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Even if you don’t watch Euphoria, by now you’ve probably heard about Sydney Sweeney’s OnlyFans storyline.
Showrunner Sam Levinson obviously knew that he would get a ton of free publicity by writing scenes in which the most famous sex symbol of the 2020s strips down in increasingly outrageous scenarios.
But Cassie Howard’s efforts to become the queen of adult content are now drawing criticism from an unexpected source — actual OnlyFans creators.
Speaking with Page Six, OnlyFans creator and podcast host Gracie Canaan stated that she thinks there’s “danger” in “romanticizing this job as overnight wealth.”
Canaan noted that her line of work is not for everyone, explaining that online sex work “can be just as dangerous as in-person.”
She noted that when creators share explicit photos and videos, they’re “out there” in the world.
“People can use it to blackmail you,” she said, before quipping, “Wow, I sound like a ‘don’t do drugs’ PSA!”
She also noted that it’s not as easy to rise to the top of the profession, as Cassie’s storyline might lead some to believe.
“It is running a business. It is marketing, it is sales, it is strategy. I think people don’t understand the business savvy required,” she said.
Gracie also criticized the fact that Cassie’s new career created conflict in her marriage, noting that many creators “are partnered, or married, or have kids.”
“This is another job. It can be really fun and rewarding . . . But, people don’t realize the mundanity,”
Canaan also addressed the fact that celebrities such as Shannon Elizabeth have been launching OnlyFans pages in recent months.
She notes that such big-name creators might be taking money away from people who rely on OnlyFans to put food on the table.
“The downside can be that it feels like celebrities are playing make believe in what is a lot of people’s very serious livelihoods,” she explained.
Well, in that sense, we guess Canaan can’t fault Ms. Sweeney — her nudity is bringing more attention to OnlyFans, and it’s not costing anyone any thing more than their HBO subscription!
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GETTING TO 200K: Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a wide-ranging housing plan today that he said will usher in the “largest municipal housing transformation this country has ever seen.”
The blueprint lays out how Mamdani plans to address the single biggest driver of the city’s affordability crisis, the central focus of the mayoral campaign that propelled him into City Hall.
While the plan lays out ambitious targets that would surpass past mayors if achieved — including the planned creation and preservation of a combined 400,000 affordable homes over a decade — it also illustrates how Mamdani is not reinventing the wheel on many housing issues, but rather leaning into or expanding policies pursued by his predecessors.
The plan seeks to tackle a range of coinciding crises: the severe shortage of available housing; a public housing system that’s crumbling and facing massive capital needs; and a rental housing stock that is experiencing growing distress as operating costs skyrocket.
“If the absence of good government created the conditions we now face, the presence of good government can build the solutions we now need,” Mamdani said in a speech announcing the plan in Brooklyn’s Gowanus section, where a city-led rezoning enacted nearly five years ago has spurred a residential building boom.
Mamdani is already encountering the limits of some of his campaign promises and moderating costly plans as his administration grapples with a strained municipal budget. On the campaign trail, the mayor said he would create 200,000 publicly-subsidized homes over a decade, tripling current rates of production. He is standing by that goal, while also pledging to preserve another 200,000 affordable homes.
“Scaling to these levels of affordable housing production will not be easy and cannot be done overnight,” the blueprint states. The administration is aiming to create some 14,000 affordable homes in fiscal year 2027, which starts July 1, while ramping up to 21,000 units per year by fiscal year 2031.
Under the blueprint released Tuesday, Mamdani’s housing department plans to finance 8,000 new affordable homes in fiscal years 2027 and 2028 — which would grow subsidized housing by more than 35 percent from the prior two years. But the plan does not spell out specifically how the administration will produce roughly 12,000 remaining units annually to get to Mamdani’s 200,000-unit goal.
Much of that additional affordable housing will rely on zoning, tax and other financing tools rather than direct city subsidies. And it would require the private sector to embrace those tools. — Janaki Chadha
From the Capitol
‘BIG UGLY’ VOTE: The Legislature spent the better part of today plowing through votes on the budget’s “big ugly” bill, which contains most of the hot-button issues in this year’s spending plan.
