O.J. Simpson, equipped with a new set of lawyers, was in a courtroom on Monday, in hopes of reducing his current 33-year sentence. Simpson reportedly is seeking to convince a judge that his former attorney Yale Galanter should not have been the one to represent him in his armed robbery-kidnapping case that sentenced him to 33 years in prison.
Mary Silwa, the third ex-wife of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Silwa, has filed a million dollar lawsuit against her former husband, calling him a liar, philanderer and swindler.
Disgraced former Queens state senator Shirley Huntley was sentenced to one year in prison, and three year probation. She pleaded guilty to mail fraud conspiracy last winter, after admitting to embezzling nearly $88,000 from a state-funded non profit she controlled.
Days before his death in 2009, Michael Jackson told his producer/director Kenny Ortega that "God keeps talking to me." Ortega and associate producer Alif Sankey testified on Wednesday that they became increasingly alarmed at Jackson's frail appearance during his final rehearsals. The lawsuit, brought by Michael Jackson's elderly mother Katherine on behalf of the singer's three children, alleges that privately-held AEG Live was negligent in hiring the physician convicted in 2011 of his involuntary manslaughter to care for her son while he rehearsed for the series of 50 shows.
