From his famous former clients to his adversaries, Michael Avenatti runs in some star-studded circles. Which of those A-list names can feature when the embattled lawyer begins trial next week took focus Wednesday at a marathon four-hour hearing.
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Illinois prosecutors said Wednesday that the first of four Chicago sexual abuse cases against R. Kelly that they’ll take to trial involves a hairdresser who says the R&B singer forced himself on her during a 2003 appointment.
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Two women who have accused Cuba Gooding Jr. of sexual misconduct will be allowed to testify at his trial on charges that he groped three other women at Manhattan bars in 2018 and 2019, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
Read moreBoise State University claims the Mountain West Conference owes it a $1.8 million annual bonus for letting CBS/Fox televise its football games, in Ada County Court.
Read moreBeer sales in Vietnam are down before the lunar new year, bar owners said, as a tough new drunk-driving law threatens to put a lid on celebrations in one of the world’s fastest-growing markets for beer.
Read moreKanye West, Kid Cudi and other collaborators reached a settlement agreement with actor Ronald Oslin Bobb-Semple, who accused the musicians of using a sample of his vocal recording titled “The Spirit of Marcus Garvey (Garvey speaks to an all-Black audience)” without authorization in violation of copyright law.
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Rose McGowan’s former attorneys sued her for defamation Tuesday, arguing the actress has been falsely claiming they pressured her into pleading no contest to possessing cocaine that she says was planted on her by associates of disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
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The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to demand awarding two World Series titles to the LA Dodgers in the wake of a sign-stealing scandal currently rocking Major League Baseball.
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The Venetian island of Burano’s charms are rooted in its fishing legacy: the colorful fishermen’s cottages, the traditional butter cookies that kept fishermen going at sea and the delicate lace hand-stitched by their women.
Read moreA federal court in Illinois denied class certification to youths detained at a Cook County juvenile detention center who say they were required to remain in their living quarters and received delayed responses to medical issues while the television show “Empire” was filming at the facility. The court finds that the current class definition is overbroad.
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A stolen 15th-century book by the famed Persian poet Hafez has been recovered by a Dutch art detective after an international “race against time” that drew the alleged interest of Iran’s secret service.
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A Renaissance historian has unearthed the oldest known image of Venice dating from the 14th century, showing how even then the city of canals gripped the imagination of visitors.
Read moreU.S. Rep. Devin Nunes’ father, Anthony Nunes Jr., sued reporter Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazine Media for $25 million in federal court, claiming “a scandalous hit piece” in Esquire defamed him, causing him “insult, pain, embarrassment, humiliation, mental suffering, anguish, and injury.”
Read moreA deaf New Yorker filed a federal class action against three pornography websites, claiming their failure to use closed captioning deprives the class of enjoying videos such as “18 YO Blonde Stripper Samantha DP In Homemade Gangbang Porn,” and “Daddy 4K – Allison Comes To Talk About Money To Her Boys Naughty Father.”
Read moreReveal Chat Holdco et al. filed a federal antitrust class action against Facebook, claiming its acquisition of WhatsApp, Instagram and other competitors violates the Sherman and Clayton acts.
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Carlos Beltrán, called out on a curveball again. Beltrán’s 2½-month tenure as Mets manager ended Thursday before he spent a single game on the bench, the latest fallout from the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing.
Read moreChristopher Tolkien, the son of J.R.R. Tolkien, who edited and helped publish many of his father’s works, has died at 95, the Tolkien Society said.
Read moreMedia law experts gathered Thursday at a conference in Los Angeles to discuss shifts and trends in the entertainment world’s wide web of legal wrangling, contract disputes and lawsuits.
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Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers went to court Thursday with a last-minute demand to halt jury selection and move his rape trial out of New York City, where they say intense publicity, protesters and even the consideration of supermodel Gigi Hadid as a juror have turned the case into a “media and entertainment circus.”
Read moreRapper Damon Dash sued Entertainment One Reality Productions in L.A. Superior Court, claiming it broke its promise that it would not make his son drink alcohol while filming the series “Growing Up Hip Hop.”
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