Jennifer Lopez fans eager to get her autograph were reportedly upset last weekend when she allegedly abruptly ended an autograph session after someone in the group asked her to call Sean “Diddy” Combs, her long-time ex-boyfriend Time, and who asked had allegations of sex trafficking against him.

Lopez attended a screening and question-and-answer session for her recent film “Unstoppable” on the 2024 AFI Fest in Los Angeles. Mirror US reported. The screening took place on Saturday and the school sports drama was produced by Lopez's estranged husband Ben Affleck and his production company with Matt Damon.

But during a book signing for Unstoppable, Lopez was confronted with an ungainly query about one other famous ex, the Mirror reported. As the singer and actor tried to greet fans, someone in the group asked, “J. Lo, do you have any comments on P. Diddy and the allegations?”

Lopez immediately stopped signing autographs, The Mirror reported. She and her team began walking away from the group. People in the group shouted after her: “Don’t go,” but she walked out the door, “out of sight,” The Mirror said.

This awkward moment comes as Lopez is within the midst of divorcing Affleck. Meanwhile, she stays silent concerning the disturbing sexual assault allegations against Combs, whom she dated from 1999 to 2001. The music mogul and founding father of Bad Boy Records has been in federal custody since September and faces charges of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges.

Combs has also faced greater than 20 lawsuits from ladies and men who claim he and his alleged accomplices sexually assaulted them while they attended his notorious parties.

Lopez has faced scrutiny over her relationship with Combs since his arrest on Sept. 16. The allegations within the lawsuits relate to incidents that began within the Nineteen Nineties and continued through 2022, with some allegedly occurring throughout the period when Lopez and Combs were a high-profile celebrity couple.

Perhaps most uncomfortable for Lopez are the allegations made in a federal lawsuit last week. A 37-year-old woman claims that as a 13-year-old girl, she was sexually assaulted by Combs with the assistance of an unnamed female and male celebrity at a celebration the mogul threw after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. While the lawsuit didn’t name Combs' alleged celebrity accomplices, Lopez was Combs' date on the 2000 VMAs and he or she won the award for best dance video that September evening.

Recently unearthed photos were released this week within the Daily Mail, It is alleged to point out Lopez and Combs at a star-studded afterparty for the 2000 VMAs. The awards ceremony took place on September 7, 2000 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, while the afterparty was held on the now-defunct Lotus nightclub.

The photos show Lopez and Combs in a heated confrontation, with Lopez appearing to yell on the rapper, the Daily Mail said. A guest on the party told the Daily Mail that the argument ended with Combs leaving the nightclub along with his entourage and a gaggle of girls.

The alleged attack on the 13-year-old girl apparently occurred at a house later that night. The Daily Mail said the timing of the attack added “a disturbing layer” to the evening's events and raised questions on the dynamics of Lopez and Combs' relationship at a time now overshadowed by serious allegations.

In 1999, Lopez became embroiled in one other criminal controversy involving Combs. They were arrested in December of that 12 months while fleeing a Manhattan nightclub following a shooting that left three people injured. Combs was tried for the shooting in 2001 and Lopez testified, but Combs was acquitted by a jury.

Over the years, Lopez hasn't said much about her relationship with Combs, although toward the tip she described it as “tempestuous” and “emotionally exhausting.” She also said that they broke up, got back together, after which broke up again “many times.”

Lopez's first husband, Ojani Noa, whom the megastar met and married early in her profession, recently blamed Combs for the collapse of their 11-month marriage in 1998.

In an interview with Univision, Noa, a Cuban immigrant who met Lopez while working as a waiter in Miami, said, “Part of this divorce was Diddy's fault.”

“When Sony came and paid her the millions she got, there was Puffy (Combs), who was supposed to be one of the producers of several tracks on (her) first album 'On The 6,'” Noa told the Spanish outlet, in keeping with the positioning Six. “That’s when the deception, the lies, the separation began.”

NFL

Aaron Rodgers insisted he played no role within the firing of Robert Saleh as coach of the New York Jets, calling such allegations “patently false.”

