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Three Cars Walk Out Of Fortress Hemsworth

According to 7NEWS, four men in balaclavas, two of them carrying knives, scaled the fence at Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky's Byron Bay estate around 2am Tuesday and walked out with three vehicles, all with the keys still in them, per E!. The cars were recove…

Alanis Plays Affleck's Head Exploding

via The recap and the quote: Variety · The exploding head clip: Page Six · The residency review: Variety · The pansexual reveal: USA Today

Per Variety, Alanis Morissette told the crowd at her "Butterfly With a Machete" residency at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood on Nov. 11, "I've even had a guy ask me why I didn't lead with my sexuality. Thank you, Ben Affleck." Then the show played a clip of h…

Bunnie XO Is 86'd From Jelly Roll's Bar

According to TMZ, a giant pin-up of Bunnie XO was carried out of Jelly Roll's Goodnight Nashville bar on Wednesday amid the couple's divorce. TMZ got video of staff removing the poster, which had hung above the bar showing her in a swimsuit, heels, and sparkli…

Klein Files For Custody, Against Alimony

via This week's filings: TMZ · The original filing: Page Six · The filings, itemized: USA Today · The statement that started it: People

According to TMZ, court documents show Ethan Klein asking a judge not to award spousal support to him or to his ex, Hila Klein, while his lawyers argue that everything he earned before the marriage and after the October 13 separation should count as his separa…

Inaba Pitches The Sibling Tango, Gets 9s

via The line, and the aftermath: TMZ · The judges' reaction, per E! News: EW · The show, where it aired: Dancing with the Stars

According to TMZ, Dancing with the Stars judge Carrie Ann Inaba told the ballroom on Tuesday's Grammy Night episode, after Paralympian Ezra Frech and his pro partner Daniella Karagach finished a steamy Argentine tango, that "Turning your sister into your lover…

Walliams Threatened Suicide, Then Threatened Apology

via The naming: Page Six · The three-year investigation: The Guardian · Why the injunction failed: BBC · The statement, in full: The Hollywood Reporter

According to Page Six, David Walliams, the 55-year-old Little Britain comedian and children's book author, was named Tuesday as the anonymous British celebrity who tried, and failed, to use a court injunction to keep his identity out of a joint Guardian and IT…

Netflix Keeps Brand, Hides Brand

*According to Deadline, Netflix will keep streaming Russell Brand's 2018 stand-up special "Re:Birth" after he was sentenced to 10 years and six months on Monday for rape and three counts of sexual assault. The special will no longer appear in recommendations, …

Hadid Hard Launches Her Hardhat

According to E!, Bella Hadid posted a carousel Monday from a Colorado Avalanche hockey game, kissing and cuddling the man tabloids identified as Nathan Lacy, a Crested Butte, Colorado ranch hand. Her caption called the night "especially meaningful." The relati…

Bug Hall's GoFundMe: Alfalfa Crowdfunds Baby 6

via The defense: Page Six · The original scoop: TMZ · The fundraiser itself: GoFundMe · The 'get a job' comments live here: Reddit

According to Page Six, "Little Rascals" star Brandon "Bug" Hall defended his GoFundMe on Sunday after netizens urged him to "get a job," telling them he is "going to keep impregnating my wife." The fund for his sixth child, due in under a month, has passed $8,…

The Swift-Kloss 'Feud' Dies In A Stadium Suite

via The 'stunned fans' piece: Page Six · The game-day photos: Just Jared · Rival coverage: Billboard · Rival coverage: TMZ

According to Page Six, Taylor Swift was photographed sitting next to Karlie Kloss in a private suite at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday during a Chiefs game, the first time the pair have been seen together in years. For nine years the Swift-Kloss falling out has b…

Fake Jackson Sues Fake Jackson

via The courthouse interview and the missing filing: Complex · Rival coverage of the feud: Yahoo · The diss track and the beef timeline: AOL · The feud, itemized: Reality Tea

Michael Jackson impersonator Fabio Jackson told reporters outside a Los Angeles courthouse on Thursday that he is "taking legal action" over the feud with rival MJ impersonator Looze Cannon, per Complex. The clip of the interview was posted by TMZ on X. The mo…

