Catherine O’Hara arriving at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
The Hollywood community is mourning veteran actress Catherine O’Hara, who died at the age of 71.
O’Hara’s manager confirmed news of her death Friday. No cause of death was given.
Macaulay Culkin, who starred in 1990’s Home Alone and 1992’s Home Alone 2 as Kevin McCallister, the son of O’Hara’s character, Kate McCallister, remembered his “mama” in an Instagram tribute.
“Mama. I thought we had time,” Culkin wrote. “I wanted more. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you. But I had so much more to say. I love you. I’ll see you later.”
In Culkin’s post, he included side-by-side photos of him and O’Hara on the Home Alone set and more recently, in December 2023, when O’Hara supported Culkin at his Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony.
Pedro Pascal paid tribute to O’Hara in an Instagram post, featuring a photo of the two on the set of season 2 of The Last of Us.
“Oh, genius to be near you. Eternally grateful. There is less light in my world, this lucky world that had you, will keep you, always. Always,” Pascal wrote in the accompanying caption. “The one and ONLY #CatherineOHara.”
Justin Theroux, who co-starred in 2024’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with O’Hara — who reprised her role as Delia Deetz from the original 1988 Beetlejuice film — posted an Instagram photo of a director’s chair with O’Hara’s name on it on set.
“Oh Catherine. You will be so so missed,” Theroux captioned the photo.
Paul Walter Hauser remembered O’Hara as an iconic and memorable performer in an Instagram tribute.
“She was my Meryl Streep. I could watch her in anything,” Hauser wrote. “Didn’t matter how good or bad the film or show was. I wanted to see what she would do. SCTV, After Hours, Beetlejuice, Home Alone 1 & 2, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, Schitt’s Creek, The Studio. Not sure I can process or fathom that she’s gone but I am so grateful for the work she did and how she kept such a flawless reputation in a very sketchy and checkered business.”
“A freaking angel just went home to Heaven,” he added. “And she’s not home alone.”
Raye performs during the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on Feb. 2, 2025 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
After being nominated for best new artist and songwriter of the year in 2025, RAYE will compete for the best music film trophy at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards. She received the nod for Live at the Royal Albert Hall, which documented a show she did with a full orchestra and gospel choir at the iconic London venue in 2023. RAYE told ABC Audio that the Grammy nod was a validation of her vision.
“It’s funny, everyone in my environment back home told me how stupid we all was [sic] to put on a show like this, and then to spend what we did filming it,” the “Where Is My Husband!” singer said.
“We put so much effort and heart into that for one night, you know. And I just think to get the highest level of recognition from the Grammys is just a joke, really,” she laughed. “So, ‘OK. You’re all wrong!'”
“It was just thrilling. And I was with my band, my guys who I’ve been with since I was a little girl, do you know what I mean? And we were just taking in that moment together,” she recalled.
“I can’t explain the adrenaline,” she said, comparing it to “the most amazing roller coaster.”
“Two minutes, 35 seconds long, or however long our slot was, and then the screen goes down and then you get off the ride and you’re like, ‘Ahhhhh!'”
Even if she loses in the best music film category, RAYE is still going home with an award. On Saturday she’ll receive the Harry Belafonte Award for best song for social change for “Ice Cream Man.,” from her debut album, My 21st Century Blues.
Raye performs during the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on Feb. 2, 2025 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
After being nominated for best new artist and songwriter of the year in 2025, RAYE will compete for the best music film trophy at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards. She received the nod for Live at the Royal Albert Hall, which documented a show she did with a full orchestra and gospel choir at the iconic London venue in 2023. RAYE told ABC Audio that the Grammy nod was a validation of her vision.
“It’s funny, everyone in my environment back home told me how stupid we all was [sic] to put on a show like this, and then to spend what we did filming it,” the “Where Is My Husband!” singer said.
“We put so much effort and heart into that for one night, you know. And I just think to get the highest level of recognition from the Grammys is just a joke, really,” she laughed. “So, ‘OK. You’re all wrong!'”
“It was just thrilling. And I was with my band, my guys who I’ve been with since I was a little girl, do you know what I mean? And we were just taking in that moment together,” she recalled.
