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■ Melania Trump has quietly renegotiated her prenuptial agreement with former President Donald Trump, sources tell the New York Post—at least the third time she has revisited the marital agreement since the couple wed in 2005. The latest deal took a year to finalize and includes more money for Melania and an increased trust fund for Barron, her 17-year-old son with Trump. A source told the Post that the former first lady has no intention of leaving Trump, but was concerned that his “mounting legal bills and judgments”—which include four criminal cases and a $250 million civil suit in New York—could drain his fortune. Should the couple ever split, the source said, the new prenup will “provide a more solid future” for Melania and Barron.
■ Las Vegas police arrested a self-described gang member last week for ordering the 1996 drive-by murder of rap legend Tupac Shakur. Shakur was in a BMW, waiting at a red light near the Vegas strip, when a white Cadillac pulled up alongside and gunfire erupted. The rapper was shot four times and died six days later. For years, the lead suspect—to fans of the rapper, at least—was Orlando Anderson, a Crips member who had brawled with Shakur hours earlier in the lobby of the MGM Grand. Anderson denied being the killer before his own gang-related shooting death in 1998. A grand jury indicted his uncle, Duane “Keffe D” Davis, for allegedly passing a gun to Anderson and ordering the Shakur hit. Investigators said they zeroed in on Davis after he disclosed in a 2019 memoir that he’d provided the murder weapon.
■ Russell Brand is being investigated by two U.K. police forces after accusations of rape, sexual harassment, and emotional abuse against the British actor and comedian were detailed in a joint investigation by The Times of London and a U.K. news show, Dispatches. Brand, 48, said he “absolutely refutes” the allegations made by four women to the news outlets, calling the accusations “extremely egregious and aggressive attacks.” London’s Metropolitan Police said it is investigating multiple “non-recent” accusations against Brand, and the Thames Valley Police said a woman had supplied “new information” related to reports of “harassment and stalking” between 2018 and 2022.