More than 30 wealthy, well-connected, and/or famous parents were charged in the biggest college admissions scam in American history. The list of defendants is resplendent with celebrities and moguls in the entertainment industry, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.

According to court filings, these individuals were alleged to have paid massive bribes, ranging from $100,000 to $6.5 million, to get their children admitted to prestigious academic institutions such as Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, USC, etc.

Celebrities Ordered to Serve Time in Jail

The aforementioned actress Felicity Huffman, famous for her role on the television program “Desperate Housewives”, was ordered to serve 14 days in prison, one year of probation, perform 250 hours of community service and pay a $30,000 fine as part of her criminal sentence, which was handed down in federal court. Huffman pled guilty to paying $15,000 to have her eldest daughter’s SAT score falsified so she could get into a prestigious university. Huffman reportedly masked the $15,000 as a charitable donation for disadvantaged young people, according to Insider.com.

Additional Charges Filed Against Celebrities Fighting the Allegations

It appears prosecutors offered lenient sentences to the parents who agreed to enter guilty pleas in this matter. The parents who are fighting the criminal charges, which include actress Lori Loughlin, famous for her role on “Full House” and “Fuller House,” are facing harsher penalties and additional criminal charges, including conspiracy to commit federal program bribery. If convicted on all of the charges filed, Loughlin could potentially be ordered to serve up to 40 years in prison.

Scope of the Scam

Federal law enforcement officials, when they learned of these bribes opened an investigation titled “Operation Varsity Blues,” a reference to the popular 1999 film about a high school football team in Texas. The investigation, which lasted a year, included an array of different investigative techniques, including the use of wiretaps, undercover operatives and a team of agents employed by the FBI and IRS.

Investigators detailed a scandal that perverted much of the admissions process for America’s elite colleges. Unlike most other SAT cheating cases, the scheme reached deep into the academy, implicating officials who allegedly subverted the missions of the universities themselves.

The government stated it has evidence that defendants paid close to $25 million in bribes to coaches and test administrators between 2011 and 2018. In some instances, the bribes would be disguised as charitable contributions, according to Bloomberg News.

According to federal prosecutors, the admissions scam had two major components – (1) bribing coaches to recommend admission for students whose academic performance was below average for a university and (2) bribing college exam proctors to help students cheat on admissions tests by allowing professional test-takers attend the exam or provide students the answers to the exam.

Bribery Charges are No Joke

As you can see, being charged with alleged bribery is quite serious. Whether you reside in California, New York, or Nevada, a conviction for bribery could result in you having to serve years in prison. For example, bribery is categorized as a Category C felony in Nevada . If convicted, a defendant can be ordered to serve between 1 and 5 years in a Nevada prison and have to pay up to $10,000 in fines. In addition to state bribery charges, there are also federal bribery charges that can be filed under United States Code § 201, among other federal criminal statutes.

Hair loss is common in men and women and about half population in the world can suffer from abnormal hair loss at some point in their life. 

If we do not take necessary measures in a timely manner, a large number of hairs get lost and bald areas develop in the scalp. Hair transplant is the only option that restores hair growth on bald areas. 

This article discusses female celebrities that have had hair transplants. If you want to know the celebrities who believe in hair transplant, this topic is for you.

Hair Transplant is a Growing Trend in Celebrities

Losing hair is common in all over the world and about the half population in the world can suffer from abnormal hair loss at some point in their life. 

You already know that celebrities are also human beings just like us and they also suffer from hair loss due to different reasons. 

A growing number of celebrities have started to undergo hair restoration surgeries to restore hair growth. Here, we are going to discuss authentic hair transplant cases. 

Female Celebrities that have had Hair Transplants 

A number of female celebrities around the world have tried hair loss and their results are good so far. Though most celebrities do not admit to it, some of them have made their hair transplant experience public. Let’s see some notable figures who have had hair transplant in the past. 

Naomi Campbell

You may already be familiar with Naomi Campbell who is a famous American model. It is known to many that she has been struggling with traction alopecia for several years. This illness took a toll in 2014 and people were able to see it in her picture. It was then when people started to discuss it and point it out. 

Due to gossip on the internet and chatter around her, she seriously becomes concerned and stressed about this problem. That was the time when she considered different options to restore hair growth. Her hair transplant came to light when people saw here wearing a head wrap in a formal event in 2016.

Fergie Duhamel

Fergie-Duhamel

Our very own Fergie is also believed to have undergone hair transplant in the past. She is known as the frontwoman of the Black Eyed Peas and a solo star of her own. She has been dealing with thinning hair for quite some time until she made mind to take hair restoration surgery. 

