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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Aylo, parent company of Pornhub and other sex sites, entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with U.S. prosecutors to settle a charge it profited from deals with porn producers who were involved in sex trafficking. Under the settlement announced Thursday, Canada-based Aylo agreed to pay a criminal fine and forfeiture totaling $1.845 million to the U.S.
government. In addition, Aylo has agreed to provide payments to victims of the sex-trafficking content operators who have not otherwise already received compensation and whose images were posted on Aylo’s platforms. The Justice Department will assign a monitor for a three-year period to assess Aylo’s compliance with the agreement and its processes for identifying and removing illegal content from its platforms.
Under the deal with U.S. prosecutors, the criminal charge against Aylo would be dropped after three years. The deferred prosecution agreement with Aylo “holds the parent company of Pornhub.com accountable for its role in hosting videos and accepting payments from criminal actors who coerced young women into engaging in sexual acts on videos that were posted without their consent,” Breon Peace, U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement. Beginning in 2009, Aylo (formerly called MindGeek) hosted pornographic videos created by GirlsDoPorn founder Michael Pratt and his collaborators on sites including Pornhub.com. In 2019, a federal grand jury in the Southern District of California returned an indictment against the GirlsDoPorn operators for sex-trafficking offenses and other other charges, for “deceiving and coercing young women to appear in sex videos which were then posted online without the women’s
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Addie Morfoot Contributor This year’s Oscar feature documentary shortlist is made up of a group of 15 films that, by and large, big streamers aren’t interested in sharing with subscribers. Six films that made it to the shortlist — Lea Glob’s “Apolonia, Apolonia,” Nancy Buirski’s “Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy,” Kaouther Ben Hania’s “Four Daughters,” Maciek Hamela’s “In the Rearview,” Luke Lorentzen’s “A Still Small Voice” and Sam Green’s “32 Sounds” — have theatrical distribution, but were not picked up by a major streaming company such as Netflix, Amazon or Apple TV+.
EXCLUSIVE: Meta, parent company of Facebook, is closing its Frank Gehry-designed London base, Deadline has learned. It will further reduce the number of offices it occupies in London, where the tech giant has its largest staff presence outside of the U.S.
BreAnna Bell CNN reached a new record high with its 2024 New Year’s Eve special as hosts Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen brought booze back to the live celebration. The Sunday night telecast averaged 2.33 million total viewers during primetime across platforms through two days of viewing, 802,000 of which were among the adults 25-54 demographic. That’s a 12% jump from the previous year, making it the second largest audience on record since it began airing in 2007.
Two months before Season 18 of So You Think You Can Dance is slated to premiere on Fox, the series’ co-creator, lead judge and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe has become the subject of two sexual misconduct lawsuits, including one filed by Paula Abdul who accused him of assaulting her twice over the past 20 years. Now, Lythgoe is also the subject of a probe, led by Sony Pictures TV’s 19 Entertainment, which co-produces SYTYCD with Dick Clark Productions, sources close to the situation confirm to Deadline.
Thania Garcia Britney Spears has shut down the rumor that she is working on a new album in a candid Instagram post where she declares she will “never return to the music industry.” The pop singer was seemingly responding to reports that surfaced early Wednesday morning on Page Six about Spears potentially tapping Charli XCX and writer Julia Michaels for an unannounced record — what would be her first in nearly a decade. The report claimed Spears had not recorded any new material yet, “as the project is only starting to take shape.” “They keep saying I’m turning to random people to do a new album … I will never return to the music industry,” Spears wrote in the caption to an Instagram post of the Italian Renaissance painting “Salome Bearing the Head of St.
Nearly 200 individuals linked to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are set to be released to the public by a New York judge. The names, which are expected to be released in the coming days, will confirm the identities of individuals who had previously been known as John or Jane Doe.The deadline for objections to the unsealing of the names passed at Midnight on Monday, and it's thought only a handful of names have been removed.