The star quarterback made his weekly appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Wednesday, a day after Jets owner Woody Johnson fired Saleh after the team got off to a 2-3 start within the coach's fourth season.

Some media and fans speculated that Rodgers can have been involved in influencing Johnson, who said during a conference call Tuesday that the choice was “my decision and my decision alone.”

Johnson named defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich because the Jets' interim head coach for the rest of the season.

“As far as the ridiculous allegations go, I won’t respond more than one sentence,” Rodgers said. “And that is, I am angry about all these accusations because they are obviously false. And it’s interesting how much power people think I have that I don’t have.”

Rodgers confirmed he spoke with Johnson during a “nice call” on Monday night, but said the owner simply asked him how he was feeling after damaging his left ankle within the Jets' loss to Minnesota in London on Sunday sprained. Both Johnson and Rodgers said there was no talk of Saleh's future.

“Woody has no obligation to tell me his plans,” Rodgers said. “I just appreciated the call that he asked about me.”

Rodgers spoke about how the choice to sack Saleh was a reminder that football “is a tough business” and that decisions like this have a human aspect. He cited Saleh's family, including one among the coach's seven children, with whom he was close during team training. Rodgers also reiterated that he and Saleh – who said in a press release he was “grateful” for the chance to change into the Jets' head coach – should not at odds.

Tight end Tyler Conklin said during a video call with reporters that he thought the quarterback “probably took this harder than almost anyone” since it was clear “it weighed heavily on him.”

“I love Coach Saleh,” Rodgers said. “We have a very solid relationship. … He was one of the main reasons I came to the Jets.”

The four-time NFL MVP was traded from Green Bay to New York in April 2023. With his arrival got here Super Bowl expectations, but Rodgers tore his left Achilles tendon 4 times in his debut last season – and the Jets finished 7-10 without him.

New York entered this season with similar ambitions, but a two-game delay and inconsistent play from Rodgers and the offense had Johnson frightened the team was heading within the fallacious direction.

Linebacker CJ Mosley said during a video call that players on the team's leadership council — including Mosley, Rodgers, Conklin, offensive tackle Morgan Moses and punter Thomas Morstead — met to debate the situation after news of Saleh's firing broke.

This was followed by a player-only meeting after which a team meeting with Ulbrich.

“I would say the biggest thing I heard a lot yesterday was responsibility,” Mosley said. “I believe we’ve got to maintain that in mind in the longer term. We all must take responsibility each day we walk into the constructing, each day we get up, and each decision made inside our organization, especially with our team.

“Whether it’s good, bad or somewhere in between, that’s what this is all about. So I think this was definitely a wake-up call and an eye-opener for a lot of people.”

Rodgers also talked about taking responsibility, starting with himself.

“I have to play better – I will,” Rodgers insisted. “We have a lot ahead of us.”

The Jets play at home against the Buffalo Bills on Monday night and a win would give them a share of first place within the AFC East.

Rodgers said the team welcomes Ulbrich and echoed among the coach's comments Tuesday that there have to be some changes with recent leadership.

“There were some things that had to change regardless of what happened to Robert,” Rodgers said. “And you know, we just didn’t play consistent football on offense. And as we know, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett's status as the first game manager is uncertain. Hackett and Rodgers have had a detailed relationship since their time together in Green Bay, however it's possible that Ulbrich decides to show the play calls over to passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach Todd Downing.

“As far as the offense goes, I agree with his decision,” Rodgers said. “And I need to do the very best for the team and we support coach Ulbrich.

“And whatever he thinks is best for the team, that’s what we’ll do.”

“As part of its commitment to a comprehensive, transparent and independent investigation, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors will engage an independent firm to investigate the allegations made by Sheriff Christina Corpus,” Supervisors Noelia Corzo and Ray Mueller said in an announcement on behalf of the board.

The supervisors said the board also directed the county attorney's office to tell the California Attorney General's Office of “matters related to the sheriff's office.”

