Drake's team is firing back at a lawsuit accusing him of stealing the chorus of one of his biggest hits ... and his team says the whole thing is a money grab, TMZ has learned.
Producer Aviel Calev Hirschfield -- also known as Avi -- sued Drake Friday, accusing the rapper of ripping off the chorus of his smash hit "Janice STFU."
According to the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, Avi claims he recorded the hook in January 2026 and sent it to producers who worked with Drake ... only to hear the exact same lyrics and melody when Drake released the track in May.
The mother of the Oregon school shooter is breaking down over her son's deadly rampage ... insisting he was a good kid despite killing four people.
Shauntai May Nickerson was in tears outside her Bend, Oregon apartment, telling The New York Times her 16-year-old son, Griffin J. John II, was "a good boy, he really was."
Nickerson was seen smoking a cigarette as she struggled to speak ... repeatedly apologizing and saying she missed her son ... she also expressed regret over the massacre, saying, "If I could have prevented this, I would have."
Six Flags Over Georgia is taking the "dead" out of its Halloween festivities ... just days after a man plunged to his death from a roller coaster at the park.
The theme park has quietly renamed its Fright Fest show "Dr. Fright's Dead Man's Party" to simply "Dr. Fright's Party" following Monday's horrific accident, according to the USA Today.
The change comes as Six Flags reopens Friday after shutting down for several days following the death of Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, a 42-year-old Atlanta educator who was thrown from the Goliath roller coaster.
Nikki Mudarrisis casting some serious doubt on the possibility of ever getting back with her ex, LiAngelo Ball... because she can't get over his "ultimate betrayal."
The former "Love & Hip Hop" star sat down with Towandaon the "TMZ Podcast" and she was asked point-blank if she would ever get back with the "Tweaker" rapper.
Nikki says she just can't get over the way Gelo did her dirty ... she says she was dealing with postpartum depression and raising their two kids when he broke up with her via text and got another woman pregnant, Rashida Nicole.
Kacey Musgraves' tour bus came to the rescue after a man's pickup truck rolled over on an Arizona highway ... TMZ has learned.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety tells TMZ ... troopers responded to a Toyota Tundra rollover on Southbound U.S. 93 just outside Kingman around 12:15 PM Friday ... and eyewitnesses say the pickup veered off the road and flipped.
We're told one of Kacey's tour bus drivers stopped to help the man and stayed with him until paramedics arrived. Kacey has a show in Phoenix on Saturday, and it sounds like her tour buses were in the right place at the right time.
According to officials the bus driver was a former firefighter and actually helped extricate the driver.
Kaia Gerber was seen out in Los Angeles rocking large dark sunglasses weeks after her brother Presley Gerber's tragic death.
The 25-year-old actress looked low-key, wearing a blue sweater and black sweatpants while out on Thursday ... Kaia hasn't been seen much since Presley died on Sept. 20 shortly after checking into a sober living facility called Resolutions in Santa Monica, CA.
Two of the victims killed in the horrific Oregon elementary school shooting have been identified ... including a young teacher who was working her dream job.
Authorities identified 25-year-old Meghan Lambert and 5-year-old Rhoam Summer during a Friday press conference, one day after a teenage gunman opened fire at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon.
Meghan's family shared a heartbreaking statement ... revealing she grew up in Bend and always dreamed of teaching in the same school district she attended as a child.
Casey Anthony says America needs to do away with the death penalty ... 15 years after she narrowly avoided the punishment herself.
Casey -- who was found not guilty of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee back in the summer of 2011 -- says state-sanctioned death as a punishment is inhumane ... claiming there's no evidence that the severe punishment stops people from committing crimes.
Timothy Busfield's child sex abuse case in New Mexico has been dismissed because of prosecutorial misconduct ... though the judge is leaving the door open for prosecutors to charge him again.
TMZ has obtained an order from a judge quashing the grand jury indictment ... claiming prosecutors misrepresented the admissibility of lie detector evidence to the grand jury.
He also says the state didn't call certain witnesses after the grand jury asked to hear from them.
The owner of Marilyn Monroe's former Palm Springs house doesn't have to take her advice on how to marry a millionaire ... because they just raked in a ton of dough by selling the place.
The blonde bombshell's former property in the popular Southern California vacation destination sold for $2,810,000 to Violet Moran ... a local designer who we're told is elated to work on the iconic property where one of her favorite celebs once lived.
While Violet plans on making the place her own, we're told she also plans on maintaining the integrity of the house and aesthetic ... and she wants to restore it to the level that it deserves.
Sun's out, buns out ... and "Love Island" hottie Belle-A Walker is giving Hawaii one hell of a cheeky view.
The Hawaiian-born bombshell is back in paradise, soaking up the sun and showing off her killer curves in a barely-there bikini ... leaving very little to the imagination as she sprawls out on the sand.
Belle-A captioned the sizzling snaps "my happiest place <3" ... and judging by that million-dollar smile, she's having the time of her life with her buns baking in the tropical heat.
Peter Byrne, the late singer from Naked Eyes, apparently left behind a substantial estate for his three kids ... TMZ has learned.
According to court docs obtained by TMZ, Peter's daughter Chloe Sapienza filed to be named administrator of the rocker's estate.
Sapienza says her father died without a will and had no spouse at the time of his death but notes he had 3 adult children, who would presumably inherit his assets.
In the docs, she estimates he left behind $230K in personal and real property ... including $50K in bank accounts. She also believes he earns around $180K in annual royalties, which she says the estate would be entitled to receive to distribute to his heirs.
RJ Mitte’s fiancée didn’t get an official invitation to his celebration of life event in Texas on Friday, TMZ has learned.
Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... Kennedy Suarez was not invited to the ceremony at The Mitte: Arts and Culture Center in Brownsville, Texas on Friday.
Our sources say she didn’t get the invite because the family has not communicated with her since RJ died.
Sean "Diddy" Combs' new life at a low-security federal prison in Pennsylvania is nothing to sneeze at ... and if the music mogul thinks he's going to use contraband phones, he'd better think again.
According to FCI Allenwood's rules and regulations ... Diddy better watch his Ps and Qs when it comes to all types of contraband -- because the correctional officers are watching over the inmates like hawks!
And you can forget about the fact that it's a low-security prison ... the guidelines make it clear that "all staff are alert" to contraband and will locate, confiscate, and dispose of all contraband in the institution.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is coming out swinging for Abdul El-Sayed ... calling claims linking the Michigan senatorial candidate to the Muslim Brotherhood flat-out racist.
Charlie got AOC on Friday at a Culver's in Michigan, where she's been campaigning for El-Sayed ... and he asked whether the Muslim Brotherhood controversy was rooted in reality or racism.
AOC didn't mince words ... saying the allegations fall "into racist very clearly" and blasting critics for dragging El-Sayed's painful family history into politics.
