Rolling Stone has revealed its 100 Best Albums of 2025 list. Bad Bunny tops the list with Debí Tirar Más Fotos, followed by Lady Gaga’s Mayhem at #2. Also making the list are Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl, Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend, Addison Rae’s Addison, Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving and Justin Bieber’s Swag.
George Clooney famously said he hasn’t had an argument with his wife, Amal Clooney, in over 10 years. Is Travis Kelce following that same model with fiancée Taylor Swift? On the latest episode of his New Heights podcast with Clooney as guest, Travis joked, “Well, it’s only been 2 1/2 years, and you’re right. I haven’t gotten into an argument. Never once.”
Sabrina Carpenter looked back on some of her favorite moments from the Short n’ Sweet tour in a new video with Variety. She talks about her favorite “Juno” arrests, performing with her idol Christina Aguilera and more.
Bailey Zimmerman attends ‘The 59th Annual CMA Awards’ live from Nashville, airing Nov. 19 on ABC (Disney/Michael Le Brecht)
Bailey Zimmerman and Ella Langley aren’t even 30 yet, but they’ve certainly accomplished a lot. That’s why both of them have made Forbes’ annual 30 Under 30 list in the musicians category. According to the publication, they’re just some of the young artists who are determining “what the future sounds like.”
Bailey, 25, has “already proven that he’s more than just a flash in the pan by notching two back-to-back No. 1 hits on country radio,” Forbeswrites. The publication also notes his award nominations, his strong TikTok game, his 14 million monthly listeners on Spotify, and his “playful and refreshingly unpolished presence.”
ForbessaysElla, 26, has “emerged as a major force in contemporary country music,” thanks to her multiple award nominations and wins. She’s also scored a string of hit singles, including her two Riley Green duets, “you look like you love me” and “Don’t Mind If I Do,” plus “weren’t for the wind” and “Choosin’ Texas.”
Other under-30s on the list include Jessie Murph, pop star Alex Warren and Audrey Nuna, one of the singing voices behind the KPop Demon Hunters group HUNTR/X.
(NEW YORK) — A doctor who admitted to distributing ketamine to Matthew Perry weeks before he died was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison on Wednesday — the first to be sentenced among the five people convicted in connection with the “Friends” actor’s 2023 overdose death.
Salvador Plasencia pleaded guilty in July to four counts of distribution of ketamine. He is one of two doctors convicted of providing Perry with ketamine before the actor died in October 2023 at the age of 54. The actor was discovered unresponsive in a jacuzzi at his Los Angeles home, police said. An autopsy report revealed he died from the acute effects of ketamine.
Plasencia, 44, who operated an urgent care clinic in Calabasas, had been set to go on trial in August in the case prior to reaching a plea agreement. He faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison for each count, prosecutors said.
The former doctor sobbed as he addressed the court before his sentencing.
“I should have protected him,” Plasencia said, saying he failed Perry and the star’s family.
“I have to accept responsibility,” he said.
Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett sentenced him to 30 months in federal prison for each count, to run concurrently, as well as two years of supervised release. She also fined him $5,600.
The judge highlighted that Plasencia did not give the fatal dose of ketamine, but agreed his actions led to Perry going down a road toward his ultimate demise.
Plasencia was immediately remanded to federal custody.
“He was a drug dealer in a white coat,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Ian Yanniello said during the hearing.
Several members of Perry’s family addressed the court on Wednesday. While standing next to Perry’s stepfather, Keith Morrison, his mother, Suzanne Morrison, said softly, directly to Plasencia, “I just want you to see his mother.”
Plasencia’s attorneys said he accepts the sentence “with humility and deep remorse” and maintained he is “not a villain” but was a compassionate doctor who “made serious mistakes.”
“He hopes that this painful experience will help other doctors avoid similar mistakes and prevent other families from enduring a tragedy like this one,” his attorneys, Karen Goldstein and Debra White, said in a statement.
The government recommended a sentence of 36 months in prison, arguing in a filing ahead of the sentencing that Plasencia “sought to exploit Perry’s medical vulnerability for profit.”
“Indeed, the day defendant met Perry he made his profit motive known, telling a co-conspirator: ‘I wonder how much this moron will pay’ and ‘let’s find out,'” prosecutors stated.
Plasencia’s attorneys asked for a sentence of one day credit for time served and three years of supervised release in a filing ahead of sentencing, arguing that prison time is unnecessary given “the punishment Mr. Plasencia has already experienced, and will continue to experience for many years to come.”
“He has already lost his medical license, his clinic, and his career,” they wrote. “He has also been viciously attacked in the media and threatened by strangers to the point where his family has moved out of state for their safety.”
