Entertainment

By Elizabeth Wagmeister and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys for embattled musician and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs are asking a New York court to throw out portions of a civil suit accusing the rapper and mogul of sexual assault and revenge porn. In a motion filed Friday in the State of New York courts, Combs’ attorneys raised

By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — Britney Spears has reached a settlement with her estranged father more than two years after the court-ordered termination of a conservatorship that had given him control of her life, their attorneys said. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed by the attorneys for the pop star and her

By Elizabeth Wagmeister and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — The star witness in Harvey Weinstein’s historic rape trial says she would consider testifying in a new trial, after the former Hollywood producer’s New York conviction was overturned by the New York Court of Appeals this week. Mimi Haley, a former production assistant on The Weinstein

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Mary J. Blige just might be the most famous native of Yonkers, New York, and yet she’s not forgotten her roots there. The newly announced Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee is giving back to the community that helped launch her start. Blige’s “Strength of a Woman

By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Ellen DeGeneres is reflecting on how her talk show came to an end. The comedian began performing her “Ellen’s Last Stand…Up Tour” this week, her first major project since “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” finished its run in 2022. “Oh yeah, I got kicked out of show business,” DeGeneres quipped

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Actress Sophia Bush has come out as queer, a year after announcing that her short-lived marriage had ended. The 41-year-old star of “One Tree Hill” has opened up about her love life in an intimate feature-length magazine article. Writing in Glamour, she described the cold feet she experienced before tying

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Before there was conversation over whether Beyoncé is country enough for country music, there was the Black Opry, holding space for music lovers and artists of color in the genre. The organization billed as the “home for Black artists, fans and industry professionals working in country, Americana, blues,

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — The “Sonic the Hedgehog” movies weren’t particularly good, but they had Jim Carrey and made a lot of money, so inevitably, there’s more. Lacking Carrey to help carry the load, “Knuckles,” spun out of that game-to-screen universe, isn’t just bad, but a next-level degree of bad, starting with

By Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — “In space, no one can hear you scream.” “Alien” premiered with that memorable advertising line in June 1979. Nonetheless, science fiction fans being what they are (see “Star Wars” and “May the Fourth”), the film’s de facto anniversary comes this weekend, in the form of an April 26 re-release

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — #MeToo founder Tarana Burke couldn’t hide her disappointment on Thursday in a hastily arranged press conference following news that once-powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes conviction had been overturned by the New York Court of Appeals. But her resolve was just as strong. On a day when reactions

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Madonna may be the reigning Queen of Pop, but she’s a mother first. As the “Vogue” singer approaches her 80th show on her “Celebration” tour, she took a moment to appreciate how much her six children have helped her get to this point after being hospitalized last year before