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13-05-2025
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Lalruattluanga Becomes First Indian to Win Global Color Visionary Title at Wella Professionals International TrendVision 2024-25 Finale in Malta
History was made at the Global Wella Professionals TrendVision 2024-25 Grand Finale in Malta, as Lalruattluanga, from Shillong, was crowned the winner of the coveted Color Visionary award.A flagship competition by Wella Professionals, TrendVision is one of the most prestigious global platforms that celebrates cutting-edge creativity and technical mastery in hairdressing. This milestone moment unfolded during Destination 2025, a spectacular three-day event that brought together the global hairdressing community in an unforgettable celebration of craft, creativity, and the future of the salon industry. Over 1,000 hairdressers and Wella ambassadors from 52 countries gathered in Malta, reinforcing the spirit of innovation and collaboration that defines the Wella Professionals network. Competing against national winners from across different corners of the world, Lalruattluanga's technically brilliant work stood out on the world stage, marking a breakthrough moment for Indian hairdressing, as he became the first Indian Colorist to ever win a title at the finale of this prestigious competition. Lalruattluanga Wins the title of Global Color Visionary Title at Wella Professionals International TrendVision 2024-25 Finale in Malta The journey to Malta began at the Indian Finale of the TrendVision 2024-25 Awards, held at Andaz, New Delhi, where Lalruattluanga competed alongside 20 of the country's top hairstylists in an electrifying showcase of creativity, innovation, and transformative skill. With over 66,000 entries received from across India, the competition witnessed an unprecedented display of homegrown talent, culminating in Lalruattluanga's selection as one of India's national winners under the color category to compete in the Global finale. The Wella TrendVision Award, hosted by Wella Professionals, the No.1 salon color brand globally*, is an annual celebration of creative excellence and innovation in hairdressing. Lalruattluanga's entry was inspired by the quiet beauty of Shillong's golden sunsets, tying into this year's theme, 'Golden Hour'. His color story evoked the calm radiance of dusk, a moment that captures the transition between endings and new beginnings. Using Wella Professionals Koleston Perfect Me+, he created a look that brought the Golden Hour to life through warm, blended highlights and soft root shadows. His creation was more than just hair color, it was a visual expression of hope and tranquility. 'The Golden Hour reminds us to pause and find peace, that even at the end of a long day, beauty remains,' said Lalruattluanga. 'Through my work, I wanted to capture that feeling and reflect it in every strand. To me, the Golden Hour represents both the quiet beauty of endings and the promise of new beginnings. In those fleeting moments, when the sky glows warm and golden, there's a sense of calm that wraps around you, a reminder that no matter how exhausting the day has been, there is still light, still hope. In today's fast-paced world, I believe it's important to hold on to that sense of stillness and comfort, and I tried to translate that emotion into hair, turning a visual moment into a lasting impression. I'm truly ecstatic to have received this honor on a global stage, it feels surreal to be the first Indian to bring this title home.' Pravesh Saha, General Manager, Wella India & South Asia, shared, 'Lalruattluanga's win marks a historic milestone for India's hairdressing industry, the first time an Indian hairdresser has taken home a global title at TrendVision. It's not just a personal victory, but a moment of pride for the entire country. His achievement puts India firmly on the global map of hair artistry and is a powerful reminder of the extraordinary talent rooted in our diverse regions. At Wella, we are proud to champion such visionary artists who dare to dream big and push the boundaries of creativity.' Wella Professionals continues to empower stylists with global opportunities, world-class education, and groundbreaking innovations. This historic win signals the rise of Indian talent on the world stage. Join the conversation and witness the artistry unfold by following @wellaproindia Instagramhandle and visiting **Based on Wella Master Brand USD sales on the 2023 Salon Hair Care Study for the hair coloring products category published by Kline About Wella Company Wella Company is one of the world's leading beauty companies, comprised of a family of iconic brands such as the No. 1 Salon Color Brand in the World, Wella Professionals, and additional brands such as Sebastian Professional, System Professional, weDo Professional, Clairol, OPI, Nioxin and ghd. With 6,000 employees globally and a presence in over 100 countries, Wella Company and its brands enable consumers to look, feel, and be their true selves. As innovators in the hair and nail industry, Wella Company empowers its people to delight consumers, inspire beauty professionals, engage communities, and deliver sustainable growth to its stakeholders.
