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Amy Schumer is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actress, and producer. She is the screenwriter and star of the movie “Trainwreck” and has joined her cousin, Sen. Charles Schumer, calling for increased gun control. The pair's joint appearance in New York marked the first time Amy Schumer has spoken out about gun violence since police say John Houser killed two women and then himself at a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater on July 23, using a gun he was able to purchase legally even though

Khloe Kardashian is an American television personality, producer and actress. She has a new show coming your way. Khloe Kardashian will be hosting her own prime-time talk show on the FYI. Most appropriately titled Kocktails with Khloe, she will be joined by celebrity guests and friends for an "intimate" dinner party where talk will naturally include cooking and pop culture. Although, we can also look forward to some drinking party games. She said "Kocktails with Khloe is something I'm extremely

Bill Cosby is an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and activist, and he is one of the world's most well-known entertainers and comedians. He has filed legal papers calling for court sanctions against a woman accusing him of sexual assault, saying she breached their confidentiality agreement in the leak of his full deposition from a 10-year-old civil case. He made the filing in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia in opposition to recent motions by Andrea Constand, a former Temple Univers

Miley Cyrus is an American singer, songwriter, and actress with a cheerful disposition that made her a teen superstar. Last year she won an award for Video of the Year, for "Wrecking Ball." Now she is hosting the MTV Video Music Awards. In fact, she announced the news in the best way possible, with a tweet joking that since MTV won't let her perform, she's found a different way to take part in the show.     Say ‘Thank You’ To Someone Special With An Amazon Gift Card: Just Click here

Curtis James Jackson III, better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper, singer, entrepreneur, investor and actor, known for the album "Get Rich or Die Tryin','" has filed for bankruptcy. He has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Hartford, just days after a jury ordered him to pay $5 million in an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit. He owns a 50,000-square-foot mansion; the filing lists both the assets and liabilities for the rapper and actor as betwe

Amy Beth Schumer is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actress. She is revising her reaction to accusations that she has a "blind spot" when it comes to race.   Last week, an editorial criticized her work as racially insensitive. "For such a keen observer of social norms and an effective satirist of the ways gender is complicated by them, Schumer has a shockingly large blind spot around race," the piece read. This week, she responded to a question on Twitter about one of the jokes from a

Bill Cosby admits, in a 2005 deposition, that he obtained Quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women in order to have sex, and that he gave the sedative to at least one woman.   The Associated Press went to court to compel the release of the documents, which have since been made public. Lawyer Dolores M. Troiani asked in September 2005, "When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?" Cosby

Marisa Tomei is an American actress and film producer, and the Oscar winner will play Mimi Whiteman, a demanding venture capitalist and billionaire who loves hip-hop, social trends, and beautiful women. She is best known for the films My Cousin Vinny, The Wrestler, In the Bedroom and Crazy, Stupid, Love. Though she began her career on television on As the World Turns and A Different World, her most recent television credit was four episodes of Rescue Me in 2006. She is also set to play Gloria St

Marcelo Costa de Andrade, "The Vampire of Niterói", is a Brazilian serial killer convicted of raping and killing 14 boys. This mama’s boy and religious psychopath of inoffensive appearance is Brazil’s most notorious serial killer. The son of poor migrants from the Northeast, Marcelo grew up in the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro. He lived without running water and was beaten with regularity by his grandfather, his stepfather and his stepmother. When he was 10 he was sexually abused. At 14 he bega

Hua Ruizhuo was a Chinese serial killer who was convicted of killing 14 female prostitutes from July 1998 to June 2001 in Chaoyang District, Beijing. He picked his victims up from the The Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in Beijing, handcuffed them in his van, raped them, beat them to death and left their bodies in garbage dumps. He began killing when he discovered that his girlfriend was a prostitute. He was executed by a single gunshot to the head on January 31, 2002.

Amir Qayyum was born in Pakistan. As a child, Qayyum was abandoned by his father and went to live with his uncle Dr. Shahid. Qayyum displayed violent tendencies at a young age and was thrown out of school. He would also be thrown out of his house by his brothers and sisters after he would beat them up. On September 25, 2003, Shahid and a friend were murdered by unidentified assailants. On February 28, 2004 a suspect named Hafiz Abid was arrested but shot and killed himself in a police van after

Jake Bird was a convicted murdererand self-confessed serial killer. He started roaming in his nineteenth year and never settled anywhere for long, spending much of his time as a manual laborer and "gandy dancer" on various railroads. It was backbreaking work, but it built up Jake's strength and kept him in motion, trolling for human targets. By the time of his arrest in 1947, he would claim a body-count approaching one victim for each year of his life. On October 30, 1947, Bird was prowling thro

Belle Gunness was a physically strong woman and a Serial Killer reported to have murdered more than 40 people between 1884 and 1908 before disappearing without a trace. When she immigrated to the U.S. in 1881. A series of suspicious fires and deaths, mostly resulting in insurance awards, began. Belle also began posting notices in lovelorn columns to entice wealthy men to her farm, after which they were never seen again. Authorities eventually found the remains of over 40 victims on her property.

