Celebrities on Trial

A federal trial for reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley on charges including bank fraud and tax evasion is set to start Monday in Atlanta. More

May 16, 2022

Amber Heard concluded her direct testimony in a Virginia courtroom with a third day that was centered on the final months of her marriage to Johnny Depp. His lawyers began their cross-examination later in the afternoon. More

May 16, 2022

Nevada judge rules prosecutors can obtain medical records about injuries former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs' girlfriend received in a high-speed crash that killed a woman. More

May 13, 2022

Court TV has exclusively obtained photos of what Johnny Depp's bodyguard referred to in his testimony as a "rearrangement" of Amber Heard's closet. More

May 12, 2022

The trial is on a pre-schedule break this week, but not before Heard took the stand to tell her side of the story on direct examination. More

May 12, 2022

The rapper Gunna was booked into a jail in Atlanta on a racketeering charge Wednesday. More

May 11, 2022

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Mario Batali was found not guilty of indecent assault and battery on Tuesday, following a swift trial in which the celebrity chef waived his right to have a jury decide his fate. The 61-year-old former Food Network personality quickly strode out of the courtroom with his lawyers […] More

May 10, 2022

FROM THE BENCH MA v. Mario Batali – Where’s the jury? By: Judge Ashley Willcott BOSTON (Court TV) — A judge found former celebrity chef Mario Batali NOT GUILTY of indecent assault and battery after hearing testimony in a criminal case involving a woman who accused Batali of forcibly kissing and groping her as they […] More

May 10, 2022

Authorities will not file criminal charges against former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson after he was recorded on video punching a fellow first-class passenger aboard a plane at San Francisco International Airport. More

May 10, 2022

Lawyers for both the defense and prosecution rested Tuesday in celebrity chef Mario Batali’s sexual misconduct trial in Boston. More

May 10, 2022

Rapper Young Thug was one of 28 people indicted Monday in Georgia on conspiracy to violate the state's RICO act and street gang charges, according to jail records. More

May 10, 2022

Keith Raniere's lawyers take aim at U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in new court papers. More

May 9, 2022

Celebrity chef Mario Batali’s pandemic-delayed trial on sexual misconduct allegations opens Monday in Boston. More

May 9, 2022

Chef Mario Batali is accused of forcibly kissing and groping a woman as she took selfies with him in March 2017. More

May 6, 2022

A federal judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit over online harassment filed against actor Alec Baldwin by the family of a Marine who was killed in Afghanistan, saying the Wyoming court did not have jurisdiction over the case. More

May 5, 2022

Heard was back on the witness stand to defend herself against her ex-husband's libel allegations. More

May 5, 2022

After weeks of testimony and nearly 30 witnesses, including Johnny Depp himself, Depp's legal team rested his case-in-chief. More

May 5, 2022

Amber Heard told jurors how difficult it has been for her to relive her troubled marriage to Johnny Depp as part of a libel lawsuit he filed against her. More

May 4, 2022

A judge on Tuesday let Johnny Depp move forward with his libel suit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, after the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star rested his case. More

May 3, 2022

Johnny Depp's agent testified Monday that his ex-wife's 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post describing herself as a victim of domestic abuse was "catastrophic" to his career and coincided with the loss of a $23 million deal for a "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel. More

May 2, 2022

A judge concluded there was enough evidence to convict Ghislaine Maxwell of sex trafficking girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, but gave Maxwell a legal victory by concluding that three conspiracy counts charged the same crime and she can only be sentenced for one. More

April 29, 2022

The victim, Caroline Schwitzky, appeared in the 2016 season of TLC's reality show "90 Day Fiancé." More

April 29, 2022

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Amber Heard pushed to have details of her marriage with fellow actor Johnny Depp included in an op-ed piece that she wrote about domestic violence, even though her lawyers wanted those passages removed from the article, which is now the subject of a libel lawsuit, […] More

April 28, 2022

“She strangled me, she put a gun to my head twice, she was on cocaine and alcohol,” Rob Kardashian said. More

April 28, 2022

We’re back in Fairfax County, Virginia for more of our gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard Defamation Trial. More

April 28, 2022

“Just because I see a female with pink cheeks and pink eyes doesn't mean something happened,” he said in a recorded deposition played for jurors Wednesday. More

April 27, 2022

The New Mexico sheriff investigating the fatal film-set shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin described complacency, disorganization and neglected safety measures in the making of the low-budget movie “Rust.” More

April 27, 2022

A forensic psychologist testified Tuesday that actor Amber Heard suffers from borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder. More

April 26, 2022

Law enforcement officials released video evidence in the ongoing investigation of a fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western movie "Rust" More

April 25, 2022

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Actor Johnny Depp concluded a grueling four days on the witness stand Monday, telling jurors in a calm voice that he filed his libel lawsuit against his ex-wife because it was his best chance to reclaim his reputation, just hours after they heard audio clips of […] More

April 25, 2022