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■ Former DonaldTrump adviser Kellyanne Conway and her never-Trump husband, George, are “in the final stages of an amicable divorce” after 22 years of marriage, they announced last week. Kellyanne, 56, served asTrump’s campaign manager in 2016 and held a senior role in the White House, while George, 59, an attorney and Republican fundraiser, became one of Trump’s most prominent and relentless conservative critics, calling the 45th president “racist” and mentally ill.Trump labeled George a “husband from hell.” In a 2022 memoir, Kellyanne said she considered George’s attacks on her boss a betrayal of their marriage, accusing him of “cheating by tweeting.” In August 2020, one of their four children posted about her parents’ turmoil on social media, and shortly afterward, Kellyanne left the White House and George left his antiTrump group, the Lincoln Project, so they could spend more time with their children.
■ Yoko Ono is leaving New York City to live out her life at her upstate farm, multiple news outlets reported last week. Ono, 90, has spent 50 years living in the Dakota on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where she and her husband, John Lennon, became two of the city’s most famous residents. He was shot dead outside the luxury cooperative apartment building in 1980.The Japanese artist and the British pop icon also owned a 600-acre dairy farm in the small town of Franklin, N.Y., where Ono began spending most of her time at the outset of the Covid pandemic. Wheelchair-bound in recent years, Ono reportedly now lives “a peaceful life” out of the spotlight.
■ Vanessa Bryant has agreed to a $28.85 million settlement with Los Angeles County over grisly photos shared by firefighters and sheriff’s deputies of her husband’s and daughter’s remains at the site of a 2020 helicopter crash. Retired NBA star Kobe Bryant and 13-yearold daughter Gianna were traveling to a youth basketball game when the helicopter hit a hillside in heavy fog, killing them and seven others. First responders took photos they shared among other deputies and firefighters, their families, and a bartender.The settlement includes the $15 million awarded to Bryant after a jury trial.