Nicki Minaj and husband Kenneth Petty have been ordered to pay $500,000 to a security guard over an alleged backstage beating that left the man with a broken jaw, a Los Angeles judge ruled Friday.
Security staffer Thomas Weidenmuller sued the “Barbie World” rapper and her husband two years ago, alleging Petty ambushed him from behind and sucker punched him in the face as retribution for Weidenmuller stepping in to defend a female security guard during a dispute with Minaj at a 2019 concert in Frankfurt, Germany.
According to Weidenmuller, Minaj became...
Security staffer Thomas Weidenmuller sued the “Barbie World” rapper and her husband two years ago, alleging Petty ambushed him from behind and sucker punched him in the face as retribution for Weidenmuller stepping in to defend a female security guard during a dispute with Minaj at a 2019 concert in Frankfurt, Germany.
According to Weidenmuller, Minaj became...
- 3/23/2024
- by Nancy Dillon
- Rollingstone.com
Do The Challenge castmates Laurel Stucky and Nurys Mateo have some unresolved issues between them?
Laurel and Nurys appeared as castmates on the previous season, Ride or Dies, before returning to different roles for Season 39.
They appeared in the Battle For a New Champion season, where Nurys was in the main cast, and Laurel was among the 10 former Challenge champs who showed up at The Arena for eliminations.
More recently, they’ve appeared in MTV’s airing of the Season 39 reunion and didn’t have any arguments during the first part of the special.
However, there may be more to the story than was previously shared during the reunion.
Laurel recently took to social media with an interesting message suggesting something might be happening in terms of them being amicable.
Laurel called out Nurys for her online activity
A recent tweet from Laurel after The Challenge Season 39 reunion suggests that...
Laurel and Nurys appeared as castmates on the previous season, Ride or Dies, before returning to different roles for Season 39.
They appeared in the Battle For a New Champion season, where Nurys was in the main cast, and Laurel was among the 10 former Challenge champs who showed up at The Arena for eliminations.
More recently, they’ve appeared in MTV’s airing of the Season 39 reunion and didn’t have any arguments during the first part of the special.
However, there may be more to the story than was previously shared during the reunion.
Laurel recently took to social media with an interesting message suggesting something might be happening in terms of them being amicable.
Laurel called out Nurys for her online activity
A recent tweet from Laurel after The Challenge Season 39 reunion suggests that...
- 3/3/2024
- by Matt Couden
- Monsters and Critics
Exclusive: Husband-and-wife duo Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have landed roles together in a movie for the first time in two decades, with The King of Queens creator Michael J. Weithorn penning and directing Connescence.
Principal photography kicked off this week on the movie from Victoria Hill and Greg Clark’s Fibonacci Films, with Bacon and Sedgwick playing the leads, joined by White Lotus star Brittany O’Grady and Oscar-nominated The Fabelmans actor Judd Hirsch.
Bacon plays Stan Olszewski, a sharp, funny, but chronically underachieving security guard, who breaks up an attempted robbery at the home of Cynthia Rand (Sedgwick), a successful urologist married to brilliant former Watergate prosecutor Warren Rand (Judd Hirsch). From this chance encounter grows a charged and dynamic friendship – first as late-night text sessions filled with humor and intimate revelations, growing into something that shakes the foundation of both their lives.
Bacon and Sedgwick, who married in...
Principal photography kicked off this week on the movie from Victoria Hill and Greg Clark’s Fibonacci Films, with Bacon and Sedgwick playing the leads, joined by White Lotus star Brittany O’Grady and Oscar-nominated The Fabelmans actor Judd Hirsch.
Bacon plays Stan Olszewski, a sharp, funny, but chronically underachieving security guard, who breaks up an attempted robbery at the home of Cynthia Rand (Sedgwick), a successful urologist married to brilliant former Watergate prosecutor Warren Rand (Judd Hirsch). From this chance encounter grows a charged and dynamic friendship – first as late-night text sessions filled with humor and intimate revelations, growing into something that shakes the foundation of both their lives.
Bacon and Sedgwick, who married in...
- 1/30/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Nicki Minaj’s husband is being put under house arrest.
