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Michele McPhee’s Biography

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Michele McPhee is the author of seven best-selling true crime books; a five-time Emmy-nominated producer in the ABC News Investigative Unit; a Pulitzer Prize nominated New York Daily News newspaper reporter; an award-winning Boston Herald columnist; a recipient of several national magazine accolades; a Writers Guild of America screenwriter; and podcaster.

A Boston native, she spent a decade in New York City as the Police Bureau Chief for the Daily News, traveling the world on breaking stories a…

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Sleep like a Princess in the Glow of the Eiffel Tower at Shangri-La Paris - LAmag

Sleep like a Princess in the Glow of the Eiffel Tower at Shangri-La Paris - LAmag

The location in a former palace owned by a relative of Napoleon Bonaparte is a five-star hotel steeped in lux…

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Inside the Manhunt for Ryan Wedding, the $15M FBI Fugitive

Inside the Manhunt for Ryan Wedding, the $15M FBI Fugitive

Meet the coterie of reputed criminals the feds say helped the world's most wanted man, Olympian Ryan Wedding,…

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In Memoriam: Remembering Rob Reiner - LAmag

In Memoriam: Remembering Rob Reiner - LAmag

A lookback on the life, love and last weekend of life for Hollywood legend and Angeleno Rob Reiner, who died …

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The Crypto Con Woman and the Charlestown Houseboat Murder

The Crypto Con Woman and the Charlestown Houseboat Murder

Nora Nelson charmed Boston's elite with tales of crypto millions and Harvard dreams. Prosecutors say her fina…

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Inside the Mind of the Palisades Fire Suspect

Inside the Mind of the Palisades Fire Suspect

A deep look into what drove a despondent former Palisades resident to allegedly ignite one of L.A.'s deadlies…

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Tokyo, the Late Anthony Bourdain Once Said, Is 'Delicously Unknowable' - LAmag

Tokyo, the Late Anthony Bourdain Once Said, Is 'Delicously Unknowable' - LAmag

Concierge travel company Plan Japan helps navigate that 'unknowable' with access to impossible reservations t…

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CD10 Donated $165,000 in Taxpayer Dollars to Failed LA Jazz Festival

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By Michele McPhee Verified
| Los Angeles Magazine Verified
Council District 10, which includes Leimert Park, the historic cultural epicenter for African American music where the LA Jazz Festival was slated to open in a star-studded event on August 7, donated $165,000 to the music organization’s 501c3 charity with seven separate checks from 2024 until June, records show.
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Duane “Keffe D” Davis ‘Full of Crap,’ Defense Says

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By Michele McPhee Verified
| Los Angeles Magazine Verified
Thirty years after the infamous 1996 drive-by killing that cut down Death Row Records mega star Tupac Shakur, sparking a bloody war that led to three deaths and multiple shootings in Compton, including the wounding of an 11-year-old girl, evidence was presented to a jury in the trial of a self-described L.A. gang leader charged with orchestrating the rapper’s murder.
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‘LA Fyre Fest’ Founder; City Hall Still Silent About Jazz Fest Failure

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| Los Angeles Magazine Verified
Weeks before the abrupt cancellation of a massive musical extravaganza slated to feature 175 acts at events over 17 days in every corner of the city, the endeavor’s founder, Martin Ludlow, went on a popular jazz podcast to tout “The Birth of the LA Jazz Festival.” “We finally found a courageous title sponsor,” Ludlow told musician Rob Cope, the co-host of “The Jazz Podcast,” last month, to explain how the ambitious festival came together.
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