Celebrities on Trial

“The next move, if I don't walk away ... it's going to be a bloodbath, like it was on the island,” Depp says on the recording. More

April 25, 2022

Authorities were investigating Thursday after former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson was recorded on video punching a fellow passenger on board a plane at San Francisco International Airport. More

April 21, 2022

Attorneys for actor Amber Heard resumed their cross-examination of her ex-husband Johnny Depp in a Virginia courtroom on Thursday, taking aim at his alcohol and drug use as well as texts he sent to a friend about wanting to kill and defile his then-wife. More

April 21, 2022

Chanley Painter is in the courtroom daily and will join host Vinnie Politan with in person details about the testimony of Johnny Depp. More

April 21, 2022

Former star of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" NeNe Leakes sued the companies behind the show on Wednesday, alleging that they fostered and tolerated a hostile and racist work environment. More

April 20, 2022

By MATTHEW BARAKAT and BEN FINLEY Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Actor Johnny Depp scoffed at the notion during court testimony Wednesday that his constant quarrels with ex-wife Amber Heard would ever prompt him to hit her, and instead portrayed Heard as an abusive partner who threw bottles at him, faked domestic violence and […] More

April 20, 2022

Rapper A$AP Rocky was taken into custody Wednesday morning at Los Angeles International Airport in connection with a shooting in Hollywood last year, authorities said. More

April 20, 2022

New Mexico workplace safety regulators on Wednesday issued the maximum possible fine against a film production company for firearms safety failures on the set of “Rust” where a cinematographer was fatally shot in October 2021 by actor and producer Alec Baldwin. More

April 20, 2022

Ezra Miller became irate after being asked to leave a get-together at a Big Island home and threw a chair, hitting a woman in the forehead, according to police. More

April 20, 2022

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Jenner falsely accused Blac Chyna of physically abusing Jenner’s son Rob Kardashian in a broader effort to force the couple’s reality show “Rob & Chyna” to be canceled, Chyna’s lawyer said Tuesday during opening statements in a Los Angeles trial. Chyna, a model and […] More

April 19, 2022

Actor Johnny Depp took the stand Tuesday in his libel lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, whom he says falsely accused him of domestic abuse. More

April 19, 2022

A group of Tesla shareholders suing CEO Elon Musk over some 2018 tweets about taking the company private is asking a federal judge to order Musk to stop commenting on the case. More

April 18, 2022

Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard jurors are expected to see famous witnesses such as Elon Musk, James Franco, Ellen Barkin and Paul Bettany. More

April 15, 2022

A former personal assistant to Amber Heard said she never saw the actress suffer any physical abuse at the hands of then-husband Johnny Depp — but she said Heard once spit in her face when she asked for a higher salary. Heard descended into screaming fits of blind rage, sent incoherent text messages at 4 a.m. and was often drunk and high on illegal drugs, Kate James testified in a video deposition that was played in court Thursday during the trial for Depp's libel suit against Heard. More

April 14, 2022

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty to forcibly touching a woman at a New York nightclub in 2018. More

April 13, 2022

A longtime friend and next-door neighbor of Johnny Depp testified Wednesday that Depp's ex-wife, Amber Heard, had told him the movie star threw a phone at her and hit her inside the couple's Los Angeles penthouse. More

April 13, 2022

A trial over libel allegations by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, will likely turn into a six-week, mudslinging soap opera, Heard's lawyers warned a Virginia jury Tuesday. More

April 12, 2022

A panel of 7 jurors and 4 alternates was selected to hear the $50 million dollar defamation case that actor Johnny Depp is bringing against his ex-wife Amber Heard, who is countersuing with her own defamation claim seeking $100 million in damages. More

April 11, 2022

A jury was selected Monday to hear a long-anticipated libel lawsuit Johnny Depp filed against his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, whom he accuses of falsely portraying him as a domestic abuser. More

April 11, 2022

Kevin Spacey asked a judge to throw out actor Anthony Rapp's sex abuse lawsuit, saying allegations that he abused the teen at a 1980s party are false. More

April 8, 2022

Johnny Depp is suing Amber Heard for defamation. He claims his ex-wife damaged his reputation when she wrote about domestic abuse in a Washington Post op-ed. More

April 8, 2022

Alec Baldwin is asking a federal judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by a Wyoming woman who said she received hateful social media messages after the actor shared on social media a photo she posted of demonstrators at former President Donald Trump's rally in January 2021 and made a political comment. More

April 5, 2022

The siblings of Ghislaine Maxwell said Tuesday they are "profoundly shocked and troubled" that a judge rejected a new trial for the British socialite on sex trafficking charges despite revelations that a juror who helped to convict her failed to disclose he was sexually abused as a child. More

April 5, 2022

Former U.S. women's national team star goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in North Carolina with her 2-year-old twins inside, police said. More

April 1, 2022

U.S. judge refused to throw out Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction Friday, despite a juror's failure to disclose before the trial began that he'd been a victim of childhood sexual abuse. More

April 1, 2022

Will Smith’s slap seen ’round the world at the Oscars was clearly a crime, legal experts say, but the chances of prosecution are slim. More

March 30, 2022

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — An actor known for playing “The Flash” in “Justice League” films was arrested after an incident at a Hawaii karaoke bar, where police say Ezra Miller yelled obscenities, grabbed a mic from a singing woman and lunged at a man playing darts. Miller took issue late […] More

March 29, 2022

Attorneys for some of those killed and injured during last year's deadly Astroworld music festival alleged in court on Monday that rapper Travis Scott has violated a gag order issued in lawsuits they have filed in an effort to influence possible jurors and rebuild his reputation ahead of a potential trial. More

March 28, 2022

Depp sued Heard for libel in Virginia after The Washington Post published her opinion piece. More

March 25, 2022

Former child star Amanda Bynes released from court conservatorship that put life and financial decisions in parents' control for nearly nine years. More

March 22, 2022