: DiCaprio and Morrone in 2019. —ERIC ANDERSSON Meanwhile, Hadid is with reporting by Lanae extremely busy juggling Above: Malik and Hadid in 2016. Brody and Linda Marx What Went Wrong? Brittany Snow’s Painful Split Brittany Snow and her husband, Tyler Stanaland, are going their separate ways after a scandal on his reality show, Selling the OC, rocked their marriage. The Pitch Perfect actress and the celebrity real estate agent’s relationship ‘OUR began to crumble after Stanaland revealed his costar RELATIONSHIP Kayla Cardona tried to kiss him off-camera. “Brittany WILL CONTINUE never wanted Tyler on the show, but he was adamant. He wanted to make a name for himself on his own terms,” TO BE A says a source, who adds that once their marriage became PRIORITY NOT ONLY FOR a story line in the reality show, the damage couldn’t be US BUT FOR OUR undone. “They had issues before, but this is the final DOG CHARLIE’ straw.” Snow, 36, and Stanaland, 33, confirmed their split on Instagram Sept. 14, after two years of marriage. —SNOW “Tyler and I have made the difficult decision to separate,” Snow wrote, adding, “we have realized we need to take some time and make sure we are each living our most fulfilling and authentic lives.” — E M I L Y S T R O H M 16 October 3, 2022
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Scoop | this week in love Happy Anniversary! New Couple? John Legend & Kanye West & C h r i s s y Te i g e n Candice Swanepoel “I married my Wonder The rapper, 45, and Woman nine years ago the supermodel, 33, spent today,” Legend, 43, time together at West’s wrote on Instagram New York Fashion Week Sept. 14, as he released event for Yeezy Gap Shadz the music video for his song “Wonder Woman.” on Sept. 13. “Kanye The video features loves hanging out with Teigen, 36, who her,” says a source. replied, “I could say the “He’s single and dating.” same about you.” Separated Engaged CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: MATT BARON/SHUTTERSTOCK; GILBERT CARRASQUILLO/ GC IMAGES; SARA JAYE WEISS/SHUTTERSTOCK; CHRISTOPHER POLK/NBC/GETTY IMAGES Dan Reynolds & Billy Corgan & Chloe Mendel Aja Volkman On Sept. 10 the Smashing Pumpkins rocker, 55, The Imagine Dragons proposed to the fashion designer on her 30th birthday. frontman, 35, “Of course I said yes,” she wrote on Instagram. revealed on Sept. 16 that he and his singer wife, 42, have split— again. Married 11 years, the parents of four previously separated and reconciled in 2018. 18 October 3, 2022
Paul Mescal on Indie Films & His Dream Role Two years after he broke out in Is there a universe you’d like Mescal and Hulu’s Normal People, Paul to join, like Marvel or DC? Bridgers went Mescal, 26, has become an indie If I get to keep making indie films Instagram official darling, starring in the dramas for the rest of my life, I’ll be a happy last December. God’s Creatures (out Sept. 30) man. But something like Top Gun: and Aftersun (out Oct. 21) and a Maverick would be more interest- 2023 film adaptation of the opera ing to me. I love that movie. Carmen. Here, the Irish actor talks You brought Phoebe Bridgers about his dark new role and movie to the Telluride Film dates with his rocker girlfriend Festival. Do you two Phoebe Bridgers, 28. bond over movies? You play an accused rapist We do have the same in God’s Creatures. What was taste, but it’s also that like? The film’s discussing really fun to take your every man’s relationship to their partner to something masculinity and how toxic that that is not their world can be. Even if you’re playing and experience that somebody who is considered together and talk a bad person, I feel like it’s the about it after. actor’s responsibility to do something that surprises people. —ANDREA MANDELL A Serious Tu r n Mescal with costar Emily Watson in God’s Creatures. SET DESIGN: RODNEY SMITH/PLUTINO GROUP CARMEN; (GOD’S CREATURES) A24; (TUPPER) Coleman The Fight Over Anne Heche’s Estate FRAZER HARRISON/GETTY IMAGES; (HECHE) MAARTEN DE BOER/THE LICENSING PROJECT Laffoon Tension is building between Anne Heche’s loved ones. The late actress’s son James Homer Laffoon and her ex James Tupper have both filed court documents Tu p p e r requesting control of Heche’s estate following her death on Aug. 11. Homer, 20, whose dad is Heche’s ex-husband, Coleman Laffoon, filed his petition in late August, claiming his mother died without a will. On Sept. 15 Tupper, 57, who is the father of Heche’s 13-year-old son Atlas, filed an objection, alleging that the actress appointed him executor of her estate in 2011. The Men in Trees star also expressed concern over Homer’s suitability as executor, claiming he and Heche were estranged at the time of her death. Homer’s lawyer, Bryan L. Phipps, told People, “We prefer to see the estate administration play out in court and not in the media, as our legal documents speak for themselves.” — K A R A W A R N E R Photograph by ARI & LOUISE
