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'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 Ratings: 8.6 Million Netflix Views
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‘Nobody Wants This’ Season 2 Ratings: 8.6 Million Netflix Views

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Season 2 of “Nobody Wants This” hit 8.6 million views in its first four days of streaming.

That took it to the No. 1 position on the Netflix Top 10’s English-language TV chart for the week of Oct. 20-26. However, the series still saw a 17% decrease from the viewership it achieved with its Season 1 premiere last year, which debuted with 10.3 million views in the same amount of time.

But the No. 1 title overall on Netflix was Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” leading the film chart with 22.1 million views in just three days. “The Perfect Neighbor” was a close second with 20.2 million views, though it had the full week to accrue viewership, as it had its debut at No. 1 with 16.7 million views the week before.

Back on the TV chart, “The Diplomat” Season 3 followed “Nobody Wants This” at No. 2 with 6.3 million views in its first full week of availability, up from its 4.8 million-view debut in four days the previous week. “Boots” took third place in its third week on the chart with 5.6 million views, while “Monster: The Ed Gein Story” charted at No. 4 with 5.1 million views in its fourth week.

Docuseries “Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia” debuted at No. 5 with 4.8 million views in its first five days, followed by the Oct. 20 edition of “Raw: 2025” with 2.6 million views. The bottom of the chart was dominated by repeat titles —

See the Netflix Top 10 for Oct. 20-26 below, beginning with English-language shows and movies and followed by non-English-language shows and movies.

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Who Is Timothy Mellon? All About the $130 Million Mystery Troops Donor – Hollywood Life
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Who Is Timothy Mellon? All About the $130 Million Mystery Troops Donor – Hollywood Life

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In late October 2025, the Pentagon accepted an anonymous donation of $130 million to cover military personnel salaries during the ongoing government shutdown. Donald Trump announced the gift without naming the donor, calling them “a friend” to him and “a great American citizen” who “loves the military and loves the country’ while speaking to reporters. Trump also noted that the donor is “a big supporter of [his]” but “doesn’t want publicity.” Shortly thereafter, The New York Times reported that the mystery donor was Timothy Mellon, who is a member of the famous banking family.

Keep reading to learn more about Timothy and his reported contribution to the U.S. military.

Timothy Mellon Is the Grandson of Andrew Mellon

Timothy’s grandfather is former U.S. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. Andrew was one of the longest-serving Treasury secretaries in American history and worked in his position during the roaring ’20s as well as the 1929 Wall Street crash.

What Is Timothy Mellon’s Net Worth?

Timothy has a net worth of about $1 billion, according to Forbes. However, he denied this by writing, ““Billionaire NOT! … Never have been, never will be,” in a 2024 email to the outlet, according to CNBC.

The entire Mellon family’s net worth is estimated to be about $14 billion, according to Forbes.

Where Is Timothy Mellon Now?

Timothy maintains a private lifestyle. Despite his apparent financial contributions, the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, live a life out of the public eye.

As Trump said to reporters in October 2025, his military donor “doesn’t want publicity.”

“He prefers that his name not be mentioned, which is pretty unusual in the world I come from, and in the world of politics, you want your name mentioned,” the Republican president added.

Why Did Timothy Mellon Donate Millions to the Military?

As previously noted, the ongoing government shutdown has impacted federal workers, including any active-duty military. Timothy’s financial contribution sparked debate over the legality of such a payment. The donation was accepted under the Pentagon’s “general gift acceptance authority.” However, others have pointed out that it may go against the Antideficiency Act, which restricts agencies from spending beyond payments appropriated by Congress.

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Rick Ross Lists Lavish $6.5 Million Florida Mansion For Sale + Features Soundproof Theater, Nine-Car Garage & More
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Rick Ross Lists Lavish $6.5 Million Florida Mansion For Sale + Features Soundproof Theater, Nine-Car Garage & More

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Rick Ross Lists Lavish $6.5 Million Florida Mansion For Sale + Features Soundproof Theater, Nine-Car Garage & More

Rick Ross is ready to cash out on one of his most luxurious properties. The Miami rapper has officially listed his stunning South Florida mansion for $6.5 million, giving fans a glimpse into his boss-level lifestyle.

