A Lancashire woman’s ‘flu’ symptoms turned out to be the telltale signs of a little-known, aggressive cancer that affects one in a million people.

Emma Snape, 34, began to come down with traditional cold-like symptoms in February, which quickly escalated, landing her in hospital.

Doctors at first diagnosed pneumonia, a serious and sometimes life-threatening lung infection.

Yet further tests showed the underlying illness to be epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) — an extremely rare form of cancer than forms in the cells that line the blood vessels.
EHE is most commonly associated with young and middle-aged adults, and is more common in women.
One of the signs of EHE is a dry cough that causes difficulty breathing.

Other symptoms include a lump or swelling in the soft tissue of the body under the skin, and stomach pain along with weight loss if the disease is present in the liver.

When Emma was diagnosed, doctors found 20 nodules in her lungs and more in her omentum — the fatty tissue extends from the stomach to the intestines.

Doctors said her disease was terminal. Only half of those diagnosed with the condition will live longer than five years, studies show.

Emma has since been in and out of hospital for dozens of appointments and treatments.

Speaking of the ordeal, Emma’s twin sister Kym, a mother of two, said: ‘[It’s been] heartbreaking to watch her go through this.
It’s technically a terminal diagnosis as there’s no cure for it. It’s been the hardest year.

‘With her being my twin, it’s been so hard for me not being able to control this situation and make her better as she is literally my other half.’
Emma, also a mother of two, described her sister as ‘the real superwoman’, referring to her unwavering help in her time of need.

‘I don’t know what I’d have done without Kym,’ she said. ‘From day one after getting my diagnosis she’s been full into research, fundraising, gathering all sorts of different contacts to help me, whilst having her own young family to care for.

‘It’s been so wonderfully overwhelming how generous and kind people have been. Everyone just wants to help, my work, small businesses, family and friends.
People really have come together for me.’

Kym addded that that some days her sister suffers ‘agonising pain’ due to her condition.

‘She’s fighting against this disease every day whilst remaining the world’s best mummy to her two boys and partner.’

Kym has set up a donation page to raise money for the EHE Rare Cancer Charity (EHERCC), which is working hard to find a cure.

She has so far garnered over £6,000 from big-hearted locals and will take on a sponsored run in November to help pull in further cash.
Kym, said: ‘I have taken control in the only way possible which is to learn about this disease and to raise money for critical research to take place in the hope of finding a cure.’

(Armani)

Silvio Scaglia really must be a financial genius: the model agency owner somehow manages to be both a globetrotting billionaire and helplessly destitute at the same time! They don’t teach that at Wharton!

Characteristically, Scaglia — who is locked in a vicious legal battle with his soon-to-be-ex wife and former business partner, Julia Haart — appears to have spent the summer hopping private jets and yachts around all the usual Euro enclaves with his new partner Michelle Marie Heinemann.

What’s confusing, however, is that — according to court documents leaked to Page Six — back in May, the Italian businessman wrote to a New York judge pleading poverty.

Haart and Scaglia met in 2015 through a business deal. She later took a job at his modeling agency, Elite World Group, which has repped Kendall Jenner, Adriana Lima, Irina Shayk, Winnie Harlow and Behati Prinsloo, among many others. They married shortly after, in 2019.
But when Haart told Scaglia in 2022 that she planned to divorce him, he fired her from EWG — setting in motion a series of brutal court cases over both the marriage and the company.

We’re told that in May, Scaglia notified the court that the he was tapped out.

“I am currently unable to bear the financial burden of the ongoing litigation against [Haart], nor can I afford to sustain the fees for my own legal counsel,” he wrote.
Scaglia has been trying unsuccessfully to get permission from the court to sell the Tribeca triplex where he and Haart had lived during their marriage, and where Haart still resides.

“Following the latest judicial decision concerning [the apartment] and the dismissed hope of obtaining permission to sell it, I have dramatically curtailed my expenditures to a bare minimum,” he wrote.

He says he also moved back to Italy because the cost of living is lower there, and asked for a freebie court-appointed lawyer to represent him in the case.
But an insider told us they were surprised — after his claim to be in dire financial straights — to see Heinemann posting scenes from their opulent life on her Instagram feed.

According to the account, she and Scaglia have been in Tuscany, Zurich (where she posted a shot of herself on a private jet with a bottle of Ruinart champagne), Madrid, Sicily, Sardinia (where they appear to have got around by convertible, a yacht and, again a private jet) and Ireland.
Asked to explain how he’s both broke and living an apparently ultra-luxe lifestyle, Scaglia told us: “The parasitic vulture, Julia Haart, continues to try and destroy the happiness and love that my beautiful and kind wife and I share.”

Her threw some other barbs at Haart, but didn’t address the financial schizophrenia.
After we asked him about the luxe travel, Heinemann appeared to have removed the shots featuring jets and yachts from her account.

(Armani)

Justin Bieber has not focused on his old pal Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking arrest after welcoming his son, Jack Blues, with wife Hailey Bieber.

“He’s aware of Diddy’s arrest and all the allegations,” an insider told People on Sunday. “It’s not anything that he wants to focus on, though.”

The source explained that the “Baby” crooner has stayed busy “in a happy bubble since baby Jack was born” last month.

He just wants to focus on being a great dad and husband,” the insider continued.
He just wants to focus on being a great dad and husband,” the insider continued.
Combs, meanwhile, was arrested at the Park Hyatt New York City on Sept. 16 after “voluntarily” coming to the Big Apple “in anticipation of the charges,” a source told Page Six.

The disgraced rapper, 54, is currently at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

He was charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, transportation to engage in prostitution and fraud.
Per a grand jury indictment obtained by Page Six, the Bad Boy Records founder was also accused of “creating a criminal enterprise” with members who participated in “sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice.”

According to the documents, more than 1,000 bottles of lubricant, drugs and three AR-15s were found in Combs’ Los Angeles and Miami estates when they were raided in March.

The “I’ll Be Missing You” emcee maintained his innocence and pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Since the sex trafficking raids at Combs’ mansion, “creepy” clips of a young Justin with Combs have resurfaced.

One video of the then-15-year-old “Peaches” singer showed him standing alongside Combs as they bragged about the unspeakable antics they would be doing that day.
Where we hanging out and what we doing, we can’t really disclose, but it’s definitely a 15-year-old’s dream,” the disgraced rap mogul said.
Combs explained Justin was signed with Usher, whom he had “legal guardianship” of in the early ’90s when he produced the “Yeah!” crooner’s self-titled first album.

“I don’t have legal guardianship of him [Bieber], but for the next 48 hours, he’s with me,” Combs said. “We gonna go full buck full crazy.”

“Going crazy,” Justin added.
Days later, another “disturbing” video showed Combs questioning why Justin distanced himself from him, as the “STAY” singer’s career began to skyrocket.

“Starting to act different, huh?” Combs said. “You haven’t been calling me and hanging out the way we used to hang out.”

“I mean, you tried to get in contact with me throughout all my [projects] and what not — but you never got my number,” the dad of one responded while stumbling on his words.

(Armani)