Odom Sells His Life For $14.99 a Month

via The earnings story: TMZ · Rival coverage with the photo: Daily Mail · The launch, analyzed by an OF search engine: Chicago Sports Stuff

According to Daily Mail, former NBA star and ex-Khloe Kardashian Lamar Odom has raked in a five-figure sum in the first eight days of his OnlyFans account. TMZ puts the total at over $50K and says he is on pace to clear $200K, on a $14.99 a month subscription …

Driver Shuts Down 'Girls' With A Blessing

via The story: Deadline · The interview where he said it: CinemaBlend · Rival coverage: Variety · The revival announcement: People

According to Deadline, Adam Driver has confirmed he is not returning for HBO's five-episode "Girls" revival, telling an interviewer, "No, but I wish them the best of luck." "No, but I wish them the best of luck." Read that again. That is not a sentence a perso…

Knicks Send Swift A Formal Thank-You

via The statement: Deadline · The clip, both players, full detail: ESPN · Rival coverage: The Guardian · The response, celebrity angle: People

According to Deadline, Knicks guard Tyler Kolek called Taylor Swift a "very performative" fan on a since-deleted NBA clip, and the team's rep responded with a statement thanking her for "many years" of support. A point guard gets asked to name the fakest celeb…

Dolly Parton's Estate Hits Pause, Not Delete

via The dismissal filing: Billboard · The same story: People · The original suit and the texts: Page Six · The $450 million at stake: Page Six

The company running Dolly Parton's posthumous affairs filed to voluntarily dismiss its lawsuit against her nephew and former security chief Bryan Seaver in Tennessee court Thursday, per Billboard. The claims die without prejudice, meaning they can come back, a…

Dane's Memoir Fights Duhamel From The Grave

via The memoir fight story: Variety · The full scene, first reported: EW · The near-fistfight, fan coverage: Just Jared · The Las Vegas chapter, long read: Complex

According to Variety, Eric Dane's posthumous memoir My Book of Days: A Memoir in Moments reveals that he and Josh Duhamel nearly came to blows on the Las Vegas set when Duhamel pulled a neck-injured Dane by the tie, twice, during a fight scene, and nobody call…

Stewart's Apology Deletes Itself Twice

via The evisceration: Page Six · The charity correction: TMZ · The second apology: The Cut · The original post takedown: Page Six

Martha Stewart deleted her first apology over the weekend and posted a second, calling her homeless Halloween costume "insensitive and not funny," according to Page Six. TMZ reports God's Love We Deliver, the charity she named to defend the costume, says it "d…

Navarrette Debuts On SNL, Gillis Pays The Tab

via The quip: Deadline · The robot sketch: Variety · The original bit: NBC News · The apology for the wrong thing: Yahoo

Per Deadline, Inde Navarrette opened her SNL hosting debut on Halloween night with a Shane Gillis callback about getting into Marvel shape. "So every morning, I put on my little whore outfit and hit the gym," which is the exact framing of his October monologue…

Dolly's Museum Gets Purged, Bryan Sings Praises

via The firing: TMZ · The "no feud" post: TMZ · The estate fight timeline: Business Insider · The "legal violence" emails: Page Six

Per TMZ, the team running Dolly Parton's estate fired her niece Rebecca Seaver Thursday from her job as executive director of the Life of Many Colors Museum, and let her entire staff go with her, three weeks after the museum opened inside her Nashville SongTel…

Stewart Dressed Poor To Sell $30 Candles

via The deleted photo and the carousel: Page Six · The deletion, first reported: TMZ · The same photo, the Reddit receipts: Just Jared · The QVC carousel detail: TV Insider

Martha Stewart, 85, posted a photo of herself in tattered clothes with dirt on her face and a cardboard sign reading I AM HUNGRY HELP ME inside an Instagram carousel promoting her QVC candles, then deleted it, according to Page Six. The mechanism is the carous…

Mann Shoots Himself, The Heat Dies A Little

via The first report and the rep statement: TMZ · Variety confirms: hospitalized, being released · EW: the holstering accident, the details · Hollywood Reporter: the LAPD response to The Range LA

