(UPDATED with statement from Depp lawyer) Johnny Depp's $30 million legal standoff with his ex-lawyer just netted former Warner Bros boss Kevin Tsujihara, Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard and some of Hollywood's top attorneys. With a September trial date on the calendar between the Pirates of the Caribbean star and his…

After weeks of seeing his private life flooded into the public, Jeff Bezos went online today to accuse Donald Trump's pals at the National Enquirer of attempting to strong arm him with intimate photos, texts and an intent to ruin him with Amazon shareholders. “Any personal embarrassment AMI could cause me takes a back…

EXCLUSIVE: With just more than three months before his sentencing for assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004, Bill Cosby has given the boot to his entire legal team. Far from the first time the once beloved and now much accused actor has fired his lawyers, Deadline has learned that Cosby has now retained Pennsylvania…

Janice Dickinson can proceed with her defamation suit against Bill Cosby. In the last round of the ongoing legal battle, the California Supreme Court has rejected Cosby’s request to overturn an appeals court decision that favored Dickinson. “That means our case against him, on behalf of our brave client Janice…

Probably feeling way too much like The Godfather Part III for his own comfort, Marty Singer was originally in Janice Dickinson's defamation lawsuit against the much accused Bill Cosby. Then he was out. Now it looks like the Hollywood legal pugilist is back in. At a hearing yesterday in downtown L.A., a trio of…

As Deadline reported several weeks ago, Bill Cosby has lost yet another lawyer as Brian McMonagle today made official his desire to depart the defense for the actor's criminal case for the alleged 2004 rape of Andrea Constand. With a mistrial declared on June 17 on the three felony charges of second-degree aggravated…

Production on the stalled season of Bachelor In Paradise will resume next week, according to various cast members’ tweets confirming their participation. ABC will announce a new premiere date in the next few days, informed sources say. And this season is likely to run for two fewer hours to compensate for the halt of…

Marty Singer may no longer be Bill Cosby's attorney, but the Hollywood legal heavyweight made an appearance today of sorts at the Norristown, PA criminal trial. On Day 2 of Cosby’s trial for the alleged rape of former Temple University employee Andrea Constand in 2004, a trio of telephone calls and messages played for…

UPDATE, 9:48 AM: More than 12 hours after Being Mary Jane star Gabrielle Union hit BET with a multimillion-dollar breach of contract lawsuit, the cabler has responded. And it doesn’t seem to be backing down. “While we hold Gabrielle Union in the highest esteem, we feel strongly that we are contractually well within…

EXCLUSIVE: Less than a year after Christopher Tayback took over from Marty Singer as Bill Cosby’s main lawyer, the Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan attorney and the firm itself have parted ways with the actor, Deadline has learned. Representatives for Cosby would not confirm the move when contacted by Deadline…

A day after a federal judge rejected Bill Cosby's attempt to toss Kristina Ruehli's defamation lawsuit over an alleged 1965 sexual assault, the plaintiff today dropped the case. "Plaintiff hereby files this notice of voluntary dismissal of this action without prejudice, the Defendant having not yet answered the…

No obviously doesn't mean no to Bill Cosby when it comes to the courts. Just over a week before the actor is scheduled to face a Pennsylvania preliminary hearing on a trio of felony second-degree aggravated indecent assault charges that could land him a decade behind bars, Cosby wants the state's Supreme Court to take…