Helen Hunt was involved in a car accident on Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told People the incident occurred in Los Angeles’ Mid-City area on the corner of San Vicente and Tremaine Avenue.

Cuba Gooding Jr. is facing a new undisclosed charge in his sexual misconduct case. Prosecutors revealed on Thursday that the charge is contained in a new indictment against the Oscar-winning “Jerry Maguire” star’s case. Gooding appeared Thursday at a Manhattan court for possible jury selection for his trial. He now must be arraigned on the new indictment next week before...

Diahann Carroll, the Oscar-nominated actress and singer who won critical acclaim as the first black woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series as “Julia,” has died. She was 84.

Probation officials said there was “no victim” or any “actual or intended loss” in Felicity Huffman’s role in the college admissions scandal, court documents revealed Wednesday. While the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services System’s report does not explicitly recommend a sentence for Huffman, the report clearly came down on the side of the Oscar-nominated actress and her bid to avoid...

It’s over between Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx. E! News has confirmed that the Dawson’s Creek alum and the Oscar winner, who first sparked romance rumors in 2013, are going their separate ways. A source tells E! News that the duo has not been together since May. This split news has emerged just days after Foxx was spotted holding hands...

Richard Williams, a Canadian-British animator whose work on the bouncing cartoon bunny in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” helped blur the boundaries between the animated world and our own, has died. He was 86 years old. The Oscar-winning artist died from cancer at his home in Bristol, England, on Friday, his daughter Natasha Sutton Williams said Saturday. Williams’ career straddled the...

Faye Dunaway’s former assistant alleges in a lawsuit she called him “a little homosexual boy” and fired him after he complained about being discriminated against for being gay. In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court, Michael Rocha said that he started working as an assistant for Dunaway while she was a part of the play “Tea at Five,”...

Steven Spielberg, a child of the 1950s, grew up with stirring Hollywood dramas about the sacrifices of World War II. But with “Saving Private Ryan,” the Oscar-winning director set out to make a war film unlike any that he — or audiences around the world, for that matter — had ever seen. “Saving Private Ryan,” a no-holds-barred epic about D-Day...

Moby has penned a public apology to Natalie Portman after she took offense to and contested comments he made about allegedly dating her. In his memoir “Then It Fell Apart,” the 53-year-old musician wrote that he met the Oscar-winning actress in 1999 when she was 20–in reality, she was 18. He said he kissed her during a night out in...

Canadian actress and model Stefanie Sherk has died at the age of 37.
Sherk’s husband, actor Demian Bichir, shared the heartbreaking news in a message to his followers on Instagram.

Demian Bichir, who is an Oscar-nominated actor, announced the sudden death of his wife, Stefanie Sherk,

Tom Hanks surprised a New Mexico woman celebrating her birthday at an Albuquerque restaurant when he treated her to a special performance of “Happy Birthday.”

Can’t stop watching Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s Oscar-night performance of “Shallow”? You’re in luck: Warner Bros. is bringing a special encore version of “A Star Is Born” back to the big screen Friday with nearly 12 additional minutes of footage. The studio said Wednesday that the new edition will feature extended performances of songs sung by Gaga like “Alibi,”...

The touching black-and-white drama “Roma” that follows a domestic worker for a middle-class family in 1970s Mexico City won the Oscar for best foreign language film Sunday. Director Alfonso Cuaron’s deeply personal film with dialogue in Spanish and Mixtec gave Mexico its long-sought statuette in the foreign film category. The Netflix-produced film was inspired by Cuaron’s own youth.

A prominent Nigerian nun has blasted the culture of silence in the Catholic Church that has long sought to hide clergy sexual abuse, telling a Vatican summit that transparency and an admission of mistakes is needed to restore trust. In a powerful speech Saturday, Sister Veronica Openibo told Pope Francis’ gathering of the Catholic hierarchy that African and Asian church...

If Beale Street could talk… it might tell Regina King to duck. King was almost tackled by NBA star Joel Embiid Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden.

Jennifer Lawrence and boyfriend Cooke Maroney are engaged, Lawrence’s rep confirmed to E! News.

Margot Robbie will bring Barbie to life in a live-action film. Mattel and Warner Bros. Pictures announced Tuesday that Robbie will star as the iconic doll in the franchise’s first-ever live-action film. The 28-year-old “I, Tonya” actress will also co-produce the film under her LuckyChap Entertainment banner. The Barbie film is the first announced deal to come out of toymaker’s...

Robert De Niro is calling on people to vote in light of the series of bombs addressed to targets of right-wing anger.

Amber Heard obtained a restraining order against husband Johnny Depp, claiming domestic abuse. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News at 5 and 6 p.m. on May 27, 2016.