In the latest twist in a 15-year battle over the estimated $1.6 billion fortune left by Texan J. Howard Marshall, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with his late son, Pierce.
The ruling means that Smith's only surviving heir, her 3-year-old daughter Danielyn, will get nothing, lawyers ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The husband of actress Sandra Bullock apologized on Thursday for causing her "pain and embarrassment beyond comprehension" after recent claims he cheated on her while she was filming her Oscar-winning role in "The Blind Side."
Jesse James, a custom ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - They turn heads on the red carpet, are besieged by the world's top designers, give tearful acceptance speeches, and go home with a little gold man called Oscar.
But shortly after many actresses win the movie industry's highest honor, their most important relationships fall ...
In his lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in New York State Supreme Court, Rob Fusari contends he was a key figure in transforming the ambitious young woman named Stefani Germanotta into the pop phenomenon she is today, even helping coin her moniker, Lady Gaga.
But when their romance fizzled, Fusari was ...
They said Polanski was entitled under California law to be sentenced without returning in person to Los Angeles on a charge of having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
Polanski, 76, fled California in 1978 and was arrested in September 2009 in Switzerland. The Oscar-winning director of ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fess Parker, the tall, Texas-born actor who became a star of early television playing American frontier folk hero Davy Crockett and later portrayed Daniel Boone, died on Thursday at the age of 85.
Parker, whose role as Crockett made him a household name in the mid-1950s and ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - She has been among the First Ladies of rock music since there were ladies playing hard rock, and now Joan Jett is seeing her pioneering days with all-girl band The Runaways playing out on movie screens.
"The Runaways," which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival ...
The UNDP said Banderas will use his celebrity status to draw attention to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of targets aimed at halving world poverty by 2015 by combating hunger, disease, illiteracy, pollution and discrimination against women.
"Poverty robs us of our potential as ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former "Little Miss Sunshine" star Abigail Breslin, currently bringing tears to the eyes of Broadway theater audiences as the blind and deaf Helen Keller, has a grown-up message for movie scouts. She's ready for much darker roles.
Serious horror films, to be precise. ...
The rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was also placed on 20 months probation by Maricopa County Court Commissioner Christine Mulleneaux.
Simmons, 39, was arrested last week after authorities said he admitted to using cocaine and not complying with the terms of his treatment plan. He faced ...
