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BBC Director General Tim Davie has blamed personal error rather than swingeing cuts to its news team for last month’s heavily-criticized Alan Dershowitz interview, which came immediately after the guilty Ghislaine Maxwell verdict. Questioned by a UK House of Lords Committee on what was to blame, Davie put the mistake…

The messy legal battle over Netflix's Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich docuseries has now gotten down and dirty. In a flurry of filings Monday, the streamer, director-showrunner Lisa Bryant, executive producer Joe Berlinger, and producers RadicalMedia LLC and Leroy & Morton Productions LLC all denied Alan Dershowitz's…

Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday filed an $80 million lawsuit against Netflix over the four-part documentary Filthy Rich, which debuted on the streamer last year. AP broke the story. Director Lisa Bryant’s docuseries centers on stories from survivors of abuse at the hands of convicted sex…

Democrats made a strong case for the impeachment of Donald Trump on Tuesday with a powerful speech by Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin and frightening video from the siege of the U.S. Capitol. Former president Trump’s legal team countered by admitting that they weren’t prepared to rebut Democrats’ arguments and then ended…

Despite having the Oscar-winning Reversal of Fortune made from his book of the same name, it seems Alan Dershowitz this week had to have the difference between fact and fiction painstakingly explained to him by one of ViacomCBS' top lawyers over Jeffrey Epstein. "If we understand your letter correctly, you are…

Alan Dershowitz, who defended Jeffrey Epstein against charges that he had serially abused young girls in 2008, has written an essay in The Spectator defending Epstein’s onetime girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who was arrested on Thursday and charged with six counts related to the trafficking of underage girls, including…

UPDATED with video: Saturday Night Live returned this weekend after its winter hiatus, just in time to take on President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. For SNL‘s version of the historic Capitol Hill proceedings, Cecily Strong played GOP Sen. Susan Collins alongside Beck Bennett’s spot-on portrayal of Senate…

Modern-day McCarthyism apparently doesn’t stand a chance against Alan Dershowitz, who boasted today on CNN that he “is winning the battle on Martha’s Vineyard.” Dershowitz declared victory on this morning’s Smerconish, just 10 days after the socially embattled coastal summerer wrote a column for The Hill in which he…

Having never met a camera he didn't like nor a high-profile case that he couldn't contribute to, it should be no surprise that Alan Dershowitz has joined the cast of characters in The Weinstein Company bankruptcy case. Perhaps hoping to see another reversal of fortune, disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein has brought…

Oscar-winning director Roman Polanksi remains a fugitive from American justice despite a 133-page petition filed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court by famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz. The motion sought to have Polanski’s case closed, arguing that the 81-year-old director "has taken responsibility for his…

It could be a reversal of fortune for the Oscar winning director if Alan Dershowitz has his way. The lawyer that helped overturn Claus von Bulow's murder conviction in the 1980s is seeking to close the book on the statutory rape conviction against Roman Polanski from the late 1970s. The director "has taken…