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Judge dismisses Dawn Richard’s lawsuit against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

Judge dismisses Dawn Richard’s lawsuit against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This A federal judge has dismissed singer Dawn Richard’s lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs, ruling that most of her allegations of emotional and physical abuse, including groping, were not filed in the required year after the described events. In a decision dated Friday and made public on Monday, Judge Katherine Polk Failla said Richard may pursue one allegation against the hip-hop mogul in state court, but cannot revive claims that exceeded New York’s statute of limitations by more than a decade. The judge wrote that the court’s decision “exists independently of its disapprobation of the factual allegations, which, if true, are execrable.” The ruling, therefore, did not address the merits of the allegations but rather whether they were brought within the time allowed by law. Arick Fudali, an attorney representing Richard, said the singer intends to refile her primary claim under New York’s gender-motivated …

Andrew Sean Greer’s ‘Villa Coco’ and ‘Effortless’ Style

Andrew Sean Greer’s ‘Villa Coco’ and ‘Effortless’ Style

Published by Daniella Wilson

Twice a year, every January and June, certain corners of the internet populate with photographs of extravagantly dressed men on the streets of Florence. These are the peacocks of Pitti Uomo, a Tuscan menswear trade show, flashing their plumage: fabrics in textures found nowhere in nature, jacket lapels large enough to verge on parody, ties knotted so elaborately that they would dazzle a longshoreman. Their displays are sometimes held up as examples of sprezzatura, a kind of nonchalant disregard for the rules of fashion. This belief underwrites the common myth that true style is effortless, a form of expression that arises from indifference rather than care. And yet, more likely than not, any man attending Pitti Uomo has spent the past six months planning exactly what he was going to wear on any given day of the show—the belt that would hang too long, the patterns that would clash just so. The attendees are stylish, to be sure, but they also demonstrate that style is entirely compatible with effort—not so much an outpouring of the …

Who is Sean Fitzgerald? Meet Love Island 2026 contestant and teacher

Who is Sean Fitzgerald? Meet Love Island 2026 contestant and teacher

Published by Daniella Wilson

Love Island 2026 has only been back a week and there is one couple who is very smitten with one another. Coupled up on day one was Sean and Lola and they are certainly going strong, with Sean saying he’d be happy to leave with Lola already. But drama lies ahead for the girls when they get to watch the boys go on a date with new bombshells Victoria and Namibia. As we wait to see his romantic skills this summer, read on for everything you need to know about the Love Island 2026 contestant. Sean Fitzgerald – key facts Sean. ITV Age: 25 Job: Primary school teacher From: Galway Instagram: @fitzy.007 Who is Sean Fitzgerald? Sean Fitzgerald is a primary school teacher from Galway, Ireland and he also plays Gaelic football. As per the Irish Independent, Sean joined Galway’s senior ranks in 2022 and established himself as a mainstay in the backline of the team. But when it comes to Love Island, he is in the villa for love but also drama, admitting that while …

Abdullah Ibrahim’s Songs of Liberation | Sean Jacobs

Abdullah Ibrahim’s Songs of Liberation | Sean Jacobs

Published by Jenni Sidey

In 1960 the writer Bessie Head—yet to publish the novels that would make her a leading figure in South African and Batswana literature—interviewed a young Cape Town pianist named Adolf Johannes Brand, who went by Dollar Brand. In her manuscript, which never appeared in print but resurfaced in 1995, she called him “a most surprising phenomenon of South African life.” The country, she insisted, was little but “a desert of gold mines” and “an advertiser’s paradise” with “no tradition of serious thought or culture.” The few exceptions were “independent spirits” like Brand, “a powerful, vitally alive and creative man” who stood out like “a complete and perfect flower in this desert”: “He hurls a challenge at you; disturbs you; teaches and expects perfection from you.”1 Brand was twenty-six. The year before, he had formed the Jazz Epistles, a six-piece band that quickly developed a reputation in and around Cape Town’s vibrant music scene and briefly in Johannesburg, playing American-influenced hard bop to sold-out audiences at hotels and small concert venues. At a time when apartheid …

Sean Penn reveals why he’ll never take a selfie, even with a ‘Holocaust grandmother and her 6-year-old paraplegic’

Sean Penn reveals why he’ll never take a selfie, even with a ‘Holocaust grandmother and her 6-year-old paraplegic’

Published by Daniella Wilson

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 Sean Penn has shared his strong feelings about selfies after being bombarded with requests at the 2026 Golden Globes. “People should not do selfies ever with anyone. It’s bad for you; it’s bad for everyone. It’s a soul-sucker,” the actor told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins during a Friday panel at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival. “It’s the Holocaust grandmother and her 6-year-old paraplegic wheeling over? It’s a hard no.” Penn, 65, also revealed that it was after this year’s Golden Globes that he decided he was done with awards ceremonies. “I’d never been to that before. And that’s where I decided, ‘I can’t do this,’” he said. Despite attending the Golden Globes, Penn snubbed the Oscars — where he won a third statue for his supporting role in One Battle After Another. His experience at the Golden Globes earlier this year …

