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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 …

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, …

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, …

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 …

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 …

Ryan Kobayashi, father of Hannah Kobayashi, who has been missing since the beginning of November, died Sunday morning from an apparent suicide. A statement from the RAD Movement — a non-profit assisting the Kobayashi family in their search for Hannah — confirmed Ryan’s death. “The Kobayashi family endured a devastating …

Universal Music Group responded to Fred Durst’s fraud lawsuit for the first time last week, saying the Limp Bizkit frontman’s allegations against the company were “based on a fallacy” while motioning for the case to be tossed. “Plaintiffs’ entire narrative that UMG tried to conceal royalties is a fiction,” the …

Sean Combs’ physical violence was allegedly directed at both his romantic partners and personal employees, with the music mogul accused of once attempting to beat down a woman’s door with a hammer. Prosecutors for the Southern District of New York leveled the new accusations against Combs on Monday as they …

Lyle and Erik Menendez appeared via audio at a court hearing Monday as their two elderly aunts asked a judge to resentence the brothers for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents, José and Kitty Menendez. Los Angeles County Judge Michael Jesic heard the testimony but said it was too …

Kanye West allegedly choked a model with both hands and subjected her to “pornographic gagging” as she gasped for air on the set of a La Roux music video being filmed at Manhattan’s Chelsea Hotel in 2010, a new lawsuit claims. In a complaint filed Friday in federal court in …