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Barbra Streisand buys Disney shares for George Floyd’s daughter

<p><span>George Floyd’s youngest child is now a Disney shareholder, thanks to Barbra Streisand. </span></p> <p><span>Six-year-old Gianna Floyed took to Instagram to share a photo of herself along with a certificate of Disney shares, and thanked Streisand for the gift.</span></p> <p><span>“Thank You @barbrastreisand for my package, I am now a Disney Stockholder thanks to you,” Gianna wrote.</span></p> <p><span>Representatives for the singer confirmed to the Guardian that she had sent Floyd the shares, as well as videos of two television specials, 1965’s </span><em>My Name is Barbra</em><span> and </span><em>Color Me Barbra</em><span> (1966).</span></p> <p><span>“I sent Gianna videos where I played a little girl in my first television special,” said Streisand, “singing kid songs, and my second special – a sequence with lots of baby animals.”</span></p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CBYSZ4pnqeP/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CBYSZ4pnqeP/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">Thank You @barbrastreisand for my package, I am now a Disney Stockholder thanks to you 🥰🥰🥰</a></p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/giannapinkfloyd_/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"> GIGI FLOYD</a> (@giannapinkfloyd_) on Jun 13, 2020 at 7:59am PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><span>The spokesperson refused to reveal how many shares – which currently cost around $127 – were purchased on Floyd’s behalf.</span></p> <p><span>According to a recent report, shares bought in 2010 would have yielded a 370% investment over the past decade.</span></p> <p><span>Streisand has called the death of Floyd on 25 May in Minneapolis, after a police officer pressed his knee into his neck for nearly nine minutes, “a modern day lynching”.</span></p> <p><span>A week ago, Streisand reposted a widely shared video of Gianna on her father’s shoulders, with the child’s message: “Daddy changed the world”.</span></p> <p><span>Gianna goes by the nickname “GiGi” on her Instagram account, which is thought to be run by her mother, Roxie Washington. She is the youngest of Floyd’s five children.</span></p>

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Barbra Streisand backlash: Issues apology over controversial Michael Jackson comments

<p>Barbra Streisand has apologised for her remarks about Michael Jackson and the two men who have accused him of sexual abuse.</p> <p>Streisand has been slammed after saying in a recent interview that Jackson’s accusers, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, were “thrilled to be there” and that the alleged sexual abuse “didn’t kill them”.</p> <p>Robson and Safechuck, who were featured in the documentary <em>Leaving Neverland</em>, told the <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47403951" target="_blank"><em>BBC</em></a> that Jackson abused them from the ages of seven and 10.</p> <p>In an interview with <em>The Times</em>, Streisand said she “absolutely” believed Robson and Safechuck’s claims. However, she added: “His sexual needs were his sexual needs, coming from whatever childhood he has or whatever DNA he has.</p> <p>“You can say ‘molested’, but those children, as you heard say, they were thrilled to be there. They both married and they both have children, so it didn’t kill them.”</p> <p>Backlash has ensued following the publication of the interview. “‘His sexual needs were his sexual needs’ – is pedophilia tolerated in parts of the entertainment industry?” said Dan Reed, the documentary’s director.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr">“His sexual needs were his sexual needs” - is pedophilia tolerated in parts of the entertainment industry? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/leavingneverland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#leavingneverland</a> <a href="https://t.co/LTdq1LXLkg">https://t.co/LTdq1LXLkg</a></p> — Dan Reed (@danreed1000) <a href="https://twitter.com/danreed1000/status/1109405584070270976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2019</a></blockquote> <p>Streisand then gave a statement to the Associated Press and posted an extended apology online.</p> <p>“I am profoundly sorry for any pain or misunderstanding I caused by not choosing my words more carefully about Michael Jackson and his victims, because the words as printed do not reflect my true feelings,” she said in a statement on Instagram.</p> <p>“I didn’t mean to dismiss the trauma these boys experienced in any way … Like all survivors of sexual assault, they will have to carry this for the rest of their lives.”</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BvXXNCyH-4c/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BvXXNCyH-4c/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by Barbra Streisand (@barbrastreisand)</a> on Mar 23, 2019 at 1:57pm PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Over the years, the Jackson estate have denied any allegations that the pop star behaved inappropriately with children.</p> <p>“I want them to understand and know that this documentary is not telling truth,” Jackson’s brother Marlon told <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.oversixty.com.au/entertainment/music/leaving-neverland-doco-why-michael-jackson-s-son-blanket-has-stopped-talking" target="_blank"><em>CBS This Morning</em></a>. “There has not been not one piece of evidence that corroborates their story.”</p> <p>Jackson, who died in 2009, settled out of court for a child molestation lawsuit in 1993 and was acquitted for charges that he molested a 13-year-old boy in 2005.</p>