Located in Southwest Ranches, Florida, the 14,000-square-foot property includes six bedrooms, six and a half bathrooms, and sits on 2.3 acres in the exclusive Landmark Ranch Estates neighborhood.

The home boasts marble floors, soaring ceilings, a private driveway, a resort-style pool, a custom bar, a soundproof theater, two offices, and even a nine-car garage. The primary suite is a showstopper, with “a custom one-of-a-kind closet, sitting area, bonus room and spa-inspired bath,” according to the listing.

Rozay bought the property from former NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire in 2021 for $3.5 million cash and made major upgrades, including a massive double-R logo driveway and a new roof. He still owns his 322-acre Georgia estate, “The Promise Land.”

Would you drop $6.5 million on Ross’ mega mansion?


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Must Read: ShopMy Raises $70 million in Funding, Gen Z Shoppers are Relying on AI for Gift Ideas
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Must Read: ShopMy Raises $70 million in Funding, Gen Z Shoppers are Relying on AI for Gift Ideas

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These are the stories making headlines in fashion on Wednesday. ShopMy raised $70 million at a $1.5 billion valuation for its latest funding round, led by investment management firm Avenir. Several high-profile figures invested, including Sofia Richie Grainge, Aimee Song, Revolve’s …

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Teyana Taylor & Leonardo DiCaprio's Film 'One Battle After Another' Faces Massive $100 Million Box Office Loss Despite Critical Praise
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Teyana Taylor & Leonardo DiCaprio’s Film ‘One Battle After Another’ Faces Massive $100 Million Box Office Loss Despite Critical Praise

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Teyana Taylor & Leonardo DiCaprio’s Film ‘One Battle After Another’ Faces Massive $100 Million Box Office Loss Despite Critical Praise

Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor’s new film “One Battle After Another” is being hailed by viewers but it’s struggling to make its money back.

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, the Warner Bros. drama reportedly cost around $130 million to produce and another $70 million to promote. So far, it’s earned about $140 million worldwide, falling short of what’s needed to turn a profit.

“These prestige-type movies have failed to create a sense of FOMO among audiences,” says Fandango box office analyst Shawn Robbins in a statement to Variety. Warner Bros. pushed back on reports of a $100 million loss, saying, “Films across the studio’s slate, including ‘One Battle After Another,’ have achieved financial reward in 2025 with more than $4 billion earned to date.”

Despite the numbers, “One Battle After Another” is generating major Oscar buzz for its emotional storytelling and standout performances by DiCaprio and Taylor.

Did y’all go catch this action flick?


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'Black Phone 2' Opening to $23 Million
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‘Black Phone 2’ Opening to $23 Million

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SATURDAY AM: Refresh for more analysis and chart… In what has been a heavy-loaded horror year, every other studio seemed to be winning with the genre except Blumhouse. Until now: the horror house of Purge & Five Nights at Freddy’s finally makes a comeback this weekend with Black Phone 2 which in its opening is ahead of its predecessor with a 3-day of $24.4M.

The sequel throughout last night continued to trend up against comps, which is a great sign for a horror film. A -22% ease from Friday today is expected with $8.3M. That’s better than the first Saturday of 2021’s Black Phone which declined -26% from Friday with a $7.5M take. Overall CinemaScore is a B, which is very good for a horror film on that exit poll’s scale. In ComScore/Screen Engine’s PostTrak, women under 25 (who showed up at 22%) loved the R-rated movie the most at 85% postive score and 76% definite recommend along with 13-17 year olds (12% more than Tron:Ares‘ 6% last weekend) who gave it an 88% positive score and massive 83% definite recommend. Overall definite recommend, the barometer for success on PostTrak, is a great 63%.

Audiences are picking up Black Phone 2 in the West, Midwest and South Central. Shared PLFs with Tron: Ares are driving close to a third of the gross with the AMC Burbank the nation’s highest grossing cinema with close to $31K so far.

Keanu Reeves as Gabriel and Sandra Oh as Martha in Good Fortune. Photo Credit: Eddy Chen

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The weekend’s other starry wide entry, Lionsgate’s Good Fortune, which at net $30M cost as much as Black Phone 2, ain’t faring well with an estimated $6M (we’re still waiting on the studio’s figure). B+ CinemaScore, and a pretty good 59% definite recommend, but nobody is going. At a time when we want comedies to truly make a return at the box office, this Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari feature isn’t calling the masses out despite good revies at 78% certified fresh and a 77% audience score. The film, an homage to movies like Warren Beatty’s Heaven Can Wait, is playing ala an arthouse movie, on the coasts. Largely guys over 25 (42%) and women over 25 (39%) with hardly anyone under 25 at 19%.

