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repeatedly sexually assaulted by men and women at the disgraced music mogul’s party in June 2022 — including an unnamed celebrity who he was forced to perform oral sex on, the court papers state.The famous person — only identified as “Celebrity A” — then spit in the trainer’s mouth, the filing alleges.“While in and out of consciousness, individuals at the party forced Plaintiff into sexual acts with both men and woman. Plaintiff’s physical disposition made it impossible for him to reject their advances or otherwise control his body,” the suit, filed in Manhattan earlier this week, said.

Roman Polanski settled a lawsuit over an alleged sexual assault of a minor more than 50 years ago.The Oscar-winning director no longer faces a 10-day trial in the US after reaching a settlement.“The case settled in the summer to the parties’ mutual satisfaction and has now been formally dismissed,” Polanski’s representative told Fox News Digital.Gloria Allred, who represented the anonymous accuser in the lawsuit, Jane Doe, provided a similar statement to Fox News Digital.“A settlement of claims was agreed to by the parties to their mutual satisfaction,” she said.According to the settled civil suit, Jane Doe allegedly met Polanski at a party in 1973 when she was a minor. She claimed he invited her to dinner knowing she was underage.

Tesla’s new autonomous cybercab.Alcon’s California federal lawsuit alleged violations of US copyright law and accused Tesla of “false endorsement” for suggesting a relationship between Alcon and the Elon Musk-owned electric vehicle maker.“Any prudent brand considering any Tesla partnership has to take Musk’s massively amplified, highly politicized, capricious and arbitrary behavior, which sometimes veers into hate speech, into account,” the lawsuit said.Tesla and Warner Bros. did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Warner Bros was Alcon’s distributor for “Blade Runner 2049”, which won two 2018 Academy Awards and starred Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in the highly anticipated sequel to the 1982 cult classic “Blade Runner.”Alcon said it had refused a request from Warner Bros.

The New York Times.Two of the men have accused Combs of assaulting them at his star-studded White Party. One victim, who was 16 at the time of the alleged assault in 1998, claims Combs told him to drop his pants and proceeded to fondle his genitals.

Stereophonic,” this year’s Tony Award winner for Best Play, and its landlord, the Shubert Organization, are being sued by writers Steven Stiefel and Ken Caillat, the Fleetwood Mac sound engineer/producer, who claim the popular show ripped off their 2012 book, “Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album.”The pissed-off pair filed their lawsuit on Oct. 1 in Manhattan federal court.

Don Lemon’s lawsuit claiming they defrauded him by canceling a partnership on the social media platform following a contentious interview.In a Monday night filing in San Francisco federal court, Musk said he did nothing wrong by allegedly telling Lemon there was “no need” to sign a contract, and that he and X would give Lemon “full authority and control” over his work even if they did not like his views.Musk called it unreasonable for Lemon to rely on a vague statement that a written contract was unnecessary for a multimillion-dollar partnership.The billionaire also blamed the collapse of the partnership in March on Lemon, saying he genuinely believed it would work before Lemon “soured the relationship by conducting an invasive and inappropriate interview of him.”Lemon’s interview addressed content moderation, hate speech and Musk’s drug use, among other subjects.Lawyers for Lemon did not immediately respond on Tuesday to requests for comment.X also sought a dismissal of Lemon’s lawsuit, saying the breakdown of a high-profile business arrangement “may be grounds for upset feelings” but did not entitle him to prevail.Lemon sought a minimum $1.5 million plus a share of advertising revenue in the first year, and potentially millions of dollars more for drawing followers and advertisers to X.Many advertisers concerned about hate speech and misinformation on X fled the platform once known as Twitter following Musk’s $44 billion takeover in 2022.Musk’s other businesses include Tesla and SpaceX.In seeking a dismissal of Lemon’s lawsuit, Musk also said the case did not belong in California, originally in a state court, because he was a Texas resident while Lemon lived in New York.

a think tank tried to get his application released to prove whether or not he mentioned his past drug use.According to BBC, U.S.

according to court documents obtained by TMZ.Diaz said the rapper, whose legal name is Daniel Hernández, forced her to undergo cosmetic surgeries against her will.The 22-year-old Dominican rapper, who professionally goes by Yailin La Más Viral, is seeking $1 million dollars in damages from Hernández and wants the court to block him from sharing more pictures of her.Diaz said she ended the toxic relationship in August after learning about Hernández’s alleged theft and fraud.He retaliated by posting sexually explicit pictures and videos of her on the X app without her consent. The posts have been deleted, but Diaz claims she is still suffering.The “Fefe” singer, 28, denied the allegations, and said he helped Diaz out when she was broke. He was shocked that she would claim that he stole from her.“All that jewelry is mine .

