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Fast and Furious star Vin Diesel has been accused by his former assistant of sexual battery while working for him in 2010. Asta Jonasson filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles on Thursday alleging that Diesel forced himself onto her in a hotel suite in Atlanta. The lawsuit alleges she tried to escape from the room

What If…? season 1 was a mixed bag, with some raucously funny moments amidst a largely monotonous jumble of storylines. If you’re craving more Marvel stories but you’re feeling hesitant about season 2, you’ll be glad to hear that this time around, What If…? slows down, moves away from shuffling characters like playing cards, and

Jennifer Lopez is gearing up to release her This Is Me… Now album and companion film, in which she documents her rekindled romance with husband Ben Affleck. But in a new interview, the superstar admits not everyone on her team supported her decision to tell their love story—and that she, too, had moments of doubt.

A former assistant to actor Vin Diesel filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles today alleging that the Fast & Furious star sexually battered her while she was working for him in the fall of 2010, during the filming of Fast Five. Representatives for Diesel and his production company did not immediately respond to Vanity Fair’s

The “anti-woke” crusaders are coming after Netflix’s animated preschooler show Cocomelon. Netflix’s Cocomelon is a huge hit among the two-year-old and over demographic. The brightly colored animated series focuses on preschooler issues like missing your parents while at school and how to share toys. Instead of solving things through talking, they relay everything through songs.

As Taylor Swift knows, haters gonna hate (hate, hate, hate, hate), and Travis Kelce, as a (football) player, did what he does best as well: play, play, play, play. On the latest episode of Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast, which he co-hosts with older brother Jason Kelce, a center for the Philadelphia Eagles, published Wednesday,

Olivia Rodrigo may have a new romance brewing for the upcoming holiday season. On October 31, The Sun reported that Rodrigo is dating actor Louis Partridge. Neither Rodrigo nor Partridge confirmed that, but they are at the very least friends. Fans suspected they could be dating the week before, as the two were photographed out

(Loew’s Inc.) Christmas wasn’t always like this. It used to be spooky, and it’s high time to bring that back. I can’t say for sure that the loss of this second spooky season is a direct result of the increasing plastic, corporate, Niceness that’s overtaken all of December, where everything has to be postcard-perfect and

Jack Black is spending his December doing something he says he’s not all that accustomed to: working the awards campaign trail. As the performer and cowriter of the Super Mario Bros. Movie song “Peaches,” now a Golden Globe and Critics Choice nominee, Black has been appearing on awards season podcasts, doing virtual press conferences with

While Rihanna is undoubtedly one of the most stylish people in the galaxy, she wants to use her powers for good. Enter the revival of her beloved collaboration with PUMA, which was originally stocked from 2014 to 2018, before it was reintroduced last March. The centerpiece of FENTY x PUMA was and remains the fat-soled

When Queen Camilla ascended to the throne alongside her husband, King Charles III, one of her goals was to become the UK’s chief book lover. Through her charity, the Queen’s Reading Room, which began as an Instagram account during COVID-19, she threw a literary festival in June that attracted some of the nation’s biggest names,

Throughout the entirety of Leave the World Behind, viewers get the feeling that there’s some kind of ungraspable hidden meaning just below the surface. The nailbiting journey to crack this mystery, to understand what terrible catastrophe is impacting these characters’ world, is heightened by writer/director Sam Esmail’s liberal use of smaller mysteries throughout. Leave the

Céline Dion‘s sister has shared a heartbreaking update about the singer’s illness, saying the legendary chanteuse “doesn’t have control over her muscles” due to symptoms of stiff person syndrome (SPS). In a French-language interview, Claudette Dion told 7 Jours that her sister can no longer control certain body movements, but that the ultimate goal is

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will be together for the holidays, a source confirmed to Page Six. The couple will be spending both Christmas and New Year’s Eve together in Kansas City, Missouri, since Kelce has games there both days. “She’ll for sure be at the games,” the source said. On Christmas, Kelce and the

Alec Baldwin was captured on video at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York City on Monday during a heated argument with a protester. The confrontation reached a fever pitch when Baldwin began pushing his body into the protester before officers with the New York Police Department (NYPD) stepped in and ushered the actor away. The

