Jay-Z urged to testify in person as long-running perfume dispute heads to court

Jay-Z’s legal battle with perfume company Parlux is due to get underway in the New York courts later today.

Robert Durst was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without chance of parole for the murder of his best friend more than two decades ago.Durst, 78, was convicted in Los Angeles Superior Court last month of first-degree murder for shooting Susan Berman point-blank in the back of the head at her home in December 2000.

By now, the odds are you have read the New Yorker short story “Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenia. “Cat Person” was the year’s most downloaded fiction published in The New Yorker, and one of the most widely read pieces overall of 2017.

EXCLUSIVE: Hope Davis, Michael Gandolfini, Liza Koshy, Fred Melamed, Isaac Powell, Isabella Rossellini and Donald Elise Watkins have joined the cast of Susanna Fogel’s psychological thriller, Cat Person for Studiocanal and New Yorker Studios. They will co-star opposite the previously announced cast members Nicholas Braun Emilia Jones and Geraldine Viswanathan. Production starts today.

Claire Foy has lined up her next movie role and she’ll be playing someone very unexpected.

EXCLUSIVE: Geraldine Viswanathan is set to join Studiocanal and Imperative Entertainment’S psychological thriller Cat Person starring Emilia Jones and Nicholas Braun. The film is based on Kristen Roupenian’s well-received short story, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. The film will be directed by Susanna Fogel and penned by Michelle Ashford.

Saturday Night Live opened its new season with a new Joe Biden — new cast member James Austin Johnson.

The Jonas Brothers are currently on tour in the northeastern part of the U.S. and it looks like they’re spending most of their downtime in New York!

The Beatles’ legacy lives one! Sean Lennon, 45, channelled his dad John Lennon‘s classic looks, while he was out in New York with his girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl, 34, on Thursday September 30. The Into The Sun musician was the spitting image of the “Imagine” singer during the late 60s, with long hair and prominent thick-rimmed glasses. Even his turquoise suit and star-covered black undershirt were reminiscent of some of the fabulous suits that John wore throughout his career!

R. Kelly, 54, will “likely” spend the rest of his life in jail after being convicted on eight counts of sex trafficking and one racketeering charge on Sept. 27 during his federal trial in New York. The disgraced R&B singer faces a minimum of 10 years behind bars and a maximum of life imprisonment along with registration as a sex offender. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on May 4, 2022.

EXCLUSIVE: Jami Kandel has been promoted to SVP and Jessica Pierson to VP at Vision PR. Both are based in New York and have been with the agency since its 2014 launch.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are mindful of spending too much time on screens.

Joe Jonas went for a coffee run with brother Nick and some pals in New York ahead of the weekend. The singer, 32, and his Jonas Brothers bandmate sibling, 29, hit up Laughing Man Cafe, a coffee shop owned by Australian actor Hugh Jackman, in the city on Friday, Sept. 24.

Shelley Ross wrote an op-ed for The New York Times on Friday September 24, where she alleged that Chris Cuomo, 51, had sexually-harassed her at a work party in 2005. Shelley had been an executive producer for various news programs. At the time, she said she was working on an entertainment special for ABC, but had been Chris’ executive producer on Primetime Live prior to that.