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Pharrell Williams is demanding justice and accountability.

took the stand Monday in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the fired police officer charged in George Floyd's death. He testified Chauvin's actions violated Minneapolis police policy.The jury also heard from another police official, Inspector Katie Blackwell, who oversaw the department's training.

Tahar Rahim is one of Hollywood’s biggest breakout stars of 2021. After first appearing in streaming shows like and, the 39-year-old French Algerian actor first has emerged as a leading man with opposite Jodie Foster and the true-crime drama, .In the latter, which is now streaming on Netflix, Rahim portrays the 1970s “Bikini Killer” and fraudster, Charles Sobhraj, who was responsible for murdering over a dozen of Western tourists along the Hippie Trail of Southeast Asia.

YouTubers Alan and Alex Stokes have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor false imprisonment and reporting false emergencies in connection to a series of fake bank robbery pranks orchestrated back in October 2019.According to a press release from the District Attorney's Office of Orange County, California, the popular content creators «each faced a maximum sentence of five years in jail if convicted on all counts.»«The guilty pleas were in exchange for a judge reducing the felony false imprisonment

Amanda Seyfried has just locked in her next big role as Elizabeth Holmes, the former founder and CEO of Theranos, in the Hulu limited series . The actress replaces Kate McKinnon, who was originally cast in the true-crime drama.Adapted from the ABC Radio podcast about the rise and fall of Holmes and her Silicon Valley-based company, will chronicle the true story of an American businesswoman who managed to raise billions of dollars over false claims of developing a revolutionary blood test.

NXIVM, has been cast in the Disney+ original series , starring Ewan McGregor as the Jedi Master. The Australian actress and singer-songwriter most recently appeared on TV in the HBO docuseries , which chronicled her escape from NXIVM and her attempts to get others out while exposing founder Keith Raniere’s personal development company as a pyramid scheme and cult.  Prior to being associated with NXIVM, Piesse was most famous for being part of the film franchise.

true-crime documentary,. The series features a previously unreleased, multi-hour interview conducted with Gacy from prison as well as new interviews with one of his closest confidantes and his second ex-wife.

Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin as well as ringleader William “Rick” Singer, were charged in a massive college admissions cheating scam in March 2019. The charges were the end result of an ongoing investigation dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues,” named after the 1999 teen film starring James Van Der Beek.

Paramount+ docuseries “For Heaven’s Sake.”The eight-episode arc follows creators and stars Mike Mildon and Jackson Rowe as they probe at the 1934 disappearance of Mike’s great-great-uncle, Harold Heaven. “It really was just a campfire story my entire life,” Mildon, 26, told The Post. “I don’t remember exactly how old I was [when I first heard Harold’s story].

Michael Jordan’s legacy, with this time focused specifically on the murder of his father, James Jordan, and the trial of two teenagers that followed.

ill-fated Fyre Festival, Billy McFarland, is giving his first interview from prison.The Fyre Festival made headlines in April 2017 when hundreds of festival-goers — who paid up to $100,000 for tickets and were promised gourmet food and accommodations — were left stranded on the island after arriving to an unfinished site and a lack of food and staffing, which quickly turned into chaos.

college admissions scandal, which ultimately sent actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin to jail, is the subject of a new Netflix documentary called. The title is a reference to the code name the FBI gave the investigation that exposed a scheme to fraud elite colleges around the nation.

Diane Neal, Stephanie March and Elisabeth Rohm are among the standouts for playing Assistant District Attorneys. Neal and March both appeared on as Casey Novak and Alexandra Cabot, respectively, while Rohm starred on the original series as Serena Southerlyn.

, Dylan Farrow is sharing her thanks to her supporters. In the four-part series, she claims that her adopted father, Woody Allen, sexually molested her when she was seven years old. “Thank you to everyone for their kind words, the outpouring of support means more to me than I can say.

Marilyn Manson is the subject of an investigation by authorities. Amid multiple allegations of abuse and battery leveled by several women in recent weeks, police are looking into alleged incidents of domestic violence involving the rocker, ET can confirm.«The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Special Victims Bureau is investigating allegation(s) of domestic violence involving Mr.

