Danny Trejo is making it clear he does NOT back ICE after getting backlash over appearing in Ben Shapiro's controversial movie about immigration enforcement ... and he's only doing his job as a storyteller.
Danny tells TMZ ... "I am a proud Mexican who has always been and will always be a supporter of my community. I am also obviously pro immigrant. I am not pro ice."
In his first remarks about the film, "Pawn Shop," Trejo adds ... "I know where I come from and I know our struggles."
The movie -- produced by Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire -- follows a federal agent who takes shelter inside a Minneapolis pawn shop amid unrest over immigration enforcement. Shapiro has said the film is pro ICE, which has some of Trejo's fans wondering why he'd take the role.
One Fort Hood survivor says he plans to watch Nidal Hasan's livestreamed execution ... but doesn't want people to treat it like a party.
TMZ spoke with Alonzo Lunsford-- who was shot 7 times in the 2007 attack -- and he tells TMZ ... Hasan's livestreamed death shouldn't be treated like an event you tailgate.
He also stressed that not everyone should have access to the stream ... telling us that kids and teens should be sitting this one out.
The Cornell University disciplinary committee expelled Jonathan Newell, a defendant in Jane Doe's civil lawsuit, because he had sex with her without her consent ... Doe's lawyer tells TMZ.
Attorney Thomas Giuffra tells TMZ ... "We believe that [the text messages TMZ posted] were part of the Title IX process which led to Mr. Newell's expulsion after twelve days of evidentiary hearings and extensive documentary evidence. It is undisputed that the Hearing Panel found that Mr. Newell violated Ms. Doe's bodily safety in commencing intercourse without her consent."
Someone who has reviewed the hearing panel's decision tells TMZ the panel found Newell did not have "affirmative consent," meaning there was not express consent to engage in sex. Title IX says "silence or lack of resistance in and of itself does not demonstrate consent."
Although Jane Doe says in her early texts her initial encounter with Newell and Matthew Ingalls was consensual, her lawsuit she says things changed when Ingalls went to take a nap. She says Newell then began reaching for her vagina multiple times, "and each time [Doe] pushed his hand away." She says another man entered the room, grabbed her away from Newell and began kissing her while Newell groped her vagina.
Elon Musk is revealing the way he treated his trans daughter behind closed doors during their public falling out ... according to his first wife.
The billionaire's ex-wife, Justine Wilson, says in the upcoming "Musk" documentary that Elon treated Vivian Wilson's transition as the "death of a child."
She says Vivian was in "pain" when the X owner posted that he felt he'd lost her to the "woke mind virus."
4:12 PM PT -- Tulsa Police Department posted a statement on Facebook, saying they found "no credible threat" after "a call was made threatening the lives of people attending the event."
Police say the caller threatened to do "great harm" to concertgoers, through "shots fired and bombs."
They said they did a sweep with their bomb dogs after the call and didn't find anything.
Police insist they would never tell anyone to cancel their event if they couldn't find a credible threat. They say neither the police nor the BOK Center pulled the plug ... explaining it was Ella's team who decided to back out.
Ella Langleywon't be taking the stage in Oklahoma tonight ... her show's been canceled due to a "serious security threat."
Tulsa's BOK Center took to social media to announce the abrupt cancellation, writing ... "Due to a serious security threat involving the safety of fans, venue personnel, and the artist, Ella Langley's scheduled performance tonight at BOK Center in Tulsa has been canceled."
The venue went on to say that safety was their top priority, and that's why they decided to pull the plug on the performance.
SofÃa Vergaramight be taking a subtle dig at her ex-husband, Joe Manganiello, with her social media activity ... sharing a post about narcissistic men after he trashed her in his new memoir.
Here's the deal ... Sofia's son -- Manolo -- initially shared the post on his social media, which explains the difference between good guys and narcissists.
Among the attributes listed ... good guys apologize, set boundaries, and tell the truth. On the flip side, narcissists gaslight, lie, and "act like Peter Pan."
Samantha Natalie Phythian was found dead inside a burning van in Wales and was apparently still alive and pregnant when someone set the vehicle on fire.
According to the BBC, the judge said in a court hearing Friday ... "At the time of ignition the person was alive. Someone set the van alight and the person was alive and was killed as a result of the fire."
38-year-old Thomas Bell -- who's been charged with Samantha's murder -- appeared in court on video.
Sounds like not all famous feuds are forever ... because there may be hope for Sutton Stracke and Dorit Kemsley after a nasty fallig out.
We got Sutton in Los Angeles on Wednesday ... and she told our photog she and her "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" co-star are slowly but surely getting back on good footing.
We asked her point-blank if she and Dorit would ever be friends, and you gotta check out the clip ... because her answer actually gives us hope!
Kevin Hart is used to making people laugh ... but his recent golf shot was no laughing matter -- because it landed right in the middle of a wedding reception ... FORE!!!
The actor and comedian was golfing with YouTuber Grant Horvat when he slashed a ball that went high through the air and bounced through the area being set up for the post-wedding ceremony.
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Check out the video ... the ball rattles around and bounces back on the green -- miraculously not hitting anything or anyone, though Kevin does create a stir ... with wedding guests standing up to take a look at him.
The ICE shooting that left a man in the hospital and sparked protests in New York City was caught on video ... and it shows agents rushing up to the car seemingly with weapons ready.
Video of the incident is now circulating online ... and it shows 2 men rushing up to the door of a car parked along the sidewalk.
These men aren't seen in distinct uniforms ... instead wearing plain clothes. The men seem to be approaching the car with their guns already out and, when the car tries to speed away, one of them apparently opens fire.
A mother whose daughter used ChatGPT to write her suicide notes heard Sam Altman's response ... and she's not happy with the OpenAI honcho.
Journalist Laura Reiley says Altman taking "the privacy high road" in refusing to turn over potentially insightful chat logs is "a little rich."
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She called out the hypocrisy of Altman's OpenAI and other tech companies earning revenue from advertising strategies that involve users' personal information.
Panama was rocked by a massive earthquake Friday ... causing massive damage and triggering tsunami warnings.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the country was hit by a whopping 7.7-magnitude quake, with an epicenter that was just over 7 miles outside of Pitaloza Arriba.
Check out this wild video of the moment the quake hit during a live broadcast. You can see the announcers jump up and run for cover.
You can see the entire building violently shaking ... and it even sounds like some things are breaking in the quake.
This photo shows a pool that's been rocked so hard from seismic activity that it actually began to leak.
The quake was so bad that the U.S. Tsunami Warning System said there were potential threats of "hazardous tsunami waves" on some coasts in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Ecuador.
03 Greedo showed off his new talent while ComplexCon ... and it might come as a surprise to people ... he is now a disc jockey!!!
Greedo made his DJ debut during ComplexCon at the Club X stage that was curated by Siobhan Bell and Jedi.
As you may recall ... in 2018 Greedo was sentenced to twenty years in prison on drug trafficking and possession of a firearm charges. He began his sentence in late 2018, and in 2023 it was announced he would be released from prison following a successful parole hearing.
Landlords really have no shame ... because the person who was renting out a home to Gypsy Rose Blanchard's baby dad, Ken Urker, asked his family for rent ... one week after Ken died.
Urker family sources tell TMZ ... Ken's relatives cleaned out the unit -- where he died on October 1 -- leaving it spotless. We're told the landlord inspected the place, thanked the family, and then reached out to Ken's mom Wednesday to ask about missing October rent.
Ken had been dead for exactly 7 days when the landlord came crawling back for money ... and our sources say the family felt the timing was inappropriate, especially because Ken had paid a security deposit they believed should cover October's $1,400 rent.
