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2025-05-24 16:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Posted on February 9, 2020April 29, 2020 by jamiebdc As most readers of this blog will know, for over a decade I have been working on a biography of the émigré actor Adolf Wohlbrück /Anton Walbrook (1896-1967), but this weekend provided a wonderful opportunity to talk about this work as part of the Stardom and the Archive conference held at the University of Exeter, 8-9 February 2020. The conference was organised as part of the Reframing Vivien Leigh research project I have written about the relationship between Walbrook and Leigh elsewhere on these pages and its aims are summarised here: Conventional critical discourse focuses overwhelmingly on the findings of archival research rather than the process with scholarship telling a story about what you found, but not about how you found it. (Kaplan 1990: 103) The Stardom and the Archive symposium seeks to challenge this convention by centralising archival process and curatorial histories in researching stardom. The conference has se...
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Virginia Giuffre Timeline: Key Events Before Tragic Death at 41
2025-05-24 09:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrews accuser, Virginia Giuffre, died in April 2025, with her family confirming her death was due to suicide.Giuffre, who was just 41 at the time of her death in Neergabby, Australia, had been at the center of accusations against Prince Andrew and the late Epstein involving sexual abuse and sex trafficking.Giuffre lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking, her family said via the statement to People on Friday, April 25.Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors. Despite all the adversity she faced in her life, she shone so bright. She will be missed beyond measure. The light of her life were her children Christian, Noah, and Emily. Related: Virginia Giuffre Dead at 41, Family ConfirmsBelow, Us Weekly details the key events involving Giuffre in the years before her death and everything you need to know.2000-2001: Al...
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