NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) – Bill Cosby’s lawyers and a state-appointed psychologist argued in court on Monday over whether the disgraced comedian should be deemed a “sexually violent predator” under Pennsylvania law as a two-day sentencing hearing began for Cosby’s sexual assault conviction. Cosby, who was found guilty in April, is […]
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NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) – Bill Cosby’s downfall from “America’s Dad” to convicted felon will reach its final chapter in a Pennsylvania courtroom on Monday, when a judge will begin deciding whether to sentence the 81-year-old comedian to prison for sexual assault. Cosby, who was found guilty in April, is the […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who has claimed she had a sexual encounter with U.S. President Donald Trump a decade ago, said on Wednesday that she has written a no holds barred memoir about her running legal battles with Trump and her life as a stripper. […]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Four Golden Globe awards won by Robin Williams are going up for auction next month, along with the late actor’s collection of movie props, watches, toys and art. A prop dagger that the comedian used on the set of his 1991 movie “Hook,” and battery-powered t-shirt […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Actors Emma Stone and Jonah Hill join the list of Hollywood stars turning to television with Netflix’s “Maniac”, a dark comedy mini-series looking at human connection. Oscar winner Stone and “The Wolf on Wolf Street” star Hill play Annie and Owen, two strangers with personal problems who […]
(Reuters) – When a grainy video of standup comedian Hannibal Buress making a joke about Bill Cosby’s rape allegations on an October night in 2014 went viral, the rallying cry of #MeToo was years away. The men the movement would lay low were still at the height of their powers. […]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Fantasy or realism? That’s the question at the Emmy Awards this year as voters choose whether to reward television dramas and comedies that provide comfort and escapism, or bleaker fare that echoes troubled times. FILE PHOTO: The Iron Throne is seen on the set of the […]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “The Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson has spoken with actor Ashley Judd’s legal team and could furnish “powerful” testimony supporting her defamation and sexual harassment suit against film producer Harvey Weinstein, her attorney said on Tuesday. Judd’s civil suit, filed in April, accused Weinstein […]
PARIS (Reuters) – A French court on Wednesday threw out an appeal by celebrity magazine Closer against a 2017 ruling that it invaded the privacy of Prince William’s wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, when it published topless photos of her in 2012. Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, leaves the […]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A lawsuit by actress Ashley Judd in which she accused Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of defaming her in 1998 after she refused what she said were sexual advances from him can proceed in federal court in Los Angeles, a judge ruled on Wednesday. FILE PHOTO: Actress […]
(Reuters) – Actor Tom Selleck, star of such TV crime dramas as “Magnum, P.I.” and “Blue Bloods” and an ardent gun collector, has resigned from the National Rifle Association’s board of directors. FILE PHOTO: Actor Tom Selleck poses as after arriving for the taping of “The Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary […]
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Bono, frontman for Irish rock band U2, met Pope Francis on Wednesday and said afterwards he is an extraordinary man who is sincere in his pain over a sexual abuse crisis in Ireland. Bono and the pope spoke for more than 30 minutes at a meeting […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania judge on Thursday denied a request by prosecutors to allow additional women who have accused comedian Bill Cosby of sexual misconduct to tell their stories at his sentencing hearing on a sexual assault conviction. FILE PHOTO: Actor and comedian Bill Cosby arrives for deliberations […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Meghan Markle, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, was joined by her mother and husband Prince Harry on Thursday for the launch of a charity recipe book to help a community cooking project set up in the wake of London’s Grenfell Tower fire disaster. The duchess’s mother Doria Ragland […]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight pleaded no contest in a Los Angeles court on Thursday to a charge of manslaughter for a 2015 hit-and-run killing, accepting a 28-year prison sentence under a deal with prosecutors days before his murder trial was to begin. Marion “Suge” Knight […]