Michael Mann, 83, director of Heat and Collateral, was hospitalized Saturday after a weapon discharged while he was holstering it at a West Los Angeles gun range, according to TMZ. The mechanism here is ego, not gravity. For four decades Mann has been the guy …

Lange Retires, Per Rolling Stone

via Rolling Stone: Jessica Lange on "American Horror Story" and the possible end of her career · Deadline: Jessica Lange retirement report · AOL: Jessica Lange, 77, reflects on her career's possible end

Jessica Lange, 77, told Rolling Stone she "actually feel[s] like I'm coming to an end" — the interview timed to the launch of "American Horror Story" Season 13, with her possible last film, "Long Day's Journey Into Night," still in theaters. The mechanism: the…

Hudson Softs Out Of Special Forces

via The triple exit, full story: E! News · Tiesi on why she quit: EW · Episode recap and exit list: TV Insider · Candace Cameron Bure's tearful marriage reveal on the show: E! News

According to E! News, Fox's "Special Forces: World Toughest Test" dropped three more celebrities in its Oct. 29 episode: Oliver Hudson voluntarily withdrew on day six after his team failed a challenge, Bre Tiesi quit on day five, and Olympic skater Maxim Naumo…

Ross: Felony Dropped, Brand Intact

via The arrest and the drop: TMZ · Arraignment details: NBC Miami · The charge swap, court docs: BallerAlert · Rival coverage: AllHipHop

According to TMZ, Miami-Dade prosecutors dropped the felony battery-by-strangulation charge against Rick Ross and are moving forward with two misdemeanor battery counts. He surrendered to Miami Beach police in early October over an alleged domestic violence in…

Stewart Dies, The Tribute Machine Does Not

via The death report: Variety · The Marvel and Feige tributes: Variety · The "Godspeed, Captain" thread: Variety · Hugh Jackman's tribute: Variety

Sir Patrick Stewart, the actor who played Jean-Luc Picard and Professor X, died Wednesday at his Los Angeles home at age 86. Per a Variety report, the family statement says he died "after a brief battle" with Alzheimer's and Lewy Body Dementia, and that his pr…

Chrisley: You Are Not A Headline

via The statement and the sonograms: TMZ · The $100 million divorce liabilities: TMZ · The kitchen kiss and the ultrasound: Page Six

According to TMZ, Savannah Chrisley is posting sonograms and telling the baby "you are not a headline" and "you are not defined by anyone's past," which is her response to the backlash over the pregnancy and the engagement to convicted fraudster Jason Galanis.…

Paris Jackson Wants The Estate Paycheck Gutted

via The motion, filed: TMZ · The estate civil war that started it: Deadline · The last "massive win" in the same feud: Deadline

According to TMZ, Paris Jackson filed a motion in L.A. Superior Court on Wednesday asking the court to cut Michael Jackson estate executor pay from 15% to 10% of gross entertainment income for 2023 and 2024, calling co-executor John Branca's late and incomplet…

Cohen Finds Brilliance In The Nincompoop

According to Variety, Sacha Baron Cohen told a 92Y audience that Donald Trump has "elements of brilliance" and that "we were too easy to dismiss him as a nincompoop," while promoting Ali G: Who Iz I?, the new movie about a guy who pretends to be a fool. The pr…

Ethan Klein's Business Fired Him

via The crew statement and the firing: Page Six · Ethan's statement and the ownership handover: Just Jared · Hila's statement: Variety

The H3 Podcast crew said it will no longer work with host Ethan Klein after his wife Hila publicly accused him of a six-month affair, according to Page Six. Ethan's response: he is giving up his ownership and financial stakes in the podcast and its related bus…

Douglas: Marvel Wouldn't Let Me Quit

via The new quote: Variety · Rival coverage: The Wrap · The original 2024 request: Variety · The death-scene pitch: Deadline

On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Michael Douglas confirmed what he told The View in 2024, per Variety: he asked Marvel to kill his Ant-Man character off after the second film, and the studio wouldn't let him. He even pitched the death scene, shrink to ant si…

Cyrus And Hurley's Ring Is A Prop, Allegedly

via The engagement exclusive: Page Six · The ring post that started it: Page Six · Rival coverage: People · The ring emoji post: Instagram

