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Over three years after an allegation first surfaced accusing former Recording Academy CEO Neil Portnow of rape, the woman who accused him has now sued the music industry exec over the allegation. According to the suit, filed in New York on Wednesday and obtained by Rolling Stone, a recording artist …

Former Arista Records executive Drew Dixon has filed a lawsuit against L.A. Reid, alleging the music mogul continually harassed and sexually assaulted her twice in 2001 while she was working for him, according to court records obtained by Rolling Stone. Dixon sued in the Southern District of New York on …

Film composer Danny Elfman has denied allegations from a woman who claimed that he sexually harassed her over 20 years ago, stating that the claims were “meritless” and “would carry no weight in a court of law.” In Elfman’s answer to the anonymous Jane Doe accuser’s allegations, filed in Los …

Russell Brand, the comedian accused of four sexual assault allegations earlier this year, was hit with a new lawsuit Friday by a woman alleging he exposed himself to her on the set of the movieArthur in 2010 and then sexually assaulted her in a bathroom. In an affidavit filed in …

A second woman has come forward with allegations that Steven Tyler sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager, according to a lawsuit filed in New York on Thursday. Jeanne Bellino, a former child model who claimed to have met Tyler in New York in the summer of 1975 when …

Mariah Carey’s monster holiday hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is under legal fire again after a country singer refiled his $20 million copyright infringement lawsuit claiming he was iced out of proper credit. Andy Stone defrosted his legal claim and filed it again Wednesday in federal court …

Robert De Niro took the stand in a civil trial in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to resolve a gender discrimination suit filed against the actor and his company Canal Productions by his former assistant, Graham Chase Robinson. Following jury selection and opening statements Monday, …

Former Real Housewives of New York star Ramona Singer was accused of using the n-word and other instances of racism in a new report about the smash Bravo franchise in Vanity Fair. Singer was already infamously the subject of an internal investigation at Bravo after RHONY’s first Black cast member, …

Jonathan Majors’ team lost a motion to dismiss his domestic violence case on Wednesday, as a New York judge set the Marvel star’s trial date for November 29. Majors appeared virtually for the hearing on Wednesday after previously attending some of the court dates in person and hand-in-hand with actress …

The president of a Detroit synagogue board was found dead outside her home Saturday morning, police confirmed. Samantha Woll, president of the board of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in downtown Detroit, suffered multiple stab wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene after officers were called Saturday morning about …