Music mogul faces charges following raids, human trafficking investigation
Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested Monday in Manhattan, Fox News Digital confirmed. It’s unclear what charges Diddy faces.
Combs was arrested in the lobby of a New York hotel, a source confirmed to Fox News Digital.
“We are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” Marc Agnifilo, Combs’ lawyer said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.
“Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving family man, and proven philanthropist who has spent the last 30 years building an empire, adoring his children, and working to uplift the Black community. He is an imperfect person but he Is not a criminal. To his credit Mr. Combs has been nothing but cooperative with this investigation and he voluntarily relocated to New York last week in anticipation of these charges. Please reserve your judgment until you have all the facts. These are the acts of an innocent man with nothing to hide, and he looks forward to clearing his name in court.”
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams confirmed on X that a sealed indictment was filed and will be unsealed in the morning.
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“USA Damian Williams: Earlier this evening, federal agents arrested Sean Combs, based on a sealed indictment filed by the SDNY,” the US Attorney’s office shared on X. “We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time.
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On March 25, the music mogul’s homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided in connection to a federal human trafficking investigation, officials confirmed to Fox News Digital at the time.
“Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York executed law enforcement actions as part of an ongoing investigation, with assistance from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Miami, and our local law enforcement partners,” Homeland Security Investigations said in a statement. “We will provide further information as it becomes available.”
Combs, 51, still faces potential litigation in a handful of civil suits and one criminal lawsuit.
In November, Cassie, legally known as Casandra Ventura, accused Combs of raping her in her own home, enduring “over a decade” of his “violent behavior and disturbed demands” and forcing her to have sex with male prostitutes while he watched and filmed.
One day after she filed the claim, Combs and Cassie came to an amicable resolution, and she dropped the lawsuit. In May, a clip obtained exclusively by CNN from 2016 showed the rapper running down a hotel hallway wearing a towel. Moments before, Cassie (Cassandra Ventura) had walked down the same hallway with bags in her hand toward the elevators.
Once Combs reached the elevators, he grabbed Cassie by the neck and threw her to the ground. Combs then kicked her twice, picked up her bags and dragged her back down the hallway before she returned to the same area to use a phone.
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Days later, Combs issued an apology on Instagram. “It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you got to do that. I was f—ed up — I hit rock bottom — but I make no excuses,” Combs said. “My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video.”
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Combs admitted, “I was disgusted then when I did it. I’m disgusted now. I went and I sought out professional help. I got into going to therapy, going to rehab. I had to ask God for his mercy and grace. I’m so sorry. But I’m committed to be a better man each and every day. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m truly sorry.”
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Three more women came forward with claims just before New York’s Adult Survivors Act expired in December. Joi Dickerson-Neal and Liza Gardner each accused the “It’s All About the Benjamins” musician of sexual assault in separate filings.
Jane Doe alleged that she had been sexually assaulted by Combs and the president of his entertainment company, Harve Pierre, along with a third individual, when she was 17 years old, according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
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Diddy denied the claim, saying in a statement shared with Fox News Digital: “Enough is enough. For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character, destroy my reputation and my legacy.”
A music producer, Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, who sued Combs for sexual assault in February, also added actor Cuba Gooding Jr. to his complaint. Jones, who produced “The Love Album: Off the Grid,” claimed that he had lived with Combs for extended periods of time and accused the “I’ll Be Missing You” singer of sexual assault and forcing him to perform sex acts with prostitutes.
Combs’ legal team slammed Jones’ accusations as “complete lies,” and claimed the producer was “nothing more than a liar who filed a $30 million lawsuit shamelessly looking for an undeserved payday,” Combs’ attorney Shawn Holley told Fox News Digital at the time.
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In May, two more accusers came forward with accusations in lawsuits filed against the Bad Boy Records founder. Model Crystal McKinney claimed she was attacked and forced to “perform oral sex” on Diddy at his recording studio in 2003.
Former Arista records intern April Lampros said her friendship with Combs in the ’90s quickly “manifested into an aggressive, coercive, and abusive relationship based on sex,” in documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
Lampros recalled “four terrifying sexual encounters” with Combs, one of which was from 1996 when Combs “forced” Kim Porter and Lampros to take ecstasy and then “demanded Kim Porter to have sexual intercourse with Ms. Lampros.”
Combs and Porter dated for nearly 13 years and have three children together. Porter died in November 2018. She was 47.
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Dem lawmaker shifts blame to GOP after second Trump assassination attempt
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., said on Monday how the second assassination attempt against former President Trump was a “confluence” of Republican “misinformation” and “fear-mongering” alongside the “complete availability of assault rifles.”
