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A month after Disney and Lucasfilm filed paperwork to have Gina Carano's wrongful-discharge and sex-discrimination suit tossed out, the fired Mandalorian star has kicked back to keep her Elon Musk-backed legal action off the mat. “After admitting that they discriminated against Carano for her personal…

As Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial looms, the Rust star-producer is again attempting to get a judge to dismiss the charges stemming from the fatal 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the indie film. "Because the State does not even allege that…

Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter has agreed to plead guilty to two federal charges for stealing nearly $17 million from the Dodger slugger’s bank account to pay off illegal gambling debts, prosecutors announced today. Ippei Mizuhara, 39, could face more than 30 years in federal prison under the…

EXCLUSIVE: Several months after entertainment attorney David Albert Pierce passed away last year, the boutique firm that bears his name is closing the doors. Pierce Law Group will cease to exist immediately, with a number of partners and key staff moving on to the Pessah Law Group, I've learned…

UPDATE: Stormy Daniels faced a contentious cross examination today over her claim that she had sex with Donald Trump in 2006 and that, five years later, a stranger threatened her in a Las Vegas parking lot to not talk about the sexual encounter publicly.  Susan Necheles, a lawyer for Trump…

In a surprising moment during a regularly scheduled press briefing about public safety statistics, the Columbia University protests, migrant centers, the proliferation of illegal weed shops and Mayor Eric Adams’ upcoming trip to meet the Pope in Rome, a curveball question pressed Adams on the possible, if…

Hugely popular social media platform TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance sued the U.S. government after a recent law passed by Congress and signed by President Biden just weeks ago that gives the company about nine months to sell TikTok or face a ban in U.S. app stores. TikTok says the new law…

Kevin Spacey will be returning to a UK court early next year to stand trial, with the news coming a day after a Channel 4-Max documentary aired new allegations about the two-time Oscar winner. Spacey will face a civil trial in the UK after being sued by a man who alleges he sexually assaulted him…

The copyright battle over Road House and this year's remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor has turned into a full-on bare-knuckle legal brawl. If R. Lance Hill, who penned the original 1986 script under the moniker David Lee Henry, thought in his February filing that he was going to bop…

UPDATED, 3:04 PM: The judge in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial hasn’t tossed the ex-president behind bars yet for violating a gag order, but the former Celebrity Apprentice host won’t be getting out of the courtroom anytime soon either. On a dry day in front of Judge Juan Merchan, the jury on Monday…

Police in riot gear cleared yet another encampment on the campus of the University of Southern California early Sunday morning. Reports indicate as many as 100 protesters pitched tents and erected banners at Alumni Park, located at the center of the university. Witnesses said officers moved in…

A controversial plan to erect what would have been the tallest buildings in Hollywood has been scrapped. The proposed Hollywood Center would have been located straddling parking lots between the Capitol Records tower and the Pantages Theater, just north of Hollywood Boulevard. The plans for the…