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Taylor Swift’s Eras tour made $2.1bn in gross sales, making it the highest-earning live performance run in historical past and capping off two years of economic and cultural domination for the pop star.

The determine covers 10mn tickets offered throughout 149 exhibits, stated an individual accustomed to the matter. Swift accomplished the tour with a closing efficiency on Sunday evening in Vancouver, Canada.

The $2.1bn sum is double that of another live performance tour in historical past. It surpassed Elton John’s five-year farewell tour that grossed $939mn from greater than 300 exhibits, and Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres that has offered greater than $1bn throughout some 170 dates.

The large gross sales determine doesn’t embrace cash made by resellers on the secondary market, the place seats fetched hundreds of {dollars} above their face worth, or for merchandise offered on the live shows.

Swift just lately revealed a ebook of images from the Eras tour that shortly eclipsed most main releases from skilled publishers. The Eras tie-in ebook, which is on the market solely by means of the retailer Goal, offered 814,000 copies within the first weekend of its launch — almost as many as Barack Obama’s 2020 memoir.

Swift, whose music is distributed by Common Music, has throughout the span of the Eras tour achieved a stage of cultural and musical domination akin to the craze surrounding The Beatles a half century in the past.

When tickets first went on sale in November 2022, overwhelming demand crashed TicketMaster’s web site, triggering a public outcry that has resulted in a US Division of Justice lawsuit towards the ticketing big. The tour boosted native economies because it travelled first throughout the US after which the remainder of the world.

Swift final yr made up 1.8 per cent of all US recorded music gross sales, accounting for one in each 78 US audio streams, based on information group Luminate.

The singer, who obtained her begin writing songs after faculty as a youngster in Nashville, broke into tears throughout a latest present in Toronto as she mirrored on the tour’s imminent finish after 18 months.

“My band, my crew, all my fellow performers, now we have put a lot of our lives into this,” she stated.

Argentine celebrity wins award as league’s high participant in his first full season with Inter Miami; Messi led Inter Miami to historic common season, together with MLS single-season factors report and Supporters’ Protect

Nationwide Constructing Society is within the strategy of offering eligible prospects a £100 bonus cost in 2024 as a part of its Fairer Share Cost initiative. The constructing society says it should share its earnings with members who both have a present account, use one in every of Nationwide’s financial savings merchandise or borrow by way of a mortgage.

The cost comes as many households proceed to face rising prices amid the continued value of dwelling disaster. In a current replace, Nationwide revealed the date folks ought to count on to receives a commission. However who’s is eligible for this sum of cash and when will they get their cash?

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A suspect has been named in connection to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outdoors his Manhattan lodge early final Wednesday.

Luigi Mangione, 26, was noticed consuming a meal inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Monday morning and a witness reported him to police. That created a whirlwind of investigation that culminated with him being charged with homicide in New York and gun counts in Pennsylvania.

He’s at the moment being held in a Pennsylvania jail with out bond.

Thompson was shot lifeless on December 4 outdoors a lodge in Manhattan. That launched an enormous manhunt for the suspect who eluded police for practically per week.

Here’s what we find out about Mangione, the person police mentioned dedicated the crime:

Tip from the general public led police to Pennsylvania

On Monday, police responded to a tip from a McDonald’s worker in Altoona, Pennsylvania, who mentioned they noticed a person who seemed just like the individual of curiosity from the case.

Mangione was consuming within the McDonald’s when he was acknowledged by the worker, police mentioned.

Officers arrived on the restaurant and started questioning Mangione.

Police “requested the male if he had been to New York not too long ago and the male grew to become quiet and began to shake,” based on a later felony grievance filed towards the 26-year-old.

“We didn’t suppose twice about it,” Altoona police officer Tyler Frye mentioned of encountering Mangione. “We knew that was our man.”

The officers arrested Mangione after he offered a pretend ID automobile and a police search revealed he was in possession of a ghost gun that matches the weapon believed to have been used within the assassination-style killing, officers mentioned at a press convention on Monday.

Mangione additionally had a supresser for the gun and several other pretend ID playing cards, together with a New Jersey ID that the NYPD believes was utilized by the gunman.

“He was initially cooperative. He’s not now,” Lt. Colonel George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police mentioned throughout a press convention on Monday. “He has been arraigned and transported and shall be securely housed pending the submitting of further expenses in New York.”

