A simmering, years-long row between JK Rowling and broadcaster India Willoughby has spilled over into a police complaint against the Harry Potter author over alleged transphobia.
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A3 may be dead, but the legal war between onetime agency chairman Adam Bold and his former top executives rages on.
Broadening the horizon of the flurry of filings in Los Angeles Superior Court, Hollywood heavyweight lawyer Bryan Freedman has offered to help the much-accused and allegedly drug-addicted Bold get sober and “embark on a program of recovery.”
In a town literally and figuratively built on fiction, you seriously couldn’t make some of this stuff up.
Hitting back at lurid accusations and what he calls a “smear campaign” in a December 2023 suit from now former A3 partners Robert Attermann and Brian Cho citing hardcore drug use, sexual harassment, and overall claims of having “squandered everything” at the agency he took over in 2018, Bold’s acrimonious response and attempt to have the initial suit tossed out takes a lot of big swings itself. For one, mutual fund chief Bold asserts that Cho and Attermann’s suit suggesting he “would deliberately drive the company into bankruptcy for personal gain is not only false but also absurd.” In fact, in a scorched earth tactic, Bold throws back all of A3’s recent collapse on the ex-CEO and president, as well as their attorney.
Freedman, often controversial and sparring, is a constant target in the response with Bold and his lawyers trying to tie a lot of threads together. (Read Adam Bold’s response here.)
“To recap, Bryan Freedman is actually with a straight face trying to claim that Brian Cho is both an abused person and an abuser of others, and that Adam Bold is the sex pest even though Freedman himself is alleged to have committed worse sexual misconduct,” the response reads in part.
Still, characterized as inept would-be Brutuses, Cho and Attermann clearly have a
A simmering, years-long row between JK Rowling and broadcaster India Willoughby has spilled over into a police complaint against the Harry Potter author over alleged transphobia.
A Tory peer has apologised to a University Challenge student after claims of antisemitism.
Gary Glitter is being sued by one of his victims over the psychiatric damage caused by his abuse.The claim has been brought against the disgraced pop singer by one of his victims. He was convicted of abusing her and two other young victims in 2015, with the incidents taking place between 1975 and 1980.In the lawsuit, the victim, who has not been publicly identified, is seeking compensation for the psychiatric damage she suffered at his hands when she was just 12 years old – with her lawyer describing it as “the worst kind” of abuse.“What we have is severe and profound consequences as a result of abuse that I think is fair to say is of the worst kind,” her lawyer, Jonathan Metzer, told the court during a hearing in London yesterday (March 5) according to The Guardian.
UPDATED, with first results: As the first polls closed on Super Tuesday, Joe Biden and Donald Trump were projected to be the winners of Virginia’s Democratic and Republican primaries, on a night where he and Donald Trump are expected to solidify the chances of a November general election rematch.
The suspense this Super Tuesday may be in watching how all of the networks try to make the night suspenseful.
Ancestry.com has claimed that Taylor Swift is related to Emily Dickinson.The news of the ‘Blank Space’ singer’s relation to the legendary American poet was shared in an exclusive report with NBC’s Today. According to research done by Ancestry.com, Swift and Dickinson are allegedly sixth cousins, three times removed.“Swift and Dickinson both descend from a 17th Century English immigrant (Swift’s 9th great-grandfather and Dickinson’s 6th great-grandfather who was an early settler of Windsor, Connecticut),” the genealogy company told Today.They continued: “Taylor Swift’s ancestors remained in Connecticut for six generations until her part of the family eventually settled in northwestern Pennsylvania, where they married into the Swift family line.”Born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts to a prominent family with strong ties to its community, Dickinson is regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.
More details have been revealed following the death of Rick Harrison‘s son.
Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Former Verve CEO Bill Weinstein has filed a lawsuit against the talent agency, alleging that he was improperly ousted from the company on Feb. 19 by two partners who are looking to sell the company.
Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing yet ANOTHER lawsuit! On Monday, a producer on the rapper’s most rece
Sean “Diddy” Combs is the subject of a lawsuit filed by music producer Rodney Jones Jr., the New York Times reports. Jones, who is also known as Lil Rod, alleges that Combs subjected him to sexual assault, grooming, and improper payment while they worked on last year's The Love Album. Diddy, via his lawyer, denies all claims.
Diddy’ Combs has been sued by a male producer who worked on his most recent album, with accusations of sexual assault and harassment.The suit was filed in federal court in New York on Monday (February 26), and accuses Combs of forcing him to have sex with prostitutes, in addition to claims that the hip-hop mogul drugged and threatened him for over a year.The producer, named as Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones, says in the lawsuit that he lived and travelled with Combs from September 2022 to November 2023, and produced nine songs on Combs’ recent record ‘The Love Album: Off The Grid’.Among the claims is that Combs made him solicit prostitutes and pressured him to engage in sex acts with them. He also claimed that Combs gave laced alcoholic drinks to people at his house.The lawsuit includes claims of screenshots from gatherings at Combs’ homes where underage girls and sex workers were present, some of whom he said were provided with laced drinks.
Could Andy Cohen get fired from Bravo? That is what Brandi Glanville and her legal team hope will happen soon!
Men’s Heath.He further spilled that the two are planning to reunite in the near future. “Actually, he’s coming to L.A.
Sorry Bravo, but to paraphrase that classic song of 39 years ago from The Smiths: That joke isn’t funny now.
Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com Brandi Glanville — a former cast member of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” and “Ultimate Girls Trip” — has accused Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live” host and “Real Housewives” executive producer Andy Cohen of sexual harassment in a lengthy letter from her legal representation. Glanville sent a letter from her lawyer Bryan Freedman to NBCUniversal, Shed Media and Shed’s parent company Warner Bros.
Andy Cohen is responding to a sexual harassment claim made by former Real Housewives star Brandi Glanville.
Nigel Lythgoe has been accused of sexual assault in another lawsuit.
Ellise Shafer Adam Sandler was faced with a new challenge on the set of his upcoming Netflix film “Spaceman“: using wires to appear like an astronaut floating in space. At the film’s Berlin Film Festival press conference on Wednesday, Sandler cheekily reflected on the experience, saying the “wires hurt me.” “The wires were tough because my body’s not the most flexible body. The wires hurt me, they dug into me.
Rachel Leviss is making her voice heard on a very important matter — and specifically because it is something she says her disgraced former did not do several months ago. Of course, Rachel and Tom Sandoval
Alex Ritman It’s been five years since “Chernobyl,” HBO’s phenomenally successful miniseries about the catastrophic 1986 disaster and a show that garnered both widespread acclaim and a whole host of Emmys, Golden Globes and BAFTA TV awards. Its creator Craig Mazin has since brought us zombies galore in the video game adaptation “The Last of Us,” but now “Chernobyl’s” BAFTA and Emmy-winning director Johan Renck is about to unleash his next project.