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Yahoo
Renowned California hairstylist found stabbed to death
CASE UPDATE: On April 11, 2025, a jury found Monica Sementill, 53, guilty of murder and conspiracy for masterminding the murder of her husband Fabio, with special circumstances of murder for financial gain and murder while lying in wait. WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — A well-known hairstylist was found stabbed to death Monday afternoon on the back patio of his California home, reports CBS Los Angeles. Fabio Sementilli's wife and daughter discovered his body around 5 p.m., according to police. The 49-year-old had been stabbed several times in the face, neck and upper body, police said. Investigators say two men broke into Sementilli's home and drove off in his black 2008 Porsche 911 Carrera with paper plates. Sementilli was Vice President of Education for Wella, a German hair-care company. He was nicknamed "big daddy" and was passionate about mentoring others in the hair styling industry. Wella Education posted on Facebook: "Our hearts are broken. He will be sorely missed." At Sementilli's home on Tuesday, he was praised by Eden Sassoon, the daughter of another industry icon, Vidal Sassoon, and star of the Bravo reality show Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills. "A man that truly cared. Excuse my French, he gave a [expletive]. It made a difference," said Sassoon, who called Sementilli a mentor and friend, in an interview with CBS Los Angeles. "I don't know when and if in (Sementilli's family's) lifetime those shoes can be filled. He really stood out. When you say his name, you smile," Sassoon said. Savannah Bananas pack stadiums with their zany twist on baseball | 60 Minutes American retirees expand their world overseas Trump's chaotic tariffs week
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Yahoo
Did a California wife conspire with her ex-lover to kill her husband?
Fabio Sementilli was a superstar in the beauty business. He began cutting hair in Toronto, Canada, and eventually moved to Los Angeles when he was promoted to an executive position at Wella. He settled in a home in Woodland Hills with his wife Monica and their two teenage daughters. On Jan. 23, 2017, Fabio was in his backyard by the pool when two people broke into the home and stabbed him to death. According to prosecutors, the suspects staged the scene to look like a robbery gone wrong. But when Los Angeles Police Department detectives began investigating the murder, they said they found blood at the scene that didn't belong to Fabio. And they said they also found evidence that his wife was having an affair at the time. Jan. 23, 2017 | 3:26 p.m.: Monica Sementilli's alibi On the day Fabio was killed, prosecutors said a neighbor's security camera captured Monica Sementilli leaving home in her black Ford F-150 pickup truck. She was headed to Target where prosecutors said she was establishing her alibi. Before Monica entered the store, according to prosecutors, there is video where it appears an individual got into Monica's truck. Prosecutors said that person was Robert Baker, a local racquetball coach who Monica had been having an affair with for about a year prior to Fabio's murder. Monica's defense attorneys have disputed the prosecution's interpretation of the video from the parking lot. According to the district attorney, Monica then went alone into the Target store and began shopping. Jan. 23, 2017 | 4:18 p.m: Suspects caught on camera A neighbor's security camera captured two hooded figures jogging near Fabio's house right around the time of the murder. According to prosecutors, the person in the green hoodie was Baker. And prosecutors said that Baker and the unknown co-conspirator entered the Sementilli home and attacked Fabio from behind. They then staged the scene to look like robbery. Jan. 23, 2017 | 4:32 p.m.: Monica Sementilli pictured at Target the day of her husband's murder At 4:32 p.m. on the day of Fabio's murder, Monica Sementilli was seen on surveillance video walking out of the Target store and, according to prosecutors, she was fixated on her phone and likely monitoring her home surveillance cameras remotely. Prosecutors also said that around the time of Fabio's murder, phone records showed that Monica's iPhone was connected to her home's IP address and her phone was consuming a large amount of data consistent with streaming live video. The prosecution stated in pre-trial motions that Monica was monitoring the comings and goings at her home so that Baker and the unknown accomplice could enter and kill Fabio "without any interruption." But according to Monica's