“I can’t explain the adrenaline,” she said, comparing it to “the most amazing roller coaster.”
“Two minutes, 35 seconds long, or however long our slot was, and then the screen goes down and then you get off the ride and you’re like, ‘Ahhhhh!'”
Even if she loses in the best music film category, RAYE is still going home with an award. On Saturday she’ll receive the Harry Belafonte Award for best song for social change for “Ice Cream Man.,” from her debut album, My 21st Century Blues.
Raye performs during the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on Feb. 2, 2025 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
After being nominated for best new artist and songwriter of the year in 2025, RAYE will compete for the best music film trophy at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards. She received the nod for Live at the Royal Albert Hall, which documented a show she did with a full orchestra and gospel choir at the iconic London venue in 2023. RAYE told ABC Audio that the Grammy nod was a validation of her vision.
“It’s funny, everyone in my environment back home told me how stupid we all was [sic] to put on a show like this, and then to spend what we did filming it,” the “Where Is My Husband!” singer said.
“We put so much effort and heart into that for one night, you know. And I just think to get the highest level of recognition from the Grammys is just a joke, really,” she laughed. “So, ‘OK. You’re all wrong!'”
“It was just thrilling. And I was with my band, my guys who I’ve been with since I was a little girl, do you know what I mean? And we were just taking in that moment together,” she recalled.
“I can’t explain the adrenaline,” she said, comparing it to “the most amazing roller coaster.”
“Two minutes, 35 seconds long, or however long our slot was, and then the screen goes down and then you get off the ride and you’re like, ‘Ahhhhh!'”
Even if she loses in the best music film category, RAYE is still going home with an award. On Saturday she’ll receive the Harry Belafonte Award for best song for social change for “Ice Cream Man.,” from her debut album, My 21st Century Blues.
A sign marks the location of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters building on April 30, 2025, in Washington, DC. J. David Ake/Getty Images
(WASHINGTON) — Three million pages from the Justice Department’s files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are being released to the public today, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a press briefing Friday.
Blanche said the release, which follows the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, will include 2,000 videos and 180,000 images related to the Epstein case.
Blanche said in total there were 6 million documents, but due to the presence of child sexual abuse material and victim rights obligations, not all documents are being made public in the current release.
Several categories of pages were withheld from the release due to their sensitive nature, Blanche said. These items include personally identifying information of the victims, victims’ medical files, images depicting child pornography, information related to ongoing cases, and any images depicting death or abuse.
Attorneys for hundreds of Epstein survivors tell ABC News that names and identifying information of numerous victims appear unredacted in this latest disclosure, including several women whose names have never before been publicly associated with the case.
“We are getting constant calls for victims because their names, despite them never coming forward, being completely unknown to the public, have all just been released for public consumption,” attorney Brad Edwards, who has represented Epstein victims for more than 20 years, said in a telephone interview with ABC News. “It’s literally thousands of mistakes.”
ABC News has independently confirmed numerous instances of victims’ names appearing in documents included in the latest release.
Shortly after the new material appeared on Friday morning, Edwards said he and his law partner, Brittany Henderson, began receiving calls from clients.
“We contacted DOJ immediately, who has asked us to flag each of the documents where victim names appear unredacted, and they will pull them down,” Edwards said. “It’s an impossible job. The easy job would be for the DOJ to type in all the victims’ names, hit redact like they promised to do, then release them. “
“They’re trying to fix it, but I said, ‘The solution is take the thing down for now,'” Edwards said. “There’s no other remedy to this. It just runs the risk of causing so much more harm unless they take it down first, then fix the problem and put it back up.
ABC News reached out to the Justice Department for comment.
Blanche also pushed back on the notion that the Justice Department might have protected President Donald Trump from his name appearing in the files.
“We comply with the act, and there is no ‘protect President Trump.’ We didn’t protect or not protect anybody,” Blanche told ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas. “I mean, I think that there’s a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents. And there’s nothing I can do about that.”
Blanche said there was “no oversight” by the White House about what the material showed.
He added that if there was evidence in the files that others had abused victims, the DOJ would pursue charges against them.
