Since the arrest and indictment of Duane “Keffe D” Davis for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, people have speculated about whether the Los Angeles Police Department will be reinvigorated to pursue an investigation into the other great tragedy of that era in hip-hop — the 1997 murder of the …
Read More »Lady Gaga Officially Won't Have to Pay $500K Reward to Woman Tied to Dog Theft, Judge Rules
Lady Gaga emerged victorious Monday in the multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by the woman who returned the pop star’s stolen French bulldogs in 2021 and later sued for the $500,000 reward — plus $1.5 million in further damages — even though she was convicted of knowingly receiving the stolen pets after …
Read More »Ron DeSantis Can't Stop Meeting People Who've Been Mugged
While bashing Democratic governance, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claimed at Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate that he and his wife, Casey, had met “three people who had been mugged on the street” in southern California. By Sunday — just four days later — that number has doubled. “My wife and I …
Read More »Former ABC News Producer Sentenced to Six Years in Prison
A federal judge has sentenced former journalist James Gordon Meek to six years in prison after he pleaded guilty to transportation and possession of child sexual abuse material. Federal investigators first became aware of Meek’s possession of child sexual abuse imagery following a tip from the cloud storage provider, Dropbox, …
Read More »Trump Asked His Lawyers for Ways to Suppress His 'Perfect Call'
In public, Donald Trump says his conversation with the Georgia secretary of state asking to “find” votes for him was “a perfect call.” But in private, sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone, the former president sounded a different tone about the conversation, asking his attorneys to draw up …
Read More »Shakira Charged With Tax Evasion, Spain Demands $7 Million
Shakira has been charged with tax fraud in Spain for allegedly failing to pay $7.1 million (6.7 million euros) in taxes in 2018. Barcelona prosecutors have accused the pop star of using an offshore company located in a tax haven to avoid paying the tax, according to the Associated Press. …
Read More »The 'Fake Sheikh' Who Conned Celebs for Rupert Murdoch
The London tabloid world has traditionally been a sort of journalism Bizarro World, where entrapment is standard practice and news is manufactured on a profit-driven whim, often at the expense of innocent victims. For two decades, Mazher Mahmood strode over this ethics-starved world like a corrupt colossus, enabled by his …
Read More »Why Did Trump Lose His 'Billion Dollar Lawyer'?
Last month, when Donald Trump parted ways with “Billion Dollar Lawyer” Drew Findling as his lead criminal defense attorney in the Fulton County, Georgia, case, the decision was then met with surprise and dismay, including among some of Trump’s closest advisers and lawyers. At first, the reasons behind the departure …
Read More »Trump Privately Frets He Could Be Headed to Prison
In the past several months, Donald Trump has had a burning question for some of his confidants and attorneys: Would the authorities make him wear “one of those jumpsuits” in prison? As the criminal cases against him have piled up, the former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner has wondered aloud …
Read More »Danny Masterson's Wife Bijou Phillips Files for Divorce
Danny Masterson‘s wife Bijou Phillips has filed for divorce, less than two weeks after Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison after being found guilty of two counts of forcible rape, the Hollywood Reporter confirmed. “Ms. Phillips has decided to file for divorce from her husband during …
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