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(Updated with Range statement) Range Media Partners’ founders got caught with their sticky fingers in the CAA trade-secrets cookie jar, the Bryan Lourd-run uberagency claims in an amended complaint to its October 2024 lawsuit. Or put another another way: In the truest of Hollywood litigation…

After several possible delays, the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs began this week. Mid-April, the defense asked Judge Arun Subramanian to push back the May 12 start date by two weeks. That request did not hold up, evidently. Two days later, it was requested the start date be moved back 60 days, or…

Sony's It Ends With Us adapted Colleen Hoover's powerful story about domestic violence and a resilient woman, but drama between stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni behind the scenes and afterwards has lingered beyond the film's release in theaters. Arriving to the big screen last August and later…

UPDATED with Newsom comment: The streets of Los Angeles are calmer today after a weekend of ICE raids, protests, police actions and Donald Trump’s federalization of the California National Guard over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom. However, as Newsom sues Trump over his “illegal order,”…

(Updated with Blake Lively & New York Times’ statements) Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ team are claiming “total victory” Monday after a federal judge tossed out Justin Baldoni’s $400 million defamation and extortion suit over what went on during the making of It Ends With Us and the subsequent…

UPDATTED with new Trump comment: Reeling from widespread harsh ICE raids and responding protests and resistance over the past 24 hours, Los Angeles has become a powder keg with Donald Trump deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops over the objection of Governor Gavin Newsom and other SoCal…

For the second time in just over a week, Sean “Diddy” Combs wants the judge in his sex-trafficking case to declare a mistrial and kick the whole sordid matter to the curb. Citing “prosecutorial misconduct,” defense attorney Alexandra Shapiro wrote to Judge Arun Subramanian today to insist this…

Drugs were a big part of Sean "Diddy" Combs' life and so-called "freak-offs," the jury in the Bad Boy Records founder's sex-trafficking trial have repeatedly heard, and this morning the court learned how he used the people in his inner circle to get Ecstasy and more in his hands. They also heard how…

Sean “Diddy” Combs might be barred from his own trial, the judge said Thursday in a bombshell moment. With the jury absent, Judge Arun Subramanian warned defense attorneys in a sidebar that he might exclude the defendant from the Lower Manhattan courtroom if he continued to look, nod or make…

Despite the best legal efforts of the Walt Disney Company, looks like Justin Connolly is going to be working at YouTube. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge this morning pulled the plug on the Bob Iger-run Mouse House's efforts to hit the pause button on the so-called poaching of the recently…

UPDATE: A lot of time has passed since Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering’s documentary expose of Russell Simmons and allegations of sexual assault by the famed music executive aired on HBO Max, over five years. Today, with court filings certain to follow, it didn’t take Warner Bros Discovery that long…

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Proctor, a British producer involved in making the Brian Epstein biopic Midas Man, has pleaded not guilty to stalking an actress. The 46-year-old appeared at Wigan & Leigh Magistrates’ Court in the north of England last Friday, where he faced a charge of "stalking involving…