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Canadian actor and singer passes away in South Korea after complications from plastic surgery

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Saint Von Colucci, a 22-year-old Canadian-Portuguese actor, singer, and composer, died early on Sunday at Seoul’s National Hospital as a result of complications from his prior plastic surgery there.

In the past several months, the actor underwent twelve reconstructive operations in order to portray a KPOP idol role in a forthcoming Korean drama. Jimin, a Korean vocalist from the Korean band BTS, was intended to be the inspiration for the character’s appearance.

The actor has always been uneasy about how he appears in general in Korea and has experienced severe prejudice because of his Western characteristics. The actor spent over USD $200k on many procedures to alter his appearance and make him look more Asian.

He received a facelift, lip reduction, buccal fat removal, eye lift, jaw surgery, and other procedures.

At the age of 19, the actor initially relocated to South Korea after succeeding in an audition in Toronto, Canada, to work as a trainee at one of the country’s leading music entertainment companies.

Once in South Korea, the actor began doing odd jobs and penning songs for other KPOP artists and groups to supplement his income because the monthly stipend provided by his entertainment agency was insufficient to pay for his essential monthly needs.

The actor was hired in early 2023 to portray one of the lead characters in a new Korean drama that would air on a big American streaming service by the end of the year.

Close friends and relatives will attend Colucci’s burial in Seoul.

Tiger Woods withdraws from the Masters after “successful” ankle surgery

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Tiger Woods, a legend in the game of golf, withdrew from the Masters earlier this month due to an ankle injury. On Wednesday, the 47-year-old said he had had a “successful” operation.

The 15-time major winner reached the cut at Augusta National despite claiming “constant” agony, only to withdraw from the major before the rain-delayed tournament’s third round could begin.

Tiger Woods disclosed that his plantar fasciitis, a tissue infection that causes soreness on the bottom of the foot, had returned and was to blame for the withdrawal.
Woods’ round started off in the dark, and it was obvious that he was having problems walking.

Tiger Woods tweeted that Dr. Martin O’Malley deemed the procedure “successful” at the HSS Sports Medicine Institute in New York City.
“Tiger Woods underwent a subtalar fusion treatment earlier today to treat post-traumatic arthritis resulting from his prior talus fracture.

The statement read, “Tiger is currently recovering and looks forward to starting his rehabilitation.” The statement omitted a timeline for Woods’ comeback to competitive play.
The upcoming major, the PGA Championship at Oak Hill in New York, is slated for May 18.

Woods has made sporadic competitive appearances after sustaining significant leg injuries in a terrible automobile accident in 2021, choosing to play in the major tournaments instead.

He only participated in The Masters, The PGA Championship, and The Open Championship on the PGA Tour in 2022. Only in his second competitive tournament of the year, he made his 25th participation at The Masters.

R. Kelly appeals the federal sex crimes case in New York

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R. Kelly, an American musician and sex offender who is currently incarcerated, has challenged one of his two federal convictions (his September 2021 guilty verdicts on sex trafficking) charges in New York and called for the judgment to be overturned or for a new trial.

Jennifer Bonjean, the rapper’s legal representative, submitted the appeal on behalf of her client. It should be remembered that the singer of “Sign of Victory” was sentenced to 30 years in prison after a jury in his 2021 federal trial in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn found him guilty on all counts of racketeering, sexual exploitation of a child, and abduction.
Kelly’s attorneys contend in a brief submitted on Wednesday, April 20, 2023, that at least four jurors in the New York case were previously acquainted with the allegations of sex trafficking brought before him to trial, with several having seen a documentary series about him.

The brief explained, “Numerous seated jurors were either familiar with accusations that Defendant had a history of sexually abusing underage girls, had previously faced legal problems, and/or had seen the highly unflattering docuseries, Surviving R. Kelly, in which several government witnesses had appeared.”

