WTVJ-NBC 6 anchor Kelly Craig got laid off on Monday -- after 19 years with the station. Craig, 49, a part-timer, co-hosted South Florida Today at 11 a.m. weekdays.
Peter Loftin, multimillionaire owner of the former Gianni Versace mansion known as Casa Casuarina on South Beach, got hit with another paternity action. Plaintiff is Kairee Hall, a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader with whom Loftin already has a 4-year-old son.
NBA star Shaquille O'Neal got $16 million for his mansion on Miami Beach's Star Island, according to a posting on the Multiple Listing Service. O'Neal paid $18.8 million for the property in August '04. He'd been trying to unload the 2.45-acre estate for four years, asking a high of $35 million to a recent low of $22.5 million.
A top Miami-Dade prosecutor says she's disappointed by the recent arrest of luxury car dealer Ken Gorin, prez and CEO of The Collection. Just six weeks earlier, she had given Gorin a major break on a prior drug arrest, dropping the charges.
Busted -- again: Ken Gorin, president and CEO of The Collection luxury auto dealership in Coral Gables. Felony charges: cocaine possession and resisting officers with violence. Misdemeanor charges: indecent exposure and possession of drug paraphernalia.
News outside the ring: Cops arrested professional boxer and former middleweight champ Jermain Taylor over the holiday weekend in South Beach. Charges: disorderly conduct and resisting officers.
Record producer Scott Storch takes another financial hit -- this time from Beach native Matt Sinnreich, 23, a budding actor and film producer. Sinnreich sued Storch over a business dispute, and a Miami-Dade jury awarded Sinnreich $750,000.
S hareef Malnik, who last month announced a shutdown of his venerable restaurant The Forge -- perfect time for a major renovation, he explains -- is trying to sell his South Beach residence. He's asking $10.9 million.
A uto magnate Alan Potamkin has listed his 3.6-acre bayfront spread in gated Gables Estates -- for a whopping $49.5 million, unfurnished. Particulars: 880 feet on the water, eight bedrooms, 11 full baths, pool, tennis court, five-car garage, 150-foot dock, plus a one-bedroom guest house.
Crime victim: Miami Beach homeowner Rosie O'Donnell. Two men swiped a kayak from the pier at O'Donnell's waterfront mansion on Star Island.
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