One document in Friday’s release is a chart showing connections between Epstein and various employees and associates. Many are redacted — but the faces of several remain visible, including Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s associate Jean Luc Brunel, and Epstein’s lawyer, accountant, and assistant. The chart is followed by a list of individuals broken into three categories: Day of Arrest, Week of Arrest, and Weeks following arrest.
This ties in with internal DOJ communications released earlier that showed a plan to contact potential witnesses following Epstein’s arrest. There are eight persons who are listed in the accompanying spreadsheet as “suspected co-conspirators,” including Maxwell, Brunel, and Epstein’s assistant Leslie Groff. Two of those designated as “suspected co-conspirators” are also identified also as victims.
Groff has never been charged with a crime and said in a statement to ABC News in 2020 that she “never knowingly booked travel for anyone under the age of 18, and had no knowledge of the alleged illegal activity whatsoever.”
An internal FBI document produced created in August 2019, five days after Epstein’s death, shows nine persons listed as family and associates of Epstein, including eight labeled as “co-conspirators,” most with their names and faces redacted with the exception of Maxwell and Brunel. This points to potential continued interest in pursuing further charges after the death of Epstein. In his statement announcing Epstein’s death, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said “our investigation of the conduct charged in the Indictment — which included a conspiracy count — remains ongoing” Maxwell is the only other person to be charged related to Epstein’s crimes.
Among the other new documents released is what appears to be part of the original indictment against Epstein in his 2005 criminal case in Florida. The 100-page charging document contains information on 58 out the 60 charges against Epstein for his behavior towards six alleged victims. This document had never been made public.
Epstein ending up being offered a plea to reduced charges and was offered a non-prosecution agreement, in a deal that was highly controversial.
As of Friday afternoon, the DOJ had uploaded three “data sets” to its public website. Just one of those sets includes, by ABC News’ count, over 300,000 items.
A team of 500 attorneys from the Justice Department worked around the clock to review and redact material, Blanche said at his press briefing.
Friday’s tranche is the latest in a series of Epstein file releases that began last month in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which passed Congress overwhelmingly and was signed into law by Trump on Nov. 19. The act gave the Justice Department 30 days to make publicly available all unclassified records pertaining to investigations and prosecutions of Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
The bill contains several exceptions that allow for withholding or redacting records, notably to protect the privacy of Epstein’s victims.
Prior to Friday’s release, the DOJ had posted to its online Epstein library roughly 12,000 documents totaling about 125,000 pages — just a small fraction of the millions of records the department has been reviewing.
Those materials included a record of a complaint to the FBI filed in 1996, years before the disgraced financier was first investigated for child sex abuse. The documents also included new details about the government’s investigation into potential accomplices as well as thousands of photographs of Epstein’s New York and U.S. Virgin Islands properties that were searched by the FBI after Epstein’s arrest in 2019.
The initial release of the files also contained numerous old photos of Epstein traveling with former President Bill Clinton, including pictures of Clinton lounging in a jacuzzi and one of him swimming with Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence after her 2021 conviction for sex trafficking of minors and other offenses.
The images, which were released without any context or background information, contained little information related to Trump, leading a spokesperson for Clinton to accuse the DOJ of selectively disclosing the pictures to imply wrongdoing on the part of Clinton where he said there is none.
“The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton,” Angel Urena said. “This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever. So they can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be.”
In an interview with ABC News on the day of the initial release, Blanche said that every document that mentions Trump will eventually be released, “assuming it’s consistent with the law.”
“There’s no effort to hold anything back because there’s the name Donald J. Trump or anybody else’s name,” Blanche said.
Both Trump and Clinton have denied all wrongdoing and have denied having any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.
Federal prosecutors have indicated in recent court filings that hundreds of government lawyers have spent weeks reviewing “several millions of pages” of materials — including documents, audio and video files — in preparation for disclosure to the public.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act came after the Trump administration faced months of blowback from its announcement last July that they would be releasing no additional Epstein files, after several top officials — including FBI Director Kash Patel and former Deputy Director Dan Bongino — had, prior to joining the administration, accused the government of shielding information regarding the Epstein case.
The files released thus far have yet to show evidence of wrongdoing on the part of famous, powerful men, against the expectations of many of those who pushed for the files’ release.
