ICE crackdown storms sanctuary stronghold with up to 1,500 migrant arrests
BOSTON – Fox News embedded exclusively with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the greater Boston area this week, when agents were carrying out the arrests of hundreds of egregious criminal migrants in what the agency said is the largest operation it has undertaken since President Donald Trump returned to office.
The sweeping operation, called “Patriot,” is expected to hit 1,500 arrests and is targeting immigrants like a Salvadoran illegal immigrant convicted of child rape who went to prison and was deported in 2017. He was nabbed by ICE living right next to a children’s playground.
ICE also swooped on another illegal migrant who is on El Salvador’s most wanted list and has an Interpol Red Notice for aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping and robbery.
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Both arrests were captured exclusively on camera by Fox News.
ICE deployed 19 teams across Massachusetts this week, and the agency brought in ICE teams from other parts of the country to assist.
It is in direct response to Massachusetts and Boston’s sanctuary policies, where officials do not fully enforce or assist with federal immigration laws, as border czar Tom Homan has promised to surge ICE to these areas.
Fox News is told that about 70% of the arrests are criminals with convictions or pending charges.
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Patricia Hyde, the head of ICE Boston, said it is not uncommon to see immigrants convicted of child rape roaming public streets close to where children play.
“It’s not unusual. Due to the open border policies, we are finding that plenty of people who have been previously deported and committed heinous crimes and were removed from the country are now back here, just living among us,” Hyde said. “And now that’s our job to go round them up
Fox News alsojoined ICE as they arrested a Colombian illegal immigrant facing pending charges for sexual assault of a child, as well as a Dominican illegal immigrant with a drug trafficking conviction who is now facing local charges for fentanyl distribution.
Meanwhile, other arrests included a Guatemalan illegal immigrant who’s facing charges in Massachusetts for aggravated child rape but was released from state custody. They also arrested a Honduran immigrant who is facing local charges for rape and was also released from local custody.
ICE Boston told Fox News that local ICE activists have been interfering in their operations.
For instance, on Thursday, activists tried to grab onto an immigrant who had been handcuffed by ICE. In another incident, agents were stalking out an immigrant murderer’s home, and a crowd gathered and blew their cover.
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Hyde said sanctuary jurisdictions are starting to escalate against ICE.
“I think the lack of cooperation is getting worse and worse, and it’s putting law enforcement lives in danger,” Hyde said.
Hyde said that ICE agents will continue to round up dangerous criminal illegal migrants, despite pushback from local lawmakers and activists.
“We’re not going away. It might take us longer. It might be harder, but we’re not going away, we’re here,” Hyde said. “We know what the American people voted for. We understand that we work for the American people and we’re going to be here until we send everyone home.”
USDA unveils ‘one of the largest’ fraud, bribery schemes in its history
A U.S. Department of Agriculture employee and five others are under arrest as of Friday morning, after allegedly misappropriating tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer food stamp funds.
“At [the] USDA, we are hyper-focused… on rooting out that waste, fraud and abuse, and… yesterday was, if not the largest, one of [the] largest stings,” Secretary Brooke Rollins said on “Mornings with Maria” Friday.
“This is a new day, and President Trump promised, as he was traveling across the country over the last few years,” she continued, “that it would not be the government that we know.”
With the assistance of the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office, six individuals have been criminally charged with a bribe and fraud scheme that generated more than $66 million in unauthorized transactions under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps.
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The defendants – Michael Kehoe, Mohamad Nawafleh, Omar Alrawashdeh, Gamal Obaid, Emad Alrawashdeh and Arlasa Davis – are accused of “conspiracy to steal government funds and to misappropriate U.S. Department of Agriculture benefits,” according to a press release.
Starting in 2019, the indictment states that Kehoe created a network that supplied 160 unauthorized electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards to stores across the New York area, to illegally process more than $30 million in EBT transactions.
“This fraud was made possible when USDA employee Arlasa Davis betrayed the public trust by selling confidential government information to the very criminals she was supposed to catch. Their actions undermined a program that vulnerable New Yorkers depend on for basic nutrition,” U.S. Attorney Perry Carbone said in the media release.
“These charges should be a reminder that those who exploit anti-poverty programs for personal gain will be held accountable for their crimes,” Carbone expanded.
The group also allegedly created fraudulent USDA applications, misappropriated license numbers and, in some cases, doctored application documents for unauthorized stores.
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“That is no longer going to be allowed here in Washington, and with these programs like the food stamp program. So we’re going to move forward, obviously in partnership with the FBI, with the Department of Justice, of course our team at USDA. This is not the ‘one and only,’” Rollins said. “There are going to be many more to come, and we’re gonna make sure that we’re delivering on our promises to the taxpayers.”
“It’s just the tip of the spear,” the secretary added. “We’re trying to lock it down right now to ensure that it doesn’t keep happening. But when you’ve got employees that basically don’t follow the law, then we’ve got to fix it, and that’s what we’re doing. There’s going to be real consequences for breaking the law across America’s federal government with President Trump, but this is just one of many more to come.”
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Musk’s exit from Trump’s DOGE won’t end his influence on midterm politics
As Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, put it, his role in steering President Donald Trump‘s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has come “to an end.”
However, the president, in a social media post on Thursday night announcing that he and Musk would team up for a 1:30 p.m. ET White House news conference on Friday, teased that Musk would continue to help the Trump administration.
“This will be his last day, but not really, because he will, always, be with us, helping all the way. Elon is terrific!”
Musk’s political impact on national politics and on next year’s midterm elections – for better or for worse – is far from over and is likely to live on well past his official departure from the Trump administration.
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Trump, after winning back the White House in last November’s election, created DOGE with marching orders to overhaul and downsize the federal government. Trump named Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX and Trump’s biggest political donor in the 2024 election, to steer the organization.
“Elon Musk made the most serious attempt at reducing the size and scope of government in modern political history. It was at times chaotic but impactful,” veteran GOP strategist Ryan Williams told Fox News.
Williams predicted that Musk’s “efforts will continue to linger as a political football, but also a guide for Republicans if they’re serious about limiting the growth of the federal government.”
