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L.A. Mayor Karen Bass on Hot-Button Olympics Issues: “We Have to Eliminate Street Homelessness”
Karen Bass traveled to and from Paris for both the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the Los Angeles mayor walked away from the experience feeling impressed. “I thought they did a beautiful job,” Bass told moderator Andrew Ross Sorkin on Tuesday during a CNBC x Boardroom: Game Plan panel at Fairmont Miramar Hotel and Bungalows […]
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Disgraced Attorney Thomas Girardi Found Guilty of Stealing $15M From Clients
Disgraced plaintiffs’ personal injury attorney Thomas Girardi has been found guilty of stealing at least $15 million from former clients he claimed to champion. A federal court jury in Los Angeles found the former husband of Erika “Jayne” Girardi, of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, guilty on four counts of wire fraud. Girardi, 85, of […]
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Hollywood’s Latest Marketing Go-To: Newly Launched Heads in the Sky Drones Agency
Look up. That’s where Kevin Prince and Michelle Ritorto found the inspiration to launch their new agency, a creative drone show firm dedicated to creative marketing and storytelling in the sky. It’s called Heads in the Sky Drones, aka HITS Drones. The agency strategizes, concepts, collaborates and executes premium drone shows with Hollywood brands and […]
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Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Former Guitarist Sued by Daughter of Man He Allegedly Struck With SUV
A former member of the alt-rock group Red Hot Chili Peppers is being sued for negligence and wrongful death in a Los Angeles civil court after he allegedly hit a man while driving his SUV and using his cell phone. Josh Klinghoffer, who played guitar for the Red Hot Chili Peppers from 2009-2019 and is […]
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KTLA Reporter Sam Rubin Cause of Death Revealed
Longtime KTLA reporter Sam Rubin’s cause of death has been revealed. According to a Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner Office, the anchor and entertainment reporter died naturally from ischemic heart disease due to atherosclerotic coronary artery disease, which results in a lethal heartbeat due to lack of blood and oxygen flowing to the heart. […]
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Deadly Pacific Coast Highway Accident Followed Driver Leaving Nobu Malibu’s Unpermitted July 4th Party
Nobu Malibu is under scrutiny from local investigators, the city’s officials and residents after the restaurant went ahead with its exclusive Fourth of July party in defiance of the city’s denial of a permit to throw the boozy bash. After the festivities, an attendee drifted her car into an oncoming driver, killing a motorist and […]
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LeBron James’ Son Bronny James Selected by Lakers With 55th Pick in NBA Draft
It was the dream that LeBron James first floated a few years ago, the notion of playing in the NBA alongside one of his sons. And it’s a step closer to reality now. Bronny James — the oldest son of the NBA’s all-time scoring leader and four-time champion — was drafted Thursday by the Los […]
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President Biden Condemns Pro-Palestine Protest Violence at L.A. Synagogue Event
A heavily Jewish Los Angeles neighborhood became a flashpoint of outrage over the Israel-Gaza conflict when a violent demonstration outside a synagogue over the weekend between pro-Palestine demonstrations and counterprotesters supportive of Israel ended with the deployment of dozens of police officers, one arrest and the condemnation of the city’s mayor and President Joe Biden. […]
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The Lakers Hiring JJ Redick as Their New Head Coach, AP Source Says
JJ Redick is being hired as the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, a person with knowledge of the decision tells The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday because the Lakers hadn’t yet publicly announced the decision to hire the former guard for his first coaching job. The 39-year-old Redick […]
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Disneyland Employee Dies After Golf Cart Accident
A Disneyland employee died Friday after she suffered a head injury in a golf cart accident, the Anaheim Police Department confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. The employee, identified as 60-year-old Bonnye Mavis Lear by the Orange County Coroner’s Office, fell from a moving golf cart and struck her head on Wednesday morning, a police spokesman […]
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Queen Latifah and Gabrielle Union Join Janelle Monae at WeHo Pride OUTLOUD Festival
Queen Latifah and Gabrielle Union both joined Janelle Monae’s performance at WeHo Pride’s OUTLOUD music festival last weekend, drawing massive from the crowd with their collective dance moves. In videos posted by Union to Instagram, Latifah and Union can both be seen escorting Monae to the front of the stage and twerking against the “Float” […]
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Actor Nick Pasqual Charged for Alleged Knife Attack on Ex-Girlfriend, Makeup Artist Allie Shehorn
Actor Nick Pasqual has been charged with stabbing his ex-girlfriend, Allie Shehorn, a Hollywood special effects makeup artist, several times. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office charged Pasqual with one count of attempted murder; one count of first-degree residential burglary with person present; and one count of injuring a spouse, cohabitant, fiancé, boyfriend, girlfriend […]
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Hollywood Makeup Artist Out of ICU After Knife Attack Inside Her Home
A Hollywood special effects makeup artist has been taken out of intensive care at a Los Angeles hospital after being stabbed multiple times inside her home by a man her friends say is an ex-boyfriend. Allie Shehorn was discovered bleeding out on May 23 at her home in the Shadow Hills neighborhood in Los Angeles […]
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Cynthia Erivo Opens Up About Claiming Her Queerness and the Impact of ‘Wicked’
The Los Angeles LGBT Center held their annual gala in downtown Los Angles Saturday night, where attendees gathered at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall for a dinner hosted by comedian Joel Kim Booster. Wicked star Cynthia Erivo was presented with the Rand Schrader award in recognition of her achievements in entertainment and activism championing […]
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Sam Rubin Remembered: Reporter Who Filled in for KTLA Legend on Day He Died Pays Tribute (Guest Column)
Over the nine years that I’ve been contributing to KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, I’ve been asked the same question over and over again by people who recognized me from the channel: “What is Sam Rubin really like?” The short answer is simple: With Sam, what you saw was what you got. As exuberant, enthusiastic and […]
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Sam Rubin, Longtime KTLA Entertainment Reporter and Anchor, Dies at 64
Sam Rubin, the popular entertainment anchor on KTLA-TV’s morning show since 1991, has died, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. He was 64. According to TMZ, Rubin died of a heart attack on Friday. He was on the air Thursday morning. “KTLA 5 is profoundly saddened to report the death of Sam Rubin,” the channel wrote […]
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