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Leah Remini’s 2023 'Fair Game' suit against #Scientology got derailed when both sides didn’t like an early ruling. After more than a year at the appellate level there's finally an oral arguments hearing date. And lucky for all of us we can watch it live! tonyortega.substack.com/p/le…

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It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby — a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist — to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and we’re thrilled that it will be on display in the Hope and Change lobby at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.

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#StacyPennant It's #MissingPosterMonday 21 year old from Laurelton, Queens went missing on 2/9/95. She was last seen dropping off her friend in Canarsie, Brooklyn after returning from the Valley Stream mall after seeing a movie. The friend said he had given her directions to the Belt Parkway, which would have taken her straight home. She is described as an Black/African American woman, 5'1", 117 lbs, with black hair & brown eyes, and a scar on her left eyebrow. She was attending classes at Queensborough College & was working at Delta Airlines at JFK airport. She was last seen wearing a green ski jacket, gray sweatpants, and white shoes. Her car has never been recovered. She was driving a 1990 blue Honda Civic. #StacyPennant

Rex Heuermann's ex-wife, daughter seek to dismiss wrongful death lawsuit by Gilgo Beach victim's son.. The ex-wife and daughter of Rex A. Heuermann are seeking to dismiss a wrongful-death lawsuit brought against the Massapequa Park family by the son of Valerie Mack, one of eight known female victims of the now admitted Gilgo Beach serial killer. In motions filed in Suffolk County Supreme Court this month, attorneys for Asa Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann argued that the suit, brought in April by Benjamin Torres, failed to state any legally claims and were barred by the statute of limitations. Attorneys for Rex A. Heuermann, who is also named in the suit and is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday for the killings which terrorized the Island for more than a decade, have not responded to the complaint. "The lawsuit is a bizarre compendium of time-barred, defective claims that allege both legal and factual impossibilities, such as my client's involvement in matters which occurred when she was a small child and dovetails into matters that she has been expressly excluded from by the District Attorney, time and time again," said Vess Mitev, Victoria Heuermann's attorney. "It is frivolous on its face. It has no business being filed in a New York court and we await a ruling on our motion to dismiss it." Attorneys for Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann are asking Supreme Court Judge Valerie M. Cartright to dismiss the suit, filed by Miller Place attorney John Ray, and to award them attorney's fees and $10,000 in damages for each disputed claim. Robert Macedonio, Ellerup's Islip Terrace-based attorney, said in court filings that the lawsuit was "undertaken to promote unnecessary litigation, harass, and/or maliciously injure the defendant(s), and are sanctionable, on their face." In New York, wrongful death lawsuits must be filed within two years of the date of an individual's death. But the lawsuit argues the deadline should be waived because Torres was 6 years old when his mother went missing in 2000, records show. The lawsuit — the first known litigation brought by any of the Gilgo victims' family members against Heuermann or his family — cites claims of wrongful death, assault, battery, false imprisonment, aiding and abetting, civil conspiracy, intentional infliction of extreme emotional distress, fraud and unjust enrichment. The suit seeks unspecified money Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann earned through their participation in a documentary on the Gilgo Beach killings released in July on Peacock. Heuermann’s relatives were reportedly paid more than $1 million to allow the crew for "The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets," a three-part series, access to their home and lives. "They're engaging in paid speech," Ray said of Ellerup and Victoria Heuermann. "They're speaking in order to make money and it's not protected speech. We are not suing them to stop them from talking. We're suing them because what they're saying and doing is damaging." Ellerup has not been accused of any involvement in her ex-husband's crimes, and law enforcement officials said the killings occurred when his family, including his wife and daughter, were traveling out of town. But the lawsuit nonetheless says they were complicit in Heuermann's crimes, arguing they "concealed, deliberately ignored, or consciously avoided learning of material facts concerning the assault, murder, dismemberment, concealment, and disposal of Valerie Mack." In court filings, Macedonio said Torres lacks standing to bring the complaint as an estate for Mack has not been established. Ray said the estate paperwork is nearly complete and he plans to file an amended complaint in the coming days. Mack gave birth to Torres when she was a senior in high school, and shortly thereafter got addicted to drugs, police said. She was working as an escort in Philadelphia under the name Melissa Taylor when she vanished at the age of 24. Mack's dismembered remains were found near a Manorville sump discharge basin on Nov. 19, 2000, police said. But it wasn't until police found other parts of Mack's body, including her skull, off Ocean Parkway, on April 4, 2011, that the killing of the woman once known as "Jane Doe No. 6" was linked to the other Gilgo Beach victims. Ray, who also represents the estate of Shannan Gilbert, the New Jersey woman whose disappearance set off a law enforcement search that led to the discovery of the bodies of several of the victims, said Torres plans to speak in court during Heuermann's sentencing. newsday.com/long-island/crim…