Country Singer Drake White & Wife Alex Pregnancy Joy After Fertility Struggles After six emotional years of performance in Virginia after trying to conceive, country suffering a brain hemorrhage, singer Drake White and his and Alex lives with type 1 wife, Alex, are now expecting diabetes and chronic their first child together via inflammatory demyelinating IVF. “We believed that it was polyradiculoneuropathy, an going to happen,” Drake, 38, autoimmune disorder that tells People exclusively. “We’ve causes the body to attack Drake always wanted kids.” ‘WE’VE BEEN its own tissues. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: ZACK KNUDSEN; TRISTAR MEDIA/GETTY IMAGES; ETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAGES White with Adds Alex, 37, a chef: THROUGH SO Through their wife Alex “For six years we MUCH. THIS and their have prayed for a TESTED OUR ordeals, the couple, pup Maple baby, and to know FAITH. WE JUST who will welcome in August. God has heard our their baby in prayers is honestly CLUNG TO February, leaned on overwhelming.” EACH OTHER’ each other—and —DRAKE WHITE, their Christian faith. The pair say ON FERTILITY “It was extremely doctors have no hard, and there were STRUGGLES answers as to what caused a lot of times that we were their fertility struggles. very frustrated,” says Drake. “Scientifically, there was “But we kept believing that no reason,” Drake says. a good day was going to come And as the couple attempted and just kept saying this IUI and IVF procedures over is our path, this is what we’re the years, each faced their manifesting—and ultimately, own health crises. In 2019 it happened.” — A N G E L A Drake collapsed onstage mid- A N D A L O R O Tom & Gisele Still At Odds Together but Living Apart “He does know Distance is growing between Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen. With the that this is his Buccaneers quarterback’s NFL season in full swing and the supermodel last season if busy traveling, the two “are not living together right now,” says an insider. Brady, 45, and Bündchen, 42—who share son Benjamin, 12, he wants to and daughter Vivian, 9 (Brady also has son Jack, 15, with ex stay married,” Bridget Moynahan)—have hit a rough patch after he says a source. decided to unretire in March, two months after hanging up his jersey. But another source emphasizes that Brady spends plenty of time at home. “No other husband gets six months off a year to be totally devoted to just their family,” the source says. “During the season, yes, he travels for games and trains, but he’s with his family a lot too.” — B R I A N N E T R A C Y w i t h r e p o r t i n g by Pernilla Cedenheim and Steve Helling 20 October 3, 2022
Scoop Mariah Carey Talks About A piece from the Jewelry & Music . . . From the Bath Chopard X Mariah Carey Collection. Carey and the Mariah Carey may be the Queen of everyday pieces in this collection. Even brand also launched the Christmas, but she’s also pretty fabulous in my daughter [Monroe, 11] is living for Happy Butterfly X Mariah Carey Collection. the fall. In addition to being a headlining that. She cannot wait to get some of the the pandemic. I moved to a place for performer at the Global Citizen Festival bracelets. She wants to be a designer one a while just to work with my band and create music, and we filmed all of it. All on Sept. 24 in New York City, ‘IT’S THE BODY day, so this was really of this is coming together at the exact she just launched two butterfly- OF WORK inspirational for her. same time. It just represents freedom and themed jewelry collections Do you have a favorite piece? emancipation in so many ways for me. with Chopard. With her packed THAT I’M MOST The butterfly necklace. It’s so Was the butterfly motif for this schedule, it’s no surprise she PROUD OF symbolic. The copresident and collection your idea? When we first started talking about partnering, “All I AS AN ARTIST, Want for Christmas” was about to receive a diamond certification, so I thought they’d squeezes in interviews when she A PRODUCER artistic director of Chopard sent want to do something Christmassy. can, even if it means taking a AND A WRITER’ me the sketch, and I’m going to Then the Chopard team stated the Zoom call from the bathtub frame it. But first I have to obvious: the butterfly. It also made sense (camera off, of course). “Sorry, —ON HER re-zhuzh my closet. I really need because this year is the 25th anniversary BUTTERFLY ALBUM of Butterfly, which is my most personal album. So it was sort of kismet. but I have to multitask,” she says, explaining someone to come help me figure it out. Has the meaning of butterflies changed for you over the past 25 the splish-splash sounds during our I’d watch a show about organizing years? After going through what I had to go through to even create the Butterfly catch-up about her diamond debut. your closet. No more reality [shows]. album and to break free from that shell. . . . It represents so much to me as What is your jewelry motto? The more, Actually, I’m working on a documentary a human being and as a woman. Are diamonds really a girl’s best the better. You can stack the more called the Butterfly Lounge. It started over friend? I hate to say it, but for the most part, people let you down. So I might have CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: AMY SUSSMAN/FILMMAGIC; FEDERAL STUDIO to go with it. With very few exceptions, but for the most part, yeah. —ANDREA LAVINTHAL Carey during a 2002 episode of MTV Cribs. (She did this interview from that same bathtub!)
