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Sacha Baron Cohen has filed a lawsuit against a cannabis company, Solar Therapeutics, alleging that it was using his Borat persona to promote its brand of medical marijuana in Massachusetts. TMZ reports that Baron Cohen is upset about a giant billboard that was next to the interstate and included the face of the fictional Kazakhstani journalist alongside the […]
A UK woman was found guilty of murder last month after pouring a mixture of boiling water and sugar on her husband while he was asleep in their home. It was unclear at the time what motivated her to kill him, but WFLA reports 59-year-old Corinna Smith’s actions were provoked by her daughter’s accusation that her mother’s partner, Michael Baines, sexually abused her and […]
Ex-Disney star Kyle Massey, known for playing Cory Baxter on That’s So Raven and starring in spin-off Cory in the House, is being sought by authorities after missing his arraignment hearing regarding the immoral communication with a minor allegation against him. The hearing was scheduled for Monday morning in Washington’s King County, but Massey never arrived. The judge ended up signing a $100,000 […]
Britney Spears’s conservators are playing the blame game. According to People, Britney’s father Jamie Spears recently submitted court documents expressing his “concern” over his daughter’s personal conservator, Jodi Montgomery—the woman in charge of the pop star’s day-to-day personal care and medical treatment. Jamie, who is Britney’s financial conservator, claimed Montgomery was responsible for his daughter’s “difficulties […]
A federal judge has rejected B.G.’s petition to get out of prison years before his gun possession sentence is scheduled to end. In an 11-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan wrote that B.G. “has not presented compelling and extraordinary reasons for his compassionate release,” and should therefore stay in federal prison until the end of […]
The Los Angeles District Attorney will not pursue the death penalty against Corey Walker—one of four people accused of murdering Pop Smoke. According to the New York Daily News, the prosecution announced their decision in court Tuesday, less than 17 months after the Brooklyn rapper was fatally shot during a home invasion robbery. Walker, now 20, was the only […]
R. Kelly’s legal team want a judge to delay the disgraced singer’s sex trafficking trial, which is currently set to begin in August. As the Associated Press reported on Tuesday, lawyer Deveraux Cannick sent a letter to U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly arguing that the singer’s required jail quarantine—which ends on Tuesday—has prevented them from […]
Phylicia Rashad offered a “sincere apology” to Howard University students and parents on Friday after facing backlash for defending Bill Cosby’s vacated sexual assault conviction and subsequent prison release. “My remarks were in no way directed towards survivors of sexual assault. I vehemently oppose sexual violence, find no excuse for such behavior, and I know that […]
Britney Spears’ mother admits she is torn over her daughter’s conservatorship battle. More than a week after Britney delivered a bombshell testimony, the New Yorker published an exposé detailing how the court-appointed guardianship came to be, as well as Britney’s years-long efforts to regain autonomy. Journalists Jia Tolentino and Pulitzer Prize winner Ronan Farrow spoke to a number of sources who shed light on […]
Just two days after his release from prison, Bill Cosby is already eyeing a return to stand-up comedy. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the newly freed comedian’s spokesperson Andrew Wyatt told reporters Thursday that Cosby has been “been talking to a number of promoters and comedy club owners” and “is just excited the way the world […]
