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The parents and sister of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer killed in the tragic Rust on-set accidental shooting, have filed a lawsuit against Alec Baldwin as well as the film’s producers and armorer. The lawsuit — filed at the Los Angeles County Superior Court and announced at a press conference by …

Prosecutors in the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh presented a video Wednesday of footage they say compromises the disgraced former attorney’s alibi that he wasn’t at the scene of the killings of his wife Maggie, 52, and Paul, 22, in June 2021, according to CNN. The nearly one-minute long video …

Harvey Weinstein‘s lawyers filed a request on Tuesday for a new trial, over a month after the disgraced producer was convicted on rape and sexual assault charges in Los Angeles. Variety, which obtained the filing, notes that Weinstein’s attorneys have requested for the court to “reconsider its ruling,” stating in …

Mark Houck, a Catholic anti-abortion activist who was accused of assaulting a 72-year-old clinic volunteer outside aPlanned Parenthoodin Philadelphia, was acquitted Monday of charges that he instigated the encounter to intimidate the organization’s workers, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The Department of Justicecharged Houk with two countsof violating the Freedom of …

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced on Monday that her office is dropping the pending sexual assault and abuse cases against disgraced singer and convicted felon R. Kelly, following federal convictions against him in New York and Chicago. Kelly is already serving 30 years for his conviction in New …

Graphic bodycam footage of an October attack against Paul Pelosi, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, was released to the public on Friday. The release of video footage, along with recordings of a 911 call and interviews with the attacker David DePape, was authorized by a California court following a …

Ron Jeremy, the porn star charged with sexually assaulting 21 women, was found incompetent to stand trial Tuesday by a Los Angeles judge. Jeremy, 69 — whose full name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt — was not present for the hearing in a mental health courthouse in Hollywood. Judge Robert S. …

Actor Danny Masterson will face a retrial on charges he forcibly raped three women at his home in the Hollywood Hills between 2001 and 2003, Los Angeles County prosecutors announced Tuesday. The decision comes after a jury hopelessly deadlocked on the charges at a trial that ended in November. Masterson, …

Nearly two decades after a judge abruptly cleared pop diva Gloria Trevi of charges she lured minors into a secret sex ring in Mexico, the singer is facing a new civil lawsuit in Los Angeles that revives claims she procured underage girls for her ex-producer Sergio Andrade. The new complaint, …

One of the three remaining sex abuse lawsuits filed against shock rocker Marilyn Manson was dismissed by a federal judge in Los Angeles Tuesday after the plaintiff, Ashley Morgan Smithline, missed a key deadline. The court previously granted Smithline’s prior lawyer permission to withdraw from the case on Oct. 5. …