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NEWS ABOUT: Mary-Kate Olsen

Mary-Kate Olsen stories: 13 news summaries

(Newser) - With no formal fashion training and a celebrity image that’s more cutesy than couture, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have transformed into unlikely fashion icons, the New York Times reports. Sales of their high-end label The Row are around $10 million—better than many established brands—and they’re expected... More »

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entertainment • fashion • celebrity • Mary-Kate Olsen • fashion label • Ashley Olsen • fashion industry • designer fashion • women's issues • Olsen twins

GLOSSIES

 Ashley: I'm Surprised 
 I Didn't End Up 
 Like Britney 

Instead, she has two thriving fashion lines

Aug 5, 09 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ashley Olsen grew up in the public eye, and her early career “was almost like I was in the army,” she tells Marie Claire. “That’s why I look at Britney, and I’m surprised I didn’t end up like her.” Instead of hitting therapy... More »

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entertainment • Britney Spears • fashion • celebrity • Neiman Marcus • Mary-Kate Olsen • fashion label • Ashley Olsen • Elizabeth and James • The Row • Olsen twins • leggings • Louis Boston


 Activists Hit 
 'Fur-Hag' 
 Aretha's Star 

Activists dub celebs 'fur hags'

Jan 27, 09 10:36 AM CST
(Newser) - January has not been kind to the queen of soul. First Aretha Franklin was mocked for her ginormous inauguration hat, and now her Walk of Fame star has been vandalized, Perez Hilton reports. Anti-fur activists scrawled “Fur Hag” across her star in Hollywood after doing the same thing to... More »

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Hollywood • fur • celebrity • vandalism • Aretha Franklin • activist • Mary-Kate Olsen • Ashley Olsen

 Mary-Kate 
 Drinks Away 
 Pregnancy 
 Rumor 

Olsen twin hits party with cocktail in one hand, cigarette in other after rep's denial

Dec 8, 08 9:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Mary-Kate Olsen is not pregnant, and she’s drinking and smoking enough to prove it, the New York Post reports. Shortly after a rep for the Olsen twin told Page Six “there is absolutely no truth” to the pregnancy rumor, Mary-Kate was spotted at Art Basel in Miami with... More »

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pregnancy • celebrity • rumor • Mary-Kate Olsen • celebrity pregnancy

Ledger Tot Sues as Insurance Balks at $10M Payout

Company says it can't rule out suicide

Sep 29, 08 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A trustee representing Heath Ledger's 3-year-old daughter is suing the actor's insurance provider, who is balking at paying out his $10 million death benefits, TMZ reports. ReliaStar Life Insurance Co. says it's withholding payment until they determine whether Ledger's accidental overdose death was a suicide, an investigation that includes quizzing... More »

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suicide • celebrity • lawsuit • Heath Ledger • Mary-Kate Olsen • Matilda Rose Ledger • life insurance

Fashion Maven Mr. Blackwell Emerging From Coma

Critic, 85, fell at his home last week

Aug 7, 08 10:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mr. Blackwell, the former fashion designer whose scathing "Worst-Dressed List" is the bane of taste-challenged Hollywood, appears to emerging from a coma after collapsing at home earlier this week, Reuters reports. The 85-year-old Richard Blackwell was unconscious when hospitalized Tuesday, the AP notes, but today he began moving his... More »

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Victoria Beckham • Amy Winehouse • Mary-Kate Olsen • Mr. Blackwell • coma • Worst Dressed List • Cedars Sinai Medical Center • Richard Blackwell • Jayne Mansfield • Jane Russell

 Feds Close Ledger Case 

Mary-Kate Olsen will not have to testify

Aug 6, 08 10:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Federal prosecutors have closed their investigation into the death of Heath Ledger without filing charges, meaning Mary-Kate Olsen will not have to testify, People reports. The US attorney's office in Manhattan had been trying to determine whether the painkillers Ledger took were obtained illegally. More »

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US attorney • OxyContin • DEA • Vicodin • Heath Ledger • Mary-Kate Olsen • Michelle Williams • Diana Wolozin • Helena Christiansen

 Tween Star Shines
 in The Wackness

Nickelodeon favorite delivers strong performance in dark comedy

Jul 4, 08 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ex-Nickelodeon star Josh Peck shines in The Wackness, a dark comedy set in 1994 Manhattan. Jonathan Levine's coming-of-age film is “both darkly funny and life-affirming, in an offbeat and offhanded way,” writes Claudia Puig of USA Today. Peck as Luke, who’s selling pot out of an... More »

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movie review • Nickelodeon • Mary-Kate Olsen • teenager • Ben Kingsley • Jonathan Levine • Josh Peck

PETA Targets
Fur-Wearing Olsen Twins

Send the pair some hair for their birthday, group urges

Jun 13, 08 10:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - PETA is trying to make life hairy for the Olsen twins, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. The animal rights group, noting that the sisters are still fond of fur, is urging activists to cut off their own locks and send them to the twins for their 22nd birthday today, "... More »

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fur • animal rights • PETA • Mary-Kate Olsen • Ashley Olsen

 Celebs Who Dress (Way) Down 

Wealthy folks who insist on dressing like they're poor

May 2, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Just because they have tons of money and access to the hautest of couture doesn't mean they actually have to take advantage of it. Nerve highlights richie-riches who refuse to advertise their wealth with high-class duds. (Or sometimes showers.)
  1. Amy Winehouse: Even smokes crack "just to keep
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Britney Spears • Peter Jackson • celebrity • Amy Winehouse • Pete Doherty • Mary-Kate Olsen • Nick Nolte • Ashley Olsen • Penny Marshall

Ledger Begins Final Journey

Actor to be laid to rest in Australia as police prepare to quiz friend Olsen

Jan 26, 08 8:18 AM CST
(Newser) - Cops held paparazzi back as Heath Ledger's body, inside a wooden shipping crate, was removed from a Manhattan funeral home yesterday for the journey to Australia, where the 28-year-old actor will be buried, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. A private memorial service was held in New York yesterday, and a... More »

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Australia • Heath Ledger • Mary-Kate Olsen

Ledger Masseuse Called Olsen Twin Before 911

6 types of pills found
in actor's apartment

Jan 24, 08 5:10 AM CST
(Newser) - The masseuse who found actor Heath Ledger's body in his Soho loft used a speed-dial on his cell phone to call gal-pal actress Mary-Kate Olsen in California—twice—before calling 911, reports the New York Daily News. In the second call, the panicky masseuse told Olsen: "I think he... More »

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Heath Ledger • Mary-Kate Olsen

Posh Named Worst-Dressed

Beckham 'triumphs' as Mr. Blackwell gives Britney a pass

Jan 8, 08 4:57 PM CST
(Newser) - Mr. Blackwell of the infamous worst-dressed list has singled out Victoria Beckham as this year's greatest offender for "skinny-mini monstrosities," reports People. Amy Winehouse snagged the runner-up spot, followed by Mary-Kate Olsen, who earned her laurels for looking like "a tattered toothpick-trapped in a hurricane." Britney... More »

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Britney Spears • fashion • Victoria Beckham • celebrity • Amy Winehouse • Mary-Kate Olsen • Mr. Blackwell

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