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Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will stand trial in the UK after being accused of assaulting a BBC TV presenter at a nightclub in London.
Black, who won the Best Screenplay Oscar for 2008’s Milk, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London via video link on Thursday, where he filed a not guilty plea, PA reported. The screenwriter was released on unconditional bail. The trial has been set for an August 8 start date.
According to reports, the charge is the result of an alleged altercation between Black, and BBC3 presenter Teddy Edwardes last summer. In a statement, London’s Metropolitan Police said police officers were called to a nightclub in London’s Soho district after midnight in August last year following reports of “an altercation” between a man in his 40s and a woman in her 30s. Black was charged with common assault on February 17, PA reports.
Deadline has contacted Black’s reps for comment.
In a separate statement handed to the British newspaper Metro, the screenwriter’s legal reps said: “Mr. Black was surprised and saddened to learn that after the other person involved in this unfortunate incident took responsibility and expressed remorse for a punch to the back of Mr. Black’s head – which left him with a life-altering concussion – a decision was made to now examine the matter of a spilled drink in a court of law. Of course, Mr. Black will respect the process, and in the meantime will continue to focus on being a loving father and husband.”
Black, who is married to the British Olympian Tom Daley, is best known for his work on films such as the multi-Oscar-winning biopic Milk, starring Sean Penn, and the legal drama J. Edgar, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Naomi Watts. Black was also the
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All Points East festival.PC Hasnain Awan was found to have committed gross misconduct at Police Misconduct Hearing held on May 5, according to the Hackney Gazette.Awan allegedly worked a shift for the Met Police at the festival in London’s Victoria Park on On August 28, 2021, where he was given a wrist band to enable him to enter the site and perform his duties.The following day he was off duty but was said to have attended the festival with a friend who was not a police officer.Awan allegedly went to the festival accreditation desk and told staff that he needed a new wristband because his own had been seized as evidence after getting stained with blood.It is then believed that he gave the new wristband to his friend and entered using the wristband he had used the day before, allowing both to enter the festival without paying the £95 entrance fee.At 2pm the same day, he then allegedly tried to gain entry to a backstage area of the festival by showing his warrant card.
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Ed Sheeran's copyright trial. On Thursday, a New York City jury found that the 32-year-old singer did not copy Marvin Gaye's 1973 hit, «Let's Get It On,» on his 2014 song, «Thinking Out Loud.»«Ed seemed very pleased with the verdict and gave everyone on his legal team a big hug,» an eyewitness at the courthouse tells ET.
Ed Sheeran has won a US copyright lawsuit which alleged he copied parts of Marvin Gaye’s hit song Let’s Get It On for his own track Thinking Out Loud.The lawsuit was officially filed in 2017 and claimed Ed had ripped off part of the classic Marvin Gaye song.The British musician was taken to court by the family of Ed Townsend, Gaye’s co-writer of the 1973 soul classic.They claimed that Sheeran’s 2014 song, written with collaborator Amy Wadge, bore “striking similarities” and “overt common elements” to Let’s Get It On.The trail in New York lasted for a week where Ed and the song's co-writer, Amy Wadge, gave evidence including several live singing performances. The singer explained that he had written the song when he was at home in England and that his grandparents were the inspiration behind the song, as well as a new romance which had just sparked around that time.
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posted on Instagram after Black allegedly threw a drink over the celebrity, who also appeared on BBC gameshow “Unbreakable.”“I went out for a couple of quiet drinks with my friends last night, nothing crazy, and I bumped into Tom Daley and his husband in Soho, who… pretty much unprovoked he threw an entire drink over me in Freedom. I didn’t have a drink to throw back so I did choose violence, it wasn’t that violent, he got a little tap on the back of the head.”Black posted on social media the following month, writing of a concussion that caused him to pause creative activity in order to recover from the head injury.“A month ago I sustained a serious head injury that put me out of commission. Showing little improvement, my doctors ordered me to shut off my brain in hopes of it healing.
Dustin Lance Black will have to go to trial after being accused of alleged assault.
Tom Daley's husband Dustin Lance Black has been accused of attacking a woman in a nightclub and is now facing trial, according to reports. American screenwriter Dustin, 48, has been accused of throwing a drink over Teddy Edwardes, 32, who is the founder of Lick Events and host of BBC Three show The Big Proud Party Agency. Dustin allegedly got into a dispute with Teddy at Freedom nightclub in London in August 2022, where he was out with Olympic diver husband Tom, 28.
K.J. Yossman Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black is set to face trial in the U.K. after allegedly assaulting a BBC host in a nightclub. Black appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court in London via videolink on Thursday morning local time where he pled not guilty to a charge of assault by beating. Black was released on unconditional bail. His trial is set to take place on August 8. The charge stems from an alleged altercation with an LGBTQ+ party planner and host of BBC3 show “The Big Proud Party Agency” Teddy Edwardes last summer. According to reports, Black allegedly threw a drink over Edwardes, who has also appeared as a contestant on BBC gameshow “Unbreakable,” at Freedom nightclub in Soho in August. He was reported to have been accompanied by his husband, British Olympic diver Tom Daley, at the time.
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GloRilla is being sued over an allegedly uncleared sample that appears on her 2022 track ‘Tomorrow’, and also the remix of said track ‘Tomorrow 2’, which features Cardi B.The lawsuit was filed last week by Ivory Paynes, a member of rap group Dog House Posse. He reckons ‘Tomorrow’ samples his 1994 track ‘Street Of Westbank’, which was on the album ‘Dope Gets No Heavier’, and which was pushed onto the streaming services in 2017.“Defendants used unauthorised samples of ‘Street Of Westbank’ in their sound recordings ‘Tomorrow’ and ‘Tomorrow 2′”, Payne’s lawsuit alleges.“The plaintiff did not authorise the defendants’ reproduction, distribution, public performance of the sound recording”, it adds, “or creation of an unauthorised derivative work of ‘Tomorrow’ and ‘Tomorrow 2′”.Expanding on those allegations further, the legal filing continues: “The infringing works, ‘Tomorrow’ and ‘Tomorrow 2’, misappropriate key protected elements of ‘Street Of Westbank’, including without limitation its musical arrangements, percussion tracks, synthesised orchestration, including but not limited to piano, cello, violin, contrabass, and drum set, and tone and melody”.“Moreover”, it reckons, “‘Tomorrow’ and ‘Tomorrow 2’ mimic and copy the arrangement of ‘Street Of Westbank’ by the choice of the instrumentation accompanying the rap lyrics, the choice of when the instruments drop out and reenter and what instruments drop in and re-enter”.GloRilla has yet to respond to the lawsuit.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is speaking with multiple individuals who are alleging abuse by Jonathan Majors, star of Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, according to a Variety report. Priya Chaudhry, an attorney for Majors, denied the claims in a statement to Variety.
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March arrest on charges of strangulation, assault and harassment. Variety reported Wednesday that sources familiar with the matter claim more women have come forward to accuse the 33-year-old “Lovecraft Country” star of abuse, and they are said to be cooperating with the Manhattan district attorney’s office.Majors has a court appearance scheduled for May 8.“Jonathan Majors is innocent and has not abused anyone,” his attorney, Priya Chaudhry, told Deadline late Wednesday. “We have provided irrefutable evidence to the District Attorney that the charges are false.