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Tiffany Haddish addressed her DUI incident during a comedy set Friday at the Laugh Factory in Long Beach, California. Hours after the arrest, Haddish appeared at the club and spoke about her arrest that morning in Beverly Hills. She was allegedly found asleep at the wheel while the car engine was…

A Florida court case that was the subject of the Netflix documentary Take Care of Maya has seen its defendants ask for a retrial. Two weeks ago, a jury awarded $261 million in damages against Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. The court documents claimed 10-year-old Maya Kowalski was falsely…

UPDATED 11/23 with Foxx’s statement and 11/25 with plaintiff’s attorney’s response: Jamie Foxx has hit back at a lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York, in which he is accused of a sexual assault that allegedly happened in 2015. “The alleged incident never happened. In 2020, this individual filed a…

John Oates has issued a social media statement calling for empathy, but avoiding the main issue of the moment: why he and longtime collaborator Daryl Hall are engaged in litigation. The 75-year-old posted a Thanksgiving selfie Thursday, offering a message calling for worldwide understanding…

UPDATE, FRIDAY PM: Representatives of Sean “Diddy” Combs have issued a statement on the allegations facing him. "These are fabricated claims falsely alleging misconduct from over 30 years ago and filed at the last minute. This is nothing but a money grab. Because of Mr. Combs' fame and success, he is…

Comedian Tiffany Haddish was arrested by Beverly Hills police early this morning after she reportedly fell asleep behind the wheel of her stopped car on Beverly Drive. According to TMZ, which posted video of a handcuffed Haddish being placed into the backseat of a police cruiser, the comedian was…

The former Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is to be freed from jail. Pistorius was convicted of murder after shooting his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, multiple times through a bathroom door in February 2013. The athlete, nicknamed ‘Blade Runner’ during his sprinting career thanks to his prosthetic…

Sebastian Chacon, who recently played drummer Warren Rojas in Daisy Jones & The Six, has been accused by three women of sexual assault. The plaintiffs, identified in a lawsuit filed in New York this week as Jane Doe 1, Jane Doe 2 and Jane Doe 3, allege the assaults took place between 2017 and 2022 in New…

Marcellus Wiley, a former NFL star and ex-ESPN analyst, has been accused of raping a fellow Columbia University student back in 1994. The lawsuit filed on Tuesday by an unnamed accuser (read it here) alleges that while Wiley was a sophomore at the private Ivy League school and a running back for the…

UPDATED with statement from Rose’s attorney: A new lawsuit accuses Guns ‘N Roses singer Axl Rose of sexual assault and battery over an alleged attack in a Manhattan hotel suite in 1989. Sheila Kennedy’s suit claims she “suffered severe emotional, physical, financial and psychological distress” when…

Cuba Gooding Jr. is facing two new lawsuits from women who claimed that he groped them in separate incidents at New York restaurants in 2018 and 2019. The lawsuits were filed on Wednesday in New York Supreme Court under the state’s Adult Survivors Act, which is set to expire this week. The law gives…

Daryl Hall, one half of the most successful pop duo in U.S. chart history, Hall & Oates, is suing John Oates and has been granted a restraining order against his longtime bandmate. Hall filed the lawsuit November 16 in Nashville Chauncery Court, a court spokesperson confirmed to Deadline, but the…