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1 week ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Kevin Dolak
Conservative media personality Ben Shapiro is the latest famous face to secure time with Pope Leo XIV, meeting with the new U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church at the Vatican on Wednesday. Shapiro, 41, founded the conservative news website The Daily Wire in 2015 as he rose to prominence in the world of right-wing podcasting.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Kevin Dolak
Generate Key TakeawaysConservative media personality Ben Shapiro is the latest famous face to secure time with Pope Leo XIV, meeting with the new U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church at the Vatican on Wednesday. Shapiro, 41, founded the conservative news website The Daily Wire in 2015 as he rose to prominence in the world of right-wing podcasting.
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1 week ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Kevin Dolak
The federal attorneys prosecuting Sean “Diddy” Combs at his Manhattan racketeering and sex trafficking trial were taken to task on Tuesday along with the jailed former hip-hop mogul’s team of top defense lawyers when Judge Arun Subramanian furiously reprimanded all counsel on both sides of the case and then opened a probe after sealed evidence only seen by their eyes leaked to the tabloid press. “Someone is lying here,” Subramanian said following a questioning session with the attorneys.
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1 week ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Kevin Dolak
R&B singer R. Kelly is back in solitary confinement in a North Carolina prison after being hospitalized over an apparent drug overdose, according to a filing from his lawyer, who has doubled down on claims that officials with the local Board of Prisons are plotting to kill his client in a murder-for-hire scheme.
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1 week ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Kevin Dolak
Every weekday around 3 p.m. local time at the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, a frenzy begins.
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1 week ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Kevin Dolak
After a week of arguments between prosecutors and the rap mogul’s defense team, a juror in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking and racketeering trial has been dismissed after the Southern District of New York judge overseeing proceedings announced there were discrepancies in where the juror resides, saying he showed a “lack of candor” with the court.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Ethan Millman |Kevin Dolak
Kanye “Ye” West made a brief, surprise visit to Manhattan federal court on Friday to support Sean “Diddy” Combs in the fallen mogul’s ongoing sex-trafficking trial. West arrived at the courthouse dressed in a white denim jacket and sporting sunglasses shortly before 11:30 a.m. local time and spent about 40 0 minutes in the building, but his appearance instantly created a media frenzy.
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2 weeks ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Kevin Dolak
The Trump Administration’s big night out at the re-tooled Kennedy Center, the Capitol venue now being led by the president after a stunning coup as he stormed back into the Oval Office, was marked by a protest attendance by local drag queens and an eruption of booing and reactive MAGA-rally-style chants from the crowd on Wednesday.
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2 weeks ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Kevin Dolak
As the trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs has been unfolding over the past six weeks in a lower Manhattan federal courtroom, testimony from his former staff members and girlfriends has revealed a great deal about the hip-hop icon and business mogul, whose alleged dark life behind closed doors was not apparent amid the razzle-dazzle of his larger-than-life public persona.
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2 weeks ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Kevin Dolak
The most recent ex-girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs testified further at his sex trafficking and racketeering trial in New York on Monday, detailing the deterioration of their relationship over the last few years, fainting from shock upon reading Cassie Ventura’s civil lawsuit against him and a savage beating at his hands months before the fallen mogul’s September arrest.
