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Star Witness puts Peacock's two-part film OJ's Accomplice on the stand to ask whether it can challenge the idea that O.J. Simpson acted alone in the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Becca and Miles start with the legal baseline: Simpson's 1995 acquittal and the later civil jury finding that he was responsible. From there they look at what the film says it offers, including a n...

Russell Brand took the stand at Southwark Crown Court on October 28, 2026, in his own trial, denying every charge while saying no one else will testify for him. This episode of Star Witness covers the defense's turn in the Russell Brand trial. What did Brand say about the Channel 4 documentary and the press reports that have followed him since 2023? How did the judge's ruling swap one indecent ass...

Matthew Perry's death is back in the spotlight as Netflix prepares to release the three-part documentary The One About Matthew Perry on October 27, 2026, one day before the anniversary of his death. In this episode of Star Witness, Becca and Miles treat the story like a hearing and compare two kinds of evidence: the court record and the documentary. They go through the five people convicted in the...

Russell Brand is on trial at Southwark Crown Court in 2026 on seven charges involving six women, and he has pleaded not guilty to all of them. This episode of Star Witness follows how a case that began with a 2023 Sunday Times, Times and Channel 4 Dispatches investigation ended up in front of a jury. We cover the prosecution's opening, the timeline from exposé to charges, and how the court screene...

Tyra Banks is suing Netflix, claiming a docuseries edit made her look like she dismissed a contestant's sexual assault allegation, and a federal judge must now decide whether the case moves forward in 2026. This episode of Star Witness treats the dispute like a hearing, with exhibits instead of verdicts. Becca and Miles go through the complaint filed in Central California, then explain defamation...

Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in New York on September 23, 2026, for the Miriam Haley assault, but with more than six years already served and a California resentencing still pending, the real number is unclear. This episode of Star Witness starts with the sentencing hearing, including Haley's victim impact statement and Weinstein's apology paired with a claim of innocence. It then go...

Jay-Z sued the lawyer holding a rape allegation against him and lost, with a California appeals court tossing his extortion and defamation case against attorney Tony Buzbee. This episode looks at how a demand letter became a lawsuit, what anti-SLAPP protections actually cover, and why Justice Richardson's September 9th ruling found no evidence Buzbee acted in bad faith. It also covers the fallout:...

Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, and Ashley St Clair are all trending for the same disturbing reason: Elon Musk's chatbot Grok has been generating sexualized deepfakes of them, and now California Attorney General Rob Bonta wants answers. This episode traces how a feature called Spicy Mode turned into a legal crisis for xAI, from a cease-and-desist letter demanding xAI halt both celebrity deepfake...

Sean Combs was acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking charges, yet still faces fifty months in prison — and his lawyers say that's unconstitutional. Hosts Becca and Miles look at the December 2025 appeal filing and the April 9 Second Circuit oral argument, asking how a judge can rely on conduct a jury explicitly rejected. They walk through the mechanics of acquitted-conduct sentencing, the...

Two lawsuits, one summer, and two very different outcomes for Lizzo. On September 1, a federal judge dismissed wardrobe stylist Asha Daniels' harassment and discrimination case, ruling the conduct fell within "the ordinary tribulations of the workplace." Meanwhile, a separate 2023 lawsuit from three former backup dancers survives toward trial against the same touring company. Star Witness hosts Be...

Blake Lively’s 2024 legal fight with Justin Baldoni takes a turn when a friend, not a lawyer, becomes the source of the texts at the center of the scandal. This episode walks through how Ashley Avignone and a network of publicists moved those messages from a private group chat into federal court, why that unusual evidence trail mattered, and what the official case file actually shows about who sue...

The BBC documentary Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret puts ten women's accounts back in the spotlight, four of them describing criminal sexual conduct between 2002 and 2016, while Leto issues a flat denial to ABC News. Becca and Miles trace how the allegations first surfaced in a 2005 New York Post item, resurfaced online in 2018, and finally broke open with a 2025 Instagram post that led to Air...

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni are back in the news, not for a trial verdict, but for a legal fee fight worth $8.04 million. Their case settled in May 2026 with zero damages paid, so why is Lively's team billing for over 7,000 hours of work? Becca and Miles trace the eighteen-month saga from Lively's December 2024 allegations through dueling countersuits, Baldoni's failed lawsuit against the New...