After returning to the White House in January, Musk and DOGE quickly swept through federal agencies, rooting out what the new administration argued was billions in wasteful federal spending. Additionally, they took a meat cleaver to the federal workforce, resulting in a massive downsizing of employees.
Nothing symbolized Musk’s controversial moves more than his brandishing of a chainsaw during a February appearance at the MAGA-dominated Conservative Political Action Conference, where he touted “how easy” it was to “save billions of dollars sometimes in… an hour.”
The moves by DOGE grabbed tons of national attention and triggered a slew of lawsuits in response. Many of DOGE’s cuts in government staffing were stymied or reversed by federal court orders.
While DOGE was originally tasked with slashing $2 trillion from the federal government’s budget, the DOGE website earlier this week said that its efforts to date had led to roughly $175 billion in savings due to asset sales, contract cancellations, fraud payment cuts, in addition to other steps to eliminate costs.
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Musk’s arrival in the nation’s capital came with a bang.
Thanks to a direct pipeline to the president and his powerful mouthpiece on the social media site X, Musk instantly and repeatedly made headlines with his provocative moves and the targeting of people he did not like, often to the chagrin of Trump administration officials and Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Trump repeatedly praised Musk and DOGE’s efforts.
“The vast majority of people in this country really respect and appreciate you, and this whole room can say that very strongly; you have really been a tremendous help,” the president said during a Cabinet meeting four weeks ago, when Musk announced that he would be cutting back on his time spent with DOGE and the Trump administration.
However, behind the scenes, there was a lot less harmony.
“People got really sick of him really quickly,” a veteran Republican strategist with ties to the administration and Capitol Hill who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely told Fox News.
“He was fun to begin with,” the strategist noted, before adding that “people inside and around the administration and people outside” were tired of Musk “by the end, when he’s sitting in a meeting wearing multiple hats on his head.”
Additionally, Musk’s recent criticism of Trump’s sweeping “big beautiful bill,” which passed a major congressional hurdle, did not help matters.
While a slew of public opinion polls, including national surveys from Fox News, indicated that Americans like the idea of downsizing the federal government, those same surveys highlighted that the public was far from thrilled with how Musk and DOGE carried out cuts to the federal bureaucracy.
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Musk, who spent nearly $300 million in support of Trump’s 2024 White House victory, quickly became a lightening rod in the handful of off-year and special elections held early this year.
Through aligned political groups, Musk dished out roughly $20 million in battleground Wisconsin’s high-profile state Supreme Court race, in support of Trump-backed judge Brad Schimel, the conservative-leaning candidate in the election.
Musk, in a controversial move, handed out $1 million checks at a rally in Green Bay two nights ahead of the election to two Wisconsin voters who had already cast ballots in the contest and had signed a petition to stop “activist judges.”
Musk, at the rally, donned a cheesehead hat – a foam wedge which resembles a chunk of cheese – that is traditionally worn by devout Green Bay Packers football fans in Wisconsin and across the country.
However, Schimel ended up losing by 10 points to the Democratic-aligned candidate in what was supposed to be a close contest. Musk ended up getting tagged with plenty of blame in a race that partially turned into a referendum on his efforts at DOGE.
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Democrats repeatedly made Musk the bogeyman in their messaging in Wisconsin’s election and in other contests, and they pledged to continue to target him heading into next year’s midterm elections, when Republicans will be defending their razor-thin House majority and their modest Senate majority.
“Top of mind for voters are the pocketbook issues. Democrats are going to win by highlighting the fact that Republicans are failing at lowering costs because they are too busy pushing tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations, while making the rest of us pay for them,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee national press secretary Viet Shelton told Fox News.
Shelton emphasized that “Elon is, and forever will be, an instantly-recognizable manifestation of the fact that House Republicans don’t work for the American people, they work for the billionaires.”
So, were Musk’s potential political risks to Republicans behind his departure from the nation’s capitol?
A GOP strategist close to GOP lawmakers, when asked if Musk’s welcome was wearing out among congressional Republicans, said “yes to a point.”
“But I think the larger question about whether Musk and DOGE are liabilities in the midterms, I would say emphatically no,” added the strategist, who asked for anonymity to speak more freely.
The strategist noted that GOP lawmakers “who have talked about waste, fraud, and abuse, and have talked about the savings generated by DOGE, they’ve done quite well. It’s the folks who don’t want to message on it and have not put Democrats on defense, who are tired of Musk.”
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Additionally, veteran Republican strategist Matt Gorman disagrees with the Democrats’ argument about Musk’s lasting impact on the campaign trail.
“I don’t think that in any way Elon Musk will be a factor one way or another in the year-plus that we have until Election Day 2026,” Gorman, a veteran of numerous presidential and statewide campaigns, told Fox News.
Black Hawk helicopters are now obsolete, here’s the new game in town
The U.S. Army is preparing to retire its iconic Black Hawk helicopters — the workhorses of its air assault fleet for nearly five decades — in favor of a faster, more versatile aircraft built for the challenges of 21st-century warfare.
Bell Aircraft’s V-280 Valor, a cutting-edge tiltrotor aircraft, has been selected to begin phasing out the Black Hawk by the 2030s. Once fully deployed, it will be designated the MV-75, though a common nickname has yet to emerge. The Valor combines the vertical lift capabilities of a helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed-wing airplane, cruising at 320 mph — nearly double the Black Hawk’s top speed of 175 mph.
This hybrid design, enabled by tiltrotor technology, allows the MV-75 to hover, land vertically in tight spaces, and then shift into high-speed horizontal flight. It’s tailor-made for operations in the Indo-Pacific region, where U.S. forces must be able to travel long distances over the ocean and conduct rapid insertions into constrained environments, such as jungle clearings or island terrain without runways.
Fox News Digital recently took a tour of Bell’s Advanced Vertical Lift Center in Crystal City, Virginia.
