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UPDATED, 4:05 PM: Jerry Harris, who starred in Netflix’s Emmy-winning docuseries Cheer, was sentenced today to 12 years in federal prison for soliciting sex with minors and other sex-related crimes. He had pleaded guilty in February after taking a plea deal with prosecutors. Read details of the case below. PREVIOUSLY…

UPDATED, 8:50 AM: News surfaced today that Donald Trump’s former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone will testify Friday in a closed-door transcribed interview before the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. It will be videotaped but not televised. Cipollone had been…

This one could have been an episode of The Paper Chase. NBCUniversal is suing a company it calls a “trademark squatter” for the alleged fraudulent trademark registration of Dunder Mifflin, the name of the fictional paper company featured in NBC’s The Office. The suit filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Central…

Two men arrested last year in the deaths of model Christy Giles and her architect friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola have been charged with murder, rape and accessory after the fact by the Los Angeles County District Attorney. "I recognize that these charges are a small consolation to the friends and family members…

UPDATED, 4:54 PM:  A Chicago-area rapper identified by authorities as a person of interest in the Fourth of July parade shooting has been arrested. Deadline will not identify him. One of his music videos, for the song “Toy Soldier,” features crude, stick-figure-like animation of a man firing a long gun at people and…

UPDATE, 2 PM: A judge in Italy on Monday ordered film director Paul Haggis released from house arrest while prosecutors decide whether to pursue their investigation into allegations of sexual assault against him, The Associated Press reports. Haggis had remained under police detention in a hotel in southern Italy…

A month after Johnny Depp won his multi-million defamation trial against Amber Heard, the ex-Pirates of the Caribbean star now officially faces the first attempt to smack down his legal victory, with a harsh one-two-punch. “For all the reasons set forth above, and for the reasons set forth on the record during the…

Justin Timberlake has just discovered that Hell may hath no legal fury like a documentary director scorned. The former NSYNC member is being sued in federal court by long time music video helmer John Urbano over a film about Timberlake's blockbuster The 20/20 Experience album that has never seen the light of day…

New legislation targeting hidden fees and predatory “anti-consumer ticketing practices” in New York State’s live event industry, including theater, sports events and concerts, was signed into law Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul. “Live entertainment has long been a critical sector in our economy, and as consumers and the…

UPDATE, 9:55 AM: “With a full heart, I accept the solemn responsibility of supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States and administering justice without fear or favor, so help me God,” said Ketanji Brown Jackson today, becoming the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and the…

Ricky Martin's former talent manager has issued a stark warning to the Grammy winner and Emmy nominee: pay up or reap the whirlwind. Specifically, in “excess of USD $3,000,000, or according to proof, and unpaid commissions are accruing on an ongoing basis,” reads a complaint filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior…

Former R&B singer R. Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison at a Brooklyn federal court on nine counts of sex trafficking and racketeering. Kelly had faced a maximum sentence of life in prison, with federal prosecutors having asked for a minimum of 25 years. The onetime superstar declined to make a courtroom…