PAUL HAGGIS ORDERED TO PAY PUBLICIST $7.5 MILLION IN RAPE TRIAL
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s true: $7.5 million is a lot of money. But it isn’t even the final cost to filmmaker Paul Haggis after he was found liable in a rape case. A New York jury that decided in favor of Haleigh Breest also plans to tack on punitive damages. Yesterday’s ruling ends a #MeToo era trial that pitted the man behind the Oscar-winning movies “Crash” and “Million Dollar Baby” against a publicist who met him while handling movie premieres in the early 2010s. Breest says she’s “very grateful” for the ruling; Haggis says he is “very disappointed in the results.”
ALEX JONES SOCKED WITH HEFTY PENALTY IN SANDY HOOK CASE
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Alex Jones is learning his crusade for “free speech” can be pricey — if the speech isn’t true. The Infowars host and his company are ordered by a judge to pay an extra $473 million for his false conspiracy claims about the Sandy Hook school massacre. That brings the total judgment against him in a lawsuit filed by the victims’ families to a staggering $1.44 billion. In imposing the penalty, Connecticut Judge Barbara Bellis said the trial evidence supports the plaintiffs’ claim that Jones’ hoax claims were “intentional and malicious, and certain to cause harm.” Jones says he’ll appeal.
CHRIS ROCK TO DO LIVE SHOW FOR NETFLIX
UNDATED (AP) — It’s a phrase you probably haven’t heard before now: live on Netflix. But if Chris Rock and the streaming service get their way, you may be hearing it a lot more often. Netflix will do its first-ever live, global event — and Rock will be the headliner. The comedy special is to stream early next year. But few other details were revealed. Should the Rock stream go well, there will likely be other live events by streamers like Netflix.
POST-MIDTERMS TRUMP BEING BASHED BY MURDOCH NEWS OUTLETS
NEW YORK (AP) — “Trumpty Dumpty?” The image of ex-President Donald Trump’s face on the egg-shaped frame of the nursery rhyme character seems like something you’d see on a late night comedy show or an editorial cartoon. But that was the image on yesterday’s front page of the New York Post. The Big Apple tabloid is a big piece of the Rupert Murdoch media empire — and the Trump diss is no accident. Murdoch’s news outlets used to be among Trump’s biggest and most loyal backers. But it, Fox News and The Wall Street Journal have all taken shots at Trump after the GOP failed to dominate the midterm elections. In an even more stinging rebuke, the Journal ran a guest column touting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as an alternative to Trump for the 2024 presidential election.
TOP, LITE-BRITE AND MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE ADDED TO TOY HALL
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Most of those who played with them would admit it: it was hard to get a spinning top to do much spinning, no matter how well you wrapped the string around it. But the children’s plaything from back in the day is one of the three deemed worthy of a spot in the National Toy Hall of Fame. Joining the top is Lite-Brite, a plastic board that let you come as close as you could in the pre-electronic days to creating an LED board — that is, if you didn’t run out of pegs. Also in: toys based on the Masters of the Universe cartoon.
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