On Wednesday, journalist Meghann Cuniff reported that a federal judge in Los Angeles ordered Kenneth Petty to serve up to 120 days in home detention over threats made toward rapper Offset.
Read More: Offset Clears Up His False Cardi B Cheating Allegation: ‘I Love Her To Death’
“Mr. Petty was recorded on video making threatening remarks towards a specific individual while in the company of someone with a criminal record. This recent violation conduct raises concerns over Mr. Petty’s willingness to comply with the Court’s orders,” the signed order reads.
Thanks to everyone who @'d me on this tonight. You all are an amazing case alert system.
For background, U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald in July 2022 sentenced Petty to three years probation for failing to register as a sex offender. https://t.co/HoORyUYyNR
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) September...
On Wednesday, journalist Meghann Cuniff reported that a federal judge in Los Angeles ordered Kenneth Petty to serve up to 120 days in home detention over threats made toward rapper Offset.
Read More: Offset Clears Up His False Cardi B Cheating Allegation: ‘I Love Her To Death’
“Mr. Petty was recorded on video making threatening remarks towards a specific individual while in the company of someone with a criminal record. This recent violation conduct raises concerns over Mr. Petty’s willingness to comply with the Court’s orders,” the signed order reads.
Thanks to everyone who @'d me on this tonight. You all are an amazing case alert system.
For background, U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald in July 2022 sentenced Petty to three years probation for failing to register as a sex offender. https://t.co/HoORyUYyNR
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) September...
- 9/21/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
That “Shake It Off” copyright lawsuit against Taylor Swift has been dismissed by a judge.
The artist was sued in 2017 by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler who claimed Swift lifted her lyrics from their 2001 track, “Playas Gon’ Play”, performed by 3Lw.
In “Shake It Off”, Swift sings, “‘Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.” Meanwhile, “Playas Gon’ Play” features the line, “playas, they gonna play” and “haters, they gonna hate.”
Earlier this year, Swift insisted the lyrics to her 2014 hit were “written entirely” by her and no one else, and now judge Michael Fitzgerald has taken her side in the case, Sky News reported.
Fitzgerald dismissed the lawsuit “in its entirety” on Monday and with prejudice, which means Hall and Butler won’t be able to refile.
Read More: Taylor Swift Explains Directing Was ‘Sort Of’ An Accident
“Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation,...
The artist was sued in 2017 by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler who claimed Swift lifted her lyrics from their 2001 track, “Playas Gon’ Play”, performed by 3Lw.
In “Shake It Off”, Swift sings, “‘Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.” Meanwhile, “Playas Gon’ Play” features the line, “playas, they gonna play” and “haters, they gonna hate.”
Earlier this year, Swift insisted the lyrics to her 2014 hit were “written entirely” by her and no one else, and now judge Michael Fitzgerald has taken her side in the case, Sky News reported.
Fitzgerald dismissed the lawsuit “in its entirety” on Monday and with prejudice, which means Hall and Butler won’t be able to refile.
Read More: Taylor Swift Explains Directing Was ‘Sort Of’ An Accident
“Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
Update: Taylor Swift has shaken off a copyright lawsuit that alleged she had plagiarized the lead song to her 1989 album. The two songwriters, Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, dropped the suit and said they would dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning that they will not be able to refile, according to Reuters.
A trial for the case had originally been scheduled to start on January 17. The court papers filed on Monday did not state if there was a settlement involved between the parties.
The end of the lawsuit also gives way for Swift to continue re-recording her album.
Previously, September 3, 2020: A Los Angeles federal court judge has decided that two songwriters who claim their lyrics were pilfered by Taylor Swift for her massive 2014 hit Shake It Off may have a case.
US District Judge Michael Fitzgerald said that songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler “have sufficiently alleged a protectable...
A trial for the case had originally been scheduled to start on January 17. The court papers filed on Monday did not state if there was a settlement involved between the parties.
The end of the lawsuit also gives way for Swift to continue re-recording her album.
Previously, September 3, 2020: A Los Angeles federal court judge has decided that two songwriters who claim their lyrics were pilfered by Taylor Swift for her massive 2014 hit Shake It Off may have a case.