Sherrill spoke to CNN’s Jim Acosta one day after Secret Service agents successfully thwarted the assassination attempt at Trump International Golf Club, opening fire on the suspect who was later taken into custody.
Although Sherrill acknowledged the Secret Service needed to do more to protect Trump, she linked the attempted assassination to the GOP.
“I think we also have to address some underlying issues that are going on here as well. This really seems to be the confluence of two very bad things going on in the Republican Party,” Sherrill said.
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She added, “On one side, the attempts to divide, to enrage the population, to put out false rumors and misinformation. We know the mayor in Springfield is begging the Republican Party to stop with the false information on immigrants. They have portions of the town on lockdown at this point, and an increase in all of the partisanship and the fear-mongering that’s going on.”
“And then on the other side, we have this complete availability of assault rifles, too. It seems almost anyone who wants to have access. So how did this man, who already had some convictions for barricading himself with a weapon, have access to weapons of war that I was trained on when I was in the military?” Merrill asked.
Acosta later referenced a since-deleted post from X CEO Elon Musk asking, “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?” and remarking, “And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala.” He asked Sherrill whether Musk could be in “legal jeopardy” from his post.
“Well, it certainly I think opens him up to some moral jeopardy. Why is he asking that question? Is he suggesting people should take note of that and take action? I mean, right now, when we continue to see these attempts to divide people, to divide the American population, to create chaos, to sow discord, this is a very dangerous time, and we need leaders who are going to bring people together to unite us,” Sherrill said. “And now as we face these perilous times, Donald Trump and the GOP and Project 2025 and J.D. Vance and now Elon Musk continue to try to sow division and wedges and hatred into the population. And I think it‘s very dangerous.”
Later on in the segment, Acosta commented, “It just seems as we‘re getting closer and closer to the election, the rhetoric is getting amped up to some pretty volatile levels.”
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“The rhetoric is getting amped up to very volatile lead levels on one side of the aisle. That is getting amped up by the GOP Republicans, MAGA Republicans, by Donald Trump,” Sherrill argued.
NBC host Lester Holt similarly remarked on Monday how the assassination attempt “comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail” from Trump.
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New poll indicates whether Harris or Trump has the edge in the most important swing state
A new poll conducted entirely after last week’s debate indicates Vice President Kamala Harris holding a three-point edge over former President Trump in Pennsylvania, which is arguably the most crucial of the seven key general election battleground states.
Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, is ahead of Trump, the GOP nominee, 49%-46% among likely voters in Pennsylvania, according to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll conducted Wednesday through Saturday (Sept. 11-14).
The vice president’s advantage over the former president among the 500 respondents is within the poll’s margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.
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The survey was conducted before Sunday’s second assassination attempt against Trump. And the poll was released on Monday, which marks 50 days until Election Day on November 5.
Both Harris and Trump have repeatedly made stops this summer in Pennsylvania, which along with Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada, had razor-thin margins that decided the outcome of the 2020 election between Trump and President Biden. And the seven states will likely determine whether Harris or Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.
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But with 19 electoral votes at stake, Pennsylvania’s the biggest of the key battlegrounds. And while the campaigns and their allied super PACs are pouring resources into all seven states, more money has been spent to run spots in Pennsylvania than any of the other battlegrounds. And both sides have dished out more dollars to reserve airtime going forward in the Keystone State than any of the other swing states, according to figures from AdImpact, a top national ad tracking firm.
Pennsylvania, along with Michigan and Wisconsin, are the three Rust Belt states that make up the Democrats’ so-called “Blue Wall.”
The party reliably won all three states for a quarter-century before Trump narrowly captured them in the 2016 election to win the White House.
Four years later, in 2020, Biden carried all three states by razor-thin margins to put them back in the Democrats’ column and defeated Trump.
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In addition to her statewide edge over Trump, two separate USA Today/Suffolk University surveys conducted post-debate in Erie and Northampton counties – two bellwethers that have historically predicted which presidential candidate carries Pennsylvania – indicate the vice president ahead by mid-single digits.
All three surveys indicated that a widening gender gap that benefits Harris is fueling her overall advantage over Trump.
In the statewide survey, Harris tops Trump by 17 points among female voters while the former president leads the vice president by a slimmer 12 points among men. Harris had even wider leads among women in Erie and Northampton counties.
“This is female-gender advantage on steroids,” Suffolk University Political Research Center director Dave Paleologos told Fox News. “In all three data sets, the women margin is around almost twice Trump’s edge among men.”