With a 166 million reach across TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and X, Good Fortune‘s social media universe is paced 13% behind other comedy norms, RelishMix comping the Ansari directed movie to Naked Gun, Caught Stealing, Joy Ride and Honey Don’t. Rogen counts 24.5M social media followers, Keke Palmer is 23.2M, with full force from Ansari at 11.9M. Reeves is still off the grid for his films. As far as the sniping online, RelishMix noticed “Mixed-negative leaning chatter for Good Fortune hits on recycled looks, AI vibes, and some misplaced casting. Keanu’s Wick-hair-and-beard fatigue is real with complaints like, ‘You’d think Keanu would change his look for this movie. Instead it’s John Wick with costume store wings. Looks lame to me.’”.

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FRIDAY MIDDAY UPDATE: Blumhouse is looking at its biggest opening year-to-date after four movies with Black Phone 2, which is shaping up for a $23 million start after a Friday and previews of $10.1M at 3,411 sites.

After an autumn of lost hopes, thank God. That’s $600,00 lighter than the 2021 first installment’s opening, and we’ll take it.

Giving the Universal release some extra power are 1,000 exhibitor PLF screens as well as 170 AMC-only Dolby Cinema screens.

Second place goes to Disney’s Tron: Ares at 4,000 sites with a 65% second-weekend decline, steeper than the movie’s pre-Covid comp Blade Runner 2049, which was down 53% in its weekend 2. The Jared Leto movie’s three-day is $11.5M, and its second Friday is $3.3M. The 10-day running total by Sunday will stand at $54.9M, 10% behind Blade Runner 2049 at the same point in time and -37% behind 2010’s Tron: Legacy (its 10-day was $87.3M) which had the beneficial bounce of Christmas.

Third belongs to Lionsgate’s Good Fortune at 2,990 theaters, with $2.5M today and bad fortune at $6M for the net $30M feature.

Warner Bros’ fourth weekend of One Battle After Another at 2,532 sites is seeing $3.8M over Friday-Sunday and $1M today, for a running cume by Sunday of $61.7M.

Fifth is Paramount/Miramax’s Roofman at 3,370 with a second Friday of $1.1M and a second weekend of $3.65M (-55%), for a 10-day total of $15.4M.

Angel Studios is opening the Matt Whitaker-directed WWII period movie Truth & Treason at 2,088 theaters to $2.2M for the weekend after $1M today. The plot: One teen risks everything to expose the truth as he questions his loyalty to his German homeland. With the Gestapo closing in, he must decide what it really means to be a good German.

PREVIOUSLY, Friday AM: Universal and Blumhouse’s Black Phone 2 dialed up $2.6 million in previews Thursday at 2,900 theaters from showtimes that began at 2 p.m. That’s just under the $3M the original 2021 movie pulled in before bowing to $23.6M.

Black Phone 2 previews are in line with that of Paramount’s Smile 2, which opened in the same weekend a year ago with $2.5M in previews and a three-day total of $23M.

The hope is that Blumhouse, after seeing a lackluster streak in a horror-laden box office year for the industry, can actually get a break and post an opening that’s robust. The Scott Derrickson-directed sequel is figured to land between $20M-$30M. Reviews are solid at 74% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. The first Black Phone was 81% with RT critics and had a B+ CinemaScore.

The setup for Black Phone 2 is that Ethan Hawke’s The Grabber is out there in the real world, not holed up in some neighborhood house in 1970s suburbia. Watch out. Production cost for Black Phone 2 is net $30M.

After the less-than-par opening for Disney’s Tron: Ares, and sophisticated adult movies in free-fall (I’m sorry, One Battle After Another is the exception and faring better at a near $58M than everything in its wake, i.e., Roofman, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Caught Stealing, etc.), it’s doldrums time at the autumn box office, though according to ComScore for, from Labor Day through last Sunday, the season is flat with a year ago at $770.7M. It would be nice to finally see a movie meet its tracking forecast.