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“The Army recognized that the battlefield has changed,” Rob Freeland, Bell’s director of government relations and public affairs, said in an interview with Fox News Digital. “The enemy now has long-range fires, advanced sensors, and robust networks. You have to move faster and strike before they do.”
Speed and range are at the heart of this transformation. As Freeland put it: “If you can move at twice the speed and range of your adversary, you can change the outcome before they can react.”
The MV-75 is designed to carry up to 14 troops and haul payloads of 10,000 pounds, making it ideal for rapid troop deployments, heavy resupply and surprise assault missions. It will also feature autonomous and semi-autonomous capabilities, a leap forward in reducing pilot workload and enabling future unmanned operations.
The V-280 Valor beat out a proposed joint Sikorsky-Boeing compound helicopter platform dubbed the SB-1 Defiant-X in 2019 for the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program.
The Army has contracted Texas-based aerospace company Bell to build six prototypes, conduct the first test flight by 2026 and begin full-scale production by 2028, with delivery targeted for 2030. However, leadership has expressed interest in accelerating that schedule under the Army Transformation Initiative.
“We’re not waiting for a distant out-year to make this thing real,” said Gen. James Mingus, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, speaking at the Mission Solutions Summit earlier this month. “We are driving to get this aircraft online years ahead of schedule.”
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The “MV” designation reflects the aircraft’s multi-mission and vertical takeoff capabilities. It’s built for a broad range of missions, including air assault, maritime interdiction, medical evacuation (MEDEVAC), combat search and rescue, and tactical resupply.
The first unit to receive the MV-75 will be the 101st Airborne Division, the Army’s elite air assault force.
One of the Army’s priorities in selecting a replacement was reliability. After years of dealing with aging helicopters requiring frequent maintenance, the Army is demanding aircraft that can stay in the fight with minimal downtime.
“Because it’s inherently reliable, you don’t need a mountain of gear next to you just to keep the aircraft flying,” said Freeland.
The MV-75 program is part of a broader Pentagon push to modernize U.S. military capabilities in an era defined by strategic competition with China.
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Since entering service in the late 1970s, the UH-60 Black Hawk has been the backbone of Army aviation. It has flown in nearly every major U.S. military operation over the past 40 years, from evacuating wounded troops in Grenada and Panama, to supporting combat and logistics missions in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Black Hawk was infamously involved in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, and became a household name through its depiction in the 1999 book and 2001 movie “Black Hawk Down.” Its versatility, durability and ability to perform under fire made it a symbol of American air power — but after decades of use, its replacement will need to adapt to the evolving battlefield.
Body language expert analyzes Obamas’ first public appearance in six months
Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama were seen in public for the first time in six months, via new photos captured by BackGrid outside the Lowell Hotel & Restaurant in Lenox Hill, Manhattan.
While Michelle Obama has refuted rumors of a separation amid solo appearances by the former president, the Lowell sighting was the first for the 44th first family since December 2024.
Guarded by the Secret Service, the Obamas stepped out into a car but with markedly different expressions and body language, an observation seconded by The Human Behavior Lab President Susan Constantine.
“Definitely a completely different [public] appearance than we’ve seen in the past,” Constantine told Fox News Digital in a Wednesday interview.
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As someone who has observed and analyzed the Obamas for many years, Constantine said their body language was concerning when it comes to the relationship rumors.
“When I’m looking at the photos, the distance between the two; with the two Secret Servicemen in between them [it] is showing that there’s literally a separation,” she said. “Almost like the two [USSS officers] inside are drawing a line between President and Missus Obama.”
“She’s out front-and-center and very joyful; very empowered; a real pep in her step,” Constantine added.
“She’s feeling quite confident in wherever she is at in her headspace, but you wouldn’t even think the two of them are together.”
Constantine remarked that the former president looked more like a Secret Service agent guarding Michelle Obama than her husband.
The former president appeared distraught, distracted and distant, she added.
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“You can see the stress in his face.”
While the two appear different on the surface, there are clues that the two are indeed a longtime couple. In several photos, the Obamas appear to have the same gait, and their heels lift off the ground in incidental tandem, the body language expert continued.
“That’s typical of being somebody who has been with you for a long time.”
However, as the rumors swirl, the body language seen may beget some of that conjecture.
“There is definitely something emotional – something internal between the two of them that is going on… He’s a shadow in her path.”
“It’s sad to see that – she is putting him through the ringer – there is certainly something serious going on in their relationship – I can say that with professional certainty.”
Fox News Digital reached out to a representative for the Obamas for comment.
Michelle Obama was noticeably absent from recent public events with her husband – including former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral.
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Executive branch couples from President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump back to former Vice President Dan Quayle and former second lady Marilyn Quayle were in attendance.
The only such dignitary without a mate was Obama – who spent much of the time instead of joshing with his otherwise political foe: Trump.
The former president was his jovial self as seen in the pool feed of that event.
The Obamas have been married for 32 years, but the former first lady has spoken about the tribulations of her marriage, including on her “IMO” podcast that she co-hosts with brother and former New York Knicks/Milwaukee Bucks Vice President Craig Robinson.
Tension rises between Orleans DA, sheriff as manhunt for escapees enters third week
The district attorney in New Orleans fired back at the local sheriff who sought his recusal from the investigation into a massive 10-man escape from the county’s jail, escalating a two-week war of words between the two.
After Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson, whose department runs the jail, filed a lawsuit seeking to bar Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams from investigating the jailbreak, Williams made clear his thoughts on the sheriff.
“After this jailbreak, jail leadership should have immediately requested an independent forensic processing of that scene,” he said Thursday evening in a media release. “It’s hard not to see this agency as anything but compromised until any bad actors have been identified and rooted out.”
“The Sheriff’s Office’s time and resources were clearly misspent this week, and once again, this office finds itself two steps behind the moment,” the release continued.
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“We, along with our other law enforcement partners, will remain focused on the crisis at hand: recapturing every individual involved in this escape, understanding the systemic failures or individual actions that made it possible, and implementing meaningful corrective measures.”
Hutson filed a motion in a New Orleans court after what she called “ongoing attacks” on the sheriff’s office in “an unprecedented display of political self-serving bias,” according to ABC News.