passages Meghan Cole on Sept. 14 with model Adnan H appy ! McCain, Ben LaNisha Cole, 40. This is Syed Bir thday Domenech the ninth child for Cannon, and (inset) who is currently expecting Baltimore judge on Sept. 19, Tessa another child, with model 23 years after he was Thompson, 39 Liberty. Brittany Bell, and who sentenced to life in prison welcomed a son with model for the 1999 killing of his Oct. 3, 1983 Babies Bre Tiesi in June. girlfriend Hae Min Lee, 18. ZaScehpat.r2y9L, e19v8i,042 The case of Syed, who JuliOe Actn. d1,r1e9w3s5, 87 The View alum Meghan We d d i n g s was released without McCain, 37, is expecting bail, received renewed her second child, a girl, with Dancing With the Stars attention thanks to the husband Ben Domenech, and So You Think You 40, a conservative website Can Dance alum Brittany •2014 podcast. Rapper publisher. Their daughter Cherry, 28, married Bryan Agnew, 33, an executive Cardi B, 29, pleaded •Liberty is 2. TV host Nick assistant at Netflix, at La guilty to two misdemeanor Valencia Hotel in La Jolla, charges of assault in Cannon, 41, welcomed a Calif., on Sept. 18. the third degree and reck- daughter named Onyx Ice less endangerment in Courts connection with two fights at a New Your City The murder conviction strip club in 2018. She of Serial subject Adnan will complete 15 days of Syed, 41, was vacated by a community service. Crime Jean- of press time. President COUNTERCLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: RICH PEDRONCELLI/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; JEAN-LOUIS SWINERS/GAMMA-RAPHO/GETTY IMAGES; Luc Biden has declared a MARIA MORATTI/GETTY IMAGES; EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/REUTERS FROM TOP: DAVID M. BENETT/DAVE BENETT/GETTY IMAGES; ROB RICH Sherri Papini Gets Godard state of emergency in Prison Time for Hoax the U.S. territory. Tr a g e d y The California mom who staged her own kidnapping in Deaths 2016 was sentenced in a federal courtroom on Sept. 19 to 18 Hurricane Fiona made months in prison, followed by 36 months of supervised landfall in Puerto Rico on Film director Jean-Luc release, and ordered to pay $300,000 in restitution. Sherri Sept. 18, knocking out the Godard, who helped Papini, 40, claimed she was abducted while jogging near her power grid and causing usher in the French new Redding home by two masked and armed Hispanic women, hundreds of evacuations wave movement, died at who branded her and kept her chained in a bedroom for and at least one death as his home in Rolle, three weeks. Authorities later discovered she had been Switzerland, on Sept. 13. hiding out with an ex-boyfriend in Costa Mesa, Calif. Papini’s husband, Keith, filed for divorce and custody of •He was 91. Influential their two children in April. “My current focus is on . . . doing fashion and celebrity everything I can to provide [them] with as photographer Roxanne normal, healthy and happy a life as possible,” he Lowit died on Sept. 13 in told People. —C H R I S T I N E P E L I S E K Valhalla, N.Y. No cause of death was given. She was Papini (with her attorney on •80. Actor Mark Miller, Sept. 19). Inset: a who starred in the NBC People cover sitcom Please Don’t Eat story from the Daisies from 1965 to 1967, died of natural November 2017. causes on Sept. 9 in Santa Monica. He was 97. By RACHEL DeSANTIS 22 October 3, 2022
Why I Care Elizabeth Hurley’s 27-Year Fight to End Breast Cancer The actress-model, 57, has a personal connection to the Estée Lauder Companies’ lifesaving charity campaign When the late Evelyn Lauder, Estée Lauder’s ‘BREAST CANCER daughter-in-law, approached Elizabeth Hurley IS 90 PERCENT about working on a breast cancer campaign nearly three decades ago, she wasn’t aware CURABLE IF Hurley had recently lost her grandmother to FOUND EARLY. the disease. “She was diagnosed at a time PEOPLE NEED when nobody spoke about it,” recalls Hurley. TO KNOW THAT’ “She didn’t tell us she was sick for a year.” —ELIZABETH HURLEY To date, the Estée Lauder Companies’ Breast Cancer Campaign and its Charitable at puberty, ideally by a doctor, to check their own Foundation have funded more than $108 breasts—every month, religiously. million globally for research, education and medical services. But with one in eight women What have been some of your proudest moments in the U.S. diagnosed in their lifetime, Hurley as a global ambassador for the campaign? knows the battle is far from over. “Breast cancer doesn’t discriminate,” she says. When people come up to me and say, “I saw “So it’s up to all of us to help find that cure.” your Instagram post about checking your breasts. I checked myself and found a lump October marks the 30th anniversary and went to the doctor and was diagnosed of the pink ribbon, which Evelyn Lauder with cancer. But I’ve been treated, and I’m co-created. How has its meaning evolved? okay.” Those are the achievements that really tick the boxes. When we started, the ribbon was a symbol to get people talking about Breast cancer is still the world’s breast cancer. For those like my grandmother, it was just too taboo. most commonly diagnosed cancer. We were pioneers. Now awareness is FROM TOP: DAVID M. BENETT/DAVE BENETT/GETTY IMAGES; ROB RICH high, and treatments have improved. Is it reasonable to think we can ever Younger people can’t imagine a world without the pink ribbon. eradicate the disease? Is it true Evelyn scheduled Beauty Boss The researchers tell us yes. The only your first mammogram as a difference between today and that day 40th-birthday gift? “She had laser is money. Fundraising is something we beams when should all contribute to if we can. She did. And she made me promise she wanted to Mortality rates have dropped more to have regular mammograms get something than 40 percent since 1989, but women after that, and to always think of done,” Hurley are still dying—and that’s why we’re them in June, my birth month. says of the late Evelyn preached self-detection Evelyn Lauder for those too young for (here in 2011). mammograms. She always said women have to be taught still trying. — A N D R E A L A V I N T H A L For more information, go to elcompanies.com October 3, 2022 23
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A Time to Mourn Harry, Meghan, Catherine and William on Sept. 14 after the Queen’s coffin was brought to Westminster Hall. Amid the public ceremonies, “at the heart of it was a grieving family,” says royal biographer Penny Junor.
