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Published by AFP New York (AFP) – New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art said Thursday it was stripping the Sackler name from several exhibition wings, amid ongoing controversy over the billionaire family’s alleged role in fueling the opioid crisis. The Sackler name will be removed from seven exhibitions, among them the wing housing the Temple […]

Published by New York Daily News NEW YORK — Michael Cohen asked a Manhattan appeals court Thursday to reconsider a ruling that spares the Trump Organization from having to pay his hefty legal bills. Trump’s former personal attorney says the ex-president’s company must foot the bill for more than $1 million in unpaid lawyers’ fees

Published by AFP New York (AFP) – Ghislaine Maxwell set young girls up to be abused by “predator” Jeffrey Epstein, prosecutors said Monday, as the sex trafficking trial of the British jet-set socialite and heiress began in New York. While the defense urged jurors not to “scapegoat” Maxwell for Epstein’s crimes, government attorneys described her

Opening statements Monday are set to launch the much-anticipated sex crimes trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite charged with recruiting and grooming underage girls for the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. The 59-year-old daughter of the late newspaper baron Robert Maxwell faces an effective life sentence if convicted in New York of sex trafficking minors for Epstein, her former lover who killed himself in prison over two years ago. [Agence France Presse]

Published by Reuters By Carlo Allegri NEW YORK (Reuters) – Michael Cohen, the onetime personal lawyer and fixer for former U.S. President Donald Trump, walked out of federal court a free man on Monday at the end of his three-year sentence for campaign finance violations and other crimes. Cohen, 55, told reporters outside the U.S.

Published by Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Trump Organization does not need to pay millions of dollars in legal bills for Trump’s former fixer and attorney Michael Cohen, a New York judge decided on Friday. Michael Cohen had sued the Trump Organization for failing to make good on a promise to pay legal costs

Published by uSports.org Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver has been accused of making racist and sexist comments in the workplace. ESPN published a report detailing instances where Sarver demonstrated poor behavior that has created a toxic environment within the Suns’ organization. The ESPN article bases its information on interviews conducted with 70 former and current

Published by BANG Showbiz English The late Natalie Wood was sexually assaulted by Kirk Douglas when she was a teenager, her sister has claimed. Lana Wood told how her older sibling was 17 and filming ‘The Searchers’ in 1955 when their mother, Maria Zakherenko, arranged a meeting for her with the ‘Spartacus’ star – who

Published by OK Magazine Disgraced real-estate heir Robert Durst has been charged with murdering his first wife Kathie, officials confirmed, days after he was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his friend and alleged confidant. “The Westchester County District Attorney´s Office can confirm that a complaint charging Robert Durst with the murder of Kathleen

Published by New York Daily News NEW YORK — Ex-Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas was found guilty by a Manhattan jury Friday of violating campaign finance laws during a bumbling bid to launch a weed business and curry favor with then-President Donald Trump and other Republican big shots. Parnas, whose 2019 Ukraine dealings with Giuliani

Published by New York Daily News NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge shot down a request Thursday from jailed British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to conduct jury selection for her sex trafficking trial in secret. Judge Alison Nathan ruled that legal precedent regarding the public’s right to follow a trial overrides Maxwell’s fears that further publicity

Published by New York Daily News NEW YORK — A Russian woman says in a new lawsuit that sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein assaulted her early in 2019, in one of the few allegations to detail his crimes in the months before his arrest. Epstein, who died in August 2019 of an apparent suicide at a

Published by AFP Los Angeles (AFP) – US real estate scion Robert Durst was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with no possibility of parole for the killing of his best friend. Durst, a multi-millionaire who was the subject of an explosive HBO documentary entitled “The Jinx,” has always denied charges that he shot that