“This bill has some really good stuff in it and some really bad stuff,” said Assemblymember Jeff Dinowitz, who cited Tier VI pension plan changes when speaking about his “yes” vote. “I look forward to seeing the positive impact it’s going to have on many, many state workers.”
That was the common theme that emerged among Democratic during today’s debate — they hate the rollbacks to the climate law, but they’re also supportive of the inclusion of what Republican Assemblymember Michael Fitzpatrick dubbed “the mother of all pension sweeteners” that they reluctantly voted yes. That line of reasoning appeared especially common from members who, like Dinowitz, have Democratic primaries in four weeks and stand to face attacks for being weak on the environment.
“This is not an easy vote for me,” said Assemblymember Grace Lee, who’s running for an open Senate seat and wound up backing the bill because of Tier VI.
“I am voting yes because I refuse to deny hardworking union members and retirees the retirement security they have worked years to achieve,” Assemblymember Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas said.
Gonzalez-Rojas also took time to slam the climate law changes.
“Communities like Jackson Heights, Corona, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst, LeFrak City have already experienced the consequences of environmental injustice,” she said. “Climate change is not theoretical for our communities. It is personal.”
That might be another indication of just how much budget season has blended into primary season. Not all of those neighborhoods fall within Gonzalez-Rojas’ district — but they’re a perfect description of the Senate district where she’s challenging fellow Democrat Jessica Ramos next month. — Bill Mahoney
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MEANWHILE, IN KNICKS WORLD: Mamdani appeared to indicate today that watch parties will be back outside Madison Square Garden during next month’s NBA finals.
“They will be there,” Mamdani said with a laugh when asked at an unrelated press conference if the partying will resume outside the iconic arena next month when the Knicks play their first NBA finals in nearly three decades.
But a Mamdani spokesperson told Playbook that the mayor wasn’t referring to official watch parties. Rather, the spokesperson said he was talking about how Knicks fans inevitably gather outside the Garden during and after games to celebrate or mourn — oftentimes in rather raucous fashion.
Whether official watch parties — replete with massive screens showing the games — will be back outside the Garden during the finals, the Mamdani spokesperson wouldn’t say, adding that plans are still being finalized.
“It’s not a question of if there will be watch parties but where,” spokesperson Dora Pekec said.
The issue could become a bone of contention for Knicks fans.
Last week, the city pulled MSG’s permit to hold its usual large-scale parties outside the arena during Knicks games due to concerns from the NYPD about public drinking and other debauchery. During one of the Knicks’ Eastern Conference Finals games against the Cleveland Cavaliers last week, six people were arrested in connection with the outdoor watch party.
The NYPD’s decision to put the kibosh on the parties may infuriate Knicks fans who are ecstatic about their team making it to the NBA finals for the first time since 1999. Mamdani, an avid Knicks fan, is already facing tension with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch over how to police this summer’s World Cup, as previously reported by POLITICO, and an MSG dispute could drive a further wedge.
With the outdoor party permit scrapped, MSG hosted a watch party at Radio City Music Hall for the Knicks’ clincher against the Cavs last night.
No matter what, Mamdani said at today’s press conference that Knicks fans will be able to cheer on their team at a variety of watch parties across the city during next month’s finals.
“We’re looking forward to making sure that it is a time for New Yorkers to celebrate, it’s a time that they’re also safe,” he said. “We’re going to have a number of different kinds of watch parties, and we’ll get back to you as we keep going through those plans.”
The Knicks will face either the San Antonio Spurs or Oklahoma City Thunder in the finals next month. The first game in the series is set for June 3. — Chris Sommerfeldt
FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
DEBATE-A-PALOOZA: Got plans in June? How about a congressional primary debate — or six?
After forums galore across the city’s competitive primaries, a slew of televised debates are on the books ahead of the June 23 election: two each for the races to replace retiring Reps. Nydia Velázquez and Jerry Nadler, and another two for Rep. Dan Goldman’s primary challenge from former City Comptroller Brad Lander.
All debates will be live at 7 p.m., with the exception of the first NY-07 debate on June 3, which will be prerecorded earlier that day and air at 7 p.m. Here’s when to block off your schedule:
— June 1: Goldman and Lander will be facing off for their first televised debate, hosted by Spectrum News NY1. NY1’s Errol Louis and Courtney Gross will moderate the program.
