Instead of a show, Stine Goya collaborated with creative studio File Under Pop and Michelin-star chef Morten Falk on Tuesday night. Guests, who included members of the Stine Goya team, had hand-painted plates and personalised painted coasters. Painted drapes lined the archways, with bowls of cherries and mountains of whipped butter on display. The food was equally aesthetic, with stuffed courgette flowers and plates of candied fruit.
On Tuesday, Scandi homeware label Tekla hosted a breakfast, with platters of plums and Danish pastries and plates of cheese on a bun in perfect straight lines. On Wednesday, New Balance hosted a pop-up in Nytorv square, in collaboration with local café Atelier September, with rye bread and tomatoes served (again) with whipped butter. The Garment has a pink-themed dinner, with a display made up of cotton candy and pink peas.
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Perhaps it’s because Scandi designers took their holidays in June and July, while prepping their shows, but a lot of the collections this season felt resort inspired. Flip flops continue to dominate the runway, continuing from the men’s SS26 season. There was a Havaianas collaboration at Opéra Sport, beaded styles at Cmmn Swdn and raffia versions at Alis. When it came to the clothes, there was plenty of relaxed fringing at MKDT Studio, raffia at Cmmn Swdn and Iamisigo, and sheer summer dresses at Rave Review. For many smaller Copenhagen brands, they perhaps don’t do a resort collection, so it makes sense to provide looks across the summer season.
Of course, it wouldn’t be Copenhagen without plenty of minimalist tailoring, and Hsu notes that colour palettes felt particularly toned down this season.
But designers like Bonnetje, MKDT Studio, Stel, Mark Quad and PLN played with styling and silhouette for SS26, to create unique looks that stand out. Agathe Cloé Vaissiere, womenswear buyer at Printemps, says that consumers today are looking for interesting twists on classic silhouettes, as more and more move away from quiet luxury. “I saw a lot of deconstructed tailoring, fringing and panels,” adds Marine Humeau, buying manager at Printemps.
“I’ve seen a nice balance of relevancy and inspirational fashion this week,” says Nordstrom’s associate fashion director Linda Cui Zhang. “It’s wonderful to discover brands that customers can easily integrate into their wardrobes (Birrot), as well as brands focused on high-craft and luxury materials (Ranra, Freya Dalsjø).”
Shawn Mendes just relocated to a small village in the Cotswolds.
The 26-year-old pop star is loving life in the tiny village of Great Tew in south-west of England, with a source reporting to The Sun, “We’re awash with stars and now Shawn has started hanging out in Great Tew all the time.”
They continued, “The word on the street is that he’s rented a little place here for some peace and quiet before he goes off on his tour.”
“No one ever asks him for a selfie so he must be loving the fact he’s left alone. But when he walks into cafes and pubs in the area, heads do turn,” the insider concluded.
Shawn, who has famously dated pop star Camila Cabello, has become the “talk of the village” but “doesn’t get any special treatment” from the locals.
“Shawn is treated like a normal person too, he doesn’t get any special treatment because he’s famous,” the insider mentioned.
Sharing an incident, they told the outlet, “The last time he was in the cafe, he got a telling-off because he was ordering his food right before the kitchen closed. They told him to hurry up and order.”
“The poor lad. He’s the talk of the village,” the source quipped.
Shawn Mendes himself has also been vocal about the struggles he has faced due to stardom and the pressures that come with it.
He told NME previously: “Yeah, it really depends on the day. Because I’ve gone through swings where I’ve just deleted social media and pretended that no one can see me, and that wasn’t right. And then I’ve gone through places where all I can think about is what people think [and] how they see me, and that wasn’t right [either]. So yeah, it’s a constant relationship, like anything.”
Gunna makes it four years in a row with the release of a solo album as The Last Wun hit streaming services on Friday (Aug. 8).
The 25-track album includes singles “Won’t Stop” and “Him All Along,” while the Atlanta rapper invites Offset, Wizkid, Asake, Burna Boy and Nechie for collaborations.
Based on the finality of the project’s title, there has been speculation from fans that this is Gunna’s last project on YSL Records/300 Entertainment.
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“It’ll come to me just through life and just living,” Gunna told Uproxx of the album in June. “So for this album in particular, it’s no theme. It’s in current time of what’s happening with me.”
