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“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.

her complaint reads, adding, “Defendants told these lies, and never stopped, because it was a better story than the truth, and better stories made money.”Series creator and star Richard Gadd isn’t named in the suit. Harvey is alleging defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence and violations of her right of publicity.Based on events from creator-star Richard Gadd’s life, “Baby Reindeer” (now streaming, with nearly 60 million viewers tuning in for its first month) is a thriller following Donny (Gadd), a struggling comedian who meets Martha (Jessica Gunning) while he’s working as a bartender. When he shows her a moment of kindness, that backfires.

library porn law,” signed by Republican Gov. Brad Little earlier this year.Under the harsh new law, Idaho libraries can be sued if they do not prevent minors from accessing “obscene” or sexually explicit material.If a complaint is filed regarding a book, libraries must relocate it to the adult section.

concert ticket prices and hurt artists.“It is time to break up Live Nation,” said US Attorney General Merrick Garland.Concert fans and politicians for years have been calling for a re-examination of Live Nation’s purchase of Ticketmaster in 2010, especially after the ticket seller in 2022 botched sales to Taylor Swift’s first concert tour in years, sending fans into hours-long online queues, charging prices that customers said were too high and drawing charges of poor service.Thursday’s legal action underscores the aggressive approach President Biden’s antitrust enforcers have adopted as they seek to create more competition in a wide range of industries, from Big Tech to healthcare to groceries.“Live Nation relies on unlawful, anticompetitive conduct to exercise its monopolistic control over the live events industry in the United States at the cost of fans, artists, smaller promoters, and venue operators,” Garland said, adding that as a result fans pay more in fees, artists have fewer opportunities to perform and smaller promoters get squeezed out.Shares of Live Nation were trading down 5%.Live Nation called the suit a possible “PR win for the DOJ in the short term,” but said the entertainment company would prevail in court. The lawsuit “won’t solve the issues fans care about relating to ticket prices, service fees, and access to in-demand shows.”“There is more competition than ever in the live events market,” it added.The suit says Live Nation directly manages more than 400 musical artists and controls around 60% of concert promotions at major venues.

estranged wife Friday to remove an Instagram post from her account, claiming the post has severely damaged his reputation, according to a report. Brown, 45, alleges that a post on 33-year-old model Kelly Yazdi’s Instagram account violated a confidentiality agreement she had signed with him, court documents obtained by TMZ showed.The “Chicken Fried” singer is hoping a judge will prevent Yazdi from making false, harmful, or defamatory remarksThe “Colder Weather” artist is seeking emergency injunctive relief in the shape of a temporary restraining order that will force her to remove the post.The court has yet to make a ruling on the matter, the outlet added.In one of her posts on Instagram, before the lawsuit was filed, Yazdi was captured walking into a pool with a lengthy caption discussing an abusive relationship.“Projections.

The Associated Press in an interview ahead of the announcement.The name change will officially take effect on February 8, 2025, to coincide with the organization’s 115th anniversary.For years, Boy Scouts only admitted boys ages 11 to 17. It emphasized service to one’s community, leadership, the teaching of moral values, and life skills that would prepare any scout for adulthood.

Sean “Diddy” Combs pushed back against a woman’s lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault, filing a motion on Friday to dismiss some claims that were not under law when the alleged incident occurred.The motion filed in a New York court claims Combs cannot be sued because certain laws didn’t exist when Joi Dickerson-Deal made the allegations against him in 1991.The music mogul’s lawyers want certain statutes from Dickerson-Deal’s claims such as revenge porn and human trafficking to be dismissed with prejudice.In a filing last year, she said Combs “intentionally drugged” her then brought her home and sexually assaulted her after a date in Harlem when she was a 19-year-old college student.Without her knowledge, Combs videotaped the assault and later shared it with several friends in the music industry, the suit alleges. He denied the allegations, accusing her of seeking to exploit the New York law that temporarily extended the statute of limitations.Dickerson-Deal’s claim came nearly three decades after his alleged misconduct and the New York State Revenge Porn Law was not codified until 2019, Combs’ lawyers said.His attorneys also pointed out a few others including the New York Services for Victims of Human Trafficking Law, which came into effect in 2007.The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been sexually abused unless they come forward publicly, as Dickerson has done.Last month, Combs’ properties in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by federal authorities in a sex trafficking investigation.

A post shared by Jellyroll • BVTLive (@jellyroll_bvtlive)The lawsuit also claims Jelly Roll’s prison stint for felony robbery charges has harmed the band’s reputation by association. “Because of Defendant’s troubled past, which includes a felony conviction and imprisonment, such association as averred above has caused additional harm to Plaintiff among the public and trade,” the suit says.

antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation as soon as next month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.Live Nation’s subsidiary Ticketmaster, which for decades has been condemned for hardball tactics and high prices, was also widely criticized in 2022 after botched ticket sales for Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour, feeding demands that the two companies be investigated for harming consumers.The lawsuit would allege that Live Nation had leveraged its dominance in a way that undermined competition for ticketing live events, the WSJ report said.The DOJ and Live Nation did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment.Shares of the Ticketmaster-parent dropped about 6% in extended trading.Last year, Live Nation was issued a subpoena by a US Senate panel for documents pertaining to ticket pricing, fees and secondary sales.

she sued singer Joey Ramone’s brother Mitchel Hyman and his manager David Frey for allegedly trying to cut her out of the film and the band’s merchandising deals.But Hyman — who countersued last month — told The Post the movie isn’t a band biopic.“It’s not a book about the Ramones,” Hyman told The Post of his 2009 memoir “I Slept with Joey Ramone,” which the movie is set to be based on.“It’s not a Ramones story,” he said of the book, which outlines growing up with the singer who battled debilatating OCD before his 2000 death. “It’s a story about growing up with a guy … who defeated the odds and became an inspiration to millions.