Prime Video series that filmed over the summer.In a redacted version of the lawsuit, the contestants said they are seeking a jury trial to determine monetary damages “likely totaling in the millions of dollars.”The five plaintiffs claimed they were subjected “to unreasonable, unsafe, and unlawful employment conditions.”The complaints listed in the lawsuit include sexual harassment, failure to prevent harassment, negligent infliction of emotional distress, failure to provide uninterrupted meal breaks, failure to provide uninterrupted rest breaks, failure to pay minimum wages, failure to pay overtime, false advertising, unfair business practices and more.The lawsuit specifically claimed that the show — which allegedly has a $100 million budget — misrepresented itself by telling contestants there would be 1,000 participates, only for them to find out “upon arrival” that there were more.This “reduced” the contestants’ chances of winning the purported $5 million grand prize, the suit said.The complaint also alleged that MrBeast (whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson) “did not want to use the alleged unconstrained resources” that he had for the show “to provide fair wages, or even bare-minimum-legal working conditions.”Instead, MrBeast and the defendants allegedly “employed superior bargaining power to coerce the contestants to sign unconscionable contracts with illegal terms and illusory obligations,” per the suit.The defendants were specifically blamed for having “created, permitted to exist, and fostered a culture and pattern and practice of sexual harassment including in the form of a hostile work environment.”The Post has reached out to MrBeast’s rep for comment.Attorneys for the five anonymous people who filed the lawsuit

“Flowers.”The Post obtained the lawsuit, which was filed by Tempo Music Investments in a Los Angeles court Monday. Mars, 38, is not a plaintiff in the lawsuit.

LOS ANGELES — The estate of Michael Crichton, who wrote the screenplay for what became the pilot episode of “ER,” has sued Warner Bros. Television over a dispute about an upcoming medical drama it says is a rebranded version of an unauthorized reboot.After Crichton’s estate, led by his widow, Sherri, could not reach an agreement with the television studio to produce a reboot of the famed medical procedural, the lawsuit alleges Warner Bros.

sued three months ago to break up Live Nation, arguing the concert promoter and Ticketmaster illegally inflated concert ticket prices and hurt artists like Taylor Swift.Some states had sought damages under state law in the original lawsuit. By adding claims under the federal anti-monopoly law, states can seek three times the monetary damages.On Monday, 10 states joined the lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court, and 26 states and the District of Columbia added claims for treble damages on behalf of their residents.New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement that her office is seeking damages for what state residents were overcharged by Live Nation and Ticketmaster.“It’s time for a new era where fans, venues, and artists are not taken advantage of by big corporations that run the world of live events,” she said.Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah and Vermont joined the lawsuit, boosting the total to 39 states and the District of Columbia.The lawsuit says Live Nation directly manages more than 400 musical artists and controls around 60% of concert promotions at major venues.

according to the BBC.Despite previously performing at the festival in 2016 and being warned numerous times about local law ahead of time last year, festival organizer Future Sound Asia alleged The 1975 decided to “act in a way that was intended to breach guidelines” at their July 2023 performance.During that show, Healy paused to explain how the band considered skipping the festival in protest of Malaysia’s anti-gay laws but decided they didn’t want to let down fans.“I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progressive and cool,” the 35-year-old said, swigging from a bottle of wine. “We said, ‘You know what? We can’t let the kids down because they’re not the government.’”“I don’t see the f–king point … of inviting The 1975 to a country and then telling us who we can have sex with,” he said, dropping a few more F-bombs about the Malaysian government.

sued four of her ex-business associates, including Brigitte Kruse, last week. She claimed they stole over $1 million from her and accused them of financial elder abuse.

LA Times.The lawsuit, filed with the LA County Superior Court by the victim’s daughter, Ashley Sanchez, claims the guitarist had “thrown and/or dragged” her father “across the asphalt” upon impact, where “he sustained blunt force trauma to the head, and lay on the pavement until medical transport arrived.”Video of the alleged accident, obtained by TMZ, shows the black SUV making a left turn at the intersection of West Main Street and Meridian Avenue in Alhambra, Cali. — a neighborhood of Los Angeles — and then striking Sanchez.

