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The personal assistant accused of being Sean Combs’ drug “mule” had his two pending drug charges terminated Tuesday after he completed a court-ordered diversion program in Florida, his lawyer confirmed to Rolling Stone. Brendan Paul, 25, was with Combs at the Miami-Opa Locka airport last March when he was arrested …

Jay-Z’s war with Houston attorney Tony Buzbee escalated Wednesday when Buzbee brought a lawsuit alleging Roc Nation and lawyers associated with the rapper’s company used “shadowy operatives” and promised paydays to illegally entice former Buzbee clients into filing “frivolous” claims against him. It’s the latest development in the unfolding battle …

U.K. rapper Slowthai was acquitted on rape charges stemming from an allegation that he and a co-defendant attacked two women at a party following a concert in Oxford in 2021, the BBC reports. The rapper, real name Tyron Frampton, and co-defendant Alex Blake-Walker were both found not guilty on three …

A judge ruled Monday that Marilyn Manson can’t use the specter of his “indefinite” criminal investigation to avoid sitting for a deposition in the sexual assault and battery lawsuit brought by his former personal assistant, Ashley Walters. Los Angeles County Judge Steve Cochran said Manson, born Brian Warner, can still …

The woman who accused billionaire rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z and disgraced media mogul Sean “Diddy” Combsof raping her when she was 13 years old has acknowledged that there are inconsistencies in her allegations. In a new interview with NBC News, the woman, who is suing as a Jane Doe, said …

Sean “Diddy” Combs has voluntarily dropped his bail appeal, meaning the Bad Boy mogul will remain detained until his May 2025 criminal trial. The 55-year-old has been held without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) since his arrest on Sept. 16, pleading not guilty to sex trafficking and racketeering …

TheNFL’s relationship with Jay-Z and his company Roc Nation is not changing after a woman accused the rapper and entrepreneur of rape in a lawsuit, said the league’s commissioner Roger Goodell. “We know about the civil allegations and Jay-Z’s very strong response to that,” Goodell said at a press conference …

Georgia rapper Quando Rondo was sentenced to more than two years in prison Wednesday after he struck a deal with prosecutors last summer and pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to possess and distribute marijuana. U.S. District Court Judge R. Stan Baker said the Savannah-bred artist, born Tyquian …

Sean “Diddy” Combs was sued Thursday by three new John Doe plaintiffs who allege the Bad Boy Entertainment founder sexually assaulted them within the past five years. The men claim they were drugged and sodomized by the disgraced music mogul on separate occasions in New York. Combs, who’s now under …

Lawyers for Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk had their first major chance to attack his murder-for-hire charges and jail detention Thursday, arguing in a federal courtroom in downtown Los Angeles that the artist wasn’t trying to flee the country before his October arrest in Miami. They said the “All My Life” …