These expenses had been filed Monday evening.

Expenses in Pennsylvania and New York

After his arrest, Mangione was charged and arraigned on 5 Pennsylvania offenses together with forgery, falsely figuring out himself and carrying a gun and not using a license.

He made a short look on Monday in a Blair County, Pennsylvania, courtroom, the place he was knowledgeable of the fees towards him and mentioned he understood.

He has not made an official plea relating to the fees, officers mentioned Monday.

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro spoke on Monday after Mangione’s arrest. He ripped the individuals who celebrated the gunman within the Manhattan taking pictures.

“He’s no hero,” Shapiro mentioned.

“Brian Thompson was a father to 2. He was a husband. And he was a buddy to many,” Shapiro mentioned. “And sure he was the CEO of a medical insurance firm. In America, we don’t kill folks in chilly blood to resolve coverage variations or specific a viewpoint.”

Late Monday, he was charged with homicide and different gun expenses in New York, based on the New York Put up.

Individual of curiosity was not on anybody’s radar

Joseph Kenny, NYPD’s chief of detectives, mentioned that police didn’t have Mangione’s identify previous to Monday.

He was born and raised in Maryland, and he lived in Honolulu, Hawaii till not too long ago. He additionally has ties to San Francisco.

Kenny added that police consider Mangione was allegedly performing alone.

Three-page ‘manifesto’ found

Police mentioned they discovered a three-page manifesto in Mangione’s possession when he was arrested which suggests he has “an ailing will in direction of company America,” Kenny advised the press convention.

The handwritten doc “speaks to each his motivation and mindset,” Tisch mentioned.

It reportedly mentioned “these parasites had it coming” and “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, nevertheless it needed to be performed,” based on CNN, who cited a police official who has seen the doc.

It’s at the moment within the custody of the Altoona police.

Valedictorian at non-public all-boys college and Ivy League educated

Mangione attended the Gilman Faculty in Baltimore, a personal all-boys college, the place he was valedictorian in 2016, The New York Occasions first reported.

Tuition on the college is $37,690 per yr.

Mangione gave a speech the place he described his class as “arising with new concepts and difficult the world round it.”

The college’s head, Henry P.A. Smyth, mentioned in a press release: “That is deeply distressing information on prime of an already terrible state of affairs. Our hearts exit to everybody affected.”

Based on his obvious LinkedIn profile, Mangione has a bachelor’s and grasp’s diploma from the College of Pennsylvania.

A Fb profile matching the identify of the individual of curiosity affords a glimpse into their life, with photographs of buddies on the seaside in Mexico, exploring the California coast, and going to soccer matches.

Mangione hails from a outstanding Baltimore-area household, the Baltimore Banner experiences.

His late grandfather was Nicholas Mangione Sr., an actual property developer with pursuits in nation golf equipment, nursing houses, and a radio station, whereas his late grandmother Mary was a patron of the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, Better Baltimore Medical Middle, the outdated Baltimore Opera Firm and the Walters Artwork Museum.

Maryland state delegate Nino Mangione is a cousin of the arrested man, the Banner experiences.

Individual of curiosity gave Unabomber’s manifesto 4 stars on Goodreads

Mangione seems to have left a optimistic evaluation for the Unabomber’s manifesto on-line earlier this yr, and praised the killer as a “political revolutionary.”

An account beneath that identify on guide evaluation web site Goodreads, that additionally matches photographs of the suspect on different social media platforms, gave Ted Kaczynski’s guide a four-star evaluation in January.

“Clearly written by a arithmetic prodigy. Reads like a sequence of lemmas on the query of twenty first century high quality of life,” the evaluation reads.

“It’s simple to shortly and inconsiderate write this off because the manifesto of a lunatic, with a purpose to keep away from going through among the uncomfortable issues it identifies. But it surely’s merely unattainable to disregard how prescient a lot of his predictions about trendy society turned out,” the evaluation continues.

“He was a violent particular person — rightfully imprisoned — who maimed harmless folks. Whereas these actions are usually characterised as these of a loopy luddite, nonetheless, they’re extra precisely seen as these of an excessive political revolutionary,” the evaluation by an account beneath Mangione’s identify continues.