With weary, watery eyes, King Charles III faced United in Grief Prince William and Prince Harry across the stone aisleofSt.George’sChapelonSept.19.Together,they 1. “It was so moving were father and sons watching in somber silence, seeing [George and broken only by the lament of a lone bagpiper, as the Charlotte] there,” coffin of their beloved mother and “Grannie” was says funeral guest lowered into the Royal Vault, beneath the chapel Dr. Denise Chaffer, nave. Together but also apart. “When families have a falling-out, you long for them to hug one another,” president of the royal biographer Penny Junor says of the distance Royal College of between the brothers—some dictated by protocol, Nursing. 2. William somebyenduringpersonalpain.“Itbrokemyheart.” and Harry bow their heads during the For all the fairy-tale trappings of the grand glob- funeral procession. al farewell to Queen Elizabeth II—thousands of “There have been members of the British Armed Forces marching in fault lines exposed, precision, hundreds of world leaders gathered and but far more than the rare appearance of the priceless Imperial State that we’ve seen Crown—the interment of Britain’s beloved mon- them all together arch, who died at age 96 on Sept. 8, was, at heart, a much more in the painful family funeral. Through 10 days of national last two weeks than mourning,thefamilydidtheirdutytoservethepub- in the last two lic.Inwalkabouts,stunningvigilsbeforetheQueen’s coffinandreceptionswithheadsofstatetoformalize years,” says the transfer of power, Charles, 73, his three siblings 2 historian Robert and his two sons modeled the stoicism and stability that their matriarch displayed for all her 70-year Hardman. 3. Tens of thousands lined 1 the streets of London to watch the Queen’s cortege pass by.
3 ‘It’s the biggest farewell in world history . . . an event that’s both grand and personal’ —HISTORIAN ROBERT HARDMAN CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: HANNAH MCKAY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES; STEPHEN LOCK/I-IMAGES/ZUMA; PHILIP COBURN/GETTY IMAGES October 3, 2022 37
Hidden Meanings 1. Anchored on the her own Jaguar Land 12 Queen’s coffin were Rover hearse with lighting and large COUNTERCLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: DOMINIC LIPINSKI/GETTY IMAGES; CHRISTOPHER FURLONG/GETTY IMAGES; DANIEL LEAL/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; a golden orb and windows so the LEILA COKER/GETTY IMAGES; KARWAI TANG/WIREIMAGE; PHIL NOBLE/GETTY IMAGES; CHRIS JACKSON/GETTY IMAGES; TIM ROOKE/SHUTTERSTOCK scepter used at every public had a clear coronation since 1661 view of her coffin. and the Imperial State 4. Dignitaries in Crown, encrusted with attendance included rubies, emeralds, (clockwise from top sapphires and a left) President Joe 317.4-carat diamond. Biden and First Lady 2. Foliage for the wreath, including Jill Biden; Prince myrtle grown from a Albert and Princess sprig taken from the Charlene of Monaco; Queen’s wedding bouquet, was chosen Canadian prime by Charles, who minister Justin handwrote a note to his mother. 3. The Trudeau and Queen helped design wife Sophie; and British prime minister Liz Truss. 38 October 3, 2022
The Space reign. The youngest royals—Prince George, 9, now Between secondinlineforthethrone,andPrincessCharlotte, 7—also did their duty, with Charlotte whispering at From left: King one point to her brother, “You need to bow!” Charles and But strain and emotion showed through the ve- Queen Camilla sat neer. Harry’s estrangement from his father and in the front row older brother over leaving royal life in 2020 with at Westminster his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, was never Abbey for the fully out of mind. “This week has brought a lot of emotions to the surface and has been a kind of Queen’s funeral in triggering of past grief for Harry,” says a friend. London, alongside “He’s found it incredibly tough and has emotion- Princess Anne and ally switched off just to get through it.” Of the grief her husband, Sir that played over the faces of each family member, Timothy Laurence; Samantha Cohen, the Queen’s former assistant private secretary, says, “They looked tired. Now Prince Andrew; it’s real, and the real mourning starts. The reality Prince Edward and of life without the Queen starts now.” his wife, Sophie, the Countess of Wessex; Elizabeth, crowned in 1953, arguably spent her and the Prince and whole life preparing for her family and her people to Princess of Wales carry on without her. In that way, the 10 days of pag- with George and eantrywasElizabeth’sfinalgifttoherkingdom.“She Charlotte. Harry and wouldn’t have wanted that pomp and ceremony for Meghan, the Duke herself, but she recognized the role she played,” says Junor. “Even in death, she was still serving.” and Duchess of Sussex, sat behind, It was on this stage and under what the Arch- in the same row as bishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Justin Wel- Edward and Sophie’s by, called “the brightest spotlight” that the royal family’s personal grief—along with their flaws and children James, fissures—has been subtext to the historic death of Viscount Severn Elizabeth. Harry, 38, was not invited to fly with Wil- and Lady Louise liam, 40, and their uncles to the Queen’s bedside in Scotland after word went out that the end was near. Windsor. Arriving after the Queen’s death, Harry stayed at Balmoral with his uncles and aunts while Charles and William left for a private dinner. “Everyone was hurting,” says another close source. Then came olive branches extended toward the 34
