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After his case was dismissed by a California judge earlier this month, the man who appeared on Nirvana’s Nevermind album art as a baby has refiled his child pornography lawsuit. In December, the surviving members of Nirvana asked the court to dismiss the sexual exploitation suit over the 1991 album cover, which featured a naked baby swimming […]
Pete Rock is preparing to file a lawsuit against Nas over unpaid royalties related to his production work on Illmatic. Page Six reports the legendary producer claims he hasn’t been for his work on the Queens rapper’s 1994 debut album. Along with producing one of the LP’s most iconic cuts, “The World Is Yours,” Pete Rock also has a writing credit on […]
Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather, and Paul Pierce are among those being sued over their promotion of cryptocurrency EthereumMax, per the Hollywood Reporter. The class action lawsuit, filed on Friday in California federal court, accuses the stars of colluding with EMAX co-founders Steve Gentile and Giovanni Perone as part of an organized pump-and-dump scheme, “causing investors to purchase these losing investments at inflated prices.” […]
Nicki Minaj has denied bribery claims against her and her husband and says she “never offered any money in return for a statement,” according to AllHipHop. As previously reported, Minaj’s husband Kenneth “Zoo” Petty is being sued by Nicole Hough—and has avoided a $20 million default judgment alongside Nicki—after she claimed that he and Minaj tried to intimidate her into silencing rape […]
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is suing the town of Windsor over a year after a December 2020 traffic stop where police officers pepper-sprayed and threatened a Black and Latino Army officer, which was caught on bodycam footage. U.S. Army officer Lt. Caron Nazario faced “egregious treatment,” according to the AG who wrote that an investigation found Black drivers faced “huge” disparities in traffic stops and […]
A limousine driver has filed a lawsuit against Quavo over an alleged assault that he says went down in Las Vegas earlier this year, TMZ reports. The driver was hired by Quavo and his crew on July 3. Things allegedly got physical after the passengers in the vehicle began to complain that he left someone behind. The […]
Netflix and the producers behind Tiger King have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit from Morgan Creek Productions over the popular docuseries’ use of clips from Ace Ventura 2, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The suit claims that two clips from the movie were used in the series “without permission or license.” “Leaving no room for doubt as […]
Just weeks after a federal judge ordered Taylor Swift to stand trial over a copyright infringement lawsuit for “Shake It Off,” the singer has requested that the court toss the ruling. The claim argues that Swift’s 2014 hit lifted elements from 3LW’s 2001 song “Playas Gon’ Play.” Rolling Stone reported on Monday that Swift filed a motion on […]
The survivng members of Nirvana have formally asked the court to dismiss a sexual exploitation suit over Nevermind, their 1991 sophomore album that featured a naked baby on its cover art. The filing came about four months after Spencer Elden sued the grunge band and Kurt Cobain’s estate for knowingly producing and advertising child pornography,” as well as failure “to […]
In a new interview, James Franco—who’s been largely out of the spotlight for the last couple years after being accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct—addressed comments made earlier this year by his former collaborator Seth Rogen. Responding to Rogen’s remarks from May of this year in which he explained he had no plans to work with […]
