via The lawsuit: Deadline · The complaint breakdown: TMZ · Her canceled season and her next move: Page Six · The spinoff keeps casting: Us Weekly
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives cast member Dakota Mortensen filed a defamation suit in Utah state court Friday against Hulu and the show's two production companies, per Deadline. TMZ breaks down the complaint, which accuses the show of running "stage scenes pres…
via The complaint: Deadline · Work-for-hire, explained: The Hollywood Reporter · The full rundown: The Wrap · The work-for-hire angle: A.V. Club
New Regency sued Michael Mann in federal court Friday, arguing the 1995 "Heat" screenplay was a "work for hire" and that his copyright termination notices are "defective and invalid," according to Deadline. "Work for hire" is the phrase a company uses when it …
via The response filing: TMZ · The original fraud suit: TMZ · Rival coverage: Yahoo Sports
Baron Davis filed to toss his sister Lissa Davis's lawsuit over a Northridge, Calif. home, per TMZ, arguing she cannot sue over a verbal promise nearly 20 years old because California requires property deals to be in writing. Her side says he promised her the …
According to TMZ, Kylie Jenner is asking a Los Angeles judge to force the former private chef who sued her in June to reveal her name in public court records. Jenner's lawyers say the pregnancy discrimination allegations do not satisfy the "high bar" to procee…
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…
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…
via The lawsuit: TMZ · Bombshell coverage: Page Six · The complaint: NY Post · The breakup report: TMZ Sports
According to TMZ, Jordon Hudson filed a lawsuit Friday in Massachusetts against the rental property owners who recorded Bill Belichick shirtless on a Ring camera and let the video leak. Bill Belichick, a man who treats his own face like classified information,…
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…
via The two suits: Variety · The October Anthropic suit: Billboard · Rival reporting on the Anthropic damages: Yahoo Finance
According to Variety, Elvis Presley's music rightsholders and the publisher of Eminem's catalog have filed separate federal lawsuits against the AI music generator Suno. The Presley complaint runs 51 pages and claims Suno violates Tennessee's ELVIS Act every t…
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…
via The cops' statement: TMZ · The denial video: USA Magazine · The lawsuit itself: RingSide News
Jane Doe, who is suing Hulk Hogan's widow Sky Daily and her son Hayden Hitt over a March 2026 house party, alleges Clearwater police "quickly and quietly" closed her report because of Daily's ties to Scientology. The police say in a statement the case "is not …
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…
via Deadline: Judge dismisses Trump's $10B WSJ/Epstein defamation suit · CNBC: Trump's $10 billion Murdoch/WSJ defamation lawsuit dismissed · Bloomberg: WSJ wins dismissal of Trump's $10 billion defamation suit
A judge in New York has dismissed Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones over its Jeffrey Epstein coverage — "with prejudice," meaning the case is dead and cannot be revived, according to Deadline. "Dismisse…
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…
via The filing, in the city's own words: CBS Los Angeles · "Illegal commercial enterprise": LA Times · The celebrity client list: TMZ · The owner's denial: NBC Los Angeles
The Los Angeles City Attorney is suing Wagmor Pets and its owner Melissa Bacelar, alleging the Studio City "rescue" bought dogs from puppy mills and resold them to customers as rescues, according to CBS Los Angeles. The city says the operation ran through mult…
via The privacy fight: TMZ · The original lawsuit: 6abc
Tyler Perry is fighting to keep private text messages sealed away from accuser Mario Rodriguez, per TMZ, which reports the texts came up in the $77 million lawsuit over an alleged 2018 sexual assault and Perry now claims releasing them would cause "undue annoy…
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…
via The filing, TMZ · The original support order, TMZ · The income disclosure, TMZ
Former NBA star Paul Pierce filed court documents this week claiming he is "drowning financially" after Fox Sports ended his pay, per TMZ. His average monthly income fell from about $119,000 to zero. The 3PT Prince reportedly banked about $200 million over 19 …
Neil Young filed a $10 million lawsuit Monday against the Trump 47 Committee, claiming the campaign is using "Rockin' in the Free World" as an entrance theme at midterm rallies, according to Variety. It is the second suit over the same song, and the 2020 settl…
A group of companies controlling Elvis Presley's music, including Authentic Brands Group, sued Anthropic in federal court Friday, claiming Claude was trained on 274 of the King's songs and demanding $48.6 million, per Variety. Rolling Stone reports the suit cl…
