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workin’ 9 to 5, but Dolly Parton is making sure her employees are putting in the hard yards too. The country music icon — who boasts an array of businesses, ranging from the Dollywood theme park to the brand new “Scent From Above” fragrance — spoke out about being a boss in a new interview with People magazine.

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The Abbey West Hollywood site of numerous drugged drinks, report says

More than 70 people interviewed during a three-year investigation by The 19th said their drinks were drugged at The Abbey in West Hollywood. In some cases, patrons provided medical documentation of hospitalizations, photos, text messages, videos or contacts for companions who cared for them, which were all reviewed by The 19th as a part of its investigation. Reporters also interviewed Abbey bartenders and other staff, West Hollywood City Council members, toxicology experts, and law enforcement officials in an effort to capture a full picture of the culture and allegations at the bar, The 19th said. Abbey management denied all the allegations. Photo: Q Voice News

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Outfest staff hit with total layoffs

With apparently no advance warning, Outfest has laid off all remaining employees, including those people who were placed on mandatory, unpaid leave last month by the organization. Photo: Outfest

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Tova Borgnine (1941–2022), founder of Beauty by Tova

Tova Borgnine was the founder of Beauty by Tova cosmetics and the widow of actor Ernest Borgnine (1917–2012).Born Tove Træsnæs in Oslo, Norway, Borgnine came to the U.S. as a child and initially planned to be an actress.

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Peter Buck (1930–2021), Subway restaurant co-founder

Peter Buck was the co-founder of the Subway chain of sandwich shops.Buck hadn’t planned to be a restaurateur – he was a nuclear physicist who designed nuclear reactors. But when a family friend, Fred DeLuca (1947–2015), asked Buck for advice on how he should pay for college, he suggested the young man open a sandwich shop.

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Chris-Tia Donaldson (1979–2021), founder and CEO of Thank God it’s Natural haircare

Chris-Tia Donaldson was the founder and CEO of Thank God it’s Natural (TGIN) haircare.Donaldson wrote the book “Thank God I’m Natural: The Ultimate Guide to Caring for Natural Hair,” a No. 1 Amazon bestseller, after struggling to find good resources on caring for her natural hair in the days before social media.

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Glen de Vries (1972–2021), businessman who went to space with Blue Origin

Glen de Vries was a businessman who recently went to space alongside William Shatner on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin NS-18 mission.Trained as a molecular biologist, de Vries co-founded Medidata Solutions in 1999, a technology company whose software is used in clinical trials. The company was sold to Dassault Systémes in 2019 for $5.8 billion.

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Brian Goldner (1963–2021), Hasbro CEO

Brian Goldner was the longtime CEO of the toys and games giant Hasbro, as well as a film producer.Goldner began working in Hasbro’s Tiger Electronics division in 2000, and by 2008, he had risen to CEO of the company. At the helm of Hasbro, he was notable for working to forge connections between Hasbro and Hollywood, with popular movies based on some of Hasbro’s biggest toys and games.

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Walter Scott Jr. (1931–2021), billionaire businessman and philanthropist

Walter Scott Jr. was a billionaire businessman and philanthropist, the CEO of Peter Kiewit Sons Inc.Scott began working for construction firm Peter Kiewit Sons Inc. as an engineer, rising to join the company’s board in 1964 and named executive vice president in 1965.

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Yolanda Fernández de Cofiño (1934–2021), creator of the McDonald’s Happy Meal

Yolanda Fernández de Cofiño was a businesswoman who ran the first McDonald’s franchise in Guatemala and invented the Happy Meal.Fernández de Cofiño purchased the first Guatemalan McDonald’s franchise in 1974, along with her husband. Not long after entering the business, Fernández de Cofiño was looking for a quick and easy option for parents to order for their children.

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Gregg Leakes (1954–2021), businessman featured on “Real Housewives of Atlanta”

Gregg Leakes was a businessman who was the husband of NeNe Leakes, a star of “Real Housewives of Atlanta.”Leakes was a real estate investor who married NeNe Leakes twice – first in 1997, and again in 2013 after a 2011 divorce. He began appearing on “Real Housewives of Atlanta” alongside his wife in 2008, continuing to appear through 2019.

