Auntie Derek’s Daytime Tea - Friday 8/21/26

Sean "Diddy" Combs was name-dropped during the Tupac Shakur murder trial when a former LAPD detective testified Diddy tried, but failed, to pay for Tupac's execution ... a wild allegation folks in Diddy's camp call bogus.

50 Cent brushes off Diddy's lawsuit as performative while celebrating his Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary and launching a major Planet Hollywood partnership.

Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann's teenage son is in police custody for alleged aggravated sodomy and aggravated sexual battery after a girl claimed he assaulted her inside a gym changing area ... TMZ has learned.

Some of the money Chris Brown is pulling in from his uber-successful nationwide tour with Usher could land in his former housekeeper's pockets soon ... a Los Angeles judge ruled she has a right to collect her judgment from what he's bringing in on tour, TMZ has learned.Court docs obtained by TMZ reveal the judge presiding over Maria Avila's lawsuit granted her request to assign money Chris gets from royalties and tour income to her to satisfy the $13 million judgment she won in her dog attack case against him.

John Paris has got a ways to go on his road to recovery ... involving 2 major surgeries, according to a new update on his condition.

NBA star Anthony Edwards is now on the hook for $14K a month in child support to his ex, Alexandria Desroches, and the money is for a kid he claims he's never even met.

Jamie Foxx says he was having conflicting emotions about having a baby at 58 ... until a Hollywood icon who's going through fatherhood all over again as an octogenarian told him it's all good.

Summer Walker's new manager, Aubrey Banks, is causing concern in her world ... due to his history of alleged forgery and money problems, plus an allegedly bogus resume ... TMZ has learned.

A Russian politician is calling for the concerts to be canceled unless Kanye West publicly supports the country’s war in Ukraine.

Miss Grand USA has yanked Mekyla Li's crown just one week into her reign ... amid some serious legal drama surrounding the beauty queen.

Ryan Lochte's fiancée, Molly Gillihan, says it's not fair for his ex-wife, Kayla Rae Reid, to call her a homewrecker ... since there wasn't much of a marriage to wreck when she entered his life.