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May 14, 2025, 11:20 a.m. ETCasandra Ventura in 2018. She testified on Wednesday that Sean Combs was banging, kicking and yelling outside her apartment door after he assaulted her in a hotel.Credit...Frazer...

Each successive flashback shows Kleya growing up by Luthen’s side, as he built his antiques business and started weaving together a network of connections. She often posed as his daughter — although...

Teny Geragos, one of Sean Combs’s lawyers, sought to paint Mr. Combs as a “flawed individual” who had an unconventional sex life in her opening statement on Monday. Here is her full...

Eight times a week at the Majestic Theater in Manhattan, the entire, harrowing arc of a classic tragedy is delivered in 4½ minutes that are as exhilarating as they are upsetting. All...

Casandra Ventura, the singer and model known as Cassie, began testifying for a federal jury on Tuesday morning in the sex-trafficking and racketeering case against Sean Combs.The much-anticipated testimony was Ms. Ventura’s...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival begins Tuesday, and this lineup is particularly star-packed. Which titles could follow in the path of last year’s big breakouts like “Anora” and “The...

Chandelier bidding. Quiet phone banks. Executives wiping their brows.One of the most anticipated auctions of the season proved to be anticlimactic on Monday evening at Christie’s in New York, where many objects...

The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, one of the world’s most revered opera houses, announced on Monday that its next music director would be the South Korean conductor Myung-whun Chung.Chung, 72, a...

May 12, 2025, 7:57 a.m. ETJudge Arun Subramanian is the first person of South Asian descent to be a judge in the Southern District of New York.Credit...Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, via Getty ImagesAt...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.For more than 20 years, A.O. Scott, who was until recently a co-chief...