Cher’s 80—and Sabrina just “twinned” her most iconic Mackie look

Cher turns 80 today—and her legendary style is so timeless, Sabrina Carpenter recently wore her exact vintageBob Mackiedress! The 27-year-old pop star isn't just inspired by Cher's bold, body-positive fashion—she's literally twinning her most iconic looks. From feathered showgirl glam to daring 'naked illusion' gowns, these two superstars prove that confidence and sparkle never go out of style. Here's how Sabrina is introducing Cher's fearless Bob Mackie moments to a whole new generation…

Cher and Sabrina Carpenter share a favorite designer—and a dress

Remember Cher's black triangle "revenge" dress and toweringfeathered headpiecefrom the 1986 Academy Awards? That bold look is classic Bob Mackie style. He’s the award-winning fashion designer, now 87, behind most of Cher’s iconic outfits over the years. Cher has always been Mackie's biggest fan. But now Sabrina is fangirling too, often appearing in Mackie creations, like agold mini dressand ablack tassel dressat the Grand Ole Opry.

Cher and Sabrina have worn the same archival ribbon dress too. Cher first wore it in 1975 onThe Cher Showwhile performing a duet with Tina Turner. (Watch the famous fashion moment here.) ThenSabrina revived the lookat a 2025 VMA Awards after party.

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The ‘naked illusion’ dress trend: Cher’s iconic take vs. Sabrina’s new spin

Both singers love revealing skin in daring dresses. Mackie made the look famous—and the documentary of his fashion career is calledNaked Illusion.Cher danced around during “The Farewell Tour” in London in 2004 in this gold Mackie-designed see-through dress, and Sabrina rang in the New Year in 2026 wearing a shimmering Mackie-inspired nude outfit from Mirror Palais.

Feathers forever: Both stars make showgirl glam fun

Mackie is known for adding dramatic texture like feathers to dresses, hats and accessories. These women got the memo. Cher wore this feather boa during her “Dress To Kill” tour in 2014. And Sabrina repeated the trend at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards.

Statement headpieces: Cher’s headdresses and Sabrina’s Met Gala moment

It’s not just about dresses. Cher is known for wearing fashion headdresses too. She wore this Mackie bejeweled topper in 2005 during her "Farewell...Never Can Say Goodbye" tour. And Sabrina wore this beautiful piece to the 2026 Met Gala to compliment her Dior dress.

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Black sheer gowns: The edgy upgrade

Both Cher and Sabrina give the classic “little black dress” an edgy twist with sheer, see-through panels. Cher wore this lacy gown to the 2026 Met Gala. Maybe she got inspiration from Sabrina’s 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party look.

Bob Mackie's signature sequin style: from streetwear to red carpet

Mackie is called “the Sultan of Sequins” for a reason. He loved to add colorful bedazzles to his designs. Cher wore an encrusted Mackie jacket to theLate Show with David Lettermanin 2013. And Sabrina wore a Mackie sequined dress—in the exact same color palette of black, white and gem tones—to the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards.

Old Hollywood shimmer and shine

Although these women like to push the fashion envelope with provocative outfits, they also do old Hollywood glamour like superstars with shimmering silver gowns, beadwork and sweetheart necklines. Cher wore this stunner to the 70th Academy Awards in 1998. And Sabrina stepped out in this gown for the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.

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Original Version of Disney “Star Wars ”Ride Officially Closes Today After 7 Years as Park Teases New Story

Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run is closing today, May 21, to make way for a new mission starring the Mandalorian and Grogu

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• The ride was an opening day attraction for both Disneyland and Disney World's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge lands

• The updated attraction will feature new gameplay elements, including choosing destinations and interacting with Grogu

Batuu's three suns are setting on one of its original attractions.

At Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at both Disneyland and Disney World's Hollywood Studios, guests can experience two highly immersive rides based on a galaxy far, far away. But now, nearly seven years later, one of those attractions is closing to make way for a new mission.

Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run places guests in the cockpit of the franchise's most iconic ship. Riders are seated in a six-person motion simulator as they go on an interactive smuggling mission. Each guest has one of three jobs — pilot, gunner or engineer — and how well each rider performs determines the success of the mission.

Located at the center of the land, known as the Black Spire Outpost, the queue for the ride begins outside a life-size model of the Millennium Falcon. Guests then weave through the engine room and mechanic shop of Ohnaka Transport Solutions.

Inside, they come face to face with the smuggling pirate Hondo Ohnaka and his astromech droid R5-P8. During the encounter, Hondo explains the premise of the mission.

On May 21, the original mission for Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run will launch for the final time before park officials update the ride with a new storyline featuring the Mandalorian and Grogu.

