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Conflicting reports about the state of Hosni El Sayed Mubarak’s health after the ousted Egyptian leader reportedly suffered cardiac arrest and a stroke still remains.

Depending on sources, Mubarak was initially said to be either clinically dead, or on life support, in the reports out of Cairo but later, a government official said the deposed president was alive and in critical condition.

Mubarak had been declared clinically dead after being transferred to a hospital from prison.  “Hosni Mubarak is clinically dead,” the official MENA news agency in Egypt wrote. “Medical sources told MENA his heart had stopped beating and did not respond to defibrillation.”

The 84-year-old Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison on June 2 for suppressing a citizen revolt against him in the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011.

Mubarak took part in peace talks with Sadat

Mubarak was born May 4, 1928 in the Nile Delta village of Menufiyah. The son of a justice ministry official, Mubarak rose through the ranks of the Egyptian Air Force. He eventually became commander and deputy defense minister of Egypt.

Mubarak was named President Anwar Sadat’s deputy in 1975 and fought in repeated wars with Israel over the Suez Canal before achieving hero status when joining then-leader Anwar Sadat in peace talks with their Israeli rival in 1979.
He was at his side when Islamist militants assassinated Sadat in October 1981. Mubarak assumed the presidency October 14, 1981 after Sadat’s assassination and he retained power by positioning himself as a trusted Western ally, honoring the 1979 peace treaty with Israel despite fierce opposition throughout most of the Middle East.

He ruled with an iron fist, imposing Egypt’s infamous emergency law, which gave Mubarak and his security forces sweeping powers to crack down on dissent and curb basic freedoms.

Mubarak eventually removed from power; flees Egypt

Mubarak’s army killed nearly 1,000 protesters during protests.  Once removed from power, Mubarak suffered a stroke and his health quickly deteriorated from there.  He suffered an emotional breakdown after being moved to an intensive care wing in Cairo’s Tora prison.

Mubarak suffered from depression and heart problems, during his stay in Tora, the Interior Ministry officials said. Agence France Presse reported from Cairo that Mubarak’s wife Suzanne and his two daughters-in-law were given special permission to visit him following rumors that he had died while in prison.

Mubarak faced the death penalty at one point, being Egypt’s political leader for the past three decades.

His almost thirty-year presidency made him Egypt’s longest-serving ruler since Muhammad Ali Pasha.  It made him Egypt’s modern day King Tut.

Mubarak’s government was often the target of domestic opposition from the Muslim Brotherhood to the secular left.

He resigned from power on February 11, 2011 after an 18-day popular revolt. The military took power after his resignation. His health problems were part Egyptian conspiracy theory, part tabloid fodder, but having his world torn apart by people whose lives were destroyed during his rule is what eventually did him in.

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Drew Barrymore, 37, and Will Kopelman said their wedding vows on the night of June 2nd at the bride’s estate in Montecito, California.

The pregnant bride wore a magnificent custom-designed Chanel gown; onlookers said she glowed as she exchanged vows with debonair Will, an art consultant. It was an intimate group of just over a hundred of the couple’s family and closest friends who attended the nuptials.

Ceremony features a few, close celebrity friends

Barrymore’s Charlie’s Angels costar Cameron Diaz was there, as well as her production company partner Nancy Juvonen and her husband, late night talk show host, Jimmy Fallon. Among Will’s family (his dad is the former CEO of Chanel) in attendance was his best-selling author sister, Jill Kargman.

The ceremony took place at the Colonial-style mansion Drew bought two years ago for $5.7 million, before she’d even met Will.  She’s has driven the 90 miles up from L.A., several times to the home in recent months, supervising final renovations to the property.

The couple is expected to split their time between Montecito, California and Manhattan, New York.

Drew was host to many of her guests for a rehearsal dinner the Friday night before the gala wedding at an exclusive nearby resort, the San Ysidro Ranch. Some of her out-of-town guests were staying there while others were staying at the nearby Four Seasons hotel.

The newlyweds have been very discreet about their nuptials and her pregnancy. This will be there first child. This is Barrymore’s third marriage.

Drew became a movie star at age seven, went through some substance abuse issues at an early age, but was able to bounce back, becoming a bestselling memoirist at age fourteen. The scion of an acting dynasty, she rose above her early notoriety, and transformed herself into a Hollywood power player as an actor and producer.

Steven Spielberg cast her in his 1982 classic E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, and she soon became the youngest person ever to host Saturday Night Live. She has created a very successful production company, Flower Films, and has cultivated some of her most successful films (Charlie’s Angels, Donnie Darko) on her own.

She has had two previous marriages, to bar owner Jeremy Thomas and gross-out comedian Tom Green

Drew gets “cold feet” after speaking to former boyfriend

According to Star magazine, she recently had a conversation with her ex-boyfriend, Justin Long and purportedly considered canceling the wedding after he warned the her against getting married a third time, an unnamed source revealed.

“She got a call from Justin a couple of weeks ago, and it kind of shook her up. She started questioning everything,” says the source. “He wasn’t calling to beg for another chance; he just wanted to gently tell her that he thought she was making a mistake. Her track record with marriages hasn’t been very good, and Justin just wanted to voice his opinion that she should think long and hard before committing herself again.”

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Donna Summer, whose career coincided with the disco phase of the late 70’s, spawning such worldwide hits such as, “Love to Love You Baby” and “Last Dance,” has died. The singer on May 17^th after a battle with lung cancer. She was 63.

Summer came to prominence, thanks in large part to the burgeoning disco era, and defined the era with a string of No. 1 hits and her beauty queen looks. Disco was very much defined by her sultry, sexually charged vocals and her bedroom sighs and moans, as much as the relentless, pulsing rhythms of the music itself.

Summer’s Career Spans beyond Disco

While other stars of disco faded as the music became less popular, Donna Summer was able to grow beyond it and had one of her biggest hits in the 1980s with “She Works Hard For The Money,” which became sort of an anthem for women’s rights.

Summer later became a born-again Christian, and faced controversy when she was accused of making anti-gay comments in relation to the AIDS epidemic. Though she denied making any such comments, she was still the target of a boycott against her music.

Donna Summer, whose real name was LaDonna Adrian Gaines, was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1948. Raised on gospel music she became the soloist in her church choir by age 10.

She was a Multiple Grammy Winner with a slew of Number One Hits

“Love to Love You Baby” was her U.S. chart debut and the first of 19 No. 1 dance hits from 1975 to 2008, second only to Madonna. She remains the only artist to have three consecutive double-LPs hit No. 1, “Live and More,” “Bad Girls” and “On the Radio”. She was a five-time Grammy winner who shot to superstardom in the ’70s with iconic hits like “Hot Stuff” and “Bad Girls.”

Publicist Michael Levine, president of Levine Communications Office, represented Summer in 2002. He told CBSNews.com, “She had more energy in her early ’50s than most artists have in their ’20s.”

Summer also stood out as the first female artist with four No. 1 singles during a 13-month period, according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  She was a nominee to the Hall of Fame earlier this year. Summer’s last album, “Crayons,” came out in 2008. She also performed on “American Idol” that year with its top female contestants. In 2010, Summer appeared on “America’s Got Talent.”

Summer married Brooklyn Dreams singer Bruce Sudano back in 1980. They had two daughters together.

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