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The USA Today/Suffolk survey is the first conducted in Pennsylvania following the debate, which was held in Philadelphia. A CBS News survey in the field in early September, in the week before the debate, indicated a tied race in the Keystone State.
“It’s the one state that it’s hard to see someone losing and then still winning the presidential race,” Mark Harris, Pittsburgh-based longtime Republican national strategist and ad maker, told Fox News Digital earlier this month. “It’s clearly ground zero.”
Chilling final message from doomed Titan sub moments before vessel imploded
Occupants inside the OceanGate Titan submersible before its demise experienced faulty communications with the crew above the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, with one of their last phrases being transmitted to the world above being, “all good here.”
Nearly 15 months after U.K. billionaire Hamish Harding, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, father-son pair Shahzada Dawood and Suleman Dawood, and French mariner Paul-Henry Nargeolet, died when the OceanGate Titan submersible imploded on its way down the see the Titanic, the U.S. Coast Guard provided insight into those final moments, during the beginning of a multi-day hearing on the investigation.
The U.S. Coast Guard presented the animation on Monday on the first day of what is expected to be a two-week hearing on the causes of the implosion.
The five people inside the Titan were communicating via text messages with crew aboard the Polar Prince, a support ship that hauled the submersible to the location of the ill-fated Titanic.
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The Polar Prince set sail on June 16, 2023, at about 9 a.m. local time from St. John’s in Newfoundland, Canada. With the Titan on board, the two vessels reached the location of the Titanic on the morning of June 18.
The submersible began its descent to the Titanic just before 9:20 a.m. that morning, with occupants on both vessels communicating through text messages.
At 9:53 a.m., the Polar Prince asked the crew of the Titan if they could see the Polar Prince on its display inside the submersible. The Titan crew did not respond, and after 15 minutes and six more messages, the crew texted back.
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The Polar Prince told the crew of the Titan they needed better communications.
The person responding from the Titan identified himself as “PH,” who the Coast Guard believes was Nargeolet.
At that time, the Titan had reached a depth of about 2,275 meters with a pressure of 3,337 psi.
Nargeolet responded to the Polar Prince, “all good here.” when asked if they could see the Polar Prince on the display.
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Communications between the two vessels continued, with the Polar Prince asking about the Titan’s location to the Titanic and with a reminder to write down the location and time when deploying the “niskin bottle.”
The crew on the Titan told the crew on the Polar Prince at 10:41 a.m. that they would not be deploying the bottle because it was not cleaned.
At 10:47 a.m., the Titan notified the crew of the Polar Prince that it had dropped two weights.
Moments later, the Titan imploded.
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Just before 10:48 a.m., communications and tracking from the submersible to the Polar Prince were lost at a depth of 3,346 meters, the Coast Guard said.
The implosion that morning set off a worldwide debate about the future of private undersea exploration.
The Coast Guard’s report showed the submersible was left exposed to the elements while in storage for seven months in 2022 and 2023, adding that the hull was never reviewed by third parties, as is standard procedure.
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The unconventional design of the submersible also led to scrutiny from the undersea exploration community.
The first witness to testify during the hearing on Monday was OceanGate’s former engineering director, Tony Nissen, who said he felt rushed to start operations while he worked for the company. Nissen was asked if there was pressure to get the Titan into the water, and he responded, “100%.”
The marine board also asked the former engineering director if the pressure compromised safety decisions and testing. After a long pause, Nissen said, “No. … That’s a difficult question to answer, because given infinite time and infinite budget, you could do infinite testing.”
In 2018, Nissen testified, the Titan was struck by lightning during a test mission, which may have compromised the hull. Nissen said he was fired in 2019, the same year he refused to let the Titan go to the Titanic. He told Rush the Titan was “not working like we thought it would.”
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The submersible would later go through additional tests and adjustments before making subsequent dives to the Titanic, Nissen testified. However, he told the panel Monday that he did not trust the operations staff and testified when Rush asked him to pilot the submersible, he said, “I’m not getting in it.”
Nissen said Rush could be difficult to work for and was often very concerned with costs and project schedules. Nissen also said Rush would fight for what he wanted, which often changed daily.
“Most people would eventually just back down to Stockton,” he said.
The ongoing Marine Board of Investigation is the highest level of marine casualty investigation conducted by the Coast Guard. After its conclusion, recommendations will be submitted to the Coast Guard’s commandant. The National Transportation Safety Board is conducting an investigation, too.
“There are no words to ease the loss endured by the families impacted by this tragic incident,” Jason Neubauer of the Coast Guard Office of Investigations, who led the hearing, said. “But we hope that this hearing will help shed light on the cause of the tragedy and prevent anything like this from happening again.”