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Beginning May 22, guests can once again get in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon, this time accompanied by the mysterious bounty hunter and his youngling companion, commonly referred to as “baby Yoda.”

“Listen up crew, our bounties are two Imperial Officers and a pirate,” the Mandalorian says in a preview clip shared to the Disney Parks'social media pageon May 4. “The goal is to capture them and collect any crates they're transporting. Thanks to Hondo's intel, we know they're on Tatooine. Grogu and I will meet you there.”

For the first time ever, guests will be in control of their own destination, leading to potential adventures on Bespin, the city-planet of Coruscant or even the wreckage of the second Death Star near Endor. Another new gameplay addition allows those in the engineer position — previously the least thrilling option— to communicate with Grogu.

The updates are scheduled to go live the same day as Lucasfilm'sThe Mandalorian and Groguhits theaters. The movie, based on the popular Disney+ TV series, starsPedro Pascalin the titular role, alongsideSigourney Weaver,Jeremy Allen Whiteand Jonny Coyne.

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The updates come three weeks afterDisneyland expanded its Galaxy's Edge's timelineto include Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa,Han Solo, Darth Vader and more characters from the originalStar Warstrilogy. The iconic heroes and villains joined familiar faces already found throughout the outpost, including Ahsoka Tano, the Mandalorian, Grogu, R2-D2, Rey and more.

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Where Are Vili Fualaau's Children Now? Inside Their Lives 21 Years After He Married His Teacher Mary Kay Letourneau

Vili Fualaau has three daughters: Audrey, Georgia and Sophia

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• He became a father when he welcomed daughters Audrey and Georgia with his ex-wife and former teacher, Mary Kay Letourneau

• Georgia and Audrey have both started families of their own

Vili Fualaauis both a father and a grandfather.

Vili was previously married to his former sixth-grade teacher,Mary Kay Letourneau, who started sexually abusing him he when he was 12 years old. When the abuse was eventually exposed, Letourneau was arrested and eventually pleaded guilty to two counts of child rape and was sentenced to over seven years in prison.

Before she reported to prison, she and Vili had conceived their first child. She welcomed daughter Audrey Lokelani Fualaau on May 23, 1997. She became pregnant for a second time and welcomed daughter Georgia on Oct. 16, 1998, while she was in prison.

Following her release from prison in 2004, Vili and Letourneau married on May 21, 2005. They remained married for 12 years before Vilifiled for separation, which was later granted in August 2019. On July 7, 2020, Letourneaudied from cancerat 58 years old.

Vili has since moved on andwelcomed his third daughter, Sophia, in May 2022.

From their views on their parents’ relationship to their personal lives, here’s everything to know about Vili Fualaau’s children.

Audrey was conceived before Letourneau's arrest

Letourneau began sexually abusing Vili just days shy of his 13th birthday, tellingOprah Winfreythat she considered Vili to be "the love of my life."

Though Vili said after her arrest that they had planned the pregnancy, Letourneau denied it but added she was “not angry” when she learned she was expecting.

Audrey was born in May 1997, and three months later, her mom pleaded guilty to two counts of child rape.

Georgia was born during Letourneau's prison sentence

The judge presiding over Letourneau’s case sentenced her to seven and a half years in prison, but suspended all but six months if she agreed to enter a treatment program for sex offenders and took prescription medication for bipolar disorder. She also was to have no contact with Vili.

Letourneau was then released on Jan. 2, 1998. However, she told friends that she stopped taking her medication. Exactly a month later, Vili called Letourneau, and the two were found the next morning in her car.

She went back to jail for violating her parole and served a seven-year sentence. However, in the month she was out of prison, Letourneau became pregnant with Georgia, and the baby was born in jail in October of that year.

Vili later shared in a20/20interview withBarbara Waltersthat he struggled with depression for a long time, especially as he didn’t feel supported after having two kids while still a teenager.

"I'm surprised I'm still alive today," he said. "I went through a really dark time."

The couple told PEOPLE in 2006 that while Letourneau was in jail, Vili’s mom had custody of their daughters, and they were working on getting it back.

“We are grateful for all she’s done and we all worked really hard to stay focused on what’s best for the girls,” Letourneau said. “It’ll be nice to take the girls to Disneyland and not have to ask the state or notify Vili’s mom.”

They are accepting of their parents’ former relationship, even with the history of abuse

In 2018, when Audrey was 21 and Georgia was 19, they did an interview with Australia’sSunday Nightin which theyopened up about their parents’ relationshipand what it was like being raised by Vili and Letourneau.

“I think I understand it,” Audrey said. “It was surprising to people. It’s not really been brought to our attention, just because we grew up with it, so we’re adapted to it.”

