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Monday’s presidential inauguration may have demonstrated a peaceful transfer of power from Joe Biden to Donald Trump, but the social media transition hasn’t been quite so smooth. This week, many users on Meta properties Instagram and Facebook were alarmed to notice they appeared to be following Trump’s account, as well as Vice President JD Vance

Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ legal team filed a $50-million defamation lawsuit Wednesday against a man they said had falsely claimed to possess videos implicating the 55-year-old producer in sexual assaults on eight celebrities. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York City, accuses Courtney Burgess and his lawyer, Ariel Mitchell, of fabricating “outrageous lies” as

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Chris Brown has filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. for $500 million, alleging their Investigation Discovery docuseries Chris Brown: A History of Violence features false sexual allegations against the 35-year-old singer. In a lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Brown alleges that producers for the October 2024 docuseries included discredited claims of sexual

Well, a couple of things really helped. One was seeing a number of films that were made in New York City in the 60s and 70s that were very personal filmmaking; subject, camera, room, people, artists. So films like Shirley Clark’s Portrait of Jason, and a film by Jim McBride called My Girlfriend’s Wedding, and

By Cassandra Szklarski The Canadian Press Posted January 21, 2025 5:27 pm Updated January 21, 2025 5:36 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Netflix is raising its prices in Canada. The streaming giant says the monthly cost of its cheapest offering – the standard plan with ads – is

Photographer Sinna Nasseri is no stranger to covering history. Most recently, she chronicled the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, as well as the blockbuster events like the Emmys, the World Series, and most recently, the 2025 inauguration for Vanity Fair. The inauguration was held indoors in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda due to an unusually cold

Rami Malek claims that he was once racially profiled by the Los Angeles Police Department. In a recent interview with The Guardian, the Oscar-winning actor recalled an encounter with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) during which he was allegedly racially profiled and thrown onto a police car while authorities were trying to locate a

Over the last few months, while walking the dog near my quiet residential corner of the East Village, I’d noticed a former establishment all boarded up and plastered with permits, going from the old thing to the new thing. Gradually, the wooden scaffolds came down, and, to my shock, the storefront looked essentially unchanged, the

Luminate is the watcher of all music consumption in Canada and the U.S. and has just issued its year-end report for Canada after sorting through its 500 verified sources and analyzing more than 20 trillion (yes, trillion) data points. On average, 99,000 new songs are uploaded to streaming music platforms every day (down from an

There are, alas, some who don’t have the option of tuning out on Monday as Donald Trump is once more sworn into the presidency—billionaires, historians, journalists (including, of course, our wonderful colleagues here at Vanity Fair). But others have no such mandate, freeing them up to spend January 20 on any number of other pursuits.

The legal battle between It Ends With Us co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni continues. In response to Baldoni’s new $400-million defamation and extortion lawsuit against the Gossip Girl star, Lively’s legal team said in a statement, “This latest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and its associates is another chapter in the abuser playbook.” “This is an

There’s nothing duller than listening to someone else describe their dreams. But David Lynch’s movies found a way to turn his into groundbreaking cinema. Reveries and night terrors aren’t all the late filmmaker explored in his work, either: in cinematic history, there have been few keener observers of white America. While he lived in and

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag Pratt, once known for their rise to fame on hit reality series The Hills, are back in the spotlight and taking over the music charts. Montag’s 2010 album Superficial has hit No. 1 on iTunes’ all-genre songs and albums charts — 15 years after its release. Her album beat Bad

The Severance page on Apple TV+ contains various trailers and other promotional fare. But is there a substantial clip labeled “What happened in Severance season one”? No, there is not. Say what you will about the necessity or lack thereof of a second season of Squid Game: At least a three-minute summary of the first

By Andrew Dalton The Associated Press Posted January 16, 2025 3:20 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size It Ends With Us actor and director Justin Baldoni has sued his co-star Blake Lively and her husband, Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds, for defamation on Thursday in the latest step in a bitter