Rex Heuermann sentencing: Victims' families statements will be 'real and raw,' Suffolk DA Ray Tierney says More than three decades after the death of his first confirmed victim, the families of eight women strangled by Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann, of Massapequa Park, will have their first opportunity to address the court Wednesday. Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said no limitations have been placed on the number of family members who can speak before state Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei sentences Heuermann to life in prison. Tierney estimated that roughly two victim impact statements will be given per victim. "This is the opportunity for the victims to speak in court," Tierney said. "Up to this point it’s been about the defendant and safeguarding his rights and his presumption of innocence, and necessarily so, but that’s over with now." Tierney said he expects the family comments to be "real and raw." "This has been a long time coming for them," Suffolk's top prosecutor said. For two of Heuermann’s victims, the opportunity to be heard dates back more than 30 years. For each of the families, more than a decade has passed since the loss of their loved one, all women aged 20 to 34 who died between 1993 and 2010. For Jessica Taylor, an upstate New York native who was 20 years old when she was killed by Heuermann in July 2003, the June 17 sentencing date falls on what would have been her 43rd birthday. "I know that her family will be there for her in court and that she will never be forgotten by them," said Los Angeles-based victims’ rights advocate and attorney Gloria Allred, who represents several of the families. Allred wrote in an emailed statement that she expects her clients will "bravely speak to the court" Wednesday. "The public will hear their pain and will hear about who the victims truly were, their importance and the bond they had with their families, which is now irreparably torn," the prominent attorney said.   Sentencing will be filmed Victim impact statements are given at the start of a sentencing in New York State, followed by remarks from the prosecution, the defense and the defendant himself, should they exercise that right. Heuermann defense attorney Michael J. Brown, of Central Islip, has declined to say if his client will speak. The judge also typically makes remarks — Mazzei has in other high-profile cases — before pronouncing the sentence. Courts spokesperson Timothy Finnerty told Newsday the sentencing will be filmed by a media representative, with the exception of portions where a speaker has requested to not be on camera. The hearing will not be broadcast live, he said. Heuermann, 62, a Manhattan architect, pleaded guilty to the murders of Taylor, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Amber Lynn Costello, Valerie Mack and Sandra Costilla on April 8. He also admitted that morning to the uncharged 1996 killing of Karen Vergata. Heuermann will spend the rest of his life in state prison without the possibility of parole when Mazzei sentences him. Where he will serve his punishment has not publicly been established. Consecutive sentences Three consecutive life sentences will be given for first-degree murder in the killings of Barthelemy, Waterman and Costello because they were killed within two years of one another, an element of that charge. Heuermann is also expected to be sentenced to a consecutive sentence of 100 years to life imprisonment for second-degree murder in the killings of Brainard-Barnes, Taylor, Costilla and Mack. The case began in May 2010, when Shannan Gilbert, a sex worker from Jersey City, went missing in the barrier island community of Oak Beach, after fleeing the house of a client.

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The debate about #Scientology in the case that put Danny Masterson in prison is heating up — even Masterson is weighing in. And yet we don’t know if it will have any effect on chances of a new trial. ALSO: Your Proprietor talks to a skeptical robot? tonyortega.substack.com/p/da…

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