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Also scheduled to speak were the company’s former finance director, Bonnie Carl; and former contractor Tym Catterson.
After the Titan lost contact with its support vessel two hours after making its final descent, a massive search and rescue operation ensued, involving rescue ships, planes and other equipment. The search took place about 435 miles south of St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The search for the submersible attracted worldwide attention, as it became increasingly unlikely that anyone could have survived the implosion. Wreckage of the Titan was subsequently found on the ocean floor about 330 yards (300 meters) off the bow of the Titanic, Coast Guard officials said.
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The time frame for the investigation was initially a year, but the inquiry has taken longer. The Coast Guard said in July that the hearing would delve into “all aspects of the loss of the Titan,” including both mechanical considerations and compliance with regulations and crewmember qualifications.
The Titan had been making voyages to the Titanic wreckage site going back to 2021.
Travelers will need ‘permission’ and to pay fee to visit country under new system
The British government has rolled out a new requirement for travelers hoping to visit the country.
An “Electronic Travel Authorization” (ETA) has been implemented that digitizes tourists’ requests to visit the country while paying a fee of about $13.
“Everyone wishing to travel to the U.K. – except British and Irish citizens – will need permission to travel in advance of coming here,” says the United Kingdom government’s site.
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The ETAs are linked to a traveler’s passport in an effort to smooth security checks and “prevent abuse” of the immigration system.
There were 38 million visits to the U.K. during 2023, an increase of 6.7 million visits compared with 2022, according to the U.K. Office for National Statistics.
An online form will be made available asking for valid passport information, travel details, an email address and a credit or debit card, along with “suitability questions.”
The ETA applies to anyone visiting for up to six months for tourism, to see family and friends, for business or for short-term study.
“The worldwide expansion of the ETA demonstrates our commitment to enhance security through new technology and embedding a modern immigration system,” the minister for Migration and Citizenship, Seema Malhotra, said in a press release.
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“[Digitization] enables a smooth experience for the millions of people who pass through the border every year, including the visitors we warmly welcome to the UK who are predicted to contribute over £32 billion to our tourism economy this year,” added Malhotra.
The system will open up to all other nationalities, except Europeans, this November and will be required for entry beginning in April 2025.
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The United Kingdom plans to fully digitize its borders by 2025.
Actress recalls going on a date with Tom Cruise, explains why he didn’t ‘cut it’
Heather Locklear gave Tom Cruise a chance at the start of their careers, but his good manners didn’t align with her “rock and roll” persona.
Over the weekend, Locklear was on the panel at 90s Con Florida and discussed a time when she and Cruise auditioned for the same film.
“We both did an audition for the film together — the two of us — and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m terrible,’” Locklear said, per People. She then joked, “‘He’s even worse!’”
“So at that time he was just like this little baby boy that I feel like I was a little bit older, and he ended up coming over to my house with Sean Penn,” the actress continued. “And they were just nice, but he was very, ‘yes ma’am’ to me, and I was like, ‘okay, sir.’”
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After initially meeting, Locklear felt Cruise’s lifestyle wouldn’t align with hers. Still, she decided to go on a date with the rising star.
“He didn’t quite cut it,” Locklear shared. “We went out dancing to Club Lingerie at that time, and — and I’ve said this before — I mean, he was really cute.”
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Locklear explained that she was one of the first people to see Cruise’s famous dance move, where he slides to the ground on his knees, that was debuted in “Risky Business.”
“He actually did that before [the movie], and I was dancing along like, ‘Do you stop dancing if they’re down there?’” she said, referencing Cruise sliding on the ground. “I was like, ‘Yay!’ But he was very nice to me.”
Locklear added, referring to their audition, “Neither of us got that part by the way.”
Locklear went on to marry rocker Tommy Lee in 1986, but the couple divorced in 1993. She married her second husband, Richie Sambora, the following year. Richie and Heather split in 2007.
Cruise has been married three times. He wed his first wife, Mimi Rogers, in 1987 before divorcing in 1990. Cruise was married to Nicole Kidman for 11 years and then wed Katie Holmes in 2006. The couple split in 2012.
As for her career, in 1992, Locklear joined “Melrose Place” which spanned seven seasons. In April, it was announced that a reboot was planned 30 years after the original show first aired.
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“Melrose Place” was created as a spin-off series of the iconic, “Beverly Hills, 90210.” The show followed a group of people living in an apartment complex in West Hollywood, California.
Locklear made her first guest appearance on the show as Amanda Woodward in Season 1. She served as a guest star on the remainder of the seasons.