The sheriff noted that Williams is also backing her opponent in an upcoming reelection bid to remain the parish’s top cop. Last week, Hutson suspended campaign operations to focus on the breakout.
The matter was settled out of court on Thursday in a meeting with Orleans Parish Criminal Judge Nandi Campbell.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s office will continue to lead the investigation into how the men, including a four-time killer and a serial escapee, broke out of their cell and hopped the jail’s barbed-wire fence to freedom on May 16.
“I will continue to conduct an independent investigation into how the ten violent inmates escaped from the Orleans Justice Center on Friday, May 16,” Murrill said in an X post on Thursday night, adding that she will provide recommendations to relevant government entities to ensure such an escape never occurs again.
Friday marks two weeks since 10 inmates escaped from the Orleans Parish Justice Center in New Orleans. Two inmates, including a four-time convicted killer, are still on the loose after the jailbreak.
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Derrick Groves was convicted in October of a double-homicide stemming from a shooting during Mardi Gras in 2018. After his conviction, he pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter in unrelated cases and was scheduled to be sentenced in July. He was being held in the jail until his sentencing.
Antoine Massey, a four-time escapee known locally for consistently evading law enforcement, also remains free.
On Thursday, Crime Stoppers and the FBI both increased their rewards for information leading to the arrests of the pair. Each man now has a $50,000 bounty on his head.
The eight other escapees have been caught as local, state and federal law enforcement continue to pour resources into ending the manhunt for good.
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Fourteen people have been arrested for assisting the escapees either before or after they broke out.
Fox News Digital reached out to the offices of Hutson, Williams, Murrill and the New Orleans Criminal District Court for comment.
Diddy’s ex-assistant didn’t disclose alleged assaults, wanted to die with secrets
Sean “Diddy” Combs’
ex-assistant explained why she didn’t disclose that the rapper had sexually assaulted her while testifying Friday.
Mia told the jury there was a mediation after she left Combs’ company in 2017. According to Mia, her attorney asked for about $10 million. Mia revealed some of the physical abuse. She said she felt “really wrong and shameful” because she was breaking confidentiality. The former assistant claimed she did not reveal anything about the sexual assaults because she wanted to die with those secrets. Mia settled for about $400K, and personally received about $200K.
Mia said after mediation, she next spoke with Diddy in November of 2018 when Kim Porter died. Porter was the mother of Diddy’s children. Mia reached out to
the “Last Night” rapper. She claimed she felt terrible for Diddy and his family and believed the mediation was her fault.
Fox News’ Maria Paronich contributed to this report.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’
ex-assistant, testifying in his sex trafficking trial under a pseudonym, claimed she suffers from severe PTSD.
Mia testified that she does not work now. According to Mia, she has tried to work since leaving her job working for Diddy. However, she claimed she suffers from complex, severe PTSD.
Mia said that she can’t hold a job because she’s triggered by normal situations and has an overwhelming fear of being fired. Diddy’s ex-employee said she often misinterprets simple emails and someone saying “where are you” leads to her “freaking out.” Mia claimed all the feelings of getting in trouble come flooding back. According to Mia, Diddy caused these feelings.
Fox News’ Maria Paronich contributed to this report.
Sean “Diddy” Combs texted his former assistant twice after Cassie Ventura filed her sexual abuse lawsuit against the rapper. Cassie accused Diddy of abuse and rape in her lawsuit filed in November 2023. The singer-songwriter settled the lawsuit with Diddy one day later.
Mia, testifying under a pseudonym, told the jury Friday that she received two texts from Diddy after the lawsuit drama. The first message was sent to her on Feb. 4, 2024.
Diddy texted asking to call. Mia said did not respond. “I was terrified,” she told prosecutors.
The next message was sent to the ex-assistant on Feb. 7, 2024. In the message, Diddy asked to talk with Mia in order to have his “memory jogged.” Mia claimed she didn’t respond because she “wanted nothing to do with him or anything.” According to Mia, she believed these messages were “a front.”
Fox News’ Maria Paronich contributed to this report.
Mia, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-employee, testified she received a call from the rapper and his security after Cassie Ventura filed her civil lawsuit in November of 2023.
Diddy’s security guard, D-Roc, texted the former assistant after Cassie’s lawsuit. Mia claimed she was excited to hear from D-Roc. She did not think he was still working with Combs at that point.
On Nov. 30, 2023, D-Roc called Mia. According to Mia, D-Roc started catching her up on his life, but then switched to what was going on.
“Puff and Cass would just fight like a normal couple,” she recalled the security guard telling her on the phone. Mia said her alarm went off because D-Roc didn’t talk like that. The ex-assistant claimed D-Roc had witnessed the violence between Combs and Cassie. Mia said D-Roc sounded nervous and was talking in circles. D-Roc allegedly told her that Diddy missed Mia and that other people also agreed Combs and Cassie fought. Mia said she chose to keep her mouth shut.
Mia said D-Roc told her he was in Miami and she understood him to be at Combs’ home. According to Mia, it sounded like they wanted her to say something publicly. Mia testified that she didn’t want to talk to Diddy “because [she] was terrified.” Mia explained she was terrified on the call and felt like she needed to get a game plan. Mia chose to play dumb because she didn’t want her life to be in danger.
According to Mia, Combs called her shortly after the call with D-Roc. Mia said she threw her phone as hard as she could into the couch and ran outside because “it was so triggering.”
Fox News’ Maria Paronich contributed to this report.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former assistant once tried to run away from the rapper during a trip to St. Barts.
Mia testified that she went on a New Year’s Eve trip in 2010 with Diddy, Kim Porter
, the kids and an executive assistant of the rapper’s. Mia said she stayed on a yacht that Combs chartered during the trip. According to Mia, Diddy asked her to count the money in the safe. Mia counted it and Diddy allegedly “got really angry…that I was counting too slow.” Mia claimed she was “in shock” because he got irate and she was trying to count and make sure it was right. Mia said Combs chased her out of the room and cursed at her.