Meanwhile, Lionsgate has the comedy Good Fortune, directed by and starring Aziz Ansari along with Keanu Reeves and Seth Rogen. It’s expected to ring up under $10M at 2,985 locations. The movie cost a net $30 million in line with other Lionsgate movies; the pic, you’ll remember, was impacted by a start-and-stop with the writers and actors strikes. Coming out of its TIFF world premiere, Good Fortune is 79% fresh. Previews last night were $725,000 at 2,500 sites. Note that Roofman, another adult-skewing (largely guys, ironically, for a Channing Tatum movie) title last week, did $1M in previews before posting an $8M start.

Check out our interview below with Ansari at our TIFF studio:

Disney’s Tron: Ares ends the week with $43.4M, a number many were hopeful the net $180M production would open at. This movie is pacing slightly behind another Jared Leto sci-fi property, also with a finite fan base, 2017’s Blade Runner 2049, which posted a first week of $45.4M. Blade Runner 2049 with an A- CinemaScore held at -53% in weekend 2 with $15.4M, and Tron: Ares is expected to be steeper with -60% off its B+ CinemaScore. Tron Ares will keep the Imax and majority of PLFs and their great showtimes this weekend.

This week’s top 5

  1. Tron Ares (Dis) 4,000 theaters, Thu $1.5M (-20% from Wed), Week $43.4M/Wk 1
  2. Roofman (Par) 3,362 theaters, Thu $567K (-23%), Week $11.8M/Wk 1
  3. One Battle After Another (WB) 3,127 theaters, Thu $545K (-19% from Wed), Wk $10.1M (-38%), Total $57.9M/Wk 3
  4. Gabby’s Dollhouse (Uni) 3,049 theaters, Thu $192K (-8%), Wk $5.2M (-21%), Total $28.2M/Wk 3
  5. Conjuring: Last Rites (NL/WB) 2,334 theaters, Thu $195K (-25%), Wk $4.36M (-24%), Total $173.8M/Wk 6
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Taylor Swift Fans Donate Over $2 Million to Aquarium Over Otter Shirt
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Taylor Swift Fans Donate Over $2 Million to Aquarium Over Otter Shirt

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A vintage t-shirt Taylor Swift wore in her Life of a Showgirl film has snowballed into Swifties raising over $2 million for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, its Sea Otter Program, and other conservation efforts. 

To go back to the beginning: At one point in The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, Swift is seen wearing a elegantly faded Monterey Bay Aquarium shirt with a charming encyclopedia-style illustrated graphic for sea otters. It’s got the animal’s latin name “Enhydra lutris,” some anatomical stats, and even an illustrated list of favorite foods. 

It is, on its own, a very cool shirt, but for Swift’s fans it also resonated with the revelation that she and fiancé Travis Kelce share a deep love of otters. During Swift’s appearance on Kelce’s New Heights podcast with his brother, Jason, Swift said: “All I really use the internet for is sourdough and when Travis shows me videos of otters on his Instagram algorithm.” (Kelce then revealed his wish to have, as a pet, a wild otter that he’s rescued.)

After the Release Party of a Showgirl film premiered, the Monterey Bay Aquarium was flooded with questions about the t-shirt. So, they tracked down the original artwork from 1993 to print a new batch, then made them available as part of a limited-time fundraising campaign for a minimum donation of $65.13 (the extra 13 cents of course being a nod to Swift’s favorite number).

Unsurprisingly, the campaign surpassed its $1.3 million goal in just seven hours, with the Monterey Bay Aquarium eventually putting the shirts on backorder due to the incredible demand. As of publication today (Oct. 17), the aquarium is still raking in money with over $2 million and counting. 

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“Your response was beyond our Wildest Dreams,” the aquarium wrote in a statement stuffed with Swift puns. “We hear you loud and clear, and we’re so grateful for the All Too Well kind of love this fundraising campaign as received.” 

As the Monterey Bay Aquarium also noted on its website, there are several other unique connections between the the aquarium, its otters, and Swift, though whether it’s just a coincidence or an Easter egg is up for fans to decide. For instance, just last month, the aquarium commissioned a local musician Taylor Safina to write up an otter rescue-themed song, which wound up being an homage of sorts to Swift’s “The Alchemy.” Even more striking, though, are the sea otters at the Monterey Bay Aquarium that happen to have Swift-adjacent names:  Ivy (like on Evermore) and Opal (as in “Opalinte”).

