Actress and model Toukie Smith, best known for her role on the NBC sitcom 227 and her longtime romance with Robert De Niro, has died at 74. Smith’s passing came after a “long, courageous battle” with multiple sclerosis.

“Elon Musk spent about $300 million dollars getting Trump elected in 2024,” De Niro told a small gathering at the Crosby Hotel in Manhattan, per the show biz outlet. “And he just spent close to half a billion on Republicans in this past week’s election. How did that turn out for you?”

Smith and De Niro were together from 1988 to 1996.

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Legendary actor and vocal Trump critic Robert De Niro has mocked Elon Musk for wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on backing losing Republican midterm candidates. The Oscar-winning star of The

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