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Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former personal assistant broke down in tears in a new interview as he described the moment his former employer allegedly ordered him to have sex with a girl to “prove” his “loyalty.”Speaking with journalist Mara S. Campo for Investigation Discovery’s docuseries “The Fall of Diddy,” which released its first two episodes on Monday, Phillip Pines revealed new details about the shocking allegations he made against the disgraced hip-hop mogul, 55, in a lawsuit he filed in December.Pines, who allegedly worked for Combs from 2019 to 2021, is suing him for sexual battery, sexual harassment and sex trafficking, claiming that his job duties were to enable Combs’ alleged sexual activities.In addition to facing a lawsuit from Pines and several others, Diddy is currently locked up in a Brooklyn jail as he awaits trial on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.Diddy has pleaded not guilty to all the charges and denied Pines’ allegations.In his new interview for the ID doc, Pines claimed loyalty was “everything” to Diddy, adding that the moment the disgraced musician allegedly told him to “prove himself’ was “something I won’t forget.”“My life changed and I’ve never really recovered from it,” he said through tears.According to Pines, Diddy had been drinking all day before the alleged “freak-off.” The former assistant went on to claim he was allegedly pressured to partake in the sex party after his boss offered him alcohol.“I took a shot (of alcohol) with them.

NEW YORK — Paul Schrader, the writer of “Taxi Driver” and director of “American Gigolo,” has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting his former personal assistant, firing her when she wouldn’t acquiesce to advances and reneging on a settlement that was meant to keep the allegations confidential.The former assistant, identified in court documents as Jane Doe, sued the filmmaker and his production company on Thursday. She is seeking a judge’s order to enforce the agreement after Schrader said he couldn’t go through with it.

accused of sexual assault and harassment, The Post can confirm.The comedian, 48, has also chosen to cancel all of his upcoming tour dates, according to an insider.“Having taken some time to reflect, I’ve decided to voluntarily enter an inpatient program to continue working on myself,” Gatto said in a statement to The Post. “I just want to thank my friends, fans and especially my family for all of their support – never more so than over the last few days,” he added.

sexually assaulted her in 2023. Gatto denied the accusation but admitted he “used poor judgment.”A second woman has since come forward accusing Gatto of acting inappropriately toward her when she worked for him before he left “Impractical Jokers” in 2021.The unnamed person told People in an article published Sunday that she met the comedian at one of his live shows when she was 15.

Lizzo was feeling bad as hell.The 36-year-old singer is opening up about reaching a real low point after she was sued by former backup dancers and an ex-stylist in 2023 for alleged sexual harassment and claims that she created a toxic workplace environment.Lizzo has denied all allegations, but she is still facing ongoing lawsuits. (However, she was dismissed from the stylist’s lawsuit, although her production company, Big Grrrl Big Touring Inc., remains a defendant.)“About a year and a half ago — it’s so hard for me to talk about — I was in such a dark, deep depression,” she told the crowd during an intimate show at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on Wednesday.“I was so heartbroken by the world and so deeply hurt that I didn’t want to live anymore, and I was so deeply afraid of people that I didn’t want to be seen.

People that she was sexually harassed early in her career, and didn’t speak out at the time because “I was told I would be blacklisted.”“I felt so vulnerable,” she recalled in the interview. “This was the career I wanted to do.

Ryan Reynolds’ joke about his and Blake Lively’s legal battle with “It Ends With Us” director Justin Baldoni during the “SNL” 50th anniversary special was his idea, says the show’s cue card guy.The “Deadpool & Wolverine” star, 48, surprised viewers when he alluded to the ongoing drama an hour into “SNL 50: The Anniversary Special” on Sunday night in a segment where Tina Fey and Amy Poehler took questions from the star-studded audience in Studio 8H.“Ryan Reynolds, how’s it going?” Poehler, 53, asked.Reynolds retorted: “Why? What have you heard?”On Tuesday, veteran “SNL” cue card guy Wally Feresten, aka “Cue Card Wally,” revealed that the joke was entirely Reynolds’ idea.“He had a different line in rehearsal and he pitched that [line] to replace it,” Feresten said in an interview with Australian breakfast radio show “Fifi, Fev & Nick” when asked whether the quip was an improv on the “Free Guy” star’s part or if it was scripted. “So that was his idea to do it there,” Feresten continued.

Lively detailed allegations of sexual harassment, retaliation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, and more against Baldoni and film producer Jamey Heath in a complaint first filed with the California Civil Rights Department and later in federal court.Baldoni, in his own lawsuit filed in January, insisted that Lively “falsely” had accused him in an attempt to repair her reputation amid the fallout around the movie’s press tour after the actress took control of the film.

the Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast.Still, Pearce admits that he brushed off the “House of Cards” actor’s alleged actions for nearly half a year.“Ah, that’s nothing. Ah, no, that’s nothing,” he said, recalling what he told himself at the time.

his “It Ends With Us” co-star Blake Lively has left him “devastated financially and emotionally,” his lawyer Bryan Freedman said Monday at a pre-trial conference in Manhattan.Speaking in front of a judge assigned to oversee the stars’ warring lawsuits, Freedman added that the accusations Lively leveled against the “Jane the Virgin” alum and his co-defendants — “It Ends With Us” producers Jamey Heath and Steve Sarowitz, their production company Wayfarer Studios and publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel — have allegedly amounted to “hundreds of millions of dollars of prejudice.”“My grave concern is that my clients suffered hundreds of millions of dollars of prejudice as a result of actions they were blindsided by,” he said.Freedman also pleaded with the judge to fast-track the case, claiming his clients were “suffering greatly.”Michael Gottlieb, attorney for Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, insisted they were not dragging their heels.In her lawsuit filed in New York on New Year’s Eve, Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and, along with his associates, orchestrating a public smear campaign against her. The claims, which the “Gossip Girl” veteran first made in an interview with The New York Times, mirrored those included in the her California Civil Rights Department Complaint against Baldoni.He denied her accusations.