Sean Penn Talks Third Oscar Win at Tribeca Festival With Kaitlan Collins

Sean Penn Talks Third Oscar Win at Tribeca Festival With Kaitlan Collins

Published by Daniella Wilson

Sean Penn explained his much-discussed absence from the Academy Awards in March, where he missed out on accepting his third Oscar in person, while appearing at the Tribeca Festival in New York on Friday for a Storytellers series moderated by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. The intense, supremely talented, and at times mercurial actor and global activist was at the festival a year late, after having to cancel his planned 2025 slot because of a death in his family. On Friday evening, he sat with Collins, who hosts The Source with Kaitlan Collins weeknights on the cable news channel while also serving as the network’s Chief White House Correspondent. Penn won his third Oscar in March for best supporting actor for his role as repressed oppressor Col. Steven J. Lockjaw in Paul Thomas Anderson’s lauded Best Picture winner One Battle After Another. This added to his best actor wins for Mystic River in 2004 and Milk in 2009. Penn was notably absent from the Oscars ceremony to accept the award he was tipped to win; days later, …

The Murky Ethics of Sean Duffy’s New Reality Show

The Murky Ethics of Sean Duffy’s New Reality Show

Published by Daniella Wilson

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy owes his celebrity—and his marriage—to a stint on the 1990s reality show The Real World. Now Duffy and his wife, the Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy, are promoting another reality show: The Great American Road Trip, a cross-country journey to landmarks across the United States with the couple’s nine kids in tow. Produced by the same studio behind The Real World, it has been framed by the Department of Transportation as a celebration of the country’s 250th birthday, and is set to launch ahead of July 4. In other ways, though, it’s ill-timed. This plea for Americans to hit the road arrives at a moment when about two-thirds of the country blames the president for rising gas prices, and when many are concerned about the high cost of living. (The war in Iran …

Sean Carroll: The past, present, and future exist simultaneously

Sean Carroll: The past, present, and future exist simultaneously

Published by Jenni Sidey

Time feels like the most obvious, standard metric in our world – until you ask a physicist like Sean Carroll about it. Underneath our widely accepted perceptions of linearity lies a much more interesting and complex world.  Beneath these assumptions lies the most complex, unsolved question in physics: Why does time have any direction at all? This video Sean Carroll: The past, present, and future exist simultaneously is featured on Big Think. Source link

The View co-hosts roast ‘tone deaf’ Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy for filming new reality road trip series as travel costs soar

The View co-hosts roast ‘tone deaf’ Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy for filming new reality road trip series as travel costs soar

Published by Daniella Wilson

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 The View co-hosts have condemned Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s new road trip reality TV venture amid ongoing travel chaos for Americans. Duffy and his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, announced Friday on Fox News that they are launching a YouTube series with their nine children called The Great American Road Trip to promote tourism in honor of the country’s 250th birthday — marking a reunion for Duffy and the producers who helped make the Real World series that made him famous. While discussing the new show on The View, co-host Whoopi Goldberg pointed out that TSA agents have been working without pay during the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, Spirit Airlines shuttered suddenly and gas prices are rising due to the war in Iran. “But Sean was doing another reality show,” Goldberg quipped. “Tax payers pay his salary. Is this really what he …

Melissa Leo to Star in Sean Byrne’s ‘The Mannequin’ at Studiocanal

Melissa Leo to Star in Sean Byrne’s ‘The Mannequin’ at Studiocanal

Published by Daniella Wilson

Academy Award winner Melissa Leo will be striking a pose for Sean Byrne’s The Mannequin at Studiocanal’s new genre label Sixth Dimension. Genre auteur Byrne — best known for his work on the haunted house pic The Devil’s Candy starring Ethan Embry and the killer shark thriller Dangerous Animals starring Jai Courtney — will direct from his own script. Production is due to start this summer on the “serial killer procedural,” which is being described as “an original, violent and blistering high-stakes thriller.” Studiocanal is launching worldwide sales this week in Cannes. The company will release the pic theatrically in its own territories of the U.K., France, Germany, Benelux, Poland, Australia and New Zealand. Elevation Pictures will release it in Canada. Producing The Mannequin are William Woods, Maddy Falle for Page 12 Pictures Inc. and Kristian Moliere for Triptych Pictures. The executive producer team includes Steven Schneider, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Charlie Kemball and Jed Benedict for Studiocanal’s Sixth Dimension. Head Gear Films packaged the project with Schneider’s Room 101. “After wading through bloodied waters …