Kelly’s legal team also claimed in the document that certain allegations about his life, such as testimony from seven additional witnesses who “detailed defendant’s unusual and graphic sexual activities, his history of transmitting herpes to his sex partners, his abusive behavior toward his girlfriends, and both audio and video-recordings of this conduct with women and men,” should not have been submitted and prevented him from getting a fair trial. According to the petition, some of the minor girls listed in his trial deceived him about their actual ages, while others turned out to be 18 years old.

Kelly was charged by prosecutors from the Eastern District of New York of using his famous status and “network of people at his disposal to target girls, boys, and young women for his own sexual gratification.” R. Kelly, meanwhile, was sentenced to an additional 20 years in prison earlier this year in a federal courthouse in Chicago after being found guilty in 2022 of child pornography and enticing a juvenile.

After undergoing plastic surgery to look like Jimin from BTS for an upcoming drama, a Canadian actor is in critical condition.

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Saint Von Colucci, a 22-year-old Canadian actor, musician, and composer, was brought to Seoul’s National Hospital early on Friday owing to difficulties from his prior plastic procedures there.

In the past several months, the actor underwent twelve reconstructive operations in order to portray a KPOP idol role in a forthcoming Korean drama. Jimin, a Korean vocalist from the Korean band BTS, was intended to be the inspiration for the character’s appearance.
The actor has always been self-conscious about his appearance in Korea and that his Western characteristics have been severely discriminated against, so when he was cast as a KPOP idol in the drama, he and the show’s director decided that the procedures would be a suitable fit. The actor incurred surgical costs of over USD $200k.

 

He received a facelift, lip reduction, buccal fat removal, eye lift, and jaw surgery, among other procedures.
At the age of 19, the actor initially relocated to South Korea after succeeding in an audition in Toronto, Canada, to work as a trainee at one of the country’s leading music entertainment companies.
Once in South Korea, the actor began doing odd jobs and penning songs for other KPOP artists and groups to supplement his income because the monthly stipend provided by his entertainment agency was insufficient to pay for his essential monthly needs.

Everything changed in early 2022 when he was cast to portray one of the lead characters in a new Korean drama that would air on a major American streaming service by the end of the year.
The musician is the middle child of Canadian-Brazilian former model Adriana Lima and Geovani Lamas, CEO of IBG Capital, one of the largest hedge fund companies in Europe.
Colucci will have a few operations in the next few days while he is now unconscious at the National Hospital.

Fans react to Achraf Hakimi’s tumultuous divorce from his estranged wife Hiba Abouk.

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Achraf Hakimi, a Moroccan football player, has been in the news due to his lengthy divorce from his ex-wife Hiba Abouk.

Despite Hiba being 12 years older than her spouse, the pair wed and were blessed with two children.

However, after Hakimi was charged with rape in February, they made the decision to part ways early this year.

This week’s earlier reports said that the couple’s divorce proceeding had changed due to how their assets were divided.

Hiba sought a share of Hakimi’s wealth and holdings, according to the French magazine First Mag, but she was shocked to learn that he had given everything to his mother’s name instead.

Following are a few tweets from the numerous replies that have been posted on social media:

Divorce of Achraf Hakimi: Wife seeks half property, discovers he has nothing, according to report

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According to many media sources, football player Achraf Hakimi’s life has been turned upside down after his wife, Hiba Abouk, filed for divorce and requested half of his property.

Unexpectedly, the court informed her that her millionaire husband actually has no legal ownership of anything because all of his assets are registered in his mother’s name.

Achraf Hakimi, a Moroccan international and PSG player, earns a stunning €1 million per month, yet his mother, Mrs. Fatima, receives 80% of this sum. The 24-year-old football player doesn’t appear to be the owner of any vehicles, residences, jewels, or even clothing that are registered in his name.

In 2018, when Abouk was 31 and Hakimi was 19, the pair started dating. Abouk, now 36, expected to get an equal portion of Hakimi’s €70 million wealth as they headed toward divorce. Documents, however, show that every asset is registered in his mother’s name, negating Abouk’s legal right to them.

In an odd arrangement, Hakimi would ask his mother for whatever he wanted and she would buy it for him. He has been able to avoid registering any assets in his own name because of this dynamic.

