 Less than six months later, Cross announced her engagement to stockbroker Tom Mahoney, leading to widespread speculation on DataLounge that Cross—believed by many posters to be a closeted lesbian, owing to both direct assertions made by gossip columnist and DataLounge user Michael Musto and the fact that she had not, to anyone's public knowledge, dated a man since her then-boyfriend Richard Jordan died of a brain tumor in 1993—had entered into a relationship of convenience at the urging of her PR team in order to squash the rumors about her sexual orientation.Rosie O'Donnell has mentioned visiting DataLounge in magazine interviews.Author, entrepreneur, and reality TV personality Josh Kilmer-Purcell is a onetime DL "authenticated" who used to post as "josh."