His attorneys stated that Plasencia recklessly treated Perry “without adequate knowledge of ketamine therapy and without a full understanding of his patient’s addiction,” and that it was “the biggest mistake of his life.”
They said he accepts the consequences of his actions and is working to find ways to help people without a medical license and one day hopes to start a nonprofit focused on food insecurity.
His attorneys also tried to differentiate Plasencia from the four other defendants in the case who have also all pleaded guilty — two dealers who provided the fatal dose of ketamine to Perry, the actor’s personal assistant who administered it and another doctor who ran a ketamine clinic.
Plasencia, his attorneys said, treated Perry for “a discrete thirteen-day period in the physician-patient context for depression.”
“Despite the serious treatment mistakes he made, Mr. Plasencia was not treating M.P. at the time of his death and he did not provide him with the ketamine which resulted in his overdose,” they continued.
In an emotional victim impact statement, Perry’s mother and stepfather said they believe Plasencia “is among the most culpable of all.”
The doctor, they said in the statement filed ahead of Plasencia’s sentencing, “conspired to break his most important vows, repeatedly, sneaked through the night to meet his victim in secret. For what, a few thousand dollars? So he could feed on the vulnerability of our son … and crow, as he did so, with that revealing question: ‘I wonder how much this moron will pay. Let’s find out.'”
“Some things are very hard to understand,” they added.
In a victim impact statement addressed to Plasencia, Perry’s father and stepmother, John and Debbie Perry, said, “You don’t deserve to hear our feelings. How you devastated our family contributing to the loss of Matthew our only son. A warm, loving man who was to be our rock as we aged. An uncle to our grandchildren and the mountain his siblings could turn to.”
They said Perry’s recovery “counted on you saying NO.”
“Your motives? I can’t imagine. A doctor whose life is devoted to helping people? What ever were you thinking?” they said while asking the court to hand down a prison term beyond the mandatory sentence “to give you plenty of time to think about your actions.”
According to Plasencia’s plea agreement, he distributed 20 vials of ketamine, ketamine lozenges and syringes to Perry and the actor’s live-in assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, between Sept. 30, 2023, and Oct. 12, 2023.
Plasencia “admits that his conduct fell below the proper standard of medical care and that transfers of ketamine vials to Defendant Iwamasa and Victim M.P. were not for a legitimate medical purpose,” his plea agreement stated.
Iwamasa, who admitted in court documents to administering the ketamine on the day that Perry died, pleaded guilty in August 2024 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing death, the DOJ said.
According to Iwamasa’s plea agreement, Perry asked Iwamasa to help him procure ketamine in September 2023 and provided his assistant with “money, or promised to reimburse him, and directed him to find sources from whom to acquire the drugs.”
One of Plasencia’s patients introduced him to Perry on Sept. 30, 2023, with the unidentified patient referring to the actor as a “‘high profile person’ who was seeking ketamine and was willing to pay ‘cash and lots of thousands’ for ketamine treatment,'” according to Plasencia’s plea agreement.
Plasencia contacted his mentor, Mark Chavez, who had previously operated a ketamine clinic, to discuss Perry’s request for ketamine and purchased vials of liquid ketamine, ketamine lozenges and other items from him, according to the agreement.
Chavez pleaded guilty in October 2024 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine.
In discussing how much to charge Perry, Plasencia said in text messages to Chavez, “I wonder how much this moron will pay” and “Lets [sic] find out,” the Department of Justice said.
Plasencia administered ketamine to Perry at the actor’s home on several occasions, and left vials and lozenges with Iwamasa to administer, according to the plea agreement. In one instance, he was paid $12,000 for such a visit, according to the agreement.
One such instance occurred outside of the home, when Plasencia administered ketamine to Perry in a parking lot near an aquarium in Long Beach, according to the plea agreement. Upon learning about that, Chavez “reprimanded” the other doctor “for ‘dosing people’ in cars, and in a public place where children are present,” Chavez’s plea agreement stated.
Plasencia returned to Perry’s home on Oct. 12, 2023, to administer ketamine, during which the actor’s blood pressure spiked, causing him to “freeze up,” according to Plasencia’s plea agreement.
“Notwithstanding Victim M.P.’s reaction, defendant left additional vials of ketamine with Defendant Iwamasa, knowing that Defendant Iwamasa would inject the ketamine into Victim M.P.,” the agreement stated.
After receiving 10 more vials of ketamine through a licensed pharmaceutical company using his DEA license, Plasencia texted Iwamasa on Oct. 27, 2023, according to the plea agreement: “I know you mentioned taking a break. I have been stocking up on the meanwhile. I am not sure when you guys plan to resume but in case its when im out of town this weekend I have left supplies with a nurse of mine …I can always let her know the plan.”