couple, who split from the royals under a cloud of GEORGE & CHARLOTTE accusations and deeply hurt feelings to raise their family—Archie, 3, and Lilibet Diana, 1—in Califor- Salute nia. Charles, in his first address as King, spoke of to Grannie “my love for Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas.” And William the next The Wales siblings took day invited his brother and sister-in-law—by text, says a close insider—to join him and Catherine, part in the royal family newly the Princess of Wales, in greeting throngs lined up outside Windsor Castle. procession behind their great- But there was no real togetherness on that out- grandmother the Queen’s ing and no progress toward reconciliation, says the insider: “It was awkward. Both couples found coffin alongside their parents it hard. They were in a stoic spirit of just getting through it for the Queen.” inside Westminster Abbey. Astheweekunfurled,questionsping-pongedover wake of the Queen’s death, none Throughout the long and whicheventsHarryandMeghanwereinvitedto(the have yet involved the Sussexes.) solemn day, 9-year-old George world leaders’ reception was off-limits—“working Perhaps most pointedly, Harry, and 7-year-old Charlotte “were royals” only) and where they would be seated (in a 10-year combat veteran of the Westminster Abbey the Sussexes took second-row Army, was instructed, along with incredibly well behaved kids, seats—with assignments based on age and keeping his uncle Prince Andrew (anoth- but a little like, ‘Wow, this is a family units together). Behind the scenes, there er combat veteran, but no longer lot,’ ” says Canadian Olympic have been arguments over titles for Archie and a working royal because of sexual swimmer Mark Tewksbury, Lilibet. (Among the many new title shifts in the misconduct accusations he de- a guest at the service. At 4, nies), to wear a civilian’s morning little brother Louis was deemed Faithful Companions too young to attend. Two of the Queen’s corgis, Muick and Sandy, and one of her favorite suit to the first processional of ponies, Carlton Lima Emma, whom the Queen’s coffin from Bucking- the Queen rode into her 90s, greeted her coffin as it arrived on ham Palace to Westminster Hall. But on Sept. 17 he the grounds at Windsor. was permitted to wear his military uniform for the grandchildren’s vigil at her lying in state. “It’s nice that the King slightly bent the convention, because theuniformmeanssomuchtoHarry,”sayssomeone who knows Harrywell. Man in the Those close to Charles and Queen Camilla hope, Middle for the sake of his new reign if not salvaging family When the ties, that William and Harry will now follow their procession passed grandmother’s lead. “You’d think that all members by the Cenotaph war of the family would unite and support the King, es- memorial in London, pecially,” says a source close to Charles. “Perhaps Harry, who wasn’t allowed to wear a some wounds can be healed in the process.” It military uniform as a would likely have been Elizabeth’s dying wish. Adds “nonworking royal,” the close source: “She knew that conflicts were a was unable to give the salute. 40 October 3, 2022 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: DOUG PETERS/EMPICS/ALAMY; PHIL NOBLE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES; HANNAH MCKAY/GETTY IMAGES; GREGORIO BORGIA/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; AARON CHOWN/SHUTTERSTOCK
Royal Duty With honor and respect, George and Charlotte handled their great- grandmother’s state funeral with maturity beyond their years. IssueDate 41
Royal Sparkle to Honor the Queen Precious Pearls At a Buckingham Palace lunch on Sept. 17, Kate wore the three-strand pearl necklace seen on the Queen in her final portrait. Meaningful Message For her first visit to Cardiff as Queen Consort, Camilla wore a diamond brooch in the shape of a leek—a symbol of Wales—often worn by the Queen. Family Favorite Kate chose the same pearl choker for both the Queen’s funeral and Prince Philip’s, a piece worn several times by the Queen and in 1982 by Princess Diana. Special Memory Gift From Grannie Meghan wore the pearl earrings gifted to her Charlotte’s horseshoe by the Queen for their pin was a gift from the horse-loving first public outing monarch. together in 2018. 42 October 3, 2022
Solemn Act Royal Send-Off part of life, and she didn’t hold grudges. Most of all, she wanted to see her family happy.” Historian Rob- Charles placed a royal flag “ I doubt there ert Hardman, author of Queen of Our Times: The on his mother’s coffin in the has ever been a Life of Elizabeth II, notes that “the Queen adored gathering of this Harry right to the end, and Harry adored her. I final moments of her kind in the world,” think she was one of the conduits between Windsor interment. Above: Charles says Canada’s High and California, and it would have been one of her Commissioner dearest wishes that they patch things up.” with Camilla, Harry and Ralph Goodale, Meghan. “Charles doesn’t who attended the Whatever becomes of the fractured bonds be- want Harry and Meghan funeral. Hundreds of tween them, the royal family will carry on, insiders feeling ostracized,” says thousands of well- say. Charles and Camilla “will show the nation that Hardman. “But this is a very wishers lined the themonarchyisstilloffering stabilityandanexam- old institution that runs on streets of Windsor ple of service and duty,” says the source close to the very old codes of how you (above) and London, King. Adds Charles’s former press secretary Paddy do things. That’s the system where Lisa Melotte, Haverson: “He will