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Harvey Weinstein won’t be headed to Los Angeles anytime soon to face a fresh slew of sex crimes charges — due to the coronavirus pandemic, officials said. “The virus has delayed the processing of the extradition paperwork,” said Greg Risling, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. “There is no time estimate …

Messages between director Paul Haggis’ rape accuser and her pals about the alleged 2013 incident will remain secret, a judge ruled Monday. The Oscar-winning “Crash” filmmaker — who was sued by publicist Haleigh Breest in 2017 for the alleged attack — asked a judge to unseal the text messages along with other information, claiming it …

Swizz Beatz wants today’s rap stars to pay “taxes” to the founders of hip-hop. “I want to raise a million dollars for each icon who started hip-hop from [DJ] Kool Herc,” as well as the likes of Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash and Sugarhill Gang, he said. “We need to be paying taxes to the creators …

Aspiring rappers, be warned. “I’m not bringing no dudes on the show,” Lil Wayne’s daughter Reginae Carter told Page Six months after her breakup with YFN Lucci. “I’m not making nobody famous. I’m not putting nobody on no more.” Carter, 21, and Lucci, 29, were together for more than a year before splitting up in …

Tekashi 6ix9ine is making the most of his home confinement. The Brooklyn rapper, 24, is expected to drop a new song Friday, a towering billboard spotted in Times Square confirms. He is also expected to make an appearance on Instagram Live at 3 p.m., he told fans. The “Gummo” rapper-turned-snitch — whose real name is …

Mercury Prize-nominated UK rapper Ty has lost his battle with the coronavirus, the Guardian reports. He was 47. The hip-hop star, born Ben Chijioke, had been in declining health since at least early April, when he was “admitted into the hospital with medical complications related to COVID-19,” according to a fundraiser launched in his name. …

Rap legend Nas has paid tribute to his Queens protégé Kiing Shooter, who died this week, reportedly of complications from the coronavirus. “This is never easy. One of Queensbridge’s finest,” Nas’ Street Dreams Records, Nas’ label with his brother Jungle, wrote on Instagram Tuesday when confirming the 24-year-old rising star’s death. “Rest in paradise,” they …

Nikki Bella opens up about being raped twice as a teenager in her new memoir, “Incomparable.” The former WWE star shares in the book, co-written by her twin sister Brie Bella, that she was first attacked at the age of 15 by a fellow student she “thought was a friend.” “My virginity was stolen from …

B&H Photo & Electronics furloughed hundreds of employees this week — a move the iconic retailer had resisted for more than a month after its megastore in Manhattan was forced to shutter because of the coronavirus lockdown, The Post has learned. The 47-year-old electronics seller  — whose Manhattan flagship is known for its Orthodox Jewish …

A New York photo company says that Fendi posted their picture of Blake Lively on the luxury fashion house’s social media to promote their designs — but didn’t pay for the glamour shot, a federal lawsuit charges. A photo of the actress decked out in a yellow ensemble arriving at the “Good Morning America” show …