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There’s been a lot of discussion in recent years about the practice of capitalizing on celebrities’ digital likenesses without their consent, whether after they die or while they’re still alive. Zelda Williams, for one — the Lisa Frankenstein director and daughter of Robin Williams — slammed the “disturbing” trend of people trying to recreate the voices and faces of the deceased last year, as striking actors fought for, among other things, better protections around studios’ potential use of AI clones. Yet despite the…

As Lily Gladstone is set to appear at Sunday’s Academy Awards, the first Native American woman nominated for a best actress Oscar, her historic moment could wind up competing for attention with a controversial new development in a case that has made waves in Hollywood and in Native American circles for more than 50 years. A report in a leading Hollywood trade publication seeks to shed new light on the case of Sacheen Littlefeather, the late Bay Area activist who made global headlines at the 1973 Oscars when, dressed in a…

Who had Ayesha Curry being BFFs with Lindsay Lohan on their bingo card? It turns out that Curry and Lohan are such good friends that Curry and her NBA star husband agreed to be godparents to the “Mean Girls” star’s 7-month-old son, Luai, whom she shares with husband Bader Shammas. Lohan shared the news of her son’s godparents and her surprise friendship with the Golden State Warriors couple on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon Tuesday. She was responding to a question Fallon asked about a photo of Lohan and her husband…

Joe Montana is best known for winning four Super Bowls during the 1980s as the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, but he’s now cementing a new legacy as a top-tier investor.Montana tops the list of celebrity VCs, recently released by CB Insights, with a whopping 569 deals since 2020, and he’s also managed to back 10 unicorn companies during that time frame. Montana is the founder and managing partner at Liquid 2 Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC fund. Actor Ashton Kutcher was a distant second place, with 118 deals…

The last time Bradley Cooper was a major contender at the Academy Awards was in 2019, when his film, “A Star is Born,” was nominated for best picture, actor and six other trophies. For that ceremony, he invited his supermodel girlfriend Irina Shayk, the mother of his young daughter, to join him on the Oscars red carpet and to participate in some awkward photo ops with his co-star Lady Gaga. US Model Gigi Hadid walks the runway to present a creation by Chanel during the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 at…

Three years after Drake Bell was sentenced in a case related to allegations of sexual contact with an underaged girl he met online, the former Nickelodeon star is opening up in a new docu-series about how he was the victim of alleged sexual abuse, back when he was a child actor working for the network. Bell, best known for his starring role in “Drake and Josh,” claims he was abused by Brian Peck, his former dialogue coach on “The Amanda Show,” according to a promotional clip for the series, “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of…

Prince Harry’s wild 2012 trip to Las Vegas — when he and his army mates played strip pool with a group of “blackjack girls” before his second deployment to Afghanistan — may be coming back to haunt him, just as he predicted. A former dominatrix and model, who said she partied with the Duke of Sussex in Las Vegas, has threatened to publish nude photos of him on her OnlyFans page, The Sun reported. “I have some nice ­pictures of him in the buff,” Carrie Royale told The Sun about the notorious episode. Secretly snapped nude…

Britney Spears reportedly is still “hurt” by the way that Justin Timberlake recently took another one of his digs at her, even after she apologized for things she wrote about him in her memoir and attempted  to reduce the hard feelings that persist between them. The two ex-lovers, who dated between 1999 and 2002, “seemed like they were both moving forward” from past hurts stemming from their very public breakup, a source told Us Weekly. “But when he made fun of her apology it triggered her,” the source also said. As…

Even from Singapore and while nursing an apparent cold, Taylor Swift was keeping an eye on events in the United States and the fact that today is “Super Tuesday,” the biggest day nationwide for primary elections and caucuses before Election Day in November. In a post on Instagram Story, the pop megastar urged her 281 million followers to make sure they vote, though she refrained from endorsing any particular candidates. On Tuesday, millions of Americans in 15 states, including Swift”s home state of Tennessee, and one…

For writer-director Peter Farrelly, it was love at first laugh when he read the screenplay for “Ricky Stanicky,” his new R-rated comedy starring John Cena and Zac Efron. That it took more than a decade to get it made? Eh, that’s just Hollywood, the Oscar-winning filmmaker says. “I’m used to it,” says Farrelly, who won Academy Awards for best picture and best original screenplay for “Green Book” in 2019. “Like, ‘Dumb and Dumber’ took five years. ‘Something About Mary’ took 10 years. ‘Kingpin’ was an old script. “It takes a…