According to Page Six, Billy Ray Cyrus, 65, proposed to Elizabeth Hurley, 61, after more than a year of dating, days after she posted a selfie flaunting a massive diamond and he shared a cryptic ring emoji that Hurley's son Damian liked with a celebratory one.…

Wahlberg Turns His Runway Incident Into A Vlog

via TMZ: Wahlberg's plane skids off runway at Las Vegas airport · E!: Wahlberg details the intense moment the plane skidded · TMZ video: Wahlberg avoids tragic plane crash

According to TMZ, Donnie Wahlberg's private jet slid off the runway at Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport on Sunday morning after failing to become airborne and hit the perimeter fence. Wahlberg posted a video to Instagram where he got choked up, point…

McAvoy's Career Goal Is Young Patrick Stewart

via The full quote: Deadline · The 15-year fan campaign, documented: TrekMovie · The podcast he said it on: YouTube · Rival coverage: Nerdist

According to Deadline, James McAvoy revealed on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he pitched a Star Trek series called Mutiny On the Stargazer about a young Jean-Luc Picard and that "we nearly did it." His stated career goal, in his own words: "All I really …

Stallone: Of Course It's Nepotism, You Idiot

via The actual quote, on video: USA Today · The recap and the PaleyFest photos: Page Six · Season 4 watch guide: Page Six · Same press tour, nine back surgeries deep: Page Six

According to Page Six, Sylvester Stallone, 80, told USA Today that casting his 24-year-old daughter Scarlet Rose in Tulsa King is "of course nepotism, you idiot," and that a parent who would not hand their kid every advantage is not a good parent. The whole de…

Busfield Case Dies, The Wife Quotes Wonka

A New Mexico judge dismissed the child sex abuse charges against actor Timothy Busfield on Friday, ruling prosecutors failed to act in a fair and impartial manner during the grand jury process, per The Hollywood Reporter. His wife Melissa Gilbert marked the ne…

Ellen Misses TV On Someone Else's Show

Ellen DeGeneres appeared on "The Graham Norton Show" Friday and admitted she "really miss[es] being on TV," per Page Six. The rare appearance comes four years after her talk show ended in a workplace scandal. The confession is a job application. "I've nothing …

Chuck Lorre's Memoir Doubts Anna Faris

via The friends' response: TMZ · The memoir interview: Deadline · The feud history: Variety · The book signing: Warner Bros. Studio Tour

According to TMZ, Anna Faris' friends called Chuck Lorre "sy" after he revealed in his new memoir Sitcom that he doubted her casting as the lead of Mom and claimed his gut instinct was correct when she left after season 7. Every showrunner's memoir is the same…

Brand Says It Was Just Fun, Allegedly

via Day two from the court: The Guardian · The live blog from day one: The Guardian · The local coverage: Your Local Guardian

The jury at Southwark Crown Court heard Thursday that Russell Brand allegedly told a woman "it's just fun" during a 1999 alleged assault, per The Guardian. Brand, 51, faces rape and sexual assault charges spanning 1999 to 2009 and denies all of them. Day two o…

Harry And Meghan Pick Their 2017 Venue

via The BBC's morning report: BBC News · The 2017 callback, documented: People · The all-British outfit breakdown: Just Jared · The rival angle: USA Today

Prince Harry and Meghan made their first official joint appearance since moving back to the UK on Thursday, visiting Nottingham charities per the BBC. The venue is the story: it is also the city where the couple did their first official outing together as newl…

Swank Announces Baby No. 3 Like A Film Premiere

via The announcement: E! News · The months of "later in life" setup: Page Six · The "full attention" interview: E! News · The Instagram post: Instagram

According to E! News, Hilary Swank, 52, is pregnant with her third child and announced the news with a family dance video, captioning it: "A lot of people have been asking what project I'm doing next, this one releases in December." There was no sonogram. Ther…

Good To Be Back, Says The Machine

via The Nottingham outing: E! News · The 2017 callback and the quote: People · The status clarification: E! News · Harry's "eventful" interview: E! News

According to E! News, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made their first official joint outing since moving back to the U.K., visiting a community music recording studio in Nottingham on Oct. 15, nearly two months after the family's return. The word in the press …

