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Dominic Patten
Executive Editor, Legal, Labor & Politics
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Dominic covers litigious Hollywood’s major lawsuits and weighs in on the current Golden Age of television with his video reviews and more. Before joining Deadline in 2012, he wrote for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, and the Toronto Globe and Mail. A frequent guest on NPR, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC and CBS, he also has been a documentary director, TV producer, national news correspondent and a newspaper editor.
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‘South Park’ Lets Loose With A Trump, Satan & JD Vance MĂ©nage Ă€ Trois, ICE Raiding Heaven & Kristi Noem Shooting Dogs
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s South Park episode “Got a Nut” — like, a lot of details.
With a nod — a head butt, really — to Donald Trump and masked ICE abductions of undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens, South Park was very relevant tonight.
Just ask Vice…
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Shari Redstone’s Short & Sweet-ish Paramount Exit Memo, As Skydance Takes Over Thursday: “It Is Not Easy To Step Away”
Just hours before David Ellison and the new regime at Paramount formally takes over, Shari Redstone had a final message today for staff at the media company her father took over nearly 30 years ago.
“While it is not easy to step away, I am very proud of the Company that we have created, the…
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Diddy Denied! No Release For Sean Combs As Judge Rules Against Bail; Emphasizes “Risk Of Flight” & “Danger”
With less than 60 days to go before Sean Combs is sentenced, the “All About the Benjamins” performer has once again come up short on his desire to get out on a $50 million bond, a federal judge ruled this afternoon.
‘As for risk of flight or danger, Combs fails to meet his burden by clear and…
Blake Lively Slams & Shames Justin Baldoni’s Lawyers Over Making Her Deposition Public, Leaking Details Of Last Week’s Sit-Down For “Media Campaign”
(Updated with Lively’s sanctions motion against Bryan Freedman) Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni came face-to-face last week as the It Ends With Us actress gave a deposition in the fierce fight over whether sexual harassment and retaliation occurred on the film and the online fallout around its…
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Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni Court Battle
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Sean Combs’ “Victim-3” Skipped Trial But Now Supports Bail As Defense Tries Again To Get Diddy Out Before Sentencing: “He Has Not Been Violent For Many Years”
Donald Trump may be hedging on Sean Combs getting a pardon, but the ex-girlfriend and AWOL government witness who skipped the sex-trafficking trial of the convicted Bad Boy Records founder now thinks Diddy’s changed, poses no threat and should be out on a $50 million bond.
“Our relationship…
Trump Goes Looney Over “Sleazebag” Charlamagne Tha God’s Epstein & GOP Coup Remarks On Fox News
There might be some tension at Mar-a-lago next time Lara Trump comes to visit.
Donald Trump's daughter-in-law's interview Saturday on her Fox News show with Charlamagne Tha God has really gotten under POTUS' thin and artificially tanned skin – and The Breakfast Club co-host is lovin'…
50 Cent Gloats As Trump Nixes Pardon For “Half-Innocent” Diddy, For Now
Donald Trump believes Sean “Diddy” Combs is “half-innocent” out of his sex-trafficking trial, but there will be no presidential pardon right now for the much-accused Grammy winner.
And, just two days after Deadline exclusively reported that Trump was “seriously considering” such a pardon and the…
Sydney Sweeney American Eagle Ad Addressed By Clothing Company Amidst Partisan Uproar
Conservative media and Vice President JD Vance may be filling hours of time and social media posts galore mocking a supposed progressive knee jerk reaction to the wordplay in Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad campaign, but the clothing company itself has stood back from the fracas – until now…
Billionaire-Backed Justin Baldoni Now Suing Insurance Companies For Denied Legal Fees In Blake Lively Battle
Justin Baldoni's Wayfarer Studios co-founder and billionaire buddy Steve Sarowitz allegedly once swore "to spend up to $100 million to ruin" Blake Lively in her battle with her It Ends with Us co-star and director over what did or did not go down on the film.
Well, a lawsuit filed this week in…
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Netflix’s Corporate Culture Under The Microscope Again In Latest Misconduct & Discrimination Suits
A recently amended discrimination, harassment and retaliation lawsuit from Netflix's former director of Kids & Family Acquisitions and Co-Commissions against the streamer has put the company's hardcore adapt or perish culture unflatteringly in the spotlight yet again.
On the heels of…
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Script Suit Remains Airborne After Mixed Decision From Judge
Both Paramount and self-declared Top Gun: Maverick screenwriter Shaun Gray received an unachieved objective result this week in their legal dogfight over the Tom Cruise blockbuster.
Following July 18 arguments from the parties in front of Judge Jed S. Rakoff on keeping the four-month-old lawsuit…
UTA Vs. Michael Kassan Battle Over As Parties Reach Agreement In Messy Employment Contract Dispute
After more than a year of fighting in court, the press and behind closed doors, UTA and Michael Kassan have buried the hatchet.
“UTA and Michael Kassan have agreed to amicably end their dispute,” a spokesperson for the Beverly Hills agency and Kassan’s top lawyer Sanford Michelman said Thursday…
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