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The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Elon Musk, claiming the world’s richest person of deliberately waiting too long to disclose his purchase of more than five percent of Twitter shares in 2022. Alex Spiro, a lawyer for Musk, told Reuters that the lawsuit was the culmination of the SEC’s “multi-year …

Justin Baldoni is suing the New York Times after it published a story about Blake Lively‘s sexual harassment and smear campaign allegations against him. On Tuesday, Baldoni — and nine other plaintiffs, including publicistsMelissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel — sued the newspaper for libel and false light invasion of privacy, …

Justin Baldoni has been hit with another lawsuit, this time from his former publicist Stephanie Jones. The actor, as well as his publicist Jennifer Abel, crisis manager Melissa Nathan and Wayfarer Studios, are named as defendants in a suit alleging defamation and breach of contract. The filing arrives less than …

The drama surrounding It Ends With Us has boiled into the courtroom as Blake Lively has sued her co-star and director on the film, Justin Baldoni, accusing him of sexual harassment on set and coordinating a smear campaign against her following the movie’s tumultuous release. Rumors of a feud between …

Blake Lively’s lawsuit against It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni not only alleges on-set sexual harassment but a concerted effort to smear her online doing the film’s promotional push. In light of Lively’s initial complaints against Baldoni and lead producer Jamey Heath — and following Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, …

Kathleen Hanna, Tegan and Sara, and Amanda Palmer are among the 300-plus musicians who have signed an open letter supporting the Internet Archive as it faces a $621 million copyright infringement lawsuit over its efforts to preserve 78 rpm records. The letter, spearheaded by the digital advocacy group Fight for …

A South Carolina mom has sued Mattel after her minor daughter was allegedly exposed to hardcore porn scenes following a slip-up made on the toy company’s Wicked dolls packaging. The mother, Holly Ricketson, filed a class action suit in California on Tuesday after purchasing a doll inspired by the film …

Universal Music Group responded to Fred Durst’s fraud lawsuit for the first time last week, saying the Limp Bizkit frontman’s allegations against the company were “based on a fallacy” while motioning for the case to be tossed. “Plaintiffs’ entire narrative that UMG tried to conceal royalties is a fiction,” the …

An anonymous, self-described “celebrity” alleges in a new lawsuit that a prominent Houston lawyer is “shamelessly” trying to extort him while representing more than a hundred men and women with purported legal claims against Sean “Diddy” Combs. The unidentified plaintiff, who calls himself as a “public figure” who’s attended several …

Ed Sheeran has emerged victorious once again in his “Thinking Out Loud” copyright case. On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that Sheeran’s hit did not infringe the copyright of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On,” citing that the songs share only the “fundamental musical …