Jolie seeks divorce judge’s removal
Angelina Jolie asked Monday that the private judge overseeing her divorce from Brad Pitt be disqualified from the case because of insufficient disclosures of his business relationships with one of Pitt’s attorneys.
In a filing in Los Angeles Superior Court, Jolie argues that Judge John Ouderkirk should be taken off the divorce case that she filed in 2016 because he was too late and not forthcoming enough about other cases he was hired for involving Pitt attorney Anne C. Kiley.
Pitt, 56, and Jolie, 44, are paying for a private judge in their divorce case to keep many of its filings and the personal and financial details within them sealed.
Pitt and Jolie were declared divorced — and the Pitt was dropped from her name — in April 2019 after their lawyers asked for a bifurcated judgment, meaning that two married people can be declared single while other issues, including finances and child custody, remain.
Fire engulfs Ray’s home:
A massive fire engulfed cooking show star Rachael Ray’s New York home on Sunday, authorities said.
As many as 16 local fire departments responded to the fire in Lake Luzerne, which started around
5:30 p.m. Sunday, according to Brian LaFlure, fire coordinator for the Warren County Office of Emergency Services.
Photos of the house fire show flames bursting through the roof and long plumes of smoke extending into the sky. No one in Ray’s household or from the responding firefighters were injured, LaFlure said.
“Thank you to our local first responders for being kind and gracious and saving what they could of our home,” Ray posted on
Twitter Monday. “These are the days we all have to be grateful for what we have, not what we’ve lost.”
Since April, Ray has filmed “#STAYHOME With Rachael” two days a week from her home.
Cowell has surgery for broken back:
Simon Cowell underwent surgery to repair a broken back and was recovering at a hospital, a spokesperson said Sunday.
“Simon has broken his back in a number of places” after falling from the new bike he’d been testing at his Malibu home Saturday, the representative said. The overnight, six-hour surgery included placement of a metal rod.
Cowell posted a “massive thank you” to doctors and nurses treating him.
“If you buy an electric trail bike, read the manual before you ride it for the first time,” he also tweeted Sunday night.
Cowell’s injury will force him to miss the
beginning of this season’s live shows on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Banderas tests positive for virus:
Antonio Banderas says he’s tested positive for COVID-19 and is celebrating his 60th birthday in quarantine.
The actor announced his positive test in a post Monday on Instagram. He said he would spend his time in isolation reading, writing and “making plans to begin to give meaning to my 60th year to which I arrive full of enthusiasm.”
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