Russell Simmons News
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Warner Music Group, acquired by billionaire Len Blavatnik last year, said Lyor Cohen resigned as chairman and chief executive officer of the company’s recorded music operation.
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Hip-hop and fashion mogul Russell Simmons has a musical message for those in the Middle East conflict: “Bury the beef.”
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Liv Tyler, actress and daughter of Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, doesn’t like flat television screens.
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It was surely the only time that lawmakers hammering out the financial-regulation bill were lobbied by a man wearing a hoodie and a New York Yankees baseball hat. That’s how Russell Simmons showed up on Capitol Hill earlier this month to fight a proposal to cap the fees retailers pay banks to process debit-card payments.
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New York Fashion Week ends today, leaving us with some quirky memories.
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In a bright yellow suit and matching bow tie, DJ Cassidy took a bite of his five-foot-tall 30th- birthday cake in the shape of a bottle of Hennessy Black and gave some instructions to the guests on the dance floor.
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President Barack Obama told a gathering of Wall Street donors that Democrats can’t unilaterally stop accepting money from big-dollar political- action committees, according to two people at the event.
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Adam Yauch, one third of the white hip-hop group Beastie Boys, which helped bring rap music to the suburbs, has died. He was 47.
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Besides her glowing skin and svelte figure, Gwyneth Paltrow offered other reasons for doing yoga last night.
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The 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case is fast becoming as explosive as Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) or Roe v. Wade (1973). It took nearly 60 years before the Supreme Court reversed the Plessy endorsement of “separate but equal” treatment of the races in Brown v. Board of Education, and opponents of abortion are still waiting (probably in vain) for Roe to go.
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