Mia testified that the money was more than $100 and explained security would normally count money for Diddy.
Mia said she ran to hide and begged the crew to get back to the mainland, but it was “like a hurricane” so they couldn’t. Mia testified that she hid from Diddy on the third floor. Kim allegedly came up and consoled Mia.
Mia said she saw Combs come up to the third floor “super angry” so she ran down the stairs and hid in the crew cabin. Mia eventually got to shore and the captain got a call that “I had to come back.” Mia did not want to go back, “I just wanted to run and hide and figure out a way out of St. Barts…away from him.”
However, she could not leave because someone on Combs’ staff had her passport. Mia went back because she felt she had to, “I obeyed Puff’s orders.”
According to Mia, she traveled with Diddy to Vegas from the New Year’s Eve trip.
Mia claimed she got into a car with Diddy, who was on the phone with someone. Combs was allegedly “telling a story that wasn’t true.” Mia said she interrupted, but didn’t get to finish because Diddy screamed at her and told someone else to deal with Mia. The ex-assistant claimed she was told to get on the jet and do what Combs says. Mia testified that she went to Vegas. “I didn’t think I had a choice,” she told prosecutors. Mia said she was “overwhelmed with fear” that she would be in trouble, fired and had no way out.
Fox News’ Maria Paronich contributed to this report.
“Mia,” a former assistant of Sean “Diddy” Combs, told the jury she didn’t leave her job working for the rapper over fears he would ruin her reputation.
Mia testified that she continued working for Combs until 2017. According to the ex-assistant, she did not feel like she could leave because she had tried to “run away before and it didn’t work.”
Mia claimed she did not think she could get another job because “[Diddy] would have made sure of it.” She told prosecutors she believed Combs “would have destroyed my reputation…I was scared of him.”
Fox News’ Maria Paronich contributed to this report.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former assistant was allegedly suspended without pay after telling security the rapper was “psycho.”
Mia, testifying anonymously, sent an email to Diddy’s security guard, D-Roc, on March 25, 2011.
In the email, shown to the jury, Mia wrote that Combs was “psycho” and “went crazy” because he didn’t see all his workout clothes options. She asked D-Roc for a warning before Diddy came back home because she was afraid she would face the same thing and be in trouble. After this incident, HR told Mia that Combs wanted her suspended without pay.
Fox News’ Maria Paronich contributed to this report.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’
ex-assistant, Mia, testified that when she would get suspended from her job, HR or a chief of staff would typically tell her. Before suspensions, there would be “some sort of violent situation.” According to Mia, she was either chased or reacting to a violent situation by Diddy. She was also once allegedly suspended for oversleeping after being awake for days.
The jury was shown notice from the head of HR to Mia on March 31, 2011. The judge pointed out the exhibit needed further redactions.
Mia explained before she got the document, she was suspended without pay. She said she had been at Diddy’s home in Los Angeles
. He was allegedly coming in from a hotel and had asked for a lot of options for certain workout clothes, which was typically the stylist’s job. According to Mia, Combs wasn’t in the best of moods and didn’t notice the then-assistant had laid the options out for him. He allegedly “began cursing me out and getting angrier and angrier and going on a rant about the lack of options and how he hated certain things.”
Mia claimed she tried to point out the other options and that “made him even more angry and it was really…he was just screaming and cursing at me.” Mia said she doesn’t remember, but “something violent happened.”
Fox News’ Maria Paronich contributed to this report.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former assistant, testifying under the name “Mia,” claimed she would be physically or emotionally abused if she disobeyed the rapper.
During testimony Friday, the jury was shown an email from Mia to Diddy regarding traveling home from South Africa that had been forwarded to the “Last Night” rapper’s chief of staff, Kristina “KK” Khorram.
Mia had written to Combs that she was embarrassed because the ex-assistant had booked her flight with her own money and if she changed the flight she would incur a charge she couldn’t afford. Mia explained she had to change her flight before at Diddy’s direction and it was expensive to keep changing.
In the next email, Mia wrote to clarify when Diddy wanted her back in the U.S. because Cassie was upset and “really heartbroken.” She told Diddy she would do whatever he wanted because she worked for him.
“From past experience, it didn’t matter what I wanted or anyone else wanted. He was in charge,” she told prosecutors.
Mia said if she didn’t do as Combs wished, she would have been in big trouble. According to Mia, she would have been suspended, fired, emotionally or physically abused.
Mia said these emails were sent after the alleged sexual abuse had begun. She wanted to stay with Cassie, but didn’t want to make Diddy mad. She signed them “love you” but did not love Combs romantically.
Fox News’ Maria Paronich contributed to this report.
Sean “Diddy” Combs threatened to “go to war” with his then-assistant if she didn’t call him back.
“Mia,” testifying anonymously, told the jury that
Diddy’s girlfriend Cassie Ventura was refusing to speak to him after finding out the rapper was seeing another woman.
The jury was shown a message where Diddy was allegedly threatening Mia if she didn’t call him back. Mia had taken a screenshot of a WhatsApp message that was sent to her by the rapper in October of 2015. Combs wrote, “If you don’t call me now, f— it all…f— her…call my hs now…f— ABC and all lawyers. Let’s go to war…” Mia said Diddy was threatening to tell Cassie about the sexual assaults “framed differently” to make them appear Mia had played a part in them. Mia said that made her feel “so scared.”
Mia explained that while in South Africa, she started writing and working on a comedy show based on her life and it was being sold to ABC. According to Mia, Combs was threatening the show. Mia responded that she would pull Cassie out of the fitting when she could, “Please extend my time to nine minutes. Please. I’m begging you.”
In a later message, Mia told Diddy Cassie needed time to change and she begged the rapper to be nice. There were then multiple “call me now” messages from Diddy. Mia responded that she woke up with all these messages on her phone.
Fox News’ Maria Paronich contributed to this report.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former assistant claimed the rapper once threatened to kill her.
While testifying under a pseudonym Friday, “Mia” recalled traveling to South Africa with Cassie Ventura to shoot a movie in 2015.
