DLISTED – Now that approximately 20 new tapes featuring R. Kelly allegedly having sex with underage girls have surfaced, authorities in Illinois and New York have filed approximately 20 new R. Kelly charges. These charges are in addition to the aggravated sexual assault charges Kelly was already fighting in court
THE BLAST – Those 20 new R. Kelly charges don’t include a bevy of indictments already filed and forthcoming against Kelly’s “entire entourage,” including the “vast network of enablers who allegedly helped facilitate” his doings
CELEBITCHY – Disgraced possible fake billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein is due in court for a bail hearing today; it’s possible that we’ll begin to find out more about Epstein’s connection to the Duke of York, who’s been close with Epstein for years and allegedly had sex with underage girls provided by him on Epstein’s private island
JEZEBEL – In less unpleasant news, MCU actress Lashana Lynch is apparently the new 007, according to plot details leaked from the script of the currently filming Bond 25
REALITY TEA – Camille Grammer, who “got a big huge house in Malibu” in her divorce settlement with Kelsey Grammer, says that her ex-husband “did not reach out to her” in any way after the house burned down in the Woosley Fire last year
THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – “Federal Appeals Court Rules Duggar Sisters’ Privacy Lawsuit Against Hometown Officials Can Proceed in Court”
THE BLEMISH – Scarlett Johansson isn’t over the outcry from her casting as a transgender man in the movie Rub & Tug and has officially doubled down on the things that made her casting controversial in the first place
LAINEY GOSSIP – Behold: “The Most Eighties Lewks of Stranger Things Season 3″
GO FUG YOURSELF – “Harry and Meghan Pop Out for the London Premiere of The Lion King ”
VOX – Today, in white sentences: “Pottery Barn is releasing a Friends collection for the show’s 25th anniversary”
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John Sharp is Starcasm’s chief editorial correspondent-at-large. Tips: E-mail john@starcasm.net or Twitter @john_starcasm.
