The mystery donor who paid off Detroit Masonic Temple's $142,000 tax bill and saved the historic Michigan building from foreclosure has been revealed - former White Stripes star Jack White.
 
According to the Detroit News, just four days before the payment was due on June 3, a check was deposited to cover the cost of the bill.
 
The singer, who grew up in the city and now lives in Nashville, Tenn., came to the rescue when he found out the largest Masonic Temple in the world was in danger of foreclosure, according to local radio network WXYZ.
 
White's mother was reportedly an usher at the v...

Rocker Jack White is the mystery donor who paid off Detroit Masonic Temple's $142,000 (£92,000) tax bill and saved the historic Michigan building, according to local reports.

The payment was posted on 30 May (13), just four days before hall bosses' 3 June (13) deadline, according to the Detroit News.

And sources tell local radio network WXYZ that the former White Stripes star, who grew up in the city and now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, jumped into action when he heard the largest Masonic Temple in the world was in danger of foreclosure.

Reports suggest his mother was an usher at the v...

For only $250 you can own platinum and gold disc versions of "The Great Gatsby" soundtrack. The album for the highly-anticipated film includes songs from Jack White, Jay-Z, Beyonce, will.i.am, Lana Del Rey and Emeli Sande.
 
The former White Stripes star is releasing limited edition vinyl versions of the soundtrack - which are plated with real gold and platinum - through his label, Third Man Records.
 
The company posted on its website: "Disc one is platinum and disc two is gold. These are the first-ever commercially available records made using these precious metals via this process... All...

British model Karen Elson has opened up about her split from rocker Jack White, insisting the experience was like "breaking up with a whole life."

The couple parted ways in 2011 after six years of marriage, but vowed to remain amicable for the sake of their two children Scarlett, seven, and Henry Lee, five, even holding a divorce party for friends and family in Nashville, Tennessee.

However, Elson admits she is now struggling to find romance again as potential suitors are put off by her friendship with her former partner.

She tells Harper's Bazaar, "You have a responsibility to your ch...

  The 55th Annual Grammy Awards got off to a hot start on the red carpet, where music's biggest stars gathered before the main event at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Most stars adhered to the requests in the memo that CBS sent out on Wednesday, asking stars to tone their fashion choices down. The memo specifically asked that "buttocks and female breasts are adequately covered"; also warning that "see through" fashions, visible thongs and attire exposing any part of "genital regions" was forbidden at this year's award show.

Most stars followed the rules, including Jennifer Lopez, who ...

TV bosses have hit back at reports suggesting Jack White swore during the live Grammy Awards telecast on Sunday.

The rocker sparked a Twitter.com frenzy amongst viewers after apparently singing the phrase "f**k me" during his performance of Love Interruption with Ruby Amanfu at Los Angeles' Staples Center.
 
The lyrics to the track do not include any expletives, but chiefs at U.S. network CBS, which aired the prizegiving, argue White actually said "fight me".
 
Martin Franks, an executive at CBS, insists a team of censors monitoring the show on a 10-second delay agreed White was in the c...

Rocker Jack White has dropped out of plans to score Johnny Depp's new movie The Lone Ranger.

The former White Stripes star had signed on to compose the music for director Gore Verbinski's film, but he has been replaced by Oscar winner Hans Zimmer.

Announcing the news in a statement on Friday, Disney bosses said, "Jack White, who had originally been contemplated to score and has contributed several pieces of music to the production, was logistically unavailable due to scheduling conflicts that arose when the film's release moved to July of 2013."

Zimmer has previously worked with Verbinsk...

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Jack White was booed by fans at a show in New York on Saturday night when he left the stage after playing for less than a hour.

The White Stripes star performed a solo set at the Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, but left the audience confused when he bowed out after just 55 minutes.

White did not say goodbye before leaving the stage so gig-goers waited around for him to reappear, and when the rocker failed to return to the stage, they booed and began a chant of "F**k Jack White," according to the New York Observer.

A member of the venue's security team reportedly told the publicati...

Rocker Jack White has scored his first trans-Atlantic number one album after topping the charts in America on Wednesday.

The former White Stripes star has landed his first U.S. number one with his debut solo release "Blunderbuss", which toppled Adele's "21" in the U.K. charts on Sunday.

Ironically, Adele's hit album jumps up a spot on the new Billboard 200 countdown to mirror the one-two punch in Britain this week.

Lionel Richie's former chart-topper, "Tuskegee", slips from one to three, while boy band One Direction's "Up All Night" rises a spot to four and former American Idol star Lee ...

Former White Stripes star Jack White will compose the score for Johnny Depp's upcoming remake of classic TV series The Lone Ranger.

