Eboni Boykin-Patterson
Eboni Boykin-Patterson is an entertainment writer at The Messenger. She previously worked for Business Insider as the associate editor of Hollywood & Entertainment Contributors and has contributed stories to Mic, Women and Hollywood, and Screen Rant. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in English.
- By Eboni Boykin-Patterson|Princess Diana’s Private Grave: Sister-In-Law Addresses Burial Conspiracy Theory (Photos)
Following her death in 1997, Prince Diana was laid to rest on an island in the middle of a lake near her childhood home
By Eboni Boykin-Patterson| - By Eboni Boykin-Patterson|Inside the $20 Million Life of Killer Whale Keiko, ‘Free Willy’ Star, Who Died 20 Years Ago
A billionaire and a Hollywood studio helped foot the bill for the captive killer whale’s $20 million reintegration into the wild
By Eboni Boykin-Patterson| - By Eboni Boykin-Patterson|How Princess Diana Won Over New Yorkers
Looking back at the trip that would help earn Princess Diana’s moniker as the ‘People’s Princess’ upon her death in 1997
By Eboni Boykin-Patterson| - By Eboni Boykin-Patterson|Unsolved Hollywood Mystery: The 1949 Disappearance of an Aspiring Actress
Despite finding Jean Spangler’s purse and a note to an unidentified man inside, authorities were never able to make sense of her disappearance
By Eboni Boykin-Patterson| - By Eboni Boykin-Patterson|Times Square Boss: Why Everyone Should Spend New Year’s Eve in Times Square At Least Once In Their Life (Exclusive)
Tom Harris says NYC’s New Year’s celebration is about more than just ‘waiting around’ — or finding a bathroom
By Eboni Boykin-Patterson| - By Eboni Boykin-Patterson|Where the Kennedy Family’s Wealth Comes From
Through strategic investments in real estate, stocks and the film industry, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. set his family up for generations of wealth
By Eboni Boykin-Patterson| - By Eboni Boykin-Patterson|Remembering George Michael’s Christmas Day Death 7 Years Ago
George Michael was found unresponsive in his bed on Christmas day in 2016, but stories of his generosity have lived on
By Eboni Boykin-Patterson| - By Eboni Boykin-Patterson|I’m A Retired War Veteran Who Became A Full-Time Santa: Here’s What It’s Like (Exclusive)
Amid his retirement, Larry Jefferson was an instant hit when he landed a gig as Santa at Mall of America (and yes, his beard is real!)
By Eboni Boykin-Patterson| - By Eboni Boykin-Patterson|The Dramatic Story of Jackie Kennedy’s Wedding Gown and Snub
Ann Lowe, the Black designer behind the gown Jackie Kennedy married JFK in, was reportedly ‘devastated’ Mrs. Kennedy never mentioned her
By Eboni Boykin-Patterson| - By Eboni Boykin-Patterson|My Wife and I Have Answered 2,000 Letters to Santa From the Mailbox in Our Yard (Exclusive)
Gary and Richelle Jader say the letters to Santa, which they have been answering for the past five years, have changed since the pandemic
By Eboni Boykin-Patterson| - By Eboni Boykin-Patterson|Man Who Says He’s a Cyborg Sent By Aliens to Warn Humans of a 2050 Apocalypse Is Releasing New Rap Music (Exclusive)
Orrin Campbell appeared on the Dr. Phil show in 2020 to discuss his beliefs that he’s an alien cyborg
By Eboni Boykin-Patterson| - By Eboni Boykin-Patterson|Charlottesville Was ‘Just The Beginning’ of White Nationalist ‘Race War,’ Says Lawyer at Center of HBO’s ‘No Accident’ (Exclusive)
White nationalists see the war between Israel and Hamas as an opportunity to ‘normalize and mainstream anti-Semitism,’ says attorney Karen Dunn, who appears in HBO’s documentary ‘No Accident’
By Eboni Boykin-Patterson| - By Christina Dugan Ramirez|Late NYC Comedian Was Not Wearing Helmet During Bike Crash, Family Now Urging Safety (Exclusive)
Comedian Kenny DeForest died Wednesday at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., at age 37
By Eboni Boykin-Patterson and Christina Dugan Ramirez| - By Eboni Boykin-Patterson|Father of Late Popular NYC Comedian Breaks Silence, Shares Heartbreaking Memorial Plans (Exclusive)
The DeForest family is considering a celebration of life on Kenny DeForest’s birthday in April after the comedian died this week at age 37
By Eboni Boykin-Patterson| - By Christina Dugan Ramirez|Over 25 Comedians Were at Kenny DeForest’s Bedside After Fatal NYC Bike Accident (Exclusive)
‘They had a bedside chain so somebody was sitting with him the whole time,’ Kenny’s father Roger DeForest tells The Messenger
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