One of the reasons for her hair loss was to routinely wear hair extensions for performances. A busy start like Fergie feels it quite hard to handle such kind of problem and that is why she decided to put an end to it as soon as possible. Before she faces more problem, she took hair transplant and she is happy with the results. 

Jennifer Aniston

You might have heard of or watched American TV series ‘friends.’ If yes, may also have watched or heard of Jennifer Aniston. She was the lead role and her hairstyle was a great hit. A large number of women at that time also adopted that hairstyle due to its unique appearance; you know what, this haircut was named after her (“The Rachel”). People still have this hairstyle. 

Some experts are of the view that this legendary hairstyle caused damage to Jennifer Aniston’s hair. It is due to the reason that hair extensions these popular actresses wore on set eventually took their toll on them. Actually, hair extensions pull hair and hair may become weaker as a result. So Jennifer Aniston developed bald patched in the scalp due to hair extensions. 

She overcame this problem by taking a hair transplant. Her hair is still fine and she is enjoying the benefits of hair restoration surgery. 

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

Most of the people who use the internet and watch TV know Oprah Winfrey. She is a notable TV personality and philanthropist who has got fans from across the globe. She has been on TV for decades and we have seen her changing different hairstyles. But the story does not end here. 

No one of us has ever noticed that she has had a hair transplant. Yes, she has had hair transplant due to hair thinning and baldness problems. In the start, she hid her hair loss problem but she opened up at a later stage. When this problem took a toll on her, she decided to undergo hair transplant surgery. 

Celebrity Hair Transplant: Concluding Remarks 

This article discussed female celebrities that have had hair transplants. If you want to know the celebrities who believe in hair transplant, this topic might have helped you.

In the end, we can say that hair transplant is a good option to restore hair growth in bald areas. 

A hair restoration expert can guide you further if you need more information about this topic. Contact the nearest doctor with a list of question and learn more about your hair loss.

Read More: Apply These 10 Secret Techniques To Stop Hair Loss

Just about three months ago, the California tech-giant was enjoying a smooth ride with profits coming in, constantly; considering the fact that it was also the most valued company on the planet, last year. But since October 2018, the freefall of its revenues has generated a lot of ‘negative buzz’ among the analysts, the investors, the consumers, and also those who are the admirers of Apple Inc. in one or the other ways.

Apple has so far lost $450 billion of revenue since October, which is more than even the ‘overall value of social networking giant Facebook’. The total value of Facebook is about $383.76 billion. Well, FB’s total worth is also more than the total GDP of some countries like Iran, Norway, and Austria!

Now, you can imagine how big the loss is for Apple, even taking into account that it’s still got a lot of money and will probably make up for the losses very soon.

On Thursday, the iPhone maker’s stocks fell by 9.96%.

Way back, three months ago, on October 3^rd, 2018, when Apple hit a peak of $232.07 per share, it gained a market cap of $1.16 trillion. But now, it just dropped to a low of about $142.19 per share (new results may vary from the article’s figures), clearing out a massive amount of $450 billion from its revenue. And on Thursday, January 3^rd, Apple’s market cap was standing at $710.97 billion, as per the reports of Macrotrends.

And now Apple has also lost its position as world’s third most valuable company to Google’s Alphabet.

Apple has been struggling to maintain its aura for a while now and many experts are saying that to boost the revenues further and by a large number, Apple should also try to enter the budget-flagship or budget range of smartphones, as per the current trend. But that, for now, seems unlikely since Apple is a luxury phone making brand and always keeps the priority very high for the value of its products.

But it needs to understand the changing scenario in the markets currently, across the globe. If it keeps going like this then brands like OnePlus and Xiaomi will eventually end up becoming the true ‘smartphone profit makers’.

It looks like a state of a ‘slight’ emergency for Tim Cook and his team to sustain the company’s growth, just like it was moving three months ago.

Even the famous tech YouTube channel Unbox Therapy also came up with a video recently, discussing how Apple should move ahead if it has to live up to the fast-growing trends. Lewis Hilsenteger, who runs the channel, also talked about Apple’s recent decision to make the iPhones in India, in 2019.
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Source: Business Insider

2018 was a fantastic year for movies and TV. This is the year that gave us Infinity War, Black Panther, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and that’s just looking at some of the good Marvel movies released this year. On the TV side, we got The Haunting of Hill House, Netflix’s weird sci-fi show Maniac, and many more instant classics.