Gunna commissioned painter Devon DeJardin for the album’s cover art, which found DeJardin depicting the Atlanta rapper in sculpture form. “It was about trying to capture Gunna in his essence of where he is in his life,” DeJardin toldRolling Stone. “And then adding stylistic elements to it, to represent anger and vengefulness but also represent peace, stability, perseverance, grinding. It’s like he’s working through his pain and grit, and he has a literal chip on the shoulder as if he’s got something to prove right now.”
The 32-year-old last earned a No. 1 album atop the Billboard 200 with 2022’s DS4EVER, but all of his albums have peaked inside the chart’s top three and gone No. 1 on the Top Rap Albums chart.
Freddie Gibbs sent shots in Gunna’s direction on Alfredo 2, but it remains to be seen if the Atlanta rhymer will address the opposition with his latest LP.
The Jonas Brothers are saying hello to a new era with the release of album Greetings From Your Hometown, which dropped Friday (Aug. 8).
Marking the band’s seventh studio album, Greetings features 14 tracks, including previously released singles “I Can’t Lose,” “Love Me to Heaven,” “No Time to Talk” and “Slow Motion.” It comes four months after the JoBros first announced the LP at JONASCON, and two years after the trio last dropped an album, with 2023’s The Album reaching No. 3 on the Billboard 200.
“There’s something about being home that reminds you who you are,” brothers Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas wrote of the new project on Instagram in May. “This album is filled with pieces of that, lifelong influences from our childhood and the sounds that we grew up on.”
The JoBros have now released three albums since getting back together in 2019. Before that, the siblings took about 10 years apart to pursue solo projects after feeling unable to resolve internal disagreements about the band’s future, eventually reuniting on album Happiness Begins, which spawned their first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Sucker.”
Leading up to the release of Greetings, the brothers have been reflecting in recent interviews on how they’ve grown since their temporary split. “It needed to happen,” Joe said on an episode of Mythical Kitchen’s Last Meals series. “We were having such a difficult time just being real with each other back then. Now it’s like we can communicate way better, because we don’t need to be scared to have tough conversations.”
Ari Aster’s new movie, Eddington, pits Joaquin Phoenix against Pedro Pascal as men with conflicting takes on how to get their small town through the crisis of Covid. It’s also a film about the contemporary political crisis in the US and the influence of technology on our lives.
Adam Curtis’s latest documentary series, Shifty, covers similar themes but through the lens of British life in the Thatcher years of the late 1970s to early 1990s. This era, he argues, put in place a substantial shift in power away from the individual and the nation state, changes that are still playing out today.
Earlier this summer, the two men met in London to discuss the thinking behind their work, the questions that animate them and the corroding power of nostalgia.
Ari Aster: My family lives in New Mexico and I grew up there; it’s where I spent my adolescence. In 2020 a Covid scare brought me back home and I was in a situation where a lot of the people closest to me were in totally different algorithms. We couldn’t reach each other.
In early June, when the fever reached its highest pitch, I started writing down what I perceived to be in the air. I didn’t know whether things were about to explode and boil over, or if we would ever come out of lockdown, but I could tell that something was happening. I’ve also always wanted to make a film about New Mexico. And so it kind of became a western.
Adam Curtis: A thing I really like about the film is the sense that, up to that point, there was somehow a daddy in the room. Then, when Covid happens, Daddy leaves and all these groups are on their own. All the last vestiges of power, or big power, just disappeared. They can no longer see what they have in common.
AA: They’re all connected in that they all care about the world, and they all know that something is wrong. But that’s where the connection ends. I wanted them all to be distinguished by a yearning for the America they believe in, but they’re not living on the same plane.
Fighting for our lives … Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in Eddington. Photograph: BFA/Alamy
AC: That’s the point where you start from: Daddy’s gone, they’re all on their own, they all have a dream of America, but they’re like billiard balls: they keep on hitting each other. And each time they hit each other they amplify each other’s version of reality and it just gets crazy.
AA: Yeah, they’re all paranoid. And as those billiard balls start knocking into each other, I wanted the film itself to also become gripped by that paranoia. I was trying to take a capacious, objective stance in the beginning, and then that objectivity kind of falls away. I don’t know if the film is apolitical or if it’s omnipolitical, but all those fantasies of what is happening start to take over the film. That’s the idea.
