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Daily Mirror
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Simon Cowell's 'harem' now from vicious fights and heartbreak to £5million parting gift
Simon Cowell has become a family man with Lauren Silverman after the arrival of their son Eric, but back in the day he was known for his 'harem' of female models and singers - who got stuck into plenty of drama behind the scenes X Factor judge Simon Cowell has been dating socialite Lauren Silverman since 2013, but before settling down, he was famed for taking to the high seas with his model girlfriends past and present. Simon and Lauren got together while she was still married to her ex-husband Andrew. Lauren is said to have already been pregnant by the time she and Andrew split, and she welcomed son Eric, now 11, in February 2014. While Lauren and Simon's early days were surrounded by drama, fatherhood undeniably changed him. The Britain's Got Talent boss of yore was known to trot around the globe surrounded by a host of gorgeous women - including Lauren. Among the many women who orbited around Simon, now 65, were his exes Sinitta, Jackie St Clair, Terri Seymour and Mezghan Hussainy, with the women often partying together at his opulent mansion in Barbados or catching the sun on his 196ft Slipstream yacht. The group of women was often referred to as Simon's 'harem,' and he seemed to love the speculation surrounding his free-wheeling love life. The mogul even appeared in Tom Bower's biography Sweet Revenge, and was quoted as saying he loved to play his ladies off against each other. "I want to be happy, have good people around me. I want to be free and I don't want to be bored. I'm attracted to crazy women. I encourage crazy behaviour and I make them crazy. I'm attracted to certain personalities who are difficult to control, so there are tantrums, tears and fights, which is all part of the drama," he reportedly said. "My life is really odd. Every girl wants to be number one and they're very territorial. I like the fight because otherwise I'd have a dull group of girlfriends." So, Simon switched up the 'tantrums and tears' from the harem to the tantrums and tears from his young son, but after being ditched by Simon what happened to the One Direction founder's ladies? Sinitta Sinitta claimed that while the girls were all close, being called a harem was off the mark. "We're not all sleeping with him. It's as bad as calling us his b*****s. The girls are all there with partners or as friends," she once told the Daily Mail. While she claimed not all of Simon's company was sleeping with him, Sinitta, now 61, was open about her own romance with him. The singer dated Simon on and off for 20 years and remained convinced they'd get back together for good - until Eric was born. She told New magazine: 'There was always an element of 'well, it's never really over. But when Eric was born that was it. I would never come between his family. [Lauren] and I were best friends. I'm really happy for them, but it was hard and caused a fallout." The 'fallout', according to Sinitta, was caused by the fact she felt betrayed by 'sister' Lauren and was 'shocked' when Simon called her to say Lauren was expecting despite still being married to property developer Andrew Silverman. 'We are very, very good friends. When you've been close friends with someone and you're calling each other sisters and family and confided all of your secrets and feelings over the years to them… Lauren was that person to me," Sinitta claimed to The Sun. "It was sad to discover that I wasn't that person to her. I've known her for four or five years. But it's OK, we have dealt with it. I didn't cry when I heard and I certainly didn't cry, 'It should've been me'. That's a comedy sketch — not real life.' But despite their woes, Sinitta and Simon remain close and she's even godmother to Eric while he is godfather to her kids Magdalena and Zac, whom she adopted with ex-husband Andy Willner. Sinitta even believes that she and Simon are so tight they share a 'psychic bond' that alerted him when she secretly contracted coronavirus in 2020. 'I caught the virus after doing a club gig. Next day I felt as if I'd swallowed a packet of razor blades. I was in bed for about a week. I didn't tell Simon I was ill but it wasn't long before he got in touch," she told the Sunday Mirror. 'When he got through, Simon said, 'You've got it [the virus] haven't you?' And I said, 'How do you know?' He said, 'I knew it. I could just tell because you disappeared. I knew you didn't want to worry me.' He told me, 'We have this weird connection, I can just tell when something's wrong.'" Aside from her high-profile personal life, Sinitta has gone on to flourish in her career. The singer has frequently featured as a guest judge and mentor on The X Factor, and has appeared on shows such as Dancing on Ice, Celebrity Big Brother, Late Night Lycett, Celebs Go Dating, and Loose Women. Terri Seymour Extra TV host Terri Seymour, now 52, dated Simon for six years from 2002 to 2008 before they ended things because in Simon's words: "She wants a different path in life. We will be the best of mates, but I think in relationships, you have to be totally honest. I have always been and I know Terri knows that," he told Just Jared at the time. While they broke things off romantically, Terri still remains a pivotal part of Simon's life, and seems very close to Lauren. Back when they were kids a few years ago, she regularly shared Instagram pictures of herself and Lauren enjoying playdates with Eric and her own daughter Coco, now 10, whom she raises in Los Angeles with her model and artist partner, Clark Mallon. Terri has previously opened up about her continuing friendship with Simon, gushing: "We do still speak every day. Actually we'll often speak to each other five, even 10 times a day. And when Simon is in LA we see each other daily." Terri still works as an entertainment correspondent for Extra TV, and this year went to her first ever Oscars red carpet alongside crossing paths with plenty of celebs at the Golden Globes. Jackie St Clair Former Playboy and Page 3 pin-up Jackie St Clair met Simon on the nightclub scene in the 1980s, and remained close friends after the romance ran out. While sticking close to Simon, there's no love lost between her and Sinitta, who reportedly refused to be on the boat at the same time as Jackie in 2012. Dishing on the fallout, Sinitta told the Daily Mail: "We're never in each other's company. Simon would prefer it if we could be." As far as Simon was concerned, he was staying well out of it. "Urrrgh! It was a pretty torrid day, absolutely hellish," he told The Mirror. "What do you think? Am I getting involved with it all? That would be a 'No!'" According to one insider, the battle could have started over a fight to be Eric's godmother - a fight that Sinitta eventually won. Back in 2013, a source revealed to the Sunday People: 'Simon is facing a real dilemma. There are a lot of women in his life and he is still very close to all of his exes. 