The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run remains unidentified to this day, as do the majority of his victims, but the first canonical victim was found on September 23, 1935, and it was estimated that he had been killed three to four weeks earlier. The last two canonical victims were found on August 16, 1938. All of the victims had been at their dump sites for various periods of time before being found. The first outstanding suspect was Dr. Francis E. Sweeney, the alcoholic first cousin of Congressman Ma

Kaspars Petrovs (born 1978) is a Latvian serial killer. He was convicted of the murder of thirteen elderly women by the Riga Regional Court on May 12, 2005 and sentenced to life in prison. He was also convicted of robbery and inflicting serious bodily injury. He had been charged with robbing and strangling 38 women between 2000 and 2003, but the Riga Regional Court said murder could only be proved in 13 of the cases. Many of the other women were initially thought to have died of natural cause

Peter William Sutcliffe was the first of six children born to John and Kathleen Sutcliffe, on 2 June 1946, in Bingley, Yorkshire. As a boy he was reserved, and preferred spending time with his mother, finding it difficult to make friends at school, and he was often bullied. He left school aged fifteen, with no clear career focus, and his early working life was spent in a number of short-lived, menial occupations, which included a stint as a gravedigger. Between November 1971 and April 1973 Sutcl

Francisco Antonio Laureana was an Argentine serial killer who raped and murdered 13 women in a six-month period from 1974 to 1975. He would strangle his victims and occasionally shoot them with a handgun. He was killed in a shootout with police on February 27, 1975. A composite sketch had been made of him by a man he had shot at after fleeing from a murder. Laureana was married and had three children.

Born into a strict Roman Catholic family, Herbert Mullin began life on April 18, 1947 in Fenton, California. Herbert was a good child, excelling in school quickly and was voted “most likely to succeed” by his high school chums. He was athletic, fit, and very handsome, always helpful and polite to others. His only strange distinction was his oddly close relationship with his best friend Dean Richardson. Just out of high school, at 17, Herbert became engaged to his longtime girlfriend, intending t

Prosecutors say that while Lorenzo Gilyard was escaping detection as a serial killer for two decades, advances in DNA testing were being made that would eventually link him to seven women who were killed in Kansas City in 1986 and 1987. "The defendant wasn’t counting on the fact that science would catch up with him, but it did," said Ted Hunt, chief trial assistant, during closing arguments in the murder trial. "Twenty years later, a part of his own body is pointing a finger back at him." Six ot

Vasiliy Kulik was born in Irkutsk Oblast, Soviet Union to an aristocratic family. His father was a doctor of Biological Sciencesand writer, his mother a school-headmistress. A few years later, Kulik left home and began work as a medic in the Irkutsk Emergency Station. He married and had three sons. After his arrest, the police interviewed the Kulik family. His mother told the police that her son had grown weak and had developed a limp. She said that her son had tortured animals as a child, and t

Johannes Mashiane AKA The Beast of Atteridgeville is a South African rapist and serial killer who accounted for 13 victims before committing suicide in 1989. Mashiane started his murderous activity circa 1977 by killing his girlfriend. He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and was released in 1982. After being released, he immediately started his spate of murder and sodomyaccounting for the deaths of at least 12 young boys by strangulation or stoning. One victim is known to have survived

Li Wenxian was a Chinese serial killer who killed 13 female prostitutes inGuangzhou from 1991 to 1996. He was sentenced to death on December 18, 1996 and executed thereafter. Li's first victim was reportedly found on February 22, 1991 and was described as a woman in her early twenties. The genitals were carved out with a knife and the body showed signs of sexual intercourse. Five more murders occurred in the next six months. The victims were either stabbed or strangled, then dismembered, put in

Thozamile Taki, also known as the Sugarcane Killer, is a South African serial killer who killed 13 women aged 18–25, dumping their bodies in agricultural plantations. He lured the woman, promised them jobs but killed them and dumped their bodies in sugarcane fields. He murdered 10 victims in the sugarcane plantations around the town of Umzinto, as well as a further three victims in the tea plantations near Port St Johns, KwaZulu Natal. Body parts of some of his victims are alleged to have been p

The Paturis Park murders are a series of 13 murders of gay men between February 2007 and August 2008. The murders took place in Paturis Park in Carapicuíba, Brazil and perpetrated by an unknown killer dubbed the Rainbow Maniac. São Paulo is the annual stage for the largest gay pride march on Earth and home to one of South America's most vibrant gay communities. But a wave of homophobic murders cast a shadow over one of the most tolerant cities in Latin America. The killer labelled the Rainbow Ma

William Lester Suff, also known as the Riverside Prostitute Killer, and the Lake Elsinore Killer, is an American serial killer. Between 1986 and 1992, he murdered at least twelve prostitutes in Riverside, California. In 1995, a jury found that the unassuming-looking middle-aged man had picked up street walkers in his van, then strangled or knifed them, and proceeded to do unsettling things with their corpses. His conviction appeared to bring to a close a six year-long manhunt for the so-called “

Maury Troy Travis was an American serial killer who committed suicide in a St. Louis county jail, after being arrested for murder. Travis was named in a Federal criminal complaint for the murders of two women. At the time of the murders, Travis was a waiter and on parole for a robbery in 1989. While in his letter Travis claimed to have murdered 17 women, some authorities were doubtful, others thought he may have murdered up to 20 women. He sent a letter and a map to the press and has the dubious

Kenneth Alessio Bianchi is an American serial killer,kidnapper and rapist. Known as the Hillside Strangler, worked with his cousin Angelo Buono to commit 15 rapes and murders. They went on a killing spree between October 1977 and January 1978, raping and murdering 15 victims in Los Angeles. The men posed as policemen and targeted prostitutes to begin with, moving on to middle-class women and girls. They usually left the bodies on the hillsides of the Glendale Highland Park area, earning the moni

Charles Sobhraj was a famous serial killer in the 1970's, known for drugging and killing between 12 and 24 western tourists in Asia. His several successful escapes from prison coined him the nickname, "The Serpent." Known for a string of killings in Vietnam in the 1970's. Born to an Indian father and Vietnamese mother, he spent most of his childhood on the rough streets of Saigon. He befriended mostly western tourists in Asia, later drugging and killing them. Between 1972 and 1976, it is specula