ABC News will pay $15 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by President-elect Donald Trump and will release a statement of regret over the comments from Good Morning America and This Week anchor George Stephanopoulos that sparked the suit. That is according to a copy of the settlement, which was filed Saturday, and signed […]
Jay-Z’s attorney is looking to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the rapper of raping a 13-year-old girl after the Jane Doe acknowledged inconsistencies in her allegations in a new NBC News report. In the lawsuit, originally filed in October, a woman identified only as “Jane Doe” sued Sean “Diddy” Combs for allegedly raping her at a […]
Paula Abdul and former American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe have reached a private settlement a year after she first sued him on sexual assault allegations, according to court documents obtained by Rolling Stone. Financial details of the settlement weren’t disclosed in the court documents. In a statement to Rolling Stone, Abdul said she was “grateful […]
Harmeet Dhillon — one of California’s most prominent Republican Party operatives, a cultural crusader against “woke” politics and a fervent champion of President-elect Donald Trump — was named Monday by Trump to a top civil rights post in the U.S. Department of Justice. If confirmed, Dhillon would be the second woman to lead the Department […]
Kathleen Hanna, Tegan and Sara, and Amanda Palmer are among the 300-plus musicians who have signed an open letter supporting the Internet Archive as it faces a $621 million copyright infringement lawsuit over its efforts to preserve 78 rpm records. The letter, spearheaded by the digital advocacy group Fight for the Future, states that the […]
Music producer Bassnectar has failed to win dismissal of a lawsuit claiming he groomed, trafficked, and sexually abused underage girls. In a lengthy ruling issued Thursday, a federal judge said the case could proceed toward a trial set for February. The electronic music DJ, whose legal name is Lorin Ashton, claimed in his dismissal motion […]
When actor Drew Starkey embarked on the press tour for Luca Guadagnino’s forthcoming drama Queerhe also took on the challenge of having to go toe-to-toe (or rather, suit-to-suit) against his costar, the menswear titan Daniel Craig, on successive red carpets. Throughout the Queer press run, both stars have mostly worn Loewe, the Spanish luxury label […]
Watch: Cars damaged by bear revealed to be person in costume Four people have been arrested after allegedly filing fake insurance claims stating that a bear had damaged the interiors of three luxury cars. Video footage submitted to insurers as evidence showed what appeared to be the animal climbing into the front seat of Rolls […]
Shawn Mendes came up on Vine (R.I.P.), and now he’s evolved into a prince of pop music. And when you’re one of the most in-demand musicians around, red carpets become a piece of prime attention-grabbing real estate. Like at Sunday night’s MTV Europe Music Awards in Manchester, England, where the Canadian singer showed off another […]
Meta has defeated a lawsuit—for now—that attempted to invoke Section 230 protections for a third-party tool that would have made it easy for Facebook users to toggle on and off their news feeds as they pleased. The lawsuit was filed by Ethan Zuckerman, a professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He feared that Meta might […]
