Showbiz in 2024: Taylor Swift, Oasis and Sean “Diddy” Combs make headlines | Hollywood

LONDON – From Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras tour to Sean “Diddy” Combs’ arrest, various stories from the world of entertainment dominated headlines in 2024.

Below are some of the largest.

* Taylor Swift won more awards, released another hit album and performed her Eras tour, the first to gross over $1 billion. Their performances in Vienna were canceled after authorities foiled a planned attack. Swift wrapped up Eras’ European leg in London before wrapping it up in full on December 8 in Vancouver.

* US rapper and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs has pleaded not guilty to allegations that he used his business empire, including his record label Bad Boy Entertainment, to sexually abuse women.

Combs has denied wrongdoing and his lawyers argued that the sexual activity described by prosecutors was consensual.

* One Direction member Liam Payne was found dead after falling from the balcony of a third-floor hotel room in Buenos Aires, sparking an outpouring of tributes from fans.

* Oasis announced a series of reunion gigs. Fans waited for hours in virtual queues to purchase tickets, only to find prices had been increased as part of a “dynamic pricing model,” leading to an investigation by Ticketmaster over the sale.

* A judge in New Mexico dismissed involuntary manslaughter charges against actor Alec Baldwin, agreeing with his lawyers that prosecutors and police withheld evidence about the source of the live ammunition that killed camerawoman Halyna Hutchins as he pointed a gun at her on the set of the western “Rust” in 2021.

Gunsmith Hannah Gutierrez was sentenced to 18 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter.

The film premiered at a low-key Polish film festival in November.

* Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 sexual assault and rape conviction was overturned by New York’s highest court, reopening the landmark case that fueled the #MeToo movement.

* Singer Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty in a New York state court to a traffic charge less than drunk driving – driving while impaired – after he was arrested when police observed him ignoring a stop sign and by strayed from the lane.

* Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” became the first album by a black woman to reach No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart.

* “Inside Out 2” became the highest-grossing animated film of all time, grossing $1.698 billion worldwide.

* The world said goodbye to actors Donald Sutherland, James Earl Jones, Maggie Smith, Shannen Doherty, Carl Weathers and Louis Gossett Jr., music supremo Quincy Jones and singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, among others.

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