a 15-page review carried out into Brand’s alleged misconduct, after the 49-year-old star faced various allegations, including sexual harassment, in an expose released in 2023.The review was conducted by Peter Johnston, the BBC’s director of editorial complaints and reviews, at the request of director-general Tim Davies.

releasing raw footage from the set of their movie “It Ends With Us.”In a statement provided to The Post, Lively’s legal team said the video that Baldoni, 40, shared on Tuesday “corroborates, to the letter,” her allegations of sexual harassment rather than vindicating him, as his team have claimed.“Justin Baldoni and his lawyer may hope that this latest stunt will get ahead of the damaging evidence against him, but the video itself is damning,” the statement began. “Every frame of the released footage corroborates, to the letter, what Ms. Lively described in Paragraph 48 of her Complaint.” Lively’s lawsuit alleges that during a “slow dance scene,” Baldoni “leaned forward and slowly dragged his lips from her ear and down her neck as he said, ‘it smells so good.’” In the footage that Baldoni’s lawyer shared on Tuesday, which appears to show the “slow dance scene” in question, Lively can be heard joking that she’s “probably getting spray tan on” Baldoni, who laughs and replies, “It smells good.” Lively then replies, “Well, it’s not that.

Justin Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit against his “It Ends With Us” co-star.Baldoni, 40, is suing Lively, 37, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, 48, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s p.r. firm Vision PR Inc. over the ongoing “It Ends With Us” saga, which centers on Lively’s allegations of sexual harassment against Baldoni.The suit — filed Thursday in the Southern District of New York by Baldoni’s attorneys on behalf of the “Jane the Virgin” star, “It Ends With Us” producer Jamey Heath, publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis publicist Melissa Nathan — claims Lively took certain measures to gain control over the 2024 film.Lawyers for Lively have issued a response to the complaint, claiming his accusations are “retaliation against sexual harassment allegations.”“This latest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and its associates is another chapter in the abuser playbook,” Lively’s legal team said in a statement to The Post.

“It Ends With Us” saga continues. Justin Baldoni, 40, is suing Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s p.r.

her “It Ends with Us” co-star and director, alleging he caused her to suffer “severe emotional distress and pain, humiliation, embarrassment, belittlement, frustration, and mental anguish” in addition to lost wages. TMZ was first to report the news.Lively filed her lawsuit against Baldoni, 41, and others on Tuesday in a New York federal court. “It Ends with Us,” the blockbuster movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, was filmed primarily in New York.

filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director Justin Baldoni last week. Berner, 33, joked about Lively being a “c–t” in “Torching 2024: A Roast of the Year,” a roast-style special hosted by Jeff Ross featuring comics bidding good riddance to 2024 “by throwing shade at the biggest moments of the past 12 months,” per Netflix. The former reality TV star-turned-comedian alluded to headlines about Lively, 37, that circulated around the time her movie “It Ends With Us” hit theaters, which largely centered on her rumored feud with Baldoni and painted her as a “mean girl.” “The word c–t was trending this year,” Berner said in a clip from the comedy special, adding, “I don’t think Blake Lively was that bad.” “Torching 2024” was recorded on Dec.

Lively leveled against Justin Baldoni in a new lawsuit. Baldoni, 40, who directed and starred in the film adaptation of the bestselling Colleen Hoover novel alongside Lively and Sklenar, was accused by the actress of sexual harassment and orchestrating “a coordinated effort” to destroy her reputation following the movie’s release.Sklenar, 34, broke his silence on the controversy and voiced his support for Lively, 37, in an Instagram story he shared on Monday, posting a link to a New York Times article which has the complete legal filing Lively submitted. “For the love of god read this,” wrote the actor, who played Lively’s childhood sweetheart Atlas Corrigan in “It Ends With Us.” Sklenar also tagged Lively’s Instagram account and added a heart emoji next to her handle.

recently sued her co-star Justin Baldoni for sexual harassmentLively, 37, and Baldoni, 40, played the lead stars in the film adaptation of Hoover’s 2016 romance novel. Baldoni also directed the movie.On Friday, Lively filed a bombshell lawsuit against Baldoni where she accused him of harassing her on the set of the film — as well as ” a coordinated effort to destroy her reputation” following the movie’s release.Hoover backed Lively in the battle with a supportive message on her Instagram Stories on Saturday.“@blakelively, you have been nothing but honest, kind, supportive and patient since the day we met,” Hoover wrote alongside a photo of the pair hugging at a screening of the film.

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

Ryder explained constantly feeling as if she was “negotiating” and wondering what would happen if she expressed her discomfort, adding she was “working it out while” dealing with someone “extremely creepy.”It was only when recounting her experiences to her “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” co-star Jenna Ortega that she realized, “Jesus Christ, that’s really f—ed up.”“I think in retrospect, it really soured [her on making movies]. All the great actors always told me that when it stops being amazing, you gotta get out,” she explained.

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.