Clarkson's Five-Minute Visit, The $15 Million Bird

via The silent footage: Daily Beast · The owner's danger statement: TODAY · The PR autopsy: TODAY · Torre's podcast release: YouTube

According to TODAY, investigative journalist Pablo Torre released silent security footage from the ceiling cameras at the Art of Play shop in Brooklyn on October 13: a woman in a yellow t-shirt and baseball cap spending four minutes and fifty seconds inside, s…

Depp's Rebrand Is Price On Application

via The opening: Deadline · The representation: Arts & Collections · The forms: Halcyon Gallery · The Bunnyman: Yahoo News

According to Deadline, Johnny Depp's first major UK exhibition opened October 13 at Halcyon Gallery on New Bond Street, with every work listed as Price On Application. The redemption arc got a New Bond Street address. Halcyon has signed Depp as a represented a…

Girls Gets Five Episodes, A Decade Late

According to Variety, HBO has greenlit a limited five-episode revival of Girls, with production starting in 2027, a full decade after the season six finale. All four original leads are back: Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet, Jemima Kirke, plus Andrew…

Gillis Bombs SNL Again, Which Is The Point

via The monologue, all of it: Variety · The F-bomb, same episode: Deadline · The episode review: Deadline · The 2019 firing, for the record: Deadline

*Shane Gillis hosted "Saturday Night Live" for the third time Friday night and closed his opening monologue with a Hitler hairline bit, which Variety says got few laughs and ended early. The headline did the work: "bombs (again)." That parenthetical is the who…

Clarkson Reviews A Brooklyn Store: Idiot

via The callout and the store's reaction: Page Six · Rival coverage: Just Jared · The store's own website: Art of Play

The tweet is a customer service review with 8.8 million distribution. "Wow, dude. You're an idiot and just lost a huge sale," then the store's name, then the Julia Roberts comparison. Three sentences, and a shop that bills itself as one of the most beautiful i…

Cage's Unsigned Waiver Is An Exit Interview

via The panel, live from New York: Deadline · The True Detective confirmation: Just Jared · The original rumor he's now confirming: Deadline

The waiver was never a form. It's a club. "I'm not an AI-friendly actor, I guess. I don't belong to that club" is a line out of a corporate HR manual, delivered at a comic con panel, and there is no press release to retract it because the club declined him in …

Lawrence's Apology Email Casts Her As The Sister

via The feud and the email: Variety · The lie detector test where she did it: Vanity Fair · Rival coverage: AOL · The confessional she told it on: E!

According to Variety, Kourtney Kardashian revealed on the season 8 premiere of Hulu's "The Kardashians" that Jennifer Lawrence asked Kim for her contact info and emailed her an apology after calling her "more annoying than ever." Lawrence said it on a Vanity F…

Manganiello's Memoir Is A Hit Piece With An ISBN

via The claims: TMZ · The exclusive excerpt: PEOPLE · The dog chapter: Page Six · The product: Simon & Schuster

According to TMZ, excerpts from Joe Manganiello's memoir "Bloodlines," out Oct. 13 from Simon & Schuster, claim ex-wife Sofía Vergara refused to hug him and mocked his dog during his seven-year autoimmune battle. PEOPLE has the excerpts. First, the mechanism. …

Dolly's Estate Has A Barbed Wire Porch

via The emails: Page Six · The barbed wire filing: Rolling Stone · Rival coverage: TMZ · The $450 million estate: Page Six

In a court filing, Dolly Parton's estate says her nephew Bryan Seaver strung barbed wire and yellow caution tape across his porch steps to evade service of a lawsuit over her $450 million estate, per Rolling Stone. Page Six separately has a redacted email chai…

Chet Hanks Brought The DNA Test To ComplexCon

via The video and coverage: LADbible · Rival coverage: Jezebel · Rival coverage: Yahoo · The original Andre quotes: Rolling Stone

According to LADbible, Tom Hanks' son Chet Hanks walked up to comedian Eric Andre at ComplexCon in Los Angeles and confronted him over a 2023 joke that his dad should get a DNA test. The beef is old. Chet appeared on The Eric Andre Show in 2023, and after the …

