An Illinois judge ruled Friday that cameras will be allowed to roll inside a courtroom for singer R. Kelly’s criminal trial later this month. The Chicago Tribune reported that Cook County Judge Lawrence Flood greenlit the cameras, noting that two of the four alleged victims objected to being filmed during court proceedings. However, Flood, who’s presiding …
Michael Jackson’s three children are reportedly considering suing two men who levied sexual abuse claims against their late father in the HBO docuseries “Leaving Neverland.” A source close to the Jackson family told the New York Post‘s Page Six that Prince, Paris, and Prince Michael Jackson II are contemplating legal action against Wade Robson and James Safechuck, …
“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from an alleged hate crime hoax in which he is accused of lying to police. CBS News reports that Smollett’s attorney, Tina Glandian, pleaded not guilty on her client’s behalf to 16 counts of disorderly conduct stemming from the January 29 incident, when Smollett told …
One of the women who appeared in Lifetime’s “Surviving R. Kelly” earlier this year alleged that R. Kelly had confessed to impregnating a 15-year-old Aaliyah Haughton and having a sexual relationship with the teen singer’s mother. In an interview with Vlad TV, Lisa Van Allen accused Kelly, now 52, of revealing that he married Aaliyah …
Aaron Hernandez is a convicted murdered once again after a Massachusetts court reversed a decision to vacate the former NFL’s conviction after his 2017 prison-cell suicide. Deadspin reports that a Massachusetts court has reinstated Hernandez’s 2015 murder conviction for the death of Odin Lloyd, after determining that the legal principle that vacated the conviction was …
The arrest affidavit for dozens of parents accused in a massive college admission scam reveals that multiple applicants who cheated on college entrance exams pretended to have learning disabilities in order to obtain special accommodations that would facilitate the alleged cheating. In some cases, while applicants may have cooperated with instructions on how to receive …
Actress Felicity Huffman is among those accused in a widespread college admissions scam in which wealthy parents allegedly paid massive sums to conspirators to help their children cheat on SATs and create fraudulent athletic credentials in order to gain admission to elite colleges like Yale and Stanford. TMZ reports that Huffman, best known as the …
MMA fighter Conor McGregor was apparently not too pleased when a fan tried to take a photo of him Monday morning in Florida. According to the Miami Herald, McGregor and a fan were outside of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel at around 5:30 a.m. Monday morning, when the fan tried to take a photo of the …
There’s now a third video in which R. Kelly is allegedly seen engaging in sexual abuse, according to high-profile attorney Gloria Allred. According to the Associated Press, Allred is representing Gary Dennis, a man who claims he was looking through a box of video cassettes and found the tape. Kelly’s attorney, however, denies the video …
R. Kelly is free again after an unidentified person paid the $161,000 he owes in back child support to release him from jail for the second time in two weeks. The Associated Press obtained video of Kelly making a brief statement to reporter after his lawyer and an unidentified man escorted him out of a …
An Illinois grand jury found sufficient evidence to indict actor Jussie Smollett on more than a dozen felony criminal counts. According to WLS, the former “Empire” star is facing 16 counts of disorderly conduct in connection with allegedly filing a false police report. The indictment was handed down on Thursday at a Cook County court. …
On Thursday, “CBS This Morning” unveiled a second part of the 80-minute interview with R. Kelly, who told Gayle King he only has $350,000 in his bank account as he faces multiple sexual assault and misconduct allegations. During the exchange, which can be viewed below, R. Kelly, 52, claimed he went to the bank by himself …
