kidnappings: Last News

“Believe” the allegation that she once hired men to kidnap her troubled son, Elijah Blue Allman. “I didn’t do it, and if I did it, I wouldn’t say I did it,” Cher, 77, bluntly told The Post on Friday during a lengthy interview.The icon’s matter-of-fact response stems from a report that surfaced last month claiming the “Strong Enough” singer hired four men to kidnap Allman, 47, from a New York City hotel room in an apparent intervention in November 2022.Allman’s estranged wife, Marieangela King, included the accusations in divorce papers filed last December. Allman allegedly struggled with substance abuse, and while Cher didn’t divulge any further information on the alleged incident to The Post, she shifted the conversation to the never-ending worrying that comes with motherhood.

“Survivor” allegedly dated Sherri Papini, the California woman who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for faking her kidnapping in Sept. 2022.Shauhin Davari was announced as one of the 18 people competing on “Survivor 48,” premiering Feb. 26, by CBS on Wednesday.Davari is a 38-year-old debate professor who lives in Costa Mesa, Calif.

Variety in a new interview that he was kidnapped while filming the BBC miniseries “To The Ends of the Earth” in South Africa in 2004.According to the article, the “Doctor Strange” star, 48, was driving home from a diving excursion with some friends when their tire blew out. The group pulled over to the side of the road, and they were robbed and abducted by six men.The thieves drove Cumberbatch and his pals around for hours, before they let them out, tied them up and made them sit execution-style. The thieves decided to spare Cumberbatch and his friends and fled the scene.“It gave me a sense of time, but not necessarily a good one,” Cumberbatch said about how the incident changed him.“It made me impatient to live a life less ordinary, and I’m still dealing with that impatience,” he shared.“The near-death stuff turbo-fueled all that,” Cumberbatch said.

Sean “Diddy” Combs once bragged about torching an alleged victim’s convertible with a Molotov cocktail just weeks after a gunpoint kidnapping, Manhattan federal prosecutors said Tuesday — as they sought to detain the rapper on sex trafficking and racketeering charges pending a trial.The embattled hip-hop mogul and one of his cronies had allegedly kidnapped a victim at gunpoint in December 2011 as they tried to break into the home of another individual, according to prosecutors. Two weeks later, Combs’ crew then set fire to the victim’s car by slicing open the convertible’s roof and dropping the Molotov cocktail inside, the court papers say.Cops and fire officials reported, at the time, that the fire was intentionally set.The fiery allegations were among those laid bare in a detention memo unsealed alongside the sex-trafficking indictment that accuses Combs of abusing women for more than a decade.He faces a mandatory minimum 15-year prison sentence and up to life behind bars if convicted of the three felony counts of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.Prosecutors, who argue that the stiff potential sentence could give Combs incentive to flee, are asking the judge to keep him locked up.

plotting to kidnap, rape and murder Holly Willoughby, one of Britain’s most high-profile television personalities.At the sentencing hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court, around 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of London, Judge Edward Murray told Gavin Plumb, 37, that he would have to serve a minimum term of 16 years before he can be eligible for parole.Plumb was found guilty by a jury last week following an eight-day trial.“Over a number of years, you pursued an unhealthy sexual obsession with Holly Willoughby that led you ultimately to plan over that period to kidnap, to rape and to murder her,” the judge said.

control the life of Allman, 47, would seriously “jeopardize” his ongoing recovery. “[Cher] is not capable of managing her own affairs — let alone those of Elijah,” King, 36, stated in the document.

of being a real life “Gone Girl.” Their story is the subject of the Netflix docuseries “American Nightmare,” now streaming, and created by “The Tinder Swindler” filmmakers Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins.“Not only is this a really twisty-turny crime thriller, but it’s also important for us that there’s a wider reason to be telling a story,” Higgins told The Post. “There are so many things that run through this: systemic and institutional misogyny, armchair detective work, media not checking sources and not being able to rely on law enforcement.

kidnap-for-ransom case. In March 2015, armed intruders wearing scuba suits allegedly invaded the home of California physical therapist Aaron Quinn, where they terrorized him and his girlfriend, Denise Huskins. The scuba burglars told the couple that this incident was part of an organized group that collected financial debt.

allegedly plotting to abduct and murder her.Willoughby, who co-hosted ITV’s “This Morning” for 14 years, announced Tuesday she would not return to the program following a “difficult decision” in the best interest of her husband and three children. “To everyone who has ever worked on the show over the years, thank you so so much,” Willoughby said in a statement. “This is such a difficult goodbye, you are incredible and I forever will be proud of what we’ve done together.

according to a St. Louis police report. Marta, 51, was the landlord to a woman and child who were involved in a custody dispute with the woman’s aunt.

Abducted in Plain Sight,” told the story of their victimization by Berchtold, a charismatic sociopath who — despite pleading guilty to kidnapping Jan and eventually being convicted for the rape of another child — never spent more than a year in prison.The Brobergs’ story is now explored in a new book, “The Jan Broberg Story: The True Crime Story of a Young Girl Abducted and Brainwashed by a Friend of the Family,” co-written by Jan and her mother MaryAnn Broberg, and in the new TV drama “A Friend of the Family” on Peacock. Starring Mckenna Grace as Jan and Jake Lacy as her neighbor, it tells the bizarre story of the Brobergs’ torment at the hands of Berchtold, who ultimately killed himself in 2005.According to Jan, now 60, the Brobergs were unprepared for the attacks that came their way after the 2019 Netflix documentary went viral.

via Daily Mail). “[They pulled up beside us] with the big guns and they were like, ‘Yeah, you’ve got to get off your truck.'”The “Pitch Perfect” star, who didn’t specify when the incident occurred, said her group obeyed orders and were taken to a “house in the middle of nowhere.” Despite her fear, Wilson said she was able to reman calm.