Isaacson, the former editor of Time, chair of CNN, and CEO of the Aspen Institute, stayed away from discussing Musk’s recent controversies during Monday night’s event. But in sharing insights gleaned while reporting the biography, he offered some explanations for the behavior. Take Ukraine, for instance; one of the biggest revelations to come out of

Matt Smith starred as Prince Philip in the first two seasons of Netflix’s The Crown, and while the show is all about Elizabeth (as proven by the final moments of the series), I had hope I’d see him again—mainly because a season 6 trailer showed a moment I do not remember ever being a part

Christmas is almost here and even the royal family is rushing to get everything done before taking a holiday break. Prince William is heading to Kuwait Monday, Kensington Palace announced, without his family. The sudden solo trip is so that the Prince of Wales can give the British royal family’s condolences to His Highness Sheikh

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have been dating for less than six months, yet numerous outlets, from Page Six to unverified celeb gossip outlet DeuxMoi, have claimed Kelce may be proposing to Swift soon. A source set the record straight today to The Messenger, the outlet that broke the news of Swift and Kelce hanging

NOTE: The following article contains content that some might find disturbing. Please read at your own discretion. Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman during a helicopter ride from San Diego to Los Angeles in 2003, according to a new lawsuit. The civil lawsuit, which was filed Friday and

The Creator, directed and co-written by Gareth Edwards (Rogue One) packs a lot into a film: it’s at once a love story, an epic sci fi film, and a meditation on artificial intelligence. We sat down with Edwards to talk about The Creator in advance of its streaming release later this week—and got the lowdown

Jonathan Majors was convicted Monday of assaulting his former girlfriend after a two-week trial that the actor hoped would salvage his damaged reputation and restore his status as an emerging Hollywood star. A Manhattan jury found Majors, 34, guilty of assault and harassment. He was also acquitted of a different assault charge and of aggravated

The moment Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, I knew Roe’s days were numbered. Sometime in 2019, a conservative friend texted me that Donald Trump was saving Amy Coney Barrett for when RBG dies. Sure enough, Trump tapped Coney Barrett shortly after trailblazing justice’s death, with Mitch McConnell steamrolling the nomination through the Senate just ahead of

As a musical icon, Madonna has long made her personal life a component of her art, but she has been pretty quiet about her relationship with Joshua Popper. The new couple seems to have been dating throughout 2023, but they have not spoken publicly about their connection despite lots of curiosity. For fans of Madonna

Topping kids’ wish lists and driving sales this holiday season is something that you might not expect to see wrapped under the Christmas tree for young people, but for parents of tweens and teens, it will come as no surprise that pricey skincare products are in big demand. Toronto mother Carolina Rzeznikiewiz has a seven-year-old

Bertha Russell did the damn thing. In The Gilded Age’s second season finale, Carrie Coon’s ruthless robber baroness emerged the victor in the great war between her beloved Metropolitan Opera and The Academy of Music, championed by old-money society queen Lina Astor (played by Donna Murphy). Even those casually acquainted with American history most likely

In the last episode of season 2, The Gilded Age cranked up the heat on the slow-burn romance I’ve been wanting to see. Back in season 1, Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson) left Pittsburgh after her father died to live with her two aunts, Ada Brook (Cynthia Nixon) and Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski), in New

Shawn Mendes made headlines in late February when he and Dr. Jocelyne Miranda, a 51-year-old chiropractor, were photographed out on a hike in Runyon Canyon Park in Los Angeles. This is far from the first time they’ve been spotted by paparazzi: They were photographed as far back as July 2022 and as recently as earlier

Last week, Disney held a screening of two episodes from What If…? season 2. At the Q&A that followed, the series’ writers and director shared what could be the biggest “what if?” in the MCU. Writer and executive producer A.C. Bradley, writer and producer Matthew Chauncey, and director and executive producer Bryan Andrews were asked

Actress Zoe Saldana and her husband Marco Perego Saldana have been married for a decade and have three children: six-year-old Zen and eight-year-old twins Cy and Bowie. The couple is low-key on social media for the most part, but they talk openly about their relationship and compatibility. Perego Saldana gets interviewed less frequently as an