The girls said that while Letourneau was the stricter parent while they were growing up — with Audrey adding that she “literally cut the padding out of my bra once” because of her rules on how to properly dress — Vili was more lenient.

“He definitely feels like a young dad now that I’m at that adult age to where I can go to a bar,” Audrey said. “He’s like a ‘friend dad.' ”

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They struggled with their parents’ split

When Vili filed for separation from Letourneau in May 2017, his daughters struggled.

“They’re tryingnot to choose sides,” a source told PEOPLE at the time. “They had two great parents who loved and supported them. So now they’re returning the love and support to both their dad and their mom.”

The source was close to Letourneau and said the girls were close to their dad but also had a solid relationship with their mother.

“They’re very good girls,” the source added. “They are wise beyond their years and they understand that relationships are a complex thing.”

Ultimately, while it was hard to see the family “fall apart,” the source noted that Audrey and Georgia were both “old enough” to understand what was happening and “know that they’re loved very much.”

Sophia was born in 2022

PEOPLE confirmed that Vili welcomed a third daughter, Sophia, two years after Letourneau’s death, in November 2022. Georgia announced the news on Instagram, which was seen by PEOPLE, with a photo of the newborn in the hospital.

"Hi Sophia, I'm your big sister! You're so beautiful, I can't wait to watch you grow. I'll be right here by your side no matter what ! I love you 💕," she captioned the photo.

Vili has chosen to keep the identity of Sophia’s mother and any other details about the baby girl private.

Georgia welcomed her first child in January 2024

Georgia and her longtime boyfriendwelcomed their first child, a baby boy, in January 2024.

The new momconfirmed her pregnancyto PEOPLE in September 2023. “I’m very excited to become a mother," she said. "I have an amazing mother to prepare me for these years to come.”

Georgia and her boyfriend, a delivery driver and aspiring boxer who prefers to remain private, had been dating for more than six years, and at one point, he even lived with her and Letourneau. While they had talked about marriage and plan on it, there was “no ring” yet, she said.

The couple's son is Vili's first grandchild. “I just know that he’s going to be the greatest grandfather ever," Georgia told PEOPLE ahead of giving birth.

Audrey welcomed her first child in 2025

In December 2024, Audrey announced that she and fiancé Ethan Tela Porter wereexpecting their first childtogether in a video onTikTok.

The video featured clips of ultrasounds from 7 to 13 weeks of pregnancy. She wrote on the video, "I'mso excited! I can’t wait to find out if you’re a boy or girl. You’re so loved already baby."

She confirmed that theywelcomed their first baby together, son Elias Ulumailuma D. Porter, on May 30, 2025 — which also happens to be Audrey's birthday.

“Our little afakasi baby! Welcome to the world son!” Audrey captioned several photos seen by PEOPLE at the time. “I can’t believe we get to share a birthday!! That’s the coolest thing EVER! And you look so much like your daddy! Equally little mini versions of us💚.”

Audrey added that becoming a first-time mom “feels like the most natural thing I’ve ever experienced."

"I can’t wait to help you grow and teach you things and help guide you through this life," she continued.

As of May 2026, Audrey is pregnant again, per herTikTok.

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Risk of Ebola spread is high locally but low globally, WHO says

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The World Health Organization said on Wednesday the risk of global spread of the Ebola virus in Congo and Uganda is high at national and regional levels, but low at the global level.

Photos from Congo and Uganda as WHO declare health emergency over Ebola

The risk assessment came as the leader of the WHO team in Congo said the outbreak, which has led to 134 suspected deaths, could last at least another two months as aid efforts intensified on to stem the spread.

WHO has declared the Ebola outbreak apublic health emergencyof international concern, requiring a coordinated response. On Tuesday it expressed concern over the “scale and speed” of the outbreak.

Worried residents have reported rising prices for face masks and disinfectants following theoutbreak of the rare type of Ebola, known as the Bundibugyo virus, which spread undetected for weeks following the first known death as authorities tested for a more common type of came up negative, health experts and aid workers said. There are no approved medicines or vaccines for the Bundibugyo virus.

So far 51 cases have been confirmed in Congo's northern provinces of Ituri and North Kivu, as well as two in Uganda, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday. Beyond that, there are almost 600 suspected cases and suspected deaths, he said.

“We know that the scale of the epidemic is much larger,” he said. “We expect those numbers to keep increasing.”

Delayed detection

Congo was expecting shipments from the United States and Britain of an experimental vaccine for different types of Ebola, developed by researchers at Oxford, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, a virus expert at the National Institute of Biomedical Research, told reporters on Tuesday.

“We will administer the vaccine and see who develops the disease,” he said.

