Axl Rose and the former model who sued him last year for sexual assault have reached a private settlement, Rolling Stone has learned. In a statement, Rose maintained he did not violently attack and rape plaintiff Sheila Kennedy in a Manhattan hotel room in 1989, as she alleged. “As I …
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Professor Anthony Michael Kreis teaches constitutional law at Georgia State University and authored the book ‘Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development.’ As a legal scholar and Georgia taxpayer, he found himself captivated by the YSL gang and racketeering trial – a record-breaking proceeding that …
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A white former police detective accused of raping and terrorizing women in the predominantly Black neighborhood he was sworn to protect in Kansas City, Kansas, died in an apparent suicide Monday morning just as jury selection was set to begin in his criminal trial in nearby Topeka. Roger Golubski, 71, …
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Six weeks after Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug pleaded out of his gang and racketeering conspiracy case in Atlanta, his two remaining co-defendants were acquitted of murder charges Tuesday, ending the longest-running criminal trial in Georgia state history. Deamonte “Yak Gotti” Kendrick was found not guilty of all six charges he …
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A Nevada Supreme Court judge ruled Tuesday that Backstreet Boyssinger Nick Carter can move forward with his counterclaim against Shannon “Shay” Ruth, who accused him of raping her when she was 17 years old on a tour bus. According to documents obtained by People, Judge Nancy L. Allf denied Ruth’s …
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A judge denied Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs bail for a third time on Wednesday, after prosecutors accused the music mogul of trying to tamper with witnesses and using fellow inmates’ resources to contact third parties in an attempt to sway a potential jury pool —all from behind bars. The 55-year-old appeared …
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The woman who claimed Garth Brooks forcibly raped her in a Los Angeles hotel room in 2019 is slamming the country singer’s effort to get her sexual assault case dismissed in California. In new court filings obtained by Rolling Stone, the Jane Roe plaintiff is asking a federal judge to …
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A woman who claims Jason Derulo sexually harassed and aggressively berated her after signing her to a recording deal in 2021 can’t revive her lawsuit in California after it was dismissed on a technicality last April, a judge ruled Monday. At a court hearing Friday, a lawyer for aspiring singer …
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Marilyn Manson has dropped a lawsuit he filed against Evan Rachel Wood and abandoned a related appeal attempting to revive his previous defamation claim. The musician has agreed to pay nearly $327,000 in Wood’s attorneys’ fees, according to legal documents obtained by Rolling Stone. Wood’s attorneys Michael Kump, Shawn Holley, …
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Drake is doubling down in his ongoing legal war against his own label and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” filing a new legal action in Texas that alleges Universal Music Group knowingly allowed Lamar to call him a “certified pedophile” as it sought to “drive consumer hysteria and, of course, …
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