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 »
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 »
A group of seven New York City landlords has sued to block a rent freeze for nearly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, arguing that the city’s Rent Guidelines Board failed to fulfill its legal duties independently and instead reached an outcome that Mayor Zohran Mamdani had promoted during his campaign.The case,... Read More »
