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Cardi B Now Says She Was Joking About Being Strip Searched by LAPD

Shareif Ziyadat/Getty ImagesCardi B took to the Instagram comments of The Breakfast Club’s account on Wednesday to reveal that her wild story about being stripped naked and accused of trafficking fentanyl by two LAPD officers was, in fact, a “joke.”On Monday, over Instagram Live, Cardi B threatened to sue the LAPD over an alleged traffic stop that she claimed evolved into a strip search that left her “butt naked” on the sidewalk. “I got stopped by the cops yesterday,” Cardi B alleged. “They thought I was trafficking fentanyl, and they thought I had a gun in my car, so they stopped me and everything. All the helicopters in L.A., they was outside. Yo, I was freaking out.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Kim Kardashian Sued by Donald Judd Foundation Over Allegedly Fake Furniture

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagicWhile many artists and brands would leap at the chance to be affiliated with Kim Kardashian, perhaps the world’s foremost and most successful influencer-entrepreneur, the late minimalist Donald Judd, whose eponymous foundation sued Kardashian on Wednesday, is not one of them. Kardashian, the Judd Foundation alleges, is guilty of passing off knockoff Judd furniture as the real thing in a promotional YouTube video for her skincare brand SKKN. “Two minutes and twenty seconds into the video... Ms. Kardashian pointed to two tables with sets of chairs seamlessly tucked under the tables and said, ‘If you guys are furniture people—because I’ve really gotten into furniture lately—these Donald Judd tables are really amazing and totally blend in with the seats,’” the lawsuit states. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Sacha Baron Cohen Fires Back at Rebel Wilson ‘Asshole’ Claim

Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesComedian Sacha Baron Cohen is responding to Rebel Wilson’s claims that he was a “massive asshole” who threatened to stop her book from being published. “I wrote about an asshole in my book. Now, said asshole is trying to threaten me,” Wilson wrote in an Instagram story on March 15. “He’s hired a crisis PR manager and lawyers. He’s trying to stop press from coming out about my book. But the book WILL come out and you will all know the truth.”The Pitch Perfect star, who played Cohen’s wife in 2016’s The Brothers Grimsby, name dropped him as the “asshole” she had been referring to via social media over the weekend. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Tan France Denies Trying to Get His ‘Queer Eye’ Co-Star ‘Fired’

Kevin Winter/Getty Images for NetflixTan France, one of the “Fab Five” cast members of Netflix’s Queer Eye, took to Instagram on Friday to address the recent controversy surrounding his co-star Bobby Berk’s exit from the show.Earlier this week, a Rolling Stone exposé alleged that France had campaigned to replace Berk with his personal friend Jeremiah Brent. Netflix announced last week that Brent would be replacing Berk as the show’s resident interior designer, following Berk’s shocking announcement that he wouldn’t be returning for Queer Eye’s ninth season.“Good morning. Yes, I’ve heard what’s going on, and I just want to address one point, real quick,” France began his video.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Gisele Bündchen Tears Up Over Tom Brady Divorce in New Interview

ABC News/YouTubeFor over a decade, supermodel Gisele Bündchen made up half of a picture-perfect celebrity couple. Then, in 2022, she and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, with whom she shares two children, announced they were divorcing after 13 years of marriage. Brady’s decision to un-retire from the NFL only 40 days after announcing his exit, reportedly against Bündchen’s wishes, was widely understood to have spelled the beginning of the end for the couple. In a teaser for an upcoming interview with Robin Roberts, Bündchen gets visibly emotional when asked to tell her side of the story. “You said it was the death of a dream,” Roberts says, referring to Bündchen’s Vanity Fair interview in 2023 about her divorce. “How are you?”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Rachel Leviss Sues Tom Sandoval, Ariana Madix for Revenge Porn