Goldman’s campaign has frequently criticized Lander for not agreeing to partake in seven debates.
— June 3: State Assemblymember Claire Valdez, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and City Council member Julie Won will take the stage as they vie for Velázquez’s seat. The debate will be hosted by NY1 and moderated by Louis and Gross. Public defender Vichal Kumar is also on the ballot, though he did not qualify for the debate.
— June 4: The four leading candidates looking to succeed Nadler will meet in a PIX11 debate: state Assemblymembers Micah Lasher and Alex Bores, Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg and anti-Trump commentator George Conway. It will be moderated by Dan Mannarino.
— June 9: Another NY-12 debate will be hosted by NY1 and WNYC. Louis and WNYC’s Brian Lehrer and Brigid Bergin will moderate. This debate is set to feature Bores, Conway, Lasher, Schlossberg and public health practitioner Nina Schwalbe.
Schwalbe, a progressive candidate who has struggled to break through in the crowded field, has frequently criticized media coverage and events for not including her. A handful of other lesser-known candidates are also on the ballot next month.
— June 10: Valdez, Reynoso and Won will partake in a PIX11 debate, with Mannarino moderating.
— June 15: PIX11 will host Goldman and Lander for another showdown, moderated by Mannarino.
Early voting starts June 13. — Madison Fernandez
MUM-DANI: Mamdani is noncommittal about getting involved in the competitive race in what is now his home district.
When asked by PIX11’s Henry Rosoff who he’s voting for in the Democratic primary to succeed Nadler, Gracie Mansion’s newest resident laughed and said he hadn’t made a decision but is “following the race as a keen constituent.”
“At this time, I would say that I’ve focused on the two decisions I’ve made thus far,” Mamdani continued, referring to his endorsements for Lander and Valdez.
Bores recently said he would “love” to have Mamdani’s backing. Lasher, meanwhile, is getting campaign help from political strategist Morris Katz, an architect of Mamdani’s win last year. A recent Emerson College/PIX11 poll found that Mamdani has a strong approval rating, at 66 percent, among Democratic primary voters in the district. But a Mamdani endorsement could also turn off some Jewish voters — a prominent constituency in the district — who are not fans of the mayor.
“It was a pleasure to serve with both of them in Albany,” Mamdani said of Bores and Lasher. — Madison Fernandez
ENDORSEMENT CORNER: Abundance New York rolled out its voter guide on Tuesday, highlighting candidates in competitive races who the group’s executive director Catherine Vaughan said in a statement are “willing to actually build the things New York needs.”
They include Reynoso and Lander, as well as a dual-endorsement for Bores and Lasher. (The group said that between Bores and Lasher, it “cannot recommend one over the other at this time, but we may revisit as the race continues.”)
The endorsements aren’t exactly all glowing. In the rationale for Reynoso, it states that his “record has not always supported our agenda, but we have decided to take his evolution at face value and to commit to holding him to his word.”
The blurb about Lander acknowledged that the group has “concerns about [his] record and some of his current stances,” including opposing some rezonings during his time on the Council and supporting a ban on what the group described as “investor-owned ‘build-to-rent’ housing.” The guide also states that the group is “dismayed at his demand that Brooklyn Marine Terminal development be delayed; this is a NIMBY stance that seems cynically targeted at Goldman’s leadership on the issue.” Despite that, Abundance New York pointed to Lander’s “record on housing production, transit, and the local land-use machinery in this district” and said it thinks he “would prioritize the built environment issues that we champion more strongly.”
The group is also backing Drew Warshaw — the affordable housing nonprofit executive who’s one of two primary challengers to state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli — along with a handful of candidates in the state Legislature and City Council member Carl Wilson. — Madison Fernandez
IN OTHER NEWS
— THINGS GO SOUTH: Mamdani-backed congressional candidate Claire Valdez, who has called to abolish ICE, is facing scrutiny over her father’s work for a firm involved in Texas border projects. (New York Post)
— WHAT’S IN A NAME: Internal renderings for the Penn Station overhaul project show a presidential seal featuring Donald Trump’s name alongside a redesigned train hall. (Gothamist)
— ACROSS THE AISLE: Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Co-op is split over a looming vote to boycott Israeli products from the socially conscious grocery store. (The New York Times)
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Wedding bells may be ringing for Lil Wayne.
