Shia LaBeouf stepped back into the spotlight under troubling circumstances this week after spending a night behind bars in New Orleans. 

The 39-year-old was arrested following an alleged bar fight during Mardi Gras celebrations. Just hours later, he was photographed out again, drinking and walking the parade route. 

The images and police details have raised fresh questions about the former child star’s struggles and his complicated history with the law.

Shia LaBeouf appeared dull after spending the night in a New Orleans jail, emerging alone on Tuesday morning.  

In photos exclusively obtained by the Daily Mail, the “Transformers” star was seen for the first time since being arrested for allegedly assaulting two men in a bar altercation. 

The former child star is now facing two charges of simple battery, a spokesman for the New Orleans Police Department confirmed.

The photos showed him wearing the same white “Stacey Services” tee, joggers and black sneakers from the day before, as he ripped off a paper wristband. 

LaBeouf refused to comment on how much his bail was before breaking into a jog. An eyewitness said he stopped at a Shell gas station and bought a Gatorade.

He then walked about two miles to the Mardi Gras parade route. Along the way, he appeared to enjoy a Topo Chico beverage before heading into Cajun Mike’s Pub and Grub.

As the day went on, Shia LaBeouf switched to a cold beer while taking in the festivities. 

He was seen talking with fans and shopping at VooDoo Mart, where he bought a new shirt and glasses. In his new outfit, he was photographed chugging a Paradise Park lager.

The outing stood out because LaBeouf has previously claimed to be sober. It appeared he had been celebrating throughout the day and into the night. 

Earlier on Monday, he was seen wearing a brimmed red hat decorated with festive details while holding a bottle of beer. On X, he also shared a selfie showing off his Mardi Gras beads.

Goth, who shares a daughter named Isabel with LaBeouf, was also seen without her ring earlier this month in Pasadena. Reports claim they quietly split a year ago.

LaBeouf was in New Orleans for Mardi Gras when he was arrested outside a Royal Street bar in the French Quarter. 

In a video from the altercation, he was seen headbutting a man before officers arrived.

According to the police report, a staff member tried to eject him from the bar, but the “Fury” star struck the victim several times using a closed fist. 

He left but returned, “acting even more aggressive,” the report states. Multiple people tried to hold him down. 

LaBeouf allegedly struck the same victim again in the upper body and punched another person in the nose. He was restrained by at least two men until officers arrived. 

The New Orleans Police Department confirmed he was taken to a hospital for treatment of unknown injuries before being booked. 

Footage showed him with a T-shirt over his head, blood on his arm, and his large back tattoo exposed. 

At one point, he sat in the trunk of a vehicle speaking to people at the scene. He was also photographed on a gurney in an ambulance. It is unclear what led to the incident.

This is not Shia LaBeouf’s first arrest. In 2014, he was arrested for disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing at Studio 54 in New York City after disrupting a Broadway performance of Cabaret. 

Reports said he smoked in the theater, yelled at actors, and used vulgar language. He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months of outpatient alcohol rehab.

In 2015, he was arrested for public intoxication in Austin, Texas. Two years later, he was arrested after an altercation at his anti-Trump art installation in Queens, though charges were dropped. 

That same year, he was taken into police custody again in Savannah, Georgia, for public intoxication and disorderly conduct and later attended court-ordered rehab.

In 2020, there was another incident in Los Angeles involving misdemeanor battery and theft. That case led to mandated therapy, 12-step programs, and sobriety monitoring.

Apple Martin is stepping into the spotlight and shutting down rumors at the same time. 

The 21-year-old daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin is pushing back against claims that she was expelled from school for bullying. 

After online chatter grew louder, Apple took to social media with a clear message. Now, she is addressing the accusations directly while also opening up about her future plans and personal life.

Apple Martin directly addressed the claims through her Instagram Stories on Monday. 

The Vanderbilt University student reshared a comment she wrote, explaining that she wanted to share “just a quick little message from myself.”

