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FCC Chair Rejects Call to Revoke Disney’s ABC Licenses Over Trump-Harris Debate
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Judge Dismisses Sex Trafficking Lawsuit Against James Dolan
Lawyers for massage therapist Kellye Croft said that the ruling will be appealed. She can still pursue claims for sexual battery.
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Sean “Diddy” Combs to Remain Detained Pending Trial
The music mogul will stay at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where an inmate was murdered while awaiting trial this summer, after he pleaded not guilty to three counts involving sex trafficking and racketeering.
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Harvey Weinstein Pleads Not Guilty to New Sexual Assault Charge
Weinstein appeared in court Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to criminal sexual act in the first degree.
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FCC Chair Rejects Call to Revoke Disney’s ABC Licenses Over Trump-Harris Debate
The Federal Communications Commission will not be revoking ABC’s broadcast licenses over this month’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Despite many conservatives (including Trump) calling for the agency to revoke Disney’s broadcast licenses for ABC after the debate, the FCC’s chair Jessica Rosenworcel wrote in a letter that, as […]
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Judge Dismisses Sex Trafficking Lawsuit Against James Dolan
A lawsuit against James Dolan from his former massage therapist, who advanced sex trafficking claims and accused him of orchestrating an encounter with Harvey Weinstein that led to a sexual assault, has been dismissed. In the complaint filed in January in California federal court, Kellye Croft said she met Dolan in 2013 as an employee […]
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Sean “Diddy” Combs to Remain Detained Pending Trial
Sean Combs’ request to overturn a prior ruling denying him release on bail has been turned down, a court has ruled. U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter on Wednesday ordered Combs, also known as “Diddy,” to remain detained after he pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and racketeering charges. He will stay at Metropolitan Detention Center […]
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Harvey Weinstein Pleads Not Guilty to New Sexual Assault Charge
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to one count of a criminal sexual act in the first degree Wednesday after Manhattan prosecutors arraigned the former mogul in a new indictment. The charge involves forcibly engaging in oral or anal sex with another person. It stems from a recent indictment returned by a grand jury and carries […]
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MrBeast’s Amazon Reality TV Series Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over “Toxic Work Environment”
MrBeast’s production arm has been sued by contestants of the upcoming Beast Games reality competition show, who allege they were subject to abusive working conditions. Five unnamed contestants, in a proposed class action lawsuit filed on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, say they were paid insufficient wages and deprived of proper medical care, food […]
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Sean “Diddy” Combs to Be Detained Pending Trial as Mogul Pleads Not Guilty to Sex Trafficking
Sean “Diddy” Combs was ordered to be detained pending trial Tuesday after he pleaded not guilty to charges including sex trafficking and racketeering. On Tuesday morning, the government unsealed a three-county indictment accusing Combs of various crimes related to an alleged decades-long pattern of physical and sexual violence against women in his orbit. Federal prosecutors […]
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Wendy Williams’ Team Asks Court for All Proceeds From Lifetime Docuseries to Fund Medical Care
A newly revised complaint in Wendy Williams’ lawsuit against Lifetime parent company A+E Networks over the release of a documentary chronicling her deteriorating mental and physical state looks for all profits from the project to fund her medical care. The amended complaint, filed Sept. 16 in New York County Supreme Court, says that Williams received […]
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Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” Sparks Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
Miley Cyrus has been sued for allegedly ripping off Bruno Mars’ “When I Was Your Man” for her Grammy-winning hit song “Flowers.” The lawsuit, filed in California federal court on Monday, was brought by Tempo Music Investments, which acquired in 2020 a share of the copyright to the Mars track from songwriter Philip Lawrence. It […]
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Sean “Diddy” Combs Charged With Sex Trafficking and Racketeering in Unsealed Indictment
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been charged with sex trafficking and racketeering for directing a vast criminal enterprise through which he assaulted and trafficked women with the help of his various businesses from at least 2008. Federal prosecutors, in an indictment unsealed on Tuesday, accused the music mogul of engaging in a “pervasive pattern of abuse” […]
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Ex-MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe Pleads Guilty to Securities Fraud Conspiracy After Taking Plea Deal
Former MoviePass chief executive Mitch Lowe has pled guilty to a securities fraud charge related to his role in swindling investors about the company’s monthly movie subscription service. Lowe on Monday entered a plea agreement in which he admitted fault for conspiring to inflate the price of MoviePass’ stock by lying about the profitability and […]
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Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Battle for Control of Fox News Begins In Nevada
In January 2021, Fox News quietly fired politics editor Chris Stirewalt. He was part of the team making the decision two months earlier to call Arizona for Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Media titan Rupert Murdoch was irate at the judgment. So, too, were many of the network’s viewers, who fled to Newsmax and […]
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Murdoch Family Succession Battle to Remain Behind Closed Doors
A succession battle that will determine stewardship of Rupert Murdoch’s right-wing media empire will not be open to the public, a court has ruled. Nevada probate commissioner Edmund J. Gorman Jr. on Thursday denied a petition by a coalition of media organizations, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Associated Press, to […]
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Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Drama Now Turns to the Courtroom
A dispute over whether Francis Ford Coppola exhibited unprofessional behavior on the Megalopolis set is intensifying, with multiple parties filing criss-crossing lawsuits. On Wednesday, Coppola sued Variety for defamation. He denied claims that there weren’t any of the traditional checks and balances in place to protect against sexual harassment and accused the publication of falsifying […]
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Sean “Diddy” Combs Hit With New Sexual Assault Lawsuit by Dawn Richard
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sued by his former bandmate Dawn Richard, who accused him of sexual harassment and assault when she was a member of a musical trio with the hip-hop mogul. The multipronged lawsuit, filed in New York federal court on Tuesday, brings several claims for battery, false imprisonment, withholding millions of dollars […]
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New Plan to “Revitalize” CBS Revealed In Filing by Skydance and Paramount
A new filing with the Federal Communications Commission outlines a plan to “strengthen and revitalize” the CBS broadcast network and its owned and operated stations, should Oracle founder Larry Ellison be allowed to assume control of the broadcast licenses. Ellison, the father of Skydance founder and CEO David Ellison (who would be the future CEO […]
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Live Nation CFO: “I Expect We’re Going to Prevail” In DOJ Suit Seeking Break Up
As Live Nation contends with the Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to break up the company, CFO Joe Berchtold expressed optimism about the suit and the future of the business. “I expect we’re going to prevail,” Berchtold said at a Bank of America conference Wednesday. “I don’t expect we’re going to have major changes to […]
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