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a press conference at the San Sebastián Film Festival for his new movie, “Modì – Three Days on the Wing of Madness,” and said he could relate to the film’s subject, Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani, because of the media frenzy that surrounded his and Heard’s 2022 trial that ended in his favor.“Each [character] has their story, because I’m sure we can say that I’ve been through a number of things here and there,” Depp said.“But you know, I’m all right,” he added with a chuckle, as the audience also laughed.Depp went on, “And I think we’ve all been through a number of things, ultimately. Maybe yours didn’t turn into a soap opera.

testified against A$AP Rocky in court, has broken his silence after the rapper was found not guilty of two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearmin Los Angeles on Tuesday. Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, faced up to 24 years in prison if convicted of the assault stemming from an alleged 2021 altercation with his former pal.Two days after a jury reached their verdict following the nearly four-week trial, Relli — whose real name is Terell Ephron — spoke out on social media.“Gossiping is a form of entertainment for people who have no meaningful goals or purpose in life,” Relli wrote on his Instagram Story Thursday.

that ended in a not guilty verdict on Tuesday.“Rihanna and Rocky said to me in the courtroom yesterday, they grabbed me and they said, ‘Listen, our next baby is A$AP Joe,'” Tacopina, 58, told Billy Bush in an interview with Extra.“I said, ‘I’m gonna hold you to that!’” Tacopina added.Rocky and Rihanna, 37, are parents to sons RZA, 2, and Riot, 1.Tacopina also said that after the verdict Rocky (real name Rakim Mayers) “said some very nice things. I mean, he told me he loved me, and we’re family.”The “Praise the Lord” rapper was charged in 2022 following a 2021 fight with his former friend A$AP Relli, who testified that Rocky confronted him outside a Hollywood parking garage and shot him during the confrontation.Rocky faced up to 24 years in prison if convicted.

not guilty verdict in his assault trial on Tuesday.The rapper, 36, faced up to 24 years in prison if convicted of two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm stemming from an alleged 2021 altercation with his former friend, A$AP Relli.After the verdict was read, Rocky almost collapsed, grabbing his lawyers for support before turning to Rihanna and his family sitting in the first row of the courtroom.The crowd howled as he lunged forward into his significant other’s arms, with video catching Rihanna’s reaction from inside the courtroom. In the clip streamed by Extra, the “Don’t Stop the Music” singer, 36, clutched to Rocky like she’d never let go.

following a nearly four-week trial in Los Angeles. The verdict was reached on Tuesday after the case was sent to the jury on Friday.

A$AP Rocky’s lawyer is expected to finish delivering his closing argument Friday at the hip-hop star’s trial, where the defense is trying to persuade jurors that the former friend Rocky is charged with shooting at took the stand and “lied to you about so many crucial things.”Closing arguments began Thursday, when Rocky’s longtime partner, the singing superstar Rihanna, walked quietly into the downtown Los Angeles courtroom after proceedings began, as she has several times during the three-week trial. She brought their two young sons.Rocky’s lawyer Joe Tacopina reminded the jurors that their instructions allow them to disregard everything a witness says if the jurors believe they are being dishonest in any part of their testimony.He told them if they do that with Rocky’s accuser, who goes by A$AP Relli, “there is no case.”“This is a man whose tongue is a stranger to the truth,” Tacopina said.

A$AP Rocky’s longtime friend and collaborator testified at his Los Angeles trial Friday that the hip-hop star fired a starter pistol that he carried as a prop during a scuffle with a former friend on a Hollywood street in 2021.The testimony from the man who goes by A$AP Twelvyy is essential to Rocky’s defense against two felony charges of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and a potential sentence of up to 24 years in prison with a conviction.“He walked around with a prop, like a starter pistol,” Twelvyy said, looking at the jury. “I seen it on several occasions.”And his testimony suggested the accuser, their mutual friend who goes by A$AP Relli, knew the pistol wasn’t real when Rocky first pulled it out.“He told him to shoot that fake-ass gun,” Twelvyy said under questioning from the defense.All three men and a fourth who was at the scene, A$AP Illz, were members of the A$AP Mob, a crew of musicians and other creators that formed at a New York high school nearly 20 years ago.But just one of them, Rocky, became a major mainstream success starting in the early 2010s with a pair of No.

