Month: January 2024

Cher has filed for a conservatorship over her son, Elijah Blue Allman. The singer/actress filed to be the sole conservator of her son’s estate due to alleged substance abuse issues, with claims that Allman is “substantially unable to manage his financial resources.”

Legal documents obtained by People revealed stated that “Elijah is entitled to regular distributions from the Trust,” and his mother, Cher “is concerned that any funds distributed to Elijah will be immediately spent on drugs, leaving Elijah with no assets to provide for himself and putting Elijah’s life at risk.” The filing added that a conservator is “urgently needed … to protect Elijah’s property from loss or injury, as he is currently unable to manage his assets due to severe mental health and substance abuse issues.” Also mentioned in the filing is Elijah’s estranged wife, Marieangela King, who was said to be ‘unfit’ to be his conservator as “their tumultuous relationship has been marked by a cycle of drug addiction and mental health crises.”

Earlier this year, Cher responded to reports that she hired four men to forcibly remove Elijah from a New York City hotel room in November 2022. The reports stemmed from King’s divorce documents she filed last December, which were made public. Cher later denied the allegations, telling People, “that rumor is not true.”

A hearing for a temporary order is set for January 5th, 2024 and a hearing for a permanent order will take place on March 6th.

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Taylor Swift’s latest re-release, ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’, remained at the No.1 spot on the Billboard 200, and with that the superstar has officially surpassed Elvis Presley’s longstanding Billboard 200 chart feat for the solo artist with the most weeks to top the chart. It marks Swift’s 68th total week atop Billboard 200, according to tracking company Luminate, dated January 6, 2024.

‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ sold 98,000 equivalent album units in the US in the week ending December 28th, equaling the total combined weeks at No. 1 of Swift’s three previous re-recorded albums. According to Billboard Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) both topped the chart for two weeks upon their release with Red (Taylor’s Version) taking the spot for a single week.

While Swift has beaten Presley’s record for the most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 among solo artists, in order to surpass the all-time record she has awhile to go – that achievement is currently held by The Beatles, who maintain a significant lead with an impressive 132 weeks at the top of the chart.

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Netflix shared the premiere date of Bridgerton Season 3, which will air in two parts on May 16 and June 13, 2024. The show posted on X: “Rejoice in this most thrilling news. Bridgerton Season 3 shall debut in two parts: Part 1 on May 16th and Part 2 on June 13th.”

Based by Julia Quinn’s bestselling novels, the series follows the eight siblings of the Bridgerton family as they attempt to find love. Among the returning characters featured in the video are Queen Charlotte, played by Golda Rosheuvel, and Lady Danbury, played by Adjoa Andoh. A trailer also showed the return of the show’s anonymous gossip writer Lady Whistledown, voiced by Dame Julie Andrews.

Actress Nicola Coughlan, who plays Penelope Featherington, is also features in the teaser clip. A synopsis of the the third season says that “Penelope give up on her long-held crush on Colin Bridgerton, played by Luke Newton, after hearing his disparaging words about her last season. However, undeterred by the setback, she is set on finding a husband who can provide her with enough independence to continue her double life. After returning from his summer travels, Colin is disheartened to find that Penelope is giving him the cold shoulder. In a bid to win back her friendship, he will offer to mentor Penelope in the ways of confidence to help her find a husband – but his lessons may start working too well as he starts to question his feelings for her.”

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Nigel Lythgoe, the longtime producer of American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance, is speaking against the serious accusations of sexual assault made against him by singer and former Idol judge Paula Abdul.

Abdul filed the lawsuit against Lythgoe in the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday under the Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act, which protects litigation filed after statute of limitations has expired.  According to court documents, Abdul, 61, accuses Lythgoe, 74, of physically abusing her while she was serving as a judge on Idol. Abdul alleges in the lawsuit that Lythgoe assaulted her once during the early seasons of Idol in the 2000s and another time in 2015 while she worked on SYTYCD.

Lythgoe issued a statement in response to the accusations laid out in Abdul’s filing, writing: “To say that I am shocked and saddened by the allegations made against me by Paula Abdul is a wild understatement. For more than two decades, Paula and I have interacted as dear—and entirely platonic—friends and colleagues. Yesterday, however, out of the blue, I learned of these claims in the press and I want to be clear: not only are they false, they are deeply offensive to me and to everything I stand for.  I can’t pretend to understand exactly why she would file a lawsuit that she must know is untrue. But I can promise that I will fight this appalling smear with everything I have.”

Abdul said in her filing that after both alleged incidents, she decided not to take action against Lythgoe out of fear of professional retaliation, but that “in light of the Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act, Abdul is no longer willing to remain silent.” Abdul is suing Lythgoe for sexual assault, sexual harassment, gender violence and negligence and says she has suffered severe emotional distress, emotional anguish, fear, anxiety, humiliation, embarrassment and other physical and emotional injuries and damages from his alleged actions against her.

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