Two months after pleading guilty to physically attacking a California homeowner, rapper DaBaby won a last-minute delay in his trial over the man’s related battery lawsuit. The rapper, born Jonathan Kirk, hired a new lawyer last week, with the attorney saying he needed time to get up to speed. The …
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One of the doctors charged in connection with Matthew Perry’s ketamine overdose death made his first appearance in a Los Angeles courtroom Friday under his cooperation deal with prosecutors. Dr. Mark Chavez was one of five people charged with supplying large quantities of ketamine to Perry before he was found …
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A federal judge ordered Missy Elliott to face trial, after a man filed a copyright lawsuit against her. Terry Williams alleges he co-wrote several of Elliott’s Nineties songs but was never credited. In a ruling obtained by Rolling Stone, which was filed on Monday, Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro refused …
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Young Thug’s defense lawyer used his long-awaited cross-examination of key prosecution witness Kenneth “Woody” Copeland on Tuesday to cast Copeland as a career criminal who may have been the one actually responsible for the 2015 murder at the heart of Young Thug’s problem-plagued gang and racketeering prosecution in Georgia. During …
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Marilyn Manson has appealed a judge’s decision to throw out parts of his defamation and emotional distress lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood, according to court documents obtained by Rolling Stone. Lawyers for the musician —real name Brian Warner —filed the lengthy 92-page appeal on Tuesday in Los Angeles, more than …
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Music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones made global headlines in February when he filed a stunningly detailed $30 million sexual assault, trafficking and racketeering lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs in Manhattan federal court. Jones claimed the hip-hop mogul groped him, secretly drugged him and forced him to solicit and participate …
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Tom Girardi, the once high-flying but now disbarred lawyer whose fame grew with his marriage to Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne, was found guilty Tuesday of embezzling “tens of millions of dollars” from the clients of his now-shuttered law firm Girardi & Keese. The jury convicted Girardi, …
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Sean “Diddy” Combs is asking a federal judge to reject the explosive sexual assault, trafficking and racketeering lawsuit filed against him by music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones in the wake of the sexual assault and trafficking lawsuit that Diddy settled with his ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura within 24 hours …
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A judge sided with Michael Jackson’s estate Thursday and blocked an attempt by accusers Wade Robson and James Safechuck to obtain “the entirety of the criminal file” involving child molestation allegations leveled against the singer in two California counties since the early Nineties. Photographs of Jackson’s nude body and genitalia …
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A California appellate court handed a victory to Michael Jackson’s estate executors Wednesday, issuing a final written opinion confirming the singer’s mom Katherine Jackson had no basis to challenge a lower court’s blessing of a $600 million catalog deal with Sony. The new opinion, which essentially adopted a tentative ruling …
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