Erik and Lyle Menendez’s potential release from prison, one man will determine what that outcome could look like.The brothers are currently serving life sentences in prison for the 1989 murders of their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez. In October 2024, Erik, 54, and Lyle, 57, were on the verge of release when then-L.A.

A$AP Rocky is possibly in the biggest legal fight of his life.The rapper is facing trial on two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm related to an alleged 2021 shooting incident in Hollywood — and has turned down a plea deal from the prosecution.Rocky, 36, is accused of firing shots at Terell Ephron — aka A$AP Relli — who claims the alleged shots “grazed his knuckles.”The prosecutors offered the artist a deal that would have required him to plead guilty to one of the two felony counts in exchange for a recommended 180 days in jail and three years of probation.Rocky’s decision to decline their offer could go one of two ways, according to “True Crime News” host Ana Garcia.“I think he’s got a strong case – I do believe that,” the journalist exclusively told The Post. “I’m not so sure how strong the prosecution evidence is.

A$AP Rocky’s assault trial on Wednesday.The “Umbrella” singer, 36, dressed in all black and sat in the gallery at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles between Rocky’s mother, Renee Black, and his sister, Erika B. Mayers.Her court appearance comes on the heels of her date night with Rocky in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening.The “Praise the Lord” rapper, 36, is charged with two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm related to an alleged 2021 shooting incident in Hollywood.

“It Ends With Us” legal dispute.The court date for the case was scheduled by Judge Lewis J. Liman in a legal order filed on Monday, according to court documents obtained by The Post.Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 41, are suing each other in federal court in New York. Lively filed a $250 million lawsuit against Baldoni last month, alleging sexual harassment and a smear campaign.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A$AP Rocky turned down a final prosecution plea offer of 180 days in jail and will face the possibility of a guilty verdict and years in prison as jury selection began at his trial on Tuesday.The agreement offered to the 36-year-old hip-hop star, fashion mogul and actor whose legal name is Rakim Mayers was to plead guilty to one of his two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. Los Angeles County prosecutors would also recommend a seven-year suspended sentence, three years of probation and the six-month jail term.But Rocky told a judge he respectfully declined.He is accused of firing at a former friend near a Hollywood hotel in 2021, and could get a maximum sentence of 24 years in prison if convicted.

2022 Virginia defamation case. Chew and Meyers spoke about their legal strategy, explaining why they thought Depp making jokes on the stand was helpful during his testimony.Chew also admitted the lawyers worried the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star might have an outburst during his cross-examination.“Johnny’s use of humor really undermined whatever serious point Amber’s counsel was trying to make,” he said.

the fatal shooting on the set of his movie “Rust” in 2021 ended on Monday, with a prosecutor dropping her appeal of the case’s dismissal.Special Prosecutor Kari Morrissey withdrew that appeal, according to a statement from the Frist Judicial District Attorney’s office.Baldwin’s lawyers Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro said in a statement that “today’s decision to dismiss the appeal is the final vindication of what Alec Baldwin and his attorneys have said from the beginning — this was an unspeakable tragedy but Alec Baldwin committed no crime.”A New Mexico judge had dismissed involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin in July, agreeing with the actor’s lawyers that Morrissey and the sheriff’s office concealed evidence about the source of the live round that killed “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021.The district attorney’s office said it still strongly disagreed with the judge’s decision to toss out the case against Baldwin.But the decision to drop the appeal of that decision was made after the Office of the Attorney General told Morrissey that it “did not intend to exhaustively pursue the appeal on behalf of the prosecution,” according to the statement.Hutchins died when Baldwin pointed a gun at her as they set up a camera shot on a movie set near Santa Fe. The gun fired a live round inadvertently loaded by the movie’s chief weapons handler Hannah Gutierrez.

