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“You did it, Michelle.” Comedian Patton Oswalt proudly and tenderly spoke those words to his late wife in an Instagram video Wednesday. Finally, an arrest had been made in the case of the Golden State Killer, a moniker Michelle McNamara coined on her personal mission to catch a man responsible for at least 12 killings and 50 rapes throughout California in the 1970s and ’80s.
McNamara died in her sleep at 46 in April 2016. She had been in the middle of her hunt for the killer and writing her book, “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer.”
Oswalt helped finish the book after McNamara’s death. It became a No. 1 New York Times best-seller.
Sides agree to drop rape lawsuit against Russell Simmons
A lawsuit from a Los Angeles woman who alleged music mogul Russell Simmons raped her at his home in 2016 is being dropped, according to a federal court filing Wednesday.
The two sides have agreed that the lawsuit, filed in January, should be dismissed, with each side bearing its own attorneys’ fees. It gave no other details on whether a settlement was reached.
Jennifer Jarosik alleged Simmons raped her after trying to have sex with her when she visited his Los Angeles home in August 2016 for a meeting about a documentary she was making. She had sought at least $5 million in damages.
Simmons called the allegation “absolutely untrue.”