Epstein owned two private islands in the Virgin Islands and large properties in New York City, New Mexico and Palm Beach, Florida, where he came under investigation for allegedly luring minor girls to his seaside home for massages that turned sexual. He served 13 months of an 18-month sentence for sex crimes charges after reaching a controversial non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. attorney’s office in Miami.
In 2019, prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York indicted Epstein on charges that he “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his homes in Manhattan, New York, and Palm Beach, Florida, among other locations,” using cash payments to recruit a “vast network of underage victims,” some of whom were as young as 14 years old.
Epstein died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial.
DaBaby has released his fifth studio album, Be More Grateful. Itfeatures 23 tracks, as well as his daughter Twin, and guests Hunxho and Coi Leray. The album, according to a press release, “captures the many sides of the rapper’s current chapter, where he’s found the perfect balance of fast-paced, club-ready records with deeper reflections rooted in family, growth, and perspective.”
The soundtrack for the Omar Epps-starring film Moses the Black is out now. Executive produced by Wiz Khalifa and released in partnership with his Taylor Gang Ent. LLC, the album echoes the film’s themes of redemption, perseverance and second chances, according to a press release. The film is officially out in theaters nationwide.
Mýa talks about honest communication in her new song, “ASAP.” “This is for my core R&B fans who love feel good music, with meaningful lyrics that hit the soul,” she said in a statement. “‘ASAP’ highlights one reaching a crossroad and choosing clarity by being honest about your wants and needs in times of uncertainty, without fear or hesitation.”
The Game has followed up DJ Drama Gangsta Grillz: Every Movie Needs A Trailer with the release of its deluxe.DJ Drama Gangsta Grillz: Every Movie Needs A Trailer-The Creditsfeatures 12 new tracks, as well as guests Swizz Beatz, Conway the Machine, Benny the Butcher, 21 Savage, Ty Dolla $ign, Eric Bellinger, Dom Kennedy and Boosie Badazz. On the opening track, “Whatever,” Game mentions Kendrick Lamar, rapping, “If I ain’t the best rapper from Compton, it got to be Kendrick/ And if Kendrick the best rapper, tell him step up and end it.”
DaBaby has released his fifth studio album, Be More Grateful. Itfeatures 23 tracks, as well as his daughter Twin, and guests Hunxho and Coi Leray. The album, according to a press release, “captures the many sides of the rapper’s current chapter, where he’s found the perfect balance of fast-paced, club-ready records with deeper reflections rooted in family, growth, and perspective.”
The soundtrack for the Omar Epps-starring film Moses the Black is out now. Executive produced by Wiz Khalifa and released in partnership with his Taylor Gang Ent. LLC, the album echoes the film’s themes of redemption, perseverance and second chances, according to a press release. The film is officially out in theaters nationwide.
Mýa talks about honest communication in her new song, “ASAP.” “This is for my core R&B fans who love feel good music, with meaningful lyrics that hit the soul,” she said in a statement. “‘ASAP’ highlights one reaching a crossroad and choosing clarity by being honest about your wants and needs in times of uncertainty, without fear or hesitation.”
The Game has followed up DJ Drama Gangsta Grillz: Every Movie Needs A Trailer with the release of its deluxe.DJ Drama Gangsta Grillz: Every Movie Needs A Trailer-The Creditsfeatures 12 new tracks, as well as guests Swizz Beatz, Conway the Machine, Benny the Butcher, 21 Savage, Ty Dolla $ign, Eric Bellinger, Dom Kennedy and Boosie Badazz. On the opening track, “Whatever,” Game mentions Kendrick Lamar, rapping, “If I ain’t the best rapper from Compton, it got to be Kendrick/ And if Kendrick the best rapper, tell him step up and end it.”
Michael McDonald performs at ‘An Evening with Michael McDonald and Friends’ at The Canyon Club on November 4, 2015. (Photo by Michael Schwartz/WireImage)/Kenny Loggins performs during A Tribute to Brian Wilson September 27, 2025 in Santa Barbara, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)
The Dobbie Brothers’ Michael McDonald and singer Kenny Loggins are set to appear on pop star CharliePuth’s upcoming album, Whatever’s Clever.