Geraldo Rivera is making amends with the father of JonBenét Ramsey.After John Ramsey’s daughter was found murdered at 6 years old in the basement of her family’s Colorado home in 1996, the journalist, 81, staged a mock murder trial on television.On Monday, during NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rivera addressed the mock trial that aired on his daytime talk show, “The Geraldo Rivera Show,” in 1997, telling Ramsey, “I deeply apologize to you for what you and your family have suffered.”During the episode, the political commentator’s “jury” found Ramsey and his wife, Patsy Ramsey, liable for their daughter’s death, per NewsNation.Rivera continued, “No one deserves to go through what you went through. That’s my bottom line.

long-running rumors that she dated her A-list client — saying the Hollywood leading man is “not my type.”“I would never,” Vasquez told Extra, two years after feverish rumors abounded as she helped the actor win his highly publicized $100 million defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard. “Let me just go on the record here: never dated Johnny Depp.

Ana Garcia is weighing in on the justice system.After Lyle and Erik Menendez murdered their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez, on Aug. 20, 1989, the nation became engrossed in what came next.

actor Gérard Depardieu is expected to appear before a criminal court in Paris on Monday over the alleged sexual assaults of two women on a film set in 2021.Depardieu, who previously has denied any wrongdoing, is accused of using “violence, coercion, surprise or threat” in the alleged assault, which prosecutors said took place on the set of “Les Volets verts” (”The Green Shutters.”)Prosecutors say that in both cases, victims reported that the 75-year-old actor trapped them between his legs and groped their buttocks, genitals, chest and breasts over their clothes.The trial comes as France continues to reckon with sexual violence in the wake of the #MeToo movement that struggled to find traction especially in the cinema industry.One of the victims has been identified as a 53-year-old production designer. The Associated Press doesn’t generally identify victims of sexual assault without their consent.

the rapper’s sudden death.When star witness YSL Woody, whose real name is Kenneth Copeland, took the stand, the prosecution asked him if Young Thug, 33, had a problem with Rich Homie Quan, 34, “bringing members of his gang to his apartment.”The question prompted YSL Woody to ask Young Thug directly: “Thug, did you have an issue with Rich Homie?” The incarcerated rapper appeared taken aback by the interrogation and laughed off the question as the prosecution redirected the inquiry to YSL Woody.

accused of deceiving his clients and pilfering from settlement funds they had obtained in personal injury cases.“Tom Girardi built celebrity status and lured in victims by falsely portraying himself as a ‘Champion of Justice,'” US Attorney Martin Estrada said in a statement. “In reality, he was a Robin-Hood-in-reverse, stealing from the needy” to support a “lavish, Hollywood lifestyle.”Girardi’s federal public defenders did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Girardi blamed the alleged fraud on Christopher Kamon, the former chief financial officer of their law firm Girardi Keese.

Rapper Travis Scott told police officers he was “scared” by their large presence during his trespassing arrest in Miami, Fla., in June, newly-released bodycam footage showed.The “Sicko Mode” hitmaker, 33, was handcuffed after officers responded to a report of people fighting on a yacht at the Miami Beach Marina shortly before 1 a.m. on June 20, and found Scott standing by the dock and yelling at the occupants of one of the boats.Scott, whose real name is Jacques Webster, was then taken into custody in connection with misdemeanor trespassing and public intoxication.In new bodycam footage obtained by NBC South Florida, the Houston native can be seen getting loud during his exchange with officers at the docks before ultimately being arrested.“Everybody put their hands up!” cops yelled as they arrived at the marina.After Scott and his entourage exited the boat, officers began to probe them on what had happened aboard the yacht.