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A month before a repeatedly rescheduled resentencing hearing for the Menendez brothers, the Los Angeles County District Attorney today called out the siblings for “a continuum of lies and deceit and fabricating stories.” In a sometimes vivid and sometimes dense press conference in downtown LA…

EXCLUSIVE: Ali Abbasi, director of the Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice, has parted ways with his U.S. reps at CAA and Entertainment 360, Deadline has learned. We’re told there is an ugly backstory here, reminiscent of the kinds of things Abbasi’s screen…

EXCLUSIVE: Two months before the start of a sex trafficking trial that could see the much accused Sean “Diddy” Combs behind bars for the rest of his life, one of the ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ rapper’s top lawyers wants out of the case. The request today by Anthony Ricco to Judge Arun Subramanian…

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ publicist Leslie Sloane is standing strongly with her clients against Justin Baldoni’s alleged “bizarre and abusive practices,” but the Vision PR boss wants herself and her company dropped from the legal battle between the It Ends With Us stars. “The Wayfarer…

Years later, Olivia Munn is speaking up about a complaint she filed on the set of a movie, which she would not name. The actress recently recounted the on-set incident that was “really not okay,” as she explained why she refused to take “a lot of money” in exchange for her silence about the…

CBS’ legal team said in a court filing this week that the network planned to seek Donald Trump’s personal financial information if the president’s $20 billion lawsuit against the network proceeds to a discovery phase. The network’s attorneys outlined their likely requests in a filing in Texas…

“Mr. Combs has been singled out because he is a powerful black man, and he is being prosecuted for conduct that regularly goes unpunished,” declares a Tuesday filing by the incarcerated Sean “Diddy” Combs to toss out the government’s claim the Bad Boy Records founder violated the Mann Act, officially…

Sony's It Ends With Us adapted Colleen Hoover's powerful story about domestic violence and a resilient woman, but drama between stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni behind the scenes and afterwards has lingered beyond the film's release in theaters. Arriving to the big screen last August and later…

With minutes to spare before a court-imposed deadline of midnight ET Tuesday, lawyers for Blake Lively have just filed an amended complaint against Justin Baldoni in her sexual harassment and smear campaign lawsuit against her It Ends With Us co-star and director. In a legal and cultural…

UPDATE, 5:03 PM (LA DA Statement added) A$AP Rocky was found not guilty of assault today in a 2021 shooting incident in Hollywood. When the verdicts were read the courtroom erupted in cheers and the rapper literally leapt into the crowd to hug superstar girlfriend Rihanna. You can watch the only…

The lawsuit accusing Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs of repeatedly raping a minor in 2000 after the MTV VMAs was dismissed on Valentine’s Day, but the bitter relationship between the Jay-Z and attorney Tony Buzbee rages on. Related Stories …

“Guy, you need to grow up. You are not a victim.” That was Kevin Spacey’s response in a video posted online to Guy Pearce’s statements about Spacey’s behavior on the set of L.A. Confidential in 1997. “Grow up. Did you also, by the way, tell the press that a year after we shot L.A. Confidenti…