Lots of of hours of footage combed by

Investigators combed by lots of of hours of video from a number of sources to search out the essential screenshot that linked them to the individual of curiosity, Kenny advised the press convention.

NYPD shortly issued surveillance photographs of the suspect unmasked and smiling the day after Thompson was fatally shot.

It emerged that the clear surveillence photographs of the individual of curiosity the place he’s smiling got here from a “flirtatious” second with a feminine worker on the hostel the place he was believed to be staying.

“They had been having a flirtatious second and he pulls it down and he provides an enormous smile and that one casual second between two human beings stays at this second essentially the most important clue up to now on this complete case,” former NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller advised CBS Information final week.

Over the weekend police launched a brand new picture of the individual of curiosity at the back of a taxi carrying a face masks.

The phrase “they do not make ’em like they used to” has by no means confirmed extra correct than with respect to legendary nonagenarian actor and comic Dick Van Dyke.The “Mary Poppins” star, who turns 99 subsequent week, seems in a model new longform music video for the Coldplay track “All My Love,” debuting Friday. Van Dyke is in high kind within the mission – dancing barefoot, singing alongside Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, and even performing some bodily comedy.Filmed at Van Dyke’s Malibu, California dwelling, the video is interspersed with previous pictures and props from the beloved entertainer’s seven-decade profession, together with publicity stills alongside Mary Tyler Moore for “The Dick Van Dyke Present” and certainly one of his 4 Primetime Emmy statuettes.At one level, Van Dyke remarks that his favourite lyrics in “All My Love” – off of Coldplay’s tenth studio album “Moon Music” – are “Till I die, let me maintain you should you cry.” In an interview, he shares, “I am acutely conscious that I may go any day now, however I do not know why, it does not concern me, I am not afraid of it. I’ve that feeling, completely towards something mental, that I will be alright.”Van Dyke is then seen on the dance ground alongside his spouse, make-up artist Arlene Silver, as they have interaction in choreography whereas carrying matching bowler hats earlier than the remainder of his “massive household” be part of them for picture-taking and camaraderie.The funnyman additionally shows that he nonetheless has his sharp humorousness, when the interviewer asks him to shut his eyes and take into consideration all of the those who have meant one thing to him over the course of his life. After a beat together with his eyes closed, Van Dyke says, “I am too previous for this, I will move out and fall asleep” as he play-acts nodding off in his chair.Elsewhere, the “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” actor holds a bunch of crimson balloons and pretends, fairly convincingly for a second, to drift away.”I believe I am a type of fortunate individuals who received to do for a dwelling what I’d have executed anyway,” Van Dyke remarks within the clip, as scenes from his display profession play. “If you assume how fortunate I’m – I received to do what I do, play and act foolish.”A shorter model of the music video will probably be launched on Friday, December 13, to mark the event of Van Dyke’s 99th birthday.

Mr Mangione was taken into custody at a McDonald’s after a buyer knowledgeable an worker, who tipped off authorities.

On the time, he was in possession of a 3D-printed black pistol, a 3D-printed silencer and a loaded journal with six rounds of 9mm ammunition.

Police mentioned he was carrying a number of IDs, together with one along with his actual id and one other that was pretend.

These IDs included a US passport and a fraudulent New Jersey ID that was used to examine into the New York Metropolis hostel, the place the suspect was seen earlier than the capturing.

When he was advised he can be arrested if he had lied about his title, he admitted he was Luigi Mangione.

He “grew to become quiet and began to shake” when requested if he had lately been to New York, in accordance with the felony criticism filed in Pennsylvania.

Police say he was additionally discovered with three pages of handwritten paperwork during which he appeared to specific “ailing will in direction of company America”.

The doc additionally mentioned “These parasites had it coming” and “I do apologise for any strife and trauma, but it surely needed to be finished”, a senior legislation enforcement official advised the New York Instances.

West Ham United welcome Wolverhampton Wanderers to London Stadium this night in an important match on the backside finish of the desk.

Their respective managers, Julen Lopetegui and Gary O’Neil, will each be determined for a victory that might ease the strain. Each side have conceded a complete of eight targets of their final two Premier League matches.

