Plush party packs stars onto Liberty Island NEW YORK — Even the most hardened partygoers were impressed by the lavish spread at Tuesday’s launch party for Talk magazine. Liberty Island was rented for the occasion, the lawn beneath the Statue of Liberty decked out with hundreds of colored-paper lanterns hung over picnic blankets adorned with baskets filled with bottles of Mondavi wine and other assorted goodies.

Derek Hough's wife, Hayley Erbert, is on the road to recovery following a successful surgery. On Thursday, the Dancing With the Stars judge shared an update on his wife, after she underwent a surgery to replace a portion of her skull following the cranial hematoma she suffered earlier this month.  "With immense relief, gratitude and overwhelming joy I’d like to share that Hayley’s cranioplasty surgery has been successfully completed as planned," he wrote.

Alberto Salazar This article is more than 1 month oldNike and Salazar settle $20m lawsuit alleging abuse of US track prodigyThis article is more than 1 month oldMary Cain said alleged abuse forced her from sportNike scrapped elite athlete program in 2019Nike and disgraced coach Alberto Salazar have settled a $20m lawsuit with a former athlete over allegations she suffered “emotional and physical abuse” at his hands. Mary Cain, who qualified for the world championships as a 17-year-old and was considered a once-in-a-generation star, was coached by Salazar as part of the sportswear giant’s Nike Oregon Project for elite athletes from 2013 to 2016.

A year has passed since the world mourned the loss of a footballing icon, the incomparable Pele. As the world marks the first anniversary of the legendary soccer player’s passing, his son, Edinho, opens up about what could have been Brazil’s stance in world soccer now. Edinho paints a melancholy picture of the Brazilian national team and suggests that Pele would have been saddened by the Brazilian team’s struggles, if alive today.

A Beverly Hills plastic surgeon is exposing the secret procedures that he thinks stars have undergone, from nose jobs to eyelid surgeries. While Dr. Charles S. Lee hasn't actually treated any of the celebrities in question, he does have expertise in how facelifts, liposuction, and fillers can change a person's face. And in a series of viral TikTok videos, Dr. Lee analyzes 'before' and 'after' pictures of Kendall Jenner, Ariana Grande, Khloe Kardashian, and more, speculating on the work he thinks they've had done.

Rian Johnson. With 4chan and Mike Cernovich combing the Twitter accounts of Hollywood elites for damning social-media posts, director Rian Johnson has gone ahead and deleted tens of thousands of his own. He said (via Twitter) that he’s not worried about anyone pulling something incriminating from his past, and he wasn’t ordered by Disney or anyone else to clean house. He would just rather not feed the trolls.

Author William Joyce is set to direct an animated version of the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald novel “The Great Gatsby.” Brian Selznick, who wrote and adapted 2017’s “Wonderstruck,” will work on the screenplay.

The big-breasted bombshell who partied it up with Johnny Manziel last night is smoking hot for a reason -- TMZ Sports has learned, she sells marijuana for a living. Model Lauren Hanley recently posted a photo from her day job on Instagram, showing off some fat nugs from The Root Cellar, a weed dispensary located in Sherman Oaks ... and she really seems to like the work, writing, "

The judge who put O.J. Simpson behind bars for robbing people in Vegas back in 2007 tells TMZ ... she believes karma may have done in The Juice ... you know, because he killed those two people. Play video content TMZ spoke with Judge Jackie Glass -- who's set to take over for Nancy Grace on "Swift Justice" -- when we brought up the Simpson case. Clearly, Glass believes Simpson's guilty verdict was cosmic retribution for his past sins.

As the new year—and a new decade—quickly approaches, Rich Homie Quan is breathing a sigh of relief. It was back in Spring 2017 when the rapper and his entourage were arrested in Georgia on drugs and weapons charges. The gun charges were quickly dropped, but Rich Homie Quan still faced a charge of felony possession of drugs with intent to distribute. Alberto E. Rodriguez / Staff / Getty Images Over two years later, TMZ is reporting that RHQ will be able to walk away from the case scot-free now that the charges have been dropped.