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Faizon Love is facing potential jail time after being charged with assault for allegedly giving a hotel clerk a concussion after throwing a credit card reader machine at her noggin ... he's claiming innocence, your honor!!!

The veteran "Friday" actor addressed the incident during his latest Vlad TV interview ... he never actually says he didn't do it -- he was more in disbelief he could be arrested in the city that raised him, San Diego.

Faizon was in court last week, where he pleaded not guilty to charges of felony assault with a deadly weapon and enhancement for inflicting great bodily injury, after an altercation at the Sheraton hotel in the Mission Valley neighborhood in August last year.

Harvey Weinstein is taking a financial dispute from Broadway to court -- he's suing the producers of the "Finding Neverland" musical for more than $2 million he says he's owed.

Here's the sitch ... in Tuesday's legal filing obtained by TMZ, the former film producer says his partners behind the "Finding Neverland" national tour withheld more than $2.3 million owed to him and 2 of his companies, Weinstein Live Entertainment and Finding Neverland USA LLC.

But here's the problem -- the disgraced Hollywood mogul says the final agreements were never signed before the show went on the road after it closed on Broadway in August 2016. But, he argues the agreements were honored when the tour kicked off in October 2016 ... until the money stopped coming.

Denise Richards struck fear into the hearts of Aaron Phypers' elderly parents when she showed up at their home to get some dogs ... at least according to the 911 call from the latest divorce drama.

TMZ obtained the dispatch audio from Sunday's incident at the Calabasas home Aaron shares with his parents and brother ... and you hear the dispatcher relay that Aaron feared for his parents.

We broke the story ... sources close to Aaron claim his estranged wife showed up at the home unannounced and started banging on a back door, demanding to be let inside.

Adam22 is being sued by a man who claims he was violently assaulted and battered at the office where Adam films his popular "No Jumper" podcast.

In new legal docs obtained by TMZ, a man named Jeremel Reed says he was concussed in an alleged December 2024 incident at "No Jumper" Burbank, CA headquarters ... and he says the people who whooped his ass were agents, employees, guests, and/or affiliates of Adam's company.

Reed also says the alleged beatdown resulted in a broken nose and bruised eyes ... plus pain and suffering ... and he says he racked up a bunch of medical expenses.

President Trump would hit a home run if he were to grant Sean "Diddy" Combs a pardon for his prostitution conviction ... at least according to Mark Geragos.

The famed defense attorney was flying out of LAX on Monday when a photog asked him about a potential Trump pardon for Diddy.

Mark, whose daughter Teny defended Diddy in his federal criminal trial, says it's looking more and more likely that Trump will give Diddy clemency ... especially after the President's most recent comments on the case.

Sean "Diddy" Combs isn't going anywhere, at least for now ... he was again hoping for a taste of freedom, but the judge in his criminal case just denied bail, for the second time, pending his upcoming sentencing.

Judge Arun Subramanian ruled Monday against granting Diddy bail ... siding with federal prosecutors and keeping Diddy locked up at MDC Brooklyn as he awaits his October 3 sentencing for his conviction on a couple Mann Act charges.

In his order, the judge said there were no "exceptional reasons" warranting a release before his sentence.

As we first reported, Diddy filed a new motion for bail last week ... with his legal team arguing he's probably the only man in America behind bars for hiring and transporting male sex workers across state lines to bang his girlfriend.

Diddy's ex-girlfriend Gina Huynh -- Victim No. 3 in the federal indictment who was a no-show in court after prosecutors subpoenaed her -- just went to bat for him in his bid to get out of jail pending sentencing.

In new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Gina pens a letter to the judge in Diddy's criminal case ... supporting Diddy's motion for bail.

Gina says she's known Diddy for years and that she's mostly seen him as a father, family man and business man ... not a criminal.

Sean "Diddy" Combs is firing back at federal prosecutors who want to keep him locked up at least another two months ... he says they're hellbent on punishing him for hiring adult male prostitutes and paying them handsomely to bang his girlfriends.

In new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Diddy's legal team rips the feds ... claiming prosecutors are unfairly targeting him as they have throughout a "misplaced investigation"

Diddy's camp comes out firing ... "Impervious to the jury’s verdict, the government proceeds as though Combs was not acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy, along with all the racketeering acts with which he was charged and found not guilty."

Donald Trump is addressing whether he will pardon Diddy and, while he didn't seem very open to the idea ... he didn't completely shut the door either.

47 sat down for an interview Friday with Newsmax's Rob Finnerty on his show, "Finnerty," and when their convo turned to Diddy ... things got very interesting.

Finnerty asked Trump if he would pardon Diddy, who was recently found guilty on two counts of the Mann Act, which is transporting someone across state lines for the purpose of prostitution. At his federal trial, Diddy was acquitted of the more serious charges of racketeering and sex trafficking.