But that pendulum swings the other way, too. For all the great entertainment in 2018, there were also plenty that didn’t live up to the standards we expected. These were movies and shows that we were excited for – however tentatively – and that turned out to be huge let-downs.

Here is the list of 15 shows and films that did not live up to the expectations of the viewers and were somewhat big – or small – disappointments.

1. Jessica Jones Season 2

Jessica Jones Season 2

The first season of Netflix and Marvel’s Jessica Jones was easily one of the best examples of the collaboration between the streaming and comics giants, possibly even the best of all these shows. We were excited about Season 2, right up until the point we actually watched it.

Well, trying to do a Marvel superhero story without an actual villain is a bold idea that could have paid off. Unfortunately, it simply didn’t in this case. The season’s main plotline and massive twist was ruined by bad casting as Janet McTeer and Krysten Ritter had absolutely zero chemistry as alleged family members. And every storyline was a total bore. Unlike the other Marvel/Netflix shows, Jessica Jones hasn’t been cancelled yet, but we hope that will likely change soon.

2. American Horror Story Apocalypse

American Horror Story Apocalypse

The eighth season of American Horror Story had a great premise: Not only was it the end of the world, but it also promised to finally tie events from the show’s previous seasons together, from the original Murder House to Coven and beyond. It even got off to a promising start, as the first couple of episodes of Apocalypse set up plenty of mysteries we couldn’t wait to learn the answers to.

But after those opening episodes, Apocalypse took a wrong turn. Yes, it felt like a fun twist at the time, but the following episodes proved disappointing week after week. The show started providing answers, but they weren’t the ones we wanted. It spent a half dozen episodes in flashbacks and the all the actions we wanted came to long after. By the time Roseanne star Sandra Bernhard joined the cast for a terribly cheesy turn as a Satanic cult leader, I was done with this season of American Horror Story. Weren’t you?

3. Venom

Venom

Seeing a Marvel movie on the list is really surprising. Even I was while writing. But, it happened. Venom is a movie that feels like it was written in 1998 by a 7-year-old, then buried in a time capsule, unearthed 19 years later, and made into a movie without a single revision to the draft. It is truly a movie from another time, and all that’s missing is someone doing a kick flip over a set of steps while Korn plays in the background. From Tom Hardy’s accent choices, to the movie turning into an over-the-top action flick where the final battle is filled with muddied CG, those who were looking for a great Sony spin-off movie found themselves a bit disappointed, even though this movie made $800 million, worldwide.

As for the story, it went a number of directions, many of which could have been a good movie of their own. Eddie Brock working as a journalist and ruining his girlfriend’s career: it’s okay. Brock trying to rebuild his life and take down the Life Foundation: even it is okay. Brock losing his mind when the Venom symbiont is taking over, creating a horror aesthetic: it is okay too. Wacky buddy cop movie starring Eddie Brock as the fall guy covered in black oil that talks funny and wants to eat livers: this is not okay, Venom. The weird comedic choices this movie made killed it for so many viewers. Why does Venom need comedy?

However, with the announcement of the home release of the movie, fans of the Venom character were desperately hoping for the rated-R cut of the movie. However, upon its release, fans got three deleted scenes, some behind-the-scenes footage, and that’s about it. As much as we wanted an extended scene of Woody Harrelson in a red wig, this wasn’t what the people wanted to see. Venom is one of the few movies in 2018 that disappointed people twice.

4. The Predator

The Predator

The original Predator is unquestionably an ‘80s classic as it combined sci-fi horror thrills and exciting action, and helped make Arnold Schwarzenegger one of the biggest stars in the world. But unlike the Alien or Terminator series, the quality drop from that first movie was fast, and none of the following films were anywhere near as good as the first. So expectations for a new Predator movie in 2018 should not have been high. But the fact that Shane Black was on board to write and direct suddenly raised hopes that he might actually deliver something to equal the first movie. What would the writer of Lethal Weapon and the director of Iron Man 3 do with this series?

Unfortunately, as it turns out, not very much. The Predator was just as mediocre as its predecessors, and was badly hurt by extensive reshoots and incoherent editing, as well as the controversy about certain casting choices that Black had made. The Predator has its moments—the cast is good, there are some funny scenes, and some of the early action is exciting. But the film gets worse as it continues, and emerges as what we should have guessed it would be all along—yet another not-very-good Predator movie. Time to skin this franchise and hang it upside-down for good.