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Proud grandma Barbra Streisand's sweet moment with granddaughter

<p>Josh Brolin’s baby daughter Westlyn Reign may be small, but she already shares a special bond with her grandmother Barbra Streisand, who is married to Josh's actor dad James Brolin.</p> <p>Josh shared a heartwarming snap to his Instagram account on Monday, which showed the legendary singer and actress cradling her stepson’s daughter in a black-and-white photograph.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BtMvMPsgHhH/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BtMvMPsgHhH/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" target="_blank">Classic beauties. Time stands still.❤️❤️ #beanandgranny #family @barbrastreisand</a></p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/joshbrolin/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" target="_blank"> Josh Brolin</a> (@joshbrolin) on Jan 28, 2019 at 4:52pm PST</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>The 76-year-old star was beaming with pride as she held her granddaughter close.</p> <p>“Classic beauties. Time stands still,” wrote the <em>Avengers: Infinity War</em> actor underneath the post.</p> <p>Streisand then shared the same photograph to her own Instagram account, but this time in colour, writing: “We were at a restaurant, but the most delicious thing was my granddaughter Westlyn!”</p> <p>50-year-old actor Josh and his entrepreneur wife Kathryn Boyd welcomed their first child together in early November.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BpxlACZlWBT/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BpxlACZlWBT/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" target="_blank">Dearest Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to introduce our little girl Westlyn Reign Brolin (Bean). Mama Kathryn was stellar during this miracle birth and Bean is a flawless gem through and through. We are blessed to the core and appreciate so much the love and support during this pregnancy from ALL who have partaken in our journey, directly and/or indirectly. ❤️❤️🍼🏋🏻‍♀️🍀 #beanlove #dogtown @kathrynbrolin</a></p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/joshbrolin/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" target="_blank"> Josh Brolin</a> (@joshbrolin) on Nov 4, 2018 at 2:12pm PST</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>“Dearest Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to introduce our little girl Westlyn Reign Brolin (Bean),” he captioned a video of little Westlyn fast asleep. “Mama Kathryn was stellar during this miracle birth and Bean is a flawless gem through and through.</p> <p>“We are blessed to the core and appreciate so much the love and support during this pregnancy from ALL who have partaken in our journey, directly and/or indirectly,” he said. </p>

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Barbra Streisand celebrates 20 years of marriage to James Brolin

