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Ellise Shafer Netflix has emerged victorious in the bidding war for Lena Dunham‘s new rom-com “Good Sex,” starring Natalie Portman. The film was revealed to buyers at last month’s European Film Market by CAA Media Finance and FilmNation, and Netflix is now closing a worldwide deal around the $55 million mark — one of the largest to ever emerge from EFM.

Making the Band contestant Sara Rivers has filed a $60 million lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs, alleging the disgraced rap mogul sexually harassed her and stroked her breasts during filming of the reality show.In a complaint filed on Friday (February 28), R&B singer Rivers claimed that after she refused Combs’ alleged sexual advances, he blackballed her from the music industry.She joined more than a dozen other plaintiffs who filed separate claims against the rapper yesterday, ahead of the two-year lookback window closing for good on otherwise expired claims under the New York City statute known as the Gender Motivated Violence Act.Per Rolling Stone, Da Band singer Rivers, who went by Sara Stokes on the show, alleged Combs controlled her sleep, belittled her eating disorder, yelled at her and forced her to do manual labour, including an incident where he allegedly forced Rivers and her bandmates to walk from Manhattan to Brooklyn – a distance of roughly eight miles on foot – and back to bring him cheesecake.Aside from the “inhumane” working conditions the suit mentioned, Rivers also alleged she was sexually harassed by Combs, citing a humiliating moment where the music exec was said to have inspected her backside and told her “everything needed to get firmed up.”Another alleged encounter the suit named as battery sees Rivers claim that Diddy had cornered her in his recording studio, blocked her with his right arm and asked if she needed anything “in a low, sensual voice”. She goes on to allege Combs “ran his left hand across her breasts while repeating the phrase if she needs anything to let him know”.

EXCLUSIVE: We understand Netflix has beaten out multiple suitors and is closing up a worldwide deal for Natalie Portman rom-com Good Sex in a pact around the $55M mark.

Diddy” Combs’ has been accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a female contestant on the first season of his former VH1 reality show I Want To Work For Diddy.Kendra Haffoney filed a lawsuit yesterday (February 27) in Manhattan, over the claims which date back to 2007 after she was selected as a finalist on the show.Haffoney alleged that her interactions with Combs were sporadic at first but became more consistent as filming progressed, claiming that one night, Combs invited her to an afterparty where she was offered a drink and ushered to his side, according to Rolling Stone. She claimed the drink must have been drugged because she started to feel “delirious.”The lawsuit goes on to say Combs allegedly “guided [Haffoney’s] head down to have her perform oral sex on him.” Haffoney claims the effects of whatever she ingested, along with the power dynamics of the situation, left her feeling powerless to resist.“Plaintiff wanted to leave, but as the oral sex with Diddy continued, she felt her body getting weak and she ultimately passed out,” the lawsuit added.Haffoney alleged that she eventually woke up back in the I Want to Work for Diddy cast house with Combs sitting on the foot of the bed.The lawsuit continued: “She knew that she had been drugged with something, she felt weak, and her vaginal area felt sore.

Actress Michelle Trachtenberg’s death was ruled “undetermined” Thursday morning after her family objected to an autopsy, according to a spokeswoman for the city medical examiner’s office and sources.The office said it’s obligated to honor the family’s request due to the state’s public health law, the sources said. This confined the medical examiner to conducting an external examination, which limits what can be determined.Trachtenberg, 39, was found by her mother around 8 a.m.

according to TMZ — before finding her unconscious and unresponsive around 8 a.m. Wednesday at her luxury apartment in Manhattan’s Central Park South neighborhood, as first reported by The Post.Despite health concerns after a liver transplant within the last year, the actress had maintained an active life, and went out with her friends to Sartiano’s Italian restaurant in Soho last Thursday, TMZ reported.Michelle’s body may have rejected the vital organ after the transplant, according to sources, who said she died of natural causes.

the “Gossip Girl” actress’s sudden death.Jay Cohen, a Hollywood talent agent, was at the Los Angeles home he shared with Trachtenberg on Wednesday when he answered the door and responded to a reporter’s question for comment.“The family will not be commenting on the tragedy,” an allegedly teary-eyed Cohen told the Daily Mail. The Post broke the news of Trachtenberg’s death on Wednesday. The “Buffy the Vampire Star” alum was 39.Her mother found her around 8 a.m.

he death of her “Harriet the Spy” co-star Michelle Trachtenberg.The “A League of Their Own” star, 62, called Trachtenberg’s sudden passing “heartbreaking.”“I loved her very much,” O’Donnell said in a statement to Us Weekly. “She struggled the last few years.” The actress added, “I wish I could have helped.”O’Donnell starred alongside a 10-year-old Trachtenberg in the budding star’s first movie, the 1996 film adaptation of the children’s novel “Harriet the Spy.”The Post broke the news of Trachtenberg’s death on Wednesday.

