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A settlement has been reached between the University of Southern California and the former students, many of them gay and bisexual men, who say they were victims of sexual misconduct by a university doctor. Photo: USC.

Kat Von D is facing new legal trouble in California.The 40-year-old is being sued for unpaid rent and damages to the rental property she transformed into her famed L.A. tattoo parlor High Voltage Tattoo, and she may be forced to fork out tens of thousands of dollars.Although details remain scarce, TMZ reported the property’s landlord is suing Von D for unpaid rent, claiming that she owes over $92,000 for remodeling fees and back rent.The back rent was from several months in 2020 and future rent that will come due in 2022.

Netflix documentary “White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch,” out April 19.The documentary traces the explosive growth of the fashion and pop culture sensation and how its clothing and seductive marketing dominated youth culture for over a decade. Under the stewardship of ultraprivate CEO Mike Jeffries, the brand was aspirational — and, as lawsuits later alleged, discriminatory in its hiring practices. Bogged down by bad press, legal issues and its reluctance to move with the ever-changing times, it had fallen out of fashion by the late aughts.The original Abercrombie & Fitch was founded in 1892 in Manhattan by David T.

for a cut of his song-catalogue sale.Claudia Levy failed in her bid to overturn a previous Manhattan ruling that tossed her lawsuit seeking a portion of the money Dylan made when he off-loaded his catalogue to Universal Music Group in 2020. Levy had argued that her late husband Jacques Levy’s estate was entitled to 35 percent of the profits Dylan made when he sold the seven songs her husband collaborated on him with for the legend’s 1976 album “Desire.”But an appeals court Thursday found that Jacques Levy’s contract with Dylan was “unambiguous, and does not entitle plaintiffs to proceeds from the sale of the copyrights of the compositions cowritten with Dylan.”Levy – who died in 2004 – co-wrote the majority of the nine songs on the album with the “Blowin’ in the Wind” singer, for which he had received 35 percent royalties totaling roughly $1 million.His widow brought her the $7.25 million lawsuit against Dylan last year.“Today’s decision puts the nail in the coffin of this opportunistic lawsuit,” Dylan’s lawyer, Orin Snyder, said in a statement. “We are pleased the court has again rejected this sad attempt to profit off of Bob’s recent catalog sale.”Claudia’s lawyer did not return a request for comment.

Damon Gillespie and actress and YouTuber Grace Aki met while working in musical theater in 2014, bonding over their love of Broadway and show tunes.The pair, whose engagement was reported by People Magazine, married in October 2018, but by last summer, the music was over, according to court papers. Now the two have traded lawsuits against each other.

disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein — used the image on “untold thousands of consumer products.”Zaheda claimed that violated a contract that limited use to promoting the film at the time of its release in 1994.Zahedi — who was paid $10,000 to take the photo of Thurman depicting character Mia Wallace — was once gifted an action figure of Wallace in 2015 that had packaging with his picture on it and was given a pair of socks with his photo on them in 2019 — eventually prompting him to file

75-year-old singer alleges the former member of Congress has breached a contract signed by Cher and her ex-husband after their divorce. Sonny, whose real name was Salvatore Bono, and Cher married in 1967 and skyrocketed to success as a musical duo.

Former California Highway Patrol officer Jay Brome has received a settlement of $2.2 million in a lawsuit he brought against the CHP, saying his coworkers made his life on the job miserable because he’s gay.

George Stephanopoulos on “GMA,” says the show’s then-senior executive producer Michael Corn sexually assaulted her after a work party when he was drunk, according to her Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit from Wednesday.The alleged incident happened in February 2015 when Crawford was in Los Angeles with the team covering the Academy Awards.Crawford claims that another former employee, Jill McClain, was also sexually assaulted by Corn in 2010 and 2011 and that after the women exchanged stories early

According to Variety, the lawsuit alleges that the producers had undervalued domestic and foreign receipts by tens of millions of dollars.

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A video chronicling the uproarious incident currently boasts almost 250,000 views on TikTok. The alleged victim, Emily Mackinnon, set the smelly scene.

scandal-ridden megachurch Hillsong — and at the unexpected locale of two regional court systems.The Australia-based institution is currently being sued in Norwalk, Connecticut’s housing court and a state Supreme Court in Australia over allegations of wholly unholy behavior. The Wall Street Theater Company, which Hillsong’s Connecticut branch rented for its weekly services, is suing the church for over $100,000, alleging unpaid rent, the theft of venue property and “immoral, oppressive and

blockbuster sale of his song catalogue, new court papers show.

Anastassia Khozissova, the ex-girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius, alleged in 2004 that Ralph Lauren himself approached her to be a muse for a number of his collections—including the highly-desired book, “Diary of a Collection,” which features “intimate and breathtaking photographs.”“Ms.

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“Toy Story 4” daredevil Duke Caboom may look like an homage to Evel Knievel — but the ambiguously inspired cartoon is now blowing up in the filmmakers’ faces.K&K Promotions, a company which claims rights to the legendary real-life stuntman’s image and likeness, is suing Disney, Pixar and others for their liberal use of Knievel’s persona in the beloved family film, according to a lawsuit filed by attorneys Randall Jones and Ronald DiNicola in US.

Aug. 10 filing, Johnson alleged that Bell “took advantage” of and “exploited his relationship” with Nichols and has “exerted his undue influence and took control over Ms.

changing their name to Lady A in a gesture of support to the Black Lives Matter movement, news broke that they were suing a blues singer, Anita White, who has been using the stage name Lady A for years.We asked Kurt Dahl, an entertainment lawyer and partner at Vancouver’s Murphy & Company firm — who also plays drums and blogs about the intersection of the two at LawyerDrummer.com — to take us inside the case.“I see a fair amount of artist name disputes come across my desk, but they rarely go to

under the New York Child Victims Act, which opened a one-year look-back period for victims to bring claims that had already exceeded the statute of limitations. In May, the original deadline, which was set to end in August, was extended by five months due to coronavirus.“The prolific abuse by Mr.

Page Six reported that HoodCelebrityy was ending her beef with superstar Cardi B.The Bronx pair were once “besties,” but fell out, according to HoodCelebrityy, because Cardi B resented her for signing a deal with the rapper’s then-manager, Shaft.HoodCelebrityy got her big break in 2015 when Cardi B posted about her song, “Wine Pon It.”