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by Justine Root
Arts Editor
Arts | 11/18/08
Posted online at 11:03 PM EST on 11/17/08
/ Last updated at 3:23 AM EST on 11/17/08
According to a recent report, ex-quarterback Michael Vick's finances have deservedly, and in more ways than one, gone to the dogs.
In 2006, Vicks garnered a yearly salary of nearly $15 million as the quarterback for the?Atlanta Falcons. Now, however, Vick is working in a Kansas jail for 12 cents an hour, which means he'll probably have to pick up a second job when he's released in order to pay the $1 million in back taxes he owes the IRS and the state of Georgia.
Fortunately, Vick's unwilling business partners in Bad Newz Kennels have faired much better; the ex-quarterback's fighting dogs are starring in a National Geographic Channel television special that examines their comfortable life on a Utah ranch. The dog's well-deserved retirement was provided by the $928,000 extracted from Vick for their care following the discovery of his dogfighting ring.
However, it seems that Vick has drunk too much Vicktory Dog wine (a brand founded in honor of the fighting dogs that bears their pictures on its label); Vick has stated that he believes he will "be able to earn a substantial living" as an NFL quarterback upon his release.
In other animal-oriented news, Lindsay Lohan was doused with flour by an angry anti-fur protester as she and girlfriend Samantha Ronson arrived at the VIP Room Theater in Paris.
The protester, who dusted the pair on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, was apparently provoked by Lohan's fur stole and called her a "fur hag," according to a statement given by PETA to Access Hollywood.
Ronson issued a statement of her own, stating in a blog entry on her MySpace profile that "Today I'm pissed at the bag of flour thrown on Lindsay last night. Not because I got powdered down, but because the girl who threw it acted like an animal herself," she wrote. "It's a pity that some groups feel the need to assault people as opposed to fighting with words. I don't wear fur, but I don't think I have the right to ATTACK those who do. No one has that right." (www.omg.yahoo.com)
In 2006, Vicks garnered a yearly salary of nearly $15 million as the quarterback for the?Atlanta Falcons. Now, however, Vick is working in a Kansas jail for 12 cents an hour, which means he'll probably have to pick up a second job when he's released in order to pay the $1 million in back taxes he owes the IRS and the state of Georgia.
Fortunately, Vick's unwilling business partners in Bad Newz Kennels have faired much better; the ex-quarterback's fighting dogs are starring in a National Geographic Channel television special that examines their comfortable life on a Utah ranch. The dog's well-deserved retirement was provided by the $928,000 extracted from Vick for their care following the discovery of his dogfighting ring.
However, it seems that Vick has drunk too much Vicktory Dog wine (a brand founded in honor of the fighting dogs that bears their pictures on its label); Vick has stated that he believes he will "be able to earn a substantial living" as an NFL quarterback upon his release.
In other animal-oriented news, Lindsay Lohan was doused with flour by an angry anti-fur protester as she and girlfriend Samantha Ronson arrived at the VIP Room Theater in Paris.
The protester, who dusted the pair on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, was apparently provoked by Lohan's fur stole and called her a "fur hag," according to a statement given by PETA to Access Hollywood.
Ronson issued a statement of her own, stating in a blog entry on her MySpace profile that "Today I'm pissed at the bag of flour thrown on Lindsay last night. Not because I got powdered down, but because the girl who threw it acted like an animal herself," she wrote. "It's a pity that some groups feel the need to assault people as opposed to fighting with words. I don't wear fur, but I don't think I have the right to ATTACK those who do. No one has that right." (www.omg.yahoo.com)
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