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Facing a potential payout in the tens of millions at the very least from an invasion of privacy lawsuit over some sloppy editing on a 2022 Blumhouse documentary about a sociopathic fertility doctor, Netflix has emerged having to write a relatively small check thanks to a Midwest jury.   Having…

Donald Trump was the winner in the election against Kamala Harris last month, but CBS believes the past and soon-to-be current POTUS should be the loser in his $10 billion so-called deceptive editing lawsuit over an October 60 Minutes interview with the Vice President. “Plaintiff's attempt to punish…

Fighting to stay out of prison for the rest of his life on sex trafficking charges and more, Sean "Diddy" Combs now wants more screen time. Facing one of the prosecutors who helped put Jeffrey Epstein's right-hand woman Ghislaine Maxwell behind bars and recently denied his $50 million bail request for…

Price Harry, Duke Of Sussex, said his upcoming court battle with Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers will be a money loser for him but provide "accountability' if he wins the court fight set for January. Harry has been suing UK tabloids for years with a recent victory over the Mirror Group…

UPDATE, 3:15 PM (Statement from Hutton and Electric Entertainment added) Leverage producers Electric Entertainment and Timothy Hutton have ended their over two year long breach of contract legal dogfight.  Scheduled to go to trial on February 10 next year over the Oscar winner being booted from the…

(Updated with Mattel statement) "Something just takes over me and when it does, bad things happen," says the Cynthia Erivo-portrayed Elphaba in Wicked, and certainly a multi-million dollar lawsuit filed today over a XXX connection could be a very bad thing for Mattel. Wicked is killing it at the box o…

Producers of the Broadway hit Stereophonic have settled a lawsuit brought by a former sound engineer and producer of Fleetwood Mac who claimed the production used material from his memoir without authorization, specifically in the play’s depiction of a Mac-like 1970s rock band recording a Rumours-like…

Less than a week after suing the City of New York and others over “deplorable conditions” at Rikers Island jail, Harvey Weinstein is back in the hospital. Seemingly suffering from leukemia, the convicted rapist and ailing producer is now at Manhattan’s Bellevue, where he has had frequent stints since…

UPDATED, 7:05 PM: Months after escaping Iran’s death penalty and seeing all the charges against him dismissed, rapper Toomaj Salehi finally walked out of prison today. The announcement was made Sunday on the musician’s social media feeds: View this post on Instagram A post…

Denied bail for the third time in his East Coast federal sex trafficking case just before Thanksgiving, Sean “Diddy” Combs has now been accused of dangling a woman off a West Coast apartment building balcony in rage eight years ago. A jury-seeking complaint was filed on November 27 in L.A. Superior…

Awaiting a new New York trial next year on additional sex crimes charges, Harvey Weinstein seems to be wishing he was spending Thanksgiving behind bars at the Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo and not at Rikers Island. That’s certainly one of the takeaways from the long-incarcerated and…

UPDATED, 3:05 PM: The third time was not the charm for Sean “Diddy” Combs when it comes to getting out of the clink. After taking under consideration arguments and further filings from both the U.S. Attorney’s office and the onetime music mogul’s defense team earlier this week, a federal judge on…