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Attorneys for Taylor Swift have threatened legal action against a Florida college student who has been tracking the private jets of celebrities and other high-profile figures, including the likes of Tom Cruise, Elon Musk and Drake, as well as the 14-time Grammy winner. Jack Sweeney, a junior at the University of Central Florida, confirmed to the Washington Post that he was contacted by Swift’s legal team over a series of social media accounts he uses to log the takeoffs and landings of the singer’s private planes. In a cease-and-desist letter sent in December, lawyer Katie Wright Morrone liken......

PHILADELPHIA — Daryl Hall is suing John Oates. The pop and R&B duo formed in Philadelphia in 1970 has forged one of the most successful alliances in musical history. In their heyday — between 1974 and 1991 — the partners scored 29 Top 40 hits and six that reached number one. They’ve been inducted together into both the Songwriters and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and are generally considered the most commercially successful pop music duo of all time. But all is not well in Hall and Oates land. On Nov. 16, Hall filed a lawsuit against Oates in court in Nashville, Tennessee. Philadelphia Magazine re......

Bravo stars are claiming they’ve been sexually and mentally exploited by the network and its parent company, NBC. A letter sent to NBC, and obtained by TMZ, alleges the network has subjected current and former reality show cast and crew members to “grotesque and depraved mistreatment,” including provoking mental instability, exploiting minors, and distributing or condoning the distribution of revenge porn. As part of magnifying employees’ wavering mental health, NBC is accused of “plying cast members with alcohol while depriving them of food and sleep,” as well as denying appropriate treatment......

Professional wrestling honcho Vince McMahon was hit with a federal subpoena and a search warrant in connection to allegations the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) founder paid millions of dollars to silence sexual misconduct claims. WWE confirmed Wednesday that its investigation into claims involving the 77-year-old entrepreneur concluded at the close of 2022, while feds continue looking into the matter. “On July 17, 2023, federal law enforcement agents executed a search warrant and served a federal grand jury subpoena on Mr. McMahon,” the WWE verified in an SEC filing. “No charges have bee......

Snoop Dogg is using his celebrity for the greater good, donating $10,000 to help a 93-year-old at risk of being evicted from her family’s Civil War-era home in South Carolina — a plight highlighted by Tyler Perry earlier this summer. The “Drop It Like It’s Hot” rapper, 51, donated $10,000 to Josephine Wright’s GoFundMe intended to help her maintain ownership of her Hilton Head Island property, a representative confirmed to CNN. “I did it from the heart,” he told the outlet in a statement, noting that Wright “reminds me of my mother and grandmother.” A self-described “fighter all my life,” the ......

In a world of cookie-cutter pop music stars and automatons, Sinéad O'Connor was a one-off. The Irish singer-songwriter — whose death at the age of 56 was reported Wednesday by her family — was a singular artist who marched to the beat of her own, very idiosyncratic drummer. She not only courted controversy with her take-no-prisoners approach, she welcomed it. Or, as O'Connor said in a 2013 San Diego Union-Tribune interview: "I think artists can be inspiring, as long as we're courageous enough to be ourselves and to be bullied, but not run away." This Dublin native could have taught master clas......