Beastie Boys are suing the owner of Chili’s for using their song “Sabotage” in social media ads.The hip-hop and rock group filed a complaint in Manhattan federal court accusing Chili’s owner Brinker of copyright infringement and unfair competition from using significant portions of the 1994 track without a license.“Use of the ‘Sabotage’ sound recording, music composition and video was all without permission,” the group’s attorneys wrote in the lawsuit on Wednesday, obtained by the Post. “The plaintiffs do not license ‘Sabotage’ or any of their other intellectual property for third-party product advertising purposes, and deceased Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch included a provision in his will prohibiting such uses.”Yauch’s estate, Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz are all listed as plaintiffs in the suit.

was awarded $180,700 in December after London’s High Court ruled he had been the victim of “modest” phone-hacking and other unlawful information gathering by journalists on British newspapers.But now, more than six months after the ruling, an attorney for the publisher of the British tabloid has accused Harry of engaging in “shocking” and “extraordinary” obfuscation.Attorney Anthony Hudson said at High Court that Harry had deliberately destroyed text messages with the ghostwriter who penned his bombshell memoir, “Spare,” released in Jan. 2023.The Duke’s lawyer has denied the claims, saying News Group Newspapers was engaging in a “classic fishing expedition” by requesting documents so late in the case.“NGN’s tactical and sluggish approach to disclosure wholly undermines the deliberately sensational assertion that the claimant [Harry] has not properly carried out the disclosure exercise,” Harry’s attorney, David Sherborne, said in court papers.

several cases brought by authors, news outlets and others over the alleged misuse of their work to train text-based AI models powering chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Page Six.Pisciotta reportedly claims in the lawsuit filed June 3 that West owes her $3 million in severance, as well as an additional $1 million that he allegedly promised her for deleting her OnlyFans account.Per Page Six, she worked for West in 2021 and 2022 and was paid an annual wage of $1 million “to be at his beck and call 24/7.”The lawsuit also features alleged text messages that West sent to Pisciotta about his sex life. One message reportedly reads: “One time I took Viagra and f**ked [name removed] for three hours.

$4.75 million for a one-of-a-kind album by the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, only to learn that the convicted pharmaceutical executive made copies and is releasing the music to the public.Shkreli paid $2 million in 2015 for “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” and gave it up to partially satisfy a $7.4 million forfeiture order after his 2017 conviction for defrauding hedge fund investors and scheming to defraud investors in a drugmaker.The plaintiff PleasrDAO said Shkreli has, since his May 2022 release from prison, told fans on live streams and social media platform X that he kept and had shared the album, once saying, “I was playing it on YouTube the other night even though somebody paid $4 million for it.”PleasrDAO also said thousands of people tuned in on Sunday to hear the album on a live stream that Shkreli called a “Wu tang official listening party.”Such activity violates the forfeiture order, amounts to misappropriation of trade secrets, and “greatly diminishes and/or destroys the album’s value,” according to the complaint filed Monday night in Brooklyn federal court.PleasrDAO wants Shkreli to destroy his copies, turn over profits from disseminating the music, and pay compensatory and punitive damages.Lawyers who have represented Shkreli in criminal and civil matters declined to comment or did not immediately respond to requests for comment.The plaintiff is displaying “Shaolin” this month at the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania.Shkreli, 41, became notorious and gained the nickname “Pharma Bro” when, as chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals in 2015, he raised the price of the life-saving antiparasitic drug Daraprim overnight to $750 per tablet from $17.50.He was released early from his seven-year prison

Former British pop singer Gary Glitter was on Tuesday ordered to pay a woman he sexually abused as a child more than $637,000 in damages.The 80-year-old, whose real name is Paul Gadd, shot to fame in the 1970s as a “glam-rock” star before he was later repeatedly convicted and jailed for child sex crimes.Gadd was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2015 after being found guilty of indecently assaulting three girls in the 1970s.One of those three victims, who said she was 12 when Gadd raped and sexually assaulted her, sued the singer at London’s High Court for damages caused by the abuse.Judge Amanda Tipples on Tuesday awarded the woman $647,730 in damages after a hearing in March at which Gadd was not present or represented by lawyers.The damages awarded to the woman, who is now 60 years old and cannot be named as a victim of sexual abuse, included $485,400 for loss of earnings.Gadd could not be reached for comment. Earlier this year, he lost a bid to be released from prison on parole.Gadd was first jailed in 1999 for possession of child pornography and later moved to Cambodia, but was deported in 2002 due to suspected sex offenses.In 2006, a Vietnamese court convicted him of committing obscene acts with two girls aged 10 and 11 and sentenced him to four years in jail.