The famous defender is said to have abused a lady he invited to his matrimonial house while his wife and family were in Dubai, according to an inquiry that was begun last month.

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Hushpuppi ally and Nigerian Instagram millionaire Mr. Woodberry admits to fraud and agrees to pay $8 million

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In a US federal court, Olalekan Ponle, also known as Woodberry, admitted guilt to the charge of fraud.

His sentencing date was set on July 11 by the district court for Northern Illinois.

Ramon Abbas, aka Hushpuppi, a well-known Nigerian international fraudster who was imprisoned last year, and Woodberry are recognized allies.

The two guys were detained on June 10, 2020, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for large worldwide internet fraud. They were then transported to the US for separate trials.

Hushpuppi amended his plea from not guilty to guilty in April 2021, shortly before the start of a formal trial. The Central California US District Court, where the charges against him were filed, sentenced him to 11 years in prison and ordered him to make restitution of $1.7 million by November 2022.

Similar to this, Woodberry, who was charged with cheating a US corporation of around $188,000, insisted on his innocence for more than two years. According to court records acquired by PREMIUM TIMES, he reversed course and entered a guilty plea to one count of wire fraud during a change of plea hearing at the US District Court for Northern Illinois this April.

In a decision issued on April 6th, the judge, Robert Gettleman, approved the defendant’s change of plea. After accepting the plea bargain that Woodberry had reached with US prosecutors, he set the sentencing date for July 11th.

For a pre-sentence investigation and report that would help him determine the proper sentence to impose, the court submitted the matter to the Probation Department.

In order to get the court’s order of restitution, he gave the US government 60 days prior to the sentencing date to give the Probation Office and the courtroom deputy with a list of victims and their full current contact information.

“The list must contain any sums that are subject to reparation. The government must make an application to ask for an extension of time to gather the data if it is unable to give the whole victim list 60 days before to sentencing, the court said.

By entering a plea of guilty, Woodberry admitted to using business email compromise scams to steal about $188,000 from a New York-based corporation known as “Victim Company B” online.

According to US authorities, Mr. Ponle and his cohorts “were engaged in a business email compromise scheme targeting Victim Company B and other companies starting in January 2019 which resulted in a fraudulent wire of approximately $188,191.50 to a bank account.”

How a fraudulent plot was hatched

The conspiracy allegedly started on or before January 16, 2019, when one or more of Mr. Ponle’s co-schemers obtained unauthorized access to Victim Company B’s email account.

According to the prosecution, they fraudulently acquired the account credentials and used them to break into the email account.

As stated by the prosecution in the plea deal accepted by Woodberry, “Once access to this email account (“Victim Company B Email Account”) had been achieved, the co-schemers modified some security settings in the email account to mask their activities from the real email account user.

Quickly, on January 16, 2019, a request for a $188,191.50 payment to be made to Victim Company B’s supplier was issued via email from the hacked Victim Company B email account to another email account of the business.

Prosecutors claim that the communication contained instructions for a wire transfer of the funds to a bank account set up by Whiteberry.

“PONLE was aware that he was not authorized to receive the funds and that the email’s purpose was to trick Victim Company B into transferring funds owing to the supplier to an account under his control rather than the supplier’s.

“As a result of the email, approximately $188,191.50 was sent to the 8208 accounts. PONLE acknowledges that the wire was processed through the Federal Reserve System and sent from an account held in New York, New York to an account ending in held in Nashville, Tennessee,” the plea agreement added.

The document went further to state that on 17 January 2019, Mr. Ponle received a message from Individual B informing him that “The money is in”.

It added that Woodberry’s instruction, Individual B converted approximately $119,000 of the proceeds of the fraudulent wire transfer to Bitcoin. “Individual B then sent the Bitcoin to PONLE’s Bitcoin wallet.”

How a fraudulent bank account was set up

According to the plea deal, Woodberry established the phony bank account through which he collected the profits of the scam nine days before he made a payment request on January 16, 2019, using the victim company B’s stolen email account.

