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A former employee of TMZ and its sister site TooFab is accusing the news outlets of firing her after she complained of sexism. Bernadette Zilio, who worked for the websites between 2015 and 2020, described the work environment as “100% a bro fest” and a “[f]reaking frat house,” in papers she filed with the Equal …
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Jamie Lynn Spears is set to play a more significant role in her sister Britney Spears’ conservatorship, new court records show. The 29-year-old former Nickelodeon star has been named the trustee of Britney’s “SJB Revocable Trust,” which was initially set to protect the pop star and her children’s finances, according to The Blast, which obtained …
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Epic Games won a partial victory in its legal battle with Apple when a federal judge barred the Silicon Valley titan from kneecapping the “Fortnite” maker’s trademark development tool. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers barred Apple from restricting access to the Unreal Engine — which powers three-dimensional graphics in many video games — in …
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TikTok confirmed Saturday that it would be suing the Trump administration for ordering its Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell its U.S. operations. Trump signed an executive order earlier in August giving the company 90 days to sell off its U.S. TikTok assets. TikTok spokesman Josh Gartner told The Verge Saturday the company had no …
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“Star Trek” icon Nichelle Nichols has beamed into an out-of-this-world legal battle. The 87-year-old actress’ son, Kyle Johnson, last week filed a lawsuit against her caretaker and manager, Gilbert Bell, accusing Bell of “financial elder abuse.” In the Aug. 10 filing, Johnson alleged that Bell “took advantage” of and “exploited his relationship” with Nichols and …
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Apple on Friday asked a federal judge in California to deny a request by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games to be kept in the iPhone maker’s App Store as a dispute between the two over Apple’s in-app payment rules plays out. In a filing before US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, Calif., Apple called …
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Those 55 hours meant a lot, okay? Britney Spears’ ex-husband and childhood friend Jason Alexander — whom she married and split from in the space of slightly under three days in January 2004 — was spotted at a “Free Britney” protest in Los Angeles this week. According to a Spears-fan Twitter account, Alexander was present …
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John Melendez, who became known as Stuttering John as a longtime sidekick to radio and television host Howard Stern, has sued SiriusXM for using his name, likeness and voice without permission on channels dedicated to Stern. Melendez, who left Stern’s radio show after more than 15 years in 2004 and became the announcer for NBC’s …
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Britney Spears reportedly does not want her father Jamie Spears to return as her sole conservator after he took a brief break from the role due to health issues. The pop star’s attorney, Samuel D. Ingham III, said she is “strongly opposed to having [Jamie] return as the conservator of her person,” according to new …
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Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein is claiming New York’s Child Victims Act is unconstitutional — in a bid to get a court to toss accusations that the fallen movie mogul sexually abused a woman nearly 20 years ago when she was just 16, court papers show. Weinstein’s right to due process was violated when Kaja Sokola …
A former employee of TMZ and its sister site TooFab is accusing the news outlets of firing her after she complained of sexism. Bernadette Zilio, who worked for the websites between 2015 and 2020, described the work environment as “100% a bro fest” and a “[f]reaking frat house,” in papers she filed with the Equal …