The rocker will lend his musical talents to the Disney western, which will star The Social Network's Armie Hammer as the Lone Ranger with Depp as his sidekick Tonto.

The film's producer Jerry Bruckheimer, confirmed White's involvement to Variety, saying, "Jack's an amazing songwriter with a unique style. We're thrilled to hear his fresh take on the William Tell Overture. Gore (Verbinski, director) hatched the idea and Johnny was thrilled with it."

"We're a...

Actor Gary Oldman is stepping behind the camera to direct an upcoming Jack White concert.

The Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy star was approached to take control of White's New York show, which will stream live on the internet on April 27th- and he jumped at the opportunity.

Oldman tells the New York Times, "It just fell from the sky. Occasionally you get calls and they just drop in. I didn't have to think very quickly about it. I just said, 'Yeah, that sounds very good.'"

However, the actor admits he's having trouble communicating with White, who is not a fan of modern technology.

He add...

Rocker Jack White keeps the master recordings of all his work in a hi-tech temperature-controlled room at his record label headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee.

The former The White Stripes frontman has managed to keep hold of the original recordings of almost every song he's ever worked on and he has created a library called the Vault at his Third Man Records offices to keep them in top condition.

The room can only be accessed via a biometric scanner and the temperature remains at a constant 64 degrees Fahrenheit.

He tells the New York Times, "It's good to finally have them in a nice se...

Rocker Jack White's two young children are already following in their famous father's footsteps - they've formed their own band.

The singer's five-year-old daughter Scarlett and four-year-old son Henry - his kids with estranged wife, supermodel Karen Elson - play together in their own group called Coke - and the star believes they could have what it takes to make it in the music industry.

The former White Stripes frontman tells the New York Times, "They're little vaudeville kids. They've been onstage for school plays and stuff, and they're not nervous at all.

"You can see in Henry's eyes...

Rocker Jack White has ruled out ever reforming The White Stripes.

The duo split in February last year and White will be releasing his debut solo album, Blunderbuss, next month.

And he's emphatically ruled out ever reuniting with The White Stripes drummer - his ex-wife Meg White - insisting he would have to be penniless to even contemplate a comeback.

White tells NME magazine, "Absolutely no chance. I couldn't see any reason to ever do that. I'm not the kind of person that would retire from baseball and come out of retirement the next year. I mean, if we went to all the trouble of tell...

Jack White performed his first full solo gig at the third anniversary party of the Third Man record label in Nashville, Tennessee on Thursday.

The rocker performed new tracks and classics from his bands The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather during a 19-song set for a specially-invited audience.

The exclusive gig took place in the lounge of of his record label's base.

Audience members included White's Dead Weather bandmate Alison Mosshart.

Former White Stripes frontman Jack White has announced he is releasing his first solo album, called Blunderbuss, this April.

"I've put off making records under my own name for a long time, but these songs feel like they could only be presented under my name," White explains. "These songs were written from scratch, had nothing to do with anyone or anything else but my own expression, my own colors on my own canvas."

Jack told BBC Radio 1 that the fact he recorded his own material only happened because another artist didn't show up for his recording session at his Nashville studio.

"A few ...

Rocker Jack White is divorcing his model/singer wife Karen Elson after six years of marriage.

The former White Stripes star wed the British beauty in Brazil in 2005, but the couple - parents of daughter Scarlett and son Henry - announced its split on Friday.

In an email sent out to friends and family, White and Elson write, "We remain dear and trusted friends and co-parents to our wonderful children. We feel so fortunate for the time we have shared and the time we will continue to spend both separately and together watching our children grow."

However, the parting lovers insist their ...

A rare guitar signed by former White Stripes star Jack White has been stolen from a set designer's studio in London.

The black Fender, worth $22,500, was swiped along with a TV and a computer from Paul Biver's property on January 23.

Biver, 37, had been given the guitar by a close pal - a rock memorabilia collector - three years ago as a gift in exchange for helping to redecorate his boat.

The designer claims he had only taken the musical instrument into the studio because he was in the process of building a display case for it.

Police believe more than one person was involved in the bu...

What does it really take to be one of the most recognized muses in rock ‘n’ roll? Just ask fiery haired Pamela Des Barres, the world’s most famous groupie. Before TMZ and Perez Hilton reported on the escapades of celebrities, the now 62-year-old California girl set off to meet her idols and was doing plenty of kissing, but no telling, at least until she published her world renowned memoir in 1987, I’m With The Band. Finally, she dished on what it was really like to be with some of music’s most influential artists, including Mick Jagger, Keith Moon, Jimmy Page, and Jim Morrison. Yet, it wasn...