5. Westworld Season 2

Westworld Season 2

Westworld Season 1 was easily one of the best seasons of sci-fi TV ever, which made our hype levels for Season 2 off the charts—maybe even a little too high. Maybe there’s a parallel universe where Westworld Season 2 lived up to our expectations, but that proved impossible in this one.

Where Season 1 was a carefully plotted, well-paced exploration of well-trod science fiction themes, Season 2 was a total mess in comparison. The tone was uniformly grim, the characters we used to like were unrecognizable, the plot was muddled beyond comprehension, and important details were withheld for no reason other than to string viewers along. The show’s creators must have been mad at the Redditors who guessed all the twists in Season 1, because Season 2 seemed designed mostly to befuddle the show’s most dedicated fans. By the time it reached its conclusion, we didn’t want to know the answers anymore—we just wanted it to be over. Right?

6. Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald

In The Crimes of Grindelwald’s third scene, a character who we never learn anything about despite her constant presence throughout the entire movie murders a toddler, for no reason, just off screen. Even Michael Myers, famed slasher movie villain of the Halloween series, didn’t sink that low, although you could tell in the most recent one that he considered it for a moment.

This moment perfectly sets the tone for the rest of this movie: a grim, overly dramatic, mean-spirited entry into the Harry Potter universe. Fantastic Beasts 2 can accurately be described as a loosely connected series of mostly sequential events, though it’s often unclear how it gets from one scene to the next or why the characters do any of the things they do. Maybe worst of all, The Crimes of Grindelwald has no sense of wonder at its own magical world. Millions fell in love with Harry Potter because the wizarding world felt like a place you’d want to live, despite its bad elements. Inhabiting this movie’s magical alternate history for a couple of hours will just make you want to get obliviated so you can forget the whole thing.

7. The Cloverfield Paradox

The Cloverfield Paradox

The Cloverfield Paradox starts out riffing on the early structure of movies like Alien and The Thing, with some cursory efforts to establish personalities and relationships for its half dozen or so characters. They’re all basically interchangeable by the end, and you’ll be hard pressed to remember most of their names by the time the credits roll. But the movie really starts to fall apart once the crew activate the particle accelerator—a poorly explained attempt to solve an energy crisis back on Earth—and find themselves suddenly staring at a star-filled void where the Earth used to be.

There are some memorable moments early on, like when a mysterious stranger arrives on the station by apparently teleporting into the interior of a wall, wires and power conduits spliced through her hands and legs like vines that grew through her. The movie’s few moments of body horror—like another scene involving a character’s eyeball—are its high points. But The Cloverfield Paradox quickly devolves into total camp nonsense from there on out, and it never recovers any of its early poise. After 10 Cloverfield Lane, we were excited to see where the Cloverfield universe would expand next, but no longer.

8. Pacific Rim Uprising

Pacific Rim Uprising

There was something magical about the original Pacific Rim’s giant monster battles, glossy, rain-slicked colours, and seemingly effortless world-building. It’s possible the sequel never stood a chance at living up to that, especially since visionary director Guillermo del Toro chose to focus on The Shape of Water, which won the best picture Oscar for 2017, instead of returning to direct Pacific Rim Uprising. And sure enough, Uprising was a disappointment.

Most of all, Pacific Rim: Uprising is just confusing. If you haven’t seen the original, it’s unlikely much in this sequel will make sense. Concepts like Drift—the way Jaeger pilots mentally link with one another—are poorly explained, despite this movie spending plenty of time attempting to recap and revisit past events. And if you did like the first Pacific Rim, you’ll likely wonder what happened to all the distinctive side characters, the stylish action, and the flashy aesthetic. Pacific Rim: Uprising might have seemed like a pretty good giant monster movie if it didn’t have to live up to the gigantically cool original, but unfortunately, it simply can’t escape its predecessor’s massive shadow.

9. Solo: A Star Wars Story

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Solo: A Star Wars Story made nearly $400 million at the box office. But in the franchise era, when film companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make hundreds of millions more, this was considered a box office flop, especially against the film’s $250 million budget.

Yes, Solo was poorly marketed; it came out five months after The Last Jedi, which prevented it from building steam. But Solo’s failure also confirmed a problem that was present in the prequel trilogy and present in Rogue One: We do not need answers and backstories to the most granular details of the original trilogy. They’re better left to the imagination.

We don’t need 30 minutes of CGI to explain why the Kessel Run is important. We don’t need to learn how Han got his dice, or how Han got his blaster. These things lose their mystery and their specialness when they’re over explained, and they cheapen rather than enrich the source material. Nostalgia is a poor substitute for narrative, as Solo unfortunately demonstrated.

