Nearly two weeks after Nancy Guthrie's disappearance, it briefly looked as though the this horrific saga might finally be coming to an end.
On Friday night, four suspects were apprehended in a daring SWAT Team raid.
Early reports indicate that the team was assisted by members of the Pima County Sheriff's Department, who have been investigating Nancy's disappearance since day one.
There was reason to be hopeful at first — but in a bizarre twist all four suspects have now been released.
Savannah and Nancy Guthrie during one of Nancy's many guest appearances on the 'Today' show. (YouTube)
As Fox News legal analyst Donna Rotunno explained, it's "strange" to see so many arrests with no charges.
"We saw this flurry of activity last night and then several hours later we find out that they brought people in and let them go. That's strange actually, Rotunno said today, adding:
"If someone is detained, they're held for a period of time, they're let go," she continued.
"You're arrested, normally it's longer. Arrest has to do with probable cause and a detainment has to do with reasonable suspicion," she said.
Nancy Guthrie is still missing, several days after being taken from her home. (YouTube)
These are not the first arrests that have been made in this case.
Last week, a delivery driver named Carlos Palazuelos was arrested and questioned about Nancy's disappearance before being released.
"I asked, 'The kidnapping of who?' and they told me this lady … I don't know her name," Palazuelos told the press.
Thus far, the most compelling piece of evidence that might lead to an arrest seems to be a short video clip of a masked man standing outside of Nancy's door on the night of her disappearance.
Savannah and Nancy Guthrie in happier times. (YouTube)
The suspect in the clip is described by the FBI as "approximately 5'9" – 5'10" tall, with an average build."
It's still unclear if that note was authentic. Whatever the case, the publicly viewable Bitcoin account cited in the note has not received any deposits.
As the days turn into weeks, the Guthrie family — which includes Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie — is no doubt feeling increasingly desperate.
We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.
If you're of a certain age, you learned of her as perhaps the most beautiful woman alive.
If you're of another certain age, you know her as Kaia Gerber's hot mom.
The rest of us know her as Cindy Crawford: icon, supermodel, entrepreneur.
She has been married and divorced and married again over the years. Here's where things stand today.
For 'Oprah's Master Class,' Cindy Crawford offers rare comments on her first marriage. (Image Credit: OWN)
Her first marriage was to Richard Gere
In the 1980s and the 1990s, Crawford was a supermodel and one of the most famous faces on the planet.
Think Gigi Hadid. But without the Hadid family name. (As a teen, Crawford was once pranked into thinking that she'd gotten a local modeling gig — a year before landing a real one)
Also famous was actor Richard Gere, fresh off of the success of his Pretty Woman comeback.
He was just less Gigi Hadid and more Glen Powell.
Crawford and Gere dated for a few years before marrying in 1991, when she was 25 and he was 41. They were quite the couple.
1993 Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere. (Photo Credit: Brenda Chase/Online USA, Inc.)
In 1995, Crawford and Gere divorced.
She has credited Gere with helping her navigate fame and stardom.
When you aren't a nepo baby, sometimes it helps to have someone who knows what it's like to be famous.
In her (admittedly uncommon) comments about the erstwhile marriage, Crawford has praised Gere as a partner and has fond memories of that romance.
However, she has also admitted that their age gap of roughly 17 years came up more than once — and was a factor in their split.
Her second marriage was to Rande Gerber
On May 29, 1998, Crawford married Rande Gerber.
People are most familiar with Gerber as a businessman.
He is something of a night life magnate, with his own liquor brands, nightclubs, and more.
(He has also had joint ventures in these areas with famous partners, such as George Clooney)
Over the years, Gerber has earned himself a 9-figure net worth.
Kaia Gerber, Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford attend "Good Night, And Good Luck" Broadway Opening Night on April 03, 2025. (Photo Credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
In 1999, Crawford and Gerber welcomed their first child, Presley Walker Gerber.
Presley has had a somewhat troubled reputation as an adult.
In 2001, the couple welcomed their daughter,, Kaia Jordan Gerber.
Kaia is a model, a style icon, and has dated some of the hottest men in the entertainment industry.
Both Presley and Kaia went into modeling when they reached adulthood, albeit to varying degrees.
Cindy Crawford, George Clooney, and Rande Gerber attend Netflix's "Jay Kelly" Los Angeles premiere on November 11, 2025. (Photo Credit: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Netflix)
Where do things stand today?
These days, Crawford and Gerber remain very much together.
Though rumors occasionally emerge to the contrary, they are not divorced.
Their children are both adults. As we alluded, there are corners of the internet where Kaia is more famous than her mom.
(That's almost a nepo baby right of passage — think of the people who know Anderson Cooper first and the late Gloria Vanderbilt second, or never even knew that she was his mother)
Good on Crawford for getting her happily ever after. More than a quarter of a century and going strong!
