French pop giant Aya Nakamura was fined 10,000 euros ($10,600) on Thursday and her former partner Vladimir Boudnikoff 5,000 euros, over a dispute in which the pair came to blows in August 2022.. During earlier hearings, the former couple described their fight on the night of August 6-7, 2022, boiling over because of jealousy over Boudnikoff's invitation -- without Nakamura -- to a wedding that was also attended by an ex-girlfriend of his.
Disgraced movie industry tycoon Harvey Weinstein is due to be sentenced Thursday over the rape of a woman in a Beverly Hills hotel room a decade ago.. Prosecutors said Weinstein exploited and abused women for years, and long enjoyed impunity because of his then-powerful position in the industry.
On a set outside Tokyo, Momoko Nishiyama sits with the drama's director and watches as a man undresses a woman, guiding the love scene as one of just two "intimacy coordinators" in Japan.. The directors back the use of intimacy coordinators, though Nishikawa cautions that won't be enough to end abuse off-set.
A darker-than-usual parade dedicated to an infamous outlaw-hero from Brazil's impoverished northeast, bastion of newly inaugurated President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, won the championship of Rio de Janeiro's colorful, cutthroat carnival parade competition Wednesday.. First Lady Rosangela "Janja" da Silva served as the school's "godmother," supporting its social projects in the city's impoverished favelas.
The man who shot dead Grammy-winning rapper Nipsey Hussle on a Los Angeles street in 2019 was jailed for at least 60 years on Wednesday.. Holder, a 32-year-old gang member, and Hussle were both members of the same "Rollin 60s" Crips faction.
Mia Goth and Alexander Skarsgard on Wednesday said they had a blast making Canadian director Brandon Cronenberg's "provocative" and "visceral" thriller "Infinity Pool", on show at the Berlinale film festival.. "Infinity Pool" had its world premiere in January at the Sundance Film Festival in the US. The Hollywood Reporter called Skarsgard's performance "ferociously committed", while Screen Daily described the film as "a singularly unnerving experience". fec/fb
The prestigious Metropolitan Opera will escalate its turn towards newer productions in its coming season, including with a staging of "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X." It's part of the 143-year-old New York institution's push to diversify its audiences that traditionally have skewed elderly and white.. Speaking to AFP last year, the Met's General Manager Peter Gelb called the storied institution's audience "eclectic," and said that the Met must continue to push artistic boundaries even if some old-timers prefer tradition.
Conor Benn has been cleared of a doping offence after the World Boxing Council ruled a "highly-elevated consumption of eggs" constituted a "reasonable explanation" for his positive finding.. It added: "Mr Benn's documented and highly-elevated consumption of eggs during the times relevant to the sample collection, raised a reasonable explanation for the Adverse Finding.
David Hockney's first immersive show opened to the public in London on Wednesday offering a hypnotic, multi-sensory journey through the artist's decades-long career, from sun-drenched California swimming pools to the Normandy countryside.. "As you fly into LA you see all these swimming pools.
A newly restored masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky, "Murnau Mit Kirche II", will be auctioned in London on March 1, alongside a Munch and a Kupka once owned by Sean Connery. . "Murnau Mit Kirche II" was only identified a decade ago in a museum in Eindhoven, where it had been since 1951.
