Rosie O'Donnell Sells Star Island Ganja House For $12.675M
Rosie O’Donnell has sold her Star Island hacienda - the house that used to be the HQ of the Ganja fueled Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church, the house with the gorgeous banyan tree in the front yard, the house next door to all that crazy Real Housewife/boob god/preservationist drama - for $12,675,000, significantly under the original ask of almost $20 mill.
Random Pixels: The way we were….The Zion Coptic Mansion on Star Island
Carl Hiaasen in today’s Wall Street Journal: “The great thing about Florida is usually the crooked public servants are really stupid.”
Jorge “Rivi” Ayala back in Miami, awaiting a hearing for a reduced sentence. #CocaineCowboys
Thanks @BlueCollarMiami for the feast!
We helped the Borscht gang produce this 2012 Sundance short:
A modern Miami adaptation of the 1962 French short film ‘La Jetee’, the film recounts Luke’s (Uncle Luke, legendary rapper from the hip-hop group 2 Live Crew) rise to fame as he changes the face of hip-hop and fights for first amendment rights- and later as he ushers Miami into a golden era of peace and prosperity as Mayor. Everything changes when the Turkey Point Nuclear Reactor has a meltdown and turns Miami into a post-apocayptic wasteland.
Billy Corben and Tommy Hilfiger at The Tanning Of America shoot.
After 25 years in prison, Cocaine Cowboys hitman Jorge “Rivi” Ayala is asking a judge to set him free.
After 25 years in prison, Cocaine Cowboys hitman wants reduced sentence (Miami Herald)
Cocaine Cowboys hitman Jorge Ayala, suspected of 35 drug slayings and convicted in three, wants out of prison.
Ayala, whose penchant for dirty talk with secretaries dealt a damaging blow to the prosecution of Miami drug kingpin Griselda Blanco, is asking a judge to reduce his life prison term because of his “substantial” cooperation with law enforcement in the 1980s.
An “evidentiary” hearing will likely be scheduled in the next several months. If released, Ayala would be deported to Colombia.
Mike Dee, meet Mike D: Beastie Boys/Miami Dolphins Mashup (via WLRN)
“My name is Mike Dee and I’m about to get money”
Forget Pain & Gain: Ten Other Real-Life Miami Capers That Should Be Made Into Movies (Miami New Times)
Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta’s Cocaine Empire
Cue the humble beginnings, with a pair of friends dropping out of Miami Beach High School together, and flash to the pair at the top of their game, when they amassed more than $2 billion by smuggling 75-plus pounds of coke to the U.S. at the height of the Cocaine Cowboys era. Just to top it off, once the feds finally moved in, the pair mounted one of the most astounding legal defenses in history to avoid jail time for years. Legal thriller, drug smuggling romp, buddy comedy — it’s all there. The story’s so boss the boys at Rakontur are already working up Willy and Sal’s tale for Cocaine Cowboys 3.
Mark Wahlberg on Cocaine Cowboys (Miami New Times)
Are you still moving forward with your Cocaine Cowboys movie?
Yeah, Bill Monahan, who wrote The Departed, is working on a script right now. I am very excited about it. He is one of the best writers I have ever worked with. He’s watched the documentary and read [the late cocaine smuggler] John Roberts’ book. Bill has been following John’s path, which led him to Miami. I am really excited about it.Are you excited about playing John Roberts?
Yeah, absolutely. I want to find someone great to play Mickey Munday. It is a fascinating story.Did you get to meet John before he died?
Yeah.What was your impression of him?
He was just raw. For me, the world I come from, I have been around a lot of people who have done a lot of bad things. I try not to judge them based on that. What I get from them is a sense of what kind of person they really are. John was a real hard-core dude.
We Like
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coca
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Spray the whole table
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Passed up Ultra for Overtown Music Project instead (at Jackson Soul Food)
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The last time @CanesHoops squared off with UNC
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The GodMother
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Throw it Up !
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happy 47th birthday to No. 47, the Playmaker, Michael Irvin
