Dua Lipa filed a $15 million lawsuit against Samsung on Friday (May 8), alleging the company has continuously used her image and likeness to sell TVs without permission or compensation.

The complaint says the company “prominently featured” an unauthorized image of the pop star — of which she’s the registered copyright owner — on Samsung television boxes for retail sale in 2025-2026. It names copyright infringement, trademark infringement and violation of Dua Lipa’s right of publicity.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP filed civil action documents on Friday with the United States District Court in the Central District of California, stating Dua Lipa became aware of Samsung using her image in June 2025 and at that time demanded the electronics company cease and desist. The law firm claimed, “Samsung has refused to comply with Ms. Lipa’s repeated demands that it cease and desist from infringing on her rights by the continued exploitation of the Infringing Products. Samsung’s response has been dismissive and callous, and the Infringing Products remain on the market to this day, still being sold throughout the country in ongoing acts of willful infringement.”

“Samsung’s willful and deliberate misconduct has caused, and continues to cause, substantial, manifest, and irreparable harm to Ms. Lipa, while enriching Samsung at her expense,” the complaint says. “By this lawsuit, Ms. Lipa seeks to bring Samsung’s conduct to a stop and to obtain damages for Samsung’s theft of her intellectual and personal identity assets.”

An image of Dua Lipa featured on a Samsung TV box is presented in the court docs; the plaintiff says it’s registered to the artist, who retains sole ownership of the copyright. The picture is described as one taken backstage at Austin City Limits in 2024.

Photos Dua Lipa fans have shared on social media of the Samsung product in question are also featured in the complaint. One fan post is quoted as saying, “I wasn’t even planning on buying a tv but I saw the box so I decided to get it.”

The lawsuit points out Dua Lipa’s commercial success in music, and that she’s previously earned revenue in exchange for approved usage of her image for campaigns in partnership with a variety of major brands: Puma, Versace, Yves Saint Laurent, Porsche, Apple, Chanel, Tiffany & Co., the 2026 Winter Olympics, Bvlgari and Nespresso.

Among Dua Lipa’s successes are two hit studio albums — 2020’s Future Nostalgia, which reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and 2024’s Radical Optimism, which launched at No. 2 — and three Grammy wins.

Slipknot’s M. Shawn Crahan says he will need heart surgery after being diagnosed with a cardiac condition following the metal band’s recent tour.

The 56-year-old percussionist, better known as Clown, shared the news during an appearance on Rick Rubin’s Tetragrammaton podcast, which was posted to YouTube on May 7.

In the wide-ranging interview, Crahan — Slipknot’s sole remaining founding member — explained that he sought medical attention after not feeling well following the tour, where doctors discovered an issue with his heart’s electrical system.

“I have a skipping heart and I got to get a surgery,” Crahan told Rubin. “I found this out after my last tour. I went in, I wasn’t feeling good, and I went in and the nurse was trying to get an EKG thing going on and it just wasn’t happening. I kind of fell asleep and I woke up. I’m like, ‘Are you going to get this thing?’ And she’s like, ‘Oh, it’s not working.’ They thought I was having a heart attack right there. My heart skips and apparently I’ve taught myself to be like a cross-country runner.”

The musician said the condition affects his heart rate significantly, describing sudden drops that leave him feeling unwell.

“I’m overweight and my brain is so strong that it tells this stuff what to do,” he continued. “My standing heart rate at night is 43 and during the day I get down to 33. Hasn’t happened since I’ve been here with you, which is good, because I’ll go from ‘on,’ to just straight up I feel like I’m dying. I got to get a surgery. It’s a very easy surgery. You’re usually out on the same day. It’s not like they rip you open. This is something about the electricity.”

Clown also recalled briefly thinking he might need a pacemaker, joking that it could have been an easy way out of touring, but said his doctor instead told him it would likely improve his condition.

“I just I lost it. I was like, I can’t get out of this to save my life,” Crahan joked. “I’m like, there is nothing, not even my heart. It’s going to be better because of Slipknot.”

The percussionist added that he now has access to specialized medical care due to his career, and said doctors expect him to improve with treatment.