Locklear took a break from acting and came back on the scene for the Lifetime biopic “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story” after a five-year hiatus. The project was released in 2021.
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“I thought, ‘I don’t know if I’m going to work again,’” she told People at the time. “I don’t know if there’s going to be any offers. And then this came to me.”
Tech giant axes remote work, announces change for all employees going forward
Amazon will start expecting many employees to work in-person five days a week next year.
CEO Andy Jassy on Monday told Amazon employees the tech giant was “going to return to being in the office in the way we were before the onset of COVID” effective Jan. 2, with the expectation that people “will be in the office outside of extenuating circumstances… or if you already have a Remote Work Exception approved through your s-team leader.”
It represents the latest update to Amazon’s rules around in-person and remote work. The tech giant had previously transitioned from remote work to a mandated three days in office in May of last year and implemented some other changes.
Jassy linked the new five-day requirement to Amazon’s effort to be “better set up to invent, collaborate, and be connected enough to each other and our culture to deliver the absolute best for customers and the business,” according to his message.
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He also pointed to “significant” advantages related to culture, engagement, collaboration and training that he and Amazon believe in-person work provides.
Still, the tech giant’s CEO acknowledged that Amazon staffers could work virtually when they had things like illnesses and business travel pre-COVID and said such circumstances will be understood “moving forward as well.”
The company maintains numerous offices, including headquarters in Seattle, Washington, and Arlington, Virginia, and corporate sites in dozens of other places around the world.
“We are also going to bring back assigned desk arrangements in locations that were previously organized that way, including the U.S. headquarters locations (Puget Sound and Arlington),” Jassy told employees on Monday. “For locations that had agile desk arrangements before the pandemic, including much of Europe, we will continue to operate that way.”
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At the same time, Jassy announced the company would adjust its organization structure.
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Amazon has told every “s-team organization” to have a 15% larger proportion of “individual contributors” compared to managers by the end of 2025’s first quarter, according to his message.
The goal of reducing management layers is to promote more ownership among workers and speed up decision-making within the company’s culture, he told employees.
Jassy said the company’s culture has been “one of the most critical parts” of the company’s success over the years.
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The tech giant had a market capitalization of $1.94 trillion as of Monday afternoon.
Over the first half of the year, Amazon has generated $291.29 billion in total net sales. Its net income in the same time-frame was about $23.92 billion.
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‘America’s Got Talent’ contestant, 17, dead weeks after appearing on show
High school dance team member Emily Gold has died by suicide just weeks after appearing on “America’s Got Talent.”
Rancho Cucamonga’s Highway Patrol office issued a press release on Friday, stating their officers responded to a call of a “pedestrian down in lanes” on the 210 freeway late Friday night.
“An unidentified female was struck by at least one vehicle within the high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane of eastbound SR-210 freeway. The female succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene,” the press release read.
“The circumstances behind this incident are being investigated at this time,” the press release continued.
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The San Bernardino Coroners’ Office told Deadline they are treating Gold’s death as a suicide.
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A GoFundMe page was launched for Gold’s family. The 17-year-old’s family wrote, “With great sadness we share our Los Osos Grizzly Emily Gold has passed away. As a community lets come together and support the Gold family in this difficult time. Please know this money will go directly to the family to support them and help with expenses.”
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Los Osos High School Principal Eric Cypher issued a statement to parents and students following Gold’s death.
“I’m sorry to share tragic news with you regarding a fellow Grizzly. Early this morning, a senior and beloved Grizzly, Emily Gold, has passed away,” the message began, per Deadline. “Emily was on both our Varsity Dance Team and Varsity Cheer squad, our thoughts and prayer are with the family as they grieve.”
Los Osos High School’s varsity dance Instagram account shared a post full of videos, a picture and a message honoring Gold.
“We thank everyone for the love and support during this time of grief and just ask that you keep the Gold family in your thoughts and prayers,” the caption read.
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The high school dance team made it to the quarterfinals of “America’s Got Talent” in August. AGT did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Despite the dance team not making it to the final round, judge Simon Cowell shared some words of encouragement for the young dancers.
“It was absolutely brilliant,” Cowell said. “What I loved about this was first of all the energy. I think what I just saw is everything a great school should be doing, which is encouraging talent and friendship. “
He continued, “It reminded me of seeing the movie and thinking every kid should go to a school like that.”
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Shortly after appearing on the competition show, Gold spoke to People about her experience.
“When I’m performing, I’m really thinking about all the corrections because we get corrections up until five minutes before we go on stage. So to really just think about all those so that we apply them is my biggest priority on stage,” she said in August.