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LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Jodie Foster has married her girlfriend, the photographer Alexandra Hedison, a representative for the Oscar-winning actress said today.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – It’s been a big year for Lupita Nyong’o.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Fans and family paid their last respects to much-loved Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Monday, leaving flowers and playing music in a colorful remembrance of the Nobel laureate and giant of Latin American literature.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A man who has sued “X-Men” filmmaker Bryan Singer claiming he had raped him as a teenager named three more Hollywood executives in lawsuits filed on Monday, alleging sexual abuse and rape and seeking damages exceeding $10 million.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A man who has sued filmmaker Bryan Singer, the director of the upcoming blockbuster action film “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” for allegedly raping him as a teenager said on Thursday that his claims of sexual abuse went unheeded by authorities.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Pop star Rihanna has agreed to settle a lawsuit with her former accountants accusing them of mismanaging her finances and costing her millions of dollars, lawyers for the parties told a federal judge on Thursday.

(Reuters) – Hollywood has embraced God in a big – and lucrative – way.

LONDON (Reuters) – Peaches Geldof, second daughter of Band Aid founder and musician Bob Geldof and a media and fashion personality in her own right, has died at her home in Kent, southern England, aged 25, her family said on Monday.

(Reuters) – Actor Mickey Rooney, who became the United States’ biggest movie star while a brash teenager in the 1930s and later a versatile character actor in a career that spanned 10 decades, died on Sunday of natural causes, Los Angeles authorities said.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Eight previously unreleased songs by the late Michael Jackson will be part of a new album, “Xscape,” the singer’s estate and Sony Music Entertainment’s Epic Records said on Monday.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – British singer Elton John will marry long-time partner David Furnish now that Britain’s legalization of gay marriage has been put into effect, the singer said in an interview on Monday.

(Jamaica Observer) Salman Rushdie, author of the novel, The Satanic Verses, for which Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death sentence or fatwa against him, is to visit Jamaica in May this year.

(BBC) Veteran Bollywood star Nanda has died of a heart attack aged 75.

(Trinidad Express) Bollywood playback singer Vineet Singh was unstoppable as he performed for his local fans at “Everybody Loves Raymond–The Concert” on Saturday night.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – A Los Angeles judge on Monday ordered R&B singer Chris Brown to remain in jail at least until a probation violation hearing next month after the judge expressed concern about his ability to stay out of trouble.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fashion designer L’Wren Scott, the girlfriend of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, was found dead in her New York apartment on Monday from an apparent suicide, according to a law enforcement official.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – R&B singer Chris Brown was arrested today in Malibu, California, on a warrant issued for a probation violation related to his 2009 assault of then-girlfriend Rihanna, the Los Angeles County Sheriff said.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – Popular Jamaican Dancehall DJ Vybz Kartel and three co-accused were found guilty of murder in the Home Circuit court today, Thursday, March 13.

(Reuters) – Journalist Joe McGinniss, an author who got up close to his subjects for revealing books such as The Selling of the President and Fatal Vision, died on Monday at age 71, his friend and attorney said.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican singer Tessanne Chin delivered a scintillating, high-energy performance of Donna Summer’s Last Dance at the White House last night, earning sustained applause from an audience headed by US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.