“I got a concierge doctor because I’m in Slipknot and I’m able to go to levels and they’re like, ‘No, you’re going to feel better. You better get in shape because you got to do more now at 56,’” he said. “And it’s just like I just can’t believe it, man, that this was me. It’s wonderful. I’m lucky.”

Check out Crahan full interview on Rubin’s Tetragrammaton podcast below.

Riley Green is heading to The Voice.

The 37-year-old country star announced on social media Saturday (May 9) that he will join as a coach for season 30 of the NBC music competition series.

Green shared the news ahead of his concert at Ameris Bank Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, Georgia, on Saturday. He is currently on his Cowboy As It Gets arena tour across North America.

“I guess y’all can start calling me coach… see ya this fall. @nbcthevoice #thevoice,” Green captioned the announcement on his Instagram account.

The “Worst Way” singer joins previously announced coaches Kelly Clarkson and Adam Levine for the upcoming season of The Voice, which airs this fall on NBC and streams on Peacock. Levine’s contestant, singer Alexia Jayy, was crowned the winner of Season 29 in April 2025.

Green’s announcement post features a clip of him listening to voicemail on his phone left by Clarkson, who politely greets him using her full name and addresses him by his.

“That is officially the last time we’re gonna use each other’s full name ’cause we’re not tools,” she says in the message, which has her welcoming him to The Voice. “But we’ve never officially met. I’m super stoked to coach alongside you.”

Clarkson also kindly tells him she’s a “superfan” in the message — a “big fan, but needless to say, fan and all it’s a competition.” So she’s sent him a special gift: his personalized The Voice coach chair, adorned with duck calls. “I think you’re gonna need the practice because Kelly’s gonna whoop that ass,” she quips.

Comments on Green’s post include a friendly congrats from host Carson Daly, who wrote, “Welcome to the fam!! Can’t wait to hang! You drink right? Pls God say yes.”

Green has been on a winning streak of his own. The singer-songwriter has scored four No. 1 hits on Billboard‘s Country Airplay chart, including “Worst Way” and the Ella Langley collaboration “You Look Like You Love Me,” and has earned multiple CMA and ACM Awards to date.

He is also set to perform at the upcoming ACM Awards on May 17, where he is nominated for male artist of the year, album of the year [for Don’t Mind If I Do (Deluxe)], artist-songwriter of the year, and music event of the year for “Don’t Mind If I Do,” featuring Langley.

In April, Green made his acting debut on the CBS series Marshals, in which he plays Garrett, a former Navy SEAL who arrives in Montana while carrying personal demons he needs to put to rest.

See the announcement of Green joining The Voice below.

6ix9ine is stirring up controversy once again, this time over comments about his girlfriend’s pregnancy.

The 30-year-old rapper (real name Daniel Hernandez, formerly known as Tekashi 6ix9ine) made the remarks during an unborn child’s gender reveal party, telling a group of streamers that the pregnancy would be terminated if the baby is a girl.

“If it’s not a boy, it’s an a-bor-tion,” 6ix9ine says in a clip from a livestream at the event, shared by TMZ.

The streamers — Adin Ross, Clavicular and N3ON — appear noticeably caught off guard, awkwardly laughing off the comment before 6ix9ine leads them over to his girlfriend, Aliday Alter. The streamers then ask Alter what gender she thinks the baby is, and she laughs, saying it’s a girl. 6ix9ine then doubles down on his abortion claims, saying she is in agreement.

“She’s down,” the rapper says. “She’s open-minded.”

Luckily, it was later revealed during the party that the couple is expecting a baby boy.

Alter first shared news of her pregnancy in April, posting a photo of herself on the beach in a cheetah print dress that showed off her baby bump. She and 6ix9ine have been dating for about a year, according to TMZ.

“My world is about to change,” she wrote on Instagram.

6ix9ine is already reportedly a father to a 12-year-old daughter with ex-girlfriend Sara Molina, as well as another daughter, 7, with Marlayna M.

In January, 6ix9ine turned himself in to begin a three-month sentence for violating the terms of his supervised release tied to his racketeering case. The Brooklyn native was found with cocaine and MDMA and also admitted to assaulting a man who allegedly taunted him about cooperating with authorities during a trip to a Florida mall.