Perry died the following day after overdosing on ketamine, which Plasencia had not provided, according to the plea agreement.
Plasencia “sold vial after vial of ketamine to Mr. Perry, knowing that Perry’s personal assistant was administering the ketamine without proper oversight or medical training,” the government’s sentencing file stated. “Even after defendant saw Mr. Perry suffer an adverse reaction to a ketamine shot, he still offered to sell Perry more. While the ketamine that killed Mr. Perry on October 28 was not provided by defendant, defendant’s egregious breaches of trust and abandonment of his oath to ‘do no harm’ undoubtedly contributed to the harm that Mr. Perry suffered.”
Following their convictions, both Plasencia and Chavez gave up their medical licenses.
Chavez is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 17 and faces up to 10 years in prison.
Iwamasa is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 14, 2026, and faces up to 15 years in prison.
Two other defendants in the case — Erik Fleming and Jasveen Sangha — admitted to distributing the ketamine that killed Perry.
Prosecutors said Sangha worked with Fleming to distribute ketamine to Perry, and that in October 2023, they sold the actor 51 vials of ketamine, which were provided to Iwamasa.
Fleming pleaded guilty in August 2024 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 7, 2026, and faces up to 25 years in prison.
Sangha, allegedly known as “The Ketamine Queen,” pleaded guilty in September to one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distribution of ketamine, and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury. She is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 25, 2026, and faces a maximum sentence of 65 years in prison.
ABC News’ Trevor Ault, Lisa Sivertsen and Alex Stone contributed to this report.
Mariah Carey’s ‘Protect the Dolls’ jacket is being auctioned on eBay to benefit GLAAD (Courtesy GLAAD)
When Mariah Carey performed at the Pride in the Park Music Festival in Brighton, England, last summer, she wore a specially designed jacket — and now you can own it. She’s auctioning it off on eBay to raise money for GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization.
The pink bedazzled jacket features the phrase “Protect the dolls” written on the back. That phrase is commonly used to indicate support for transgender women. For example, during Sabrina Carpenter‘s performance of “Tears” at the MTV VMAs, the drag queens joining her for the performance held up pro-trans rights signs, many of which included the word “dolls.”
The auction for Mariah’s jacket will run from Dec. 8 through Dec. 15 at eBay.com/glaad, with 100% of the proceeds benefiting GLAAD’s Transgender Media Program. The opening bid will be 99 cents.
Artwork for Ella Mai’s ‘Do You Still Love Me?’ Summers/Interscope Records
Do you still love Ella Mai? It’s a question she’s asking on her upcoming studio album. She announced the project on her socials Wednesday while unveiling its artwork and a caption that briefly describes her target audience. Do You Still Love Me? is set to arrive on Feb. 6.
“my 3rd studio album … wow. i cannot believe we are here!” Ella wrote. “this is for the lovers, right in time for love day & right on time for scorpio making season.”
Do You Still Love Me?, Ella’s follow-up to 2022’s Heart on My Sleeve, is now available to presave.
The announcement arrives days before the Friday release of the official T-shirt for Ella’s Did You Miss Me tour. The trek kicks off Sunday in London. The other stops on the six-city run are Amsterdam, Paris, Atlanta, New York and LA.
The 29-year-old claims his spot thanks to his breakout hit, “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out,” as well as his streaming and touring success.
Forbes also mentions his upcoming acting debut in the film Good Sex starring Natalie Portman, who previously played the role of Sally during a Role Model show at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
As previously reported, Role Model is set to receive the Triple Threat of the Year Award at the 2025 Variety Hitmakers gala, taking place Saturday in Los Angeles.
In this June 18, 2025, file photo, Eric Dane attends the ‘Countdown’ premiere and after-party in Los Angeles. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Prime Video, FILE)
Eric Dane is opening up about his future in acting while living with ALS.
During a panel hosted by the I Am ALS organization on Tuesday night, the Euphoria star said that moving forward, he plans to focus his acting career on roles that involve ALS.
“I’m fairly limited in what I can do physically as an actor, but I still have my brain, and I still have my speech,” Dane said from the stage, which he shared with the I Am ALS founders and his colleagues from the series Brilliant Minds.
“I’m willing to do just about anything. I’ll take on any role, but I think from here on out, it’s going to have to be, you know, ALS-centric,” he said.
“It’s gonna be very difficult for me to play any other role where, you know … look at the 800-pound gorilla in the room. And I’m fine with that,” he continued. “I’m fine with that. I’m grateful that I can still work in any capacity.”
Dane also discussed his experience acting in Brilliant Minds, in which he plays a firefighter living with ALS.
