A California jury has found Bill Cosby liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 1972, awarding her $19 million in damages after a civil trial in Santa Monica. The verdict, delivered Monday after a nearly two-week trial, found that the 88-year-old entertainer committed sexual battery and assault against... Read More »

CBS has renewed its new drama CIA for a second season, just weeks after the series debuted. A spinoff of the network’s FBI franchise, CIA follows FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman, played by Nick Gehlfuss, who is reassigned to a joint CIA-FBI task force. He is paired with CIA operative... Read More »

RM will take the stage under restricted conditions this week after suffering an ankle injury during rehearsals, just days before BTS long-awaited return to live performance. The group’s agency, Big Hit, confirmed the injury in a statement posted to Weverse, detailing that RM was taken to the hospital on March... Read More »

Amanda Peet has disclosed that she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, sharing details of her experience in a personal essay that also reflects on the deaths of both of her parents. Writing in The New Yorker, Peet said the diagnosis came just before Labor Day, at a time... Read More »

A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to orchestrating a large-scale fraud scheme that used artificial intelligence and automated streaming to generate millions in music royalties. Michael Smith, 54, entered a guilty plea in federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The case was heard before... Read More »

Dave Grohl says he has spent the past year in near-daily therapy while working through a series of personal crises, including the death of Taylor Hawkins, the loss of his mother, and a public admission that he fathered a child outside his marriage. In an interview with The Guardian, Grohl... Read More »

Nicholas Brendon, best known for his role as Xander Harris on the long-running television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has died at the age of 54, his family confirmed in a statement released Friday. According to the statement, Brendon died in his sleep of natural causes. No additional details were... Read More »

Body camera footage from Justin Timberlake’s 2024 arrest in Sag Harbor, New York, was made public Friday following a legal agreement that allowed for limited redactions. The dispute arose after several media outlets requested access to footage from the traffic stop under New York’s Freedom of Information Law. Timberlake responded... Read More »

Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino spent hours on the witness stand this week defending the company’s pricing practices and business structure as part of a federal antitrust trial that could reshape the live entertainment industry. The case, brought by a coalition of states following a 2024 lawsuit from the Department... Read More »

When Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story premiered in 2004, it quickly became one of those comedies people could quote line-for-line. Beyond its core cast, Ben Stiller as the unhinged White Goodman and Vince Vaughn as the laid-back Peter LaFleur, the film leaned heavily on surprise appearances that helped cement its... Read More »

Kevin Bacon isn’t pretending to be easy to work with, at least not when he’s directing his own family. At SXSW this year, Bacon appeared alongside Kyra Sedgwick and their two children, Sosie and Travis Bacon, to discuss Family Movie, a deliberately self-referential horror project the family made together. The... Read More »

Chuck Norris, the martial arts champion who became a defining action star and the face of “Walker, Texas Ranger”, has died at 86. His family confirmed the news on Friday, saying he died Thursday morning following a sudden medical emergency in Hawaii. The message said he was surrounded by family... Read More »

John Lithgow says he understands that J.K. Rowling’s public views on transgender issues will remain an unavoidable part of the conversation surrounding HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series and, by extension, his role in it. In a recent interview with The New York Times, Lithgow, who is set to play Albus... Read More »

More than two decades after Friends concluded its original run, Lisa Kudrow has begun watching the series in full for the first time, offering a rare perspective on one of television’s most widely syndicated sitcoms from one of its central cast members. Speaking during a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel... Read More »

Kevin Spacey has reached out-of-court settlements in three civil sexual assault cases in London, bringing an end to legal proceedings that had been scheduled to go to trial later this year. The cases, which involved allegations spanning more than a decade, were set to be heard in the U.K. High... Read More »