US District Judge Michael Fitzgerald said that songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler “have sufficiently alleged a protectable...
- 12/13/2022
- by Bruce Haring and Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
A copyright suit against Taylor Swift from two songwriters accusing her of lifting the lyrics to her 2014 hit single “Shake It Off” has been dropped a month before trial.
A federal judge dismissed the case after the two sides agreed to resolve the suit in a settlement, according to court documents filed on Monday in California federal court. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
Representatives for Swift didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler sued Swift in 2018, claiming she stole the lyrics to her song about players playing and haters hating from 3Lw’s 2001 hit “Playas Gon‘ Play.”
The girl group sang “Playas, they gonna play / And haters, they gonna hate,” while Swift sang “[T]he players gonna play, play, play, play, play and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.”
The deal comes a month...
A copyright suit against Taylor Swift from two songwriters accusing her of lifting the lyrics to her 2014 hit single “Shake It Off” has been dropped a month before trial.
A federal judge dismissed the case after the two sides agreed to resolve the suit in a settlement, according to court documents filed on Monday in California federal court. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
Representatives for Swift didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler sued Swift in 2018, claiming she stole the lyrics to her song about players playing and haters hating from 3Lw’s 2001 hit “Playas Gon‘ Play.”
The girl group sang “Playas, they gonna play / And haters, they gonna hate,” while Swift sang “[T]he players gonna play, play, play, play, play and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.”
The deal comes a month...
- 12/12/2022
- by Winston Cho
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Taylor Swift and the two songwriters who accused her of copyright infringement on “Shake It Off” have agreed to dismiss the lawsuit a month before it was set to head to trial.
The decision was announced in court filings Monday, Dec. 12, with all parties involved asking the judge for an order “dismissing the action in its entirety.” U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning the case can’t be brought again.
The filings did not include any reason for, or explanation behind, the agreement to dismiss the case.
The decision was announced in court filings Monday, Dec. 12, with all parties involved asking the judge for an order “dismissing the action in its entirety.” U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning the case can’t be brought again.
The filings did not include any reason for, or explanation behind, the agreement to dismiss the case.
- 12/12/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Click here to read the full article.
Jimmy Fallon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Justin Bieber have been sued in a proposed class action accusing them and a host of other celebrities who promoted Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible tokens of fraud.
The suit claims the celebrities misled their followers into buying Bayc NFTs, among other unregistered securities issued by Yuga Labs, to pump up their value, causing buyers to purchase “losing investments at drastically inflated prices.”
“The truth is that the Company’s entire business model relies on using insidious marketing and promotional activities from A-list celebrities that are highly compensated (without disclosing such), to increase demand of the Yuga securities by convincing potential retail investors that the price of these digital assets would appreciate,” reads the complaint filed on Thursday in California federal court.
The suit also names Madonna, Kevin Hart, Stephen Curry, Snoop Dogg, Serena Williams, Post Malone, The Weeknd,...
Jimmy Fallon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Justin Bieber have been sued in a proposed class action accusing them and a host of other celebrities who promoted Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible tokens of fraud.
The suit claims the celebrities misled their followers into buying Bayc NFTs, among other unregistered securities issued by Yuga Labs, to pump up their value, causing buyers to purchase “losing investments at drastically inflated prices.”
“The truth is that the Company’s entire business model relies on using insidious marketing and promotional activities from A-list celebrities that are highly compensated (without disclosing such), to increase demand of the Yuga securities by convincing potential retail investors that the price of these digital assets would appreciate,” reads the complaint filed on Thursday in California federal court.
The suit also names Madonna, Kevin Hart, Stephen Curry, Snoop Dogg, Serena Williams, Post Malone, The Weeknd,...
- 12/9/2022
- by Winston Cho
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Click here to read the full article.
A federal judge dismissed on Wednesday a lawsuit against celebrity endorsers of the cryptocurrency EthereumMax accusing them of fraudulently misleading their followers into buying Emax tokens only to sell their stakes once its value was inflated.