“I’ve never played a character who’s going through something … I’m dealing with in real time, in real life as well,” he said. “It was hard, and there were moments where it was very difficult for me to even get the lines out, but I overall, I was really grateful for the experience. I found it to be a bit cathartic.”
Dane said his condition can be disheartening, saying that though he has “no reason to be in a good spirit at any time” he still manages to find joy.
“It’s encouraging for me to know that I actually can have, like, a buoyant spirit in the face of something so horrible,” he added.
Dane also said he felt it was important to speak out about his ALS journey.
“It’s imperative that I share my journey with as many people as I can, because I don’t feel like my life is about me anymore,” he said.
The former Grey’s Anatomy star announced in April that he had been diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
In an interview that aired in June on Good Morning America, Dane told ABC News’ Diane Sawyer he was “fighting as much as I can.”
“There’s so much about it that’s out of my control,” he added at the time.
Dane, a father of two daughters, went on to describe himself as “resilient” in both his fight against ALS and his fight to stay optimistic.
“I’m very hopeful … I don’t think this is the end of my story,” he said, speaking with Sawyer. “And whether it is or it isn’t, I’m gonna carry that idea with me.”
ALS, short for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a degenerative neurological disorder where the symptoms worsen over time, according to the National Institutes of Health.
The NIH states that ALS causes motor neurons — a type of nerve cell in the brain and spinal cord — to deteriorate, causing the muscles to weaken, and eventually leads to paralysis, taking away a person’s ability to move, speak or even breathe.
There is currently no known cure for ALS, but some treatments, and physical and speech therapies, may slow down the progression of the disorder and improve an ALS patient’s quality of life.
The NIH states that the average prognosis for ALS patients is two to five years of survival from the time of first symptoms, but there is a range: 10% of people with the condition live 10 years or more.
Alex Warren performs on stage on August 28, 2025 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/Getty Images)
Alex Warren and Benson Boone have made Forbes‘ annual 30 Under 30 list in the music category. According to the publication, they’re just some of the young artists who are determining “what the future sounds like.”
The publication notes Alex, 25, went from living out of his car seven years ago to becoming a best new artist Grammy nominee after scoring his breakout hit with “Ordinary.” He tells Forbes his music has also been his form of therapy. “I write songs about loss and what I’ve been through,” he says. “And then to have tens of thousands of people sing them back—I don’t know if anyone could understand that feeling unless you have it happen.”
Forbescalls Benson, 23, “one of pop’s most compelling new voices” who’s “known as much for his heartfelt ballads as for his backflips in bodysuits.”
Other under-30s on the list include Ravyn Lenae, Doechii, Audrey Hobert, Role Model, Jessie Murph and Audrey Nuna, one of the singing voices behind the KPop Demon Hunters group HUNTR/X.
Jimmy Buffett of Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band performs during KAABOO Del Mar music festival on September 16, 2016 in Del Mar, California. (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)
Jimmy Buffett was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2024 in the Musical Excellence category, and even though he passed away in 2023, it turns out he was still able to attend the ceremony.
Kenny Chesney and James Taylor performed in honor of Buffett at the induction. In a recent interview with Howard Stern, Chesney revealed that he and guitarist Mac McAnally, a member of Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band, snuck some of the “Margaritaville” legend’s ashes into the ceremony.
“We were sitting back there warming up, trying to figure out our parts and stuff, and Mac comes up to me and he goes, ‘Look at this,’ and it was a small urn. He had Jimmy’s ashes in his coat pocket,” Chesney said. “So Jimmy’s ashes were in Mac McAnally’s coat pocket onstage with us as he was getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.”
Turns out, it was Buffett’s daughter Savannah Buffett who gave McAnally the ashes.
“So even after he passed, Jimmy found a way to join the party,” Chesney added.
Buffett passed away Sept. 1, 2023, after battling a rare and aggressive form of skin cancer.
Duran Duran arrive on stage at the opening of their set at Chelmsford City Live Music Festival. Chelmsford City Live a new music festival at Chelmsford City Racecourse in Essex on Saturday (night 2 of the festival) with Headliners Duran Duran. (Photo by Bonnie Britain/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Duran Duran has teamed with the company We Are Rewind for a new one-of-a-kind cassette player.
The WE-001 Duran Duran Special Edition features chrome details for ’80s nostalgia, and comes with an exclusive reissue of the band’s 2000 album, Pop Trash, on cassette. It also features a 12-hour rechargeable battery and Bluetooth that allows for connections to modern headphones. It even comes with a pencil, for any tricky rewinding needs.
“Duran Duran always had a look, a sense of style and control of how they looked and how they sounded and their association with cassettes is clear,” We Are Rewind founder and CEO Romain Boudruche says. “We’re delighted to work with the band and help music fans connect with the value of music and physical media in an age of streaming.”