Rockers Queens Of The Stone Age are set to end their two-year hiatus by heading back to the recording studio in 2011.

The band has not released any new material since 2007's Era Vulgaris, and in 2008 they embarked an extended break which saw frontman Josh Homme form Them Crooked Vultures with Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones.

Guitarist Dean Fertita also focused on a side-project, playing with Jack White's The Dead Weather, but the musician admits the No One Knows hit-makers are now ready to work together again.

He tells The Pulse Of Radio, "Things are going really good. Everybody seems ...

The Rolling Stones “Stones in Exile” Eagle Rock Ent: If you don’t believe that there was a time when the Rolling Stones weren’t in the best of places – recording in basements and avoiding the law as examples – then set aside some time for “Stones in Exile,” a new documentary chronicling the bands recording process of their now-legendary “Exile on Main St.” album nearly three decades ago. The doc comes straight from the source as 3/5 of the band – Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Keith Richards - share producing credits, along with director Stephen Kijak, so rest assured going in that this isn...

The details of Paul McCartney's big White House showdown have been revealed a week after the former Beatles star hinted about a presidential concert in a web chat.

The Jonas Brothers, Faith Hill, Stevie Wonder and Jerry Seinfeld will be part of an all-star line-up that will honor McCartney when he receives the third Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress in the White House's East Room. Jack White, Dave Grohl, Emmylou Harris and Elvis Costello will also be part of the festivities on June 2nd. Paul Simon and Wonder are past Gershwin Prize winners.

McCartney treated ...

Jack White and his wife Karen Elson have refused to hire a nanny - the couple is determined to raise its two children without any help.

The White Stripes rocker is dad to Scarlett, four, and Henry, two, with his model/singer wife, who he married in 2005.

However, the proud parents are adamant the kids won't ever be cared for by a child minder - and White is convinced that if Paul McCartney can raise children, he can too.

He says, "Paul McCartney used to take his kids everywhere, never had a nanny I heard. So it can be done, it just becomes part of the scenario. At first it's overwhelm...

Jack White dreams of a world with no internet - because the web is "a nuisance" that trivializes music.

The White Stripes rocker - who famously records most of his songs using old-fashioned analogue equipment - appreciates that modern technology connects people around the world, but he's adamant it is harming the music industry.

He tells British rock mag NME, "In my head I'm still living and working as if there is no internet, and treat it as a nuisance and use it for whatever is good about it that we can scrape together after the fact."

"The internet is a beautiful tool for many, man...

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Somewhere out on a farm in the middle of Tennessee stands Jack White, dressed as Jack White and with familiar Jack White stage manner, standing at a table with various (and somewhat random) items: a wood block, a glass bottle, a wire, a nail and a hammer. What does this have to do with guitar playing? Give him two minutes. He assembles the parts together to make a diddley bow*-- when was the last time you saw one of these-- and then punches some wildly astonishing wails out of it, before finally turning to the camera and asking, "Who says you need to buy a guitar?"

If this is the way dir...

Renee Zellweger and Bradley Cooper have sparked fresh speculation they are dating - after they were spotted together in Spain.

The stars enjoyed a recent night out at an Italian restaurant in New York, where fellow diners claim they acted like the perfect couple.

An eyewitness said, "He pulled her chair out for her when she sat down and he kissed her on the hand. If they're just friends, they were being awfully affectionate! Throughout the dinner they were playful and flirty."

And now the pair, who star in upcoming movie Case 39, have added fuel to the relationship rumors - by b...

I finally saw the Sam Mendes dramedy "Away We Go" starring Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski. The film is thoroughly enjoyable with its highs and its lows sharing equal poignancy. It is the perfect hybrid of a drama and a comedy.

Music throughout the film is spot on, appropriate in each instance for the emotions the filmmakers are trying to convey. Rudolph and Krasinski have a wonderful chemistry as husband and wife and engage in hilarious interactions with the other couples in the movie. Krasinski plays the role of Burt with a dopey charm that's hard not to love.

This week is crowd...

Rocker Jack White's lost movie debut is to premiere at San Diego, California's comic book convention Comic-Con later this month.

The White Stripes,The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather star has appeared in films like Cold Mountain and Walk Hard, in which he portrayed Elvis Presley, but his first acting role was in a low budget 1997 movie, called Mutant Swinger From Mars.

Billed under his real name, John Gillis, White plays Mikey in director Michael Kallio's sci-fi spoof, according to TwentyFourBit.com.

White will be a familiar face on the big screen this year - he's part of new gu...