Wolves have conceded 36 league targets this season, greater than every other facet within the division. West Ham have let in 71 targets throughout this calendar yr, one other division-high.

This is every little thing you want to know concerning the match.

The place are each groups?

West Ham are at the moment 14th on 15 factors, having misplaced their final two matches.

Wolves, who’ve additionally suffered successive losses, are nineteenth with simply 9 factors.

West Ham v Wolves: Final six PL conferences

20 Nov 2021: Wolves 1-0 West Ham
27 Feb 2022: West Ham 1-0 Wolves
01 Oct 2022: West Ham 2-0 Wolves
14 Jan 2023: Wolves 1-0 West Ham
17 Dec 2023: West Ham 3-0 Wolves
06 Apr 2024: Wolves 1-2 West Ham

Kind information

What the managers have mentioned

Julen Lopetegui (West Ham)

On assist from the followers: “The followers have given me greater than I’ve given them. My message to them is that we’ll change this. We want them. Their assist and vitality is all the time one step ahead for all of the gamers.

“We aren’t comfortable, we all know we’d like extra factors. We’ve to be extra constant and take key factors. I believe now we have to enhance on this scenario with out shedding our means and consciousness of attacking play.”

Gary O’Neil (Wolves)

On his need to maintain going: “I do not take into consideration me personally, criticism is an element and parcel of his job and I can solely hold going till issues change. The final two outcomes have allow us to down from the momentum we created. There’s a lot within the final two video games that the group must tackle and be taught from in a short time.

“They positively have the braveness. We demand higher from them, however the lads must discover a solution to take care of the issues within the second. We have to discover a solution to hold this membership within the Premier League.”

Group information

West Ham: Michail Antonio has undergone surgical procedure on a lower-limb fracture, following a street visitors accident on Saturday. French defender Jean-Clair Todibo is a doubt after lacking the defeat at Leicester Metropolis on account of a thigh drawback. 

Wolves: Boubacar Traore is dominated out till Christmas. Yerson Mosquera, Enso Gonzalez, and Sasa Kalajdzic are all long-term absentees. 

Match officers 

Referee: John Brooks. Assistants: Simon Bennett, Dan Robathan. Fourth official: Tim Robinson. VAR: Andy Madley. Assistant VAR: Steve Meredith.

Key info 

O’Neil changed Lopetegui as Wolves boss – the Spaniard managed the Midlands membership from November 2022 to August 2023.

West Ham have gained their final 4 Premier League dwelling matches in opposition to Wolves, conserving a clear sheet every time.

West Ham have gained their final six Premier League dwelling matches performed on a Monday, netting two targets every time. The final time they misplaced at dwelling on a Monday was in December 2019, once they have been defeated 3-1 by Arsenal.

Wolves have gained 4 of their final six Premier League matches in London.

Wolves gained their first 4 Premier League fixtures in opposition to West Ham following their return to the Premier League in 2018, however have since misplaced six of their final eight in opposition to the Hammers (W2 D0 L6).

SAN FRANCISCO — — Anthony Edwards had 30 factors and 9 assists and the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Golden State Warriors 107-90 on Friday night time within the first of two video games between the groups this weekend.

Stephen Curry returned for Golden State after sitting out a victory over Houston an evening earlier resting his sore knees. He scored 23 factors.

Curry’s 3-pointer with 10:38 remaining lower it to 80-77, however the Warriors once more struggled to handle the ball and make key stops.

Rudy Gobert had 17 factors and 11 rebounds for the T-Wolves, who keep on the town to play once more Sunday at Chase Middle.

Draymond Inexperienced additionally performed after lacking Thursday due to tightness in his left calf. Inexperienced, who has performed with the second unit at occasions when coach Steve Kerr needs a veteran on the ground, 10 factors, 9 rebounds and 6 assists. He picked up his seventh technical this season.

Takeaways

Timberwolves: Minnesota has received the final 5 within the sequence and 4 straight at Chase Middle since ending a 12-game shedding streak on the Warriors’ dwelling flooring. The Timberwolves held a 27-19 rebounding benefit within the first half on the best way to a 56-46 lead on the break.

Warriors: Golden State scored simply 4 factors over the primary nine-plus minutes of its 15-point second quarter, when the Warriors had been 5 of 19. The Warriors had been short-handed late as Moses Moody handled left knee soreness and Andrew Wiggins a hard proper ankle.

