Betty Broderick -- the woman who fatally shot her ex-husband and his new wife back in 1989 -- died in the ICU Friday following a number of health issues, TMZ has learned.
Betty's son, Daniel Broderick, tells TMZ ... she had a number of septic infections -- including one infection that she had years ago and came back. Plus, she had a serious fall at the Californian Institute for Women where she was locked away about 3 weeks ago ... which resulted in broken ribs.
Daniel says Betty ended up in the ICU at a hospital off the prison grounds. She was on life support at the end of her life and unable to communicate.
7:40 AM PST -- The Denver International Airport has announced the individual killed after being hit by a Frontier Airlines plane Friday night "jumped the perimeter fence" and was hit only 2 minutes later "while crossing the runway." The identity has not been confirmed, but the airport does not believe they were an employee.
The airport added that 12 people reported minor injuries, 5 of whom were transported to local hospitals.
The pedestrian is deceased, and is not believed to be an employee of the airport nor have they been identified. An individual was struck and killed by a Frontier Airlines flight headed to Los Angeles during takeoff at Denver International Airport Friday night ... and TMZ obtained shocking audio of the incident unfolding.
You can hear everything in the clip -- a female air traffic controller warns her colleagues a person was walking on the runway, and the person is swiftly reported as struck and killed. You can also hear air traffic controllers say there appears to be "limbs" and human remains on the runway.
Emergency personnel are immediately directed to the scene to guard the remains and evacuate the flight ... with the exception of the deceased, only minor injuries were reported.
"Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Dorit Kemsley spiraled in texts to her ex PK Kemsley due to her believing their L.A. home was set to be sold at a foreclosure auction, TMZ has learned.
TMZ obtained alleged texts exchanged between Dorit and PK on April 26, 2026.
Betty Broderick, the woman who shot and killed her ex-husband and his new wife in cold blood, has died ... TMZ has learned.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation tells TMZ ... Betty was pronounced dead Friday morning.
We're told Betty had been transported from the California Institution for Women prison to an outside medical facility back in April ... and she died in the facility.
Dana White is the opposite of frightened leading up to the HEATED UFC 328 main event matchup between Khamzat Chimaevand Sean Strickland, telling TMZ Sports ... "It's exciting!"
"It doesn't scare me," the UFC honcho said Friday in Manhattan, referencing all the insane trash talk leading up to Saturday's fight card.
THE PRESS CONFERENCE HASN'T EVEN STARTED YET AND STRICKLAND AND KHAMZAT ARE ALREADY GOING AT IT 😭
🗣️ Khamzat: "I'm gonna be your daddy in the cage. Sit down b*tch."
Nick Cannon is answering the question everyone’s thinking ahead of Mother’s Day weekend -- how exactly does a guy with 12 kids and 6 baby mamas handle the holiday?!?
Well, Nick broke it down to Towanda Robinson on "The TMZ Podcast," explaining that people are getting the whole thing twisted, 'cause the holiday is called "Mother’s Day" and not "Baby Mama Day" -- meaning he’ll actually be spending it with his mother.
Nick reiterated it was up to all his kids to handle spoiling the moms themselves -- and absolutely not him.
'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' star Dorit Kemsley called out her estranged husband, PK Kemsley, for being an “addict” who “doesn’t know how to learn from their mistakes,” TMZ has learned.
In an alleged text dated April 2, 2026, obtained by TMZ, the Bravo star wrote to PK, “At least you’re consistent in proving a leopard doesn’t change its spots,” followed by the addict remark. In 2024, PK announced he was 9 months sober.
Nick Cannon's ex-money manager managed his money, alright -- treating Nick's bank account like his personal piggy bank, and then disappearing with $2 million ... according to the feds.
Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... Frank Musoke -- a former account manager at a high-end Beverly Hills management and tax firm -- is accused of spending several years siphoning cash from the "Wild 'n Out" creator.
Federal prosecutors just hit Musoke with an 8-count indictment, claiming he leveraged his position managing the business and financial affairs of elite celebrities. While the indictment doesn't mention Nick's name, our sources confirm he's the alleged victim.
Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix have officially cut the last string between them ... 'cause TMZ has learned their shared Los Angeles home has sold.
Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... the sale of the Valley Village farmhouse closed Friday ... with the former couple offloading it to new owners for $3.1 million.
Remember ... that's the price Tom swears he offered Ariana for the place ... but, she apparently didn't want to give it up to him. We told you last month the home was in escrow in an off-market deal.
Dorit Kemsley’s alleged texts to her estranged husband PK Kemsley about his new girlfriend were recently revealed in court docs from their messy divorce.
TMZ obtained the alleged messages, dated April 1, 2026, from "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star to PK, which reads “I don’t care that you have your girlfriend here. Haha she knows you have two children and an ex ex-wife. It’s OK I'm sure she can handle you being an adult and speaking to me even when she’s there.”
Dorit added, "You have to start being able to live an honest life. I thought you were finally ready to?”
Katy Perry’s manager wants the disabled veteran -- who lost his fight against the singer over a Santa Barbara mansion he sold to her -- to cough up a 7-figure sum to cover her legal fees ... TMZ has learned.
According to court docs, obtained by TMZ, the lawyers for Katy’s longtime business manager, Bernie Gudvi, asked a judge to order Carl Westcott to pay more than $5 million in legal fees he racked up from 2020 to 2026.
Carl is an uber-successful businessman who sued to back out of the sale of his mansion to Katy. He claimed he was under the influence of painkillers from surgery when he executed the deal, but Katy refused to back out of the deal.
Hollywood got a full dose of chaos, comedy and freestyle bars when the TMZ Comedy Crawl tore through the city ... with Cat Celeading the charge from club to club.
Check it out ... the night kicked off with the Klein Boyz -- brothers Jeremyand Kyle-- jumping straight into rapid-fire freestyle rap ... pulling random topics out of thin air and turning them into punchlines on the spot. At first, the crowd didn’t totally know what hit ‘em ... but once people realized nothing was scripted, the energy ramped up fast.
Iyanna Dunnkept things rolling with stories about her childhood TV days ... reminding the crowd she got her start leading Nickelodeon's "Abby’s Friends" and weaving the throwback flex into her set.
Addison Rae's dad, Monty Lopez, accused his estranged wife of having a gun during a recent altercation, but now she's firing back and flatly denying the claim.
Kaitlyn Lopeztells TMZ ... she did not threaten anyone with a weapon as she speaks out publicly for the first time amid the escalating drama between the currently estranged couple.
"During an incident where law enforcement searched the residence, the situation escalated to the point where I felt like I was caught in something far more serious and dangerous than I ever understood," she tells us. "It felt unreal -- like I was suddenly in the middle of something much bigger than myself."
Jeremy Corbell is encouraged and optimistic about the first batch of alien and UFO files being released by the government ... he says the transparency here is a long time coming.
The UFO expert and filmmaker joined us Friday on "TMZ Live," and we asked him about the Pentagon releasing photos, videos and files on aliens and unidentified aerial phenomena.
Jeremy tells us the White House has told him more files will be released as part of a "slow burn" ... and he hopes that means they are easing people into the information. On the other hand, he says a slow rollout could mean President Trump didn't get the good stuff.
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance pulled 128.2 million viewers -- but also garnered some intense backlash from people pissed off about the content of the performance.
TMZ obtained more than 2,000 complaints sent to the FCC following February's Super Bowl LX .... and more than 100 involved messages that the Puerto Rican superstar's performance was raunchy, full of dirty sex-talk, and all-around inappropriate.
Just check out some of the complaints in our gallery -- many people protested about his alleged gyrating ... with one viewer claiming they felt they were "forced to see a man's penis and balls." Others were peeved he grabbed his crotch, while another person complained dancers allegedly grabbed each other's breasts.
The hantavirus scare is giving some people COVID flashbacks ... but this virus apparently doesn't have the same bite.
Dr. Ashish Jha -- the former White House COVID response coordinator -- stopped by "TMZ Live" to tell everyone to exhale a little over the deadly outbreak aboard the MV Hondius ... because while he's worried about people exposed on that ship, he tells us this thing is NOT shaping up to be another COVID-style nightmare.
Check it out ... he assures us, "This is not gonna be a pandemic. That's not how this virus is going to behave."