apply himself 1,000 percent to that Harry was signed up her husband and the job at hand.” Soon enough the vast machin- their 13-year-old son ery of royal pomp will pivot to plans for Charles’s to, and he left it.” had camped out for coronation next year. Formal robes unworn since more than 13 hours Elizabeth’s coronation 70 years ago will have to be to catch a glimpse of restored or replaced, and everything bearing her the spectacle. “She cipher—“EIIR,” for Elizabeth II Regina, or Queen— worked so selflessly will be remade with “CIIIR,” for Charles III Rex, for over 70 years. or King, cementing the end of the Elizabethan era. What is 13 hours by comparison?” she For the young woman never meant to be Queen, says. “It feels like the that end brought a quiet homecoming. Beyond the gaze of any but immediate family, the most famous right thing.” woman of the modern era took her final rest not in a monument bearing her own name but in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, beside her beloved parents, her sister Margaret and the love of her life, her husband Prince Philip. “She had no wish to see a statue of herself or to even have a separate burial chamber within St. George’s Chapel,” says Hardman. “As her cousin Margaret Rhodes once said to me, ‘She wanted to make her father proud.’ ” With SIMON PERRY, EILEEN FINAN, 43 ERIN HILL, MONIQUE JESSEN and ALINA TRABATTONI OPPOSITE PAGE (JEWELRY), CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: STEFAN ROUSSEAU/SHUTTERSTOCK; ROYAL HOUSEHOLD/RANALD MACKECHNIE/ PA WIRE; PAUL EDWARDS/GETTY IMAGES; PA IMAGES/SIPA USA; JAMES WHATLING/MEGA; CHRISTOPHER FURLONG/GETTY IMAGES; © NUNN SYNDICATION LIMITED 2022; CHRIS JACKSON/GETTY IMAGES; (CENTER) TIM GRAHAM PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES; THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: MARTIN MEISSNER/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; RICHARD HEATHCOTE/GETTY IMAGES; BEN BIRCHALL/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
GABBY ‘We’re Excited to See What Life Holds’ Bachelorette Surprises!
RACHEL The Proposal ‘This Isn’t What I Deserve’ Erich popped the question with a Rachel Recchia and her fian- first impression rose on ‘When I 3.25-carat ring cé, Tino Franco, rode off on a engagement day, after Zach said yes, featuring an oval- horse after she accepted his Shallcross and then Aven cut diamond and set proposal at the season’s final Jones left. “I made the deci- I was on a handcrafted rose ceremony. But the fairy sion I thought was right in accepting 18k-gold band from tale ended, says Rachel, 26, the moment,” Rachel says. forever. when she learned that Tino, While Rachel hopes to even- We broke Neil Lane. 32, cheated during what she tually find peace with Tino, at the first refers to as “a rough patch” in she doesn’t think he’s been crack in emerged before The Bachelorette’s their relationship after film- completely honest with her the glass’ final episodes aired. Erich apologized ing. “I told him I needed a lit- about his infidelity. “It was publicly for a high school yearbook tle space, but there was never probably going on for lon- —RACHEL photo of him in blackface, and Gabby a point that we called off an ger,” she says. “I believe HAIR: SARA DENMAN/CELESTINE; MAKEUP: AMY CHANCE/CELESTINE; STYLIST: HEIDI MEEK/THE WALL GROUP; (GABBY) DRESS: ZIMMERMAN; EARRINGS: ROBERTO COIN; NECKLACE: JENNY BIRD; says she “had to think about how we engagement,” she claims. I don’t have the facts.” (RACHEL) DRESS: JOYFOLIE; EARRINGS: ADRIANA ORSINI; INSETS, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: CRAIG SJODIN/ABC; COURTESY NEIL LANE; CRAIG SJODIN/ABC; RICKY MIDDLESWORTH/ABC can grow as a couple and learn from Rachel, a pilot from Chicago, this.” Later an ex of Erich’s posted tried to hear the contractor But she has Gabby to lean screenshots of text messages with out, but “when I did sit down on—and her belief in love. him and claimed he dumped her to go with him, I didn’t see him “Gabby was able to help me on the show for career advancement. owning up to his actions or through and get me in the Erich had warned Gabby about the feeling sorry,” she says. “I was right headspace,” Rachel messages. “He was scared they were hitting lie after lie. I know that says. “I am so thankful for going to leak, and I’m like, ‘You have to this isn’t what I deserve.” her. Even though it’s hard tell me the truth,’ ” she says. “He did.” now, everything is going Rachel felt certain about to lead me to the person That kind of communication has Tino, who received her I’m meant to be with.” helped them endure, she says. “Our commitment to each other is there. A Happier Day Now it’s just strengthening those build- ing blocks before we get to the altar.” Rachel still names the group date in cheese Erich is now cheering Gabby on as she capital Edam, Holland, competes on Dancing With the Stars— which included Tino, and even helps her practice. “It’s kind as her favorite. “I’m of concerning how good he is!” Gabby going to take all of says. “He’s a big goofball. I feel incredibly those lessons and use grateful. I did find someone who I could them,” she says. •spend the rest of my life with.” MEET THE NEW BACHELOR! Rachel’s suitor Zach Shallcross will lead the next season. “I’m looking for someone who is compassionate and loves to do fun, adventurous stuff,” says the tech executive, 26, from California. 45
A Beautiful Connection “Dakota has something that makes her see the world differently and allows her to be an artist—to be unique,” says O’Donnell (at home in California on Sept. 9).