AC: If you have a world in which everyone is encouraged to be a total individualist, they tend to get trapped in that mindset. It’s wonderful when things are going well, because you, your own desires and thoughts are the centre of the world. But the moment things go wrong, you retreat into yourself. And the only thing you can trust is your own ideas. You come to believe in them intensely, because that’s the only thing that makes you feel safe. And I think that’s where we are now.
In Shifty, I was tracing the roots of that in Britain and I was trying to do it sympathetically. And Ari, I don’t think that in Eddington you apply the normal righteous disapproval of so many films today, either. You actually take the characters on their own terms. You might not sympathise, but you get an understanding of why people have retreated into their own world and will not accept any other reality. I think you’re dealing with what comes next.
AA: They’re all unmoored, but they’re clinging to some buoy. Shifty really excited me because it felt like a mirror from the past. It was shocking to see how all these things that feel unprecedented right now are actually the current reverberation of something that started a long time ago. It’s just that the technology has changed, and because these things have been getting amplified for so long, the distortions have become more intense.
AC: The most difficult thing to do, especially in our time, is make the recent past unfamiliar. It’s almost impossible. And that’s the task I set myself. It’s a bit like the Mona Lisa. If you point it out to someone, they don’t see it. They go: “Oh yeah, that’s the Mona Lisa.” They don’t look at it at all.
Breaking out of the bubble … Ari Aster on the set of Eddington. Photograph: Richard Foreman
What you want to do is find a way of breaking that. It’s how you edit the stuff a lot of you have lived through together, to make you look at it fresh. If you just live in a world of continuous fragmentation, the past never has a moment to settle down. In previous eras, you would have all those fragments of experience, but over 20 or 30 years, which is the length of time I was dealing with, most of those fragments would just disappear, leaving a few to settle down, out of which would come an agreed narrative about history.
Instead, today we live in a world where those fragments are continually played back to us, as you show in the movie. I think that’s why people find it very difficult to understand how trapped they’ve become in their own world, because they have no story that explains how they got there. What you get is a continuous political narrative which says: politicians rise up, they prove to be shit, and they fall. That’s all we’re told these days.
AA: Eddington is a movie about the environment. It’s not a movie that says: “This is the way to think, this is the way to feel, this is what’s happening.” Because what has happened is that we have become totally atomised and cannot reach each other. And as long as that persists – which a lot of people have a lot invested in – nothing can change. Hopefully by being a little bit more egalitarian in the way I’m assessing the landscape with as much objectivity as I can muster, I can reach some people that have been totally alienated by my side of the culture.
AC: A good political film makes people reflect on themselves. The problem is that over the past 30 or 40 years, the movies that call themselves political have actually been the very opposite. They groom their audiences by saying to them: “You are right to think and believe the way you do.” In that way, they encourage people to wallow in their self-righteousness and so block any self-reflection. Which means that so many “radical movies” are actually reactionary.
‘Nobody believes in the future any more’ … Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal, Ari Aster, Joaquin Phoenix and Austin Butler at Cannes film festival in May. Photograph: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images
There is no way forward unless people actually reflect on the limitations of their own self-righteousness and the possible dangers it has for society. That includes well-meaning liberals as much as it includes extreme rightwingers or tech-bro conspiracy theorists: it stops them realising that everyone might be part of a new system of power which works through increasing fragmentation and increasingly shrill self-righteousness. And I think it should be a badge of pride if you, Ari Aster, get that self-righteousness to squawk at you with Eddington. It’ll prove that you’ve done it right.
AA: There’s a feedback loop of nostalgia. Not just nostalgia and trauma. We’re always looking back into the past to see why we are here right now. “Oh, it’s because this happened to me.” As opposed to – and this is what you’ve been talking about for ever – where is the new idea? Where is our vision of the future? Because nobody believes in the future any more. I don’t believe in the future, and I’m desperately looking for it.
AC: You’re right about trauma. Increasingly over the last four or five years, people have retreated into themselves and are blaming their own past. They’re not only playing back the music or films of the past, they’re playing back their own past and finding in those fragments of their memory the reasons why they are feeling bad, anxious, uncertain, afraid and lonely – and it’s given the term trauma. Trauma is a very specific, real and frightening for those who experience it. But recently it’s been widened to such an extent that you are blaming yourself all the time through your own reworking of the past. Rather like AI goes back and reworks the past and plays it back to you. Now you’re doing that to yourself.
