Lizzo won a key ruling this week in her ongoing legal battle with a wardrobe stylist who claims she was subjected to a hostile work environment on the singer’s 2023 European tour. A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled plaintiff Asha Daniels has no standing to sue Lizzo as …
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A judge sided with T.I. and Tiny in a Los Angeles courtroom Thursday, ruling there was good cause to drag the couple’s defamation accuser into court for a contempt hearing. The judge also delayed by six months the jury trial in the underlying case that was set to begin Tuesday. …
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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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In 2023, the Brooklyn Public Library’s ‘The Book of HOV’ exhibit drew more than 600,000 visitors to learn about Jay-Z’s one-of-a-kind life and career. That exhibit is now being celebrated in book form with ‘The Book of HOV: A Tribute to Jay-Z,’ out today through Assouline, collecting unseen photographs, selected …
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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 lead prosecutor in the sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell has joined the prosecutorial team in the criminal case against Sean Combs. Maurene Ryan Comey —the daughter of former FBI director James Comey — filed paperwork in the Southern District of New York on Monday, notifying the court that …
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A woman has sued Sean “Diddy” Combs for allegedly threatening to kill her and dangling her over a 17th floor balcony, according to court documents obtained by Rolling Stone. Fashion designer Bryana “Bana” Bongolan filed a 17-page lawsuit against Combs this week in Los Angeles for sexual battery, infliction of …
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Right now, sitting in a nondescript warehouse in Carson, California, thousands of ornate Gibson guitars are piled up in dozens of stacks of cardboard boxes nearly seven feet high. Some of them look like the signature models for rock gods like Dave Grohl, Ace Frehley, or Zakk Wylde. Some even …
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