Shortly after R&B singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed her sex-trafficking lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs last November, Rolling Stone launched a wide-ranging, six-month investigation into the rapper, record mogul, and billionaire businessman. The reporting led to interviews with more than 50 people connected to Combs throughout his career, stretching back …
Read More »Bad Boy for Life: Sean Combs' History of Violence
A s he took the stage at the BET Awards in June 2022 to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, Sean “Diddy” Combs was elated. “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!” he bellowed, punctuating his words with triumphant jumps. The adoring crowd — who gave him a sustained standing …
Read More »'Vanderpump Rules,' As We Currently Know It, Is Over
It’s been a difficult season for Vanderpump Rules fans and cast members in light of the Scandoval fallout, often leaving everyone pondering the same question: Where do we go from here? The third part of the show’s largely uneventful reunion aired on Tuesday night, and despite some of the cast …
Read More »Dua Lipa Calls for End to 'Israeli Genocide' Following Refugee Massacre
Dua Lipa is continuing her advocacy for a ceasefire in Gaza. After dozens of Palestinianswere killed by Israeli air strikeson displacement camps in SouthernGaza, Lipa shared a post on Instagram calling for an end to “Israeli genocide.” “Burning children alive can never be justified,” the Radical Optimism musician wrote Tuesday. …
Read More »Keep 'Em Separated! 30 Years of the Offspring's 'Smash'
The Offspring‘s “Come Out and Play” (you know, the “gotta keep ’em separated” song) was all over MTV in 1994 — with a video that cost all of $5,000. The Nineties were full of unlikely breakthrough acts, but the Offspring were one of the few bands of the era who …
Read More »Closing Arguments in Trump's Hush-Money Trial Were All About Michael Cohen
New York prosecutors and Donald Trump’s defense team engaged in a verbal tug-of-war over Michael Cohen’s testimony during their closing arguments on Tuesday. The former president’s former fixer was the subject of the majority of both summations, with both sides freely taking jabs at the other as the defense attempted …
Read More »What's Keeping Grace Cummings Alive This Time
I t’s a cloudy May afternoon in New York’s Greenwich Village as Grace Cummings saunters down Jones Street. The Melbourne–based singer-songwriter, who titled her new album Ramona after Bob Dylan’s “To Ramona,” then pauses positively at West Fourth Street for a photo in the same spot where Dylan posed with …
Read More »Allison Williams, Ebon Moss-Bachrach Were Singing Kelly Clarkson's Jack Antonoff Rejects on 'Girls'
Allison Williams and Ebon Moss-Bachrach revealed that some of the songs they performed together as Marnie and Desi on Girls were Kelly Clarkson rejects written by Jack Antonoff. The two actors revealed this piece of deep trivia in a new video for Vanity Fair, in which they reunited and reminisced …
Read More »New 'Call of Duty' Trailer Teases a Conspiracy Between Saddam Hussein and George H.W. Bush
Call of Duty is going full Gulf War. In a reveal trailer released Tuesday, Microsoft has officially confirmed that the latest iteration of its annual military shooter, Black Ops 6, will at least partially take place during the geopolitical conflict of the early Nineties, and feature political figures from the …
Read More »Nikki Haley Writes 'Finish Them!' on Israeli Bomb After Refugee Massacre
Days after dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes against displacement camps in Southern Gaza, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley wrote “Finish them!” on Israeli artillery shells. Haley, who recently sputtered in her bid to defeat former President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination, toured a kibbutz …
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