Key moments

Gary Payton II’s layup off a move from Curry with 1:18 left within the third would have lower Minnesota’s result in seven factors, however the Timberwolves challenged the play and it was overturned to an offensive foul.

Key stats

Curry scored his first factors of the night time with a 19-footer and was fouled, changing a three-point play with 32 seconds left within the opening quarter. He missed his preliminary 4 3-pointers and wound up 3 for 9 from lengthy vary.

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Wolves head to West Ham United on Monday night – learn how to comply with the dwell motion under.

Matchday Stay

Audio protection of the pre-match build-up, full 90 minutes and post-match response of West Ham vs Wolves is on the market by way of Wolves TV and the Wolves App.

The present begins about half-hour earlier than kick-off on the London Stadium, bringing supporters workforce information and speaking factors earlier than the 8pm begin.

Mikey Burrows and Andy Thompson will then present full 90-minute commentary of the fixture, earlier than spending time after the ultimate whistle dissecting the motion.

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Kick-off time and stream begin time

West Ham vs Wolves kicks off at 8pm with the Matchday Stay stream starting round half-hour forward of kick-off at 7.30pm.

How one can watch West Ham vs Wolves dwell

West Ham vs Wolves shall be broadcast dwell on Sky Sports activities’ Monday Evening Soccer present.

Internationally, Wolves supporters can watch the Previous Gold throughout their 2024/25 marketing campaign by way of their native Premier League broadcast companion.

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Stay textual content protection

Stay textual content protection of West Ham vs Wolves can be being offered on Monday night as wolves.co.uk returns with the Matchday Weblog, starting two hours forward of kick-off.

Whereas @Wolves on Twitter, Fb and Instagram will produce on the heart beat updates all through the day.

Jay-Z has strenuously denied the latest allegations made in a lawsuit that he drugged and raped a 13-year-old lady together with Sean “Diddy” Combs throughout an MTV Video Music Awards afterparty in 2000.

The 55-year-old rap celebrity, whose actual title is Shawn Carter, branded the authorized motion as a “blackmail try.”

In a fiery assertion, he warned the attorneys who introduced in regards to the submitting: “You’ve gotten made a horrible error in judgment pondering that each one ‘celebrities’ are the identical.”

Whereas Carter is now distancing himself from Combs, the 2 New York-born music moguls have crossed paths many instances throughout their respective prolonged careers on the pinnacle of popular culture.

They’ve collaborated on music, made joint charitable donations and praised one another for his or her success in turning into self-made billionaires.

Right here’s a timeline of Carter and Combs’s friendship over the many years.

Nineteen Nineties

Combs based his document label Unhealthy Boy Leisure in 1993, and he quickly had an influential hit on his palms when The Infamous B.I.G. launched his debut single “Juicy” in August 1994. When Jay-Z put out his debut album Cheap Doubt in 1996, he playfully sparred with Combs’s greatest star on a joint monitor known as “Brooklyn’s Most interesting.”

The Infamous B.I.G., whose actual title was Christopher Wallace, was murdered in controversial circumstances in March 1997. After Wallace’s loss of life, Combs poured his grief over the lack of his good friend into his debut album No Means Out, which he launched underneath the title Puff Daddy and the Household. Jay-Z company on the monitor “Younger G’s,” alongside a posthumous look from Wallace.

Later that very same yr, Combs repaid the favour by showing on Jay-Z’s second album, In My Lifetime, Vol. 1, co-writing the monitor “I Know What Ladies Like” with Carter and Lil’ Kim.

In 1999, they collaborated once more on “Do You Like It… Do You Need It…” from Combs’s second album Without end.

2000s

Jay-Z met his now-wife, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, across the flip of the millennium. After gaining fame together with her group Future’s Youngster, Beyoncé launched her debut solo album Dangerously in Love in 2003. It was launched by her large world hit “Loopy In Love,” a collaboration with Jay-Z, whereas the B-side of that single featured “Summertime,” a collaboration with Diddy.

In 2005, after Hurricane Katrina prompted devastation in New Orleans, Jay-Z and Diddy made a joint donation of $1 million to the American Pink Cross. In an announcement to the Related Press on the time, Carter mentioned: “That is our neighborhood. After I activate CNN, I see a whole lot of black individuals on the streets. I do know it’s different individuals too, however these initiatives have been hit onerous.”