Woody Allen, are the subject of, HBO’s all-new, four-part docuseries from investigative filmmakers Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering and Amy Herdy. The explosive series reveals the private story behind one of Hollywood’s most notorious public scandals involving the director of films like, and .Allen and actress Mia Farrow were in a relationship for 12 years from 1980 to 1992 and during that time, the two adopted Dylan and Moses and had one biological child, Ronan, together.

true-crime docuseries,, which pieces together her final days while staying at the Cecil Hotel. The four-part series directed by Joe Berlinger also shines a light on the Los Angeles location’s nefarious past, which contributed to the many conspiracy theories attempting to explain what happened to Lam, including wrongfully accusing singer Pablo Vergara, who was known as Morbid, of somehow being involved.

true-crime documentary,. The four-part series directed by Joe Berlinger explores how the notorious Los Angeles establishment became associated with suicide and murder through the lens of guest Elisa Lam’s disappearance and mysterious death in 2013. Amy Price, the hotel’s general manager from 2007 to 2017, opens up to ET about why she is speaking out for the first time about her experiences working at the Cecil.

place like Cecil Hotel, which has been the location of many murders, overdoses and suicides and even inspired.

YFN Lucci is no longer behind bars.

Renée Zellweger is getting into true crime.The two-time Oscar winner has signed on to star and executive produce NBC's a six-episode true-crime drama series inspired by a real-life story, the network announced Thursday. This marks Zellweger's broadcast TV debut project and has received a straight-to-series pickup.It's based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria that resulted in her husband Russ’ conviction.

The 23-year-old is accused of fatally shooting his cousin last month in Georgia.The DeKalb County Police Department announced they had arrested the troubled artist — whose real name is Ricky Hawk — in a statement posted to Twitter Monday afternoon.«Today, Ricky Hawk, 23, was arrested for the murder of his cousin Frederick Rooks, 34,» the DeKalb County PD statement read.

true-crime docuseries, the premium cable network has also produced a number of chilling and fascinating dramatized versions of real-life events.

Luke Evans in 2021 thanks to the limited series  and, and the film with Gary Oldman and Evangeline Lilly all coming out the first of the year.

, co-directed by Zackary Drucker and co-executive produced by Jay Duplass, who opened up to ET about telling her story decades after she became a media sensation and the target of unwanted attention over her transgender identity.  “In many ways, this story has been lost to the annals of time,” Drucker says of Carmichael’s life and brief career as an entrepreneur who wanted to revolutionize the auto industry with a fuel-efficient, three-wheeled car known as the Dale.

Ted Bundy, who was executed 32 years ago on Jan. 24, 1989 for stalking, raping and mutilating women throughout a horrifying period in the 1970s.But the bronzed bombshell’s fascination runs deep, leading her to pen a fictional novel, “Honeytrap,” which reimagines Bundy’s monstrous crimes with a twist.

is the latest project to focus on Richard Ramirez and his Los Angeles killing spree that took place between June 1984 and August 1985.

latest true-crime docuseries to captivate audiences by revisiting the twisted story of Australian serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke.

Discovery+ is the latest streaming platform to enter the ever-growing and competitive digital space. It’s the only place viewers can get their fix alongside an endless vault of episodes or fill up on plenty of Food Network offerings while enjoying a mix of true crime and paranormal adventures.

, which takes viewers inside the most dangerous black markets on the planet. As she tackles what’s been called an “untouchable smuggling story,” the journalist sits down with Carole Baskin and Doc Antle of fame.

true crime special. ET has viewers' first look at, coming to Oxygen in January. According to the network, which recently announced its 2021 slate of crime programming, “there are nearly 40,000 open cases in which the victim of a violent crime remains unidentified and loved ones are never returned to their families.

true crime docuseries,, so compelling is that it ultimately flips the genre on its head. It’s not as much of a whodunnit as it is an emotional journey about overcoming trauma and one son trying to understand the legacy his dead mother left behind. The four-part series directed by first-time filmmaker Madison Hamburg follows his own investigation into the unsolved murder of his mother, Barbara Hamburg, who was violently killed outside her home in Connecticut in 2010.

and, Sarah Paulson is no stranger to playing interesting, dynamic women. Her role as Diane, a loving but secretive mother in the Hulu thriller,, and her upcoming portrayal of Linda Tripp in, the third season of, are prime examples of that.

continues to turn back time as the anthology series executive produced by revisits true events that shaped the American landscape. Following and, the third season depicts the 1998 impeachment trial of . According to FX, the series will go inside the national scandal that made, and key figures in the country’s first impeachment proceedings in over a century.

true-crime series.A spinoff of , which focused on Pablo Escobar’s reign as Colombia’s now-infamous drug lord,  recounts the origin of the modern war on drugs in the country. Its first two seasons starred as Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo as it chronicled the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1980s.

Bad Bunny is set to make his acting debut in the upcoming season of. The 26-year-old rapper will play Arturo “Kitty” Paez, a member of Ramon Arellano Felix’s gang of rich, well-connected kids from upper society who fell in with the cartel called “Narco Juniors” in Netflix’s ongoing true-crime series focused on the illegal drug trade in Mexico.