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The BET Awards, held on Monday at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, honored achievements across cultural mediums: filmmaking, music, television. The ceremony — which featured appearances by superstars like Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey and Kendrick Lamar — and the red carpet before it also put the spotlight on style.
Overall, the fashion was vibrant and joyful: On the carpet, there were saturated colors and bold prints that, along with a large floral installation, set a lively mood. Several surprising accessories — big hats, video game consoles, baby bumps — made the spectacle even more fun to look at. Of all the attire on display, these 11 looks were among the most memorable, for myriad reasons.
Law Roach: Most Bowler!
The stylist’s pronounced headgear evoked other oversize styles that caused stirs on red carpets past, like the big hats worn by Zendaya, one of Mr. Roach’s clients, and Pharrell Williams.
Flau’jae Johnson: Most Slam Dunk!
Seeing the college basketball star and rapper in her glamorous burgundy gown approximated the pleasure of taking the first sip of a fine wine.
Snoop Dogg and Shante Broadus: Most Royal Couple!
The married rapper and entrepreneur would have probably stood out in any matching attire, but the royal blue palette of their ensembles gave them a regal presence.
Doechii: Most Y2K!
Slim rectangular glasses, stacks of chunky bangles and a Miu Miu bandanna top were elements of the rapper and singer’s ensemble that harked back to early 2000s style.
Wale: Most Prepared!
A Nintendo Switch peeking out of the pocket of the rapper’s Prada jacket suggested he would not lack for entertainment should the awards ceremony drag on.
KJ Smith: Most Revealing!
The pregnant actress not only showed off her baby bump in a chartreuse gown with stomach cutouts, but also revealed the child’s gender (it’s a girl!) in an interview on the carpet.
GloRilla: Most Skunk Stripe!
This year, dark hair with pale streaks has made its way to the White House, the big screen, the small screen and now, thanks to the rapper, the awards season circuit.
Vic Mensa: Most Nude Illusion!
In a shirt that resembled a toned and tattooed bare chest, the rapper undoubtedly made many people look (and a few stare).
Kai Cenat: Most Debonair!
The Twitch streamer looked the part of an old-Hollywood star dressed up in a classic double breasted tuxedo replete with bow tie and pocket square.
Da Brat: Most ‘Derelicte’!
The rapper’s tattered attire, which was bleached and pre-distressed, brought to mind a certain runway collection from the film “Zoolander.”
NYC Crypto Torture Suspects
Feds Raid Their Kentucky Estate
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Feds are poking around a home owned by the two suspects charged with kidnapping and torturing an Italian man for weeks inside a swanky multimillion-dollar New York City townhouse in an alleged scheme to obtain a Bitcoin password.
Cryptocurrency investor John Woeltz and his alleged accomplice, Swiss businessman William Duplessie, own an estate in Kentucky … and the property is currently crawling with law enforcement.
Federal agents from the ATF and officers from the Kentucky State Police and the New York Police Department are currently executing two warrants at the property … sources with knowledge have confirmed to TMZ.
The ATF tells us the operation is part of an “ongoing violent crime investigation in conjunction with the New York Police Department. Kentucky State Police provided tactical assistance that involved the service of two court-authorized warrants. As this is an active and ongoing investigation, we are not able to comment further.”
As we reported … Woeltz, also known as the “Crypto King of Kentucky,” and Duplessie were arrested last month in NYC and charged in a sealed indictment with kidnapping and torture.
Prosecutors say Woeltz and Duplessie lured Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan from Italy to New York, where they kidnapped him and tortured him inside their Manhattan townhouse over the course of 17 days in an attempt to get him to give up the password to his Bitcoin wallet.
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Carturan told authorities, Woeltz and Duplessie cut his leg with a saw, peed on him and forced him to smoke crack cocaine from a pipe they held to his mouth. He says he managed to escape, running barefoot out of the townhouse and flagging down a traffic cop.
We obtained exclusive video of Carturan running down the street after the traffic cop, and then heading back towards the townhouse with the same traffic agent.
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TMZ also published other footage calling into question whether Carturan was held against his will at certain points, as is alleged.
Photos show Carturan shirtless and smiling inside the townhouse, with a neck collar attached to a leash that a woman is pulling … simulating an S&M scene.
Other videos capture Carturan apparently cooking crack cocaine in an air fryer while tied to a wheelchair with his hands free and a big grin on his face … and partying and having sex.
A federal judge in New York said Baldoni’s defamation lawsuit against his It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively failed to show actual malice.
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A federal judge has dismissed actor Justin Baldoni’s $400 million defamation lawsuit against actor Blake Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and the New York Times.
Baldoni directed the 2024 movie It Ends With Us, which he co-starred in with Lively. The movie is based on a popular novel by Colleen Hoover. A few months after the movie was released, Lively filed a legal complaint against Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios, the movie’s production company which Baldoni co-founded, alleging she was sexually harassed during the making of the movie.
The legal complaint coincided with an article in the New York Times detailing the public relations/crisis management machine working on behalf of Baldoni.
In response, Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios filed a $400 million lawsuit against Lively and Reynolds, alleging defamation and extortion.
Wayfarer Studios also originally sued the New York Times in a separate $250 million libel lawsuit. That suit was dismissed after the Times was added as a defendant in the $400 million defamation suit.
In an opinion issued Monday, Judge Lewis J. Liman stated Baldoni failed to show that actual malice was involved in Lively’s allegations.
As for the Times, the judge wrote, “The alleged facts indicate that the Times reviewed the available evidence and reported, perhaps in a dramatized manner, what it believed to have happened.”
“Today’s opinion is a total victory and a complete vindication for Blake Lively,” read a statement from Lively’s lawyers, Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb. “This ‘$400 million’ lawsuit was a sham, and the Court saw right through it.”
NPR has reached out to the legal team representing Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios.
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