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  • Al Sharpton Friend Accused of Assault After Party

    Al Sharpton’s friend–an as-yet unnamed woman–was allegedly raped in the hours following a celebration for Sharpton’s 60th birthday. Another of Sharpton’s friends–Attorney Sanford Rubenstein–is presently under investigation by the New York Police Department with regard to the rape.

    The New York Post reports that Rubestein allegedly attacked the woman in his East Side penthouse after both of them attended Al Sharpton’s birthday party.

    A source from the NYPD tells the publication that the woman–the alleged victim–is a Manhattan executive in her forties. She reportedly resides in Brooklyn.

    Al Sharpton’s birthday party included distinguished guests like New York’s Governor Cuomo, as well as celebrities like Spike Lee and Aretha Franklin. The alleged victim is said to have attended the party with another woman. At some point after the party for the acclaimed civil rights leader, both women reportedly accompanied Sanford Rubenstein to his home, where they had drinks. The second woman left at some point during the evening.

    “The next thing she knows, it’s Thursday morning, and she wakes up naked in his bed,” a NYPD source told the New York Post of the alleged victim. The source went on to explain that the
    alleged victim was bleeding from the sexual contact during the incident. When the bleeding continued into Friday she sought medical attention at Methodist Hospital. Hospital officials determined she had been sexually assaulted. They were the ones who called authorities. The woman has little to no recollection about what happened at Rubenstein’s home.

    Al Sharpton and Sanford Rubenstein have known one another for years. Rubenstein hosted a party for Sharpton back in 2001 following his hunger strike in prison.

    “I know him, I know her,” Al Sharpton said Saturday night regarding this investigation that now has him in the middle between two friends.

    “But how can I know what happened at somebody’s residence ­after my party?” he asked.

    Sanford Rubenstein has yet to be charged with anything regarding this case.

    This is no doubt extremely perplexing to Al Sharpton, who not only wouldn’t want to think of a friend being sexually assaulted, but certainly wouldn’t want to imagine another of his friends having been the one to commit such a heinous act.

    It will be interesting to learn what the New York Police Department determines in the coming hours and days with regard to their investigation.

  • Nelson Mandela Estate Valued At $4.1 Million So Far

    The late South African president Nelson Mandela has reportedly left behind an estate valued at 46m rand ($4.1 million), according to the executors of his will.

    Mandela died last December at age 95. The civil rights hero left an estate that includes a house in Johannesburg, a modest Eastern Cape home as well as royalties from his book sales, including “Long Walk to Freedom’, his autobiography.

    Executor Justice Dikgang Moseneke, who is also the deputy chief justice of South Africa’s constitutional court, said that the 46m rand is only an estimate of Mandela’s assets for the time being.

    “We are yet to get down to the business of finding the asset, listing them and valuing them and accurately reflecting them. We have a duty to file a provisional inventory.” said Moseneke.

    Nelson Mandela left money in his will to his children, grandchildren, staff, the African National Congress (ANC), and two universities he attended.  Moseneke said the reading of the will so far has been an emotional event for Mandela’s family. The family had been fighting among themselves even before Mandela passed. The executors believe that the three trust Mandela left behind could yield significantly more wealth which could trigger a court battle among family members.

    There is, however, one very noticeable omission — Winnie Mandela was left out. Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife and former comrade in the fight to end apartheid got nothing. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was the late South African president’s wife for 38 years, the two were divorced 1996. In 1998 Mandela married for a third time to Graça Machel.

    Machel is expected to waive her right by marriage to half the Mandela estate, instead choosing to receive properties, cars, jewelry and other assets in Mozambique. Machel is not only Nelson Mandela’s widow but also the widow of late Mozambican president, Samora Moisés Machel, who died in a 1986 plane crash. If she waives her right, the two children she had with the Mozambique president will receive 3m rand each from Mandela’s estate, while Samora Machel’s six children from a previous marriage will each receive 100,000 rand.

    Now the job of carrying out Mandela’s will is left to three executors: Moseneke, George Bizos, Mandela’s friend of 65 years, and Themba Sangoni, the chief judge in Eastern Cape province.

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