xtent of their relationship. “She met him through the school district; she was interested in the law,” said Janet Lavasile. Joe Amendola is said to have married Mary Lavasile in February, 2003, but they split after having two children together Joe Amendola is said to have married Mary Lavasile in February, 2003, but they split after having two children together. Joe Amendola’s estrang…
The filmmaker Brett Ratner has resigned as producer of 2012 Academy Awards after he used a gay slur at a screening of his latest movie, Tower Heist. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says Brett Ratner, 42, submitted his resignation yesterday, one day after he apologized for using a gay slur. According to Academy President Tom Sherak, Brett Ratner “did the right thing for the a…
…uss the possibility of a plea. Earlier this week, Jerry Sandusky was accused of sexually abusing a young boy more than 100 times after meeting him through his charity The Second Mile in the 1970s. The 29-year-old new accuser, who is not part of the criminal case, said in a lawsuit that Jerry Sandusky threatened to harm his family to keep him quiet. The accuser, identified only as John Doe, claimed…
…ead defense attorney told reporters that he would be stunned and “probably die of a heart attac” if his client were acquitted of all 48 counts. The impromptu remarks by Joe Amendola lasted about 15 minutes inside the courtroom and opened a wide window into the defendant’s state of mind as he and Dottie Sandusky anxiously awaited a verdict. Joe Amendola said that in anticipation of a ve…
Eddie Murphy resigned from his role as host of 2012 Academy Awards yesterday as the heavyweight producer Brian Grazer has been drafted in to produce next year’s Oscars. Brian Grazer, the man behind Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind has stepped into Brett Ratner’s shoes after his resignation. The Academy Awards president Tom Sherak announced the news yesterday: “Brian Grazer is a renowned filmm…
The former French President Jacques Chirac has been given by a court a two-year suspended prison sentence for diverting public funds and abusing public trust. Jacques Chirac, 79, was not in court to hear the verdict because of ill-health but denied wrongdoing. President from 1995 to 2007, he was put on trial on charges that dated back to his time as mayor of Paris. Jacques Chirac was accused of p…
…fear at all – the absolute opposite. He loves her.” Giovanni Palumbo has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric assessment at the Royal Ottawa Hospital. Palumbo has another court date on October 18 when – depending on the outcome of the psychiatric evaluation – he could be sentenced….
…dusky will be sentenced. Jerry Sandusky will likely spend the rest of his life in prison, given his age and serious nature of his convictions of which many carry mandatory minimum sentences of five or 10 years. Assuming Judge John Cleland gives him at least two years – the minimum threshold for a state prison sentence – Jerry Sandusky’s first stop will be the Camp Hill state prison nea…
between 1976 and 1983. At least 400 babies are thought to have been taken from their parents while they were held in detention centres. The verdict is the culmination of a trial that began in February 2011. In total, 11 people, most of them former military and police officials, were facing charges. Nine, including Jorge Videla and Reynaldo Bignone, were convicted in the case over the theft of 34 b…
…icted him of involuntary manslaughter after just ten hours of deliberations over two days. A panel of seven men and five women took two days of deliberation to reach a verdict. Michael Jackson died on 25 June 2009 from an overdose of the powerful anaesthetic propofol. Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's private doctor has been found guilty today of killing the megastar by a jury in Los Angel…
New York City police officer Gilberto Valle has been found guilty of plotting to murder his wife, and cook and eat other women. Gilberto Valle, 28, was arrested by the FBI in 2012 following a tip-off by his wife. The trial heard how Gilberto Valle had taken steps to carry out his plan of abducting, torturing and eating women he knew. Defence lawyers argued it was merely a role-playing fantasy he…
Six Italian scientists and an ex-government official have been sentenced to six years in prison over the 2009 deadly earthquake in L’Aquila. A regional court found them guilty of multiple manslaughter. Prosecutors said the defendants gave a falsely reassuring statement before the quake, while the defence maintained there was no way to predict major quakes. The 6.3 magnitude quake devastated…
…If the court decides he is criminally insane, he will be committed to psychiatric care; if he is judged to be mentally stable, he will be jailed. In the latter case, Anders Breivik faces a sentence of 21 years, which could be extended to keep him behind bars for the rest of his life. He was found insane in one examination, while a second assessment made public last week found him mentally competen…
Janitor Ryan Brunn faces life in prison for beating and killing a 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera from Georgia, who disappeared from a playground at her apartment complex and was found in a trash bin. Ryan Brunn, 20, pleaded guilty Tuesday to several charges including murder and child molestation in the December 2 killing of Jorelys Rivera. The suspect responded “Yes, sir”, when a judge asked if he was…
