LONDON (AP) — From Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eraz tour to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ arrest, 2024 has seen a variety of entertainment stories make headlines.
Below are some of the biggest.
* Taylor Swift wins more awards, releases another hit album and performs her Erasure Tour, the first tour to surpass $1 billion in revenue. Their Vienna show was canceled after authorities foiled a planned attack. Swift closed out the European leg of Eras in London before closing it out entirely in Vancouver on December 8.
* American rapper and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs pleaded not guilty to charges that he used his business empire, including his record label Bad Boy Entertainment, to sexually exploit women.
Combs has denied wrongdoing and his lawyers have argued that the sexual activity described by prosecutors was consensual.
* One Direction member Liam Payne has been found dead after falling from a third-floor hotel room balcony in Buenos Aires, prompting an outpouring of tributes from fans.
* Oasis announce a series of reunion shows. Fans waited long hours in virtual queues to purchase tickets, only to discover inflated prices as part of a “dynamic pricing” scheme, prompting an investigation into Ticketmaster over the sales.
* A New Mexico judge dismissed involuntary manslaughter charges against actor Alec Baldwin, agreeing with his lawyers that prosecutors and police concealed evidence on the source of the live round that killed cinematographer Helena Hutchins. When he had a gun pointed at him on the set of the western “Rust”. “In 2021.
Armourer Hannah Gutierrez was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to 18 months.
The film premiered at a modest Polish film festival in November.
* Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for sexual assault and rape has been overturned by New York’s highest court, reopening the landmark case that fueled the #MeToo movement.
* Singer Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty in a New York state court to a lesser traffic charge than driving under the influence – driving while impaired – after police stopped him for failing to obey a stop sign and swerving from a lane. When seen, he was arrested.
* Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” becomes the first album by a black woman to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
* “Inside Out 2” became the highest-grossing animated film of all time with $1.698 billion at the global box office.
* The world said goodbye: actors Donald Sutherland, James Earl Jones, Maggie Smith, Shannen Doherty, Carl Weathers and Louis Gossett Jr., music supremo Quincy Jones and singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, among others.
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