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Following a retrial for his “propaganda activity against the regime,” Tehran Revolutionary Court has upheld Jafar Panahi’s one-year prison sentence. On Sunday, the It Was Just An Accident writer/director’s attorney Mostafa Nili announced that Judge Iman Afshari rejected their objections and…

The former business partner of the incarcerated "midwestern, millennial Madoff” who ripped off investors and pals to the tune of $650 million with promises of lucrative licensing rights to HBO and Netflix flicks is plenty peeved at Amazon Studios, Vice Studios and director Rebecca Chaikin. “As…

Shia LaBeouf has pleaded guilty to three counts of simple battery after an incident earlier this year in New Orleans. The Even Stevens actor was arrested in February of this year for hitting people and using anti-gay slurs during Mardi Gras. According to Nola, LaBeouf was handed a six-month…

Actor Nick Pasqual, who appeared on How I Met Your Mother and Archive 81 and later produced on the comedy series National Day Riff, was sentenced today to 32 years to life in prison for the 2024 stabbing of Hollywood makeup artist and ex-girlfriend Allie Shehorn. Shehorn, who was reportedly stabbed…

Like Harvey Weinstein before him, Sean “Diddy” Combs could face bicoastal justice over sex crimes allegations. “In the fall of 2025, LAPD and LASD each presented a separate sexual assault investigation for one victim to the L.A. County District Attorney's Office,” a spokesperson for Nathan…

With a blistering lawsuit filed Monday, the state of Florida may succeed where Elon Musk failed in bringing OpenAI and Sam Altman to heel. "Today, we announced the first-in-the-nation state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman," Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said this…

Whatever else you want to say about Leah McSweeney, it can’t be denied that the Real Housewives of New York alum is persistent when it comes to her lawsuit against reality kingpin Andy Cohen, Bravo and its parent company NBCUniversal, and Warner Bros. Discovery. Hoping to fight off a dismissal…

UPDATED, 12:02 PM: A federal judge ruled Friday that the board of the Kennedy Center cannot rename the arts center for Donald Trump, while he blocked plans to close the complex for two years for renovations. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper wrote on Friday that only Congress could change…

EXCLUSIVE: The courthouse or the boardroom could be the next venue for Sharyn Alfonsi and CBS News now that the seasoned journalist has been pink-slipped not just from 60 Minutes but the Bari Weiss-led division too. One day after going public with the end of her decade-long role at the acclaimed…

CNN is the latest to sue Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging the AI firm "has unlawfully copied over 10,000 CNN stories, videos, images, and other works to power its products and tools." The suit said the two sides tried but failed to reach an agreement in 2025 and Perplexity…

Keanu Reeves admits he does “not know the details” of Carl Rinsch’s case and the millions of dollars the filmmaker has been found guilty of scamming from Netflix, but the John Wick star wants a federal judge to cut his 47 Ronin director some slack. “Based upon what I do know about Carl, I did…

Matthew Perry’s live-in personal assistant was sentenced today to almost three and a half years behind bars for injecting the Friends star with the three ketamine doses that killed him on October 28, 2023. Also hit with a $10,000 fine Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett, Ken…