In a criticism Sunday, Corpus said any investigation into Callagy “should cover his attempts to conspire against an elected sheriff, discrimination, sexual harassment, abuse of power and ongoing interference in the operations of the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office.”

Corpus said it will refer the matter to the state level if the board didn’t act.

Corzo and Mueller said Monday that the panel is reviewing the criticism and can “take the time necessary to determine the appropriate course of action.” Callagy, they noted, “rejects the sheriff's allegations as false and defamatory” and “welcomes a full, transparent and independent investigation of all allegations made against him.”

“County Executive Callagy has been an ethical public servant in San Mateo County for over 41 years,” supervisors said Monday. “Unless proven otherwise, the board will continue to have complete faith and trust in his leadership.”

The criticism comes as a part of a separate investigation the committee commissioned to look into “multiple personnel allegations” related to the sheriff's office. Former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell is leading the independent investigation.

That investigation took a surprising turn last week when Mueller revealed that Corpus Assistant Sheriff Ryan Monaghan, her third deputy, had been fired after Cordell questioned him. The timing “suggests possible retaliation” against Monaghan for his participation within the investigation, Mueller said Friday in an announcement on behalf of the panel.

Cordell was asked to analyze whether Corpus took any retaliatory motion against Monaghan.

In its criticism, Corpus said Monaghan was fired due to his “performance underperformance and failure to expeditiously implement the goals of the Sheriff's Office,” not because he sat down for an interview with Cordell.

Tesla Inc. failed to steer an administrative law judge to dismiss a California regulator's allegations that the corporate exaggerated the autonomous driving capabilities of its vehicles, one among several ongoing regulatory investigations into the electrical automotive maker's marketing.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles (MDV) claims that Tesla made false statements about its driver assistance features “Autopilot” and “fully autonomous driving,” leading customers to imagine that they were more advanced than they really were.

Monday's ruling got here lower than a month after a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that Tesla must face a category motion lawsuit from consumers with similar claims.

Although not one of the rulings addressed the merits of the lawsuits against Tesla, they represent one other setback for the automaker at a time when CEO Elon Musk has staked the corporate's future on autonomous driving.

Musk declared in April that Tesla is “going all-in on autonomy” and committed the automaker to a next-generation self-driving vehicle concept called Robotaxi. The billionaire entrepreneur has been talking big about autonomy for over a decade and has convinced customers to pay 1000’s of dollars for the Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature.

The name is misleading—FSD requires constant monitoring and doesn’t make vehicles autonomous—but Musk has repeatedly predicted that it’s near living as much as the brand name.

The company now faces federal investigations into whether defects within the autopilot contributed to fatal accidents. There are also ongoing investigations by the Attorney General's Office and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into whether Tesla made misleading statements to the general public about this feature.

Tesla's lawyers also argued that marketing their vehicles with “autonomous driving capabilities” was not a claim that the cars were already fully autonomous, but reasonably an announcement that they’d have the option to drive themselves in the long run after software updates.

Administrative Law Judge Juliet Cox sided with DMV attorney Greg Call, who argued that the case mustn’t be dismissed before the DMV has had a probability to present its evidence at a hearing later this yr.

Tesla has not demonstrated that the California DMV “will necessarily be unable to produce relevant evidence,” Cox wrote within the order.

Tesla and the California Department of Motor Vehicles didn’t immediately reply to requests for comment.

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A New York Times investigation into the background of Nicole Shanahan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vice presidential candidate who grew up in Oakland, paints a lower than flattering portrait of the once little-known lawyer, vaccine skeptic and self-proclaimed “Silicon Valley Princess” who would like to be only a stone's throw away from the presidency.

Among other things, the New York Times repeats a Wall Street Journal report It alleges that Shanahan had a sexual encounter with Elon Musk, the longtime friend of her then-husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin. While Shanahan and Musk had previously denied an affair, The Times reported that Shanahan told Brin, in addition to friends, family and advisers, that she had sex with Musk at a non-public party in Miami in December 2021.