Diddy allegedly wanted Mia there to help out. Mia said while in South Africa, Cassie caught Combs cheating on her. Cassie allegedly saw a video online with Gina in it. Mia testified that Cassie was “devastated.” She added that Cassie and Diddy talked on the phone, but the singer-songwriter later refused to answer his calls. According to Mia, Combs had his chief of staff, Kristina “KK” Khorram, and others try to get Cassie on the phone. Mia testified she was put in the middle between Diddy and Cassie.
The jury was then shown messages between Mia and KK from October of 2015. They read the messages out loud in court. KK wrote, “PD wants to talk to you.” Mia responded, “She [Cassie] just tried to call him.” There were also “audio calls not completed” because Mia didn’t pick up the phone.
Mia explained she didn’t pick up some calls because of the time difference. Mia said she did eventually speak to Diddy. According to Mia, Diddy wasn’t in his right mind. She described the rapper as “irate,” slurring his words and said he threatened Mia’s job. “He threatened to kill me,” she told prosecutors.
In other calls, Diddy told Mia to get on a plane and come back and continued to allegedly threaten her job and her life.
They continued to read messages between Mia and KK in court. One of the messages read that if Mia didn’t call Diddy she would be fired. Mia testified these threats would make her feel terrified.
Fox News’ Maria Paronich contributed to this report.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former assistant testified that she still told the rapper she loved him after he allegedly sexually assaulted her.
Using the anonymous pseudonym “Mia,” Diddy’s ex-employee claimed she continued to tell him she loved him because that’s just how they talked.
During her testimony Thursday, the ex-assistant told the jury that the “Last Night” rapper sexually assaulted her at his Los Angeles home. Mia said she was sleeping in an unlocked room that had bunk beds. She allegedly woke up with Diddy on top of her, with instructions to be quiet. Mia testified that Diddy used one hand to get his pants off.
She claimed through tears, “He put himself inside of me.”
“I just froze,” Mia said on the stand. “I didn’t react.” She said she felt “terrified and confused and ashamed … and scared.”
Mia testified that she did not want to have sex with Diddy. The assault was allegedly very quick, “but felt like forever.” She didn’t remember how it ended, but she claimed he didn’t leave the job unfinished.
Fox News’ Maria Paronich and Fox News Digital’s Tracy Wright contributed to this report.
Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested in September 2024 on federal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering, after his homes in Miami and Los Angeles were raided. However, this isn’t the first time he has had a brush with the law.
Diddy faced seven years in prison in 1997 after he was charged with assault for attacking Steve Stoute, an executive at Interscope Records. The rapper posted $15,000 bail, and ended up being sentenced to a one-day anger management class, according to People magazine.
Later in 1998, Diddy and his then girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez
, were arrested following a shooting at a nearby club. Diddy was charged with illegal possession of a weapon, but was later acquitted of the crime. The charges against Lopez were dropped.
In 2015, Diddy was arrested on three counts of assault with a deadly weapon when a UCLA football coach accused him of swinging a kettlebell at him. The charges were later dropped.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal trial for sex crimes has entered its third week, with the entirety of the trial expected to last eight weeks.
The disgraced rapper has been denied bail multiple times and continues to be held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, where he has been since his arrest in September 2024.
While in the detention center, the rapper’s meal choices are limited, especially for breakfast, which occurs every morning at 6AM. The daily breakfast menu includes fruit, cereal, breakfast cake, sugar substitute packages and skim milk.
Diddy has spent many holidays, including Thanksgiving and Christmas, as well as his birthday, in the detention center.
On Christmas Day, Diddy’s menu featured
baked Cornish hen, macaroni and cheese, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls and a “holiday dessert,” however no special accommodations were made for his birthday meals.
He is expected to stay in the detention center throughout the entirety of the federal trial for alleged racketeering and sex trafficking.
Sean “Diddy” Combs appeared in the court room Friday ahead of continued testimony from the rapper’s ex-assistant. “Mia,” who has been testifying under a pseudonym will take the stand again today.
Diddy sat at the defense table wearing a light-colored sweater while his team discussed issues with the prosecution and Judge Arun Subramanian.
The federal judge asked the defense what their current access to Diddy is. Diddy’s lawyer, Marc Angifilo, claimed they see him starting at 8:00am, on breaks and here in the courthouse until 5:00pm every day.
According to Agnifilo, Diddy doesn’t have “minutes” left to make calls at MDC Brooklyn. Judge Subramanian noted Combs has only used 47 of his 300 minutes for May. The judge also said they can increase the minutes. He asked the defense to figure out the discrepancy.
The federal judge claimed Diddy’s case is pushing the boundaries, but said he can get Combs to court by 7:00am to confer with counsel and allow him to stay at court until 6:00pm every day.
Agnifilo said part of the problem is that the facility they are in at the courthouse does not allow for Diddy to view documents like he can at MDC.
Judge Subramanian said the other option would be to bring the rapper back to the MDC earlier. He told Diddy’s defense team to see if what he presented would work to fix the time issue and noted he will work on the documents issue. Subramanian also pointed out the access Agnifilo has to Combs is much greater than in any other case.
Fox News’ Maria Paronich contributed to this report.
During the third week of testimony in the federal trial for sex crimes against Sean “Diddy” Combs, the jury heard from the disgraced rapper’s former assistant.
His former assistant, who testified anonymously using the moniker “Mia,” got emotional while on the stand, as she testified to feeling powerless as Diddy allegedly sexually assaulted her once at his Los Angeles home and another time in New York during his 40th birthday celebrations.
Former federal prosecutor, Neama Rahmani, told Fox News Digital that Mia’s testimony as the fourth former Diddy assistant to take the stand “was the best because she corroborated the prior testimony and was a victim of her own.”
“Diddy was violent with her. He threw an ice bucket, bowl of spaghetti, turkey meat, computer and phone at her, threw her against doors and walls, and threw her into a pool,” Rahmani said of the allegations made in court on Thursday. “She was paid $50K to start and worked days straight with little to no sleep. She had to take Adderall to stay awake. This is forced labor for racketeering.”
