Top Reads The Curious Case of the Brange Custody Battle One of the big celebrity stories that broke yesterday was about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and the ongoing custody case. The media coverage is a story unto itself. The timing is certainly curious and some of the coverage has been misleading. Let’s start with how the information was By Lainey • May 27, 2021 11:41 am
Break Ups The Latest on World War Brange I’ve been sitting on this story for a few days now to see if it develops any further. And it’s interesting to me how it’s developed – or not developed. To recap: last week The Blast broke the news that Angelina Jolie had filed documents in court on By Lainey • Mar 22, 2021 02:53 pm
Legal issues Meghan Markle vs the Mail Happening right now in court in London – Meghan Markle’s legal team is seeking “summary judgment” against the Mail on Sunday. Basically they’re arguing that there doesn’t need to be a trial because the Mail hasn’t been able to present an acceptable defence for publishing a private By Lainey • Jan 19, 2021 10:10 am
Top Reads Johnny Depp: Bots and “Former Romantic Partners” Maria linked to The Hollywood Reporter’s new Johnny Depp cover story yesterday in Celebrity Social Media. It’s a deep-dive piece and at the time of that post, many people hadn’t had a chance to read it and fully absorb all the bombshells. And there are, indeed, some By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 10:42 am
Top Reads Brad Keeps His Judge An update on the judge situation in the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie divorce case was filed on Monday: Judge Ouderkirk remains on the case. It was Angelina who was trying to have him disqualified for conflict of interest. Brad Pitt did not agree to it, alleging that it was just By Lainey • Nov 19, 2020 01:07 pm
Top Reads Meghan Markle: The Letter, The Friend, The Book A brief summary: Meghan Markle is suing the Mail on Sunday for publishing parts of a letter she wrote to her father, Thomas. The lawsuit is officially about whether or not the paper violated her privacy and if their publishing the letter was copyright infringement and a breach of data By Lainey • Nov 19, 2020 11:51 am
Royals How’s Buckingham Palace Feeling Today? Rudy Giuliani’s in the headlines right now because Sacha Baron Cohen punked him in Borat 2, now streaming on Amazon Prime, and there’s a scene in the film in which Rudy’s in a hotel room with an underage girl posing as a journalist and at one point By Lainey • Oct 22, 2020 09:17 am
Coincidence or conspiracy A Week of World War Brange After months and months of reported peace between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, hostilities were once again renewed this week. It started when word got out that Angelina Jolie had filed court documents requesting the disqualification of the private judge working on their divorce case because he’s allegedly in By Lainey • Aug 14, 2020 11:46 am
Gossip Nostalgia Angelina Jolie “isn’t trying to delay this process” Earlier this week there was an update on the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie divorce situation as court papers filed in Los Angeles revealed that Angelina’s lawyer has asked to disqualify the private judge presiding over their case. According to Angelina’s legal team, Brad’s legal team works By Lainey • Aug 13, 2020 09:39 am
Top Reads Brange’s new divorce drama For quite some time now, even though Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are single but not technically divorced, they’ve managed to keep their sh-t locked down and reportedly have been getting along better, at least according to tabloids that have been friendly to the Brad side of the situation. By Lainey • Aug 11, 2020 12:57 pm
Royals Prince Andrew and the Unsealing While most of the British royal headlines the last few days and probably in the days to come will be about the rom-com known as Finding Freedom, about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, don’t sleep on another potential royal story that’s expected this week that is much more By Lainey • Jul 27, 2020 01:00 pm
Douchebags Lady Antebellum sues Lady A A few weeks ago, as protests were happening around the world in support of Black Lives Matter after the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many more, Lady Antebellum announced that it was changing its band name to Lady A because they no longer wanted to By Lainey • Jul 09, 2020 01:41 pm
Royals “Unprotected” Meghan Markle There’s been an update in the lawsuit that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have filed against the Mail on Sunday. Apparently the Mail keeps asking Meghan’s legal team for more information. In a f-cked up way, this helps the Daily Mail generate more content. Because every time they By Lainey • Jul 02, 2020 11:23 am
Legal issues Team Andrew on the Unfair Treatment of Prince Andrew I mean, let’s just all go ahead and get the LOLs out of the way. LOLOLOLOLOLOL. These are bitter LOLs though. You’ll learn why soon. Prince Andrew was reportedly ordered by US authorities to provide testimony in the ongoing investigation into the crimes of his friend, the dead By Lainey • Jun 09, 2020 10:02 am
Royals Harry and Meghan’s hearing Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are suing the publisher of the Daily Mail and a (virtual) hearing related to the case is happening today in London. For a play-by-play of the proceedings, Byline Investigates is live-tweeting: Meghan VS The Mail is Now LIVE. Follow our Live Tweets throughout the day By Lainey • Apr 24, 2020 09:48 am
Royals House Cambridge: The turnip has strong roots It’s been, what?, three weeks since the Sun reported that Princess Kate and Rose Hanbury, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley mysteriously aren’t friends anymore? Shortly after, there was a lot of rumouring on social media about what, exactly, led to the breakup of the Turnip Toffs. And then, even By Lainey • Apr 09, 2019 12:58 pm