Combs added: “We’re all descendants from one another’s households. While you hear black individuals say ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters,’ it’s actually true. These are all those who I do know I’m associated to by some means, a way — the human race household.”

In August 2007, Jay-Z and Diddy carried out collectively on the touring hip-hop pageant Screamfest alongside headliners 50 Cent and TI. The efficiency gained notoriety after footage emerged showing to indicate Diddy slapping Jay-Z twice on the bottom. In 2023, after severe allegations towards Diddy grew to become public, 50 Cent continued his longrunning feud with Combs by posting the video on social media with the caption: “Diddy within the Again, pattin on n****s butts. Nah I ain’t wit it, I ain’t by no means been wit it.”

In 2009, Diddy was requested throughout an interview a couple of {photograph} of himself and Jay-Z talking at considered one of his events. “That was at considered one of my birthday events, and I used to be simply telling him I respect him coming,” he mentioned. “He was on tour, and he flew in personal after considered one of his exhibits simply to return to that occasion. Then he needed to fly again out. I used to be simply telling him how a lot I appreciated it and the way a lot I worth our friendship. Folks see us as rivals and completely different icons within the hip hop recreation however that was only a second of two Black brothers telling one another how a lot they respect one another.”

Diddy’s former accomplice Kim Porter, who died of pneumonia in 2018, added: “We name that image a secret society, all we ask is belief!”

2010s

In 2010, Forbes journal launched a hip-hop wealthy listing which listed Jay-Z in first place, having made $63 million within the earlier yr, and Diddy in second place with earnings of $30 million. The publications praised each males for diversifying their revenue streams, with Jay-Z touring and proudly owning a stake within the 40/40 nightclub chain and the NBA’s New Jersey Nets. Diddy was creating wealth from Ciroc vodka and his function within the comedy Get Him to The Greek.

The 2 moguls continued to dominate Forbes hip-hop lists over the subsequent few years. In 2012, Diddy topped their wealthy listing with an estimated whole price of $550 million whereas Jay-Z was in second place with $460 million.

In 2016, they reunited on stage in New York in the course of the Puff Daddy and The Household Unhealthy Boy Reunion Tour. Though Jay-Z was by no means signed to Diddy’s label, Diddy introduced onstage: “Unhealthy Boy’s celebrating 20 years of hits, however that is prolonged household,” referring to Jay-Z stood subsequent to him. “At any time when I get in hassle, that is the one I name. That is my strategist proper right here. That is my brother!”

2020s

In 2020, Diddy and Jay-Z each celebrated their continued success at a Black Billionaire brunch hosted by Jay-Z’s label Roc Nation. Diddy spoke on the occasion, saying: “It’s 2020, y’all, and it’s completely different than when it was 2016. The sport has been elevated. As you recognize, there no expense has been spared. We had a Black billionaire lunch yr, perceive, proper? And, we’re right here collectively in maintaining staying collectively. We’re getting tighter, and united we stand.”

In April 2022, Jay-Z and Diddy have been once more pictured collectively on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame as DJ Khaled acquired his star.

Nevertheless, since Diddy’s houses have been raided by federal brokers on March 25, 2024, Jay-Z has stayed quiet in regards to the collection of significant allegations towards his someday good friend and collaborator. The next day, 50 Cent trolled the pair by taking to Instagram to put up an image of a milk carton with Jay-Z’s image showing underneath the phrase: “MISSING.” “Anyone seen Jay LOL,” wrote 50 Cent, joking that Combs would really feel he “ain’t answering his telephone.”

When a federal lawsuit was refiled yesterday, December 8, to call Jay-Z alongside Diddy as having drugged and raped a 13-year-old lady in 2000, Jay Z was adamant in his denial.

“I’m a younger man who made it out of the challenge of Brooklyn,” he wrote in an announcement. “We don’t play a majority of these video games. Now we have very strict codes and honor. We defend kids, you appear to take advantage of individuals for private achieve. Solely your community of conspiracy theorists, pretend physics, will imagine the idiotic claims you will have levied towards me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding hurt to children, could be laughable.”