Justin Baldoni breaks nearly two years of silence with a July 8, 2026 video, and the timing raises questions about whether it's real healing or a calculated legal move just days before a fight over Blake Lively's $8 million legal fee request. Becca and Miles trace the full legal timeline, from Lively's December 2024 complaint through Baldoni's dismissed $400 million countersuit to the no-payout se...

Armie Hammer's banned film "Citizen Vigilante" became a No. 1 seller within 48 hours after Elon Musk shared it with his 240 million followers on X, and Becca and Miles ask how an actor who nearly vanished after the 2021 allegations ended up here. This episode traces Hammer's path from leaked messages and assault accusations to a 2023 decision not to press charges, then to reported years spent work...

This episode examines a wave of major spending decisions across AI, gaming, and space, starting with Microsoft's $2.5 billion investment in a new AI deployment company and Sam Altman's reported proposal to give a US sovereign wealth fund a 5% stake in OpenAI. The hosts also cover Sony's plan to end physical PlayStation disc production by 2028, Xbox's competing disc-to-digital approach, and Rocket...

George Knight's exit from the Love Island villa wasn't about "family reasons" as ITV claimed — it was over an alleged slur, a formal warning, and a ban from Aftersun and The Debrief. Becca and Miles use this 2026 scandal as the starting point to ask why ITV's statements keep protecting the show instead of the people in it. They trace a decade-long pattern of Love Island-linked deaths, including So...

Alex and Jordan dig into a packed tech news week, starting with AI's shifting competitive landscape: Claude is pulling paid subscribers away from ChatGPT, and Anthropic's Mythos platform has been cleared for use by over 100 U.S. companies and government agencies. The hosts also cover fresh funding in the neocloud infrastructure space, Amazon's multibillion-dollar AI investment in India, and a repo...

This episode covers eight stories across AI hardware, venture capital, labor markets, transportation, cybersecurity, politics, gaming, and consumer tech. From OpenAI's first custom chip to a $27 million super PAC influencing a local election, nearly every segment carries a number or detail worth a second look. Listeners will come away with a clearer picture of how the AI infrastructure race is shi...

Armie Hammer is back in theaters, and the question this episode asks is whether that return means accountability happened — or that it simply didn't have to. Hosts Becca and Miles trace the full arc from the 2021 Instagram allegations and Effie Angelova's rape accusation through the LAPD investigation, the DA's May 2023 decision to decline charges citing insufficient evidence, and the Hollywood ex...

This episode covers a wide range of developments across AI infrastructure, energy policy, market dynamics, hardware, entertainment, and consumer electronics. Alex and Jordan work through the stories shaping the technology industry heading into the back half of Q2 2026. Listeners will come away with a clearer picture of where serious capital is flowing in AI, why the industry's energy footprint kee...

This episode covers a wide range of developments across AI hardware, autonomous vehicles, space exploration, consumer software, corporate acquisitions, regulation, and public trust in AI. From chip rivalries to robotaxi scorecards to a Mars mission contract, the week's news spans the full breadth of the technology landscape. Listeners will come away with a clearer picture of where capital is flowi...

This episode covers one of the most consequential weeks in tech finance in recent memory, from SpaceX's record-breaking IPO to a government ban on Anthropic AI models, rising iPhone prices, and an AI-powered cybercrime operation that sent two and a half million scam texts in two weeks. Alex and Jordan work through what these developments actually mean for investors, consumers, and policymakers — s...

Tyra Banks is suing Netflix over the documentary made to put her on trial — and the lawsuit may be as revealing as the film itself. This episode examines the June 13, 2026 federal defamation filing against Netflix and the producers of Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model, which drew 14.2 million views in its first week by exposing racism, body-shaming, and exploitation across ANTM's 24-c...

This episode covers one of the most consequential weeks in recent tech history: SpaceX's record-breaking IPO, Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote, a wave of AI agent launches, the accelerating robotaxi race in London, new developments in EV infrastructure, two significant cybersecurity breaches, and a pivotal moment for Xbox as it turns 25. Alex and Jordan work through the details behind SpaceX's $135-per-s...