Christina Grimmie: Thousands of Fans Donate to GoFundMe Campaign For Slain Singer"s Family

On Friday night, The Voice contestant Christina Grimmie was shot and killed while greeting fans following a concert in Orlando.

She was just 22 years old.

Members of Christina’s family have shared their grief in heartbreaking social media messages, and while nothing can heal the wounds of such a senseless tragedy, they can hopefully find some comfort in the fact that their loss is shared by fans from all corners of the globe.

In addition to her prodigious talent, Christina connected with millions through her tremendous energy and spirit, and when the opportunity arose to show her family how much of an impact the singer made in her brief time on Earth, fans answered the call en masse.

Christina’s manager, Brian Teefey, created a GoFundMe page to support the Grimmie family in this dark time.

The goal was to raise $ 4,000 to help them cover funeral expenses. 

That goal was reached within minutes of the page going live, but the outpouring of support didn’t stop there.

At this point, less than 48 hours since the campaign began, over 4,500 fans have raised nearly $ 170,000.

Teefey, who had worked with Grimmie from the very start of her career, posted the following message on the page:

“Words cannot begin to describe the pain I am feeling. I learned this business through the eyes of a father and Christina was like a second daughter to me.

“All I wanted to do was assist her in achieving her musical dreams while protecting her from the pitfalls associated with the business.

“I never could have imagined this horrific event being one of the pitfalls needing to be avoided. In Christina’s honor I have created a Go Fund Me page to assist her family in their time of need.

“As family Mother, Father, and Brother made the ultimate family sacrifice to support Christina on her musical journey. They did nothing but love her and support her as family the best they knew how, the only worry I want them to have at this point is that of recovery.”

Click here to donate to the Grimmie family.

Stephanie Seymour: Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid are Cool, But Supermodels They Are Not

Alrighty!

Stephanie Seymour, one of the legendary supermodels to emerge from the 1990s, was asked by Vanity Fair to describe this generation’s crop of pretty young things.

“Bitches of the moment!” she joked.

“Supermodels are sort of the thing of the past. They deserve their own title,” Seymour said diplomatically.

“[Kendall and Gigi] are beautiful girls, and I support all of them, but they need their own title.

“They are completely different than we were,” Seymour explained, referring to her contemporaries Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer, Helena Christenson, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford.

View Slideshow: Gigi Hadid: 2015 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show

“Modeling was more of a mysterious back then.  The talent could get weird with super-rich men, do tons of drugs and get away with so much more because reality TV and social media didn’t exist.

Unfortunately, those two things are largely responsible for Jenner and Hadid’s careers.

“Because there weren’t cameras around us all the time, we got away with so much more and had so much more fun,” Seymour said.

“We didn’t have people watching us all the time, and we weren’t putting ourselves out there in a way that was turning the media against us or for us in any way.

“We still had our privacy, and there was more of an illusion behind the girls. You lose your illusion when you give much of yourself away, and that’s what I don’t like about it.”

Rebecca Romijn was a bit more critical in describing how much the world of modeling has changed.

I know a lot of people — legitimate fashion people — can’t stand it,” Romijn told Entertainment Tonight.

“Hate it that these, you know, social media stars are now the supermodels in fashion. They are not true supermodels.”

The same could be said for models trying to become actresses, Madame Romijn…

Stephanie Seymour: Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid are Cool, But Supermodels They Are Not

Alrighty!

Stephanie Seymour, one of the legendary supermodels to emerge from the 1990s, was asked by Vanity Fair to describe this generation’s crop of pretty young things.

“Bitches of the moment!” she joked.

“Supermodels are sort of the thing of the past. They deserve their own title,” Seymour said diplomatically.

“[Kendall and Gigi] are beautiful girls, and I support all of them, but they need their own title.

“They are completely different than we were,” Seymour explained, referring to her contemporaries Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer, Helena Christenson, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford.

View Slideshow: Gigi Hadid: 2015 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show

“Modeling was more of a mysterious back then.  The talent could get weird with super-rich men, do tons of drugs and get away with so much more because reality TV and social media didn’t exist.

Unfortunately, those two things are largely responsible for Jenner and Hadid’s careers.

“Because there weren’t cameras around us all the time, we got away with so much more and had so much more fun,” Seymour said.

“We didn’t have people watching us all the time, and we weren’t putting ourselves out there in a way that was turning the media against us or for us in any way.

“We still had our privacy, and there was more of an illusion behind the girls. You lose your illusion when you give much of yourself away, and that’s what I don’t like about it.”

Rebecca Romijn was a bit more critical in describing how much the world of modeling has changed.

I know a lot of people — legitimate fashion people — can’t stand it,” Romijn told Entertainment Tonight.

“Hate it that these, you know, social media stars are now the supermodels in fashion. They are not true supermodels.”

The same could be said for models trying to become actresses, Madame Romijn…

Louis C.K. Finally Addresses Sexual Assault Allegations

In May of 2015, comedian Louis C.K. was the subject of some appalling accusations regarding his behavior toward young female comics.

A male stand-up who was identified only as “Jason” informed Gawker that after hearing numerous accounts of C.K. sexually harassing the women he crossed paths with in a professional context, he decided to take the matter up with revered comic directly:

Jason says he sent C.K. an email reading, “Hey could you please stop sexually assaulting female comics? It’s really uncomfortable to have to ask your hero to stop taking his penis out in front of uninterested and frightened girls, but such is life.”

He says C.K. responded within minutes asking Jason for his phone number so that the two of them could discuss the matter.

During the conversation, Jason claims, C.K. offered nothing in the way of defense or clarification, and instead seemed to be “sizing up” his disillusioned fan to see if he was the type who would go to the press.

Shortly after that story went public, comedian Jen Kirkman told a tale about a fellow who sounded very much like C.K. – and whose harassment of women had apparently become something of an open secret in certain circles:

“He’s a known perv,” Kirkman said on her podcast.

“And there’s a lockdown on talking about him. His guy friends are standing by him, and you cannot say a bad thing about him.”

Amidst speculation that she was referring to C.K., Kirkman deleted her podcast and stated that she won’t discuss the matter any further.

For obvious reasons, many took her actions as confirmation that she was indeed outing C.K. as a sexual predator.

The scandal quickly disappeared from tabloids, and C.K. never talked about it in interviews – until this week.

Asked about the allegations in a recent interview with Vulture, C.K. had this to say:

“Well, you can’t touch stuff like that. There’s one more thing I want to say about this, and it’s important: If you need your public profile to be all positive, you’re sick in the head.

“I do the work I do, and what happens next I can’t look after. So my thing is that I try to speak to the work whenever I can. Just to the work and not to my life.”

As many have pointed out, that’s not exactly a denial.

Obviously it’s far from a confession, but more and more, the situation is reminding us of the slow unraveling of another beloved comic’s reputation …

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