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Lea feels lost. It is the summer before her senior year of high school, and the 17-year-old’s days are spent watching online makeup tutorials and reality TV, playing games on her phone, and lounging under the Southern California sun. Her father walked out years ago, and her boozy mother (Gretchen …

Jamie Dack’s Palm Trees and Power Lines is about losing a person. By the end, its 17-year-old heroine, Lea (played by a great Lily McInerny) seems lost to herself, unsure of who to be. It’s the summer before her senior year. Trouble starts with a chance encounter with an older …

In the Nineties teen rom-com 10 Things I Hate About You, Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles), the film’s Riot Grrrl rebel who listens to Letters to Cleo and idolizes Sylvia Plath, wants nothing more than to attend Sarah Lawrence College. The choice tracks. A liberal arts college with fewer than 2,000 …

Jeffrey Epstein‘s estate has agreed to pay the U.S. Virgin Islands more than $105 million in cash to settle a lawsuit alleging the disgraced late financier used the territory as a base for trafficking of young women and children to his secluded private island, Reuters reports. The settlement comes nearly …

Pieper Lewis, the Iowa teen who killed her alleged rapist, will face a judge on Friday for the first time since escaping from the women’s shelter where she was serving a probation sentence. Lewis was sentenced to probation in a deferred judgment after pleading drown from murder to manslaughter. She …

A s a kid growing up in the small Texas town of Navasota, Jose Alfaro spent his summers playing in the pastures and creeks near his home, examining bugs and frogs, crawfish and turtles. “It was one of those towns where tractors hold up traffic,” he says. Trains slowed things …

R. Kelly could not look his survivors in the eye as they stood before the 55-year-old to describe through tears how his abuse forever altered their lives shortly before the disgraced R&B singer was sentenced on federal sex trafficking charges on Wednesday afternoon. Seven women addressed Kelly one by one …

R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday after being found guilty of all counts of racketeering and sex trafficking against him at his Brooklyn federal trial last year. Prior to sentencing, seven of Kelly’s survivors addressed the court to share impact statements and speak directly to their …

In an effort to save the skin of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, defense lawyers say a narcissistic father made Maxwell more vulnerable to being manipulated by Jeffrey Epstein. Beyond Maxwell’s tough upbringing, they cite death threats against her by fellow inmates and the harsh conditions she’s faced in jail …

The judge in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking trial on Tuesday asked a juror a series of questions in court to find out whether Maxwell should be granted a new trial based on false information he provided during the jury selection process. In December, Maxwell wasfound guilty of five of the …