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Jay-Z reflects on now-dismissed sexual assault claims: ‘I was really heartbroken’

March 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Jay-Z is opening up about the now-dismissed sexual assault lawsuit filed against him a little over a year ago, saying the allegations took a severe toll on him.

In a pair of interviews with GQ earlier this year, published Tuesday, the music mogul reflected on the 2024 lawsuit, filed on behalf of a woman who accused Jay-Z and former rapper and record producer Sean “Diddy” Combs of allegedly taking turns sexually assaulting her at a party following the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, when she was just 13 years old.

Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, and Combs both denied the allegations, and the civil case was dropped in February 2025 after the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice through her attorney.

“It was hard. Really hard. I was heartbroken,” Jay-Z said, speaking with GQ. “I was really heartbroken by everything that occurred.”

The rapper described feeling “uncontrollable anger” over the allegations, adding, “You don’t put that on someone — that’s a thing that you better be super sure.”

Jay-Z said that despite that frustration, he was confident the court case would be resolved.

“I also got to see how people felt about me, especially people that were close to me,” he said, noting that at one point, his daughter Blue Ivy Carter donned a jersey with his name across the back and wore it to school.

“People can say that [they’ll always be there for you], but it’s very rare that you’re going to have to exercise it,” he added. “And in the darkest moment for me, I got to see those sorts of things.”

The lawsuit was one of a number of anonymous civil complaints filed by Texas attorney Tony Buzbee against Combs, who was convicted in July 2025 on two counts of transportation for the purposes of prostitution and sentenced to more than four years in prison.

The suit, initially filed in October 2024, was amended in December that same year to include Carter.

Carter and his lawyer strongly denied the allegations outlined in the suit in both public statements and in court filings, accusing Buzbee, the woman’s lawyer, of conducting an “extortionate campaign” against him.

Combs’ legal representatives responded to the filing in a statement to ABC News at the time, calling Buzbee’s lawsuits “publicity stunts, designed to extract payments from celebrities who fear having lies spread about them.”

The plaintiff in the amended lawsuit voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice through her attorney in February 2025, according to a court filing.

Carter addressed the dismissal in a statement through his entertainment company Roc Nation at that time, calling it “a victory.” Combs’ legal team said in a statement that the dismissal was “confirmation that these lawsuits are built on falsehoods, not facts.”

Jay-Z subsequently filed a defamation suit against the woman in the withdrawn civil suit in March 2025, also naming her attorneys, Buzbee and David Fortney, and alleging they “were soullessly motivated by greed, in abject disregard of the truth and the most fundamental precepts of human decency.”

In response to the defamation suit, Buzbee shared a statement with ABC News that month, saying the case has “no legal merit” and was “just another attempt to intimidate and bully this poor woman.”

The defamation lawsuit is ongoing as of March 2026.

Speaking with GQ about his plans moving forward, Jay-Z said that the interviews were “the first thing I’m doing, actually.”

“It was just like, alright man, we played enough defense. 2026 is all offense.”

ABC News has reached out to Jay-Z’s representative for comment.

Emily Bader, Logan Lerman to star in ’13 Going on 30′ reboot at Netflix

March 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Thirty, flirty, thriving … and streaming soon on Netflix.

A new version of the rom-com 13 Going on 30 is coming to the streaming service. Emily Bader and Logan Lerman are set to star as the main couple in a reboot of the 2004 film that starred Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo.

Brett Haley, who previously directed Bader in the Netflix rom-com People We Meet on Vacation, will helm this new film. Garner will executive produce the project.

Netflix made the film announcement to its social media on Tuesday.

“Thirty, flirty, and thriving… Emily Bader and Logan Lerman will star in 13 GOING ON 30, a new reboot of the 2004 classic,” Netflix captioned its post.

While plot details for this new film are being kept under wraps, the original movie followed teenager Jenna (Garner), a girl who makes a wish on her 13th birthday, and wakes up the next morning to find herself living as a 30-year-old woman and an editor at a fashion magazine.

Judy Greer, Andy Serkis, Christa B. Allen and Sean Marquette also starred in the 2004 film, which was directed by Gary Winick.

Slash and Duff McKagan reunite onstage with former Guns N’ Roses bandmates Steven Adler and Gilby Clarke

March 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

There was a mini Guns N’ Roses reunion in Los Angeles Monday night.

