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Elle Macpherson (born 29 March 1964) is an Australian model, businesswoman, television host and actress. She is well known for her record five cover appearances for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issuebeginning in the 1980s, leading to her nickname The Body. She is the founder, primary model, and creative director for a series of business ventures, including Elle Macpherson Intimates, a lingerie line, and The Body, a line of skin care products. In 2010, she became the host and executive producer of Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model. She is an executive producer of NBC's Fashion Star and was the host for the first season. As an actress, Macpherson appeared in supporting roles in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) and Batman and Robin (1997) as well as lead roles in The Edge (1997) and South Kensington (2001). She also had a recurring role on Friends and hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live. Earnings estimated at $45 million. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)

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Christie Brinkley (February 2, 1954) is an American model and actress. Brinkley gained worldwide fame beginning in the late 1970s with three consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covers through 1981. She spent twenty five years as the face of CoverGirl (the longest running cosmetics contract of any model in history), has appeared on over 500 magazine covers, and has signed contracts with major brandsboth fashion and non-fashion. Brinkley went on to work as an actress, illustrator, television personality, photographer, writer, designer, and activist for human and animal rights and the environment. Brinkley has been married four times, most notably to musician Billy Joel, several of whose music videos she appeared in. Her fourth marriage, to architect Peter Cook, ended in a much-publicized 2008 divorce. With a career spanning more than three decades, magazines such as Allure, Playboy, and Men's Health have named Brinkley one of the most attractive women of all time. Her financial holdings in 2008 were worth an estimated USD $80 million, primarily as the owner of real estate. In February 2012, she was ranked third in the Daily Mail list "World's 20 richest models." Earnings estimated at $80 million. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)

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Milla Jovovich ( born December 17, 1975) is an actress, model, musician, and fashion designer. She has appeared in numerous science fiction and action films, leading the music channel VH1 to deem her the "reigning queen of kick-butt" in 2006. In 1987, she began modeling at the age of 12 when Herb Ritts photographed her for the cover of the Italian magazineLei. Richard Avedon featured her in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements. In 1988, Jovovich had her first acting role in the television film The Night Train to Kathmandu, and that year also appeared in her first feature film, Two Moon Junction. Jovovich gained attention for her role in the explicit 1991 romance film Return to the Blue Lagoon, as she was then only 15. She was considered to have a breakthrough with her role in the 1997 French science-fiction film The Fifth Element written and directed by Luc Besson. She and Besson married that year, but soon divorced. She starred as the heroine and martyr in Besson's The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). In 2002, Jovovich starred in the science fiction horror film Resident Evil, adapted from the video game series of the same name. It was disliked by critics, but was commercially successful. She reprised her role in four sequels, all in the apocalyptic fiction action horror genre, made between 2004 and 2012. Earnings estimated at $36 million. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

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Heidi Klum (born June 1, 1973) is a German model, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and occasional actress who became internationally known for her appearances on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. In 1999, she became the first German model to become a Victoria's Secret Angel. Following a successful modeling career, Klum became the host and a judge of Germany's Next Topmodel and the reality show Project Runway which earned her an Emmy nomination in 2008 and a win in 2013 for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program (shared with co-host Tim Gunn). She has worked as a spokesmodel for Dannon and H&M, and has appeared in numerous commercials for McDonald's, Volkswagen and others. In 2009, Klum became Barbie's official ambassador on Barbie's 50th anniversary. As an occasional actress, she had supporting roles in movies including Blow Dry (2001), Ella Enchanted (2004), and made cameo appearances on The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Perfect Stranger (2007). She has also appeared on TV shows including Sex and the City, How I Met Your Mother, Desperate Housewives and Parks and Recreation. Currently, Klum is a judge on the NBC reality show America's Got Talent. In May 2011, Forbes magazine estimated Klum's total earnings for that year as $20 million. She is ranked second on Forbes' list of the "World's Top-Earning Models", behind Gisele Bündchen. Forbes noted that since ending her 13-year run as a Victoria's Secret Angel, Klum has become more of a businesswoman than a model. In 2008, she became an American citizen while maintaining her native German citizenship. Earnings estimated at $70 million. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a CNN town hall at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina, on Thursday evening. (Associated Press)

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden (Associated Press) **FILE**

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"He always said that he hated losers," Rep. James Clyburn said on ABC's This Week. (Associated Press)

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Michael Fassbender stars in "Steve Jobs" and Bryan Cranston stars as Dalton Trumbo in "Trumbo," now available on Blu-ray.

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Secretary of State John Kerry in Hollywood, attending a meeting of studio executives, seeking ideas on countering the terrorist "narrative." (Secretary of State John Kerry)

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IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR AARP - Morgan Freeman accepts the Best Grownup Love Story award at AARP's 15th Annual Movies for Grownups Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Monday, Feb. 8, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision for AARP/AP Images)

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Apple CEO Tim Cook. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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In this image provided by Columbia Pictures, Joseph Fiennes as Clavius leads his Roman soldiers during the zealot battle in Columbia Pictures' "Risen." The movie opens in U.S. theaters nationwide Feb. 19, 2016. (Rosie Collins/Columbia Pictures via AP)

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Actress Gwyneth Paltrow poses for photographers before Chanel's Spring-Summer 2016 Haute Couture fashion collection in Paris in this Jan. 26, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

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GOP University with Tim Constantine - Learning which candidates can actually win the 2016 nomination. (Donald Trump)

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Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold cited Beyonce's new video "Formation" after shots were fired at his home Monday night, suggesting that the recent rise in cop deaths nationwide was inspired by the pop singer's Black Panther-inspired Super Bowl halftime performance. (The Daily News Journal)

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The comeback kid: Former President Bill Clinton has found a receptive audience at campaign events throughout South Carolina, where he is stumping for his wife, Hillary Clinton, ahead of Sunday's first-in-the-South primary. (Associated Press)