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Ghislaine Maxwell pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges she helped traffic young women for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse — as her trial date was set for next year. Maxwell appeared via video conference for her arraignment on a six-count indictment charging her with recruiting and grooming young women to be molested by Epstein. Prosecutors …

Johnny Depp called wife Amber Heard a “malicious, evil and vindictive c–t” — who “acquired” him for “success and fame,” a UK court was told Tuesday. “I just cannot live like this,” Depp texted his private doctor, David Kipper, shortly before he went to a hospital after his fingertip was severed during a vicious 2015 …

Amber Heard called Johnny Depp a “f—ing coward” after she “cut off his finger” with a broken bottle — and then insisted she loved him and begged him not to leave, a UK court was told Tuesday. Depp’s bodyguard for 16 years, Malcolm Connolly, said he found the star “in emotional distress and panicking” with …

As Clare Crawley readies to hand out the roses as the next “Bachelorette,” she’s also looking back on how she became the woman she is today. The 39-year-old reality star discussed the troubles of her past on Tuesday’s episode of the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast, recalling her struggles with poverty and her experience of being …

J.K. Rowling’s first husband admitted to slapping her but denied “sustained abuse” in response to the author’s recent essay where she called her first marriage “violent.” “Yes. It is true I slapped her. But I didn’t abuse her,” Jorge Arantes, 52, told The Sun on Wednesday night. Arantes, who according to the outlet is a …

Big tech companies are pledging to be transparent about child exploitation on their platforms as they look to continue expanding encryption. The Technology Coalition, which includes titans like Facebook and Google, on Thursday said its 18 member companies would establish a “multi-million”-dollar research fund to study patterns of abuse and develop tools to prevent it. …

Woody Allen ripped his estranged son Ronan Farrow’s “shoddy” journalism in light of a recent report calling the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s reporting into question. Allen made the comments in an interview with the UK’s Telegraph on Friday. “Up until a couple of days ago I would have said ‘Gee, this is great, he’s done some good …

Actor Justin Theroux has accused his neighbor of domestic abuse for the second time in his ongoing court battle with the man. Theroux claims that lawyer and downstairs neighbor Norman Resnicow — who he’s been in a bitter co-op war with for three years — on four occasions since the coronavirus lockdown has verbally berated …

Melissa Etheridge’s son Beckett died from opioid addiction, the singer revealed Wednesday night. “Today I joined the hundreds of thousands of families who have lost loved ones to opioid addiction,” the singer, 58, wrote. “My son Beckett, who was just 21, struggled to overcome his addiction and finally succumbed to it today. “He will be …

Kaitlyn Bristowe has opened up about a dark time in her life before “The Bachelor,” when a bad breakup led her into a deep depression with an addiction to Valium. On Wednesday, the reality star, 34, described the aftermath of her split as “heavy, dark times,” saying that she sought help from a doctor after …