Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:29 PM EST
A man who stole John Travolta's vintage 1970 Mercedes-Benz convertible has been sentenced to 16 months in jail and ordered to pay the actor $50,000 in restitution, according to court records obtained Wednesday.
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Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:01 PM EST
The executive who negotiated a deal that brought the Golden Globe Awards to NBC in the mid-1990s testified Tuesday that he didn't think it was necessary to tell its organizers they were signing away rights that could keep the show on the network indefinitely.
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Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:57 PM EST
A jury should decide whether the sheriff's deputy who arrested Mel Gibson for drunken driving suffered workplace discrimination, a judge ruled Thursday despite expressing serious concerns about whether the man can win his case.
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Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:43 PM EST
The executors of Michael Jackson's estate will no longer have to pay some legal expenses and other costs out of their own pockets after a judge approved changes Monday to the estate that has earned hundreds of millions of dollars since the pop star's death.
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Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:00 PM EST
The doctor convicted of killing Michael Jackson is coping with tight security and isolation and remains optimistic that he will win an upcoming appeal, his civil attorney said Tuesday.
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Tue Dec 6, 2011 2:04 PM EST
A judge has finalized an uncontested divorce between Michael C. Hall and his "Dexter" co-star Jennifer Carpenter. Court records show Superior Court Judge John Sandoz finalized the divorce on Friday in Los Angeles.
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Mon Nov 28, 2011 5:14 PM EST
The doctor sentenced to four years behind bars for causing Michael Jackson's death has filed a notice that he intends to appeal the conviction.
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Mon Nov 28, 2011 12:20 PM EST
Tobey Maguire has decided to fold `em and settle a lawsuit over his winnings from a convicted con man during high-stakes Hollywood poker games.
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Mon Nov 21, 2011 1:16 PM EST
Prosecutors who depicted Michael Jackson's doctor as remorseless for the superstar's death urged a judge Wednesday to sentence him to four years in prison, while a defense lawyer said Dr. Conrad Murray is in a prison of self-punishment and should receive probation.
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Fri Nov 18, 2011 2:49 PM EST
Investigators reopened the case of Natalie Wood's 1981 drowning after receiving new information they deemed credible enough to warrant another look at one of Hollywood's most enduring mysteries.
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Fri Nov 11, 2011 2:36 PM EST
The doctor convicted of causing Michael Jackson's death was given perks by producers of a documentary on his case, a security guard who drove the physician to-and-from court daily said Friday.
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Thu Nov 3, 2011 3:50 AM EDT
The doctor convicted of killing Michael Jackson never testified at his trial, but he is now defending himself in multiple NBC interviews taped just days before a jury returned his guilty verdict.
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Wed Nov 2, 2011 3:25 AM EDT
Lindsay Lohan was released from a Los Angeles County jail early Monday, less than five hours after she arrived at the crowded women's lockup to serve a 30-day sentence for violating probation.
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Wed Oct 26, 2011 1:17 PM EDT
Jurors hearing the involuntary manslaughter case against Michael Jackson's doctor will not hear directly from the man whose fate they will soon be asked to decide.
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Tue Oct 25, 2011 3:34 PM EDT
A woman who pleaded no contest to breaking into reality television starlet Audrina Patridge's home was sentenced to four years in state prison Tuesday.
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Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:46 PM EDT
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to reject a reality TV producer's petition to overturn an extradition order on allegations that he killed his wife during a vacation in Mexico.
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Wed Oct 19, 2011 12:57 PM EDT
A former patient of the doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death says the physician is caring and not motivated by money.
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Tue Oct 18, 2011 7:31 PM EDT
Lindsay Lohan's arrival at the morgue for community service — Take Two — had a better result Friday as the actress was quickly put to work after showing up early.
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Thu Oct 13, 2011 1:12 PM EDT
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Iraq war veteran who claimed "The Hurt Locker" was based on his experiences as a bomb disposal expert.
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Wed Oct 5, 2011 3:44 AM EDT
Prosecutors plan to wrap up their case against the doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death by calling three experts intended to help jurors make sense of the complex medical evidence they have been presented.
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Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:14 AM EDT
Dr. Conrad Murray's complicated love life became entangled with the life and death of his patient Michael Jackson, prosecutors suggested Tuesday as they called a parade of women witnesses who received phone calls from the doctor as Jackson was near death.
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Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:07 PM EDT
A woman accused of being one of the ringleaders of a group of young adults who broke into celebrities' homes faces up to four years in prison after pleading no contest Friday to burglarizing the home of reality starlet Audrina Patridge.
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Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:20 PM EDT
Attorneys for a former "Survivor" producer charged with killing his wife in Mexico argued in court papers filed Monday that a judge ignored conflicting evidence while permitting his extradition to stand trial in that country.
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Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:03 PM EDT
The Obama administration on Monday vehemently denied unflattering portrayals in an upcoming, behind-the-scenes book about the White House's response to the financial crisis, with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner saying its compilation of "sad little stories" bore no relation to reality.
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Fri Sep 9, 2011 2:40 PM EDT
The Golden Globe Awards will air on NBC for another year despite an ongoing bitter dispute between its organizers and longtime producers.
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