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Donald Trump believes Sean “Diddy” Combs is “half-innocent” out of his sex-trafficking trial, but there will be no presidential pardon right now for the much-accused Grammy winner. And, just two days after Deadline exclusively reported that Trump was “seriously considering” such a pardon and the…

Justin Baldoni's Wayfarer Studios co-founder and billionaire buddy Steve Sarowitz allegedly once swore "to spend up to $100 million to ruin" Blake Lively in her battle with her It Ends with Us co-star and director over what did or did not go down on the film. Well, a lawsuit filed this week in…

A recently amended discrimination, harassment and retaliation lawsuit from Netflix's former director of Kids & Family Acquisitions and Co-Commissions against the streamer has put the company's hardcore adapt or perish culture unflatteringly in the spotlight yet again. On the heels of…

Both Paramount and self-declared Top Gun: Maverick screenwriter Shaun Gray received an unachieved objective result this week in their legal dogfight over the Tom Cruise blockbuster. Following July 18 arguments from the parties in front of Judge Jed S. Rakoff on keeping the four-month-old lawsuit…

After more than a year of fighting in court, the press and behind closed doors, UTA and Michael Kassan have buried the hatchet. “UTA and Michael Kassan have agreed to amicably end their dispute,” a spokesperson for the Beverly Hills agency and Kassan’s top lawyer Sanford Michelman said Thursday…

Seeking an acquittal or a brand new trial, the incarcerated Sean "Diddy" Combs has pretty much already launched an appeal on his conviction of the lesser counts in the “I Need A Girl” performer’s sex-trafficking trial and he hasn't even been sentenced yet. “Sean Combs sits in jail based on…

A valuable – monetarily and sentimentally – stash of as many as six stolen watches belonging to actor Keanu Reeves has been recovered by Chilean authorities in Santiago and turned over to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI will arrange for their return to the John Wick actor…

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump is heavily weighing giving Sean "Diddy" Combs a full presidential pardon ahead of the convicted Bad Boy Records founder's sentencing later this year. Nearly two months after Trump publicly entertained the notion of a Diddy pardon in an Oval Office gaggle, a comprehensive…

Sean "Diddy" Combs may or may not be a lot of things, but the Bad Boy Records founder is certainly persistent in the short term and the long game. Stewing in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center since his arrest on sex-trafficking and other charges last September and awaiting his October…

Donald Trump is seeking an expedited deposition of Rupert Murdoch as part of his defamation litigation against the media titan and the Wall Street Journal. In a motion filed Monday in federal court in Miami, Trump’s legal team is seeking Murdoch’s deposition because of his age, 94, citing that…

In response to a defamation suit filed today by France’s President & First Lady, Candace Owens is doubling down on her seemingly fanatical assertion that Brigitte Macron was born a man – and she’s bringing Donald Trump with her. Even with the legal action from Emmanuel Macron and his wife, no…

The reverberations of Matthew Perry's overdose death continued Wednesday when one of the doctors who supplied the Friends star with ketamine entered a long-expected guilty plea to four counts of distribution. Following up on a deal with the feds last month, Dr. Salvador Plasencia showed up in…