Crime

Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti may have been looking into how to make stock market riches off his alleged attempt to extort up to $25 million from the sneaker giant Nike, court papers show.

Mimi Haleyi accused the disgraced movie mogul of forcing himself on her in his apartment in 2006.

Michael Avenatti shot to fame from obscurity two years ago when he represented Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against Donald Trump

Actress Annabella Sciorra has accused movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of raping her in the 1990s.

The Theranos founder called into a hearing on Thursday without a defense attorney.

Sciorra appeared with De Niro and Stallone in the 1997 film “Cop Land.”

Brown was hit with burglary with battery charges and spent Thursday night behind bars.

Weinstein, 67, is charged with forcibly performing oral sex a woman in 2006 and raping an aspiring actress in a New York hotel room in 2013.

Once-celebrated Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein will have “zero” chance of a comeback if the allegations are true, Jordan Belfort said. 

The founder of an Arizona pharmaceutical company was ordered to spend 5 1/2 years Thursday for orchestrating a bribery and kickback scheme prosecutors said helped fuel the opioid crisis.

Maxwell's attorney made the claim in court papers recently made public.

Annabella Sciorra's voice quivered as she confronted Weinstein from a witness stand Thursday.

“How could we have known?"

Annabella Sciorra is one of four other accusers that prosecutors plan to call as witnesses

The former chairman of Insys Therapeutics was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy last May.

The university's fundraising director Peter Cohen accepted donations from Epstein while at MIT Media Lab.

Lawyers for The Cosmopolitan argue O.J. Simpson couldn't have been defamed by accounts he was drunk and disruptive before being banned from the Las Vegas hotel-casino, because his reputation was already tarnished.

Opening statements and the first witness testimony are expected Wednesday in Weinstein’s New York City rape trial.

The charge carries up to 20 years in prison, but prosecutors said they will recommend four months and a $9,500 fine.

The defense has “dozens and dozens and dozens of loving emails to Mr. Weinstein.”