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Sean “Diddy” Combs spent a chunk of his time in jail over the past year instructing his fellow inmates in the ways of business management, entrepreneurship, and, apparently, how to be more like Sean “Diddy” Combs. A description and curriculum for the course, dubbed “Free Game With Diddy,” was submitted …

Paul Gallagher, the older brother of Oasis’ Liam and Noel Gallagher, pleaded not guilty to rape and other charges on Friday, Sept. 26. Gallagher, 59, also pleaded not guilty to charges of coercive and controlling behavior, three counts of sexual assault, three counts of intentional strangulation, two counts of making …

Hip-hop producer Metro Boomin told jurors at his civil rape case on Wednesday that he had two consensual encounters with his accuser in 2016, always wore a condom, and couldn’t wait for his trial to start so he could testify and give his side. “Were you wrongly accused?” his lawyer, …

Jurors handed hip-hop producer Metro Boomin a decisive win at his civil sexual-assault trial in Los Angeles on Thursday. After only about an hour of deliberation, the panel of five men and three women unanimously found that plaintiff Vanessa LeMaistre had failed to prove her claims that the influential musician, …

Jillian Lauren, the bestselling author and wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom Thursday and was granted the right to enter a two-year mental health diversion program. If she completes the program as ordered, a judge is expected to dismiss the two felony charges filed …

Four months after testifying at Sean Combs’ criminal trial in New York, celebrity stylist Deonte Nash has filed a lawsuit alleging that the music mogul trapped him in a “dark world” of repeated sexual battery, physical assault, stalking, and threats that turned his childhood dream of working in the entertainment …

Sean Combs made a plea for “fairness” ahead of his Oct. 3 sentencing, arguing in a new brief that he deserves no more than 14 months in prison for his two felony convictions for transportation to engage in prostitution. Such a sentence would be well below the federal probation department’s …

A singer who claims Jason Derulo sexually harassed her and then turned “deeply hostile” when she rebuffed his advances has resurrected her previously dismissed lawsuit against the platinum-selling artist and Atlantic Records by filing it in New York. Emaza Gibson, known professionally as Emaza Dilan, first sued Derulo and Atlantic …

A little after noon on Sept. 8, Los Angeles police responded to a call from a tow yard in Hollywood about a “foul odor” coming from an impounded Tesla. When the car’s front trunk was opened, detectives discovered decomposing human remains in a black plastic bag. The victim’s body had …

Recording artist D4vd apparently was staying at the Hollywood Hills mansion searched by Los Angeles Police Wednesday in connection with the missing 15-year-old girl whose “severely decomposed” body was found in the trunk of the musician’s Tesla towed from two blocks away, Rolling Stone reports. A law enforcement officer tells …