River Callaway/Variety via Getty ImagesEx-Vanderpump Rules star Rachel Leviss is suing cast members Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix for “revenge porn, eavesdropping and invasion of privacy” following the explosive events of season 10, TMZ reported Thursday. A NSFW video of Leviss on Sandoval’s phone was reportedly the catalyst for Madix finding out about Sandoval’s secret affair with Leviss. On the night the Scandoval scandal broke in March of 2023, Sandoval’s phone was “reportedly retrieved by an attendee and handed over to Madix, who searched it and found sexually explicit videos of Leviss,” Leviss’ lawsuit states, according to The Daily Mail. Madix, the suit claims, “obtained at least two illicit videos of Leviss and distributed them and/or showed them to others without Leviss’ knowledge or consent.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

Dina Lohan Sues Trucking Company Over Alleged Collision

Patricia Schlein/Star Max/Getty ImagesDina Lohan, the mother of actress Lindsay Lohan, is suing a trucking company over an alleged collision that left her with “severe, serious, and permanent personal injuries.”In the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in New York and obtained by The Daily Beast, Lohan claims that on April 22, 2022, her Chevrolet was struck by a freight truck on East 37th Street in Manhattan. She is seeking damages from Penske Truck Leasing, Men of Steel Enterprises LLC, and truck driver Juanito Cruz.According to her lawsuit, Cruz and the other defendants are guilty of “negligently operating, maintaining and controlling [the truck] so that it came into contact with the rear and passenger side” of the vehicle Lohan was driving.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Kanye Accuses Adidas of ‘Rape’ Over ‘Fake’ Yeezys

Arnold Jerocki/Getty ImagesKanye West has called out Adidas—which terminated its partnership with the rapper in 2022 after his string of antisemitic outbursts—for selling “fake” Yeezy 350s. In an Instagram video on Monday, West, who now goes by Ye, accused Adidas of “using contract clauses and 50 years of business experience to rape an artist,” and claimed the company is suing him for $250 million. “Let me explain really clear to you guys what’s happening with Adidas,” Ye says in the video. “Not only are they putting out fake colorways that are non-approved, they’re suing me for $250 million, and they’re also not paying me for these shoes that they’re putting out that have my name on it. And they’re using contract clauses and 50 years of business experience to rape an artist, one of y’all favorite artists, right in front of y’all in broad daylight.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

BBC Defends Cringey Andrew Scott Interview: ‘Misjudged’

Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty ImagesAlmost a week after the BAFTAs, the BBC has issued a statement defending a viral red carpet interview with Andrew Scott that sparked accusations of homophobia.In the statement, published on Friday, BBC News acknowledged, “We received complaints from people who felt a question asked to Andrew Scott on the Bafta red carpet was inappropriate and homophobic.”In case you missed it, the brouhaha began when BBC entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson asked Scott on the red carpet if he knew fellow award nominee Barry Keoghan. When Scott responded in the affirmative, Paterson asked what he thought of Keoghan’s full-frontal dance scene in Saltburn. The All of Us Strangers star, who is gay and who has never worked with Keoghan, demured, “I won’t spoil it for anyone. It’s great, it’s great.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

This Taylor Swift-Katy Perry Selfie Is a Long Time Coming

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / InstagramDuring the initial, American leg of the Eras Tour, Taylor Swift’s career-spanning spectacle already drew the attendance of nearly every famous person in Hollywood. But it wasn’t until the show went international that Katy Perry, one of the pop star’s former nemeses, popped up to pay her respects. Perry posted video of herself jamming to “Bad Blood,” Swift’s diss track about their now-squashed beef, from Swift’s Friday night concert in Sydney, Australia, as well as a selfie with Swift that comes with years of backstory. Beginning in 2009, Swift and Perry were known to congenially and consistently pose for pictures together at awards shows and praise each other on social media, but with 2014’s 1989, Swift included a song, “Bad Blood,” which she explained to Rolling Stone was a diss tracked aimed at a female pop colleague who’d scorned her. “She did something so horrible,” Swift said at the time. “I was like, ‘Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.’ And it wasn’t even about a guy! It had to do with business. She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational–you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it.”Read more at The Daily Beast.