MIDDLETOWN — The riverside home of rocker Jon Bon Jovi and properties of his Navesink River Road neighbors were burglarized by a Beachwood man accused of heisting more than $500,000 in jewelry from the homes over the past month, police said.source
Nicholas J. Tracy, 21, of Clubhouse Road in Beachwood, was arrested Wednesday, after a burglar alarm was tripped at a home in the 400 block of Navesink River Road, prompting Patrolmen Ryan Riffert and Carl Roth to respond to the scene, according to Detective Lt. Stephen Dollinger.
The patrolmen searched the home to discover Tracy hiding in a third-floor bathroom, Dollinger said.
Following an investigation by Detectives William Strohkirch and Peter White, Tracy was charged with burglarizing Bon Jovi's $22.25 million, 15-acre estate along the Navesink River on April 3, where he grabbed jewelry belonging to Bon Jovi's wife Dorothea Bongiovi valued at $100,000, according to documents.
Tracy is also accused of burglarizing another home on March 14, netting jewelry valued at $103,912, and another neighbor's home on April 1, when he grabbed $300,000 in jewelry, court records reveal.
Tracy is charged with four counts of third-degree burglary and three counts of second-degree theft. He was remanded to the Monmouth County Jail in Freehold Township on $100,000 bail with no option to post 10 percent, as set by township Municipal Court Judge Richard Thompson. He remains in the jail today, according to jail records.
The foundation started by Central Jersey rocker Jon Bon Jovi plans to open its first community restaurant on Monmouth Street, where, pending local approvals, no one will get denied a good, nutritious meal.You can read the full article here.
Plans were filed late last month by the Philadelphia based Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation to convert a former auto repair shop to a neighborhood restaurant that will serve low-cost or no-cost meals to the community.
"This will be our first community kitchen, it would be fantastic if it took off and we could replicate it," said Mimi Box, executive director of the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation. "This is operated just like a restaurant. People can bring their families, they have a selection of items and have options to pay cash or volunteer."
Volunteers can work at the kitchen or with other local charities that need volunteers that the foundation hopes to work with, she said. Those who can afford to pay, could also donate more toward another person's meal, Box said.
This is an article on a Greek blog about Jon demands when it comes to his visit in Greece.Original Greek
The article is this word for word:
"Bon Jovis concert in Athens is the biggest show of a foreign act of the year in Greece. But the band has some crazy demands. Their managers have asked that the Olympic Stadium switches hands a week before the show so that no one moves at the area of the venue or the backstage without a special pass. They are so strict, says the rep of the label in Greece Alex Patakis that the band demands to have security similar to that of a US airport. As far as Jon Bon Jovi's private sections of the stadium is concerned the order is clear. No one goes through without a check.
According to a daily newspaper, backstage they have asked that there is a place for work out and massage. Because they will be spending the biggest part of their stay in the stadium and because they are bringing their own chefs on tour there will kitchens in the stadium so that their meals are properly made and comes in time. There may be a greeting room for the lucky people they decide to see, mostly celebrities"
Tom Cruise, set to play Stacee Jaxx in the film adaptation "Rock of Ages," was seen dining with his good friend Jon Bon Jovi in New York Tuesday night, possibly getting some singing tips from the rocker.You can find the article here.
The "Mission: Impossible" actor did sign up for vocal lessons from the guy who trained former Guns n' Roses frontman Axl Rose. "He's been studying with -- seriously -- Axl Rose's voice teacher like five hours a day," "Rock of Ages" director Adamn Shankman told TheWrap last week. "The prognosis is more than excellent."
Cruise, Bon Jovi and their wives, Katie Holmes and Dorothea Bon Jovi, enjoyed a meal at the NYC eatery Il Contonori.
Spielberg to attend Shoah institute fund-raiser in Philadelphia
Film great Steven Spielberg and some of his Hollywood friends will gather in Philadelphia to fete Comcast Corp. chief executive officer Brian L. Roberts - a sign of the city's growing clout in the heart of the movie-making industry.
The May 9 event is a first in Philadelphia for the University of Southern California's Shoah Foundation Institute. The gathering should raise $2 million for the institute's work preserving on digital files the memories of Holocaust survivors and expanding its archives of testimony from other genocides.
Spielberg established the institute in 1994 after filming Schindler's List, which told the story of German businessman Oskar Schindler, who managed to save some 1,100 Jews from the gas chambers of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Roberts said that this would be the largest public event he has done since the deal with NBC Universal and that he was honored to participate in it because he considered Schindler's List "one of the moving films of our generation." He is already preparing his remarks for the event. Jersey rocker Jon Bon Jovi is scheduled to perform at the gala.
Bon Jovi was living on little more than a prayer when the band came to Cleveland in March 1984. The crowd went to the Agora to see the Cleveland band Beau Coup, then began to filter out before Bon Jovi had taken the stage.Could you imagine (today) an intimate 150-person show? How much would the die-hard fans LOVE that :)
Agora owner Henry Lo Conti was able to herd only about 150 fans back into the club to see the New Jersey band.
"I felt embarrassed for the guy," Lo Conti said of lead singer Jon Bon Jovi. But Jon Bon Jovi sang like there were 1,000 people in the crowd. Two years later, after the band hit it big with the album "Slippery When Wet," it drew 42,000 to Lo Conti's Buckeye Lake Center near Columbus.
For the first time ever, Bon Jovi lets you, the fans, create your own unique Bon Jovi videos from live footage captured at the MGM Grand Arena.
STEP 1 - BUILD
Building your clip is easy! Just click on a frame in the timeline and drag your desired video clip on to the frame.
STEP 2 - STYLE
Creating a video is no fun without effects! In the Style tab, you can add numerous effects to the timeline.
You can preview your creation at any time by clicking the green button in the center of the screen.
STEP 3 - PUBLISH
After you're done building your video, just click the Publish button to watch the finished product!
CovHousePrez Kevin Ryan by DavidsTonySo looking forward to spending next Tuesday with Jon Bon Jovi at Covenant House in Philadelphia. Our kids can't wait! Me too!! Favorite Retweet ReplyCovenant House Pennsylvania serves homeless, runaway and trafficked youth with absolute respect and unconditional love. Providing a continuum of services for youth in need, Covenant House Pennsylvania is the largest private child welfare agency in the Delaware Valley.
A few ingredients for a Bon Jovi rock and roll show include 807 kilowatts of power, 400 cups of coffee, 83 crew members and eight Ohio State students.You can read the whole article here.
Eight OSU students have been selected to receive a hands-on experience with the Bon Jovi tour when it comes to Nationwide Arena May 10.
The students will work with the production team, among other crews apart of the tour, to see how the show is built from the ground up. They will be a part of everything from the building of sets, shooting video, sound checks and visuals.
"They are not so much working at the show as it's more about speaking with different departments," said Mike Savas, tour manager and VIP coordinator. "They get a backstage tour, they get a view of how everything works."
Bon Jovi and his team are providing this opportunity to college students as a way to give back to the communities they visit during their tour.
