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French Montana hit the town with his fiancée, Princess Sheikha Mahra of Dubai, and longtime friend Max B hours after Max walked free from prison.

We got the trio out at Ayah Restaurant in SoHo in New York City Sunday night, where they sat down for dinner and celebrated Max's first taste of freedom after more than a decade behind bars.

Witnesses tell us the vibe was pure joy ... with hugs, laughter, and a few emotional toasts as French welcomed his day one buddy home.

Flyysoulja of the Island Boys was detained by authorities over the weekend for a mental health evaluation ... TMZ has confirmed.

Soulja -- whose real name is Alex Venegas -- was livestreaming from his Miami-area home early Saturday morning when cops came knocking on his door and eventually carried out the Baker Act detention.

The Baker Act is a mental health law in Florida that allows a law enforcement or mental health professional to recommend a person be temporarily detained for an involuntary examination ... if it's believed that person may be a danger to themselves or others, are unable to care for themselves, or are suffering from mental health concerns with no treatment.

Four-time NBA All-Star Michael Ray Richardson has passed away, the New York Knicks announced Tuesday. He was 70 years old.

MRR was a star at Montana before going No. 4 overall in the 1978 NBA Draft ... and went on to play with the New York Knicks, Golden State Warriors, and New Jersey Nets over the course of eight seasons.

He was a defensive standout ... leading the league in steals three different times.

A North Carolina-based influencer learned about how rough breakups can be on Monday when she was ordered to pay $1.75 million -- after being found liable for ruining a marriage.

Brenay Kennard, who's got 3 million followers on TikTok and another 274,000 on Instagram, had been accused of having an affair with her manager, Tim Montague ... which apparently broke up his marriage with his now-estranged wife, Akira, reports WRAL-TV.

Akira -- who married Tim in 2018 and has two kids with him -- brought a civil lawsuit against Brenay after Tim started seeing the influencer. Akira claimed their affair caused plenty of anguish in her personal life and negatively impacted her family dynamic.

Brenay was found liable for criminal conversation -- which carries a penalty of $250,000 -- and alienation of affection, which came with a tab of $1.5 million.

FYI ... North Carolina's alienation of affection law allows estranged spouses to sue the individual they blame for breaking up their marriage. It's one of the few states with this kind of law.

Akira's lawyer, Robonetta Jones, issued a statement after the verdict, saying her client had "received justice" with the verdict.

After 16 years behind bars, Max B proposed to his longtime partner Monday in a video that's going viral.

The couple was reportedly married earlier this year when the Harlem rapper -- AKA the "Silver Surfer" -- was still incarcerated ... but the public proposal was clearly moving for those in attendance at the private dinner, and the perfect way to celebrate Max's release.

According to All Hip Hop, Max's first 24 hours of freedom also included reuniting with French Montana and stepping back into the studio.

A driver for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency appeared to fall asleep while controlling a train in new video released this week.

The footage, obtained by local station KRON4 News, shows the moment a light-rail train ride nearly derailed Sept. 24 around 8:37 AM.

In the video, the driver's body goes limp as she appears to nod off, with the packed train careening around a dangerous curve.

Talk about a vacation that went way off course ... a bunch of terrified cruise passengers had to be rescued after their excursion catamaran sank in the Dominican Republic over the weekend.

The 40-foot tourist catamaran -- named Boca de Yuma -- was carrying 50 passengers and crew onboard when it began going down in Samaná Bay on Sunday after slamming into something in the water.

The Dominican Republic’s Navy confirmed the whole ordeal in a Facebook post ... sharing dramatic pics of the rescue.

Vladimir Putin's hands are looking pretty rough these days ... prompting people to speculate about his health -- again!

The Russian strongman showed off his mitts for the cameras while recently meeting with 22-year-old health expert Yekaterina Leshchinskaya to chat about potentially banning e-cigarettes from being sold inside the former Soviet Union.

Check out the video ... as Leshchinskaya talks directly to Vlad in front of spectators, Putin clenches his fists with puffy fingers and worm-like veins under his wrinkly skin.