Health experts said that the delayed detection of the virus, large movements of population in the affected areas, as well as the preexisting humanitarian crisis, complicated the response. Parts of eastern Congo are in the hands of armed rebels, hampering the delivery of aid.

Congo said the first person died from the virus on April 24 in Bunia, but the confirmation did not come for weeks. The body was repatriated to the Mongbwalu health zone, a mining area with a large population.

“That caused the Ebola outbreak to escalate,” said Congo’s Health Minister Samuel Roger Kamba.

Dr. Anne Ancia, the head of the WHO team in Congo, said authorities still haven’t identified “patient zero.” There was a long road ahead, she said, adding that cuts in funding had “a marked detrimental effect on humanitarian actors.”

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Tuesday that the Trump administration would “lean into” Ebola response efforts with a priority on funding 50 emergency clinics in affected areas. The U.S. has so far contributed $13 million to the effort and Rubio said more would be coming.

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Urgent need for more resources

In Bunia, the site of the first known death, schools and churches remained open on Wednesday, and some residents were wearing masks in the street. Residents said that masks have become harder to find and that some disinfectants previously sold for 2,500 Congolese francs now cost up to 10,000 francs ($4.4).

“It’s truly sad and painful because we’ve already been through a security crisis, and now Ebola is here too,” said Justin Ndasi, a resident of Bunia. “We have to protect ourselves to avoid this epidemic.”

Trish Newport, emergency program manager from Doctors Without Borders aid group said that her team in Bunia identified suspected cases over the weekend in the Salama hospital, where there is no isolation ward. They tried, unsuccessfully, to place them in another health facility in Bunia.

“The team called around to other health facilities to see if they had isolations,” she said. “Every health facility they called said, ‘We’re full of suspects cases. We don’t have any space.’ This gives you a vision of how crazy it is right now.”

In Mongbwalu, the town at the epicenter of the current outbreak, the border with Uganda remains open and gold mining activities continue, said Chérubin Kuku Ndilawa, a local civil society leader.

“There’s no panic; people are continuing their normal lives, but they’re also starting to spread the word,” said Ndilawa.

Efforts to contain the outbreak have been hindered by a lack of handwashing stations in public areas, said Ndilawa.

Dr. Didier Pay, a former director of the Mongbwalu General Hospital, said his clinic was treating around 30 Ebola patients. He said a student from the local medical technology institute had died on Wednesday morning.

AP writer Jamey Keaten in Geneva and Wilson McMakin in Dakar contributed.

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Colorado's top court orders children's hospital to resume gender-affirming care for minors

DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered Colorado’s largest provider ofgender-affirming carefor young people to resume medical treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy despite threats that providing the care could lead to losing federal funding.

Children’s Hospital Colorado suspended medical treatments for transgender patients under 18 in January after it said theU.S. Department of Health and Human Servicesopened an investigation into its treatments following aseries of clashesbetween President Donald Trump's administration and advocates over transgender health care for children.

The hospital said in a statement that it is reviewing Monday's court ruling and considering its next steps. It previously said it would continue to provide mental health treatment for minors and also medical treatment for patients aged 18 to 21.

Four transgender girls, ranging from age 10 to 17, sued the hospital, through their parents, alleging that the hospital was violating the state’s antidiscrimination law by refusing to provide them treatment both because of their gender identity and their disability, gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is the distress caused when someone’s gender expression doesn’t match their sex assigned at birth.

The girls said they feared not being able to get medication and monitoring to prevent them from undergoing puberty and developing male traits. And they cited mental health fallout, including depression and suicidal ideation.

The court sided with the girls in a 5-2 ruling, finding that the decision to shutter the services for minors violated a state antidiscrimination law. In the majority opinion, Justice William Wood III said, “We conclude that the actual immediate and irreparable harm to petitioners outweighs the speculative harm CHC may face if the federal government further acts against it.”

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In a dissent, Justice Brian Boatright said the hospital didn't make its decision to stop the case because of the gender identity of the patients. Rather, he wrote, “It was a decision driven by the direct threat to the viability of the entire hospital.”

A Kansas judge alsosided with transgender minorsin a ruling last week.

The Colorado hospital’s TRUE Center, which focuses on gender-affirming care, is one of the largest programs in the country and the only comprehensive care center in the Rocky Mountain region, according to the lawsuit.

Children’s Hospital Colorado said the HHS opened the investigation of the hospital after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued adeclarationthat called treatments like puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries unsafe and ineffective for children and adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria, or the distress when someone’s gender expression doesn’t match their sex assigned at birth.

An Oregon-basedfederal judge ruledin March for Colorado and 20 other states that Kennedy's declaration went too far.

Mulvihill reported from Haddonfield, New Jersey.

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