According to the prosecution, Mr. Ponle emailed “Individual B” a message from outside the US on January 7, 2019, asking Individual B to create a bank account in the name of a Victim Company B supplier, using the identity “Mark Kain,” the prosecution claims.

According to reports, Woodberry instructed Person B to “set up a separate business account just to receive the money.”

According to the court document, Individual B created an account under the name “[Individual B] d/b/a [Victim Company B supplier]” on Mr. Ponle’s instruction and provided him the account number, which ended in 8208, and the routing number.

He informed Individual B through a message on January 10, 2019, that “$188K” will be sent to the victim company B’s supply account.

The defense attorney is asking the court to mandate that the defendant pay all restitution that is due as of the time of sentencing.

Hushpuppi, an ally of Woodberry’s, was dubbed by the US authorities last year as “a prolific international fraudster who conspired to launder tens of millions of dollars through a series of online scams.”

Hushpupi, according to the authorities, “flaunted his luxurious, crime-funded lifestyle on social media.”

His Instagram account, which served as his primary platform for showcasing his lavish lifestyle, has subsequently been deleted at the US government’s request.

African Development Bank’s assistance in assisting Africa overcome the problems of the global economy is praised by the Egyptian President.

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Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the president of the Arab Republic of Egypt, has praised the African Development Bank Group’s efforts to assist the continent in coping with the effects of global economic issues.

The president of the African Development Bank Group, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, was greeted by the Egyptian leader on Tuesday in Cairo. Professor Kevin Urama, the bank’s vice president and chief economist, and Professor Vincent Nmehielle, the secretary general, joined Dr. Adesina. Hassan Abdallah, the governor of the Central Bank of Egypt, Rami Aboul Naja, the deputy governor for monetary stability, and Mannullah Farid, the deputy governor for external affairs, were also present.

Adesina traveled to Egypt in order to become familiar with the planning for the Bank Group’s 2023 Annual Meetings, which will take place in the resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh from May 22–26. For the sessions to explore mobilizing private sector financing for climate and green growth in Africa, up to 13 leaders of state and government are anticipated to attend. They will be joined by the bank’s governors, executive directors, development partners, and management.

Egypt, according to President El-Sisi, is eager to continue and expand its collaboration with the bank in a number of development-related fields.

In order to address Egypt’s climate concerns, strengthen the resilience of vulnerable systems, and advance sustainable development, the bank is closely collaborating with Egypt to mobilize international climate finance. In order to address the Nexus on Water, Food, and Energy, the Just Green Transition (JGT) program has a pipeline of projects that are investment-ready and valued $14.8 billion.

It was requested that the African Development Bank take the lead in securing funding for the water pillar projects. “The bank has mobilized $2.3 billion beyond the initial aim of $1.4 billion,” stated Dr. Adesina. Moreover, the bank helps fund national water desalination initiatives.

The chairman of the African Development Bank Group commended Egypt for its audacious attempts to get private sector financing for green economic initiatives.

By the end of June of this year, the Egyptian government intends to issue a green bond on the Chinese financial markets. Chinese Renminbi will be used to issue the $500 million Green Panda Bond.

That will be the first time an African nation issues a bond on the Chinese financial markets, according to Dr. Adesina.

In the next months, the bank’s Board of Directors will talk about Egypt’s request for a $345 million partial credit guarantee to support the issuing of the bond.

The Green Panda Bond is the most recent of numerous bonds Egypt has issued since introducing its Green Finance Framework in 2020.

Adesina praised Egypt for its dedication to enhancing the contribution of the private sector to the economy.

Egypt began early this year the privatization of 32 state-owned companies valued at $40 billion over the following four years, with the goal of reducing the economic influence of the public sector and promoting the expansion of the private sector.

The bank intends to give Egypt $133 million in extra funding in 2023 to help it handle with the macroeconomic uncertainty brought by by the ongoing global debt crisis. The bank gave Egypt $272 million in policy-based operations last year to help Egypt combat the effects of the crisis.

