Years of frustration in European club soccer’s elite competition was blown away in one glorious and historic night in Munich.
Anne D’Innocenzio scrolls through a family album inside her kitchen, surrounded by mementos from her childhood home, including a working blender from the 1960s and an old food scale from the 1940s, Monday Feb. 26, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)Anne D’Innocenzio scrolls through a family album inside her kitchen, surrounded by mementos from her childhood home, including a working blender from the 1960s and an old food scale from the 1940s, Monday Feb. 26, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Mom loved her home. After Dad passed in 2002, she decided to hang on to the house that had become a repository of little treasures she collected over the years, or that were from her own childhood. There was artwork from our time living abroad in Italy and the Netherlands, and our childhood bedroom set — still in pristine condition. There were lots of books. And her kitchen was filled with a mix of fancy cookware and old items that dated back decades: an 80-year-old flour sifter from mom’s mother-in-law’s kitchen, a working blender from the 1960s and an old food scale from the 1940s.Mom wanted us to have an estate sale for some of the items we didn’t want, but an estate rep came to our house and told us what we already knew — younger generations don’t like “brown furniture,” like wooden china cabinets and old stuff.So we learned to be creative.
My parents’ dining room set went to our friend’s relatives in the country of Georgia. The new owners of Mom’s house wanted some items. My sister and I took many pieces of furniture and rugs along with kitchenware. We figured we could make room by giving away items from our homes that didn’t mean as much.We also did some repurposing. My sister took the old wooden sleds and refashioned them as holiday decor. I have plans to convert the wooden high chair where I kept my childhood dolls into a plant stand.
Anne D’Innocenzio stands by her family piano at her childhood home in suburban New Jersey, on April 3, 2023, hours before movers came to take it away to its new owner. (Courtesy Anne D’Innocenzio via AP)
Anne D’Innocenzio stands by her family piano at her childhood home in suburban New Jersey, on April 3, 2023, hours before movers came to take it away to its new owner. (Courtesy Anne D’Innocenzio via AP)The week began with Capricorn Clark, a personal assistant who was later a global brand director for Combs’ company. She recalled witnessing Combs beating his longtime girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, and said he raged about wanting to kill rapper and romantic rival
It ended with another ex-assistant, testifying under the pseudonym “Mia,” who alleges Combs raped her during a torturous eight-year tenure working for the rap star. She is the second of three women expected to testify that he sexually assaulted them. Combs has pleaded not guilty.The trial resumes Monday in federal court in Manhattan.
Here are key moments from Week 3:Former employees of Combs’ Bad Boy Entertainment described repeatedly witnessing him beat Cassie, whose real name is Casandra Ventura, but said they didn’t report the abuse to law enforcement because they feared Combs would harm them.