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As Kanye West drags his feet in his ongoing divorce from Kim Kardashian , a judge granted an impatient Kardashian a December trial date Friday to finalize the former couple’s remaining financial and custody issues. Kardashian, 41, and West, 45, were declared legally single at a hearing back in March , but they still haven’t reached a settlement — or been give final court orders — related to their vast wealth and four kids: North, 9, Saint, 6, Chicago, 4, and Psalm, 3. “We’ve been ready for quite a while,” Kardashian’s lawyer Laura Wasser told Los Angeles County Judge Steve Cochran. Asked if the Skims founder wanted her trial date set this year or next, Wasser said the sooner, the better. “This year, your honor. I actually have a stipulated judgment drafted. I’m just trying to get someone to pay attention to me,” she told the court. “The parties are getting along, and they are communicating, but where we are right now is, from (Kardashian’s) perspective, we would like to … [Read more...] about Kanye West Loses Another Divorce Lawyer As Kim Kardashian Gets Trial Date

A standard direct flight from Incheon International Airport in South Korea to Honolulu clocks in at a little over 10 hours, and a lot can happen in the duration of that dawn-to-near-dusk journey. You could start and finish a medium-sized book or work your way through a season of a premium-cable prestige drama. Maybe you’d answer a lot of emails (depending on the Wi-Fi situation, which we’re told can be unreliable), get wildly drunk, or catch up on your sleep. Or, should you be a psychopath who works for a pharmaceutical company and have absconded with a deadly virus, you’d have plenty of time to kill all 220 passengers onboard for the sheer thrill of it. This last option unfortunately seems to be the first choice of Jin-seok (Yim Si-wan, a.k.a. Siwan, of the K-pop boy-band ZE:A), an unstable young man who has smuggled a vial of some nasty, highly contagious shit onto a flight via an incision under his arm. His plan is to release the airborne plague in powder form while they’re 35,000 … [Read more...] about ‘Emergency Declaration’ Is South Korea’s ‘Snakes on a Plane,’ But With Covid

Backgrid Kanye West is apparently back on dad duty after some time away in Japan and NYC ... grabbing some grub at one of L.A.'s hottest spots with his oldest kid. Backgrid Kanye and North West were spotted leaving NOBU in Malibu Wednesday -- marking the first time we've seen Kanye with any of his kids in quite some time. NOBU is obviously a celeb hot spot, and one of Kanye's favorites, so it's not totally shocking they decided to go there. Getty As we reported, Kanye was recently in Japan with his girlfriend, Chaney Jones , before he hit New York City for the Balenciaga show. No sign of Chaney at NOBU, though she and Kanye have been linked together for several months now, and it's possible she might now be in L.A. with him. Of course, Kanye accused Kim of holding his kids from him through a series of social media posts months ago. Kim denied that , saying he's never been barred from … [Read more...] about Kanye West Grabs Lunch with Daughter North West at Nobu

Getty Composite Kanye West and Kim Kardashian 's divorce continues to drag on ... Ye has officially lost his 5th divorce lawyer. Kim and Kanye had a trial-setting conference Friday in L.A. as part of their divorce. Ye's current divorce attorney, Samantha Spector , had previously asked the judge to relieve her as counsel, saying her relationship with Kanye was irretrievably broken, though she wouldn't say why. She had a date set next week to officially withdraw, but the judge granted her request Friday, so she's out and Ye is without a lawyer yet again. What's more, the judge made it clear ... either Kanye gets off the dime and submits his financial declarations to settle the remaining issues, or the case is going to trial in December ... no if, ands or buts. If Kanye ghosts everyone -- then in all probability when the case comes before the judge in December -- Kim will get whatever she wants. Gallery Launch Gallery Getty/Instagram … [Read more...] about Kanye West’s 5th Divorce Lawyer Quits as Kim Kardashian Divorce Case Drags on

Park Chan-wook ’s crime drama Decision To Leave has been selected by South Korea to represent the country in the Best International Feature category at the 95th Academy Awards. The film originally debuted in Cannes where Park won the Best Director prize. It is also teed up to screen at the New York Film Festival this fall. Mubi has North American rights. The Korean Film Council announced its choice this evening local time saying it took into consideration “workmanship and directing ability, the possibility of box office success in the North American market, and the promotion ability of overseas distributors.” The selection committee “agreed that Decision To Leave is the most appropriate, and we expect the work to be well-received.” Park Hae-il and Tang Wei star in the noir detective story cum romance. In Park’s own words, as he described the plot of Decision To Leave to Deadline: “A detective is dispatched to a scene of death of a man who has fallen from … [Read more...] about Oscars: Korea Submits Park Chan-wook’s ‘Decision To Leave’ For International Feature Race

