November 06, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
A judge sentenced “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis on Friday to time served and a year of probation for filing false income tax returns.
U.S. District Judge S. James Otero accepted the terms of a plea deal between Francis and prosecutors, who struck the deal after learning on the eve of trial that a key witness had lied to them.
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November 03, 2009
BELLINZONA, Switzerland
GENEVA (AP) — Roman Polanski has re-appealed to the Swiss courts to be released from prison on bail, officials said Tuesday, the latest step in the director’s protracted legal battle to avoid extradition to the United States.
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October 26, 2009
BRISTOL, Conn.
The ESPN production assistant whose affair with baseball analyst Steve Phillips led to his termination has also been fired from the sports network, a spokesman said Monday.
Mike Soltys, a representative of ESPN, said Monday that 22-year-old Brooke Hundley had been fired, but he did not say when or why.
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October 23, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
A court commissioner on Friday dismissed criminal charges against Kanye West and his road manager stemming from their scuffle with photographers last year.
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October 20, 2009
GENEVA, Switzerland
Newly released documents show that Swiss authorities set in motion the arrest of fugitive director Roman Polanski.
A series of e-mails obtained by The Associated Press show that the Swiss tipped off their U.S. counterparts about Polanski’s imminent arrival at a Zurich film festival.
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October 15, 2009
NORWALK, Conn.
The newsman accused of blackmailing David Letterman about his sexual affairs told the TV host that his “world is about to collapse around him,” according to newly released court documents.
CBS News producer Robert J. “Joe” Halderman allegedly told Letterman in a package of materials he sent that he had “a lot more” documents to back up his threat and needed to “make a large chunk of money,” the court files say.
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October 06, 2009
NEW YORK, New York
Of all of those reacting to David Letterman’s situation, Craig Ferguson had a unique perspective.
As the host of the “Late Late Show” on CBS, he follows Letterman’s “Late Show.” Letterman also is his boss, since Letterman’s production company, Worldwide Pants, produces the “Late Late Show.”
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October 05, 2009
NEW YORK, New York
David Letterman apologized to his wife on Monday’s “Late Show,” saying she had been “horribly hurt by my behavior.”
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