It was just a small news item about a seemingly mundane bureaucratic decision. But some White House reporters perceived deeper import in it last week. As CBS News reported, president-elect Donald Trump’s incoming press secretary will start work without one of the traditional trappings of the job: the spacious, high-ceilinged office in the West Wing

Drake has escalated his ongoing legal battle against his record label, Universal Music Group (UMG), by filing defamation lawsuit against the parent record label he and rival Kendrick Lamar are signed to. The Toronto rapper filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of New York on Wednesday, Jan. 15, and referred to the release

The first phase of one of the most unpredictable Oscar races in recent memory is coming to an end, which means it’s time for our final Oscar nomination predictions 2025. Front-runners have asserted themselves: We’ve seen Anora’s triumph at Cannes, Wicked’s box-office dominance, Emilia Pérez’s Golden Globes wins, and Conclave’s surprise TikTok takeover. Industry unions

Tina Bitangcol spends her days doing what she loves: when the Edmonton woman is not working as a registered nurse in labour and delivery, she’s sharing her passion for all things pre- and post-partum to millions of followers online as the comedic, enlightening Mama Nurse Tina. “What I have become really passionate about is educating

Whether we like it or not, Donald Trump is gearing up to be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. This means that Trump— who was recently sentenced to an “unconditional discharge” in his hush money case, and will face no penalty in the form of prison time, probation, or a fine—must

Carrie Underwood has accepted a pretty high-profile gig, agreeing to perform America the Beautiful at Donald Trump’s inauguration next week. But the 41-year-old’s appearance at the event has many taken aback and confused, as the American Idol alum has never endorsed Trump in the past — in fact, she’s never really been one to talk

In Always Great, Awards Insider speaks with Hollywood’s greatest undersung actors in career-spanning conversations. In this installment, Alessandro Nivola discusses the big career change that has led to him starring in two of the year’s most acclaimed films, The Brutalist and The Room Next Door. Some lucky moviegoers had the chance to see Alessandro Nivola

Bots — automated programs that can perform tasks online exponentially faster than us poor meatbags — have been a plague on the concert ticket-buying public for decades now. A single bot can buy a thousand or more tickets in less than 60 seconds. There are examples of a couple of bots hoovering up 15,000 tickets

The best argument against releasing a sequel to Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick‘s terrific 1028 thriller A Simple Favor is also the reason the movie is so hotly anticipated. How do you top the original film’s jaw-dropping twists and turns (Incest! Pantsuits! A shared Henry Golding!) without selling out its end-carded happy ending? Should director

Sam Moore, the surviving half and higher voice of the 1960s duo Sam & Dave that was known for such definitive hits of the era as Soul Man and ‘Hold On, I’m Comin,’ has died. He was 89. Publicist Jeremy Westby said Moore died Friday morning in Coral Gables, Florida, due to complications while recovering from surgery. No additional

Though the fires are still burning, we’re starting to get an understanding of just how devastating the damage is for Los Angeles. In the arts-and-culture community, dozens of people, if not hundreds, have lost their homes, and in some cases decades’ worth of artwork—artists lost their studios and personal holdings, while collectors lost their entire

Shari Franke, the eldest daughter of disgraced mommy blogger and convicted child abuser Ruby Franke, is opening up about the child abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother. Shari Franke’s memoir, The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom, was released Tuesday by Simon & Schuster, revealing more about the horrific

Spoilers ahead for the first three episodes of The Traitors season 3. Alan Cumming is sick, twisted, and needs to be psychiatrically evaluated.” That’s the assessment of one contestant upon learning of a devious new twist in season three of The Traitors, the first three episodes of which are now streaming on Peacock. But does

Out-of-control wildfires are ravaging parts of Los Angeles this week, ripping through neighbourhoods and enclaves many Hollywood stars call home, including the Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Altadena. California firefighters are battling wind-whipped fires tearing across the area as the quick-moving flames destroy homes and critical infrastructure. The Pacific Palisades neighbourhood is a hillside area along