Jimmy Kimmel is set to host the 96th Academy Awards, marking the fourth time and second straight year that the Jimmy Kimmel Live! mainstay has accepted the gig. The ceremony is March 10 on ABC.
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Tim Westwood has been interviewed by the Metropolitan Police for the fourth time, according to new reports.First reported by BBC news, the interview with the disc jockey comes following allegations of sexual assault that arose last year, and relate to several allegations of non-recent sexual offences allegedly committed by a man.Westwood has consistently denied all accusations made against him.According to the new report, the Met Police stated that the new investigation is related to instances of sexual assault which all took place between 1982 and 2016.Officers also confirmed to the outlet that they interviewed a 66-year-old man under caution yesterday (October 25), and also interviewed a man under caution in March, April and July this year. At time of writing, there have been no arrests made.The report of the new interviews by police comes in light of investigations launched by BBC News and The Guardian, which uncovered that 18 women were accusing Westwood of sexual misconduct and abuse.
He denied those allegations.In the claims – which arose last April – several women accused the former Radio 1 and 1Xtra DJ of predatory and unwanted sexual behaviour and touching, with incidents taking place between 1992 and 2017.He was also accused of abusing his position in the music industry, and some of the women stated that they met the DJ when they were under 18. One claimed that she was 14 years old when Westwood first had sex with her.He stepped down from his Capital Xtra radio show that same month.
Jimmy Kimmel is set to host the 96th Academy Awards, marking the fourth time and second straight year that the Jimmy Kimmel Live! mainstay has accepted the gig. The ceremony is March 10 on ABC.
Lily Allen is calling out Russell Brand for a rape joke made at her expense between himself, Jimmy Carr, Noel Fielding and Jonathan Ross.
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are doing their own thing in the wake of his criminal court case.
Tom Ellis has welcomed his first child with wife Meaghan Oppenheimer, making him a dad-of-four. The 44 year old actor, famed for appearing in shows such as Miranda and Lucifer, announced the arrival of his and Meaghan's baby daughter Dolly on Instagram on Friday morning, following her birth on 8 November. Tom shared a photograph of him and Meaghan, 37, gazing down at their newborn in an incubator at the hospital and revealed she was born via surrogate on Wednesday.
against former Grammy Awards CEO Neil Portnow, accusing him of a 2018 sexual assault, and against the Recording Academy for negligence.The woman, who was not named, filed the lawsuit in state Supreme Court in Manhattan under the Adult Survivors Act.The measure, passed last year, created a temporary window for those who allege sexual assault to file past the state’s usual deadlines.In the lawsuit, the woman, described as an internationally known musician who once played at Carnegie Hall, said she met Portnow in early 2018 and had set up a meeting to interview him at his hotel in New York City later that year.She said he gave her something to drink at the meeting that made her intermittently lose consciousness and that he then proceeded to assault her.A spokesperson for Portnow, who stepped down as the CEO in 2019, said in an email that the accusations were “completely false” and “undoubtedly motivated by Mr.
Neil Portnow, the former chairman and chief executive of the Recording Academy, has been sued for sexual assault, The New York Times reports. The accusation was filed by Jane Doe in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, who accuses Portnow of drugging and raping her in June 2018. The Recording Academy is also listed as a defendant.
Former X Factor judge L.A. Reid has been sued for sexual assault, as an ex-colleague has accused him of attacking “her on a private jet.” A lawsuit against the music guru was filed on Wednesday, 8 November, at the Federal District Court in Manhattan. L.A has worked with many music stars throughout his career, and he worked on The X Factor for the first two series back in 2011.
Reuters, a lawsuit has been filed against the American record executive, A&R representative, and record producer, accusing him of two alleged incidents of sexual assault over two decades ago.In the court records obtained by the outlet, it is stated that former music executive Drew Dixon filed the lawsuit in Manhattan’s federal court on Wednesday (November 8). The plaintiff, aged 67, is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages and claims that Reid derailed her career after he became Arista Records’ chief executive.As reported by the outlet, a representative for Reid did not immediately respond to requests for comment, and lawyers who have represented him on recent legal matters have also not yet provided comment on the accusations.The alleged assaults outlined in the filing include two that occurred in 2001, during the time that the pair were working together.
Music mogul L.A. Reid has been accused of sexual assault and retaliatory behavior by a former executive who worked with him at Arista.
Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Antonio L.A. Reid, cofounder of LaFace Records and former head of Arista, Epic and Def Jam Records, has been accused of sexual assault and harassment in a lawsuit by former Arista executive Drew Dixon. The suit, which was filed Wednesday in Manhattan’s Federal District Court and obtained by Variety, claims that Reid assaulted her twice during her time at Arista in the early 2000s.
Michaela Zee Russell Brand has been accused of sexual assault by a film extra during the production of “Arthur” in July 2010. In a lawsuit, filed Friday in the New York Supreme Court and obtained by Variety, a woman — referred to as Jane Doe — said that Brand “appeared intoxicated, smelled of alcohol, and was carrying a bottle of vodka on set” prior to the assault. Brand, who played the titular role in 2011’s “Arthur,” then proceeded to expose himself to the complainant and in full view of the cast and crew, the lawsuit states.
Russell Brand is facing another sexual assault allegation.
Armie Hammer has returned to social media.
Russell Brand has been accused of sexual assault by a film extra during the making of his 2010 comedy Arthur.
Three men have been arrested in connection to a murder-for-hire plot that killed a Florida teenager last year. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida via a press release on Thursday, Lenard White Jr., 36 (left), Sheldon Robinson (top inset), 21, and Keshawn Woods (lower inset), 22, were all indicted on several charges — including murder for hire and conspiracy to commit murder for hire. This all dates back to a brutal killing last Fe
Steven Tyler is facing yet another horrific lawsuit!
The season of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip in Morocco may never see the light of day following those sexual assault allegations!
Another woman is coming forward with a sexual assault lawsuit against Steven Tyler.
Armie Hammer is back on social media…
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has been accused of sexual assault by a second woman.Rolling Stone reported that in a lawsuit filed in New York today (November 2), Jeanne Bellino claims that Tyler violently assaulted her twice in one day in the summer of 1975, when she was 17.Bellino, who is a former child model, says it was the only day she ever encountered Tyler, and the lawsuit lists the allegations as gender-motivated violence. She is seeking unspecified damages.The suit claims that Bellino and Tyler were walking to the Warwick Hotel in New York after a fashion show, when Bellino questioned Tyler about a song lyric, which frustrated him, and he forced her into a phone booth.“While holding her captive, Tyler stuck his tongue down her throat, and put his hands upon her body, her breasts, her buttocks, and her genitals, moving and removing clothing and pinning her against the wall of the phone booth,” the suit alleges.“As Tyler was mauling and groping Plaintiff, he was humping her pretending to have sex with Plaintiff.