Author: Starcasm Staff

The true story of The Good Father: Michele MacNeill Murder

Lifetime’s latest true crime movie adaptation, The Good Father is about the April 11, 2007 murder of Michele MacNeill. 50-year-old Michele had gotten some plastic surgery, and had no idea that her doctor husband Martin MacNeill was plotting to use her medications to kill her. He almost got away with it as the coroner originally ruled her death as natural from heart disease. Later the toxicology report, which the family had to fight to get, revealed the truth: the medications in Michele’s bloodstream had stopped her heart. As time goes on, more horrible truths were uncovered about Martin MacNeill, who was anything but a “good father.”

REEL LIFE Erin Brockovich was extorted by her boyfriend “George” in real life

In the 2000 movie Erin Brockovich, the main character finds love with a biker neighbor named George who, honestly, had a number of red flags (like his eagerness to take care of her young kids as a stranger.) In real life, their love didn’t have a happy ending. The man who the movie love interest was based on, Jorg Halaby, joined forces with her ex-husband Shawn Brown to try to extort money from her boss at the time: lawyer Ed Masry.

What Brazilian soccer player Hulk’s ex-wife thinks of him having a baby with her niece

Two years ago Brazilian soccer player Givanildo V. De Sousa, who goes by the nickname “Hulk,” started dating his ex-wife’s niece just a few months after their divorce. Now 35-year-old Hulk and his 32-year-old former niece-in-law Camila are expecting a child together, who will be both a sibling and cousin to Hulk’s three children with his ex-wife. What does his ex-wife think about all of this?

RHOBH Is Tom Girardi in a nursing home? Where is his family?

On Wednesday night’s Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Erika Girardi revealed that Tom Girardi’s family wanted to put him in an assisted living facility, what is colloquially referred to as a “nursing home.” She says she read about this in the news, and doesn’t want Tom’s family to place him in this type of care. She even accuses his family of abandoning him to avoid “the stain” of the lawsuits and scandals he’s mired in. Tom had since been photographed outside of an assisted living facility.

MLMs The True Story of How LuLaRoe Started

The highly controversial LuLaRoe multi-level marketing company clothing company started in 2012, but the roots of the company date back to 1988 when DeAnne Stidham was a mom on a budget looking for fashionable clothes for her little girls.

DeAnne is now the president of LuLaRoe and her husband Mark Stidham is the CEO of the large company that has been sued dozens of times over potentially predatory practices. The couple sat down for an interview for what became the documentary LuLaRich, which is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. During the interview, they told the story about how LuLaRoe came to be what it is today.