Mia also testified to Cassie Ventura’s alleged abuse, describing “the time Combs slammed Cassie Ventura’s head on the corner of the bed and ‘cracked her head open,’” Rahmani added.
“I couldn’t tell him, no … I couldn’t tell him no about anything,” Mia said during her testimony. “I knew his power … control over me. I didn’t want to lose anything I worked so hard for.”
Fox News Digital’s Tracy Wright contributed to this report.
Judge Arun Subramanian has allowed Sean “Diddy” Combs to wear “non-prison” clothes for his trial.
The rapper was permitted five button down shirts, up to five pairs of pants, up to five sweaters, up to five pairs of socks, and up to two pairs of shoes without laces.
On the first day of testimony in the case, Diddy wore a khaki sweater over a white shirt with khaki pants.
“That change may seem minor, but it actually matters quite a bit,” criminal defense attorney Duncan Levin explained to Fox News Digital. “The optics of a defendant’s appearance can have a subtle but powerful effect on jurors. If he were forced to wear jail-issued clothing, it could create an unconscious presumption of guilt — even though jurors are instructed not to let that factor in. Allowing him to appear in normal clothing helps level the playing field and reinforces the presumption of innocence.”
“Especially in a case like this, where celebrity, image, and public perception are already playing such an outsized role, letting him look like a free man rather than a prisoner helps ensure the jury is focused on the evidence, not the wardrobe,” the lawyer, who worked on Harvey Weinstein’s defense, said.
Entertainment attorney Tre Lovell added: “Perception is very important. Based on the egregious allegations against Diddy, he needs to be presented in the exact opposite. The way he dresses, the way he conducts himself and the way he acts towards court, the participants and the jury is all extremely important. The prosecution is going to paint a very ugly picture of a violent rapist, and the jury needs to see a vision of someone that is kind and professional.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ trial began with jury selection on May 5 and could last up to two months.
During a hearing prior to the trial, the prosecution claimed they expect their case to take six weeks to argue, while Combs’ legal team estimated they would need two weeks to complete their defense. However, on Tuesday, the government told the judge they believe their case will take closer to five weeks instead of six.
Combs is accused of running a criminal enterprise through his various businesses. He used “firearms, threats of violence, coercion and verbal, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse” to fulfill his sexual desires, according to the unsealed indictment obtained by Fox News Digital.
According to court documents, Combs would force his victims to participate in what he called “freak offs.”
“Freak Offs were elaborate and produced sex performances that Combs arranged, directed, masturbated during, and often electronically recorded,” authorities stated. The indictment alleges the rapper was known to provide IV fluids to his victims following “freak offs” to recover from physical exertion and drug use.
Diddy has denied the allegations against him.
Fox News Digital’s Lauryn Overhultz contributed to this report.
Special prosecutor seeks to block defense witnesses over ‘hearsay’ Michael Proctor texts
Special prosecutor Hank Brennan asked the court to block Karen Read’s defense team from calling a group of newly announced witnesses to discuss a group text with Michael Proctor, the former Massachusetts state trooper who lost his job in March following an internal investigation that grew out of his testimony during her first trial.
The witnesses and their texts are an effort to introduce “inadmissible hearsay,” Brennan wrote to the judge.
“Furthermore, the text messages contain hearsay upon hearsay, and each statement and text message must conform with an exception to the hearsay rule,” he wrote, asserting that none of them have applicable exceptions and that Proctor, who is on the defense witness list, is available to testify.
The defense on Tuesday announced four supplemental witnesses.
In Brennan’s filing, he wrote that the defense plans to call four people with phone numbers “associated with a federally protected and confidential series of text messages from Michael Proctor’s personal cellphone.
“The text chain involved more than 38,000 text messages between nine people from October 2021 to August 2022, according to Brennan, and only three people on it were saved in Proctor’s phone, under “partial contact names.”
In a separate motion, the prosecution also asked for copies of all written communications between Read’s legal team and defense witness Kelly Denver.
The first witness for Karen Read’s defense is a crash reconstruction expert who aimed to take down the prosecution’s timeline regarding the last recorded interaction between victim John O’Keefe and his iPhone compared to “black box” data from her 2021 Lexus SUV.
Matthew DiSogra was tasked with interpreting the Aperture reports by Shanon Burgess and Dr. Judson Welcher for the defense.
Based on January reports received from Aperture
, he said, there were no instances where he found O’Keefe locked his iPhone before Read’s car recorded her going in reverse. In Aperture’s amended reports, issued in May, three calculations showed the phone lock beforehand, one at the same time, and 25 times afterward.
With a three-second adjustment pointed out in Burgess’ initial report but not applied, DiSogra said, calculations based on the amended report again do not show any instances of O’Keefe locking his phone before to the data event.
According to prior testimony, O’Keefe’s last recorded human contact with his phone came when he hit the lock button around 12:30 a.m. at 34 Fairview Road in Canton, Massachusetts, about 20 miles south of Boston.
Data from Read’s Lexus showed that it went in reverse at roughly the same time. Burgess and DiSogra disagreed over whether the data event indicates the exact time when she stopped going in reverse in the real world.
Read and two friends found him at the same address hours later, with his phone under his body, on the ground in a blizzard.
After about an hour and a half of questioning from defense attorney Alan Jackson, Judge Beverly Cannone called a morning break.
Morning recess called as defense attorney Alan Jackson winds down questioning of crash expert Matt DiSogra, from a firm called Delta V.
Karen Read’s defense team asked Judge Beverly Cannone to find her not guilty Friday, arguing that the prosecution failed to prove its case against her.
Alan Jackson argued for his motion for a required finding of not guilty the morning after special prosecutor Hank Brennan rested his case.
He said that prosecutors could not prove there was a collision and that prosecution experts, relying on circumstantial evidence, merely showed that Read’s SUV went in reverse.
Brennan countered that a “reasonable fact finder” would agree that Read was intoxicated and said the evidence of a collision was “abundant” — including shattered taillight fragments in O’Keefe’s clothes. He said in Read’s own words, she expected to find O’Keefe where she found him, and that data showed she’d backed up in the same place hours earlier.