Charlie reveals in an Instagram video that he loves Yacht Rock, the term for smooth-sounding, jazz-inflected, highly polished soft rock hits from the ’70s and early ’80s. As an example, he plays a snippet of the Doobie Brothers’ “What a Fool Believes,” sung McDonald, and co-written by McDonald and Loggins.
“And I thought to myself, how am I gonna make a new album and not have Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins on it?” Charlie says in the video. “The answer is, you can’t. So what did a music lover like myself do? I called up Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins and they came over to my house.”
Charlie details how they all recorded a song together: Kenny played guitar, Michael played keyboards and they both sang on it. “Hearing his voice makes me wanna cry,” Charlie says of Michael’s soulful pipes.
After playing additional elements he recorded for the song — an orchestra, drums and background vocals — Charlie notes, “You put it all together and you have Yacht Rock in 2026 with the guys who invented it.”
Charlie concludes the video by playing a snippet of the unnamed song.
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in a scene from the film ‘The Fast and the Furious.’ (Universal/Getty Images)
The next Fast and Furious movie is ready to race into theaters.
Universal has announced a new title and release date for its upcoming entry in the popular film franchise. The new movie will be called Fast Forever. It is set to debut in theaters on March 17, 2028.
Vin Diesel, who stars in and produces the franchise, took to Instagram on Friday to announce the news. He posted a photo of himself as Dominic Toretto and the late Paul Walker as Brian O’Conner from the 2001 original film, The Fast and the Furious.
“No one said the road would be easy… but it’s ours. One that has defined us and become our legacy… And a legacy… lasts Forever,” Diesel captioned the photo. “March 17th 2028! FAST FOREVER.”
The previous entry in the Fast and Furious franchise, Fast X, premiered in theaters in 2023. It was directed by Louis Leterrier.
Diesel said in February 2024 that this 11th film in the series would mark the end of its main story.
“Just finished our end of the week Fast meeting with the writers and the whole team… to say the excitement for our finale was incredibly powerful is an understatement. Wow. So exciting,” Diesel wrote on Instagram at the time. “This grand finale is not just an ending; it’s a celebration of the incredible family we’ve built together. Hope to make you proud!”
Catherine O’Hara attends a red carpet for ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ during the 81st Venice International Film Festival at on Aug. 28, 2024, in Venice, Italy. (Stefania D’Alessandro/WireImage via Getty Images)
Actress Catherine O’Hara has died. She was 71.
The Emmy Award winner was best known for her roles in beloved shows and films like Schitt’s Creek, Beetlejuice and Home Alone.
O’Hara’s manager confirmed the news of her death Friday. Details surrounding her death are not known.
O’Hara’s long career saw her take on more than 100 roles across TV and film, most recently for her Emmy-nominated roles in The Studio and The Last of Us in 2025.
She also recently starred in Schitt’s Creek as Moira Rose, a grandiose actress who is blissfully detached from reality. Her performance in Schitt’s Creek — which also starred Eugene Levy, Dan Levy and Annie Murphy — earned her a Primetime Emmy Award in 2020, as well as a Golden Globe in 2021.
O’Hara first rose to widespread fame in 1988, starring as overdramatic artist and perfectionist Delia in Beetlejuice alongside Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder.
Her portrayal as mom Kate McCallister to a young Macaulay Culkin in the 1990 film Home Alone also revealed another side of O’Hara onscreen, as she warmed the hearts of audiences in a performance that provided a portrait of motherhood.
Catherine Anne O’Hara was born on March 4, 1954, in Toronto, Ontario, as the sixth of seven children, and the older sister to Canadian singer Mary Margaret O’Hara. She got her start in acting when she landed a role on the Canadian television sketch comedy show Second City Television in 1974.
According to the official Second City Television website, O’Hara had auditioned for SCTV two years prior and replaced Gilda Radner when the latter left in 1974.
While on SCTV, O’Hara showcased her range, impersonating figures like Meryl Streep, Brooke Shields and Lucille Ball. Her characters on the show included Lola Heatherton and Dusty Towne. She also contributed as a writer on the show and earned her first Primetime Emmy for outstanding writing in a variety or music program in 1982.
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