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Stilton is a special type of blue cheese that can be made in only three English counties. There are just four producers of Stilton left, but this one was crowned best cheese in the world, according to one of the industry’s top awards last year. Eshe Nelson, a business reporter for The New York Times, went to Clawson Farms, the producer of the award-winning Stilton, which is trying to expand its business in the United States, despite the higher costs imposed by the Trump administration’s tariff policy.

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The legendary “Prince of Darkness” who died on Tuesday at 76 partnered last month with Liquid Death – the canned water brand known for its heavy metal aesthetic – to sell special-edition cans of iced tea.

The major, head-banging twist: These cans purportedly bear traces of Osbourne’s DNA.

Ozzy Osbourne crushing a can of Liquid Death iced tea. Liquid Death

The ad pitch from Liquid Death claims the “Iron Man” singer drank and then crushed 10 cans of its iced tea, leaving behind “trace DNA from his saliva.”

“Now, when technology and federal law permits, you’ll be able to replicate Ozzy Osbourne and enjoy him for hundreds of years into the future,” the company said.

“DNA integrity and cloning results not guaranteed,” the company added.

With Osbourne’s signature on each package, the cans originally sold out quickly at $450 a pop – but that price soared as high as $4,655 for a resale on eBay after his death on Tuesday.

“Ozzy Osbourne is 1 of 1. But we’re selling his actual DNA so you can recycle him forever,” Liquid Death said of the collaboration, which is called “Infinitely Recyclable Ozzy.”

Three crushed cans with Ozzy Osbourne’s signature – and apparent traces of his DNA. Liquid Death

A regular Liquid Death iced tea sells for about $2 at Walmart and Stop & Shop.

The Black Sabbath frontman also partnered with UK-based Jolie Beauty earlier this month on a limited-edition makeup collection with the moniker “I’m Going Through Changes”.

It included makeup brushes with black and red bristles, a hand mirror that looks like a vinyl record and lip products and eye glitters with shade names like “Bloodbath,” “Nightmare” and “Hellraiser.”

These weren’t Osbourne’s first unconventional partnerships.

Ozzy Osbourne performing during the half-time show at the 2022 NFL season opening game. Getty Images

In 2003, Chipotle created the Chipotle Celebrity Card – which grants unlimited Chipotle for one year – for Osbourne. As of 2022, he was the only lifelong cardholder.

Osbourne died “surrounded by love,” his family said in a statement to The Post shortly after his death on Tuesday. 

“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” said the statement from his wife Sharon and four of his six kids – Jack, Kelly, Aimee and Louis.

Ozzy Osbourne’s eyeshadow palette with makeup brand Jolie Beauty. Jolie Beauty

His death came more than five years after he announced his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, and just a few weeks after his final show reunited with Black Sabbath in the band’s hometown of Birmingham, England.

Osbourne was known for his outrageous behavior – allegedly biting the head off a dove during a 1981 record company meeting and allegedly doing the same to a bat during a 1982 show in Iowa.

The metal icon reportedly snorted a line of ants while on tour in the 1980s, according to documentary “The Dirt,” and was arrested for urinating on the Cenotaph, a landmark at the Alamo in Texas.

His antics only fed his legendary career as Sabbath’s lead singer, a successful solo artist and star of the reality TV series “The Osbournes,” which ran from 2002 to 2005.

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Milken, now a philanthropist and investor, made history by creating the high yield or junk bond market at Drexel Burnham Lambert back in the 1980s. It’s where he earned the moniker “Junk Bond King.”

Milken and his team were among the most innovative financiers ever. Their so-called junk bonds, or high-yield debt, were used to finance some of the biggest companies when they were in their formative stages and turn them into corporate behemoths.

Michael Milken (left) made history by creating the high yield or junk bond market back in the 1980s. It’s where he earned the moniker “Junk Bond King.” Adam Winnick has been quietly making a name for himself in crypto as an investor. Jack Forbes / NY Post Design

He did have some help along the way. His partner in building Drexel into a powerhouse investment bank was the late Gary Winnick, a former furniture salesman from Roslyn, on Long Island, who moved his family west to work in Drexel’s Beverly Hills office and emerged as one of the best junk-bond salesmen in the business.

These days, Winnick’s son, 49-year-old Adam Winnick, has been quietly making a name for himself in the burgeoning crypto business as an investor and thought leader. He has a competing conference – the Medici Network — also taking place this week, one that is more intimate than the sprawling Milken Global affair but is attracting its own A-list group of influencers looking for investment insights..

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Panels on the underlying blockchain technology, various new crypto related investments and the changing regulatory environment are all featured a few miles from the Milken summit right in Beverly Hills.

Winnick has been hosting the four-day event, which ends Thursday, for the past eight years. It started small but now attracts a couple hundred people, mostly by invite. Full disclosure: I was a panel moderator at Milken, but I also spoke at Medici and can attest to the relevancy of its agenda, particularly as the Trump administration embraces the $3 trillion digital coin business.

Winnick is well aware of the optics of running up against his dad’s old partner and his own legacy. I knew Gary Winnick well before he died in 2003. He was a street smart salesman who became an entrepreneur in his post-Drexel life. He was a visionary who took chances. Many worked, some didn’t. (He was the chairman of the now-defunct Global Crossing)

Milken at his namesake conference on Tuesday. REUTERS

Gary Winnick also never forgot his New York roots even while doing business in the more passive-aggressive environment of LA. People who worked with him recall his blunt, take-no-prisoners style.

I can see the old man in Adam as I hung out at Medici between sessions at Milken. He also sees parallels between his old man’s line of work and his current calling.

Junk bonds aren’t controversial these days; they’re used seamlessly in corporate financing, but that wasn’t always the case. Their controversial nature stemmed from their core utility of helping early stage companies circumvent the big NY banks for financing.

Gary Winnick, Milken’s former partner, in 2002. REUTERS

It is why the government took aim at Milken and Drexel, eventually putting the firm out of business and forcing Milken to take a deal where he served jail time for a series of what I would call victimless, non-criminal offenses.

Milken, of course, has since remade his life and career as a thought leader and philanthropist. He was pardoned by President Donald Trump during his first term.

Adam Winnick points out to me that crypto, like high yield, is often vilified in traditional finance circles, and until recently by securities regulators.

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“I actually think crypto is much more hated than junk bonds ever were,” he tells me. “But digital assets are going to be way bigger than the high yield market ever was.”

How does he feel about going up against his dad’s old partner and boss with a competing conference?

“It helps to do my event at the same time, but it’s total counter programming,” Adam said, before quipping, “I also serve better food.”

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