In her message, as reported by the Daily Mail, Apple said, “Hi! I didn’t wanna respond, but this narrative is completely false and has gotten so out of hand.” 

She firmly denied the accusations, adding, “I have never been expelled from any school, especially not for bullying anyone.”

While she acknowledged that not everyone online will like her, she made it clear that the rumor crossed a line. 

“I completely understand people not liking me, and that is okay! The internet is a place where people can share their opinions.” 

However, she stressed, “But this rumor is completely untrue, I am not that type of person, and anyone who is close to me knows that.”

The bullying rumors appear to connect back to 2024, when Apple Martin attended Le Bal des Debutantes in Paris. 

During the event, a video surfaced that some viewers felt showed her attempting to step into another debutante’s photo moment.

Apple later went viral over footage said to show her making a bold play for a photographer’s attention while another attendee posed. 

She was also photographed rolling her eyes at her date, Count Leo Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck.

The clips quickly sparked “mean girl” comments online. However, a source close to the family defended Apple and pushed back against that label.

Following the backlash, a source close to Paltrow told the Daily Mail that Apple is not what critics claimed. 

The insider described her as someone who enjoys having fun and insisted the situation was misunderstood.

“Apple’s more playful and fun, and she’s really a total girls’ girl,” the source said. 

They continued, “She would never mean to take the spotlight from anyone; that was not her intention. To characterize her as a mean girl is very untrue.”

According to the source, the night had actually been a positive experience. They said, “She really had such a wonderful evening, and I feel bad that this is even taking away from that because it was such an uplifting evening for her and the other girls.”

Addressing the moment with her escort, the insider added that Apple and Donnersmarck share a “good rapport.” 

“They had cameras on them all day long, and they were playing around,” the source explained. “It was in total jest and once again, not snarky, not anything negative.”

While dealing with online rumors, Apple Martin is also preparing for her next chapter. 

She will graduate from Vanderbilt University in May with a degree in law, history, and society.

Earlier this month, she shared in an interview with Vogue that she has changed her career plans. 

Although she once planned to attend law school, she admitted her earlier decision came from wanting to be different from her famous parents.

“I was in that rebellious ‘I don’t wanna be like my parents’ type of phase,” she said.

Now, she plans to pursue acting, following in her mother’s footsteps. However, she clarified that she will not follow her father into music with Coldplay.

Jaden Smith refused to respond after being asked a question about Kanye West, making it clear that he wants nothing to do with him.

The two singers have had a complicated relationship in the past. Although Jaden once looked up to Kanye, things have long changed over the years.

Meanwhile, Kanye West seems to be chasing a redemption arc, following his recent apology over his past antisemitic comments. 

During a red carpet interview for Druski’s screening of “Coulda Been Love,” Complex journalist Jillian Hardeman-Webb threw a question at Jaden, saying, “I see that you’re working with Steven Smith, who designed Yeezy footwear with Ye. What are y’all cooking up?”

The journalist had barely finished her question when Jaden turned and stormed off without saying anything.

Taken aback, Webb paused for a moment before turning back to the camera to say, “I guess we’ll never find out.” 

The incident went viral on social media, with some fans defending him and others questioning his actions. 

“What was the point of him doing that?” One fan asked. “He actually handled this the smartest way ever because if you speak Ye’s name in the spotlight, he comes after you like the boogie man,” another wrote. 

One surprised fan wrote that Jaden was “rude,” and another defended him, writing, “Her question was not thoughtful. Bringing up Ye. She tried to bait him and thought it would work cause she’s cute.” 

Jaden’s reaction to the journalist’s question wasn’t altogether surprising, given his complicated past with West. 

In the past, the young singer has often credited West for inspiring him. He even wore a Batman suit to West’s wedding to Kim Kardashian and, in 2015, explained that he did so because he felt the need to “protect everyone there.” 

However, three years later, he revealed that while he was once “Little Homie” to artists like Ye, Donald Glover, and Drake, the dynamics have changed. 