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” — a tight bond that lasted until Trachtenberg’s tragic death at age 39.Trachtenberg was found dead in NYC on Feb. 26, 2025, The Post exclusively confirmed.Police sources told The Post that the late actress was found by her mother at around 8 a.m.

the actress’s sudden death at just 39. The Post broke the news that Trachtenberg, known for her roles on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Gossip Girl,” was found by her mother around 8 a.m. Wednesday at her luxury apartment complex in Manhattan’s Central Park South neighborhood.The actress recently underwent a liver transplant and died of natural causes, sources told The Post.Ed Westwick, James Marsters, David Boreanz and Rosie O’Donnell were among the celebrities paying tribute to Trachtenberg on Wednesday, with heartfelt messages.See their reactions below.

CBS Sports, however, this is changing. Yankees players stated they were growing tired of hearing the track after losses, which was originally from the Martin Scorsese musical film New York, New York but was covered by Sinatra two years later.Following a 4-0 spring training loss to the Detroit Tigers at George M.

lawyers are pushing to have some evidence obtained during raids on his homes in Los Angeles and Miami suppressed, accusing the feds of lying to obtain the search warrants, new court filings show.The 55-year-old disgraced music mogul’s defense team alleges authorities made “false statements and omitted critical exculpatory evidence” when it sought the warrants to search Combs’ homes, as well as his iCloud and phones, amid its notorious sex-trafficking probe, according to a motion filed in Manhattan federal court on Sunday.When seeking the warrants, the feds left out evidence that suggested one alleged victim’s involvement in the so-called sex-fueled “Freak-Off” parties was “voluntary and consensual” — and “not coerced as the government suggested in its applications,” the motion claims. “The probable cause statements were intentionally misleading,” his attorneys wrote.

Madonna is calling out Donald Trump once again after the current President of the United States called himself a king.

Luigi Mangione has returned to court and this time he’s wearing a bulletproof vest for his protection.

Madonna has reacted angrily to Donald Trump posting an image of himself under the banner ‘Long Live The King’.On Wednesday (February 19), the official White House account on X posted a mocked-up Time Magazine cover with the title switched to ‘Trump’, its image depicting the US president wearing a crown as he stands in front of the New York City skyline.Madonna was one of the people to respond to the post, taking to her Instagram Stories on Thursday (February 20) to point out the irony of Trump referring to himself as a monarch, despite the nature of the foundation of the United States."CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED.

one of her problems.It was a friendship. Or, better put, what she had thought of for nearly a decade as a friendship.“I realized I was involved in a very abusive, manipulative relationship with Andy Cohen,” she tells The Post.At one time, Glanville had been one of the standout stars of Cohen’s “Real Housewives” reality franchise on Bravo, on the cusp of making $500,000 for a season with adoring viewers hooked on her trademark “truth bombs.”Today, she’s a couple of months from not being able to pay rent, blighted by a perplexing, disfiguring illness, all but unemployable, desperate and panicking.The path to her ruin led also to her epiphany about Cohen.Their strange bond dissolved in an even stranger confluence: they were both accused of sexual misconduct at almost exactly the same time.They both denied wrongdoing.But Bravo soon announced that an investigation had found the claims against Cohen to be unsubstantiated, and that he would continue to work there.Meanwhile, Glanville hasn’t worked since, for Bravo or anyone else.Their different fates, Glanville says, revealed everything she needed to know to finally understand the truth about their relationship.Sitting in a makeup chair about two years earlier, she felt a flush of joy.Glanville, a former star of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” was in a studio in Manhattan in June of 2022.

Mindy Kaling is getting another TV show up and running!

died from “acute intoxication” stemming from a mix of fentanyl, cocaine, ethanol, and other drugs, according to the city medical examiner’s office.Ramirez’s body was left in the back of a taxi in April 2022, while Umberger died in a townhouse a month later, while his attackers took photos and videos of them partying next to his lifeless body.At trial, prosecutors presented text messages showing that DeMaio was responsible for obtaining the fentanyl used to incapacitate the victims. Prosecutors also presented the jury with cell phone tower data, text exchanges, security video footage, and other evidence to track the defendants’ movements as they carried out their robberies and went on shopping binges with victims’ money.The jury also heard accounts from other men who had survived similar drugging encounters.One man described waking up bruised and alone in a hotel room with his credit card and phones missing.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Mindy Kaling is returning to Hulu, with the streamer greenlighting Kaling’s new comedy series “Not Suitable for Work.” The show was first reported to be in the works at Hulu in April 2024 under the working title “Murray Hill.” It landed at Hulu in a competitive situation with a script-to-series commitment. Per the official logline, the show “centers around five work-obsessed twenty-somethings striving for professional success and, if they have time, personal happiness in Manhattan’s most glamorous neighborhood, Murray Hill.” Kaling is the creator of the series and executive produces under her Kaling International banner.

EXCLUSIVE: Buyers at the EFM have been on the hunt for Good Sex. The package has sparked a bidding war with Warner Bros, Amazon and Netflix among those understood to be in the mix for the hot project which is garnering WW offers around the $45M mark. This could well go up.

Luigi Mangione is speaking out to the public for the first time!