The proposed class action alleged the celebrity promoters, including Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather and Paul Pierce, conspired with the founders of the cryptocurrency to dupe investors into purchasing Emax tokens using their endorsements in a pump-and-dump scheme.
While the case raises “legitimate concerns” over the ability of celebrities to persuade undiscerning followers to buy “snake oil with unprecedented ease and reach,” U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald found that there’s an expectation for “investors to act reasonably before basing their bets on the zeitgeist of the moment.”
The ruling spells trouble for other suits against endorsers of crypto platforms. In November, Ftx investors sued a host of celebrities,...
A federal judge dismissed on Wednesday a lawsuit against celebrity endorsers of the cryptocurrency EthereumMax accusing them of fraudulently misleading their followers into buying Emax tokens only to sell their stakes once its value was inflated.
The proposed class action alleged the celebrity promoters, including Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather and Paul Pierce, conspired with the founders of the cryptocurrency to dupe investors into purchasing Emax tokens using their endorsements in a pump-and-dump scheme.
While the case raises “legitimate concerns” over the ability of celebrities to persuade undiscerning followers to buy “snake oil with unprecedented ease and reach,” U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald found that there’s an expectation for “investors to act reasonably before basing their bets on the zeitgeist of the moment.”
The ruling spells trouble for other suits against endorsers of crypto platforms. In November, Ftx investors sued a host of celebrities,...
- 12/8/2022
- by Winston Cho
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Taylor Swift claims two rival experts tapped to testify at her upcoming “Shake It Off” copyright infringement trial are “not qualified” to take the witness stand and should be blocked by the “gatekeeper” judge.
In a new motion obtained by Rolling Stone, the superstar argues one of the challenged witnesses has failed to give a legitimate basis for his claim that 50 of “Shake It Off’s” profits are attributable to the “players play” and “haters hate” phrases that songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler allege were stolen from their 2001 song “Playas Gon’ Play,...
In a new motion obtained by Rolling Stone, the superstar argues one of the challenged witnesses has failed to give a legitimate basis for his claim that 50 of “Shake It Off’s” profits are attributable to the “players play” and “haters hate” phrases that songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler allege were stolen from their 2001 song “Playas Gon’ Play,...
- 9/7/2022
- by Nancy Dillon
- Rollingstone.com
Nicki Minaj’s husband Kenneth Petty was sentenced on Wednesday to a year under home confinement, along with three years’ probation and a 55,000 fine, for failing to register in California as a sex offender.
Petty took a plea deal last year, admitting that he failed to register as a sex offender after he moved to California with Minaj following their 2019 marriage. Petty was convicted of attempted rape in New York in the early ‘90s, serving over four years in prison. Through that conviction, Petty is required to register as a sex offender wherever he lives.
Petty took a plea deal last year, admitting that he failed to register as a sex offender after he moved to California with Minaj following their 2019 marriage. Petty was convicted of attempted rape in New York in the early ‘90s, serving over four years in prison. Through that conviction, Petty is required to register as a sex offender wherever he lives.
- 7/7/2022
- by Ethan Millman
- Rollingstone.com
Taylor Swift wants a federal judge to dump his recent ruling allowing a copyright infringement lawsuit over her hit song “Shake It Off” to proceed to trial.
The singer argues in a new court filing that the judge failed to address something called the “extrinsic test” when he decided Dec. 9 that the two songwriters who claim she stole their lyrics and concept had presented a “genuine dispute” that should be resolved by a jury.
Songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler have alleged in their underlying complaint that their 2001 song “Playas...
The singer argues in a new court filing that the judge failed to address something called the “extrinsic test” when he decided Dec. 9 that the two songwriters who claim she stole their lyrics and concept had presented a “genuine dispute” that should be resolved by a jury.
Songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler have alleged in their underlying complaint that their 2001 song “Playas...
- 12/27/2021
- by Nancy Dillon
- Rollingstone.com
Taylor Swift’s years-long legal battle over the “Shake It Off” lyrics will stretch on into at least 2022 after a federal judge ruled Thursday that she must stand trial in the copyright case.