defense team, there is no evidence that can prove what exactly she was watching on her phone at that time. In court documents, the defense raised the possibility that Monica could have been remotely streaming a TV show. Jan. 23, 2017 | 4:53 p.m.: The getaway car About 35 minutes after the hooded joggers were seen near the Sementilli home, at 4:53 p.m., Fabio's black Porsche was seen on the same neighbor's security camera being driven away. Prosecutors said this was Baker and his unknown co-conspirator leaving the crime scene. According to detectives, the Porsche was discovered two days after the murder parked about five miles away from the Sementilli home. Prosecutors also said Baker's blood was found inside the Porsche. Jan. 23, 2017 | 4:54 p.m.: A daughter's heartbreaking discovery Just one minute after the black Porsche is captured, Monica and Fabio's daughter Isabella's vehicle was captured on a security camera as she is returning home. Isabella, who was 16 years old at the time, discovered her father's body and called 911. A few minutes later, Monica arrived back home. February – June 2017: The investigation into Fabio Sementilli's murder As detectives began investigating Fabio's murder, they said they discovered DNA at the crime scene that belonged to Baker. His DNA was in the database because he was a registered sex offender. According to prosecutors, Baker cut his left index finger when he killed Fabio and that's why his blood was at the scene. According to the indictment, Investigators also learned that in the year leading up to Fabio's murder, Baker made thousands of calls and texts to Monica. In February 2017, an LAPD detective went to visit Monica at her home. Prosecutors said that when the investigator asked Monica about Baker, she told them she wasn't sure of his last name. For the next few months, investigators said they surveilled Monica and Baker's secretive romance and said the relationship continued after Fabio's murder. According to the district attorney, the couple took two trips to Las Vegas and a trip to Myrtle Beach together. June 14, 2017: Monica Sementilli and her then-boyfriend Robert Baker arrested LAPD detectives said they came up with a plan to secretly record Monica and Baker while they were together. On June 14, 2017, Monica and Baker were pulled over in her Mustang under the guise of a traffic stop and were told that the car they were driving might have been stolen. According to the prosecution, the officers then handcuffed Monica and Baker and put them in the back seat of a police car, which was wired for sound so that they could be recorded. The detectives who had been investigating Monica and Baker for months said they were listening to them from a van parked nearby. And that's when investigators said Monica was recorded telling Baker, "Somebody must have talked. Somebody is doing this to us." The couple was then taken to the LAPD Van Nuys Station where they were placed in separate cells and questioned by detectives about the murder of Fabio. Wife of slain hairdresser Fabio Sementilli arrested for murder Later that day, investigators said they told Monica that Baker's blood was found at the crime scene. According to detectives, Monica explained why Baker's blood would be inside her home. She told them that she "cracked" Baker on the finger with a racquet and he bled all over the racquetball court, so she gave him a towel and then brought that bloody towel home with her. Aug. 14-18, 2017: The grand jury hearing The prosecution presented its case to a grand jury in August 2017. They described Monica's actions on the day her husband was killed in detail and said she was establishing her alibi for the time of the murder. The prosecutors also presented evidence that six months before Fabio's murder, Monica communicated with a security camera company to upgrade the system at her home. The upgrade allowed her to remotely access her surveillance cameras from her cellphone. According to the prosecution, Monica forwarded the log in credentials and user manual for her security system to Robert Baker on the same day it was upgraded. In the months following Fabio's murder, prosecutors said that while Monica was posting on social media that she was grieving her husband's death, she was also secretly spending time with Baker. Friends of Monica and Baker's testified that they went out on double dates and saw affectionate behavior between the two. At the conclusion of the hearing, Monica and Baker were indicted by the grand jury for murder and conspiracy. Aug. 31, 2017: Defendants plead "not guilty" On Aug. 31, 2017, both Monica Sementilli and Robert Baker pleaded "not guilty" to the