By Ted Johnson
05.05.2020 - 00:33 / deadline.com
By Erik Pedersen
Managing Editor
UDPATED, 2 PM: The Los Angeles Clippers are now official owners of the Forum. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer closed a deal Monday to purchase the Forum from Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp.
The close of escrow comes six weeks after Ballmer-backed CAPSS LLC announced it had agreed to pay $400 million for the arena. The deal also settles MSG’s long-running lawsuit that aimed to block the Clippers planned $1 billion arena to be built on Century Boulevard,
American Pie star Tara Reid is spending the lockdown period with her close friends and former Celebrity Big Brother co-stars Jedward.
Joe Jonas is enjoying a little bit of exercise!
BBC Studios has bolstered its Los Angeles production arm by promoting Valerie Bruce to general manager and naming Sam Zoda as its executive vp of production. Bruce most recently served as executive vp, commercial director.
Michael Bay is poised to begin production on the first movie to shoot in Los Angeles since the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown began. Although the film and TV industry is still facing a time of great uncertainty as various production-related ventures are forced to shut down in order meet California’s guidelines on social distancing, the acclaimed filmmaker seems to have found a way around those rules by making a thriller set in the time of a pandemic.
Former WWE pro wrestler Shad Gaspard was found dead after going missing while swimming in Los Angeles with his son on Sunday. He was 39.
Harvey Weinstein's extradition to Los Angeles to face an additional set of sex crime charges has been delayed, according to reports. A spokesman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has reportedly confirmed that the coronavirus pandemic is the reason for the delay.
Harvey Weinstein’s extradition to Los Angeles has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, prosecutors have said.
Harvey Weinstein‘s extradiction to Los Angeles, to face even more counts of sexual assault and rape, has been put on hold for now.
By Gene Maddaus
Meghan Markle has been treating herself to some much-needed mother-daughter time with mom Doria Ragland since moving to Los Angeles earlier this year.