…affed poison. However, when he was being led away from his lawyer, Marin Stroia stumbled and fell to the floor. The judge summoned paramedics who took him from the courtroom in a stretcher. In January 2011, Marin Stroia brought a gun into the Broward County Courthouse, sat down on the floor in the lobby and put a gun beneath his chin. The courthouse was evacuated as Judge Joel T. Lazarus talked Ma…
Bobby Brown, ex-husband of late star Whitney Houston, has pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol. Bobby Brown, 43, maintained his innocence at Los Angeles court on Friday, despite the fact it is the third time he has been charged with DUI. He denied multiple charges stemming from being pulled over at around 1:00 a.m. on October 24, 2012 after police believed he was driving e…
A ninth accuser of Jerry Sandusky has filed a complaint with state police alleging he was sexually abused by the former coach after gave him liquor on the Penn State campus in 2004, the alleged victim’s lawyer said yesterday. Charles Schmidt said his 19-year-old client, whom he did not identify, went to his law firm about three weeks ago, after Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually abusi…
…orothy “Dottie” Gross Sandusky’s name has come up in the allegations. Dottie Sandusky, 68, attempted to call one of the victims in the weeks leading up to his testimony, despite the fact the now 26-year-old had cut off all contact with Jerry Sandusky two years prior. Jerry Sandusky’s wife left a message on Victim 7′s phone saying the matter was “very important” but the man, who told th…
Baltasar Garzon, Spain’s best-known judge has been found guilty of authorizing illegal recordings of lawyers’ conversations by Supreme Court in Madrid. The judge has been banned from the legal profession for 11 years. Baltasar Garzon, 56, is best known for his efforts to extradite the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet from London to face trial in Madrid. He is also accused of exceedi…
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 24, was accused of US-bound flight on 25 December, 2009 with a bomb hidden in his underwear. The bomb did not detonate fully causing serious burns. Later that day he admitted to the FBI that he was working for the Al Qaeda in Yemen. Last Wednesday Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab accepted all eight counts against him, including terrorism and attempted murder. …
…ion… we’re chopping off the head of LulzSec.” Prof. Alan Woodward, from the University of Surrey’s department of computing noted that LulzSec had been quiet since the middle of 2011 following an attack on Paypal. “Judging by the level of activity this morning, where hackers have been pasting personal information about the person reported as having turned witness to im…
…rrest last month in Los Angeles Bobby Brown, 43, didn’t attend the Superior Court arraignment in Van Nuys. Whitney Houston’s former husband was arrested by the California Highway Patrol on March 26. …
nd were sentenced to at least a year in juvenile detention. Trent Mays was sentenced to another year for taking pictures of the victim, and the judge said both might stay in detention until they reach 21. The case was thrust into the national spotlight after attention by bloggers and the hacker activist group Anonymous. Some claimed that the community – including local police – had sou…
…ing and two of fraud while working for Swiss bank UBS at Southwark Crown Court today Kweku Adoboli, the son of a former Ghanaian official to the United Nations, joined the bank in a junior capacity in 2002. Charges relate to the period between October 2008 and September last year. Prosecutors allege he gambled away the cash while buying and selling exchange traded funds. Judge Alistair McCreath gr…
Thomas Lubanga, the Congolese warlord, has been found guilty of recruiting and using child soldiers between 2002 and 2003 by the International Criminal Court (ICC). It is the court’s first verdict since it was set up 10 years ago. Thomas Lubanga will be sentenced at a later hearing. The warlord headed a rebel group during an inter-ethnic conflict in a gold-rich region of Democratic Republic…
George Michael fell out of his car at 70 mph while travelling on a four-lane stretch of M1 motorwayAn M1 motorway driver has described the moment she nearly ran over George Michael as he lay covered in blood on the road after falling from his car at 70 mph. Katherine Fox,…
Lady Gaga is back in her favorite high heels after recovering from hip surgeryLady Gaga has been reunited with her favorite heels as she hit the town in New York in her trademark super high boots. Lady Gaga's re-emergence comes after she was seen…
Hilaria Baldwin joins husband Alec at Cannes Film Festival 2013 to promote his documentary Seduced and AbandonedAlec Baldwin famously lost his cool with film producer Harvey Weinstein at last year's Cannes film festival. But it appears that Alec Baldwin, 55, has managed to keep his…
Jennifer Lawrence wears blue body paint to portray X-Men's MystiqueJennifer Lawrence has hit the X-Men set like a bolt from the blue and her fans have been given a glimpse of the 22-year-old star in all her painted glory as she reprises her…
Ray Manzarek dead: The Doors co-founder dies aged 74 after long battle with cancerRay Manzarek, keyboardist and founder member of the 1960s rock band The Doors, has died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 74. He formed the band with lead singer…
Christine White dies in a nursing home in Washington at the age of 86Actress Christine White, who played a calming wife on a classic 1963 Twilight Zone episode that featured a young William Shatner, has died at age 86. Christine White…
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