murder of Fabio Sementilli. Monica Sementilli's defense presents its case On Jan. 3, 2018, Monica's defense team filed a motion to set aside the indictment against her. Among their arguments, they stated that during the grand jury hearing, the prosecution presented evidence of Monica's character that was irrelevant. The defense said, "the evidence presented against Ms. Sementilli establishes that she was a woman having an affair that she wished to keep secret. Any additional allegation that she wanted to have her husband murdered, or stood to benefit from his murder, or orchestrated his murder with Mr. Baker, was based on pure speculation." The defense also stated that the prosecution presented no communication between Baker and Monica that was evidence of an agreement to murder Fabio. The defense also took issue with the surveillance footage in the parking lot that the prosecutors claimed to see Baker getting into Monica's truck. They stated in their motion that "... the video quality is so grainy, and the focal point so distant, so as to be borderline unwatchable," and you cannot see an individual leave Monica's truck. July 7, 2023: Robert Baker's dramatic plea change On July 7, 2023, Baker changed his plea from "not guilty" to "no contest." At his sentencing hearing, the judge explained to him that a "no contest" plea is essentially the same as a "guilty" plea and asked if he understood to which Baker replied, "Yes, sir." Baker was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Monica's attorneys had previously attempted to have her case severed from Baker's, which the judge denied. By pleading "no contest," Baker created a significant change in court proceedings going forward. Now, Monica will be tried separately, without Baker, for the murder of her husband, Fabio. Feb. 24, 2024: "48 Hours" talks to Robert Baker "48 Hours" went to see Robert Baker in jail, and said Monica had nothing to do with the murder of Fabio and she never knew that he was Fabio's killer. Baker also told "48 Hours" that he's no longer in touch with Monica and he has not decided if he will testify at her trial. April 11, 2025: A guilty verdict Afer two days of deliberations, the 10-man, two-woman jury found Monica Sementilli guilty of murder. The 53-year-old faced charges of murder and conspiracy for masterminding the crime, with special circumstances of murder for financial gain and murder while lying in wait. Jurors found all the charges to be true. Coachella 2025 is underway with some challenges What to know about filing as Tax Day comes up Justice Department refused to answer several questions in mistakenly deported man's court hearing
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Yahoo
L.A. hair mogul's wife guilty of murder in deadly love triangle
Monica Sementilli was convicted Friday of sending her lover to kill her husband, celebrity hairstylist Fabio Sementilli, in a brutal stabbing at the couple's luxury Woodland Hills home eight years ago. Sementilli, 51, gasped and broke down in tears, clutching her hands over her mouth as the verdict was read. She will face life in prison without the possibility of parole at sentencing after being convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Fabio Sementilli was found dead at the couple's home in January 2017 and police initially thought he was killed in a botched home invasion, pointing to "knock-knock burglars" who had been ransacking expensive homes in the San Fernando Valley at the time. The hair mogul suffered multiple wounds to his face, jawline, neck, chest, and thigh. But detectives were puzzled as to why an $8,000 Rolex was left on Sementilli's wrist at the crime scene. Read more: 'Betrayal, greed and lust': Did a hair mogul's wife mastermind his killing? A jury now decides Blood found at the scene was soon linked to Robert Baker, a convicted sex offender and former porn star later who began an affair with Monica Sementilli after serving as her racquetball coach at a West Hills fitness club. While prosecutors have painted Sementilli as the "mastermind" behind the slaying as she stood to gain $1.6 million in life insurance payouts, Baker took the stand during the two-and-a-half month trial and insisted he killed the hair mogul for love. 'I murdered him because I wanted her,' Baker testified last month. 