Tobey Maguire is finally responding to his estranged wife's divorce petition, nearly 5 years after she filed -- and 9 years since they separated ... and he's seeking joint custody of their son.

According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, the "Spider-Man" star is asking for joint legal and physical custody of the estranged couple's 16-year-old son, Otis.

Tobey filed his response Wednesday ... nearly 5 years after we first reported that Jennifer Meyer went to court in October 2020 and filed for divorce.

Prosecutors in Arkansas say Andrew James McGann left a hiking trail at a state park a bloody mess after stabbing a couple to death ... and folks saw him leaving the scene with blood on his face.

In new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, prosecutors go in-depth on the brutal slayings of Clinton Brink and Cristen Brink last month at Devil's Den State Park in West Fork, Arkansas.

They say a 911 call came in July 26 reporting two dead bodies on a hiking trail with a large amount of blood ... the bodies belonged to the Brinks, who were hiking with their young daughters.

Jeffrey Epstein's one-time girlfriend and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell is on the move ... because she's transferring prisons ... and her new surroundings are even nicer than the minimum security penitentiary where she was doing time.

The Bureau of Prisons tells TMZ ... Ghislaine is now being held at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas.

Ghislaine had been serving her 20-year sentence at FCI Tallahassee in Florida, where we last saw her warming the track against a backdrop of barbed wire fences.

Bryan Kohberger’s gonna have no cellmates and no distractions ... 'cause he's just been moved to solitary confinement at Idaho’s Maximum Security Institution, TMZ has learned.

Sources tell TMZ Kohberger’s long-term restrictive housing -- J Block -- isn’t just any penitentiary unit. It holds up to 128 inmates, and includes everyone from protective custody incarcerees to long-term isolation holds ... and even death row.

It’s a grim setup -- inmates in long-term restrictive housing live alone in their cells, only allowed to exit in restraints ... they get showers every other day, and are permitted just one hour of outdoor time daily.

Gary Busey’s backpedaling fast -- after flat-out denying he groped a woman at a horror convention three years earlier, he’s now pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal sexual contact.

The actor admitted to Judge Gwendolyn Blue during a virtual court appearance that it wasn't an accidental touching -- the bombshell confession comes after he was accused of groping a couple female fans at Monster-Mania Con at the Doubletree Hotel in Camden, NJ, in August '22.

Busey’s looking at one to five years of probation and some hefty fines. Sentencing is set for next month in another virtual hearing.

Pennsylvania state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to band together and close a legal loophole that allows child predators to become parents through surrogacy.

The issue has come under the spotlight after convicted child sex offender Brandon Keith Mitchell went viral for legally bringing a baby boy into his home through a surrogate mother he and his husband found.

Pennsylvania State Representative Aaron Bernstine is planning to introduce new legislation that would close the loophole and bar sex offenders from obtaining children through surrogacy. They can't do so through adoption or foster care but surrogacy is not in the law as currently written.

Residents of Arkansas were left reeling after reports emerged about the brutal murders of a married couple who were hiking with their young children at Devil's Den State Park in July 2025.

Within days, the state police force apprehended and arrested suspect Andrew James McGann, who has been charged with two counts of murder.

We're going to take a look into the background of the accused murderer and see what led up to the chilling incident.

The 28-year-old McGann was formerly a resident of Oklahoma, and he'd moved to Springdale, Arkansas in the months prior to the incident, according to the Associated Press.

The murder suspect had active teaching licenses in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas ... and he was set to begin working for the Springdale Public Schools district for the 2025-2026 school year, according to USA Today.

McGann was placed on administrative leave from the Donald Elementary School in Flower Mound, Texas, in the spring of 2023, after "concerns related to classroom management, professional judgment, and student favoritism" were raised.

He resigned from his position in Texas in May 2023, and he subsequently taught within a small district in Oklahoma from the summer of 2024 until May 2025.

The victims of the brutal attack -- 43-year-old Clinton David Brink and 41-year-old Cristen Amanda Brink -- were found dead on a walking trail at Devil's Den State Park on July 26.

The pair was hiking with their two daughters when the attack occurred in broad daylight, and officials stated Clinton was the first to be stabbed, followed by Cristen, who was stabbed after getting the two kids -- ages 7 and 9 -- to safety.

The pair's children weren't hurt in the attack, and they're currently in the care of family members.

A composite sketch of the suspect was released after the incident occurred, and tips about the identity of the murder suspect reportedly came in from across the country.

Arkansas State Police said they arrested McGann at a barbershop in Springdale on the afternoon of July 30, according to Today.

He's since been charged with two counts of capital murder.

Arkansas State Police Major Stacie Rhoads said investigators were "still exploring and determining exactly what that motive" for the attack was.