The band’s current and original members Slash and Duff McKagan reunited with original Guns drummer Steven Adler and former guitarist Gilby Clarke at the Rock For Jennifer Memorial Concert held at The Troubadour in Hollywood.

Fan-shot footage posted to YouTube shows the rockers teaming for a performance of the Guns N’ Roses track “It’s So Easy,” from their debut album, Appetite for Destruction, with Faster Pussycat frontman Taime Downe handling the vocals.

Adler was a member of Guns N’ Roses from their formation in 1985 until his firing in 1990 due to his drug addiction issues. Clarke joined the group in 1991 to replace original guitarist Izzy Stradlin, and performed with them until 1995.

According to Blabbermouth, the concert was in celebration of Jennifer Perry, the former house agent at the Troubadour, who died in February at the age of 67.

Pixies announce US headlining shows

March 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Pixies have announced a run of U.S. headlining shows.

The dates span from Sept. 15 in Greenville, South Carolina, to Sept. 26 in Tucson, Arizona. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit PixiesMusic.com.

You can also catch Pixies live at the upcoming Sea.Hear.Now and Borderland festivals.

The most recent Pixies album is 2024’s The Night the Zombies Came.

‘Nobody Wants This’ begins production on season 3

March 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Everybody wants this.

Netflix has announced that production has started on season 3 of Nobody Wants This. Cameras have started rolling in Los Angeles on the hit comedy series, which is set to premiere its third season later in 2026.

Kristen Bell and Adam Brody return to star as the agnostic podcaster Joanne and unconventional rabbi Noah, who navigate their romantic relationship despite the challenges that get thrown their way.

The pair are joined by other series regulars Justine Lupe, Timothy Simons and Jackie Tohn.

Nobody Wants This season 2 debuted on Oct. 23, 2025. It found Joanne and Noah’s spark to be “stronger than all of the obstacles trying to keep them apart. Now, they’re back and fully committed to merging their lives — and loved ones — together,” according to its synopsis. “But their differences still exist and can’t be ignored. The challenge now is not just falling in love against all odds, but staying together in spite of them.”

Netflix announced the show had been renewed for season 3 in November 2025. At the time, the show’s creator, Erin Foster, said she couldn’t be more excited for a third season.

“It is a privilege to be able to write about my favorite couple on a scale like this. As long as it doesn’t take too much time away from me watching reality TV at night, I’ll do it for as long as they want me to!”

Co-showrunners Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan said in a joint statement that they are grateful for another season.

“This job is criminally fun. Working with the uniquely gifted Erin Foster, this unbelievable cast of talented, hilarious pros, amazing writers, and incredible crew has been a truly great experience,” they said at the time.

ZZ Top bringing their tour to Mexico and South America

March 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

ZZ Top has expanded their 2026 The Big One! tour to include dates in Mexico and South America.

The band will play three shows in Mexico, starting with a Nov. 9 concert in Guadalajara, and followed by shows in Mexico City and Monterrey.

The tour then heads to South America — the band’s first time there in 16 years — starting Nov. 16 in Santiago, Chile. The tour will then hit three cities in Brazil, before wrapping Nov. 24 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

“ZZ Top is looking forward to bringing its rock ‘n’ roll roadshow back to our amigos in Argentina, Brazil and Chile and they know that we’re ready to rock,” says Billy F Gibbons. “We are always excited to be with our longtime friends, fans and followers en Mexico.”

A presale for tickets begins Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, with tickets for most shows going on sale Friday. Tickets for shows in Santiago and Buenos Aires go on sale to the general public April 17.

ZZ Top’s next concert is Tuesday in Greeley, Colorado. They will also be bringing The Big One! tour to Europe, with a mix of festival appearances and headlining dates. The tour starts June 13 in Estonia.

A complete list of dates can be found at ZZTop.com.

Ashley McBryde’s biggest fans help her reveal the track list for ‘Wild’

March 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The track list for Ashley McBryde’s fifth studio album, Wild, is out now, and she delivered it in a very unique way.

Last week 11 patches were mailed to Ashley’s top fans, who are members of her The Trybe fan club. The patches correspond to the ones on the jacket Ashley wears on the Wild cover, and each one included instructions on how to unlock a song title on Ashley’s website.

Each title is displayed on a replica of the jacket on the site, and if you can manage to get the password that unlocked each song, you can hear a preview of all 11 tracks.

You can also enter to win one of five limited-edition replicas of the jacket.