<p>Legendary singer Barbra Streisand has celebrated her 20<sup>th</sup> wedding anniversary to her 77-year-old actor and husband James Brolin with a sweet message on her Instagram account.</p> <p>The couple, who were set up on a blind date, married on July 1, 1998 – two years after their infamous meeting.</p> <p>“Has it really been 22 years since our blind date @jamesbrolin_?” the <em>Woman In Love</em> singer wrote.</p> <p>“Married for 20 years. Happy anniversary honey. Bee. X.”</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media"> <div style="padding: 8px;"> <div style="background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 62.48665955176094% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;"> <div style="background: url(data:image/png; base64,ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaacwaaaascamaaaapwqozaaaabgdbtueaalgpc/xhbqaaaafzukdcak7ohokaaaamuexurczmzpf399fx1+bm5mzy9amaaadisurbvdjlvzxbesmgces5/p8/t9furvcrmu73jwlzosgsiizurcjo/ad+eqjjb4hv8bft+idpqocx1wjosbfhh2xssxeiyn3uli/6mnree07uiwjev8ueowds88ly97kqytlijkktuybbruayvh5wohixmpi5we58ek028czwyuqdlkpg1bkb4nnm+veanfhqn1k4+gpt6ugqcvu2h2ovuif/gwufyy8owepdyzsa3avcqpvovvzzz2vtnn2wu8qzvjddeto90gsy9mvlqtgysy231mxry6i2ggqjrty0l8fxcxfcbbhwrsyyaaaaaelftksuqmcc); display: block; height: 44px; margin: 0 auto -44px; position: relative; top: -22px; width: 44px;"></div> </div> <p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BksWqg8hBi6/" target="_blank">Has it really been 22 years since our blind date @jamesbrolin_ ? Married for 20 years. Happy anniversary honey. Bee. X</a></p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" href="https://www.instagram.com/barbrastreisand/" target="_blank"> Barbra Streisand</a> (@barbrastreisand) on Jul 1, 2018 at 7:51am PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>The 76-year-old songstress previously told <em>W Magazine</em>, “I met him at a dinner and expected a bearded mountain-man type, and he had cut off all his hair and was clean-shaven.”</p> <p>Barbra continued, “I asked him, ‘Who screwed up your hair?’ He later told me that’s when he fell in love with me. My fella likes to hear the truth, which is unusual.”</p> <p>The singer is also soon to become a grandmother again with her stepson, actor Josh Brolin and his wife Kathryn Boyd expecting their first child together, a baby girl.</p> <p><img width="499" height="340" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7819570/screen-shot-2018-07-03-at-62754-pm_499x340.jpg" alt="Screen Shot 2018-07-03 At 6.27.54 Pm"/></p> <p>Josh recently told <em>People</em> about his step-mum, “My wife got her a bracelet that said ‘Grandma’ on it and she started crying.”</p> <p>He continued, “She is one of those … it’s annoying but in a really great way, [with] emails every day and like, ‘Hey, I thought of this name, what do you think of that? … When can I come over and feel the baby?’”</p> <p>The actor, who already has two adult children, son Trevor, 30, and daughter Eden, 28, concluded, “She is really into it and I love that she is into it. I mean, it’s like very typical Jewish grandmother who is saturated by this event. It’s awesome.”</p>

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Barbara Streisand opens up: "I wasn't pretty enough to be harassed"

<p>Barbara Streisand has revealed she’s never suffered sexual harassment in Hollywood, but has felt abused by the media.</p> <p>In a wide-ranging interview with director, product and long-time admirer Ryan Murphy, Streisand spoke candidly about her career, the #MeToo movement and her aversion to interviews.</p> <p>When asked if she had ever been sexually harassed or mistreated, Streisand replied: “Never”.</p> <p>“I wasn’t like those pretty girls with those nice little noses. Maybe that’s why,” she added.</p> <p>Of the #MeToo movement sweeping the entertainment industry, she said, “We’re in a strange time now in terms of men and women and the pendulum swinging this way and that way, and it’s going to have to come to the centre.”</p> <p>She also opened up about her reluctance to speak to the media, which is based on years of what she labelled “inaccurate reporting”.</p> <p>One particularly persistent story that Streisand labelled as false is that she has an “awards room” at home dedicated to her Oscars, Emmys and other trophies.</p> <p>She also criticised the late American TV journalist Mike Wallace, recalling how when she was a young star (and before Wallace joined 60 Minutes) he asked her a series of hurtful questions during a TV interview and she had complained to him afterwards.</p> <p>However, on a subsequent show Wallace told viewers who’d objected to his line questioning of Streisand that she “loved” the interview.</p> <p>“I thought, I don’t know what date rape is, it’s terrible … but it was such a violation,” she said. “Why lie?”</p> <p>The interview, which was part of a tribute to Streisand for the 35th annual PaleyFest LA television festival at the Dolby Theatre, ended with Murphy’s own personal tribute to the Funny Girl star.</p> <p>“People talk about Barbra as the greatest female star. I say, no, that’s not enough,” Murphy said, adding, “She was a touchstone, a beacon I followed my entire life.”</p>

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