Sony brass might be licking their wounds today, or trying keep their blood from boiling, after reading Fortune’s new cover story about last year’s cyber attacks. The magazine published a lengthy piece by Peter Elkind — which includes material from private emails stolen and made public by cyber attackers –that surmises that Sony was so focused on cost cutting that it “failed to employ several basic safeguards” to protect its network and “didn’t put up much of a fight” once hackers breached its system. Sony Pictures execs and others also neglected warnings that a fictional depiction of an assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the studio’s comedy The Interview might invite a hack attack. Fortune also paints an unflattering picture of Sony Pictures, describing it as “a deeply unhappy place, beset by pressures over disappointing profits, cost cutting and layoffs, the scorn of an activist investor, and tribal infighting.” The article doesn’t really … [Read more...] about Sony Neglect Of “Basic Safeguards” Enabled Hack Attack: Fortune

Sony Pictures Entertainment got some of what it wanted in its motion to dismiss, but still has to face claims of negligence that its security wasn’t sufficient to protect past and present employee’s private information from ending up all over the World Wide Web. Long story short – Sony is facing more fallout from last fall’s massive hack, this time in court. “Plaintiffs …allege that based on prior data breaches at other Sony companies and audits of Sony’s own security systems, specifically with regard to human resource records, it was foreseeable that a data breach would occur and that Plaintiffs’ would suffer harm,” wrote Judge Gary Klausner in an order dated June 15 ( read it here ). “Nonetheless, Sony made a business decision to not expend the money needed to shore up its system, and instead to accept the risk of a security breach. As a result, of Sony’s failure to maintain an adequate security system and timely notify Plaintiffs of the breach, Plaintiffs suffered the injury … [Read more...] about Sony Fails To Get Employees’ Hacking Attack Lawsuit Dismissed

EXCLUSIVE : If you thought the major fallout from the hacking of Sony Pictures by North Korea late last year and the attempted asphyxiating of The Interview was over, the federal courts have something to tell you. Earlier this week, all of the plaintiffs in the seven class action lawsuits filed against the studio over the massive leaking of personal information such as Social Security numbers and alleged inadequate cyber protection have asked Judge R. Gary Klausne to consolidate their cases. “Consolidating the cases will be the most efficient and effective way of litigating the claims on behalf of the proposed class,” say the plaintiffs in the January 12 motion for one big Sony Data Breach Litigation case ( read it here ). And Sony is cool with that – to a degree. “While SPE does not oppose Plaintiffs’ assertion that these cases ‘involve a common question of law or fact’ for purposes of consolidation, SPE disputes that any of these actions can be prosecuted on a … [Read more...] about Sony Hacking Class Actions Set To Become One Big Lawsuit

The legal woes continue to mount in the wake of the cyber attack on Sony Pictures . A former software engineer at the studio has filed the latest class-action lawsuit over the hack, claiming that his personal information “may have been compromised as a result of the security breach.” Anastasio Garcia Rodriguez, who worked at Sony Pictures from February 2011 to May 2013, claims the info obtained by the hackers “includes at a minimum his Social Security number, immigration information and visa, and passport information.” The suit joins a number of others — read about three of them here , here and here — brought in the wake of the devastating late-November attack, which has crippled Sony Pictures and created an international incident between the U.S. and North Korea, which the FBI says was behind the hack. Garcia Rodriguez’s January 2 filing in U.S. District Court for Central California (read it here ) claims Sony Pictures “owed a legal duty to Plaintiff and Class … [Read more...] about Sony Attack Yields Another Employee Lawsuit

The as-yet-unstoppable force of the Trump presidency and the as-yet-immovable object of Special Counsel Robert Mueller ’s Russia investigation came a little closer to each other Tuesday night. A meeting between Trump and Mueller has long loomed as a potential inflection point for the investigation, and the Washington Post reports that Mueller brought up the possibility of subpoenaing the president to testify before a grand jury during a meeting with his legal team in March. Trump responded Wednesday morning by continuing to criticize the investigation, tweeting that it is a “setup & trap,” echoing language used in a Fox News segment that aired Tuesday night. There was no Collusion (it is a Hoax) and there is no Obstruction of Justice (that is a setup & trap). What there is is Negotiations going on with North Korea over Nuclear War, Negotiations going on with China over Trade Deficits, Negotiations on NAFTA, and much more. Witch Hunt! — Donald J. Trump … [Read more...] about Is Trump Worried About That Potential Mueller Subpoena? Well…