Scotland has welcomed the first babies born in 2024 - with one family receiving their little bundle of joy just minutes into the New Year.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Batman Returns” screenwriter Daniel Waters participated in a recent discussion about the Tim Burton-directed sequel (via IndieWire) and revealed the collaborators’ clashing visions for a spinoff project centered on Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman. Waters was envisioning a satirical take on the comic book movie genre, something he says was more akin to Prime Video’s “The Boys” these days, but Burton had something far more risky up his sleeve.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Oppenheimer” may not be streaming on Peacock until the new year, but “Barbie” is ready to watch from home right this second courtesy of Max. And it’s far from the only great movie in 2023 to find itself available on streaming as the year comes to a close. From Netflix’s Oscar contenders to Hollywood tentpoles such as “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” “The Little Mermaid” and “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” there’s no shortage of great 2023 titles streaming on Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Peacock, Max and more platforms.
Will Smith shared a gallery of photos with his spunky family wearing ugly Christmas Sweaters. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star even wore a white wig. A post shared by Will Smith (@willsmith)Will and Jada Pinkett Smith share childrenTrey, 31, Jaden, 25, and Willow, 23.
Prince William has revealed that he loves to play a Christmas game with his children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, which often leaves everyone "very cross".The Prince of Wales shared this during a special chat in 2021 with Radio Marsden, a radio station serving the Royal Marsden Hospital, where he is a patron. During the conversation, a boy named Henry asked Prince William about his favourite board game.To this, the future King replied: "Henry, we are playing board games with the children quite a lot.
, , , , , and more may not return until sometime in 2025. (Don't worry, we'll be the first to update this post if they wind up on the 2024 schedule).However, let's look on the bright side, shall we? Bridgerton after more than two years (!), and House of the Dragon returns for its sophomore season. The second half of is also on the schedule.
Italian influencer Chiara Ferragni is speaking out after being hit with an approximately $1 million fine amid allegations that she misled her followers over a charitable donation.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Lawyers for Ozy Media, the defunct media and entertainment company founded by Carlos Watson, allege in a new lawsuit that Ben Smith, BuzzFeed and Semafor (the media startup co-founded by Smith in 2022) misappropriated Ozy’s trade secrets “for their own benefit.” The suit additionally alleges that BuzzFeed breached a nondisclosure agreement it entered into with Ozy in 2019 as part of its efforts to buy the company. Lawyers representing Ozy Media allege that Smith, former BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief and New York Times media columnist who is currently editor-in-chief of Semafor, wrote “a series of hit pieces” about Ozy Media but that he did not disclose “his central role in BuzzFeed’s efforts to buy Ozy two years earlier” while he was at BuzzFeed.
NCIS will say goodbye to late star David McCallum in the show’s upcoming 21st season.
Scotland’s highest legal watchdog has been slammed or its mishandling of complaints over sex text lawyer Brian McConnachie.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Adobe called off plans to buy Figma, a web-based collaborative design platform, citing regulatory opposition to the proposed $20 billion deal. Adobe and Figma on Monday said they mutually agreed to terminate their merger agreement, originally announced Sept. 15, 2022.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Activision Blizzard will pay $54.9 million to settle a lawsuit by California’s Civil Rights Department alleging a pattern of pay and promotion practices that discriminated against women. The settlement, announced Friday, comes after Microsoft closed its $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard in October following concessions Microsoft made to clear regulatory objections in the U.K. Activision Blizzard’s franchises include Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Guitar Hero and Diablo.
Strictly Come Dancing's Craig Revel Horwood has admitted that he didn't think that Bad Education star, Layton Williams, would end up in this year's final.The 58 year old, who has been a judge on the show since its inception back in 2004, revealed the reason he thought Layton wouldn't go all the way was because of his background in professional dancing and performance. Rather, he thought Layton's West End stints may have hindered him, rather than helped him.To recap, before landing a place on Strictly, Layton was known for his slew of musical theatre roles, having bagged lead parts in Billy Elliot the Musical, Thriller - Live, Hairspray the Musical, Rent, and most recently, Everybody's Talking About Jamie.