“I always felt like Little Homie before, and that allowed me in all of their circles. But now that I’m on the charts next to them, I’m not really Little Homie anymore,” he said, according to Entertainment Weekly.

However, what finally severed their relationship was when Jaden walked out of the Yeezy show at Paris Fashion Week in 2022.

At the time, the “Stronger” rapper walked the runway in a shirt with the slogan “White Lives Matter.”

Jaden’s refusal to speak about West comes weeks after the “Donda” artist apologized for his past antisemitic remarks.

“I am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people,” his letter read, per The Blast. West noted that due to his bipolar disorder, he may have lost touch with reality, which led to a lot of actions he regrets. 

“I said and did things I deeply regret. Some of the people I love the most, I treated the worst. Looking back, I became detached from my true self,” he admitted. 

Despite West’s seemingly sincere apology, fans came after him and accused him of only apologizing ahead of his album rollout. 

According to The Blast, one fan noted that the singer only apologizes when he has a new project coming out. 

In the same vein, another fan mentioned the likelihood of his new album being released soon. Yet another slammed him, asking others to “retire” him because nothing he does seems “sincere.” 

More than 30 years after Kurt Cobain’s death, the tragedy is once again making headlines and reopening painful wounds for Courtney Love. 

A shocking new forensic investigation is questioning the long-standing ruling that the Nirvana frontman died by suicide. 

While officials stand by their original findings, fresh claims have sparked renewed conspiracy theories. For Love, who has faced decades of blame and hatred, the renewed scrutiny feels painfully familiar.

Kurt Cobain died on April 5, 1994, at 27 from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. 

His body was discovered on April 8, three days after his death, in the greenhouse above the garage of his Seattle home. For decades, the case was considered closed.

Now, an unofficial private sector team of forensic scientists has questioned Cobain’s cause of death ruling. 

After reviewing autopsy findings and crime scene records, the researchers suggested that aspects of the case pointed to a homicide rather than a suicide.

Independent crime scene reconstruction expert Bryan Burnett cited blood patterns, clothing evidence and damage to the muscian’s mouth that he argued were inconsistent with a typical suicide scenario. 

The team suggested Cobain was confronted by one or more assailants who forced a heroin overdose to incapacitate him before one of them shot him in the head, placed the gun in his arms and left behind a forged suicide note.

Despite these claims, authorities have not changed their position.

Following Kurt Cobain’s death, police said he injected himself with ten times the normal amount even a heavy heroin user would have used. The autopsy also detected morphine, codeine and diazepam in his system.

The King County Medical Examiner concluded that the cause of death was a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. 

At the time, a spokesperson for the Seattle Police Department said, “Kurt Cobain died by suicide in 1994. This continues to be the position held by the Seattle Police Department.”

It is well documented that Cobain suffered from severe depression and years of chronic drug use. 

In March 1994, one month before his death, he was hospitalized in Rome, Italy, after an overdose of champagne and Rohypnol. 

Love found him unconscious in his room at the Excelsior Hotel. She later suggested the overdose was a suicide attempt, though his management team said at the time that it was accidental.

For Love, the renewed investigation feels like history repeating itself.

“Over the years and decades since Kurt’s death, she has heard every story about his death, how it was her fault. Just one misery after another,” an insider exclusively told the Daily Mail.

They added, “She loved him more than anyone else she has ever been with. She will always remember him for who he was, but now that there is another conspiracy of how he died, it is her version of Groundhog Day.”

Love has long been vilified by Nirvana fans worldwide who blame her for Cobain’s death. 

Some unfounded theories have claimed she hired a hitman for financial control of Cobain’s estate, something she has repeatedly denied. 

One year after his death, a fan threw a spent shotgun shell casing on stage at a Hole concert.

As recently as 2024, Love admitted she wasn’t prepared for the backlash that followed Kurt Cobain’s death. 