Grace Edwards, a Massachusetts defense attorney who is following the case, said it’s a standard defense move made once the prosecution rests.
“It allows Jackson to argue that the commonwealth has not met their burden,” she told Fox News Digital. “In this type of a case, it will likely be denied.”
It was. Cannone immediately rejected the motion after the lawyers spoke to the court, and she called jurors to come in.
“On a murder [charge], she would never take the case from the jury,” Edwards said.
Karen Read’s defense
team is ready to begin tearing down the prosecution’s murder case against her after the commonwealth rested its case this week.
Read is accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, outside an acquaintance’s house party just after midnight on Jan. 29, 2022.
The prosecution alleges that Read struck him with her 2021 Lexus SUV in a drunken rage, before leaving him to freeze to death in the front yard of 34 Fairview Road in Canton, Massachusetts, 20 miles south of Boston.
Read’s defense team is set to begin presenting their case on Friday as attorneys Alan Jackson, David Yannetti and Robert Alessi look to sow reasonable doubt around the state’s allegations,
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Lindsay Lohan reveals why she fled Hollywood for Dubai’s peace and privacy
After nearly 30 years in the spotlight, Lindsay Lohan took a step back from the hustle and bustle of Hollywood and uprooted her life from Los Angeles to Dubai in 2014. Since then, the “Mean Girls” actress, 38, has not only become a wife and a mother, she has found peace within herself.
Lohan, who appears on the cover of Elle’s 2025 Summer Issue, opened up about her life overseas and what she’s learned about herself, both personally and professionally, since making the move.
“It’s hard in L.A. Even taking my son to the park in L.A., I get stressed. I’m like, ‘Are there cameras?’ In New York, there’s no worry; no one bothers us,” said Lohan, who shares 1-year-old son Luai with husband Bader Shammas. “Everyone has their own thing going on. There’s a different kind of energy in New York. I’d rather have downtime in New York than I would in L.A.”
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“But the nice thing about L.A. is, I like space [and you get that here]. But I’m thinking as I’m saying this, the funny thing is, in Dubai I get all of those things. I get the privacy, I get the peace, I get the space. I don’t have to worry there. I feel safe.”
Lohan, who began working at age 3 and gained stardom with her first movie role in the 1998 remake of “The Parent Trap,” was thrown into the thick of Hollywood. Often facing public scrutiny, the “Freaky Friday” star had enough and moved to Dubai in 2014.
“I feel like some of [my work] got overshadowed by paparazzi and all that kind of stuff when I was younger, and that’s kind of annoying. I wish that part didn’t happen,” Lindsay told Bustle in 2024.
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“I feel like that kind of took on a life of its own. So that’s why I wanted to disappear. I was like, ‘Unless there’s no story here, they’re not going to focus on just my work.’”
In 2022, Lohan spoke about how she was taking control of her own narrative through social media.
“In Dubai I get all of those things. I get the privacy, I get the peace, I get the space. I don’t have to worry there. I feel safe.”
“When I first started out in the business, none of us had a say in how to control our own narrative,” she told Cosmopolitan. “There were paparazzi pictures, and then people ran with it. So I think it’s really good that, in this day and age, people can say who they are and who they want to be. And I admire and appreciate that. I’m a little jealous because I didn’t have that. But I think it moves really fast, and I just try to keep up as best I can. And I check everything before I post it. I’ll send it to people, because you have to.”
“You have to take everything people say with a grain of salt and just be you and slow down because everyone’s so quick right now,” she said. “People just don’t stop. You’ve got to chill.”
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After moving to Dubai, Lohan quickly learned the power of saying “no” when it comes to picking and choosing professional projects.
“They teach you to say ‘yes’ to everything, and that’s not really what life’s all about,” she told Bustle of her earlier years in the industry. “I was like, ‘What if I never fall in love? What if this never happens?’ And it took me just taking time for me for all those doors to open and the ‘yeses’ to come, the things I wanted to say ‘yes’ to.”
Since her return to the big screen, Lohan, who stars alongside Jamie Lee Curtis in “Freakier Friday,” said she’s found that prioritizing herself makes a huge difference in her overall well-being.
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“[Jamie and I] are both very family-oriented people. We always talk about that, and one of the other big things [she’s taught me] is to always take care of yourself first,” she told Elle. “Because without that, how can you do everything for everyone else?”
“I love having a routine, and I like schedules,” she continued. “So, my morning routine: waking up, writing in my journal, sipping my green tea, breakfast with my son, and then Pilates, making sure I go.”
Despite her hectic schedule, Lohan said the “most important thing” in her life is family.
“I mean, it’s the most important thing: my husband, my son and me. It’s all about balance and, as I said, routine. Especially when you have a kid, routine is the most important thing. And whatever their routine is, I’ve got to live by that.”
Lohan is no stranger to criticism. With fame comes speculative curiosity, especially when it comes to her appearance.
Elsewhere in the Elle interview, Lohan shut down rumors that she had a facelift. The star shared the secrets behind the skincare routine that she says has dramatically altered her look.
“Everyone does Botox,” Lohan said. “I drink this juice every morning. It’s like carrot, ginger, lemon, olive oil, apple. I also drink a lot of green tea, a lot of water. I’m a big pickled beets person, so I put them in almost everything. My skincare is very specific. I’m trying out some serums now that I’m doing. I’m testing them.”
“Also, I’m a big believer in ice-cold water on your face when you wake up,” the 38-year-old said. “I drink lemon juice a lot. I also put tons of chia seeds in my water. Eye patches I do every morning. I’m into lasers.”
“I did Morpheus8 (a noninvasive radiofrequency microneedling treatment) once, and then I realized my skin is so thin that I can’t be doing that,” Lohan said.
“My skin changed after having my son. It got really sensitive. That’s what really made me change my whole routine and diet and everything. I did blood tests, and I was like, ‘I want to know everything I’m allergic to.’ So I cut everything out, and that’s kind of when everything started to change for me.”