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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A former go-go dancer has filed a police report against Sean “Diddy” Combs with the Miami Beach Police Department, echoing similar claims that she made against the Bad Boy founder in a sex trafficking lawsuit. Last month, Adria English became the ninth person to sue Combs, claiming the hip-hop mogul …
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Ten more states have joined the Department of Justice‘s antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, according to an amended complaint the DOJ filed Monday morning, marking a total of 39 states as well as the District of Columbia to have sued the concert and ticketing giant over the DOJ’s monopoly claims. …
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Hit producer The-Dream has filed a motion to dismiss the sexual assault lawsuit filed against him in June, claiming that the plaintiff and her attorney are “using the judicial system to propagate a false and defamatory narrative” about him. The producer, whose real name is Terius Gesteelde-Diamant, is one of …
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A Nevada judge has dismissed the defamation lawsuit filed by Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter against Ashley Repp, the accuser who alleges Carter raped her on a yacht in 2003 when she was 15 years old. Carter countersued Repp with the defamation claims in January after she became the third …
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Mariah Carey says the $20 million copyright infringement lawsuit targeting her massive holiday hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” should be wrapped up in her favor without a trial. In a new motion for summary judgment filed Monday, the singer says her expert’s evaluation of her 1994 yuletide …
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Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter has answered Melissa Schuman’s rape lawsuit in California with a cross-complaint seeking $2.5 million in damages for alleged defamation and interference with existing and prospective business contracts. The new complaint, which claims Schuman “falsely accused” Carter in 2017 due to a “thirst for Internet relevance,” …
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Yet another threatened mistrial was averted Monday when the jury hearing Young Thug’s gang and racketeering trial in Atlanta agreed they could disregard prior testimony from a key witness in the contentious case. Jurors were given about one second to make their decision after walking into court following a nearly …
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Donald Trump is guilty of many crimes (starting with at least 34 felonies, to be exact), and one of them is questionable taste in music. We say “questionable,” not “bad,” because while the song choices at his campaign rallies are often fine in themselves, the former president has the nasty …
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