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Photo: Roy Rochlin (Getty Images)Sean Gunn has been tapped to play Maxwell Lord in James Gunn’s new DC Universe. The actor, last seen in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, is now attached to portray the Justice League villain, according to Deadline. If the name Maxwell Lord is familiar, that’s likely because the character was played not long ago by Pedro Pascal in Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 1984. Gunn’s take will likely be a new iteration of the DC villain in upcoming films within his brother James Gunn and Peter Safran’s…

Sean Combs, the rapper known as Diddy, has again been accused of rape in a new lawsuit by a woman who says Combs and two other men raped her nearly two decades ago, when she was 17 years old.The most recent lawsuit is the fourth filed against Combs in recent weeks. Combs has been accused of sexual assault by several women, including his former girlfriend Casandra Ventura, AKA Cassie. Combs and Ventura settled her lawsuit to their “mutual satisfaction” one day after it was filed.In the latest filings, the woman, who is…

Singer-songwriter Tiffany Red has penned an open letter to Sean Combs to corroborate the claims of abuse singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura leveled against the hip-hop mogul in her bombshell abuse lawsuit. In the suit, filed in November and settled within a day, Ventura alleged Combs controlled and isolated her, would routinely beat her, and forced her to engage in sexual acts with other men during their yearslong relationship. Throughout the filing, Ventura referred to numerous friends, assistants, security guards, and…

Singer-songwriter Tiffany Red has penned an open letter to Sean Combs to corroborate the claims of abuse singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura leveled against the hip-hop mogul in her bombshell abuse lawsuit. Filed in November and settled within a day, Ventura alleged Combs controlled and isolated her, would routinely beat her, and forced her to engage in sexual acts with other men during their years-long relationship. Throughout the filing, Ventura referred to numerous friends, assistants, security guards and Bad Boy…

For the fourth time in three weeks, a woman has filed a sexual assault lawsuit against music mogul Sean Combs, best known as Diddy.The victim, who filed the suit as Jane Doe, says that in 2003, when she was a 17-year-old high school student, she was “sex trafficked” and “gang raped” by Combs, then 34; Harve Pierre, then president of Combs’ Bad Boy Records; and a third unnamed assailant.“Enough is enough. For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character, destroy my…

Sean Combs, his longtime lieutenant Harve Pierre, and a third unidentified man allegedly “gang raped” a 17-year-old girl inside Combs’ recording studio in Manhattan in 2003, after the high school student was trafficked across state lines and plied with “copious amounts of drugs and alcohol,” an explosive new lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges. The new Jane Doe plaintiff — the fourth woman to accuse Combs of sexual assault in three weeks — alleges the men took turns raping her in a bathroom at Daddy’s House Recording…

Consider Christmas. No, really—think about it. What comes to mind is probably something like pine trees and wreaths, family and friends, or high-wattage house lights and commercials with cars wrapped in red ribbon. For anyone in the target demo of the film Jingle Smells, however, Christmas is apparently about one thing above all others: sticking it to the libs.The first sound that audiences hear in Jingle Smells, a film that manages to be even more juvenile and low-effort than its title suggests, is the crisp voice of…

Last week, as the weather turned cold in the wake of Shane MacGowan’s passing, some lines from the Pogues’ first single, Dark Streets of London, kept echoing in my head.“Now the winter comes down, I can’t stand the chillThat comes to the streets around Christmas timeI’m buggered to damnation and I haven’t got a pennyTo wander the dark streets of London.”Released in 1984, and set in and around Hammersmith, the song was the first inkling of MacGowan’s singular talent for evoking damaged souls adrift in a cold-hearted city,…

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has temporarily stepped down as chairman of Revolt, the TV network he co-founded, amidst a wave of sexual assault allegations, Rolling Stone has confirmed.  No further details about the decision were given, such as who would take up Combs’ role in the interim and when he might return. TMZ first reported the news, saying Combs — who has denied the allegations against him — decided to temporarily step down last week.  Combs has been hit with three sexual assault lawsuits in recent weeks. The…

Sean Hannity and Gavin Newsom are an unlikely cable news bromance.The conservative Fox News host and the Democratic California governor are ideologically polar opposites. But their recent joint appearances — an hourlong sitdown in June and a lengthy interview after the second Republican presidential candidates’ debate on Sept. 27 at the Ronald Reagan Library — offered a robust but cordial discussion of issues, a rarity these days in a media landscape where politicians and advocates are more comfortable preaching to…