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Published Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024 | 11:45 a.m.
Updated Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024 | 11:45 a.m.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Singer-songwriter JD Souther (SOW’-ther) has died at his home in New Mexico at the age of 78, according to his website. Souther co-wrote some of The Eagles’ biggest hits, including “Heartache Tonight,” “Best of My Love,” “James Dean” and “New Kid in Town.” He was so friendly with The Eagles that he’s pictured on the back cover of their “Desperado” album. Souther had a solo hit in 1979 with “You’re Only Lonely.” Souther also wrote and sang with James Taylor on the song “Her Town Too.” He also had an acting career, appearing in the TV shows “Nashville and “thirtysomething,” and in movies like “Postcards from the Edge” and “My Girl 2.”
NEW YORK(AP) – Yesterday, a federal judge denied bond for Sean “Diddy” Combs. Today, Combs will ask another judge to reconsider. Combs pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that include racketeering, sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, obstruction of justice and drug offenses. His lawyers are offering a $50 million bail package that would use his mansion as collateral in exchange for release to home detention with GPS monitoring and restricted visitors. Combs’ house is on Star Island off the coast of Miami, which is among the most expensive places to live in the country. Prosecutors say Combs is a danger to the community and a flight risk.
NEW YORK (AP) – Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein will be arraigned this afternoon in New York on a new indictment that will charge him with up to three additional sex offenses, according to his lawyer. Prosecutors said last week that the new allegations date back as far back as the mid-2000s. The indictment is sealed until Weinstein is arraigned. Weinstein is awaiting retrial on sex offenses after New York’s highest court overturned his 2020 conviction.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Anna Sorokin, the so-called “fake heiress,” made her debut on “Dancing with the Stars” last night wearing a bedazzled ankle monitor. Sorokin tells The Associated Press the monitor weighs less than a pound, and she asked for it to be tight so it wouldn’t dangle. Sorokin is in the custody of immigration authorities as she fights deportation to her native Germany. Terms of her home confinement have been amended to allow her to travel from New York to Los Angeles to film the show. Sorokin was released from prison in 2021 after serving time for grand larceny after she tricked people and businesses into thinking she was an heiress. Sorokin says she hopes people will give her a chance on the show, because she has served her time and paid her restitution.
NEW YORK (AP) – YouTube star MrBeast is the target of a lawsuit over “Beast Games,” the competition show he created for Amazon that filmed over the summer. Five unnamed participants are suing MrBeast, AKA Jimmy Donaldson, and Amazon, alleging unsafe work conditions that included not enough food and insufficient medical care. Their lawsuit also says women faced sexual harassment, and that MrBeast failed to pay minimum wages, overtime pay and rest time. A spokesperson for Donaldson declined comment. Amazon promoted “Beast Games” as a game show with the largest single prize in the history of TV and streaming: $5 million.
ATLANTA (AP) – India.Arie, The B-52’s, Grouplove and Eric Church were among the performers last night at a concert in Atlanta celebrating the 100th birthday of former President Jimmy Carter. Other performers include Maren Morris, Drive-By Truckers, The War and Treaty and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Chuck Leavell (leh-VEL’), who was with the Allman Brothers Band when they campaigned for Carter in 1976, says Carter was “the rock-and-roll president” who understood that music “brings people together. The concert will be shown on Georgia Public Broadcasting on Oct. 1, Carter’s actual birthday. Carter is in hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia.
Donna Kelce will have cameos in two upcoming Hallmark Christmas movies about football – but she’s not choosing sides between her sons. Kelce is the mother of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce. She will play a barbecue restaurant manager in “Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story.” She also will appear in “Christmas On Call,” about a die-hard Eagles fan. It’s unclear whether she plays herself or a character, but Hallmark says she will help one of the leads order a proper cheesesteak.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The star of “The Golden Bachelorette” did not expect that she was going to walk into a room of 24 men who became the best of friends on the first night. Joan Vassos says the men had heartwarming conversations about being single fathers and what happened that left them single late in life. Vassos says she was expecting them to talk about their golf handicaps and how their baseball teams were doing, but she did not hear a single sports conversation. She says they all acted like they had known each other forever. “The Golden Bachelorette” premieres tonight on ABC.