Warner Bros. Discovery has sued Amazon in Los Angeles, accusing the company of knowingly recruiting a senior marketing executive who remained under contract through October 2027 and seeking a court order to stop Amazon from interfering with similar employment agreements involving other WBD executives.The lawsuit, filed July 21 in Los... Read More »
A former Nike music executive is facing a lengthy list of felony charges after prosecutors accused him of orchestrating a kickback scheme that siphoned more than $1 million from the sneaker giant through inflated payments to a music licensing firm run by a close associate.Prosecutors allege that John Griffith, who... Read More »
A legal battle has erupted over Chadwick Boseman's estate, as the late actor's parents move to strip his widow of her role managing his assets, accusing her of stonewalling the family and mishandling a company built around his name and legacy.Leroy and Carolyn Boseman filed a petition in California state... Read More »
A Boyle Heights resident has filed a proposed class action against Lineage Inc., Altus Power and other companies, alleging that smoke, ash and lingering odors from a June warehouse fire affected nearby residents, interfered with the use of their homes and forced him to spend money protecting himself from the... Read More »
Chris Brown pleaded guilty to a charge of affray at a London court hearing Friday, resolving a criminal case that stemmed from a violent nightclub confrontation more than two years ago, while more serious charges against the singer were dropped as part of the plea.Brown was arrested in May 2025... Read More »
Trey Songz will not serve any jail time in connection with his arrest last year on charges that he punched a nightclub employee in New York City, closing out a legal saga that stretched across two separate incidents just over a week apart.The singer, born Tremaine Aldon Neverson, appeared in... Read More »
Sean Combs was involved in a physical altercation with a fellow inmate at Fort Dix earlier this week, an incident that resulted in the disgraced music mogul being placed in solitary confinement, according to several news outlets.The confrontation reportedly began when another inmate at the low-security federal facility in New... Read More »
Australian singer and actress Charlotte MacInnes has filed an appeal challenging the dismissal of her defamation lawsuit against Rebel Wilson, escalating a legal dispute that has played out publicly since Wilson's directorial debut hit a wall of controversy behind the scenes.MacInnes, who starred in Wilson's film The Deb, submitted a... Read More »
A federal judge extended her order blocking the proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. for another 14 days on Thursday, pushing back the earliest possible closing date for the deal to August 18.Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin has scheduled a hearing for August 3 to weigh a request for a preliminary... Read More »
OpenAI is facing a product liability lawsuit in California from a Florida man who claims ChatGPT provided individualized medical guidance that led him to delay professional care before a serious health emergency.Scott Winters, a 55-year-old former pastor, sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in San Francisco County Superior Court. The... Read More »
D4vd, the platinum-selling artist charged in the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, sat through another day of testimony Thursday in a Los Angeles courtroom as forensic experts detailed DNA evidence connecting him to a trash bag containing what prosecutors say was the teenager's blood.The bag was pulled from the... Read More »
A California appeals court has ruled that hostile social media posts, disclosures to relatives and other indirect communications can constitute domestic abuse even when the accused person does not contact a former partner directly.The Second District Court of Appeal reversed two competing domestic violence restraining-order rulings in a case involving... Read More »
A Venezuelan composer is suing the company that controlled the catalog of late salsa icon Willie Colón, claiming he is owed more than $300,000 in unpaid songwriting royalties for two tracks he wrote decades ago. Singer-songwriter Amílcar Boscán filed the lawsuit Monday, targeting the Willie Colón Music Company, which the... Read More »
An Australian judge has ruled that Rebel Wilson did not defame Charlotte MacInnes, the young actress who starred in Wilson's directorial debut, "The Deb," bringing an end to a closely watched legal battle over social media posts in which Wilson accused a film producer of misconduct. The decision, handed down... Read More »
California lawmakers are considering legislation that would allow people facing a forced marriage to seek domestic violence restraining orders against an intended spouse, relatives, and others involved in arranging or facilitating the marriage.Assembly Bill 2534 would expressly define forced marriage as abuse under California’s Domestic Violence Prevention Act. Courts could... Read More »