LaBeouf Voided The NDA He Was Sued Over

via The drop filing: Billboard · The March NDA lawsuit: Billboard · The July 2025 settlement: Billboard · Rival coverage: Far Out

According to Billboard, FKA twigs filed to drop her lawsuit against Shia LaBeouf on Tuesday after his side agreed to void the NDA that was the entire reason the lawsuit existed. The whole machine, in one motion. In March she sued because the NDA from the 2025 …

Braun's Peace Treaty Is A Follow Button

via The actual report: Page Six · The 2019 "evil person" quote: Page Six · The feud timeline: Billboard · The show, per the reviews: Broadway.com

According to Page Six, Scooter Braun shared a rehearsal clip from his former client Todrick Hall's Off-Broadway musical "Midnight" on his Instagram story over the weekend, and the two, who fell out in 2019, are now following each other on Instagram again. Repr…

The Method Mumble Gets A Release Date

via The trailer and the mumble: Deadline · The official trailer: YouTube · The Gaslamp street stunt, original: Deadline · Rival coverage: Entertainment Weekly

According to Deadline, Paramount has dropped the first full trailer for "Ebenezer," the Ti West-directed Dickens adaptation starring Johnny Depp as Scrooge, in theaters November 13. The film was already promoted in person last July, when Depp appeared in full …

Altman Waved At His Own Double

via The wave, reported: Variety · The cover story: Vanity Fair · Garfield on the dissociation: Esquire U.K. via Variety · Guadagnino on the backlash: Vulture via Variety

According to Variety, Sam Altman waved at Andrew Garfield, who plays him in "Artificial," the Luca Guadagnino film about the five-day period in 2023 when Altman was ousted from OpenAI and then rehired. The two have never spoken, and the film premieres Monday a…

Ruffalo Is Still Playing The Hulk

via The rally recap: Variety · The rally video: Indivisible on YouTube · The lame duck quote, expanded: AOL · The De Niro speech clip: YouTube

According to Variety, Mark Ruffalo told a "Hands Off Our Vote" rally in New York on Sunday that when the crowd chanted "You tell 'em, Hulk," he was "gonna Hulk out. You won't like me when I'm angry," and added, "They thought I was out for the count, I'm still …

Rihanna Ended It With One Word

After EJ Johnson posted that the Dior show at Paris Fashion Week started an hour late because Rihanna was running behind, the singer replied to the clip with one word: "Damn," per Page Six. For the uninitiated: EJ Johnson, 34, is the Rich Kids of Beverly Hills…

The Thirst Trap Turns 51

Ryan Seacrest, 51, posted a thirst trap to Instagram Saturday: a shirtless torso shot gazing up at the sun during a break from a trail workout on his Elliptigo stand-up bike, plus a clip from behind gazing at the moon while the camera zooms in on a flexing mus…

The 40-Year-Old Affair Is A Book Trailer

According to E! News, Michael Douglas has confirmed in an excerpt of his upcoming memoir "One Helluva Ride" that he and Kathleen Turner were having an affair during the making of "Romancing the Stone" in 1984, days before the book hits shelves. A forty-year-ol…

The 'Deb' Is Now A Debt

*The producers of Rebel Wilson's movie "The Deb" filed a motion accusing Wilson of lying under oath and committing "fraud on the court," according to Page Six. The filing, submitted Tuesday, says her misconduct is "so pervasive" that it "infects these entire p…

Hathaway Is The Red Carpet Traffic Cop

via The full story and the apology quotes: Page Six · The Fallon bit: YouTube · The same story, different outlet: Just Jared · "Red carpet traffic cop," the original: X

At Tuesday's "Verity" premiere in New York, Anne Hathaway took charge of the step-and-repeat, telling the cast where to look, pointing at each of them, and counting to ten, according to Page Six. On "The Tonight Show" Wednesday, she called the viral clip "the …

The Star Sang A Song, The Press Broke

Chris O'Dowd, 46, sang the traditional Irish song "The Rattlin' Bog" with a live band at the London Irish Centre pub, and Page Six is running the venue's Instagram video this week as a Hollywood star shocking fans. His wife Dawn O'Porter stood up and danced du…

