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Tommy Lee Jones pursued conservatorship over daughter Victoria before her death

Tommy Lee Jones pursued conservatorship over daughter Victoria before her death

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter New details have emerged about the relationship between Tommy Lee Jones and his daughter, Victoria, in the years before her death aged 34. Victoria was found unresponsive at the Fairmont Hotel in the early hours of New Year’s Day. Her cause of death has not been confirmed, but police said no foul play is suspected. In the weeks since, it has emerged that Jones sought a temporary conservatorship to protect his adult daughter from her own “life-threatening conduct” two years before her death, according to court documents. A conservatorship is a legal agreement where the government appoints someone to make decisions for a person who is unable to take care of themself. The Oscar-winning actor successfully filed a petition to put Victoria under a conservatorship in August 2023, arguing that she needed drug rehabilitation. At the time, Victoria was under a …

Trump vows accountability for those who pursued him in court cases

Trump vows accountability for those who pursued him in court cases

U.S. President Donald Trump promised to seek accountability for those who pursued legal cases against him when he was out of office, speaking Friday at the Justice Department. “Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice into the Department of Injustice. But I stand before you today to declare that those days are over, and they are never going to come back. They’re never coming back,” Trump said. During his years out of office, the department twice indicted Trump on charges that he illegally stored classified documents at his Florida estate and that he worked to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Both cases were dismissed after Trump won election in November, with the department citing a long-standing policy of not prosecuting a sitting president. “Now, as the chief law enforcement officer in our country, I will insist upon and demand full and complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses that have occurred. The American people have given us a mandate, a mandate like few people thought possible,” Trump said. Trump has fired prosecutors …