Golden Globe-winning actress Sally Kirkland has died, TMZ has learned.

Her representative, Michael Greene, tells TMZ she took her last breath at 1:50 AM PST ... and says she will be deeply missed.

The heartbreaking news comes after she was put on hospice at a hospital in Palm Springs over the weekend. Her rep told TMZ she had dementia for the last year, while her GoFundMe page added she had taken a nasty fall in the shower recently and suffered injuries to her ribs and foot.

9:30 AM PT -- Nico Harrison is officially gone -- the Mavs announced Michael Finley and Matt Riccardi will serve as co-interim general managers moving forward.

Mavs governor Patrick Dumont released a statement on the matter ... saying, "This decision reflects our continued commitment to building a championship-caliber organization, one that delivers for our players, our partners, and most importantly, our fans."

Nico Harrison's minutes are numbered in Dallas -- the Mavericks are expected to part ways with the general manager who shipped franchise player Luka Doncic to Los Angeles earlier this year on Tuesday.

The report came from Shams Charania just minutes ago ... who stated the team intends to cut the ties with the former Nike exec at 8 AM PST.

The Mavs are 3-8 so far this season ... but the move was pretty much expected way back in February, when Harrison -- who became the GM in 2021 -- made the head-scratching decision to trade the Slovenian superstar for Anthony Davis.

Jeff Goldblum's role as The Wizard of Oz not only changed his legacy, it changed his diet ... the Hollywood legend stopped eating meat and poultry after filming.

The 73-year-old Oscar-nominated actor revealed the news Monday on the British daytime show "This Morning."

Citing the character's cruelty to animals in the film, he said he made the decision to make a conscientious switch IRL. Goldblum told the hosts ... "I'm happy. We need the world to work for everybody on Earth and every creature, too."

Florence Pugh’s keeping it real about intimacy coordinators -- she’s had the good, the bad, and the seriously awkward ... including one who managed to make things more uncomfortable than the sex scene itself!

The actress explained on "The Louis Theroux Podcast" that the whole gig of intimacy coordinators is still figuring itself out -- something that was evident after the not-so-great experience where one person was hanging on set in a way that wasn't helpful.

While reflecting on "completely inappropriate" instances on set, Florence admitted that coordinators were a game-changer at the end of the day -- saying they helped turn sequences more into a dance of intimacy rather than a plain ol' awkward sex scene.

The Dallas Cowboys were together for the first time since Marshawn Kneeland's tragic death on Monday ... and the organization held an "extremely impactful, extremely emotional" meeting to allow players to grieve the loss of their teammate.

The details of the gathering were shared by Solomon Thomas, who praised head coach Brian Schottenheimer and his staff for providing resources and giving the team an opportunity to express themselves.

"Extremely proud of coach for how he conducted today, just bringing therapists in the building, bringing people who we needed in the building and just letting us be our true emotions," Thomas said via the team. "Giving us a safe place to let everyone know what's going on inside."

'Bachelor' babe Corinne Olympios is celebrating another year of being hot as hell ... it's her 34th birthday, and we're taking a look at some of her hottest shots ... because it's our little way of celebrating.

The reality TV star is aging like fine wine and she's still a super babe ... and the proof is in the photos.

Corinne's hot shots check all the boxes ... she's got bikini photos, suggestive poses, and even some lingerie snaps in her bedroom. Safe to say she knows how to work her angles.

TikTok star Brittany Miller is apologizing to her followers for faking a cancer diagnosis back in the day ... and she says she never meant to harm anyone.

Brittany, an influencer from the United Kingdom, fessed up to the bogus cancer claim in a video posted on her TikTok.

She says that back in 2017, she faked having cancer when she was depressed, suicidal and confused. She says she lost her job and her partner and told someone in her circle she had cancer.

Paris Jackson has a reminder of her drug use back in the day ... because she says it left her with a hole in her nose.

Michael Jackson's daughter hopped on social media over the weekend and revealed she has a perforated septum, which is basically a hole in the cartilage between the nostrils.

Paris says, it's exactly "what you think it's from ... Don't do drugs kids."