Diddy's Fort Lux Has Room Service

via The report: NBC News · The same story, with the statement: Page Six · The release date moved up again: Page Six · Fort Dix from the inside, last fall: Page Six

Sean "Diddy" Combs is reportedly living a "pampered" life at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey, with inmate chefs, Chinese-style massages, and a secret stash of Hennessy allegedly smuggled in by guards, according to NBC News. The report includes video of Combs using …

The Redemption Arc Is The Sentence

via The rare prison message: E! · The X post itself · The Telluride premiere and the directors: Variety · Amanda Seyfried on the 2027 exit: E!

Elizabeth Holmes, serving an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding Theranos investors, posted a rare message from prison this week in which she writes, "For a long time I was silenced. And then I was incarcerated," as the A24 documentary about her life, You C…

She Cried, Then Itemized The Damage

via The new piece: NY Post · Baldwin's original takedown: Unraveling Substack · Rival coverage: USA Today · Second rival: TV Insider

According to NY Post, Brooke Baldwin says she cried in private after Megyn Kelly falsely claimed on her show that she had slept with four men in a month, and that defending herself cost her "tens of thousands of dollars." The feud started in July, when Kelly d…

Betr Says HBO Does Not Own These Actors

via The cease-and-desist exclusive: Variety · The ad itself: Variety · The creator's takedown: Variety · Rival coverage: Yahoo / In Touch

According to Variety, HBO sent Jake Paul's gambling app a cease-and-desist over a three-minute commercial reuniting Jeremy Piven and Adrian Grenier, in which Piven makes his way through a mansion party to pitch a movie to Grenier on a yacht. Betr declined to t…

The Tax The Rich Dress Can't Pay Its Gala Tab

via The exclusive: NY Post · Rival coverage: Fox News · The gala photos and the Meghan angle: Daily Mail · The 2021 tax warrants: NY Post

According to NY Post, Aurora James, the designer of AOC's 2021 "Tax The Rich" Met Gala dress, has been sued for $1,082,965.28 over unpaid bills from her February charity gala at Paramount Studios. Her event producer, The Gathery, ran the party three years stra…

The Influencer Ring's $10M Tab

According to ESPN, Heather Hardy, 44, the former WBO featherweight champion, filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday in the Northern District of Texas seeking more than $10 million from Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions, Paul, COO Bryce Holden, and Holden Boxing.…

The Slot's Backlash Is The Campaign

via Stone's interview: People · The ad itself: Novig on X · Rival coverage: Fox News · Athletes firing back: ABC Australia

According to People, Sharon Stone said in an exclusive interview at Variety's Power of Women on Sept 23 that her Euphoria costar Sydney Sweeney needs to "take responsibility" for the nearly nude Novig sports-betting ad that has women's athletes in an uproar. F…

the drama is now a billing dispute

via The recap: MyNewsLA · The coverage analysis: Insurance Business · Rival coverage: Law Commentary · The first motion round: MyNewsLA

According to MyNewsLA, Justin Baldoni's lawyers asked an L.A. Superior Court judge in new filings to rule that insurer QBE had a duty to defend him in the "It Ends With Us" litigation, arguing that the federal court in the Lively case already held she was neve…

Miss Golf Resort Sues The Biggest Album On Earth

via The filing, reported: Rolling Stone · Rival coverage: NME · The tabloid version: Daily Mail · The brand in question: Maren Wade

According to Rolling Stone, Taylor Swift's lawyers filed this week calling Maren Wade's trademark suit over the 'The Life of a Showgirl' album title 'nonsensical' and asking the judge to dismiss the case with prejudice. Wade ran a Las Vegas Weekly column, a po…

The Bullshit Baron's Law Threat Is The Book's Ad

via The recap: The Guardian · The pull-it-now demand: The Independent · The BBC Radio 4 appearance: The Independent · The edit-and-reprint update: The Independent

According to The Guardian, Piers Morgan threatened to sue Earl Spencer and his publisher over a claim in the new Princess Diana memoir Swan Song that Morgan published intrusive photos of Diana, the same week the book hits shelves. The book also alleges King Ch…