'But it is Sinitta and Jackie who want to be godmother to his baby. It's tricky because they really don't get on. If Simon chooses one it could be a real blow to the other. They have taken him aside and spoken about their desire to help raise the little one. They have both offered to babysit and are willing to help Lauren out when he is away working. As his closest friends they are both desperate to be involved." Alongside her romance with Simon, also once dated Andrew Ridgeley and Prince. Now, however, she's much more settled down. The model is married businessman Carl Michaelson, and the duo have become huge names in the London social scene, often hosting swanky events at luxury venues and hotels or posing on the red carpet together. Mezhgan Hussainy Before Eric came along, the closest Simon got to becoming a one-woman man came thanks to Mezhgan Hussainy. It looked like Simon had finally been tamed when he proposed to make-up artist Mezhgan on Valentine's Day 2010 in the bedroom of his plush pad in Holland Park, London. Simon went the whole hog for the proposal, even commissioning a £250,000 six-carat engagement ring from Bond Street jewellers Graff for the occasion. Despite all of his efforts, he did an about-turn just a year later and called the engagement off - but gifted her a £5 million Beverly Hills mansion as a final parting gift. According to Bower's biography, Mezghan had some huge distrust of Simon which led to plenty of tension, with the music man moving into a hotel in a bid to escape the bad vibes at home with his American fiancée. It seems like the tension never quite disappeared, and the makeup pro hasn't been seen with Lauren or Simon in years. In fact, she looks to have moved on completely, and went on to become the proud mum of twins Preston and Isabella in 2018 with partner Phil Miller.
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Resilio Sets New Speed Standard for Data Movement at NAB 2025, Helping Media Production Create Faster
The latest Resilio Active Everywhere Platform enhancements supercharge data movement and collaboration, unlocking previously impossible-to-achieve data transfer speeds of 200Gbps and higher. PLEASANTON, Calif., March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Resilio, the high-performance data movement solution for enterprise IT teams, today announced significant enhancements to its Active Everywhere Platform, including 200Gbps and above data transfers, establishing a new standard for global collaboration in media and entertainment. The company will showcase its capabilities at the NAB Show 2025 conference (April 6-9) in Las Vegas. The latest updates on the Resilio Active Everywhere Platform address critical challenges facing an industry managing massive data sets from acquisition to post-production, where the ability to move faster—and keep media actively accessible on any storage systems—directly impacts production budgets and project delivery. "While conventional file transfer solutions remain bottlenecked at 10Gbps, Resilio's modern data movement architecture enables enterprises to achieve unprecedented speeds of 50, 100, and even 200+ Gbps," said Konstantin Lissounov, CTO of Resilio. "This level of performance is transformative for AI-driven workflows where 'chasing the compute' has become essential—studios need to rapidly move massive datasets to wherever GPU resources are available. With Resilio Active Everywhere, media companies can fully leverage AI by eliminating data transfer as the bottleneck, turning data movement from a technical challenge into a strategic competitive advantage." Resilio will showcase high-performance data movement solutions including: Breaking the Speed Barrier with 200Gbps+ Data Transfers – Resilio's innovative scale-out architecture breaks through conventional 10Gbps barriers, allowing IT teams to fully utilize their network infrastructure with linear performance scaling as additional nodes are added to reach data transfers of 200Gbps and higher. Keeping Up with the Demands of a Distributed Workforce – Resilio's new flexible file caching solution, DemandCache, ensures high-performance file accessibility for distributed media production teams from the office to the desktop. DemandCache provides automated cache management with location-specific policies, pre-cache hydration, cache pinning, prioritized downloads, and configurable cache sizes in a simple management dashboard. This intelligent caching combined with peer-to-peer (P2P) replication ensures seamless syncing even on slower networks, making it ideal for remote teams. Faster Feedback Cycles During Collaborative Editing – A revolutionary file streaming solution, Slipstream, propels media production into a new dimension of speed by allowing creatives to access and work with files before they've fully downloaded. By intelligently prioritizing critical file components, Slipstream enables viewing, or analysis while the remainder of the file transfers seamlessly in the background. Maintaining Open Standards for Maximum Flexibility – The company's commitment to open standards means data remains stored in its native format, allowing use with cloud-native applications and full compatibility with any cloud or multi-cloud setup—advantages not provided by legacy vendors requiring file storage in proprietary formats. These enhancements directly address the most pressing challenges faced by media and entertainment IT teams today: managing massive content files across global studios, supporting remote production workflows, providing field teams with reliable data transfer capabilities, and ensuring seamless access to cloud-based compute resources for rendering, visual effects, and generative AI operations that increasingly define cutting-edge production pipelines. "For media production teams where every