Here’s the complete track listing for Ashley McBryde’s Wild, which drops May 8:
“Rattlesnake Preacher”
“Arkansas Mud”
“Water in the River”
“Creosote”
“Bottle Tells Me So”
“What If We Don’t”
“Lines in the Carpet”
“Behind Bars”
“Hand Me Downs”
“Wild”
“Ten to Midnight”

Charlie Puth says new album is ‘music I would listen to as a dad’

March 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Charlie Puth and his wife, Brooke Puth, just became first-time parents, so it’s a good thing Charlie’s new album is the perfect soundtrack for that.

The album, Whatever’s Clever!, arrives on Friday. He tells Vogue, “I’m really excited that my life has finally lined up musically to where I want to be. The music is directly parallel with that, which is why Whatever’s Clever! is all Yacht Rock 2026-style.”

Among the musical guests on the album are yacht rock icons Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins, as well as Kenny G and even Jeff Goldblum.

“With all respect to the artists that are featured on this album, it’s music I would listen to as a dad, if that makes sense. So I feel very aligned with it,” Charlie adds. “I think it’s very serendipitous and there’s meaning behind everything, and there might be a reason why this album is arriving in a similar timeframe.”

Charlie and Brooke welcomed their son Jude Crawford Puth on March 13.

He adds, “I’m gonna enter this really exciting stage of life and I feel like this is the perfect soundtrack to that. I feel like it’s a perfect time to get to write really specific songs about subjects that you might not have heard me sing about.”

Charlie describes the album’s first single, “Changes,” as sounding like “a Steve Winwood, happy-go-lucky, 1992-era, optimistic-sounding, big snare of a song.” The singer, who was born in 1991, notes, “I made this album for myself, and it’s full of music from the year I was born. It’s a passion project.”

“In the most humble way, I have nothing to prove anymore. That’s at least how I feel,” Charlie says.

Deadly LaGuardia Airport crash: Runway safety system ‘did not alert,’ NTSB says

March 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Two people were in the LaGuardia Airport air traffic control tower cab when an Air Canada jet collided with a Port Authority airport vehicle on a runway at the New York City airport on Sunday night, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

The on-the-ground crash killed both pilots, left dozens injured and prompted LaGuardia to shut down for more than 12 hours. Antoine Forest has been identified by his family as one of the two pilots killed.

The collision happened shortly after Air Canada Flight 8646, which was carrying four crew members and 72 passengers, touched down from Montreal around 11:45 p.m., according to Port Authority Executive Director Kathryn Garcia. The plane, which was operated by Jazz Aviation, struck a rescue-and-firefighting vehicle responding to another aircraft, officials said.

Preliminary data shows the plane was traveling between 93 and 105 mph when it impacted the fire truck, FlightRadar24 told ABC News.

At least 43 people — from the plane and the fire truck — were taken to hospitals, officials said.

As the NTSB investigates the crash, NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy said there were two people in the air traffic control tower cab at the time of collision: the local controller and the controller in charge.

Two controllers is “the standard operating procedure for LaGuardia for the midnight shift,” Homendy at a news conference on Tuesday.

She said the NTSB has been concerned about fatigue from the midnight shift in past investigations, but stressed that there is no evidence of fatigue so far in this case.

LaGuardia has a runway safety system allowing air traffic controllers to track surface movement of planes and vehicles, but that system “did not alert,” Homendy said.

The analysis found that the system “did not generate an alert due to the close proximity of vehicles merging and unmerging near the runway, resulting in the inability to create a track of high confidence,” Homendy said.

There is no indication yet if the pilots saw the fire truck on the runway, Homendy said, noting that the NTSB is still analyzing the cockpit voice recorder.

Homendy said the NTSB is still working to determine what happened at the air traffic controllers’ shift change around 10:30 p.m.

“We know that that controller was still on duty for several minutes afterwards” the crash, she said, when usually they’d be relieved, so she said the NTSB is investigating if anyone was available to relieve them.

Homendy also stressed that the NTSB “rarely, if ever, investigate[s] a major accident where it was one failure” — usually “many, many things” went wrong, she said.

“Our aviation system is incredibly safe because there are multiple, multiple layers of defense built in to prevent an accident,” she explained.

One passenger on the flight, Joe, said that as the plane was landing, he noticed some emergency vehicles on the tarmac.