Or at the very least, the rap icon recently shelled out for a very expensive ring.
Yes, Wayne is reportedly engaged to a woman nearly two decades his junior, according to reports from multiple outlets.
According to Page Six, Weezy, 43, is set to marry girlfriend LeahAngelie Murphy, an Indiana native in her twenties whom he has been quietly dating for the past several months.
And while the rapper has largely kept the relationship out of the spotlight, insiders claim things have become very serious.
The report alleges Wayne recently popped the question to Murphy, who has occasionally appeared in photos shared online but has otherwise remained largely out of the public eye.
Neither Wayne nor Murphy has publicly confirmed the engagement as of yet.
The reported age gap is already turning heads, but we’re guessing Wayne is unbothered.
Born Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. the hip hop legend has spent decades as one of music’s most influential and recognizable stars, helping shape modern rap with albums such as Tha Carter III and hit singles like “Lollipop,” “A Milli” and “6 Foot 7 Foot.”
His love life, meanwhile, has often made headlines of its own.
Over the years, Wayne has been romantically linked to several high-profile women, including singer Christina Milian and model Denise Bidot, to whom he was previously engaged before the pair split.
Around this time last year, Wayne’s ex-girlfriend accused him of abuse and alleged that he had evicted her on Mother’s Day.
The two parties appear to have since resolved that conflict.
This would not be Wayne’s first trip down the aisle.
The rapper was previously married to Toya Johnson, with whom he shares daughter Reginae Carter. He is also father to three other children from previous relationships.
Interestingly, Reginae is 27, meaning she might be older than her dad’s new fiancee. We’re sure they’ll get over any potential awkwardness during shopping sprees equipped with Wayne’s AmEx card.
Anyway! Congrats to the happy couple! We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.
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Meghan Patrick is feeling bittersweet emotions as she reflects on performing her final show of the year.
On May 11, the songstress shared an honest statement with fans letting them know that she would not be finishing out her Golden Child Tour as previously planned in order to focus on her family and herself throughout her pregnancy. She wrapped up her May shows and is now taking a moment to finally feel settled at home as she awaits the arrival of her first child with her husband, Mitchell Tenpenny.
When she first announced the news that she would be stepping away from the stage for the remainder of the year, Patrick admitted the decision came with a “heavy heart.”
“I’ll be stepping away fromtouring for the rest of the year to focus on my family, my health, and this baby girl we prayed so hard for. I’ll still be making music, and honestly, I feel like I’m writing some of the best songs of my life right now. So I will not be disappearing or “quitting”, just doing things a little differently in the best way for not only the quality of my music, but also for my family,” she explained at the time.
The country singer later noted that she felt “very at peace” with the choice she made to prioritize herself and her baby girl. She also expressed gratitude for the tremendous amount of support she received in regards to her decision.
“I am glad to know that one day when my baby girl is old enough, she will know that not only did her mama put her first, but that I had an entire village behind me who encouraged me to do so and wanted the best for her before she was even born. So many of you have brought Mitchell and I such beautiful and thoughtful baby gifts over the last few months and we are so grateful for your kindness. Baby girl is gonna be the best dressed and have several outfit changes a day for a while thanks to y’all. Thank you, I love you…”
The Golden Child Tour officially came to a close over the weekend. Patrick made sure to thank everyone who has purchased tickets to one of her shows this year and supported her throughout this stage of her life and musical journey, even the fans who had planned to see her at once of her now canceled performances.
“Played my last show last night.. It was bittersweet and I cried,” she wrote on Instagram. “Baby girl is kicking in my belly which is my new favorite feeling in the world”
Patrick continued in the caption, “Thank you to everyone who came to a show this year and also to everyone who showed me nothing but love and support for the ones I had to cancel… for the first time in as long as I can remember, I know home is where I need to be right now 💛”
Meghan Patrick and Mitchell Tenpenny announced the news of their pregnancy on March 31 through a joint Instagram post.
“We’ve been blessed with the greatest gift of all this year! God is so good and always right on time… we can’t wait to be Mom and Dad,” they wrote at the time.
The couple is expecting to welcome their baby girl into the world later this year.
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