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Hollywood star Kevin Spacey appeared at a London court on Thursday and was granted unconditional bail until a full hearing into allegations that he sexually assaulted three men. The 62-year-old actor, accompanied by his legal team, told the court he strenuously denies the charges authorised by the UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) last month (May). "Mr Spacey strenuously denies any and...

“Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski again had a plane in the air, only this time Chris Hemsworth was at the wheel. They were shooting “Spiderhead,” a science-fiction prison thriller based on a George Saunders story, along the coast of Australia. The film is set almost entirely in a remote concrete fortress jutting out over the sea, but it opens with the arrival of...

Actress Amber Heard is unable to pay the $10.35 million, her lawyer said on Thursday. The jury in the verdict sided with her ex-husband Johnny Depp. The Oscar-nominated star had filed a defamation suit against Heard when she accused him of domestic violence. Heard filed a counter-suit. Following a bitter six-week trial, the jury returned with the verdict that Heard had defamed Depp in a...

A jury’s finding that both Johnny Depp and his ex-wife, Amber Heard, were defamed in a long-running public dispute capped a lurid six-week trial that also raised questions about whether the two actors can overcome tarnished reputations. The verdict handed down Wednesday in Virginia found that Depp had been defamed by three statements in an op-ed written by Heard in which she said she was an...

Popular Korean band BTS visited the White House on Tuesday and appeared at a White House press briefing. They are in the US to meet with President Joe Biden and discuss Asian inclusion and representation and address anti-Asian hate crimes and disinformation.  "While many of you may know BTS as Grammy-nominated international icons they also play an important role as youth ambassadors...

Next year’s Academy Awards will take place March 12, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced Friday. The date for the 95th Academy Awards moves the show up slightly from this year, when they where held unusually late on March 27, partly due to the February Olympics. But it will also leave in place a stretched-out awards season that some have argued saps the Oscars of...

Actor Amber Heard tearfully told jurors that Johnny Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle in an alcohol-fuelled rage. The March 2015 incident in Australia, where Depp was filming the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, is sharply disputed and has been a focal point of the four-week civil trial in Fairfax, Virginia. The night ended with the tip of Depp's middle finger cut off,...

A judge on Friday threw out part of the case against Kim Kardashian in former reality TV star Blac Chyna’s lawsuit while the jury deliberates on the elements that remain. Judge Gregory Alarcon ruled that Chyna’s attorney Lynne Ciani did not provide any statement during the trial from Kardashian that was defamatory toward Chyna. The case against Kardashian for interference with a...

Catherine W Gichuki Doha Renowned Bollywood superstar Alia Bhatt is excited about coming to Qatar to inaugurate  and be part of the 18th edition of Doha Jewellery and Watches Exhibition (DJWE) taking place from May 9-13 at the Doha Exhibition and Conference Centre (DECC). The acclaimed actress is the face of this year’s DJWE campaign.  Owned by Qatar Tourism and organised by...

Kris Jenner became emotional while recalling a volatile 2016 argument she heard about between her son Rob Kardashian and his then-girlfriend Blac Chyna that traumatized him. Jenner testified for the second day from the witness stand in a Los Angeles courtroom on Friday that she believed Chyna attempted to murder her son. At the time, she said she was told that Chyna pointed a gun at...