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The long-running dispute between A+E Networks, cable network Reelz and Amazon-owned Big Fish Entertainment over Live PD has been settled. The three companies have "reached a resolution" in the case, which was related to Reelz launching On Patrol: Live after the cancellation of Live PD on…

There will be no decision today on Sean "Diddy" Combs' latest request for bail. After a contentious two-hour hearing in New York City, a federal judge has told both the U.S. Attorney's Office and the defense team that he wants more clarification of how Combs has been communicating from behind bars in…

Conor McGregor has been ordered to pay a woman more than $250,000 after a civil jury in Dublin, Ireland, found the MMA fighter liable for assault. Lawyers for Nikita Hand argued that McGregor "brutally raped and battered" her after a night of partying in a Dublin hotel penthouse in 2018, leaving Hand…

Rebel Wilson's hopes to squelch The Deb producers' defamation lawsuit against her have been stymied by a Los Angeles judge. "Because the Court finds that the statements are not protected activities subject to an anti-SLAPP motion, the Court does not proceed to the second prong of the analysis for the…

UPDATED with suit dropped: Deadline confirmed on Thursday that Jonathan Majors’ ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari has dropped the federal lawsuit in which she accused him of assault and defamation. The suit, originally filed in March in New York federal court, came less than a month before Majors was…

Just hours after scandal-ridden ex-Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz took himself out of consideration to be Donald Trump’s attorney general, the former and future president has gone back to the Sunshine State for his second choice to be America’s top cop. Former Florida AG Pam Bondi is the new pick to run the…

Shares of mighty Alphabet are down about 7% today after the U.S. Department of Justice said it should sell its Chrome web browser among other remedies after the tech giant lost a landmark antitrust case last summer. Government lawyers said in a filing that splitting Google's dominant search engine…

(Updated with Special Prosecutor statement) Jussie Smollett’s 2021 conviction over his alleged fake assault on the streets of Chicago is now behind the Empire actor. However, the former U.S. Attorney appointed to the case insists this decision doesn’t mean Smollett is innocent of falsely reporting a MAGA…

A lawsuit seeking class action status accuses Meta of rolling back its now shuttered Facebook Watch streaming video service to give Netflix a clear path as part of a deal to split the spoils of the new digital landscape. The antitrust suit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of…

Prosecutors in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking case have just been ordered by a New York judge to destroy all copies of almost 20 pages of material obtain in a recent raid of the much accused and  incarcerated performer’s jail cell. In a win for the ‘All About the Benjamins’ performer, the U.S…

EXCLUSIVE: Georgian Anti-Putin drama The Antique, which had its world premiere at Venice's Giornate degli Autori temporarily suspended after Russian and Croatian producers issued an injunction claiming copyright issues, is back in the courts again. The film's Georgian producer Zurab Magalashvili at…

December 3 can’t come soon enough for the Menendez Brothers. The first week after Thanksgiving finds new Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman taking office. As the former U.S. Assistant Attorney General made clear in his successful campaign against one-term incumbent George Gascón…