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 "We’re all ‘Star Wars’ nuts,” Barry Ray says as his wife, Melissa, and daughter Evie play nearby. Evie knows all the “Star Wars” characters from multiple readings of the Little Golden Books series. She’s wearing a Princess Leia costume so, in keeping with the canon, her parents are dressed as Darth Vader and Padmé Amidala.

Kim Kardashian thought her life was over on the night in October 2016 when she was robbed at gunpoint in her Paris apartment.

When Sean “Diddy” Combs found out his ex, R&B artist Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, was dating someone else, he grabbed one of his employees in the middle of the night to help him hunt down and murder the other man, a Manhattan jury heard in a bombshell opening statement at the mogul’s trial Monday.

LAS VEGAS — Celeste and William McCormack’s relationship began a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. On Sunday, the sci-fi-obsessed couple made it to the “distant, desert land of Las Vegas,” as the Princess Leia wedding officiant called it. The McCormacks were one of about 20 couples who had a “Star Wars”-themed wedding at The Little Vegas Chapel on Sunday. May 4, or “May the fourth,” is ...

LOS ANGELES — Ruth Buzzi, famous for her work as handbag-wielding spinster Gladys Ormphby on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” died Thursday, her family announced Friday. The actor was 88. “Ruth Buzzi died peacefully in her sleep at home in Texas,” read the note on Facebook. “She was in hospice care for several years with Alzheimer’s disease.” Buzzi’s husband of more than 40 years, Kent Perkins, ...

LOS ANGELES — Sean "Diddy" Combs has rejected a plea deal in his upcoming trial on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. At a Thursday hearing, Judge Arun Subramanian asked Combs whether he rejected the plea deal from federal prosecutors that could have shortened his possible prison sentence if convicted. "Yes, I do, your honor," Combs said. ...

Jill Sobule, the singer and songwriter whose 1995 hit “I Kissed a Girl” was the rare pop song of that era to take an openly queer theme into the cultural mainstream, died Thursday. She was 66. Her death was announced by her spokesman, David Elkin, who said she died in a house fire in the Minneapolis suburb of Woodbury. Sobule had been on tour and was scheduled to play a hometown concert Friday ...

LOS ANGELES — By Kanye West's recent standards, the surprise release of his "lost" album "Donda 2" to streaming services is relatively sedate news. The rapper, now known as Ye, first released "Donda 2" in very limited fashion in 2022, when its core musical components were uploaded into a proprietary Stem player, a physical device where listeners could tweak its mixes. Alex Klein, the founder ...

DETROIT — Michigan-bred musician Kid Rock is getting back into the hospitality business with the opening of a new restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, next week. The Detroit Cowboy is set to open May 5 at 500 11th Avenue N. in Nashville where Joe Muer's Nashville location was, according to its website, which touts the tagline "go where you're celebrated, not tolerated." The branding alludes to ...

Billy Ray Cyrus and Elizabeth Hurley hard-launched their relationship in an Easter Instagram post. The country musician and British actress packed on the PDA in a joint Instagram post simply captioned, “Happy Easter.” In the photo, Cyrus is seen kissing Hurley with his arm wrapped around her as the pair lean on a wooden fence on a farm. Cyrus, who owns a farm in Tennessee, didn’t offer any ...

Steve Martin wasn’t being a jerk when he publicly corrected The New York Times crossword for mislabeling him as a member of the high-IQ society Mensa.

A longtime case of celebrity mistaken identity has finally been settled. Grammy Award-winning Michelle Williams came face-to-face with her famous namesake, five-time Oscar-nominated Michelle Williams, after more than two decades of getting confused for one another.

LAS VEGAS — An attorney for the man accused of organizing the slaying of Tupac Shakur claims his client acted in self-defense during a jail altercation that led to a separate battery case scheduled to go to trial Tuesday. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 61, was indicted in February on counts of battery by a prisoner and challenging someone to a fight. Prosecutors have alleged he and another inmate, ...

Michael Bublé is one famous Canadian who is not happy about President Donald Trump taking aim at Canada — by waging a tariffs war and talking of turning America’s northern neighboring country into the 51st state. The Grammy Award-winning singer, who was born in Vancouver, took a dig at the president while hosting the Juno Awards on Sunday night at Rogers Arena. “Folks, we’re one of a kind. We ...

Richard Chamberlain, the sandy-haired TV heartthrob who starred on the popular 1960s medical drama “Dr. Kildare” and later was touted as “king of the miniseries” for his leading roles in ratings sensations such as “Shogun” and “The Thorn Birds,” died March 29 in Waimanalo, Hawaii. He was 90.

Elisabeth Moss has confirmed she’s a mom, over a year after announcing she was expecting her first child. While appearing on a panel this week during PaleyFest in Los Angeles, the 42-year-old actor reflected on bringing her baby to the set while filming the upcoming final season of Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale.” “The only thing I would say about that is I feel so fortunate to be able to do that. … ...

Ben Affleck has spoken for the first time on his divorce from Jennifer Lopez. The Oscar winner, 52, opened up about the 2024 end to his brief marriage to the 55-year-old Bronx-born pop star in a new profile for GQ, in which he also sang the praises of ex-wife and “really good co-parent” Jennifer Garner, with whom he shares three kids.

Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump confirmed their relationship together in a Sunday night social media post.

Sean Baker made Oscars history on Sunday by becoming the first person to win four Oscars in one night for the same movie. With his movie “Anora,” a bittersweet dramedy about a Brooklyn stripper who becomes entangled with the wayward son of a Russian oligarch, Baker won awards for best picture, director, original screenplay and editing.