The party was hosted by Musk's brother Kimball Musk in reference to Art Basel. The Tesla CEO and Shanahan took ketamine, a preferred party drug that’s legal with a prescription, The Times reported, citing 4 individuals with knowledge of the incident and related documents. They then “disappeared together for several hours,” the Times said.

Two weeks after the party, Shanahan and Brin separated, and he filed for divorce after five years of marriage, citing “irreconcilable differences,” The Times reported, citing court documents.

However, this wasn't the primary time Shanahan was allegedly cheating on a relationship: The Times reported that she began an affair with Brin back in 2014, just weeks before she was set to marry San Francisco tech investor Jeremy Kranz.

Shanahan and Brin met at a yoga festival in Lake Tahoe in July 2014, The Times reported. She married Kranz just a few weeks later, but he soon discovered her relationship with Brin after seeing text messages between her and Brin on her phone, The Times said.

Twenty-seven days after the marriage, Kranz filed for an annulment, citing fraud, The Times reported, citing court records. But he agreed to finish their marriage through divorce and drop the fraud lawsuit after Shanahan threatened to harm himself, The Times said.

Shanahan and Brin married in 2014 and he became her “entry point into the upper echelons of the tech industry,” The Times reported. The couple traveled the world, taking trips on Brin's yachts and having fun with stays at their various properties in Los Altos, Lake Tahoe, Montana and Malibu. Shanahan also began her profession as an entrepreneur and philanthropist with the goal of becoming a philanthropist like MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Living among the many global elite also included attending and hosting fabulous parties — and using recreational drugs like ketamine, cocaine and psychoactive mushrooms, the Times reported, citing documents and accounts from eight people.

After Shanahan's marriage to Brin hit a slump throughout the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, she began going out without him more often in 2021. At a celebration in Miami, Shanahan was “so intoxicated with drugs and alcohol that she needed an intravenous drip,” the Times reported.

Shanahan also threw herself a Studio 54-style celebration at a New York club. One of her guests was Musk.

When the Wall Street Journal reported on Shanahan's alleged sexual encounter with Musk on the Miami party, she and Musk denied an affair. Shanahan also doubled down on the denial in an interview she gave to People magazine iin 2023.

Shanahan described Musk as a friend and said she sought his advice on the way to deal along with her young daughters' autism diagnosis. While hosting “Saturday Night Live” in 2021, Musk revealed that he has Asperger's syndrome and spoke afterward about how the diagnosis has affected his life.

In an interview with People, Shanahan expressed her dismay at accusations that she is a “money grabber” and called them sexist, despite the fact that she has amassed a billion-dollar fortune through her divorce settlement with Brin.

“My career was based on academic and intellectual credibility, and I was internationally denounced for being a fraud,” Shanahan told People. “Being known for a sexual act is one of the most humiliating things… it was absolutely debilitating.”

Either Meghan Markle or her associates at William Morris thought they might show that she enjoys the support of Hollywood celebrities by revealing to Chrissy Teigen on Instagram this week that she was among the many privileged 50 who were gifted a glass from the Duchess Limited edition strawberry jam from American Riviera Orchard.

Sure, John Legend's influencer wife has long had a big social media presence, with 43 million Instagram followers. But she has also turn into a problematic celebrity as her repute never fully recovered after she was embroiled in a cyberbullying scandal in 2021.

Additionally, Teigen's crash was used as a possibility by Meghan's critics to reconsider the incontrovertible fact that she, too, was embroiled in a bullying controversy. The Times UK ffirst revealed in 2021 that Prince Harry's wife was accused in a Buckingham Palace investigation of harassing royal advisers in the course of the 18 months she was a senior working member of the royal family.

“Meghan Marble and Chrissy Teigen are the two biggest bullies on the D-list! I’m excited to see them teaming up!” wrote Stephanie Sidley in response to Teigens Instagram post, wherein she used Meghan's jam in a bacon and brie grilled cheese sandwich. “This may have been one of the best bites we've eaten all year,” Teigen wrote as cheese dripped from her mouth.