'She had nothing to do with it." Baker was previously convicted of Fabio's murder and sentenced to life without parole. Video evidence presented by Deputy Dist. Atty. Beth Silverman, however, showed Monica Sementilli watching a live feed of the area shortly before the murder to ensure Baker had a clear path to her husband. Veteran LAPD homicide detective Mitzi Roberts also testified Monica Sementilli and Baker exchanged 95 messages through an encrypted messaging app called Viber on the day of the killing and 180 messages the day before. While Monica Sementilli has denied all wrongdoing and publicly grieved her husband, an executive at the hair-care company Wella, she was involved in a torrid affair with Baker. The pair sexted during her husband's funeral, according to Silverman, who said the newly-widowed Monica even sent nudes to Baker during the service in Toronto. Read more: Killer says ex-lover had no role in her husband's slaying: 'I murdered him because I wanted her' Baker's accomplice, Christopher Austin, also testified for the prosecution last month and insisted Baker told him Monica directed the murder. Austin, a former Oregon probation officer, said he never spoke to Monica directly but Baker made clear his lover wanted her husband "gone." 'Everything he did he did after he got a text message, which told me he was talking to her via text message.' Austin testified. 'I did not hear him talk to her on the phone ... but everything happened in sequence.' Defense attorney Leonard Levine has argued that prosecutors are focusing too much on the sordid details of his client's affair, which is not itself evidence she plotted a killing. "Adultery is not murder. ... Everything she did was to protect the affair, not to cover up the murder,' he said. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
11-04-2025
- Los Angeles Times
Wife of L.A. hair mogul convicted in husband's murder
Monica Sementelli was convicted Friday of sending her lover to kill her husband, celebrity hairstylist Fabio Sementelli, in a brutal stabbing at the couple's luxury Woodland Hills home eight years ago. Sementelli, 51, gasped and broke down in tears, clutching her hands over her mouth as the verdict was read. She will face life in prison without the possibility of parole at sentencing after being convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Fabio Sementelli was found dead at the couple's home in January 2017 and police initially thought he was killed in a botched home invasion, pointing to a spate of so-called 'knock knock burglars' that had been ransacking expensive homes in the San Fernando Valley at the time. The hair moguel suffered multiple wounds to his face, jawline, neck, chest, and thigh. But detectives were puzzled as to why an $8,000 Rolex was left on Sementelli's wrist at the crime scene. Blood found at the scene was soon linked to Robert Baker, a convicted sex offender and former porn star later who began an affair with Monica Sementelli after serving as her racquetball coach at a West Hills fitness club. While prosecutors have painted Sementelli as the 'mastermind' behind the slaying as she stood to gain $1.6 million in life insurance payouts, Baker took the stand during the two-and-a-half month trial and insisted he killed the hair mogul for love. 'I murdered him because I wanted her,' Baker testified last month. 'She had nothing to do with it.' Baker was previously convicted of Fabio's murder and sentenced to life without parole. Video evidence presented by Deputy Dist. Atty. Beth Silverman, however, showed Monica Sementilli watching a live feed of the area shortly before the murder to ensure Baker had a clear path to her husband. Veteran LAPD homicide detective Mitzi Roberts also testified Monica Sementilli and Baker exchanged 95 messages through an encrypted messaging app called Viber on the day of the killing and 180 messages the day before. While Monica Sementelli has denied all wrongdoing and publicly grieved her husband, an executive at the hair-care company Wella, she was involved in a torrid affair with Baker. The pair sexted during her husband's funeral, according to Silverman, who said the newly-widowed Monica even sent nudes to Baker during the service in Toronto. Baker's accomplice, Christopher Austin, also testified for the prosecution last month and insisted Baker told him Monica directed the murder. Austin, a former Oregon probation officer, said he never spoke to Monica directly but Baker made clear his lover wanted her husband 'gone.' 'Everything he did he did after he got a text message, which told me he was talking to her via text message.' Austin testified. 'I did not hear him talk to her on the phone ... but everything happened in sequence.' Defense attorney Leonard Levine has argued that prosecutors are focusing too much on the sordid details of his client's affair, which is not itself evidence she plotted a killing. 'Adultery is not murder. ... Everything she did was to protect the affair, not to cover up the murder,' he said.
