A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to orchestrating a large-scale fraud scheme that used artificial intelligence and automated streaming to generate millions in music royalties. Michael Smith, 54, entered a guilty plea in federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The case was heard before... Read More »
Dave Grohl says he has spent the past year in near-daily therapy while working through a series of personal crises, including the death of Taylor Hawkins, the loss of his mother, and a public admission that he fathered a child outside his marriage. In an interview with The Guardian, Grohl... Read More »
Police in Sag Harbor released body camera footage Friday from Justin Timberlake’s 2024 arrest in the Hamptons, after the singer and actor dropped a legal challenge seeking to keep the video private. The dispute arose after several media outlets requested access to footage from the traffic stop under New York’s... Read More »
Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino spent hours on the witness stand this week defending the company’s pricing practices and business structure as part of a federal antitrust trial that could reshape the live entertainment industry. The case, brought by a coalition of states following a 2024 lawsuit from the Department... Read More »
When Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story premiered in 2004, it quickly became one of those comedies people could quote line-for-line. Beyond its core cast, Ben Stiller as the unhinged White Goodman and Vince Vaughn as the laid-back Peter LaFleur, the film leaned heavily on surprise appearances that helped cement its... Read More »
Kevin Bacon isn’t pretending to be easy to work with, at least not when he’s directing his own family. At SXSW this year, Bacon appeared alongside Kyra Sedgwick and their two children, Sosie and Travis Bacon, to discuss Family Movie, a deliberately self-referential horror project the family made together. The... Read More »
Chuck Norris, the martial arts champion who became a defining action star and the face of “Walker, Texas Ranger”, has died at 86. His family confirmed the news on Friday, saying he died Thursday morning following a sudden medical emergency in Hawaii. The message said he was surrounded by family... Read More »
John Lithgow says he understands that J.K. Rowling’s public views on transgender issues will remain an unavoidable part of the conversation surrounding HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series and, by extension, his role in it. In a recent interview with The New York Times, Lithgow, who is set to play Albus... Read More »
More than two decades after Friends concluded its original run, Lisa Kudrow has begun watching the series in full for the first time, offering a rare perspective on one of television’s most widely syndicated sitcoms from one of its central cast members. Speaking during a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel... Read More »
Kevin Spacey has reached out-of-court settlements in three civil sexual assault cases in London, bringing an end to legal proceedings that had been scheduled to go to trial later this year. The cases, which involved allegations spanning more than a decade, were set to be heard in the U.K. High... Read More »