By the best way, Sidley hosts a YouTube show along with her sister that capitalizes on the criticism of Meghan and Harry. Following Teigen's post, fans of Meghan and Teigen were quick to show against Sidley, telling her she was “the bully” and the “hater.”

When the bullying allegations against Meghan first emerged, her spokesman strongly denied them, calling the Times story one other “attack” on her character and part of a bigger “smear campaign.” Teigen, then again, acknowledged her bad behavior prior to now and said she was a web-based “troll,” particularly when she sent malicious messages to teen media personality Courtney Stodden in 2011.

Now, some people commenting on Teigen's Jam post clearly don't consider Meghan has moved on from the bullying allegations. Teigen's post isn't the one place where discussion of the allegations is making a comeback, either.

Just as Meghan attempts to re-establish herself as a life-style influencer, media outlets in Britain, Australia and the United States have reported speculation that the palace staff who claimed they were bullied could also be ready to return forward. reported the New York Post.

Speculation began earlier this month when a former palace aide, Samantha Cohen, confirmed in an interview with Australia's Herald-Sun newspaper that she was certainly one of 10 staffers questioned concerning the allegations. Page Six reports.

Cohen declined to elaborate on the allegations, but pointed to the incontrovertible fact that there was high staff turnover amongst those that worked for Meghan and Harry. Cohen was a long-time adviser to the late Queen Elizabeth II, but worked for Meghan on the queen's request to assist the American actor prepare for royal life.

“I used to be only imagined to stay for six months but ended up staying for 18 months – we couldn't discover a alternative for me and once we did we took them on a tour to Africa with Harry and Meghan to indicate them the ropes but they left (resigned)” “That also applies to the stay in Africa,” Cohen said within the interview.

Cohen's interview led royal writer Tom Bower to suggest that more details about Meghan's alleged bullying may come to light after Cohen speaks out.

“The trickle of information will soon become a torrent,” said Bower, the writer of “Revenge,” a critical book about Meghan and Harry’s departure from royal life. wrote in an editorial for the Daily Mail on Tuesday.

Bower said Cohen was tasked with convincing Meghan, an independent and career-driven California-born actress, to “embrace the royal family's unchanging hierarchy and rigid protocols.” He said Cohen was likely annoyed with Meghan because she either didn't agree with or didn't understand “these non-negotiable elements of royalty.” “I believe that members of Samantha Cohen’s team viewed this as irresponsible self-indulgence,” Bower wrote.

According to the 2022 book “Courtiers” by Valentine Low, the Times royal reporter who first reported the bullying allegations, Cohen privately complained that she felt she had been “treated harshly” by the couple, and compared the job to “working with teenagers.”

Originally by Low Story for the TimesHe reported that Meghan drove two personal assistants out of the household and undermined the trust of a 3rd. She is alleged to have said: “It is not my job to coddle people” after aid staff were reduced to tears and humiliated by her “difficult demands”.

The Times also noted that Meghan's problems along with her royal staff weren’t simply as a consequence of a clash of cultures and the “no-nonsense” nature of an American. A former staffer said the duchess could possibly be harsh towards anyone she let down, saying: “I had unpleasant experiences with her. “I might definitely say humiliated.”

While Buckingham Palace issued an announcement in 2021 saying it was “very concerned” concerning the bullying allegations, in 2022 the palace said it might not release the outcomes of its investigation into the allegations.

Several PR experts interviewed this week from The Telegraph said the bullying allegations could possibly be certainly one of the obstacles to Meghan having the ability to restore her public image, particularly within the United Kingdom. She has also made enemies of royal supporters who dislike the best way she disparages the monarchy in interviews.

“There is a lot to unpack and correct, and that requires honesty, courage and patience. “If you air your dirty laundry in public, it takes some time to dry,” says Natalie Trice, a U.K.-based public relations consultant who has worked with CEOs of CNN and Discovery Channel, amongst other firms.

“Meghan has a voice and a platform, what does she want to say with it?” Trice told The Telegraph. “Who is she and what does she really stand for?” I don't think anyone knows that yet. And hopefully it’s greater than just handing out strawberry jam to wealthy people.”