Adesina met with Major General (Rt) Khaled Fouda, the Governor of the South Sinai Governorate, on Wednesday. He stated that Sharm El Sheikh is prepared to accommodate more than 2,000 delegates who would be attending the bank’s Annual Meetings in May.

The infrastructure and amenities the Egyptian government had developed in Sharm El-Sheikh, which successfully hosted the COP 27 last year, Adesina claimed, had pleased the bank.

“Sharm El-infrastructure Sheikh’s that you have created is incredible. It’s top-notch. The city is evolving continually, and green growth is at the core of this change. It serves as an illustration of how effectively funding local governments and other subnational organizations can result in significant social and economic growth, the bank president added. “From Sharm, other African nations may learn.”

Adesina also had meetings in Egypt with ambassadors from the bank’s owners and development partners. Notwithstanding the recent economic shocks and geopolitical difficulties that have affected them, he stated that the bank remained dedicated to helping nations in Africa experience rapid growth.

“It is a very difficult world to be dealing with, and so as African Development Bank, our role is to support the accelerated development of African countries in financing their economic and social development agenda, and also building the resilience of their economies. We help African countries to be able to deal with the series of shocks—whether it is climate, whether it is debt, whether it is recovering from the Covid-19 situation, or whether it is investing in the things they need for structural transformation of their economies,” Adesina reaffirmed.

Rania Al-Mashat, the Egyptian Minister for International Cooperation, Ebtisam Rakha, the Deputy Assistant Minister for Regional Economic Organizations, Mr. Hassan Abdallah, the Acting Central Bank Governor of Egypt, Dr. Mohamadou Labarang, the Dean of African Ambassadors in Egypt, and Nomoto Takaaki, the Executive Director of the African Development Bank, were all in attendance.

Donald Trump will show up in court to answer to charges

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Donald Trump, a former president of the United States, is scheduled to appear in court in New York today, April 4, 2023, to answer to charges related to alleged payments of hush money to a porn actress prior to the 2016 presidential election.

The first former American president to be detained and sent to court will be Donald Trump.

The former President has been charged with over two dozen offenses, including felonies, according to sources close to ABC News, an American media outlet, even if the official record of his detention is still sealed.

He is anticipated to show up in court for processing and fingerprinting as well as to appear before Judge Juan Merchan to file a not-guilty plea, precisely when the allegations against him are made public.

In the meantime, US police have closed the streets, and a helicopter is buzzing overhead. Along the lengthy lines of spectators, some of whom had camped out all night in the hope of securing a desired seat inside, news organizations from all over the world put up cameras.

Nonetheless, the judge decided to admit certain photographers who will take historic pictures that are expected to show up on newspaper front pages, in election-season advertisements, and in future history books, despite banning TV cameras from the courtroom.

Jonathan Majors, A “Creed III” Actor, Was Arrested On Suspicion Of Assault And Harassment.

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Jonathan Majors, an actor, was arrested on suspicion of assault, harassment, and strangling on Saturday in New York.

Majors, the star of the recently released “Creed III” and “Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania,” was allegedly involved in a domestic argument with a 30-year-old woman, according to New York City police. At about 11 a.m., police were called to a 911 call made inside an apartment in the Chelsea district of Manhattan.

The woman reported to authorities that she had been attacked, according to a statement from an NYPD representative. “Without incident, officers took the 33-year-old man into custody. The person was transported to a nearby hospital in stable condition despite suffering minor head and neck injuries.

As of Saturday night, the NYPD spokeswoman told The Associated Press that the man was no longer in police custody.

Majors’ spokesperson disputed that the actor had done anything improper. The spokesman wrote in an email to the AP on Saturday, “He has done nothing wrong. “We anticipate clearing his name and putting this right.”

One of the Hollywood stars who is rising the quickest is Majors. Majors has starred in “Da 5 Bloods,” “The Harder They Fall,” and last year’s “Devotion” since making his breakthrough in 2019’s “The Last Black Man in San Francisco.” He also starred in “Magazine Dreams,” a recent Sundance Film Festival entry that Searchlight Pictures will release in December.

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