In an interview with the Evening Standard, she said she always wanted to be thought of as a b-tch, while Cobain wanted to be liked.

“People used to say that I was so difficult. They said I was disagreeable. Yes, I am completely disagreeable and I’m never going to apologize for that,” Love said. “I always wanted to be known as a b-tch. Being liked was never my thing. Kurt wanted to be liked but not me.”

She added, “He was able to hide behind me, but then I got hated. Then Kurt died, and the hatred towards me reached a completely new level. I did not plan for that.”

In a 2011 interview with Vanity Fair, Love also revealed lingering anger over his death. 

“If [Cobain] came back right now I’d have to kill him, for what he did to us,” she said. “I’d f-cking kill him. I’d f-ck him, and then I’d kill him. He tried to kill himself three times! He OD’d at least five times.”

Despite the controversy, Love appears focused on honoring Cobain’s memory.

“The Big Bang Theory” star Kunal Nayyar‘s months-old interview is getting online traction, drawing attention to his comments about donating to GoFundMe pages. The actor’s generosity gained renewed interest following the death of James Van Der Beek and the GoFundMe campaign set up for the actor’s family.

The revelation started an online discussion, with users pointing to broader issues, such as the healthcare system and people’s reliance on crowdfunding sources for medical expenses.

In December 2025, Nayyar did an interview with The i Paper, wherein he said that having money has given him “greater freedom,” adding that he uses it give back and “change people’s lives.”

“What I really love to do is go on GoFundMe at night and just pay random families’ medical bills. That’s my masked vigilante thing,” Nayyar shared, saying that “money doesn’t feel like a burden.”

His interview has gone viral on social media after news that Van Der Beek’s friends set up a GoFundMe page to support the late actor’s family and six children. As The Blast previously reported, the campaign raised more than $1 million in less than a day.

Nayyar and his wife, Neha Kapur, are philanthropists, using their wealth to help others in need. Apart from anonymously donating to GoFundMe pages, the couple also supports animal charities and helps fund university scholarships for young adults who come from underprivileged backgrounds.

While the actor believes that not everyone has the luxury to help others the way he does, he says there are other ways to help those who aren’t so fortunate in life.

“We are expecting a president or a politician, some leader, to come and bring us world peace. But there is no world peace if your neighbor comes to your door wanting some sugar for their tea, and you lock it against them and say ‘get away’,” Nayyar noted.

As reported by Celebrity Net Worth, Nayyar has a net worth of $45 million, largely stemming from his work in entertainment.

Nayyar began acting in 2004, but his breakout role was as Rajesh Koothrappali on “The Big Bang Theory,” which aired for 12 seasons from 2007 to 2019. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the five lead actors in the show, including Nayyar, earned as much as $1 million per episode in the latter seasons of the sitcom.

In 2015 and 2018, Forbes listed Nayyar as the third-highest paid TV actor, earning $20 million and $23.5 million, respectively.

After “The Big Bang Theory” ended, Nayyar went on to star in shows, such as “Criminal: UK” and “Suspicion,” and movies, including “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry,” “Spaceman,” and “Christmas Karma.”

Nayyar’s acts of kindness, specifically his GoFundMe donations, garnered mixed reviews from online users. Many called him out for donating anonymously, yet sharing it on a publication where thousands, if not millions, could read the information.

“He’s been doing it in private, was there any need for the public declaration?” one user questioned. “If he’s doing it in secret and it’s been going well for him, why the sudden need to make it public. Only make it seem as if he’s seeking public applause and validation. Not downplaying his kind gesture though,” one noted.

Some came to the actor’s defense, noting that the anonymity aspect referred to the families not knowing the source of the donations, rather than the public being unaware of Nayyar’s generosity. “It’s one thing to give to a massive foundation, but there is something so personal and empathetic about sitting up at night and finding individual families to help,” one commented.

“This is less about a star giving money and more about someone using privilege to reduce random suffering one notification at a time,” another added.