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Misdemeanor battery charges against Aquil Brown (Slim Jxmmi) were dropped after his girlfriend — the mother of his young son — recanted testimony alleging that the Rae Sremmurd rapper had assaulted her. The case was closed on Tuesday, TMZ reports and court documents reviewed by The FADER confirm. Brown was arrested in late January when police were called to a domestic disturbance at his Miami home.
According to TMZ's initial report, the fight between Brown and his girlfriend started with an argument over Brown following another woman on Twitter: "The alleged victim told cops when she attempted to move their sleeping child from his playpen to a bed, Slim pulled her hair so hard her extension was ripped from her scalp." The report also claimed Brown had kicked down a door she was hiding behind and thrown her phone, which she was using to record the episode, off of a balcony. Read Next: Rae Sremmurd’s Slim Jxmmi arrested, charged with battery But in a now-deleted Instagram post, Brown girlfriend said not only that these allegations were false, but that she'd never made them in the first place. "This is cap," she wrote.
"Dade County y'all are wrong for this. I told you guys he did not hit me. Every officer you guys had in my face are wrong for this.
No hands were put on anybody, I stated it more than once. It was a loud argument and the police were called. You guys turn nothing into something.
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Hollywood couple Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson were among those to offer support for Jussie Smollett ahead of his sentencing on Thursday. Letters from Jackson, his wife, an organizer with Black Lives Matter, and Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition were among those read Thursday in the Chicago courtroom, where Cook County Judge James Linn ultimately sentenced Smollett to 150 days in jail for lying to police in what authorities said was a staged hate crime. "It is with the respect of knowing this, that I humbly implore you to please find an alternative to incarceration for Jussie Smollett," Jackson and Richard wrote in the Feb.
Janet Jackson, 55, took a stroll in Central London on Thursday, March 10, marking the first time the superstar’s been seen in public in nearly one year. The “Rhythm Nation” hitmaker was photographed all smiles while exiting a florist shop in England’s capital where she now lives. Janet, whose life was showcased in the new tell-all documentary on Lifetime and A&E, was dressed in a casual black sweatshirt and matching sweatpants. She also rocked a gray scarf, a black head scarf, black sunglasses, and a pair of white sneakers.
Samuel L. Jackson and his wife, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, sent a letter to the judge ahead of Jussie Smollett's sentencing in his disorderly conduct case and implored the judge to have mercy on the actor and find an alternative to incarceration.In the letter, dated Feb.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentVeteran French actor Gerard Depardieu will remain under formal investigation for alleged rape after losing an appeal.The decision, which was announced on Thursday (March 10) by the Paris Court of Appeal, said it won’t drop Depardieu’s indictment, which stems from accusations of rape and sexual assault filed to authorities by actor Charlotte Arnould in August 2018.Depardieu, who previously said through his lawyer that he “firmly rejected” Arnould’s accusations, has been under formal investigation since Dec. 16, 2020, and filed an appeal in May 2021.“The Paris Court of Appeal considers that there remains, at this point, some grave and consistent clues that justify that Gerard Depardieu remains indicted,” said the French court in a statement sent to Variety.
A judge has granted Selma Blair a restraining order against her former boyfriend.
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Selma Blair has been granted a protective order against her ex-boyfriend, Ronald Carlson.The actress was granted the order following Carlson's arrest last month on charges of domestic violence.According to court documents obtained byET on Wednesday, Blair and Carlson were in a long-term relationship that recently came to an end. On Feb.
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Selma Blair has been granted an order of protection against her boyfriend Ronald Carlson after he was arrested for felony domestic violence with corporal injury.MORE: Selma Blair reveals how she told her son Arthur about her devastating MS diagnosisSelma accused Ronald of attacking her after he visited her home on 22 February 2022 to drop off a TV set. "Selma told him she had been medicated all day to treat her Multiple Sclerosis and was feeling ill," TMZ reported, adding that "she says he got frustrated and screamed at her: 'You [expletive] up, you can't do anything, you can't love anybody, you're [expletive] useless, you [expletive].'"WATCH: Selma Blair shares incredible horseback riding achievementHe then allegedly told her he could "do better" and "lunged at her, jumped on top of her body while she was lying on the sofa, grabbed her by the neck and strangled her, throttling her and shaking her head and shoulders aggressively."Selma says she stuck her fingers into his eyes and mouth in defense "and he responded by covering her mouth and face with his hands" leaving her unable to breathe.Police were called to the house and she reportedly began bleeding from the nose and lost consciousness a second time.In response, Ronald has also filed a petition for a restraining order and claims that they had both been ill so he refused to sit next to her on the sofa to which she became "angry and antagonistic" and became derogatory about his daughter.
Paris Jackson, 23, flaunted an epic look in Paris, France on March 6. The daughter of the late Michael Jackson wore a multi-colored long sweater with various designs as a mini dress along with black thigh-high platform boots as she was photographed walking in the popular city. She added to her look with a black necklace and dangling earrings as her shoulder-length blonde hair stayed down.
Paris Jackson, 23, looked like a fashion icon during one of her latest public appearances. The daughter of the late Michael Jackson showed up to the Vivienne Westwood show at Paris Fashion Week in a sheer and sleeveless dark brown yet reddish polka dotted dress with a high slit. She added a dark purple belt around her waist to go with the epic look and dark-colored peep toe heels with straps.
Samuel L. Jackson is sharing his thoughts on the Joe Rogan Spotify controversy.
President Joe Biden on Friday will nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a person familiar with the matter, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation.
President Joe Biden plans to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia, to fill the Supreme Court seat following the retirement of Stephen Breyer, according to the Associated Press and other news outlets.