CNN — The Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug and a racketeering co-defendant conducted a melee drug deal during a court hearing, prosecutors said in a motion filed in Atlanta. Fulton County prosecutors said the alleged exchange was captured on courtroom surveillance video Wednesday. The rapper, real name Jeffery Lamar Williams, and Kahlieff Adams are charged with […]
New York CNN — Getty Images has announced a lawsuit against Stability AI, the company behind popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, alleging the tech company has committed copyright infringement. The stock image giant has accused Stability AI of copying and processing millions of its images without obtaining the proper license, according to a press […]
CNN — After convicting former movie producer Harvey Weinstein of rape and sexual assault, a Los Angeles jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict Tuesday on alleged aggravating circumstances that could have increased his sentence. The three counts Weinstein was convicted of — rape, foreign body sexual penetration and forced oral copulation — were […]
CNN — Former film producer Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of three of seven charges against him, including rape, on Monday in a sexual assault trial in Los Angeles in which prosecutors said he had used his Hollywood influence to lure women into private meetings and assault them. He faces a 24-year prison sentence, according […]
New York CNN — Millions of angry Taylor Swift fans have not received tickets for the artist’s latest tour after a widely scrutinized debacle over failed ticket sales. But ticketing giant Ticketmaster announced on Monday that a select group of fans could eventually receive tickets. The lucky bunch are among the fans who signed up […]
New York CNN Business — Senator Amy Klobuchar slammed Ticketmaster in an open letter to its CEO, saying she had “serious concerns” about the company’s operations following a Tuesday service outage that left Taylor Swift fans furious. In the letter to CEO Michael Rapino, the Minnesota Democrat and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on […]
CNN — A jury has found filmmaker Paul Haggis liable in a sexual assault case brought by a former publicist who alleged he raped her after a film premiered in 2013. The jury ordered the Oscar-winning screenwriter to pay Haleigh Breest at least $7.5 million in damages on Thursday, according to attorneys for Breest and […]
CNN — Eight women who say they were sexually assaulted by film producer Harvey Weinstein will testify at his criminal trial in Los Angeles over the next few weeks, prosecutors said in opening statements Monday. “Each of these women came forward independently of each other, and none of them knew each other,” prosecutor Paul Thompson […]
CNN — In a win for Kevin Spacey, a New York jury on Thursday found him not liable for aggravated assault over allegations he picked up actor Anthony Rapp and briefly lay on top of him in a bed after a party in 1986. Jurors deliberated for about an hour and found that Rapp had […]
CNN — The Supreme Court will consider on Wednesday whether the late Andy Warhol infringed a photographer’s copyright when he created a series of screen prints of musician Prince. The case marks the court’s rare foray into the world of visual arts and has caught the attention of those in the art world who argue […]
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