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J Lo: ‘Director wanted to see my boobs – a bit of the Bronx came out’

Entertainment

Jennifer Lopez has revealed how she reacted to a director demanding to look at her breasts during a fitting.The singer and actress, who is from the Bronx in New York City, said she refused to take her top off because they were "not on set" of a film which involved her being nude. She was speaking during a Hollywood Reporter roundtable interview with other actresses, including Scarlet Johansson, Lupita Nyong'o and Renee Zellweger. Image: Jennifer Lopez is starring in crime drama Hustlers Asked by Johansson about the encounter early in her career, which she has briefly spoken about before, she said: "He wanted to see my boobs. And I was like, 'We're not on set'."He was crazy. And I said no, I stood up for myself." ...

Trump’s Bronx golf course lost $122,000 last year and blamed New York City

Finance

Eric Trump, third from left, and Donald Trump Jr., second from right, talk with guests at the opening of the Trump Golf Links clubhouse, Monday, June 11, 2018, in the Bronx, New York.Mark Lennihan | APTrump Ferry Point, the Bronx golf course operated by President Donald Trump's company, lost more than $ 122,000 in the past year, a financial statement shows.The income statement covering April 2018 to March 2019 was first reported by The Washington Post and later obtained by CNBC. The Post reported that the golf course, which opened in April 2015, posted its first-ever operating loss this year, despite a gilded contract in which New York City agreed to cover its irrigation bills and its first four years of rent.The company's explanation for the loss in spite of the sweetheart deal: a f...

New York hospital: Ex-employee opens fire in Bronx

World

Media playback is unsupported on your deviceA gunman has opened fire with an assault rifle inside a hospital in the Bronx borough of New York, killing one doctor and injuring six other people, five of them seriously.The gunman, a former doctor at the hospital, killed himself in the attack.The shooting began at about 14:55 local time (18:55 GMT) at the 1,000-bed Bronx-Lebanon Hospital.Mayor Bill de Blasio said the shooting was not an act of terrorism, but rather workplace-related.He said the attack had been a "horrific situation in the middle of a place that people associate with care and comfort".Police Commissioner James O'Neill said the attack began on the 16th floor and all the victims were shot on the 16th and 17th floors.The gunman has not been officially named but police sources told...