A Jamaican court of appeals declined Wednesday to retry Vybz Kartel after the dancehall star’s 2014 murder conviction was overturned earlier this year, making Kartel a free man after a decade in prison. In March, the United Kingdom-based Privy Council overturned the conviction against Kartel — who in 2014 was …
Read More »Tupac Murder Suspect Lashes Out at Prosecutors During Bail Hearing
A typical bail hearing became heated Tuesday as Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the man charged in the murder of Tupac Shakur, verbally lashed out at prosecutors and investigators in the Las Vegas courtroom. The latest court date was a continuation of the June 26 bail hearing where a judge rejected …
Read More »Don Henley Files Lawsuit Seeking Return of Personal 'Hotel California' Lyric Sheets
Don Henley has filed a lawsuit seeking the return of the personal Eagles lyric sheets that were recently the subject of a separate criminal trial. While the charges against former Rock & Roll Hall of Fame curator Craig Inciardi and rock memorabilia dealer Edward Kosinski were abruptly dropped during the …
Read More »Travis Scott Arrested on Disorderly Intoxication, Trespassing Charges in Miami
Travis Scott was arrested on charges of disorderly intoxication and trespassing early Thursday morning in the Miami area. The rapper, born Jacques Webster, was booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center at 4:35 a.m. Thursday on the charges of trespassing after a warning and disorderly intoxication, according to the Miami-Dade …
Read More »Arizona Man Indicted After Planning Mass Shooting at Atlanta Concert to Incite Race War
An Arizona man was indicted on federal weapons charges after being arrested as part of a sting operation that involved a planned hate crime-related mass shooting at an Atlanta concert. Mark Adams Prieto, 58, was charged with firearms trafficking, transfer of a firearm for use in a hate crime, and …
Read More »Why Is This Beat-Up Guitar Worth $6 Million?
J UST AFTER DAWN on the morning of May 15, 2019, more than a dozen cops arrived at a home in the placid suburb of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Armed with a search warrant, they ordered a member of the household to sit down and denied her access to her …
Read More »Sean Kingston Booked Into Florida Jail, Held on $100,000 Bond
Sean Kingston was booked in South Florida Sunday after being extradited from California and charged with committing more than $1 million worth of fraud with his mother Janice Turner. According to the Broward County Sheriff’s Department records, the singer, whose real name is Kisean Anderson, is being held on a …
Read More »'Doomsday' Killings: Chad Daybell Found Guilty of Murdering First Wife, Second Wife's Two Children
Chad Daybell, the Idaho man charged with the 2019 killings of hisformer wife, Tammy Daybell, and two children of his current wife, Lori Vallow Daybell, was found guilty of first-degree murder by an Idaho jury on Thursday, CBS reported. Daybell was also found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in …
Read More »Sean 'Diddy' Combs: 10 Key Takeaways From Our Six-Month Investigation
Shortly after R&B singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed her sex-trafficking lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs last November, Rolling Stone launched a wide-ranging, six-month investigation into the rapper, record mogul, and billionaire businessman. The reporting led to interviews with more than 50 people connected to Combs throughout his career, stretching back …
Read More »Sean Kingston Arrested in California on Theft and Fraud Charges
Hours after Sean Kingston’s mother was arrested Thursday during a raid in South Florida, the singer himself was apprehended in California. Like his mother Janice Turner, Kingston is accused of multiple counts of fraud and theft, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office arrest warrant. The “Beautiful Girls” singer — who …
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