On the most recent episode of the Pop Syllabus podcast, the former Bachelorette lead said she feels "free" now that she's made her final spousal support payment to her ex-husband.
Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo attend the “Players Party†co-hosted by Michael Rubin, MLBPA and Fanatics at City Market Social House on July 18, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Fanatics)
"I felt powerless that I didn't have a prenup," Lindsay told listeners "He took so much from me."
She continued, emphasizing: "He was ruthless about it, there was no compromising."
The former spouses finalized their divorce in January 2025… one year after Abasolo filed for legal separation. As part of the settlement, Rachel agreed to pay her ex a $500,000 lump sum in alimony.
"I felt powerful that I was able to do it in a year," said Rachel, who married her Season 13 winner in 2019 after meeting on The Bachelorette. "Like, 'I paid you off, I'm still here, I'm still surviving.'"
Looking back, the former lawyer said she rushed into marriage because she felt "societal pressures" to settle down.
As she put it, "I wanted a prenup. I talked to him about a prenup. He did not want it."
That can certainly be an awkward topic between a man and a woman.
"It was kind of a perfect storm as to why I ended up moving forward with the marriage, even though I saw the issues," Rachel continued on this podcast. "The narrative that I couldn't be loved because I focused so much on career, all of that was in me."
Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo attend Thanksgiving at Project Angel Food on November 23, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Project Angel Food)
Back in early 2025, Lindsay told listeners of her own podcast (Higher Learning) that she was so darn happy to be divorced at last.
"I'm divorced. Thank you, God," she said just over a year ago "Give me some freedom music. Some freedom music."
After joking around for a bit, the reality star grew serious at the time … explaining to co-host Van Lathan how it's "a very weird feeling" to actually be free from her marriage.
"From the moment he finally left the house, after being here for seven months post-separation, I felt divorced," she said on air. "I'll be honest, there's a lot I want to say."
And now she appears to be doing it.
Rachel Lindsay celebrates Birthday with Bryan Abasolo at SugarHouse Casino on April 21, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Lisa Lake/Getty Images for SugarHouse Casino)
"I had to let go of the fear, the shame and the embarrassment of getting a divorce," Lindsay just said, adding that she wants to confront the misconception that she "has it all together."
As for Abasolo?
"We didn't spend enough time with each other," he told divorce coach Rene Garcia in a 2024 YouTube video. "In my estimation, we saw what the other person was doing in the relationship, mainly on Instagram, although we lived in the same house."
Bryan added of his decision to seek a divorce back then:
"My priority in that moment was to protect my mental health and just relieve the pressure."
When Emily Bronte died of tuberculosis in 1848, she probably didn't imagine that her one and only novel would become a trending topic on TikTok 178 years later.
In fact, she probably would've cast you out onto the moors for trying to explain what an algorithm is (and she would've been right to do so).
But thanks to Emerald Fennell's controversial new film adaptation, Wuthering Heights is once again a hot topic of discussion.
Margot Robbie in Emerald Fennell's upcoming film adaptation of 'Wuthering Heights.' (YouTube)
And just as they were when the book was first published, critics are sharply divided over a story that pushes the limits and defies expectations.
Interestingly, Fennell tossed out much of the source material and (rather loosely) adapted only the first half of the book.
She also cast 35-year-old Margot Robbie to play (spoiled alert!) a character who dies at the age of 18, and Jacob Elordi to play a character whose described as "dusky" and "dark-skinned" in the book.
But perhaps most controversial of all, Fennell took a tale about unfulfilled longing and filled it with lots of fully clothed sexual encounters between the two leads.
The result is a film that has some critics praising its sumptuous visuals, and others wondering why the director chose to adapt a beloved classic just to alter so much of what made it a classic.
A poster for Emerald Fennell's upcoming film adaptation of 'Wuthering Heights.' (YouTube)
Is this a new entry in the canon of horny period pieces or a bait-and-switch testament to the severity of the 21st century's literacy crisis?
We'll suppose you'll have to see the film and judge for yourself. But in the meantime, here's what the critics have to say (via The Hollywood Reporter):
Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent: "With its title stylised in quotation marks, and a director's statement that it's intended to capture her experience of reading the book aged 14, it uses the guise of interpretation to gut one of the most impassioned, emotionally violent novels ever written, and then toss its flayed skin over whatever romance tropes seem most marketable. Adaptation or not, it's an astonishingly hollow work."
Alison Willmore, Vulture: "Wuthering Heights is an incredibly moist movie, and that's without even taking into account how often the characters get caught in or choose to stride out into the rain (all the better to make their outfits cling).
Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie star in 'Wuthering Heights.' (YouTube)
Kevin Maher, The U.K. Times: "Who knew Isabella Linton was the best character in Wuthering Heights? She is in this vapid Brontë adaptation, anyway, a film that is enlivened briefly whenever she appears on screen, wickedly played by Alison Oliver."
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian: "Emerald Fennell cranks up the campery as she reinvents Emily Brontë's tale of Cathy and Heathcliff on the windswept Yorkshire moor as a 20-page fashion shoot of relentless silliness, with bodices ripped to shreds and a saucy slap of BDSM.
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter: "Fennell's overhaul flirts with insanity, and if you can let go of preconceived notions about how this story should be told, it's arguably the writer-director's most purely entertaining film
Like millions of other Americans who are looking to shed a few pounds, Bunnie experimented with GLP-1 medications — but it seems that she won't be going down that road again.
US singer Jelly Roll (L) and Bunnie Xo arrive for the 59th Academy of Country Music awards (ACM) at Ford Center in The Star in Frisco, Texas, May 16, 2024. (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO / AFP) (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)
In a new interview with People, Bunnie explained that the controversial weight loss and diabetes drug made her deeply depressed.
"That was one of the darkest times of my life and it was scary," she told the magazine while promoting her upcoming memoir, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, set for release on February 17.
"I prided myself on the fact that I only had anxiety. I never had depression. So when you get slammed with suicidal ideation and visions and just, oh, it was horrific," she continued, adding:
"You want to have anxiety because you want to be scared to die. You don't want to have depression because you literally don't care if you want to die. So yeah, it was really dark."
Bunnie XO attends the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
It's a little weird to pride yourself on not being depressed or to talk about chronic anxiety like it's a good thing, but we think we get what Xo was trying to say.
Bunnie says things got so bad that she experienced suicidal ideation for the first time in her life.
"Honestly, I just went through a bout of suicidal ideation from using a GLP-1, which, I really think people need to talk more about this. I just told them, I said, 'I haven't had suicidal ideation like this since 2020.' That's how bad it was."
"I'm good now," but admitted, "December was a rough month, let me tell you."
Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO attend the 2024 CMT Music Awards at Moody Center on April 07, 2024 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Catherine Powell/Getty Images for CMT)
"I wish I could be part of the cool crowd and be skinny and freaking not have a care in the world," she explained.
"I just want people to know you're not alone. Everybody goes through ups and downs and you are worth staying here. Please stay. Everybody, please stay because you're here for a reason and you're going through this, but do not make a permanent decision based on a temporary emotion because it will go away."
Back in November, Chuck Potthast tragically passed away.
The man himself was not a 90 Day Fiance "star" unto himself. But as father of Elizabeth "Libby" Potthast and father-in-law to Andrei Castravet, his role of the franchise has been indelible.
"We're trying to figure out how to navigate our lives," Elizabeth wrote of her dearly departed father.
"And," she continued, they are grappling with how to "move forward without him."
Libby concluded: "Please respect our privacy during this extremely difficult time."
Chuck's cause of death has now been revealed as blunt force trauma from a fall in the shower.
That revelation comes courtesy of documents from the Hillsborough County, Florida Medical Examiner, obtained by TMZ.
Obviously, 90 Day Fiance fans were heartbroken over this news.
Elizabeth wisely deactivated her comments under the post. After all, she knows better than most that some "fans" can be cruel — especially at the most somber, vulnerable moments.
On November 23, 2025, Elizabeth Potthast revealed that her beloved father, Chuck Potthast, had passed away two weeks earlier. (Image Credit: Instagram)
Becky posted her own tribute
However, Elizabeth and Chuck Potthast are not the only members of her family whom 90 Day Fiance viewers have seen over the years.
Alongside Libby and Andrei and her parents, Chuck and her homophobic mom, we also got to know her siblings: Charlie, Becky, and Jenn.
Becky Lichtwerch took to her own Instagram page to share a tribute to her late father.
"Two weeks ago on this day," her post began, "my world became distorted into a place I don't understand."
Becky wrote: "My father Chuck went home to be with The Lord. The pain is still more than I can bare so this is all I can write."
The Potthast family was polarizing — intentionally so, at times, to meet the demands of reality television.
90 Day Fiance fans had their favorites and least favorites.
Most, however, were big fans of Chuck.
He was a man who knew how to play along with the joke, he rearranged his whole life when his daughter's reality TV career took off, and more than anything else, he loved his family.
This is a devastating loss. It is also a surprise, as Chuck was only 64.
'90 Day Fiance' and spinoffs often saw Chuck Potthast playing family peacemaker. Or trying to. (Image Credit: TLC)
In 2016, Chuck waged a cancer battle — but was cancer-free by 2017.
