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The wife of Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr says she's "at the complete disposal" of Italian authorities after running over a pedestrian with her car in a fatal accident.

Vivian Spohr, whose husband runs the German airline, says she's cooperating with an investigation into a deadly Tuesday incident in Sardinia, where she struck a 24-year-old woman with her car.

Local reports say Vivian was driving an SUV in Porto Cervo when she hit a woman who was using a crosswalk. The victim is 24-year-old woman Gaia Costa and she died from head injuries.

Young Noble's former manager Steve Lobel is confirming the Outlawz rapper was indeed "the strong friend" following his suicide ... and says the time for artists to have solid mental health coverage is NOW!!!

TMZ Hip Hop caught up with Steve, the man who's managed everyone from Bone Thugs-n-Harmony to Scott Storch to Outlawz, and had a chat about Noble's creative genius and his caring nature.

Steve says it took a couple days to complete his heartfelt eulogy on IG and shared a bunch of never-before-seen pics to hammer home the eulogy and raise awareness for the family's GoFundMe.

Richard Simmons' longtime housekeeper -- who's rarely been seen and never spoken publicly -- is addressing rumors about her kidnapping him, and also reveals ... they were kind of a couple.

Teresa Reveles just did her first-ever TV interview, telling TODAY she never held Richard against his will, as had been alleged when he vanished from public life. She laughed off that theory, and instead joke, "No, I think he kidnapped me."

Richard hired Teresa way back in 1988 and she moved in to his L.A. home ... and she says he fell in love with her right away and told her, "No, you're never going to leave me."

TikTok star Aldo Miranda is dead ... and it looks like he took his own life.

Miranda was found dead Tuesday at his home in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico ... according to multiple reports.

Local authorities say Aldo's body was found hanging from a cable in a room in his house ... and while there's an open investigation into his death, the suspected cause of death is suicide.

E.D.I. Mean is exclusively opening up about the tragic suicide of his Outlawz groupmate Young Noble with TMZ Hip Hop ... the unexpected death sent shockwaves through the hip hop community, adding yet another sad chapter to the group founded by Tupac Shakur.

As we told you, Noble died from a self-inflicted gunshot on the 4th of July, and E.D.I. tells us Noble had been suffering heavily in the wake of his mother's death ... and July 1 marked the first anniversary of her passing, a significant turning point for the state of Noble's mental health.

Noble's mother remarkably braved through 30 years as an HIV survivor, and E.D.I. Mean recalled seeing Noble visibly grieving in November 2024 ... their last show as Outlawz in Phoenix, AZ.

Voice actor James Carter Cathcart, famous for his work on "Pokémon," is dead ... TMZ has learned.

James died Tuesday after a years-long battle with oral cancer ... according to a family member. We're told he died at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx.

On "Pokémon," James brought several characters to life with his voice ... Professor Oak, Meowth, Gary Oak and James from Team Rocket.

Jeffrey Epstein’s last known words before he was discovered hanged in his prison cell back in 2019 have been revealed -- and they’re profoundly eerie.

Journalist Michael Wolff says Epstein hit him with a hefty one-liner just hours before his death ... telling him he was "still hanging around" after Wolff asked him how he was doing. Quite a choice of words considering what happened next.

Wolff -- who knew Epstein for years -- says the message came through one of Epstein’s lawyers on a Friday night. By Saturday morning, Epstein was found hanged in his cell at Metropolitan Detention Center in NYC.

Former Hasbro Inc. CEO Alan G. Hassenfeld, whose family founded the iconic toy company, is dead.

Alan's death was announced Wednesday by Hasbro ... but it's unclear when and where he died ... or what the cause of death was.

His grandfather, Henry, founded Hasbro way back in 1923 ... and it's the second largest American toy company ... behind only Mattel. Hasbro makes G.I. Joe, Transformers, Mr Potato Head, My Little Pony, Nerf, Play-Doh and tons of other iconic toys.

