Victoria Bekiempis
Reporter at Freelance
reporter of courts. covered Ghislaine Maxwell, R. Kelly, Harvey Weinstein trials. repped by @EditorSig [email protected] https://t.co/VibxRapzVA
Articles
The alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer faces the death penalty. Will a jury impose that punishment?
2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Victoria Bekiempis
It was a decision that everyone expected to come. But it still had all the drama of a made-for-television legal show: would the government seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering a top health insurance executive on a Manhattan street? The answer came last week: yes. Donald Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, announced she was directing prosecutors to seek the death penalty in Mangione’s case.
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3 weeks ago |
vulture.com | Victoria Bekiempis
The naked truth. Ye and Bianca Censori might be the most attention-thirsty couple in Hollywood, but these past few months have been a wild ride even for them. There was, of course, Censori’s nude appearance on the Grammys red carpet with her husband that prompted a mix of outcry and confusion.
Iran dissident still reeling from aftermath of foiled murder plot: ‘I’ve been living in a nightmare’
3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Victoria Bekiempis
Masih Alinejad has long held fast fighting for women’s rights in Iran despite ongoing threats from the regime. Alinejad, an Iranian American dissident, has for years been targeted by Tehran for her unrelenting criticism of Iran’s government as a journalist, author and activist publicizing human rights abuses on social media – and calling for change.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Victoria Bekiempis
Following Luigi Mangione’s arrest in the brazen killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, authorities in the US heralded his capture as “good old-fashioned police work” that brought an end to a manhunt that had stunned America and the world. It had been a period of high drama and blanket media coverage.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Victoria Bekiempis
Masih Alinejad had just finished gathering tomatoes and cucumbers from the backyard garden of her Brooklyn home when she spotted a “gigantic” man mulling about. At first, he seemed “like a normal guy”, the Iranian-American dissident writer recalled in court this week of a fateful day in late July 2022. “He was walking and then he had a phone in his hand.”Alinejad saw him talking and said “what?”, thinking he was trying to speak with her.
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