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Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ makes history by selling 4 million copies in first week

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NEW YORK — That’s show business for you! Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” has officially sold 4.002 million equivalent album units — which includes album sales and streaming activity — in its first week in the U.S. That is the biggest first week in modern music history; at least, according to Luminate, the industry data and analytics company that began tracking sales in 1991.

Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ makes history by selling 4 million copies in first week

Swift broke the record set by Adele’s “25,” which sold 3.378 million copies in its first week in 2015 in the U.S.

“The Life of a Showgirl” was released Oct. 3. In its first week, pure album sales totaled 3,479,500 copies.

She’s also become the solo artist with the most No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, with 15. She was previously tied with Drake and Jay-Z, who each have 14.

Swift is now just behind The Beatles, who boast of 19 No. 1 albums.

She is no stranger to breaking records, and when it comes to “The Life of a Showgirl,” the history-making started immediately. In its first day of release, the album sold 2.7 million copies in traditional album sales, breaking her record for most first week sales… in one day.

Her last album, 2024’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” amassed 2.61 million equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first week.

Also, according to Luminate, “The Life of a Showgirl” broke the record for the most copies of a vinyl album sold in a single week in the U.S., with 1.2 million copies in its first day.

The previous record holder was “The Tortured Poets Department,” which sold 859,000 copies on vinyl in its first week.

One of the reasons Swift has seen so much success is that she released her record in several different variants. Those include multiple editions specific to Target — three CDs titled “It’s Frightening,” “It’s Rapturous” and “It’s Beautiful,” as well as an exclusive vinyl release, “The Crowd Is Your King.”

There are a number of other vinyl variants as well: “The Tiny Bubble in Champagne Collection,” “The Baby That’s Show Business Collection,” “The Shiny Bug Collection,” and the standard LP and cassette, in “sweat and vanilla perfume Portofino orange vinyl.”

The news of Swift’s record-breaking sales arrived just after “Good Morning America” revealed Monday that she’ll have two new projects at Disney . That’s a six-episode, behind-the-scenes docuseries about her landmark “Eras Tour” titled “Taylor Swift ‘ The Eras Tour ‘ The End of an Era.”

The first two episodes of her docuseries will premiere Dec. 12.

And that is not to be confused with the second, titled “Taylor Swift ‘ The Eras Tour ‘ The Final Show,” a concert film now with the inclusion of “The Tortured Poets Department” section. The 2024 album was incorporated into her three-and-a-half-hour performance following its release. It was filmed in Vancouver.

That differs from 2023’s “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” film, which was compiled from several Swift shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, a suburb of Los Angeles and arrived ahead of “The Tortured Poets Department.”

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Cam'ron Says His Male-Enhancement Supplement 'Pink Horse Power' Earned Him Nearly $10 Million in Four Years
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Cam’ron Says His Male-Enhancement Supplement ‘Pink Horse Power’ Earned Him Nearly $10 Million in Four Years

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Cam’ron Says His Male-Enhancement Supplement ‘Pink Horse Power’ Earned Him Nearly $10 Million in Four Years

Rapper and entrepreneur Cam’ron says his Pink Horse Power male-enhancement supplement has been a lucrative business — and his viral TV moments helped make it a hit.

In a new interview with The Breakfast Club, Cam’ron brought along samples of the product, explaining that it’s made with natural African ingredients sourced directly from Senegal. He said he ensures the potency of the ingredients by keeping someone on-site to monitor production.

“When it’s on the boat, they water it down,” Cam said. “I keep a n—a on a boat for two months to watch our stocks so that we make sure we have the highest potency of it.”

Cam described the supplement as “potent and effective,” saying it works fast — within 10 minutes when, as he put it, “it’s time to go in.” He added,

“We’ve been doing this for four years [and] probably made close to $10 million on it.”

According to the Harlem native, the company was born during the pandemic because, in his words,

“Nobody was doing s—t but f—king at home.”

He credited several of his media appearances for boosting sales, including his spots on Drink Champs and Gillie Da Kid’s podcast. But he says the biggest push came from his viral CNN interview in 2024, when anchor Abby Phillip pressed him about footage of Diddy assaulting Cassie.