Richard Taite -- a celebrity addiction and recovery specialist -- says it's a good thing  Whitney Purvis is behind bars, because she's accused of doing some really bad sh*t ... allegedly dealing drugs that killed a man.

As TMZ first reported ... Purvis -- who starred in the reality show "16 and Pregnant" -- was arrested Monday for involuntary manslaughter and drug offenses in connection with the fentanyl death of John Mark Harris in Floyd County, Georgia.

She was slapped with the manslaughter charge for intentionally distributing the drug Tranq -- which is a combo of fentanyl -- an opioid -- and xylazine -- a horse tranquilizer. Making matters worse for Purvis, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration is now investigating.

A small aircraft crashed nose-first in the French Alps ... killing three people -- and it's all on video.

Surveillance footage shows the moment the small plane comes nosediving into the ground Tuesday in broad daylight ... and it's tough to watch.

The fatal crash reportedly happened just before 11 AM local time near Chambéry Airport in Voglans ... a small town in the Savoie region of the French Alps.

Liam Payne's passion for music and impact on "Building the Band" will be felt on the new show ... this according to Backstreet Boys star AJ McLean.

The singer-songwriter -- who is hosting the show -- opened 'BtB' with a heartfelt tribute to the late One Direction star ... saying they never thought they'd be saying goodbye to him so soon.

LP appears as a guest judge in later episodes -- which will be released several at a time over the next few Wednesdays -- and, McLean says his love of music and commitment to helping contestants find their voices will be evident.

President Trump's famous — and surprisingly cordial — interaction with President Obama at President Jimmy Carter's funeral in January was a tantalizing mystery about what the two world leaders quietly talked about ... that is, until now!

According to Axios, citing a new book, “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,” Trump and Obama chatted about hitting the links at one of Trump's many golf courses as they sat side-by-side in a pew at Carter's funeral in D.C.'s Washington National Cathedral on January 9.

The exact passage in the book reads ... Trump "sat next to Barack Obama and invited him to play golf, enticing him with descriptions of Trump’s courses around the world."

Rihanna's father, Ronald Fenty, was laid to rest in Barbados on Tuesday after dying in May ... and Riri and A$AP Rocky were amongst the mourners paying their respects.

A glowing-and-pregnant Rihanna was photographed carrying their son, Riot, as Rocky trailed not too far behind as he hoisted up RZA as they entered the Garfield Sobers Gymnasium, where the celebration of life was held.

It was a march of the R's ... Rihanna, Rocky, RZA, Riot -- even Ronald's fiancée, Rosemary, was spotted in the crowd.

Tupac Shakur's protégé Young Noble died by suicide with a gunshot to the head on the morning of July 4 ... TMZ Hip Hop has confirmed. The Outlawz rapper's wife told police at the scene he had been battling significant depression.

According to police records, obtained by TMZ Hip Hop, Gwinnett County officers responded to a 911 call at 9 AM on Independence Day after someone claimed to have seen a man lying dead in the pool of a country club in Snellville, a distant suburb of Atlanta.

Police say they saw a man in tan cargo shorts and a black T-shirt sunken at the bottom of the pool with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the right side of his head.

Gary Coleman’s ex-wife, Shannon Price, took a lie-detector test on TV over suspicions she had something to do with the 1980s TV star's death -- and the results? Buckle up.

Catch the clip ahead of Thursday’s two-hour premiere of A&E's "Lie Detector: Truth or Deception" ... where ex-FBI agent and polygraph pro George Olivo tells Shannon she flunked two of his key questions -- with the results indicating some level of deception.

Shannon, for her part, stays cool as a cucumber -- so much so that George repeats his findings, and asks if she has anything to say. Her response? Calmly calling his results "false."

A well-known Beverly Hills plastic surgeon has died after a neck surgery took a turn for the worse ... TMZ has learned.

According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner ... Ronald Moy died on June 23rd -- with the cause of death listed as "complications of neck surgery."

The death was ruled as accidental. Moy passed away at a hospital -- the exact circumstances surrounding the fatal surgery remain unclear.