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late actor lying on a couch with his hands superglued to his legs so he wouldn’t consume drugs. “I was at Matthew’s place in the Hollywood Hills,” Edwards, 47, told The Sun on Saturday.

drug-induced robbery scheme that is alleged to have led to the deaths of two gay men in New York City last year has pleaded guilty to robbery, grand larceny, and identity theft charges, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.Eddie Ashley, 30, is alleged to have been part of a scheme that targeted at least 16 nightclub patrons from September 2021 to August 2022, resulting in the overdose-related deaths of 25-year-old social worker Julio Ramirez and 34-year-old John Umberger, a political consultant from Washington, D.C. Both Ramirez and Umberger were seen leaving gay bars with a group of other men, only to be found dead hours later.Part of the scheme involved the suspects drugging their victims with a substance that made them compliant and then using their incapacitated bodies and facial recognition technology to unlock their cell phones and access bank accounts to rob them.Ashley, who faced charges related to four separate incidents, including the drugging scheme, had previously pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.On Monday, he changed his plea to guilty.Terrence Grifferty, Ashley’s attorney, confirmed his client’s guilty plea, telling NBC News that Ashley is expected to be sentenced to nine years in state prison on November 20.He is currently being held at Rikers Island jail, but declined to comment further on the case or answer whether his client had accepted a plea deal.Umberger’s mother, Linda Clary — who has been critical of how the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has handled the case — said she was grateful that Ashley was willing to admit his guilt in the robbery scheme, adding that he should face consequences for his actions.

Fab Morvan recalls one of the last times he saw his “Girl You Know It’s True” partner Rob Pilatus before his death from an accidental overdose in 1998.It was outside the Viper Room rock club in Hollywood, California, where the fallen pop star — disgraced after the lip-syncing scandal that forced the duo to return the Best New Artist Grammy it won in 1990 — was now far from the green-eyed heartthrob he once was when they were MTV sensations.“I see a dude stumbling across the way,” says Morvan, 57, in the doc. “As he was falling, his body turned, and I looked into his eyes, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is not true.’ I’m looking at Rob Pilatus.”Then Morvan took Pilatus home — to what appeared to be a crack house.Nine years after Milli Vanilli had a string of chart-topping hits in 1989 — “Girl You Know It’s True” was followed by consecutive No.

“60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday, Alecia Moore Hart, aka Pink, 44, revealed that before she was a global superstar known for singing up-side down and performing aerial stunts to sold-out stadiums, she nearly died from a drug overdose, just weeks before signing a record deal. The Grammy winning singer, who has two kids — son Jameson, 6, and daughter Willow, 12, with her motocross star husband Carey Hart, 48 — described the incident.She revealed that during Thanksgiving of 1995, she went to a rave where she took “ecstasy, angel dust, crystal. All kinds of things…Then I was out.

residing in a homeless housing facility in LA.Franz, 78, praised Majors for being a “joy to work with” in a testament penned to the fallen actor’s website. “He never has lost his enthusiasm to be on the set. He just loves coming to work,” wrote Franz.

had a near-fatal overdose and landed in a coma. Now she’s breaking her silence on what happened — and her ongoing issues with her famous dad. It started in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, when she lived on a high floor of an apartment building in Century City, California, she explained.

died of an accidental fentanyl overdose in January at the age of 54, TMZ reported Friday.The “Eight Is Enough” star also had non-toxic levels of alcohol and the generic version of Ativan, called lorazepam, in his system, according to an autopsy report the outlet obtained from the LA County Medical Examiner-Coroner.The Post has contacted reps for Rich and the medical examiner for comment. Rich was found dead in his LA home on Jan.

his mother doubled down on claims her son may have been murdered.“Many factors discussed with the police and coroner do not add up to [a] simple overdose,” the child star’s fiancée told The Sun. “I want to know what really happened so I can focus on raising our son Prince without constantly losing sleep on what happened to his father every night.” Carter was found dead in the bathtub of his California home on Nov.

Scenes from My Life,” the posthumous memoir from the star — who died of an overdose of fentanyl, cocaine and heroin on Sept. 6, 2021 — delves into the addiction which ultimately took his life at the age of 54.During the second season of “The Wire,” which aired on HBO from 2002 to 2008, Williams was abusing drugs on days he wasn’t shooting the show in Baltimore.“I rolled like that pretty much all year, until I was completely broke,” he wrote. “When Season 2 wrapped, I felt the thud of coming back down to Earth.

told TMZ Wednesday of the 54-year-old star of “The Wire,” who was found dead in his Brooklyn penthouse on Monday.

drug overdose and heart attack last week.“We ask that you please keep Earl/DMX and us in your thoughts, wishes, and prayers as well as respect our privacy as we face these challenges,” the family of the rapper (born Earl Simmons), wrote in a statement to People.Bikers sporting gear from his “Ruff Ryders” collective have gathered around White Plains Hospital in Westchester where the 50-year-old “X Gon’ Give It to Ya” rapper remains on life support and plan to hold a prayer vigil on Monday.DMX is currently in a “vegetative state,” his manager, Nakia Walker, told The New York Times on Sunday.

16-year-old son’s tragic overdose on Sunday.“He asked his dad for a cheeseburger,” The relationship therapist told NBC News’ Kate Snow, recalling her sons final moments before his death. “An hour later, I went into his room because we’d been talking about an internship for the summer that he wanted to do, and he was on the floor, gone.”According to Berman, Samuel died from a fentanyl-laced Xanax he had purchased on Snapchat.