“Right before the impacts, we felt something, maybe like an emergency brake that was pulled, or some kind of hard stop, before we hit the truck,” Joe, who did not want to use his last name, told ABC News Live. “But prior to that, there was nothing out of the ordinary that I had noticed.”

“Because I was seated in the emergency aisle, somebody in the plane had shouted, ‘Emergency exits open,'” Joe said. “So at that time, I pulled the lever down, attached the door, put it to the side of the plane, and a few of us had exited through the emergency exit onto the wing of the plane. And FDNY and Port Authority Police directed us to slide down the wing. … It was very low to the ground and easy to get off.”

Joe, who was on the flight with his fiancé, said Monday evening that they were “pretty shaken up, still kind of in shock.”

“And just heartbroken for, obviously, the pilots, and all those that are injured,” Joe said.

He said he believes the pilots “saved many lives on that flight — and my heart’s just broken for them.”

LaGuardia shut down after the crash and slowly resumed flights at 2 p.m. Monday. The runway where the collision occurred will remain closed until 7 a.m. Friday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Questions swirl about status of peace talks as Trump touts progress, Iran pushes back

March 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

(WASHINGTON) — Strikes continued across the Middle East on Tuesday amid uncertainty over the state of talks between the U.S. and Iran, after President Donald Trump touted progress on negotiations while Tehran denied any dialogue.

Just days after he insisted there was no leadership left to talk to in Iran, Trump on Monday announced the U.S. and Iran held discussions over the weekend and as a result he was postponing major attacks he’d threatened on Tehran’s energy infrastructure.

“We have had very, very strong talks,” Trump told reporters. “We’ll see where they lead. But we have … major points of agreement.”

Steve Witkoff, White House special envoy, and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, led the talks for the U.S. side, according to Trump. Trump did not identify who the U.S. was negotiating with in Iran, but said it is not the new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

Trump said a meeting would take place “soon.”

Iran, on the other hand, publicly denied any talks have taken place. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s speaker of Parliament, said Trump’s claims were an attempt to influence markets suffering from Iran’s stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz.

The Trump administration is not confirming if and when in-person talks will take place between U.S. and Iranian officials in the coming days.

“These are sensitive diplomatic discussions, and the United States will not negotiate through the press. This is a fluid situation, and speculation about meetings should not be deemed as final until they are formally announced by the White House,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement provided to ABC News.

Pakistan has positioned itself as a mediator between the U.S. and Iran.

A Pakistani official familiar with the negotiations told ABC News that there are “several proposals” floating around regarding the next steps for talks and said an in-person meeting in Islamabad is on the table.

Trump on Tuesday shared to his social media platform a post from Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who wrote on X: “Pakistan welcomes and fully supports ongoing efforts to pursue dialogue to end the WAR in the Middle East, in the interest of peace and stability in region and beyond.”

“Subject to concurrence by US and Iran, Pakistan stands ready and honoured to be the host to facilitate meaningful and conclusive talks for a comprehensive settlement of the ongoing conflict,” Sharif’s post read.

The Pakistani official said Turkey and Egypt are also helping to facilitate the talks between the U.S. and Iran.

The official said the talks would likely take place within the next five days in accordance with Trump’s social media post — suggesting military strikes on Iranian power plants were “paused” for the next five days as Tehran and Washington engage in diplomatic negotiations. The official cautioned nothing is final as of yet.

A spokesperson for the Embassy of Pakistan in Washington declined to comment. The Egypt and Turkish embassies have not responded to requests for comment.

The Turkish foreign minister said last Thursday that his country was talking to both the U.S. and Iran to understand where the two nations stand.

The State Department referred to the White House when asked if Witkoff, Kushner and Vice President JD Vance were expected to travel to Islamabad later this week to meet with Iranian officials, as Reuters has reported. Vance’s office has not responded to a request for comment.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he had spoken with Trump, and said Trump believes there “is an opportunity to leverage the tremendous achievements we have attained with the U.S. military to realize the war’s objectives in an agreement — an agreement that will safeguard our vital interests.”

In the meantime, Netanyahu said Israel will “continue to strike both in Iran and in Lebanon. We are crushing the missile program and the nuclear program, and continue to inflict severe blows on Hezbollah.”

President Trump earlier Monday said that Israel would be “very happy” when asked if he believed Israel would abide by a negotiated peace deal.

Meanwhile, thousands more U.S. Marines and several Navy ships are heading to the Middle East, and the Pentagon is seeking $200 billion in supplemental funding.

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