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Nearly a year after the fatal shooting accident on the set of Rust, in which Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun which killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souz, the actor is seeking to clear his name. The New York Times reports Baldwin on Friday filed a lawsuit against the armorer and three other crew members in Los Angeles Superior Court. […]
Grandmaster Jay, the leader of a Black pro-gun activist group, will spend the rest of the decade behind bars. The 59-year-old Cincinnati man—legal name John Fitzgerald Johnson—was sentenced to 86 months in prison this week for his actions during a 2020 protest in Kentucky. Johnson, who founded the Not Fucking Around Coalition, was accused of pointing an AR-15 rifle at two federally deputized officers in […]
Rapper YNW Melly could be facing the death penalty if convicted after a Florida Appeals court ruled a judge’s decision in his murder case was incorrect. Per Billboard, Florida’s District Court of Appeal has overruled Judge Andrew Siegel’s decision to forbid prosecutors from seeking the death penalty. Siegel made the ruling in July, and said prosecutors […]
Bankroll Freddie was among 35 individuals arrested in Arkansas Wednesday for allegedly conspiring to sell massive amounts of crack cocaine and cannabis. TMZ reports hundreds of thousands of dollars in jewelry and cash were seized from the nearly three dozen people taken into custody. Freddie and his East AR crew are accused of running their alleged […]
Former MoviePass executives are now facing federal charges in connection with allegedly deceiving investors. Per a report from CBS News over the weekend, ex-MoviePass CEO Mitchell Lowe and Theodore Farnsworth, the former CEO of MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson, have both been charged with securities fraud. “As alleged, the defendants deliberately and publicly engaged […]
Miles Bridges pleaded no contest to a felony domestic violence charge after reaching an agreement with prosecutors. ESPN reports Bridges appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday and entered a no-contest plea to one felony count of injuring a child’s parent. As part of his agreement, the charges of child abuse under circumstances or conditions likely to cause great bodily injury […]
Johnny Depp filed an appeal Wednesday over the single count of defamation ruled in favor of ex-wife Amber Heard in their court case. People reports Depp is asking the court to overturn her countersuit victory—$2 million, versus the $15 million he was awarded—because he believes he should not be held accountable for a statement made by his attorney Adam Waldman. The Daily […]
Gabby Petito’s family is suing the Moab City Police Department. TMZ reports that her relatives are hitting the Utah police unit with a wrongful death suit, claiming the cops could have done more to save Petito’s life. The police came into contact with Petito in a domestic violence incident around two weeks before Brian Laundrie killed […]
Megan Thee Stallion is squashing misinformation. The Grammy-winning rapper took to Twitter on Thursday to address a report about her legal battle with 1501 Certified Entertainment, the Houston-based record label that signed her in 2018. Megan sued the company for $1 million earlier this year, claiming her most recent releases—Something for Thee Hotties and August’s Traumazine—fulfilled her contractual […]
A former Apple employee has admitted to defrauding the company of millions of dollars, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California announced this week. Dhirendra Prasad, 52, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in connection with what prosecutors described as “multiple schemes” involving Apple. While Prasad began working for Apple in 2008, he’s believed […]
