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Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism has confirmed that it bought the $450m Salvator Mundi painting for the state’s new Louvre gallery. The 500-year-old painting of Christ is believed to be the work of Leonardo da Vinci. There had been media reports that it had been bought by a Saudi prince. The Louvre Abu Dhabi museum said it was ...

Film director Bryan Singer has denied sexual assault after being sued for allegedly raping a 17-year-old boy. According to court filings obtained by Deadline, Cesar Sanchez-Guzman has alleged he was sexually assaulted by the director on a yacht in 2003. In a statement, a representative for Singer said the director “categorically denies these allegations”. It comes in the same week ...

The first UK performance of Broadway hit Hamilton has left audience members singing the hip-hop musical’s praises. Self-proclaimed “theatre addict” Alex Packer called the performances from the London cast “faultless“, and Jen Waller called the evening “truly special“. The Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye said it had been “the best first preview of a musical [he’d] seen since Miss Saigon”. In ...

John Oliver has confronted Dustin Hoffman in a tense public discussion about allegations of sexual harassment that have been made against the actor. Hoffman defended himself after Anna Graham Hunter alleged he groped her on a film set when she was 17, in 1985. The actor questioned Ms Graham Hunter’s claims, asking Oliver: “Do you believe this stuff that you’re ...

France’s biggest rock star Johnny Hallyday has died from lung cancer, his wife says. He was 74. The singer – real name Jean-Philippe Smet – sold about 100 million records and starred in a number of films. He was made a Chevalier of the Legion D’Honneur by President Jacques Chirac in 1997. The French have simply called him “Our Johnny”. ...

(AllHipHop News) R&B star R. Kelly is seeking to have a lawsuit holding him responsible for the breakdown of a Mississippi police officer’s marriage thrown out of court. Sheriff’s deputy Kenny Bryant sued the I Believe I Can Fly hitmaker earlier this year, claiming the singer’s affair with his wife Asia Childress ruined the couple’s 2012 marriage and subsequently wrecked ...

(AllHipHop News) Donald Trump’s administration announced it will not be renewing the Temporary Protected Status that gave almost 60,000 Haitian nationals provisional legal residency in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security pronounced the disastrous conditions on the island caused by a 2010 earthquake “no longer exist.” The Haitians must now leave the U.S. by July 22, 2019. Officials ...

Sia makes it to Sydney gig late after travel woes and dicky tummy So we all assume tpop stars get smoothly transported in and out of big gigs. They don’t have to worry about the same logistical issues as the rest of us – right? Wrong. Aussie hit-maker Sia arrived late to a gig in Sydney on Saturday after severe ...

The director of the new Freddie Mercury biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, has been fired due to “unreliable behaviour”. In a statement, Twentieth Century Fox said Bryan Singer was no longer the director of the film. A source told the BBC the main reason for the firing was “a pattern of unreliable behaviour on the set”. But Singer said his firing came ...

Jay-Z is opening up about dealing with deeply personal issues. In an intimate Q&A with New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet, the 47-year-old rapper opens up about therapy, and the issues that led to him to being unfaithful in his marriage to Beyoncé. Jay-Z reveals that he was able to find a good therapist through friends of his. “I grew so ...