Kendrick Lamar took his now Grammy Award-winning diss track “Not Like Us,” which famously refers to Drake and his associates as “certified pedophiles," to the Super Bowl halftime show stage Sunday night in a performance that featured a series of references to his fellow rapper, including an “A minor” necklace and surprise appearance by Drake’s ex-girlfriend and famous tennis player Serena Williams. Get Forbes Breaking News Text Alerts: We’re launching text message alerts so you'll always know th...

Billionaire government efficiency chief Elon Musk has repeatedly spread baseless or false claims about the gutted U.S. Agency for International Development on X, including an unsupported claim the agency was a form of “money laundering” and that it paid celebrities millions to visit Ukraine. There’s no evidence to suggest USAID has engaged in money laundering. On Saturday afternoon, Musk reposted a claim on X that suggested USAID was a “form of money laundering tax payers money into far-left org...

Jacques Audiard, director of the divisive Oscar-nominated film “Emilia Pérez,” disavowed in an interview with Deadline years-old controversial tweets made by actress Karla Sofía Gascón that resurfaced last week, slamming Gascón for “playing the victim” and “continuing to harm us” as the film’s ongoing Oscar campaign appears to move on without Gascón. Audiard says he hasn’t spoken to Gascón, who is nominated for Best Actress, after her old tweets went viral on social media last week, in whic...

Justin Baldoni, star and director of “It Ends With Us,” sued his co-star Blake Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and Lively’s publicist Leslie Sloane in New York federal court Thursday, accusing them of defamation and extortion—weeks after Lively filed her own lawsuit against Baldoni in a sprawling legal battle between the film’s stars. Lively’s legal team slammed it as “another chapter in the abuser playbook” in a statement shared with Forbes, adding: “This is an age-old story: A woman speaks u...

A new Netflix series about the life of Alexander the Great, which includes scenes of him with a male lover, has faced criticism from some Greek officials, and some historians say that although the ancient Greek military general may very well have had same-sex relations, modern conceptions of being gay or straight cannot be applied to ancient times. Netflix’s “Alexander: The Making of a God” docuseries has attracted criticism from some Greek officials for portraying Hephaestion, Alexander the Gr

The adrenochrome conspiracy, a bizarre theory with antisemitic roots, posits that Satan-worshipping global and Hollywood elites run a massive child trafficking ring to drain their blood and harvest the chemical adrenochrome to stay young, and has been embraced by subscribers of the QAnon and Pizzagate conspiracy movements, including key people affiliated with the recent hit movie The Sound of Freedom. The baseless adrenochrome theory has been debunked numerous times by media outlets and scienti

Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran helped The Comfy sell millions of its snuggly, wearable blankets. Then things started to unravel, and Corcoran sold out. Now its co-founder is trying to pay off debts and reenergize the brand. rothers Michael and Brian Speciale charmed Shark Tank’s judges and audiences when they appeared on the show’s 2017 Christmas episode, singing an original jingle to the tune of “Deck the Halls” and pitching their blanket-hoodie hybrid, known as The Comfy. The judges all gleef

Top University officials allegedly manipulated a Perelman School of Medicine investigation into years of workplace abuse allegations within the Gene Therapy Program in order to protect its financial interests and director Jim Wilson, according to internal reports obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian. Following our previous reporting on GTP’s toxic workplace environment, based upon testimonies of 11 current and former GTP employees, the DP obtained a selection of documents alleging that Penn admi

Author Adam Silvera four years ago released the young adult science fiction novel "They Both Die at the End," which found success and landed a few weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. But years later in August 2020, Silvera said his publisher noticed a significant sales bump, the start of a trend that would send the book to the top of the New York Times’ young adult paperback monthly bestseller list in April, where it still reigns. Silvera had no idea where the sales spike was coming fr

Two months ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was confident — probably a little too much — in Israel’s management of the coronavirus crisis. The numbers of new Covid-19 cases had plummeted to the low double digits per day in May — a far cry from late March, when hundreds of new cases were being reported every day. In the midst of Israel’s success, Netanyahu announced on May 26 that Israel would finally begin to reopen. “We want to make your lives easier, to allow you to go out and