Cam’ron said he reluctantly answered a few questions before turning the moment into an impromptu marketing move:

“I said I’ll do one or two Puff questions, but you kept forcing the issue. Alright, bet. Let’s do it — Pink Horse commercial, the whole s—t.”

During the now-infamous clip, Cam took a shot of his Pink Horse Power drink live on-air and joked that he was going to “get some cheeks” after the interview — a moment that quickly went viral and, according to him, supercharged sales.


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Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $966 million in cancer case: Here is how talcum powder may be linked to cancer
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Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $966 million in cancer case: Here is how talcum powder may be linked to cancer

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A Los Angeles court has directed pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $966 million to the family of Mae Moore, an 88-year-old woman who died in 2021 from mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer linked to asbestos exposure. The family filed the lawsuit the same year, claiming that Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based baby powder products contained asbestos fibers that caused her illness. A jury ruled in their favour earlier this week, ordering the company to pay $16 million in compensatory damages and a staggering $950 million in punitive damages. So what is the link between talcum powder and cancer? Let’s understand it.

The jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $966 million to a family after linking its talc-based baby powder to a rare cancer.(Adobe Stock)

While Johnson & Johnson maintains that its baby powder is safe, asbestos-free, and does not cause cancer, the company discontinued its talc-based baby powder in the US in 2020, shifting instead to a cornstarch-based version. Currently, J&J faces more than 67,000 lawsuits filed by plaintiffs claiming they developed cancer from using the company’s talc products. Most of these cases involve ovarian cancer, but a smaller portion, like the Mae Moore case, focuses on mesothelioma.

What is talcum powder?

Talcum powder is made from talc, a naturally occurring mineral composed mainly of magnesium, silicon, and oxygen. “Due to its silky texture and ability to absorb moisture, it is commonly used in cosmetics such as baby powder, blush, and eye shadow. However, concerns have emerged when talc is mined from areas contaminated with asbestos, a known carcinogen,” Dr Gaurav Jaswal, Consultant Radiation Oncology, TGH OncoLife Cancer Centre, tells Health Shots.

What’s the link between asbestos and talc?

Talc and asbestos are often found near each other underground. As per the American Cancer Society, talc can sometimes become contaminated with asbestos during mining. Asbestos is a group of minerals known to cause cancers, especially in the lungs, when inhaled. If asbestos fibers mix with talc, they can end up in consumer products. That is why manufacturers must carefully source and test their talc to ensure it is asbestos-free. Regular asbestos exposure has been shown to increase cancer risk, which is why even trace contamination in personal care products has raised serious safety concerns.

Talc powder and cancer: What is the link?

The cancer risk largely depends on whether the talc contains asbestos. Dr Jaswal says, “Studies clearly show that inhaling asbestos-contaminated talc increases the risk of developing cancer, especially in the lungs and surrounding tissues.” The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classifies talc containing asbestos as carcinogenic to humans. However, evidence on asbestos-free talc remains less definitive, with ongoing research trying to determine its long-term safety.

Talcum powder has long been used in baby products because the mineral keeps skin dry and prevents diaper rash.(REUTERS)
Talcum powder has long been used in baby products because the mineral keeps skin dry and prevents diaper rash.(REUTERS)

Can breathing in talcum powder cause lung cancer?

There is no solid proof that regular use of cosmetic baby powder increases lung cancer risk in consumers. However, people involved in talc mining and processing may face a slightly higher risk due to their prolonged exposure to raw talc, which may naturally contain asbestos or other harmful minerals.

It is difficult for scientists to pinpoint whether this increased risk is due to talc itself or other substances. For most consumers, especially those using purified cosmetic-grade talc, the risk appears to be extremely low.

Can talcum powder increase ovarian cancer risk in women?

According to the American Cancer Society, talcum powder might pose a potential risk if applied regularly to the genital area. The theory suggests that tiny talc particles could travel through the reproductive tract to the ovaries, irritating them may, over time, increase cancer risk.

However, research findings have been mixed. Some studies report a slightly higher risk, while others find no connection at all. A large study of more than 250,000 women between 1976 and 2017 found no significant link between genital talc use and ovarian cancer. Still, researchers continue to explore whether talc could raise risks in specific age groups or types of ovarian cancer.

(Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and not a substitute for professional medical advice.)

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