S-Town, the true crime podcast about an Alabama horologist who commits suicide mid-production, is involved in a lawsuit alleging that the podcast exploited its subject in life and death.
We at Dirt Bag often bring up how trashy and unreliable Radar Online often is, but just like Tess McGill became a killer businesswoman by reading W and Page Six, we must keep it in our gossip rotation because occasionally they’re not only right, they’re sourced.
Ed Sheeran has been sued for $100 million over alleged similarities between his 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud” and Marvin Gaye’s 1973 classic “Let’s Get It On.”
After news broke that Jeff Lewis’ surrogate is suing Bravo for filming and broadcasting her delivery without consent, the Flipping Out star ran back to People to provide more of his side of the story.
Last week, just hours before it debuted, news broke that the Michael Jackson estate was not happy with a two-hour ABC special dedicated to the King of Pop’s final moments. MJ’s estate claimed that the documentary, The Last Days of Michael Jackson, was in no way “sponsored or approved” by the late star’s family and…
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
In 1981, Sandra Bundy won her court case Bundy v. Jackson, which established that sexual harassment in the workplace is a violation of the Civil Rights Act. Because of her determination and persistence, sexual harassment is now considered employment discrimination. Bundy is finally getting a big screen telling of her…
We can stop talking about Miley Cyrus’s 2013 hit “We Can’t Stop” one day, conceivably, but today is not that day. The song, as well as its accompanying twerk-featuring video and “strategic hot mess” of a VMAs performance were called out for appropriation by culture writers and seemingly mocked by Jay-Z in song. And…
In January The Shape of Water director Guillermo del Toro was accused of plagiarizing his movie from the Paul Zindel 1969 play Let Me Hear You Whisper. Both stories follow an introverted cleaning lady who falls in love with a sea creature (in Zindel’s play it’s a dolphin) at a government lab. And now David Zindel, son…
The American yogurt market has remained pretty steady over the past few years, yet the yogurt areas in all my go-to grocery stores keep expanding, meaning it’s an increasingly competitive industry, and this fosters the sort of tense environment that sometimes can lead to suspicions of corporate espionage.
An unnamed stripper from Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club in Manhattan punched a club patron in the face and knocked out one of his front teeth after he called her a bad mother, according to a lawsuit first publicized by the New York Post.
Over at the New York Times, there’s a depressing look at how the cash settlement-advance industry is capitalizing on victims of sexual harassment by providing cash advances to women awaiting payouts from sexual harassment claims.
When Sandeep Rehal first took a job as Harvey Weinstein’s assistant in 2013, she said he told her that he was “a tough guy and hard to work for.” That could mean many things: Long hours, too many coffee runs, or demanding perfection in maintaining schedules and other professional duties. But in a new lawsuit, Rehal…
Here’s the latest development in a fight that started weirdly and only got weirder as time went on: the Satanic Temple is threatening to sue Twitter over an imbroglio that began with former child-actor Corey Feldman ranting about “Satanic nutbags” and retweeting a call to burn down their headquarters, and ended,…
Back in 2016, artist Casey Dienel (known for making music under the name White Hinterland) filed a lawsuit against Justin Bieber for his song “Sorry,” arguing that the song mimicked the same vocal riff she used in her 2014 song “Ring the Bell.” The suit asked for monetary damages and for Bieber to stop performing the…
A former police officer who responded to the scene of the Pulse nightclub shooting is filing suit against the city of Orlando and Orlando Police Department, alleging “harassment and retaliation” after he filed for worker’s compensation for his PTSD and hypertension.
Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas)—a man “so unattractive it’s unbelievable,” in the abundantly correct words of Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)—was sued in 2014 by his former communications director for gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and creating a hostile work environment, and was recently reported to have …
College students who file sexual assault complaints with their universities are increasingly facing defamation lawsuits filed by accused students, according to a new Buzzfeed report.
Rachel Witlieb Bernstein, one of the six women who reportedly settled with Bill O’Reilly for workplace harassment, sued the former Fox News host on Monday.
I long for the day when I never have to read about Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) again, but alas, that day has not yet come. Politico reports that the Tea Party congressman paid $84,000 in taxpayer money to a former spokeswoman after she sued him in 2014 for gender discrimination, a hostile work environment and…