This past summer, Chuck underwent surgery to remove a mass that he feared was a tumor. Fortunately, it was an unusually large kidney stone.
In September, Chuck went under the knife to fix hernias that had stemmed from past surgeries. At the time, he reported that all was well.
Followers have not seen an update from the late reality TV personality since October 3, more than a month before his death.
Our hearts go out to the entire Potthast family at this time.
In the world of sex workers, "collabs" are part of how people grow audiences and gain fans.
This time, however, it's shaping up to do the opposite.
A couple of years ago, Drake Von was the breakout star of the porn world.
What in the world is he doing with disgraced makeup influencer (turned MAGA yak rancher) Jeffree Star?
In an alarming video jumpscare, adult performer Drake Von allowed disgraced former beauty YouTuber to jump onto his back. (Image Credit: YouTube)
Drake Von should be better than this
In 2023 and 2024, Drake Von — real name Dawson Bacon, which would frankly also work well as a porn star pseudonym — skyrocketed to the top of a lot of adult streaming sites.
(He should not be confused with his identical twin, Silas Brooks, who is also in the industry. They are rumored to dislike each other. A conspiracy theory claims that they are secretly the same person)
Von has taken home awards, some of which have NFSW titles. He is known for filming gay, bisexual, and straight scenes, appealing to a wide audience.
Prior to this, his biggest controversy was arguably occasionally using zooming software to arguably distort the size of his genitals in some photos and videos. (To be clear, he doesn't need the digital help)
Which is what makes his recent revelation so deeply unsettling to his millions of his fans.
Drake Von inexplicably collaborating with racist & alleged predator Jeffree Star? hate that
Just after midnight on Friday, February 13, Drake Von shared this stomach-turning Instagram video.
He appears alone at first, before a second person joins him, hopping onto his back for a piggy back ride.
Multiple commenters characterized it as a "jumpscare." They're not wrong.
Others shared their condemnation, unfollowing Von. Some even pleaded with him to make better choices.
That is because the other man in the video is Jeffree Star.
Many Instagram commenters shared their distress over Drake Von's cozy video with Jeffree Star. This one gets to the heart of the matter. (Image Credit: Instagram)
At this point, Jeffree Star is better known for being a bad person than for makeup or yak meat or whatever
Cataloguing the many reasons for which people not only dislike but actively and passionately hate Jeffree Star is a worthy but lengthy endeavor. We'll stick to the highlights.
Years ago, Star was an aspiring musician. He was a MySpace user. And he made a name for himself in the early years of YouTube for his makeup reviews.
The first bad thing that most of us heard about him was allegations of racism. As you can imagine, videos of him using the n-word didn't help his case.
A detailed 2020 report by journalist Kat Tenbarge contained multiple allegations of sexual assault and hush-money payoffs by Star. Star has denied wrongdoing, despite records of 5-figure payoffs from his cosmetics company.
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In more recent years, Star has relocated to Wyoming. There, he appears to be using his wealth to ingratiate himself with local businesses.
He owns a yak farm. And, unfortunately, he has not simply gone into quiet retirement.
Instead, Star has gone on alarming rants defending Charlie Kirk and bashing trans people, particularly the nonbinary community.
Star went on a podcast to call for both "T" and "Q" to be removed from the LGBTQ acronym. He is also saying that he does not identify with the label "gay," despite his history of dating men more or less exclusively.
We can't really say that his alt-right shift is a surprise. It also doesn't seem like a grift concocted to deflect allegations of sexual misconduct. Based upon his history, all of this bigotry seems like Star's authentic self.
It's likely that Drake Von believed that his Jeffree Star association was just a cheeky reveal. Followers are disgusted and outraged. (Image Credit: YouTube)
It isn't guilt by association, but it IS very poor judgment
So, yes, a lot of people are extremely disappointed in Drake Von right now. Not just on Instagram, but even in tweets from people who didn't leave even after the platform stopped being called Twitter.
We don't know if they're filming actual content (that is, porn) together, hooking up, or merely trolling. (With an image that we absolutely cannot show you, it's clear that there has been at least some sexual contact, even if it was only for an incendiary photo)
It's probably no surprise to hear that a lot of people are telling Von that they're unfollowing him and unsubscribing. (It's not all talk; anecdotally, we know that people are unfollowing him as they see this, even if it's probably not the majority of his fans)
Von has a lot of fans who are trans, who are Black, or who aren't but still care about right and wrong.
We don't believe in guilt by association — bigotry is not an STI. But it says a lot about Von that he's willing to associate with Star in any capacity, let alone allow him to touch him.
Maybe he's only now finding out what sort of person he's working with. Maybe everyone should watch Matt Bernstein's Jeffree Star video to familiarize themselves with one of beauty YouTube's worst villains.
