Cruz Rivera, son of famed former talk show host Geraldo Rivera, escaped jail time after taking a plea deal in a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday for assaulting his ex-girlfriend during two different altercations at his home. Authorities arrested Rivera, 30, in early May for attacking Meghan Burke, 26, on April 28, after she announced she …
Actor George Clooney was involved in a traffic accident in Olbia, Sardinia, Italy, on Tuesday when he crashed his motorcycle into a car that took a turn into his lane. Page Six reports that Clooney smashed into a blue Mercedes after the car’s driver swerved into the actor’s lane in a residential area in near Olbia, …
Authorities in Florida took R&B star Chris Brown into custody after he finished a show in Palm Beach on Thursday. According to Yahoo News, , he was booked into jail in Palm Beach County at about 11 p.m. and released less than an hour later after posting $2,000 bond. Reports indicate authorities were waiting at …
A formal inquiry has been launched into the suicide of a “Chicago” cast member after his friends raised concerns that directors of the show bullied him, PageSix reports. Jeff Loeffelholz, a standby member of the Broadway musical cast for 22 years, killed himself last month. His friends have since alleged that show director Walter Bobbie …
Three popular travel bloggers died Tuesday after falling over a waterfall in British Columbia and plunging 100 feet to their deaths. According to the BBC, Ryker Gamble, 30, Alexey Lyakh, 30 and Megan Scraper, 29, died at Shannon Falls when Scraper slipped into the water leading Gamble and Lyakh, her longtime partner, to attempt to rescue her. …
Heather Locklear could possibly face a lawsuit after a California EMT worker claims the actress physically and verbally assaulted her last month. TMZ reports that 56-year-old Locklear is accused of attacking an EMT worker called to her residence after a domestic dispute incident on June 24, in Ventura County. The worker has been reportedly placed …
Rachel Dolezal—the former head of Spokane’s NAACP chapter who grabbed national headlines when her white heritage came to light—was booked on welfare fraud charges after reporting to a Washington jail Monday. From KREM, Dolezal, who changed her name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016, was released from Spokane County jail after having her fingerprints and booking …
Disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein is facing new rape charges in Manhattan, and the latest indictments could find him facing the rest of his life behind bars. The New York Post reports that a new accuser testified before a grand jury on Friday that Weinstein had sexually assaulted her in 2006. The unidentified accuser, the …
A group of documentary filmmakers who also work as cold-case investigators believe they’ve decoded a 1972 message purportedly from D.B. Cooper, and they say it contains a confession from Robert Rackstraw, the New York Daily News reports. Rackstraw is a Vietnam veteran who has long been considered by some to be the likely culprit in the …
Joe Jackson, the manager and patriarch of the Jackson 5, reportedly died Wednesday in Los Angeles at age 89. A source told People that Joe was in his final stages of terminal pancreatic cancer. Days before his death, singer son Jermaine Jackson, 63, issued a statement confirming his father’s ill health and claiming that relatives …
The personal fallout after recent brushes with the law and a documented history of substance abuse continues for 56-year-old actress Heather Locklear. According to an exclusive report by The Daily Mail, the star of television series including “Melrose Place” and “Spin City” has been admitted to the psychiatric ward of the University of California at Los …
A Florida judge has dismissed a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit filed by a Tampa man claiming to be the illegitimate son of actor William Shatner. The Tampa Bay Times reported that, for decades, radio DJ Peter Sloan, 61, has claimed that Shatner, 87, is his father. The “Star Trek” actor, who has three daughters, has publicly …