AA: All the characters in Eddington are living in different movies. The film is a western, right? But Joe [Joaquin Phoenix’s character, the sheriff of Eddington] would have seen all the westerns. That’s a huge part of his identity and what informs everything he does, including having become a sheriff in the first place. The way he walks is informed by the way John Wayne walks. He’s a 50-year-old man, so the action movies of the 80s and 90s would have been important to him. And then at the end of the movie, he gets to live in his own action movie. He’s shooting at phantoms. But that applies to every character in this film. The one thing that is definitely happening in Eddington is that a hyperscale datacentre is being built. And really, all of the stories in Eddington are just data, from one perspective.
AC: Don’t give it away!
AA: OK, sorry. Yes, I won’t give it away. But you’re right. There are other things outside they don’t see.
AC: The most important thing that political film-making should do now is make us aware that there’s something else beyond – including beyond the internet. Everything now in movies really comes through the internet. But we know, logically, that the internet is not everything. There is something else there, but no one’s telling us about it.
What I really like about Eddington is at the end you say there is something else outside. Something beyond the thin crust of hysteria and fear that keeps all of us trapped in bubbles today.
People only search for conspiracy theories these days because no one else is giving them any stories. You know: those in power just want to manage you. And, quite frankly, managers never tell stories. They keep you there by repeating and repeating. So that’s why people don’t trust them and the most important thing to do is to acknowledge that.
‘Shooting at phantoms’ … Joaquin Phoenix in Eddington. Photograph: Richard Foreman/Joe Cross/Mayor LLC
That’s why I call my series Shifty. That actually, nothing is certain and the only way you can deal with that as a journalist is by acknowledging it and trying to explain why the world feels like that today.
The organisation I work for – the BBC – has created BBC Verify to try to reassert certainty. It is important because rationality is still the only thing we have to manage the complexity of the world. But on its own terms it’s not enough, because the universe is not exclusively rational. It’s also full of all kinds of strange swirling waves of feeling and ghosts and myths that are often completely unreal.
A confident system of power takes all those mad psychodramas and creates a dominant story out of them. But when that goes – as has happened today – they run out of control sweeping through societies, creating uncertainty and suspicion.
What journalism and films should be trying to do today is to explain how that has happened – to acknowledge that uncertainty is the realism of our time because that is how people experience the world today. If you don’t do that, the people in their bubbles will be very suspicious of you. Because they know that we the journalists and the politicians and all the experts suffer from that same uncertainty. And we know that they know that. And that becomes toxic.
AA: Certainty has gone for ever now. With the advent of deepfake and AI-generated imagery, belief in what we’re seeing and hearing is now forever gone.
AC: Which means that the most radical thing to do is to say the only way we’re going to move forward is by bypassing all those things, movies, most popular culture, as evidence of the future. It’s a lovely nostalgic world you can go and play in. But actually, real politics, real moving forward, it’s going to come somewhere else, where the complexity of reality might be repossessed in a really fundamental way. I’ve got no idea what it is, but it ain’t going to come through movies or me making pretentious television programmes. It’s just not.
Comedian and actor Kapil Sharma’s Kap’s Cafe in Surrey, Canada, was targeted in a second firing incident within a month on Thursday, August 7, 2025, raising concerns among locals and fans alike.
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Comedian and actor Kapil Sharma’s Kap’s Cafe in Surrey, Canada, was targeted in a second firing incident within a month on Thursday (August 7, 2025), raising concerns among locals and fans alike.
Multiple shots were fired at the cafe, located at 85 Avenue and Scott Road, in the early hours of Thursday (August 7, 2025), as reported by Vancouver City News.
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer places evidence markers beside bullet holes in the windows of a cafe, in Surrey, British Columbia, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, as police investigate after shots were fired for the second time within a month at Kapil Sharma’s Kap’s Cafe.
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Officers from the Surrey Police Service (SPS) responded to the scene at approximately 4:40 a.m. While staff were present inside the premises during the shooting, no injuries were reported. Authorities have, however, not yet ascertained the motive behind the attack.
Following the incident, the public has been asked to assist with the investigation. Local residents were jolted awake by the sound of gunfire.
Speaking to City News’ 1130 NewsRadio, Bob Singh, who lives nearby, said, “I saw it from my patio. I heard shots fired, like five or six shots and then the cops came.” Another resident, Michelle Gaucher, added, “We were woken up to eight gunshots — it was not fireworks. And then I got up with the dogs and I could hear sirens in the area. It was the same distance away from where that Kap’s Cafe was shot up a couple of weeks ago.”