ROSIE O’DONNELL c THE ACTRESS, COMEDIAN When her daughter Dakota was diag- AND MOM OF FIVE SHARES nosed with autism at age 21⁄2 in 2016, Rosie O’Donnell felt afraid at first. HOW DAKOTA , WHO HAS “I was worried about how she would AUTISM, ENRICHES HER LIFE IN make it in this world,” says the star, UNEXPECTED WAYS: ‘SHE’S A GIFT’ now 60. “I worried about my longevity, because as you speak to parents of kids As told to L I Z M c N E I L with autism, their main worry is what happens when they die. Who’s going to Photographs by love their child and understand them CHLOE AFTEL the way you do?” It’s something that O’Donnell, now playing a tough-talking detective in the Showtime series American Gigolo, still grapples with as she watches her 9-year-old daughter come of age in a world that does not always understand her complexities. “I know this is some- thing that will be with her her whole life, and she’ll learn to adjust to a world that doesn’t necessarily go at her own pace,” says O’Donnell, also mom to Parker, 27, Chelsea, 25, Blake, 22, and Vivienne, 19. Meanwhile, raising her active, artistic little girl has given O’Donnell new perspective. “With Dakota, I am learning to have compassion much deeper than I ever did,” she says. “To really listen and communicate in a way I never had to with my other kids. I know there are people struggling, October 3, 2022 47
and they don’t know how they will get through another day. And I understand. But the sense of vulnerability that comes with having a kid with autism has been a gift to me. She teaches me.” Here O’Donnell shares their journey in her own words. Dakota’s first word was a full sentence before she Free Spirit the diagnosis felt like I was punched in the stom- ach. I had to give myself a moment to go, “Okay, was 1. We were watching Frozen, and she said “I “Dakota loves we’re going to figure out how to get through it.” been . . . pale.” I said, “What?” and then I hear Olaf Minecraft and say “I’ve been impaled.” She was always highly tech—that’s what You can read as much as possible, but they say verbal. Sometimes she would stare off in a way she’s drawn to,” says when you meet one person with autism, you’ve that felt unreachable for a moment. She had a lit- O’Donnell. “Also met one person with autism. It’s a spectrum. For tle bit of stimming [a repetitive behavior often gymnastics—she’s me—it’s like an angel fell into my life. One who associated with autism] she was doing with her still working on the doesn’t function by societal standards. I’m not hands. She has always been very cuddly—and loves cartwheel. She says, taking away from the pain and hardship that this to curl up beside me on the couch. I thought she ‘I’m an individual,’ diagnosis brings to families. All of a sudden, there’s was quirky—and beautiful and perfect. and I tell her, a child with a lot of needs, and you spend a lot of ‘You certainly are.’ ” timetryingto connect ontheir level.It’s not easy— Still, I knew something was off, but I wasn’t sure but it’s necessary to let them know they are seen. what it was. She did not answer to her name. When PREVIOUS SPREAD, INSET: COURTESY ROSIE O’DONNELL; THIS SPREAD: COURTESY ROSIE O’DONNELL(5) she was being tested [for autism], the doctor kept I didn’t want Dakota to feel calling out to her “Dakota, Dakota.” She didn’t shame about her diagnosis. I respond. Somewhere deep down I knew. Getting have told her from the start that autism is her superpower. I hear ROSIE’S BUNCH her announcing to strangers - “My name is Dakota. I’m 9 and Party of Six I have allergies and autism.” It’s like a different operating system. “Nothing in my life ever compares to these She was endlessly curious. So I five kids,” says O’Donnell (in 2013 holding focused on how to enable her to Dakota, with, from left, Parker, Vivienne, learn in the way that her brain was set up to learn. When she Chelsea and Blake). As for her tendency was in second grade, all the kids to share family details on TikTok, she says, were reading Dory Fantasma- gory. Even though she couldn’t “Sometimes my kids say, ‘Did you have read, she would bring the book to share that?’ ” O’Donnell became to school and pretend. I knew for her self-esteem, we had to get her a grandmother of three when Chelsea reading. We found a great school had her third daughter in February. “It feels wild,” she says. “Dakota is constantly telling people, ‘I’m an aunt.’ ” 48 October 3, 2022