second counts, Active Everywhere eliminates the bottlenecks that plague traditional workflows," added Eric Klinker, CEO at Resilio. "When high-performance access to data stored everywhere is critical to running your business, only Resilio delivers the fastest platform for making data available to compute, GPUs, and people without compromise." All enhancements to the Resilio Active Everywhere Platform are available immediately. Current customers can contact their dedicated account manager to seamlessly integrate these new capabilities into their existing workflows. Organizations interested in transforming their data movement operations are invited to contact Resilio at sales@ or visit to schedule a consultation and discover how Active Everywhere can accelerate their media production processes. Meet Resilio at NAB Show 2025 Attendees at NAB Show 2025 are invited to experience the Active Everywhere Platform in action at booth SL9910 in the Las Vegas Convention Center South Hall. The company will demonstrate real-world workflows showing how media organizations can save hours of production time while fully utilizing their existing infrastructure. To schedule a personalized demonstration, visit About Resilio Resilio delivers high-performance data movement solutions built on a modern peer-to-peer architecture that enables enterprises to move faster, unlocking competitive advantage through superior data accessibility at any scale. The company's Active Everywhere Platform powers the most demanding data-intensive workflows for leading organizations in media and entertainment, financial services, and beyond. For more information, visit View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Resilio Sign in to access your portfolio
Chicago Tribune
01-03-2025
- Business
- Chicago Tribune
Federal funding freeze lifted for some Illinois clean energy projects
With the fight over a federal clean energy funding freeze entering its second month, two of the biggest prizes in Illinois are emissions-reduction grants totaling more than $570 million. Now, the state appears closer to claiming both of them. Money from an expected $430 million in federal Climate Pollution Reduction grants was blocked until Feb. 19, but the state can now access it, according to a written statement from Gov. JB Pritzker's office. Part of a $148 million National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure grant for public EV chargers also appears to be within reach. The federal government has legally committed to pay the state $25.3 million of the NEVI grant funds, according to the governor's office. 'The state will continue to pursue every option available to ensure we receive the funds promised to us,' the statement said. The state's progress comes at a time of uncertainty for clean energy, kicked off by President Donald Trump's strongly worded executive orders freezing federal funding for a wide range of decarbonization projects, including those created or expanded by President Joe Biden's signature climate law, the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. Two federal judges have issued orders requiring the Trump administration to unfreeze trillions of dollars in funding for a wide range of projects, including clean energy. Lawyers for the Trump Justice Department have argued that the president and the Office of Management and Budget 'plainly have authority to direct agencies to fully implement the President's agenda, consistent with each individual agency's underlying statutory authorities,' according to The Associated Press. In Illinois, which aims for 100% clean energy by 2050, the effects of the clean energy funding freeze have been felt by small nonprofits as well as major state agencies. 'I think right now the summary is chaos and uncertainty, which is not something you want to see with these programs,' said Illinois Environmental Council Executive Director Jen Walling. Walling, whose organization is tracking the effects of the freeze, said that some nonprofits that expected federal clean energy grants either don't know if they'll get them or have heard of 'some sort of cancellation.' 'I can't give details, but I definitely know that nonprofits have already started to look at — or started to perform — layoffs, based on federal funding maybe not being available in the future,' she said. At Slipstream, a Wisconsin nonprofit focused on building decarbonization, Managing Director of Policy Robin Lisowski said that federal funds have been frozen and unfrozen multiple times. 'I've heard from multiple organizations and different levels of government in multiple states that that was the experience,' she said. Now, she said, Slipstream is hearing from some partner organizations that they have received payment, but reimbursement is still 'a mixed bag.' In Illinois, the NEVI grants have been of particular concern, in part because Trump singled out the program in one of his executive orders, and in part because much of the money has not yet been awarded to the companies that will build the chargers. The $25.3 million that the state says the federal government is legally committed to paying would fund 37 charging stations across the state. It's unclear whether Illinois will retain the rest of the NEVI grant money. The U.S. Department of Transportation, which administers the NEVI grants, did not respond to a request for comment. In January, Environmental Law and Policy Center CEO Howard Learner told the Tribune that NEVI funds are under more direct presidential control than, say, solar energy tax credits or EV tax credits. '(With NEVI) the administration does have a degree of flexibility and can decide, with regard to new expenditures, whether to move forward or not,' Learner said. Walling is more optimistic about the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants, which were announced in July. 'I think that money is pretty well locked up and after some discussion, it's going to go where it needs to go and it's going to get paid out,' Walling said. Those grants will fund projects in five priority areas, according to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency website: clean and efficient buildings, clean transportation and freight, industrial decarbonization, climate-smart agriculture and clean power. In total, those projects will reduce more than 57 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions over the next 25 years, according to the Illinois EPA.