Kapil Sharma and his team have not issued any statement yet. A few hours after the incident, a viral social media post allegedly shared by gangster Goldy Dhillon claimed responsibility.
“…aaj jo Kapil Sharma ke Kap’s Cafe, Surrey mein firing hui hai, iski zimmedari Goldy Dhillon te Lawrence Bishnoi gang leti hai… next karwai jald hi Mumbai mein karenge, (Goldy Dhillon and Lawrence Bishnoi gang take responsibility for today’s firing at Kap’s Cafe in Surrey, we will now do this in Mumbai next),” the post read.
There is no independent verification of the claim, but it has caused panic among fans. Goldy Dhillon is allegedly associated with gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s network.
After the news broke out, Kapil’s fans took to social media and expressed their concern. “What’s the issue with Kapil Sharma a comedian?? Why the gang is targeting him,” an X user wrote. “This is too shocking,” another one wrote.
This is the second such incident at Kap’s Cafe. Earlier, in the second week of July, an unidentified person had fired at least nine shots at the outlet, just days after its opening.
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The cafe had remained closed for ten days following the earlier attack. In a social media post after reopening, Kap’s Cafe had said, “We opened Kap’s Cafe with hopes of bringing warmth, community, and joy through delicious coffee and friendly conversation. To have violence intersect with that dream is heartbreaking. We are processing this shock, but we are not giving up.”
The cafe had said that they would stand “firm” against the violence to keep the place a symbol of “warmth and community” for its visitors. Just days before this latest incident, the cafe had posted a reel showing Surrey Police Service officials visiting the outlet.
Just one week after announcing his debut Australian appearances, Jelly Roll has expanded his first visit Down Under with a string of headline dates.
The Tennessee native first detailed his forthcoming trek down to Australia on July 31, with the nascent Strummingbird Festival announcing they had secured both Jelly Roll and Shaboozey for the headliners of their inaugural 2025 events.
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The three-date affair plans to visit the Sunshine Coast at the end of October, with a pair of dates scheduled across Newcastle and Perth at the start of November. A raft of local and international acts are also set to fill out the festival’s lineup.
Now, Jelly Roll’s upcoming visit has grown even larger, with Australian headline dates confirmed for Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. The fittingly-titled Down Under tour will wrap on Nov. 8 following a one-off appearance in Auckland, New Zealand.
Fellow Strummingbird co-headliner Shaboozey will be joining Jelly Roll at these newly-announced dates, while Illinois’ Drew Baldridge will also round out the bill.
Both of the top-billed acts have received noted fame in Australia in recent times. While Shaboozey’s ubiquitous 2024 single “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” topped the Australian ARIA Singles charts last year, Jelly Roll debuted at No. 19 on the Albums charts in 2024 with his latest album, Beautifully Broken.
Their newly-announced dates come just months after the arrival of the collaborative single “Amen,” though no confirmation has been given as to whether the pair may perform the track together when in Australia or New Zealand.
Jelly Roll – Down Under 2025 Tour
Oct. 25 – Strummingbird Festival, Kawana Sports Precinct, Sunshine Coast, QLD Oct. 26 – TBA, Adelaide, SA Oct. 28 – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC Nov. 1 – Strummingbird Festival, Newcastle Foreshore, Newcastle, NSW Nov. 2 – Strummingbird Festival, Claremont Showground, Perth, WA Nov. 4 – Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, NSW Nov. 8 – The Outer Fields at Western Springs, Auckland, NZ
Cassie breaks silence on social media after Diddy’s fifth bail rejection
Casandra “Cassie” Ventura has broken her silence on social media since testifying against her ex Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The singer took to Instagram on Thursday to share a relatable video about postpartum recovery, also marking the first post since her third childbirth.
The video showed a man dancing to DJ Khaled’s Wild Thoughts in front of a crowd, initially posted by the momswithplans Instagram page. The video has text above it reading “When your old self slowly starts coming out postpartum.”
Ventura added her own caption to her repost, writing, “Factual. Little by little. lol.”
Ventura and Fine, who are already parents to two girls Frankie Stone, 5, and Sunny Cinco, 4, welcomed their first son on May 28. They have yet to reveal the name of the third baby.
Just days before her social media return, Combs was denied bail for fifth time since his arrest.
