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The controversial new biography of President Barack Obama claims that his wife, Michelle Obama, planned to leave the future president in 2000.

Is the divorce story real? Is anything in the book?

The unauthorized biography, which Klein claims is based on nearly 200 interviews, has been dismissed by presidential spokesperson Eric Schultz.

“Ed Klein has a proven history of reckless fabrication in order to sell books,” he said. “Nobody in their right mind would believe the nonsense in this one.”

Nevertheless, the Obama divorce story is the latest revelation in the book – which also discusses his ex Genevieve Cook – to generate major buzz.

In The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, out this week, Klein claims the divorce nearly happened eight years into the Obamas’ marriage.

After Obama failed to listen to his wife’s warnings in challenging Bobby Rush for his U.S. House seat in 2000 and got creamed, their relationship cooled.

“During the dark days that followed his defeat, he turned to Michelle for comfort. But she was in no mood for sympathy,” Klein reportedly writes.

“He had refused to listen to her warnings about taking on Rush.”

The primary left them in debt and Barack depressed, Klein claims. “Michelle actually had divorce papers drawn up,” he writes, citing one of her friends.

“Obama was so depressed that some of his friends worried that he was suicidal,” the book adds, without elaboration on that particular point.

Obama, of course, was still in the Illinois State Senate, and went on to win a U.S. Senate seat in 2004 that helped establish his national credentials.

But Michelle almost vetoed the Senate race, too.

Northwestern University professor Steven Rogers told Klein that Obama talked about his ambition after they met at a golf fund-raiser.

“My wife will not allow me to run for the Senate until I clear up the debts from my unsuccessful run for Congress,” Obama said, according to Rogers.

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Facebook CEO has created a ‘collaborative and connected culture,’ showcased in ‘The Diary of Facebook,’ airing Saturday at 9 a.m. on MTV.
By John Mitchell

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Wearing his signature hoodie and jeans, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang the bell to open the Nasdaq Stock Market from the company’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters Friday morning (May 18) as his company went public with the biggest ever initial public offering by a tech company. Going for $38 per share, the offering raised $16 billion for the social networking website, which is inarguably one of, if not the most important and impactful tech company for the millennial generation.

Zuckerberg has always been a natural at balancing the demands of running the world’s biggest social network, which boasts more than 900 million users around the world, while himself being an example of his generation’s focus on being open and forward-thinking without the pretense and show of past business leaders.

The self-made billionaire is the ultimate everyman, albeit one with a genius intellect, and it’s a side of himself he showed off in earnest last year when MTV visited Facebook HQ for its special, “The Diary of Facebook.”

“Facebook is a very open company. If you think about what we do, we’re trying to give all these people who use our products the ability to share things with their friends and their family,” Zuckerberg told MTV News. “The mission is to make the world more open and connected. So we believe that if that’s what we’re trying to do in the world then that’s how we should run the company too.”

Zuckerberg went on to describe the philosophy with which he runs Facebook, now one of the most financially valuable in the world, and it stands in diametric opposition to how we view the modern corporate executive. There are no sequestered corner offices at Facebook HQ, no CEOs sporting expensive designer suits.

“We have this really open floor plan. People are all sitting out near each other. It’s easy for everyone to turn to their neighbor and start talking,” the Facebook boss continued. “I have a desk out there just like everyone else. … That kind of collaborative and connected culture is what produces the best products for the people who are going to use them.”

His philosophy on how to run a modern company may ultimately change the face of business moving forward. Friday’s massive IPO did many things, but one of the biggest, coming in the midst of an ongoing financial crisis created by men in suits, was to prove that the future doesn’t smoke cigars in executive lounges, it wears a hoodie and sits with the engineers who make it all happen.

You can see it all for yourself as MTV re-airs “The Diary of Facebook” Saturday (May 19) at 9 a.m. the doc is also available online at MTV.com.

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Raising Sand, from Led Zeppelin vet and bluegrass superstar, wins five Grammys on Sunday night.
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Yesterday (May 17) the entertainment world was rocked by the death of Donna Summer, and new details have emerged regarding her demise.

According to a report, the Queen of Disco did not die of breast cancer as some sources had suggested, but rather lung cancer.

An insider told press, “She had lung cancer. She got it about a year ago. She was not a smoker. Her family knew. I just think that she’s private.”

The source added, “It’s not like she was in bad shape. She was healthy, she was taking care of herself. She was healthy and energetic when I worked with her.”

President Barack Obama stated, “Donna truly was the ‘Queen of Disco.’ Her voice was unforgettable, and the music industry has lost a legend far too soon.”

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