Ex-boyfriend takes to the attic, and more
A South Carolina woman was shocked to find her ex-boyfriend living in her attic, 12 years after they broke up.
Ex-boyfriend takes to the attic
A South Carolina woman was shocked to find her ex-boyfriend living in her attic, 12 years after they broke up. The woman, identified only as Tracy, says she heard persistent noises in her attic for weeks, leading her to suspect that “there was some poltergeist stuff going on.” She sent her nephew upstairs to investigate, and he discovered her ex sleeping in a heating vent. “I was flabbergasted,” said Tracy. The man calmly left the property and remains at large.
Does O.J. Simpson have a new daughter?
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O.J. Simpson thinks Khloe Kardashian is his daughter and has added her as a beneficiary in his will, says the National Enquirer. The jailed former football player, 65, believes he fathered Khloe during a 1983 affair with her mother, Kris Jenner, when she was married to his friend and attorney, Robert Kardashian. Sources say Simpson wants to “do the right thing” by the 28-year-old reality star, and rewrote his will. Though he’s supposedly broke, Simpson is believed to have hidden $2 million in a Cayman Islands account, and his four other children are apparently now “furious” that they “have to share the wealth with a complete stranger.”
All in a day's work
An Oklahoma man sentenced to jail on a gun charge was married by the same judge a few minutes later. After receiving his four-year sentence from Judge Jerry Bass, Larry Austin, 29, obtained a marriage license in the same building, then returned to Judge Bass’s courtroom to marry longtime girlfriend Dustie Trojack. He then went to jail. Bass said that while the sequence of events was unprecedented in his 14 years on the bench, “it’s what we do as judges. We conduct legal business.”
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