10. WWE (All Rosters)

WWE (All Rosters)

The year started off well for the WWE as there was a wonderful Royal Rumble, followed by a fantastic WrestleMania. But history will remember 2018 as the year that WWE got caught with their pants down. They put dollars over ethics with their ongoing Saudi Arabia partnership. And when their top star, Roman Reigns, relinquished the Universal Championship to fight a recurring battle with leukaemia, WWE hit the panic button and put the belt back on Brock Lesnar, a part-time, rarely-seen-on-TV champion. This is what happens when you’re too singularly focused on a single wrestler, to the rest of the roster’s detriment. No one is ready to step up.

SmackDown is consistent. Developmental league NXT remains consistently brilliant. And the women’s roster, with Becky Lynch and Ronda Rousey at the forefront, is firing on all cylinders; they’ll probably main event WrestleMania in 2019. At least they should.

But across the board, the men’s division needs better writers and more compelling reasons to fight one another. Monday Night Raw, in particular, is going through a rough patch, running an “evil Authority” playbook that the company has copied, ad nauseam, since 1998. The ring work is phenomenal – better than it’s ever been – but the narrative stakes feel low. And these performers, who risk their lives for our entertainment, deserve better.

These were the biggest disappointments in the entertainment of 2018. I know not all shows and films on the list are bad – at least according to many of you – but these lacked something and hence are on the list. Think yourself

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With a new year comes new titles to stream on Netflix. The third season of the Netflix original A Series of Unfortunate Events will drop Jan. 1, while Grace and Frankie, Friends From College, Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, Call My Agent! And Club de Cuervos will all return for new seasons in January. Additionally, part two of the fourth and final season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt will be released Jan. 25.

A number of original films will hit Netflix throughout the month, including Black Earth Rising, And Breathe Normally, Lionheart, Justice, The Last Laugh and When Heroes Fly. Following the success of the true crime docuseries. Making a Murderer, the streaming service will debut Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes on Jan. 24.

On the film side, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Jersey Boys, The Dark Knight, Pulp Fiction, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp and Disney-Pixar’s The Incredibles 2 are among the titles that will be added to Netflix in January. Shows like American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace and the fifth (and final) season of Z Nation will join the streaming service’s library.

Here is the complete list of films and shows coming to Netflix in January, below.

January 1

• Photofest

• Across the Universe

• The Addams Family

• A Series of Unfortunate Events: Season 3

• Babel

• Black Hawk Down

• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

• City of God

• Comedians of the world

• The Dark Knight

• Definitely, Maybe

• The Departed

• Godzilla

• Happy Feet

• Hell or High Water

• I Know What You Did Last Summer

• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

• Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

• It Takes Two

• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

• Jersey Boys

• Mona Lisa Smile

• Mr. Bean’s Holiday

• The Mummy

• The Mummy Returns

• Pan’s Labyrinth

• Pinky Malinky

• Pulp Fiction

• The Strangers

• Swingers

• Tears of the Sun

• Tidying Up With Marie Kondo

• Watchmen

• XXX: State of the Union

January 2

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail

January 4

• Courtesy of TIFF

• And Breathe Normally

• Call My Agent!: Season 3

• El Potro: Unstoppable

• Lionheart

January 9

• Courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

• Godzilla: The Planet Eater

• Solo: A Star Wars Story

January 10

• When Heroes Fly

January 11

• Friends From College: Season 2

• ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium

• Sex Education

• Solo

• The Last Laugh

January 15

• Revenger

• Sebastian Maniscalco: Stay Hungry

January 16

• American Gangster

January 17

• Patrick Harbron/FX

• American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace

January 18

• Melissa Moseley/Netflix

• Carmen Sandiego

• Close

• Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened

• Girl

• Grace and Frankie: Season 5

• IO

• Soni

• Trigger Warning Wth Killer Mike

• Trolls: The Beat Goes On!: Season 5

• The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes: Season 2 Part B

January 21

• Justice

January 24

• Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes

• Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

January 25

• Animas

• Black Earth Rising

• Club de Cuervos: Season 4

• Kingdom

• Medici: The Magnificent

• Polar

• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season 4 Part 2

January 27

• Z Nation: Season 5

January 29

• Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias: One Show Fits All

• Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp

January 30

• Screengrab/Disney Pixar

• Disney-Pixar’s The Incredibles 2