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A former leading zoologist and crocodile expert, who worked on BBC and Nat Geo shows, has been jailed for 10 years in Australia for sexually abusing dogs. Adam Britton, who previously advised David Attenborough on crocodiles for a docuseries, pled guilty to 56 charges relating to bestiality and…

Journey founder and lead guitarist Neal Schon and longtime keyboardist/guitarist Jonathan Cain are asking a Delaware judge to resolve a business deadlock. According to court filings, Schon is president of Freedom 2020, a company formed three years ago to oversee tour-related finances. He and Cain…

A Compton, California jury today found Freddie Lee Trone guilty of murdering rapper PnB Rock two years ago during a robbery at a Roscoe’s House of Chicken & Waffles restaurant. The jury deliberated for less than four hours, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. Trone and…

A lawsuit against the Los Angeles Dodgers by a fan attacked in a stadium parking lot after a game in 2019 has been settled. No terms have been disclosed. The fan, Rafael Reyna, was hospitalized with a brain injury after he was attacked after watching the Dodgers play the Arizona Diamondbacks on March…

This morning's third quarter earnings report revealed that Disney's combined streaming services are finally turning a profit but the Mouse House’s legal costs are still pretty pricey too. Specifically, $65 million pricey. “In the current quarter, the Company recorded a charge of $65 million…

Fubo CEO David Gandler traded jabs Tuesday with attorneys Disney and Fox Corp., two of the three media companies behind streaming joint venture Venu Sports. Last February, Fubo filed an antitrust lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New York against Fox, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery. The suit…

Elon Musk told advertisers to "go f–k yourself" last fall at the DealBook Summit, and today he's suing them for allegedly colluding to boycott his social media platform X. The lawsuit brought by X in federal court in Texas names the World Federation of Advertisers as well as individual companies…

Lawyers butted heads Tuesday in a key hearing in the antitrust lawsuit Fubo filed against Disney, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery, a case with broad implications for the pay-TV business. The parties met at U.S. District Court in Lower Manhattan after Fubo’s request for a preliminary injunction. If…

The special prosecutor in Alec Baldwin's dismissed involuntary manslaughter trial isn't taking the case being tossed over suppressed evidence quietly. In a July 31 filing made public Monday, Kari Morrissey says Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer was determined to end Baldwin's trial for the 2021 fatal…

Akili McDowell, known for his title role in David Makes Man, has been arrested and charged with murder in Houston, TX, in the shooting death of a man last month in an apartment complex parking lot. The 21-year-old McDowell was arrested and booked on August 1 on charges of murder and theft, according t…

EXCLUSIVE: Not a day seems to go by that Elon Musk isn't being sued or threatening to sue someone, but now the X/Twitter owner is back in a legal war with OpenAI, with a twist. Former OpenAI co-founder Musk will square off anew with his old partners CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman in…

Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson is laughing off claims that his massive Power franchise was ripped off from a former drug kingpin’s life story. After New York District Judge Hon. Analisa Torres dismissed Cory ‘Ghost’ Holland’s lawsuit against the Grammy Award winner, Jackson shared the news on Instagram…