Two new charges added to Cornelius original battery charge
Cornelius is now charged with one count of keeping a witness from filing a police report, one count of assault with a deadly weapon, and his original three counts of spousal abuse. According to TMZ, though Cornelius is married police aren’t saying if the alleged victim is his wife.
Charges were filed by the L.A. City Attorney.
Katie Holmes knows a thing or two about juggling a movie career, motherhood, and marriage to a superstar. So who does she consider a role model?
“Jada is so strong,” Holmes tells PEOPLE of her friend Jada Pinkett Smith, 37. “She is a rare woman – a phenomenal friend, mother, wife. She inspires me.”
Adds her husband, Tom Cruise: “Jada tells it like it is. She creates art in her life … She’s effortless. She just has such class.”
Pinkett Smith, who once described Holmes, 29, as a tigress who “runs the show” at home, says the two families are close because they “have a real understanding. In what we do and where we are, there aren’t many people you meet who are living on a parallel line … who can understand the pressures.”
Cruise, 46, also admires the way Pinkett Smith attends to her busy career (she’s currently the voice of Gloria the hippo in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, in which her daughter Willow, 8, plays the junior version of the sassy pachyderm) and still makes her husband of nearly 11 years, Will Smith, 40, and their children her No. 1 priority.
“She is an extraordinary woman and an amazing mother,” he says. “She’s constantly wanting to improve herself and her family.” Agrees Holmes: “She’s just a powerhouse.”
Family was everything to comedic actor Bernie Mac, his daughter tells PEOPLE.
Je’Niece Childress says she still feels her father’s presence at their family home in suburban Chicago home following his death four months ago from heart failure after multiple bouts with pneumonia.
“That was his primary focus. Everything he did, he did with family in mind,” Childress tells PEOPLE of her father, whose last film Soul Menhits theaters on Friday.
“If he got a new offer for a movie, he’d say, ‘I need to negotiate so I can take care of you and your mother.’”
Recently divorced, Childress, 30, and her 2-year-old daughter Jasmine now live with her mother, Rhonda McCullough.
“My mom and I were always close. Now we feel we’re all we have left,” she says. “We tend to tag team. When she’s having a moment, she’ll lean on me and when I’m having a moment, I lean on her … If I need to cry, she lets me go cry on her lap like I’m 2 years old again.”
The women – who both now head up the Bernie Mac Foundation for Sarcoidosis – still feel the comedian’s presence at home.
“When I turn a corner, I’m still thinking, ‘I’m going to see him,’” Childress says. “I’ve had moments where I’ve woken up and I’ve sworn I could feel him smacking me on the back of the leg. I’ll say, ‘That hurts. I told you to stop. You’re still so heavy-handed, even on the other side.’”
Those moments are “very comforting,” she says.
“He was my dad, my first guy I ever fell in love with, my protector. He was the one I laughed with,” she says. “It’s going to be very hard to live without that.”
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