On Friday the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders' parent company Pro Silver Star filed a temporary restraining order against My Chemical Romance after the band's Hollywood Bowl opener, where dancers in "counterfeit uniforms" of white boots, white vests with blue star…
Chris Brown was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to eight months in prison, suspended for twelve, for a 2023 attack prosecutors called "vicious and unprovoked" on a music producer at a London nightclub, per Variety. The suspension means the sentence is held …
via The interview: Variety · Rival coverage: Fiction Horizon
Paul Bettany says he and Johnny Depp had not spoken in years when their 2013 text messages were read into the record at Depp's 2020 defamation trial. According to Variety, he is speaking up now, saying he was being painted as a close friend of someone he had n…
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…
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…
via The filing: TMZ · Rival coverage: Page Six · The NDA settlement: TMZ · The February separation report: TMZ
According to TMZ, Mia Goth filed for divorce from Shia LaBeouf on Tuesday night, citing "irreconcilable differences," listing a July 28, 2025 separation date, and asking for primary custody of their 4-year-old daughter. Page Six confirmed the paperwork. Ten ye…
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…
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 …
via The fee ruling: TMZ · The court documents: Page Six · The $100M suit, 2025: Page Six · The withdrawal, 2026: Page Six
Sean "Diddy" Combs has been ordered to pay NBCUniversal $477,700.50 in attorneys' fees after his $100 million defamation suit over "Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy" failed, per TMZ and Page Six. The lawsuit was filed in February 2025 and argued that the documen…
*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…
via The fraud report: Inc. Magazine · The shutdown letter: 9NEWS · The celebrity golf roster: PlayGolf Myrtle Beach · The Shark Tank backer: Yahoo Finance
According to Inc. Magazine, ONEflight International, a celebrity-promoted private jet brokerage out of Centennial, Colorado, reported $232 million in revenue for 2025 before it halted every flight, wiped its website, and landed in federal court on fraud and Po…
via The class action complaint: Class Action.org · The WSJ findings and the fake site: Ars Technica · The NACA consumer suit: Legal 500 · The $1.9M in fake bets: Decrypt
A proposed class action in D.C. federal court alleges Polymarket paid social media creators to film themselves winning big on counterfeit copies of its own platform, with the staged videos drawing over 140 million views. According to Class Action.org, the bets…
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…
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…
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.…
According to Music Business Worldwide, Universal Music Group filed a 52-page complaint last Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware alleging "deceptive trade practices and blatant copyright infringement" against DistroKid, the $24.99-a-…
via The report: The Verge · The complaint details: Startup Fortune · The earlier YouTube-scraping admission: The Verge · The original 2024 suit: The Verge
According to The Verge, Sony Music and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno, accusing its new v6 model of "model laundering" after training on user outputs from older models built on unlicensed music. The marketing, first. Suno sold v6 as …
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…
via The recap: Hollywood Reporter · The perjury filing: CourtListener · The sanctions motion: CourtListener · The "we can bury anyone" text: New York Times
According to Hollywood Reporter, ex-"It Ends With Us" publicist Stephanie Jones has moved for sanctions against Hollywood publicist Melissa Nathan, arguing she committed perjury and hid evidence about anonymous smear websites, including one built to take down …
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…
via The original report: TMZ · The canceled-venue check and the $23M: AllHipHop · The dreads backstory: The Independent · The filing breakdown: Particle
On Wednesday, Ye's lawyers asked a judge to move a discrimination trial from October 12 to May 2027, citing upcoming Russia concerts and the deportation of his former chief of staff, Milo Yiannopoulos, according to TMZ. The suit is from a former Donda Academy …
via The lawsuit story: Rolling Stone · The 2025 interview they cited: Rolling Stone · Rival coverage: CBC · The defendant's statement: X
Outkast has sued Oakland producer Silas Wilson, a.k.a. Ovrkast, in federal court in Georgia, accusing him of trademark infringement and breaching a name-change deal, per Rolling Stone. The 31-page complaint was filed by the duo's trademark holding company, whi…
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…