I just want to let you know that’s what happened to me. Bye.” I was in tears as ‘A friend was her birth mom. That’s once told a pretty intense, complex, me Dakota emotional thing for a little girl to put together. and I are Dakota is 91∕2 now. I’ve like an old been fraught with anxiety comedy when each of my children turned 10. I have that year of team’ thinking, “I better not die.” I was 10 years old when my mom died of breast cancer. It’s a shocking thing to lose a mother at a young age. Your mom is the center. You need them for everything: training bras, transitioning into puberty. Going through that on my own was a scary part of my childhood. You feel very alone. I don’t ever want Dakota to feel that. Silly Selfies Dakota’s autism forces me to see the world in Los Angeles, and she’s now reading at grade lev- “Having Dakota from a completely different place. She’s a gift el. They have all kinds of neurodivergent kids and keeps me young from another dimension. The things she knows— special-needs learners. It’s a beautiful melting pot. about sea anemones and tide pools. I got to 60 not in some ways knowing about the Mariana Trench. Now I know She feels things deeply but doesn’t always and exhausted all about it! Her ability to absorb information express emotions. We were driving home one in others,” says is unparalleled. I can imagine her winning on O’Donnell with Jeopardy! someday. She teaches me. To be able to see the world as she does—for me, it’s been a a laugh. “In kindergarten she used to ask why I had white hair!” night, and she said, “Mommy, there’s water on wonderfully magical experience. I’m so glad we my face.” I said, “Those are tears. Are you sad?” and we talked about what feel- •have each other. ings were. I held her and let her cry, reminding her that everyone has feelings. Te n d e r To u c h Sometimes she’s a little awk- “She’s very into her iPad and ward with strangers, and she’ll animation, and she makes start to give them scientific little videos,” says O’Donnell (at home with Dakota). information. She tells kids about the Mariana Trench and how to dig up sea crabs. We were once playing on the beach with a new family. I said to the dad under my breath, “She’s neurodivergent.” Then Dakota turned and said, “I have autism. It’s okay.” HAIR AND MAKEUP: KERRIE URBAN /THE WALL GROUP When she was 5, she asked if she could talk to her birth moth- er. We’re in contact, so Dako- ta gets on FaceTime and says, “Are you the lady whose tum- my I was in? I just wanted you to know I’m the kid that was in there, and when I got born, my mommy held me, and I squeezed her pinkie, and I am with her. So
A Father Shot in W H OCold Blood MURDERED JARED BRIDEGAN? SEVEN MONTHS SINCE THE TECH EXECUTIVE CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: JACKSONVILLE BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT; COURTESY KIRSTEN BRIDEGAN; COREY PERRINE/ WAS SHOT WHILE DRIVING IN A QUIET SUBURB FLORIDA TIMES-UNION/USA TODAY NETWORK; JACKSONVILLE BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT(2); BOB SELF/USA TODAY NETWORK WITH HIS TODDLER, HIS ANGUISHED FAMILY STILL DOESN’T KNOW WHY By S T E V E H E L L I N G Friends of Jared Bridegan say you could murder—police believe the ‘IT HAUNTS always count on the Microsoft executive and tire was planted on the road ME EVERY 33-year-old father of four to help. So it came so that Jared would stop— DAY. WHO as no surprise to anyone that on Feb. 16, when take place in a quiet, wooded WOULD he spotted a discarded car wheel lying in the suburb around 8 p.m. on a DO THIS middle of the road while driving through a Jack- weekday? And most pressing TO HIM?’ sonville, Fla., neighborhood, he stopped his SUV of all: Who is to blame? “He to investigate. He’d just dropped his 10-year-old wasn’t the type of person to —WIFE twins at his ex-wife’s home, and with his 2-year- have enemies,” says Kirsten KIRSTEN old daughter Bexley buckled into her car seat, he Bridegan, 31, Jared’s wid- BRIDEGAN ventured into the street. It was there that police– who arrived on the scene just minutes later after ow. “I have been racking my a passerby called 911 when they saw Bexley in the car alone—found him sprawled in the road, brain to figure out who would want him dead.” fatally shot multiple times at close range. While so far there have been no arrests, “we In the seven months since, there has been nothing but shock and surprise. Why was a THE EX-WIFE will do everything in our power to find out who is tech professional, loving father and husband a killer’s target? How did an execution-style Jared and first responsible,” says Sgt. Tonya Tator of the Jackson- wife Shanna ville Beach Police Department. “I feel confident Gardner divorced in 2016. that we will find the person or persons who did According to court documents, they this.” The waiting has been excruciating for the were disputing Bridegan family. They have helped raise a now child custody. $55,000 reward for any information leading to 50 October 3, 2022
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