On October 3, JKN Universe, the company owned by Miss Universe CEO Anne Jakrajutatip, filed a complaint against Rose's company, VVV Global Ent. (The complaint notes that Rose is VVV's only member.) In the complaint, filed in the Southern District of New York, JKN said VVV failed to pay the $100,000 salary of Miss USA 2024 Alma Cooper, as well as the promised scholarship money to Miss Teen USA 2023 UmaSofia Srivastava and Miss Teen USA 2024 Addie Carver.
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
The CEO of the Illinois Press Association, who had joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration for actions toward journalists outside a Chicago-area Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, resigned this week following a dispute with the association's board over the litigation. Don Craven, who had led the Illinois Press Association since 2021, added the organization to the lawsuit Sunday alongside other Illinois news outlets and advocacy groups.
Baroness Michelle Mone has accused Chancellor Rachel Reeves of fuelling a "government vendetta" against her and her husband Doug Barrowman, following remarks reportedly made by Reeves at a Labour Party Conference fringe event this week. In a strongly worded statement posted on LinkedIn, Mone said Reeves "openly confirmed" that the government is pursuing a personal and political campaign against her, after responding "Too right we do" when asked about allegations of bias towards Mone and PPE Medpro
Local News Todd & Weld says the network left more than $400,000 in legal bills unpaid. The law firm Todd & Weld is suing the conservative media outlet Newsmax over alleged unpaid legal bills totaling more than $400,000. In a complaint filed in Suffolk Superior Court on Sept. 18, Todd & Weld says Newsmax is in breach of contract and "concedes it owes but refuses to pay," for its work representing the company over multiple libel lawsuits against Newsmax over its coverage of voter fraud.
The company says OpenAI is pursuing unfair advantages in the race to develop AI technology. OpenAI is targeting those individuals with knowledge of xAI's key technologies and business plans, including xAI's source code and its operational advantages in launching data centers, then inducing those employees to breach their confidentiality and other obligations to xAI through unlawful means, the lawsuit states.
Davis said he was surprised his videos generated so much attention, given his modest following. The co-founder of John Geiger clothing and footwear said he reserved the Invisible House for a company retreat but had hoped to make the most of the booking by also shooting content in the surrounding environs. During his stay, Davis and three others - a business partner, a photographer and a model - walked away from the home into what they thought was open desert to take photos. They didn't realize the house sits on 90 acres and unpermitted commercial activity is forbidden anywhere on the property, he said.
New reporting from Wired details the explosively acrimonious fallout of a deal gone horribly wrong, between a San Francisco venture capitalist and a single mother she engaged to be a pregnancy surrogate. The story, which has gone viral on social media, centers on an ambitious and exacting venture capitalist, Cindy Bi, and a woman referred to in the story as Rebecca Smith, a pseudonym to protect her privacy, who agreed to be a surrogate for Bi and her husband.
There is little debate about the song's origins. Sting has always said he wrote the words, chords and melody in one burst of inspiration while staying in Jamaica. His original demo is almost identical to the released version on the band's Synchronicity album. What Summers and Copeland now argue is that their contributions - in particular Summers' distinctive guitar arpeggio riff - transformed the track from a rough sketch into a timeless hit. Summers has described his part as rescuing the song from "going in the trash".
The truth is that the stadium offered FIFA many, many options, and FIFA rejected them all. Until they got to the point of 'you pay the equivalent of the most expensive ticket in the stadium for each seat and go ahead.' And it seems that's where a solution will finally be achieved. That is, the stadium will have to pay FIFA for our seats out of its own pocket.
has confirmed that her former fiancé, Orlando Bloom, is the true owner of a $15 million Montecito mansion that has been at the center of a yearslong legal battle between the pop star and an ailing Army veteran who was understood to have sold it to her in 2020.
In the suit, filed in London High Court, guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland claim they never got songwriting credit on their band's 1983 single, one of the biggest hits of the '80s and famously sampled on Diddy and Faith Evans' "I'll Be Missing You." They allege in the suit that they have never been paid for their writing contributions.
Under the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023, 100% of service charges collected in a venue must be shared among workers in a fair and transparent way, and employees have the right to know how tips are allocated and distributed.
Lisa Flaherty stormed out of the packed room, visibly angered. The suggestion that she had been in a relationship with Joseph Grogan since she was 16 had caused his family "endless anxiety". Solicitor and senior counsel Damien Tansey noted, "It puts Joe Grogan into the realm of a paedophile."
The owner of a multi-million-pound penthouse on Park Lane has been engaged in an eight-year legal battle over a lift installation agreement. The dispute escalated to include allegations of leaky roofs and disruptive noise from the lift.
We are going to go with 'Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport.' This is really leaning into Oakland and putting Oakland first, said Director of Aviation Craig Simon.
One of Engelhorn's lawyers, Tony Williams, says the heir was "tricked" into signing the gift paperwork when Bolog gave it to her one morning while she was vacationing on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
I worked my whole life in this shop. My father put his whole life into this shop, it's internationally well-respected and in almost five and a half years the shop is no more.
