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Tyler Perry denies sexual assault claims in 0M lawsuit filed by actor in his shows

Tyler Perry denies sexual assault claims in $260M lawsuit filed by actor in his shows

Emma Mcintyre/Getty ImagesTyler Perry is being sued for $260 million over sexual assault claims, which he has denied.A lawsuit was filed against the actor and filmmaker on Friday, June 13, by Derek Dixon, who plays the character, Dale, in Perry's show, The Oval.In the complaint, Dixon alleges "a sustained pattern of workplace sexual harassment, assault, and retaliation perpetrated by Tyler Perry" and is suing the filmmaker for alleged quid pro quo sexual harassment, work environment harassment and more.The lawsuit alleges Perry promised […]

June 18, 2025

Music

REO Speedwagon’s original frontman Terry Luttrell injured in car accident following band reunion

Terry Luttrell 1977/Paul Natkin/Getty ImagesREO Speedwagon’s original frontman Terry Luttrell is recuperating in the hospital after wrecking his car on the way home from an REO Speedwagon reunion event Saturday in the band's hometown of Champaign, Illinois.Luttrell tells The News-Gazette that he fell asleep at the wheel after getting little sleep following the band's performance at the State Farm Center."It just happened," Luttrell said. "I nodded off. I rolled the car over, and I woke up and I was in a cocoon […]

June 17, 2025

Music

The Police’s Sting & Andy Summers reunite for big band cover of ‘Murder by Numbers’

Rick Diamond/WireImageThe Police’s Sting and Andy Summers have reunited for a new cover of the band's tune "Murder by Numbers."The former bandmates, who last played together during The Police’s 2007-08 reunion tour, both appear on a new version of the track. It was recorded by big band bassist Christian McBride for his upcoming album, Without Further Ado, Vol. 1., due out Aug. 29."I am absolutely thrilled to have Sting and Andy Summers — two-thirds of one of the most influential bands in […]

June 17, 2025

Music

Barbra Streisand on her ‘extraordinary’ experience collaborating with Bob Dylan

Matthew Baker/Getty ImagesBob Dylan appears on Barbra Streisand’s upcoming duets album, The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two, and apparently their collaboration was a long time in the making.Dylan previously said he wrote the song "Lay Lady Lay" for her to sing and had reached out about them singing together. In a new interview with The New Yorker, Babs talks about that early connection with Dylan."The fun thing is that we were both nineteen years old, in Greenwich Village, never met […]

June 17, 2025

Entertainment

Here’s the name of Megan Fox & Machine Gun Kelly’s baby

Lester Cohen/Getty Images for The Recording AcademyWe now know the name of Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly's daughter: Saga Blade Fox-Baker.The "cliché" artist, born Colson Baker, revealed the news in an Instagram post alongside a video of him strumming a ukulele in front of the newborn resting in a bouncer just out of frame."Thank you for the ultimate gift @meganfox," mgk writes in the caption.Saga was born in March. At the time, mgk wrote, "She's finally here!! Our little celestial seed." That led […]

June 17, 2025

Entertainment

Tom Cruise to receive an honorary Academy Award

Jamie McCarthy/WireImage via Getty ImagesTom Cruise is set to receive an honorary Oscar.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the entertainers who will receive honorary Academy Awards at the 2025 Governors Awards.Along with Cruise, choreographer Debbie Allen and production designer Wynn Thomas will receive honorary Oscars at the upcoming ceremony. Additionally, Dolly Parton is set to receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.The trophies will be presented at the 16th annual Governors Awards on Nov. 16 at the […]

June 17, 2025

Music

Paul McCartney thanked by Beyoncé for writing ‘one of the best songs ever made’

ABC/ Heidi GutmanPaul McCartney has gotten a shoutout from Beyoncé.Beyoncé wrapped up a six-night stand of her Cowboy Carter tour in London on Monday and took to Instagram to thank McCartney for writing The Beatles track "Blackbird," which she covers."Thank you, Sir Paul McCartney, for writing one of the best songs ever made," she wrote. "Every time I sing it I feel so honored."The post included pictures of Bey in one of her stage outfits, fringed chaps with a white T-shirt with […]

June 17, 2025

Entertainment

‘Lilo & Stitch’ actor David Hekili Kenui Bell dies at 46

DisneyLilo & Stitch actor David Hekili Kenui Bell has died, according to a Facebook post from his sister Jalene Kanani Bell. Bell was 46 years old."It is with a heavy heart I share that my sweet, generous, talented, funny, brilliant and handsome little brother David H. K. Bell will spend today in the company of our Heavenly Father," Jalene Kanani Bell wrote in the post, which was shared Sunday. "I've been waiting for the words and mindset to properly express […]

June 17, 2025

Music

Trailer for Bruce Springsteen biopic ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’ coming Wednesday

Mark Seliger/20th Century StudiosWe’re finally going to get our first look at the upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic, Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring The Bear's Jeremy Allen White as The Boss and Jeremy Strong as his manager, Jon Landau.Twentieth Century Studios shared a teaser on Instagram, announcing that the trailer for the film will be out on Wednesday.The teaser shows someone loading a cassette labeled Colts Neck Demo into a player. When they hit play, the Nebraska session version of “Born in the […]

June 17, 2025