George Carlin‘sestatefiled a lawsuitagainst Dudesy, the company behind the AI-generated special George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead, for unauthorized use of the comedian’s copyrighted works. The lawsuit, which was filed in California federal court Thursday and obtained by Rolling Stone, denounced the special as “a piece of computer-generated click-bait which …
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On the night of April 3, 2015, Shiori Itō, an intern at Thomson Reuters, met Noriyuki Yamaguchi at a restaurant under the guise of a job interview. Yamaguchi, then the Washington bureau chief of Tokyo Broadcasting System and a personal friend (and biographer) of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was a …
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Vince McMahon is accused of sexual assault and trafficking in a new lawsuit filed by a former employee against the WWE founder and his wrestling company. In 2022, McMahon announced he was stepping down from the WWE amid an internal investigation that found allegations of a hush-money payment to a …
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Prince Harry has dropped his libel lawsuit against the Daily Mail, one of the many legal actions the former royal has filed against British tabloids. The libel case stemmed from an article the Daily Mail published in February 2022 that questioned the Duke of Sussex’s efforts to retain publicly funded …
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Former Love Is Blind contestant Renee Poche claimed her ex-fiancé on the show was violent and emotionally abusive, and that the show’s producers were well aware of these issues and did little to help. The Austin-based veterinarian was part of Season Five and ended up partnering up with Carter Wall, …
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Kevin Hart is taking legal action against his former assistant and controversial YouTuber Tasha K over an alleged extortion surrounding a “defamatory” interview. On Tuesday, the actor filed the complaint in L.A. Superior Court alleging that Tasha K, born Latasha Kebe, asked for a $250,000 ransom so that she not …
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Another woman has filed a lawsuit against a West Hollywood restaurant,alleging the establishment “intentionally created a dangerous and hostile environment” and allowed female patrons to be abused and sexually assaulted by former porn star Ron Jeremy. The plaintiff, who filed as anonymous Jane Doe 7105, alleges that Rockin’ Horse Inc., …
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A self-published novelist is claiming Adam McKay ripped off a book he wrote for his 2021 Netflix movie Don’t Look Up in a new lawsuit. William Collier claims that in 2007, he wrote a novel called Stanley’s Comet, which was later self-published in 2012. The suit describes Stanley’s Comet as …
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A police report with the Los Angeles Police Department was filed against Diplo in August by a woman accusing him of distributing nude photographs of her without her consent, Pitchfork reports. According to the outlet, the LAPD submitted her case to the Los Angeles city attorney’s office in November, and …
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Darryl George, a Texas high school student who sued his school for discriminating against him for having locs, was placed in an in-school suspension Tuesday after returning to school. The reason this time? The length of his hair, George’s spokesperson Dr. Candice Matthews confirmed. The new disciplinary measure from Barbers …
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