Year: 2021
Closing arguments in Ghislaine Maxwell’s high-profile sex-trafficking trial are set to be heard Monday in Manhattan federal court. The former British socialite, 59, has denied allegations she groomed and trafficked several girls for pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to abuse between 1994 and 2004. She returned to court Saturday for a rare weekend hearing where attorneys made arguments about how […]
(HuffPost) – Trevor Noah says a New York City hospital and doctor botched an operation last year, causing “permanent” and “severe” injuries that have left him disabled. In a lawsuit obtained by People on Sunday, “The Daily Show” host accused Dr. Riley J. Williams III and the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan of being “negligent and careless […]
(BBC)- US rapper Drakeo the Ruler has died after being stabbed at a music festival in Los Angeles. The 28-year-old, whose real name was Darrell Caldwell, had been scheduled to perform at the Once Upon a Time in LA festival on Saturday night. His publicist confirmed his death to several US media outlets on Sunday […]
(CNBC) – Disney and Marvel’s “Eternals” took a steep drop in its second weekend in theaters, but it’s still hanging on to first place ahead of newcomers like “Clifford the Big Red Dog.” “Eternals” added $27.5 million over the weekend, bringing its domestic total to $118.8 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The film, directed by […]
(Revolt) – Verzuz is on a roll. The head-to-head live music platform announced a battle between Three 6 Mafia and Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony on Friday (Nov. 11) and on Saturday (Nov. 12) Verzuz returned with a soulful matchup featuring two R&B legends. Verzuz tweeted that Chaka Khan and Stephanie Mills will headline “A night for the Queens,” live from […]
(Yahoo News) – Dakota Johnson has a star-studded family, born to actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. Fewer people realize her grandmother is Hollywood royalty Tippi Hedren, known best for her starring turn in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. During a live taping of The Hollywood Reporter‘s “Awards Chatter” podcast, Johnson explained why she thinks that Hedren wasn’t […]
(Hollywood Reporter) – Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Summer of Soul won all six categories in which it was nominated at the 2021 Critics Choice Documentary Awards, which were handed out Sunday in Brooklyn. The film, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, features footage, largely forgotten and unseen for 50 years, of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, featuring […]
(CBS) – A 9-year-old who was injured at the Astroworld Festival has died, attorneys representing the boy’s family confirmed to CBS News. Ezra Blount was trampled during the deadly crowd surge, according to a lawsuit filed by his family. “The Blount family tonight is grieving the ultimate, incomprehensible loss of their precious young son,” the […]
(Billboard) – Ed Sheeran scores his fourth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart as his latest studio album, =, bows atop the list (dated Nov. 13). The set, which was released on Oct. 29, earned 118,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 4, according to MRC Data. Over half of that sum was […]
(Variety) – Marvel Cinematic Universe fans are soon going to be able to see even more of the Avengers assembling on Disney Plus. Starting this Friday (Nov. 12), Disney Plus subscribers will be able to stream 13 Marvel movies in Imax’s Expanded Aspect Ratio — which offers up to 26% more screen picture compared with conventional widescreen […]
