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The lawyers involved in the case have discussed sexually explicit videos related to another woman whom Sean Combs is charged with sex trafficking, who is going by the pseudonym Jane. nytimes.com/2025/05/23/art…

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Smokey Robinson’s lawyers also filed a motion to dismiss the women’s lawsuit, arguing that they should not have been granted anonymity. nytimes.com/2025/05/28/art…

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“I want to thank President Trump for granting me a pardon and giving me the opportunity to keep building — as a man, as a father, and as an artist,” YoungBoy Never Broke Again, a father of 10, said in a statement on Wednesday. nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/…

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A former assistant to Sean Combs who said that he berated her, threw objects at her and sexually assaulted her during her years working for him resumed testimony at his trial on Friday, describing a pattern of threats by a mercurial and demanding boss. nytimes.com/2025/05/30/art…

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On the 12th day of Sean Combs’s trial on sex-trafficking and racketeering charges, the second woman to testify about allegations of sexual abuse took the stand. Here are 4 takeaways from the day in court. nytimes.com/2025/05/29/art…

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The 1988 LP “Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill,” which evolved from “a little fringe record I made in Berlin” a couple of years earlier, earned Lemper an international fan base — with one notable exception. nytimes.com/2025/05/26/art…

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Jarvis Cocker wanted to rid himself of the adolescent expectation that achieving fame would solve all his problems. “It didn’t,” he said. “One of the things that drives me to do it now, is to try and do it correctly this time.” (This might be impossible.) nytimes.com/2025/05/27/art…

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Breaking News: On Friday, Taylor Swift announced that she had bought the master recordings to her first six albums back from Shamrock Capital, the investment firm that acquired them from the music manager Scooter Braun in 2020. nytimes.com/2025/05/30/art…

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While many headline-grabbing cases tend to be broadcast online these days, the rules at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse prohibit video or audio recording, meaning only those present can experience the proceedings directly. nytimes.com/2025/05/28/art…

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One of his better-known and enduring collaborations was with the Edgar Winter Group, for which he produced the instrumental chart-topper “Frankenstein,” which the band released in 1972. nytimes.com/2025/05/27/art…

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If it seems weird now that a famously iconoclastic band without even a single gold record to its name headlined a festival playing to upward of 25,000 people at each stop, it was weird then, too. nytimes.com/2025/05/27/art…

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"The show ends when Nat speaks his truth," Coleman Domingo said, "but it’s cut off with darkness. Then that’s our coda — 'The party’s over, it’s time to call it a day / They’ve burst your pretty balloon and taken the moon away.'" nytimes.com/2025/05/27/the…

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“She stands as a cultural icon whose music traverses generations, political borders and languages.” nytimes.com/2025/05/24/art…

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In the case against Sean Combs, there is not a huge presence of fans or protesters. A group of people wearing shirts that said “Free Puff” appeared briefly one day early in the trial, but they soon disappeared. nytimes.com/2025/05/26/art…

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Israel secured the largest public vote at the final in Basel, Switzerland, which led to a nail-biting end to the show. Government social media accounts and Prime Minister Netanyahu joined a campaign to encourage people to vote for Israel’s entrant. nytimes.com/2025/05/24/art…

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Sean Combs had a gun, Capricorn Clark testified, and told her “get dressed, we’re going to go kill” Kid Cudi. “I had never seen anything like this before,” she testified. nytimes.com/2025/05/27/art…

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“Under his doctor’s instructions, Billy is undergoing specific physical therapy and has been advised to refrain from performing during this recovery period,” said a statement posted on Joel's accounts. nytimes.com/2025/05/23/art…

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Casandra Ventura testified for four days at the start of the trial earlier in May — while visibly pregnant. After a break on Wednesday afternoon, a stylist friend confirmed reports circulating online that she had given birth this week to her third child. nytimes.com/2025/05/28/art…