The singer was first sued in 2017 by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, who claimed her 2014 hit “Shake It Off” lifted lyrics from their 2001 song for 3Lw, “Playas Gon’ Play”; specifically, both songs include variations of the phrases, “playas gonna play” and “haters gonna hate.”
The lawsuit was first dismissed in February 2018 by a U.S. District...
The singer was first sued in 2017 by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, who claimed her 2014 hit “Shake It Off” lifted lyrics from their 2001 song for 3Lw, “Playas Gon’ Play”; specifically, both songs include variations of the phrases, “playas gonna play” and “haters gonna hate.”
The lawsuit was first dismissed in February 2018 by a U.S. District...
- 12/10/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Waiting for the Barbarians
Colombian auteur Ciro Guerra branches out into a high-profile international co-production for his fifth film, an adaptation of South African Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee’s masterpiece Waiting for the Barbarians. Set to star Oscar winner Mark Rylance alongside the likes of Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson, Coetzee’s post-colonial allegory (previously adapted into an opera by Philip Glass) is produced by Andrea Iervolino’s TaTaTu, Olga Segura, Michael Fitzgerald, and Monika Bacardi of Ambi Media Group. Celebrated Dp Chris Menges is lensing the feature.…...
Colombian auteur Ciro Guerra branches out into a high-profile international co-production for his fifth film, an adaptation of South African Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee’s masterpiece Waiting for the Barbarians. Set to star Oscar winner Mark Rylance alongside the likes of Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson, Coetzee’s post-colonial allegory (previously adapted into an opera by Philip Glass) is produced by Andrea Iervolino’s TaTaTu, Olga Segura, Michael Fitzgerald, and Monika Bacardi of Ambi Media Group. Celebrated Dp Chris Menges is lensing the feature.…...
- 1/7/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Three years after N.W.A manager Jerry Heller sued the producers of the Straight Outta Compton biopic for $110 million – and over two years after Heller died at the age of 75 – a judge has dismissed the copyright infringement suit.
Heller initially sued N.W.A members and biopic producers Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, as well as Universal and the Eazy-e estate, in October 2015 alleging that Straight Outta Compton used his name and likeness without permission and that he, as portrayed by Paul Giamatti in the film, was painted as...
Heller initially sued N.W.A members and biopic producers Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, as well as Universal and the Eazy-e estate, in October 2015 alleging that Straight Outta Compton used his name and likeness without permission and that he, as portrayed by Paul Giamatti in the film, was painted as...
- 12/22/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Late Nwa manager Jerry Heller's lawsuit against Universal over the 2015 film Straight Outta Compton has been dismissed by a California federal judge.
The legal fight began in 2015 when Heller sued Universal for defamation and copyright infringement, among other claims. U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald in June 2016 tossed most of the suit. After Heller's death a few months later, his estate took over and in September of that year filed a third amended complaint for copyright infringement against Universal and for unjust enrichment against S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus and Xenon Pictures, with whom Heller claimed to have ...
The legal fight began in 2015 when Heller sued Universal for defamation and copyright infringement, among other claims. U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald in June 2016 tossed most of the suit. After Heller's death a few months later, his estate took over and in September of that year filed a third amended complaint for copyright infringement against Universal and for unjust enrichment against S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus and Xenon Pictures, with whom Heller claimed to have ...
- 12/21/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Late Nwa manager Jerry Heller's lawsuit against Universal over the 2015 film Straight Outta Compton has been dismissed by a California federal judge.
The legal fight began in 2015 when Heller sued Universal for defamation and copyright infringement, among other claims. U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald in June 2016 tossed most of the suit. After Heller's death a few months later, his estate took over and in September of that year filed a third amended complaint for copyright infringement against Universal and for unjust enrichment against S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus and Xenon Pictures, with whom Heller claimed to have ...
The legal fight began in 2015 when Heller sued Universal for defamation and copyright infringement, among other claims. U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald in June 2016 tossed most of the suit. After Heller's death a few months later, his estate took over and in September of that year filed a third amended complaint for copyright infringement against Universal and for unjust enrichment against S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus and Xenon Pictures, with whom Heller claimed to have ...
- 12/21/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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