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Maki Kaji (1951–2021), “Father of Sudoku”

Maki Kaji was known as the “Father of Sudoku” for bringing the number puzzle to a worldwide audience through his magazine, Nikoli.The number puzzle now known as Sudoku existed before Kaji published it in Nikoli, Japan’s first puzzle magazine, which he founded in 1980. But the puzzle wasn’t widely known, and it didn’t have its now-ubiquitous name.

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Ron Popeil (1935–2021), Ronco founder and infomercial pitchman

Ron Popeil was the founder of Ronco and an inventor known for his informercials for products like the Veg-O-Matic and the Pocket Fisherman.Popeil founded Ronco in 1964, building on what he learned from his father, an inventor and businessman who developed the Veg-O-Matic. The younger Popeil and Ronco became known for gadgets including the Inside-the-Shell Egg Scrambler, Mr.

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Richard Robinson (1937–2021), CEO of children’s book publishing company Scholastic

Richard Robinson was the CEO of the children’s book publishing company Scholastic for decades, where he introduced book series including Harry Potter and the Hunger Games to the U.S.Robinson’s father, Maurice Robinson, founded Scholastic in 1920. Though Robinson initially never intended to go into the family business, he became an associate editor in 1962 and rose to president of the company in 1974.

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Paul Van Doren (1930–2021), co-founder of Vans

Paul Van Doren was an entrepreneur who co-founded Vans, the iconic skateboarding shoe company.Van Doren was working at a rubber company in Boston when he and his brother, James Van Doren, decided to go to Southern California and start a business together. Along with two friends, they opened the Van Doren Rubber Company, later shortened simply to Vans.

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Charles Geschke (1939–2021), co-founder of Adobe

Charles Geschke was the co-founder of Adobe, the software giant that created Photoshop and PDFs.Geschke was working at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s when he began developing the computer language Interpress, which was intended to provide high quality printing. When Xerox wasn’t interested in moving forward with Interpress, Geschke and his colleague John Warnock left the company and founded Adobe Inc.

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Kent Taylor (1955–2021), Texas Roadhouse founder and CEO

Kent Taylor was the founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse, the popular steakhouse chain known for free buckets of peanuts at each table.If someone you know exhibits warning signs of suicide, he or she should not be left alone. Call the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255. The Lifeline provides free, confidential support for people in crisis or emotional distress, 24/7 year-round.

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Greg Steltenpohl (1954–2021), founder of Odwalla and Califia Farms

Greg Steltenpohl was an entrepreneur who founded the beverage companies Odwalla and Califia Farms.Steltenpohl was a young man playing saxophone in an experimental jazz band when he founded Odwalla in 1980 to help pay the bills. Juicing oranges in his back yard and selling juice out of the back of his band’s van, he began to create a following for the fresh, intensely flavored juice in blends with catchy names, including Mango Tango and Blueberry Monster.

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Jessica McClintock (1930–2021), fashion designer and owner of Gunne Sax

Jessica McClintock was a fashion designer who owned Gunne Sax, creating popular prom and wedding dresses for a generation of women.McClintock began designing for Gunne Sax in 1969, and by 1970, she had taken over the brand. The dresses she created often drew on elements from a romantically-imagined past, including corset bodices and puffed sleeves, as well as fabrics like lace, brocade, and dotted swiss.

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Jessica McClintock (1920–2021), fashion designer and owner of Gunne Sax

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David Mintz (1931–2021), inventor of Tofutti vegan ice cream

David Mintz was the inventor of Tofutti, the first commercially successful vegan ice cream.Mintz began working to formulate a creamy non-dairy frozen dessert in 1972, after discovering tofu as it began to take off as a health food in the U.S. He was working with the goal of creating an ice cream suitable for the kosher market, as Jewish law forbids dairy products from being served at the same meal as meat.

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