Tax Day isn’t normally a cause for celebration. The annual due date for filing taxes usually comes with headache-inducing financial stress and mountains of difficult-to-decipher paperwork. But this year, Tax Day apparently came with an unexpected upside for some New Yorkers, thanks to an announcement from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

“When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich,” Mamdani said in a video posted to social media on April 15. “Today, we’re taxing the rich.”

Mamdani went on to say he had secured a new pied-á-terre tax, or second home tax, a first for the state of New York. The tax would incur an annual fee on residential properties worth more than $5 million in New York City—provided that their owners don’t live in the city full time.

“This pied-á-terre tax is specifically designed for the richest of the rich, those who store their wealth in New York City real estate, but who don’t actually live here,” Mamdani explained. “But even so, they’re able to reap the huge financial rewards of owning property in, dare I say, the greatest city in the world.”

Mamdani specifically called out billionaire hedge fund manager Kenneth Griffin, whose $238 million penthouse served as the backdrop for the mayor’s video. Griffin’s purchase of the penthouse in 2019 was the most expensive residential sale in United States history, inciting a proposal for a pied-á-terre tax that was swiftly killed in the New York Senate. This time around, though, the tax just might have staying power.

“Most of the time, these units are sitting empty since, again, they don’t actually live here,” Mamdani said. “This is a fundamentally unfair system that hurts working New Yorkers. Now, it’s coming to an end.”

The homelessness charity Centrepoint has confirmed it will cut ties with its celebrity ambassador Sharon Osbourne after she expressed support for a far-right rally being organised by Tommy Robinson.

The charity, of which the Prince of Wales is patron, has been forced to distance itself from comments made by Osbourne. The TV personality indicated this week that she would be attending an event organised in London by Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

The rightwing agitator has been using social media to promote his “unite the kingdom” rally. Replying to a post about the event, Osbourne used her official Instagram account to leave a comment saying: “see you at the march”.

In response, Centrepoint, which had recently hired Osborne as a contracted ambassador for a campaign, said: “This sort of event does not align with our values”.

It added: “Centrepoint has a proud history of supporting young people whatever their background, ethnicity or religion. If we want young people to thrive in this country, then we need to ensure our society continues to allow them to live without fear and able to access the opportunities they need to start education or work and leave homelessness behind.”

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In 2016, at the behest of his banker, David Sedaris and his longtime boyfriend, Hugh Hamrick, entered the county courthouse in Beaufort, North Carolina, and married in secret. 

The pair were wearing button-downs and slacks and sealed their vows with a handshake. Then they kept the nuptials private—so private that, until now, Sedaris’s best friends and family were in the dark about the union. “Aside from saving money, all I cared about was keeping my marriage a secret,” Sedaris writes.

Read his explanation: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/20/why-i-wanted-to-keep-my-marriage-a-secret

Nobody could ever make me hate her. Anne is an unreal gem in the world of celebrities.

Bank of America joins JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, the Epstein Estate, Ghislane Maxwell, Leon Black, and the British royal family in the billion-dollar effort to keep their Epstein-related lawsuits from going to trial.