Judge Arun Subramanian ruled against the rapper’s release from Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, citing “risk of flight or danger.”
Amid attempts for release ahead of his sentencing for his July 2 conviction on federal charges of transportation to engage in prostitution, Combs’ close circle is reportedly trying to seek a presidential pardon for the rapper.
“People in Diddy’s world and orbit are reaching out to his administration for a pardon, but not his legal team,” one source close to the music mogul told People Magazine after Combs’ lawyer Nicole Westmoreland confirmed to CNN on August 5 that efforts were being made to request a pardon.
“It’s my understanding that we’ve reached out and had conversations in reference to a pardon,” Westmoreland said with the music mogul’s sentencing less than two months away.
Combs’ sentencing is now set for October 3, and he faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
Canadian musician JP Saxe is not shying away from the reason why he canceled his North America tour.
The Grammy-nominated artist revealed on Aug. 1 that his team had to call off his fall tour. The announcement came after he posted a July 30 TikTok video telling fans that his tour would be canceled if he didn’t sell around 20,000 more tickets within the next 48 hours.
While Saxe later confirmed that the TikTok post helped boost sales, he said it wasn’t enough to save the music tour.
In an Aug. 1 guest column published in Variety, the soulful pop singer opened about not meeting his goal, writing: “I aimed too high — my bad.”
“Due to unforeseen circumstances… The circumstance: I didn’t sell enough tickets,” Saxe wrote. “Last week, my team told me we were going to have to cancel my fall tour. Ticket sales weren’t where they needed to be. The suggestion was: take the L, try again next year.”
Saxe proceeded to thank those who bought tickets, adding that his fans are “more than enough for me emotionally, just… not pragmatically.”
Despite the defeat, he remains optimistic that one day he’ll pack venues with ease.
“Very few artists want to be sleeping in their car eating ramen, but every artist wants to say they used to sleep in their car eating ramen,” he wrote. “If I really believe (which I do) that I’m going to sell out arenas someday… then I also have to believe in how much better it’ll feel when I get there — knowing I can tell the story about that one time, in the fall of 2025, when despite the support of a few thousand beautiful strangers on the internet… I had to cancel my whole tour.”
Saxe says he wanted to be honest despite the embarrassment
While admitting he felt embarrassed by low ticket sales, Saxe said he wanted to share the truth instead of protecting his brand or “self-image.”
“I was embarrassed. I’ve always prioritized connecting deeply over widely, but if we didn’t sell another 20,000 tickets in 48 hours, the tour would be canceled,” he wrote. “To my surprise, people responded — in a big way. The video hit a few million views. A little grassroots army of emotional-song-loving cuties showed up, trying to buy every tour-saving ticket they could.”
He said he received messages from other musicians calling him bold and “absurdly brave” for being vulnerable.
Saxe is a Canadian singer-songwriter largely known for his track “If the World Was Ending,” a collaboration with Julia Michaels that landed the pair a 2021 Grammy nomination in the Song of the Year category.
His new 7-track project “Make Yourself at Home,” which dropped on June 27, served as a continuation of his April release “Articulate Excuses.”
Actress Jaime King has been ordered to appear in court after allegedly failing to pay more than $100,000 in attorney fees related to her divorce from ex-husband Kyle Newman.
According to court documents obtained by the Daily Mail, King owes $98,441.16 to Newman’s former law firm, Wasser, Cooperman & Mandles, where high-profile divorce attorney Laura Wasser is a partner. The firm also claims she owes an additional $2,000 in interest.
A judge previously ruled in May 2024 that King — described as the “high earner” in the marriage — must pay the fees within 30 days, noting she had already agreed to do so. However, the law firm says she has yet to comply.
Judge Shelley Kaufman has now ordered King, 46, to appear in court on September 16 to disclose her assets and bank account balances. If she fails to show, she could face arrest.
This latest legal battle comes amid ongoing financial and personal challenges for the Sin City star. In March 2025, King lost physical custody of her sons, James, 11, and Leo, 10, after failing to complete a court-ordered six-month drug and alcohol program. She was also sued in January for $42,580 in unpaid rent, though she later claimed the matter was settled.
In a statement to Us Weekly, King’s representative said this was the first time she or her legal team had been informed of the filing, adding that she has faced “unrelenting pressure” and “legal intimidation” throughout the divorce.
King recently announced her engagement to investment banker Austin Sosa in July.
