Sweden
Swedish court imprisons man convicted of pressuring his wife to sell sexual services
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court on Tuesday convicted a man of charges including aggravated procurement for pressuring his wife into selling sex to a large number of other men, and sentenced him to four years and five months in prison.
The district court in the Angermanland region of northern Sweden also convicted the man, whose name it didn’t release, of one count of attempted rape, two of assault, six of unlawful threats and a minor doping offense. It ordered him to pay damages of 200,000 kronor ($21,300) to his wife.
The man has been in custody since October after the woman reported the incidents to police. Prosecutors said earlier this year that he was suspected of selling sex with his wife to at least 120 men.
After a hearing that ended in late May, the court acquitted the defendant of eight counts of rape and another three of attempted rape.
It said that it was unable to establish in seven cases that the plaintiff’s participation was involuntary and, in the other case, it wasn’t clear what sexual acts took place.
The court established “that the man influenced and coerced his wife into performing sexual acts on herself, broadcasting them online, receiving additional sex buyers, and attempting to persuade neighbors and customers to have sex with her,” Judge Johan Ahlberg said in a statement. “In many cases, this was also done through prolonged nagging and the use of unpleasant and condescending language.”
The man has denied all the charges and claimed that he helped his wife, who allegedly wanted to sell sex, Swedish news agency TT reported.
Alongside the main suspect, 29 people were charged with the purchase of sexual services or acts. Twenty-eight of them were convicted of a total of 56 such purchases, the court said, and two were sent to prison.
Swedish law criminalizes buying sex and procuring it, but doesn’t criminalize the selling of sex by sex workers, who are considered exploited victims.
New York
Judge tosses out Dawn Richard’s lawsuit against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has tossed out singer Dawn Richard’s lawsuit against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, saying most of her claims of emotional and physical abuse, including groping, were not filed in the required year after the described events.
Judge Katherine Polk Failla in a ruling dated Friday and released publicly on Monday said Richard can refile her claims in state court on one allegation against the hip-hop impresario but cannot refile claims that have missed the deadline by which a lawsuit must be filed under New York law by over a decade.
The judge flexed her vocabulary in writing that the court ruling “exists independently of its disapprobation of the factual allegations, which, if true, are execrable.” In lay terms, that means the court’s ruling is not based on whether the judge approves or disapproves of what Comb’s is accused of.
Arick Fudali, a lawyer for Richard, said the singer will refile her primary claim in state court under the gender-motivated violence act.
“We certainly agree with the Judge that the allegations in this case are execrable,” Fudali said in a statement sent by email, repeating “execrable,” which means extremely bad. “We intend to continue to fight for Dawn until justice is achieved.”
Lawyers for Combs did not immediately return requests for comment. When the lawsuit was filed in September 2024, his representatives said Combs was “shocked and disappointed” by the lawsuit and questioned why Richard would work with him so long if he were so bad.
Richard, a singer in the Bad Boy Records groups Danity Kane and Diddy — Dirty Money from 2004 to 2012, testified at last year’s New York trial where Combs was convicted on prostitution-related charges but was acquitted of more serious sex trafficking charges.
She told the jury in Manhattan federal court that she saw Combs beat his girlfriend in 2009 and that Combs later threatened her to remain silent about what she witnessed.
In her lawsuit, Richard alleged that during her eight-year association with Combs, she suffered abuse, manipulation and violence and was subjected to Combs routinely using disparaging language to describe women.
According to the lawsuit, Combs regularly deprived Richard and her bandmates of food and sleep and made her feel embarrassed and powerless when he angrily responded to her request that he clothe himself when he held meetings in his underwear.
The lawsuit also alleged that Richard was regularly subjected to drug-fueled parties where Combs and his friends would perform sexual acts on incapacitated young women.
She claimed Combs regularly exploded in rage, hurling cellular phones, laptops, food and studio equipment. At other times, the lawsuit said, Richard witnessed him choking and strangling his protege and longtime girlfriend, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura.
Ventura testified for several days at the trial that resulted in a four-year, two-month prison sentence for Combs.
Kentucky
Former Louisville police officer charged with manslaughter in fatal shooting of naked man
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A former Louisville police officer who resigned last week was charged by a grand jury Monday with manslaughter for fatally shooting a naked man while responding to an alleged assault.
The grand jury in Louisville also indicted Nathan A. Stotts on a charge of reckless homicide for the May 30 fatal shooting of 27-year-old Martin Nitzken Jr.
Stotts encountered Nitzken after being called to a neighborhood on a report that three women had been assaulted, Louisville police said. Officers were told the suspect had no clothes on and was running down the street.
On Stotts’ body camera footage released by Louisville police, the officer can be seen with his gun drawn walking toward a nude man sitting in the street. The man gets up and starts moving toward Stotts, who orders him to stop. The man continues to advance and the officer fires one shot. The man drops to his knees and doesn’t move as the video ends.
Nitzken was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police Chief Paul Humphrey said at a news conference earlier this month that Nitzken was “naked, stumbling and unarmed.”
“Sometimes we have to make decisions to take people’s lives, and this was not one of them,” Humphrey said. He said he would have rather seen the officer use nonlethal force as the victim advanced toward him.
Humphrey signaled that he would fire Stotts after the body camera footage was released earlier this month, but Stotts resigned. He joined the force in 2024.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Gerina Whethers said in a media release Monday that the grand jury declined to charge Stotts with murder.
The second-degree manslaughter charge carries a maximum prison sentence of five to 10 years and the reckless homicide charge has a maximum penalty of one to five years in prison.
An attorney for Stotts could not be located in court records Monday. Louisville police said Monday in a statement that they “remain committed to transparency, accountability, and cooperation with all reviewing agencies.”
“Because this matter is the focus of criminal and internal investigations, it is inappropriate to comment further,” the statement said.
Louisville’s police department has worked to repair its image with the public in recent years after the controversies that followed the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in her apartment in 2020.
Earlier this year, a federal judge agreed to dismiss all charges against two former Louisville officers who helped craft the warrant that was used to enter Taylor’s home before she was shot.
England
Naomi Campbell appears at court to give evidence against her charity trustee ban
LONDON (AP) — British supermodel Naomi Campbell appeared in a London court Tuesday, giving evidence in a bid to overturn an official decision to ban her from being a charity trustee in England and Wales.
The U.K.’s charity regulator in 2024 disqualified Campbell, 56, as a charity trustee for five years after finding serious financial mismanagement of “Fashion for Relief,” a charity she founded.
The Charity Commission said at the time that thousands of pounds worth of the charity’s funds were used to pay for a luxury hotel stay in Cannes, France, for Campbell as well as spa treatments, room service and even cigarettes.
Only 8.5% of the charity’s overall expenditure went to charitable grants in a six-year period from 2016, the regulator said.
Campbell launched an appeal against her ban last year, claiming she was a “victim of fraud and forgery.” In a written statement before giving evidence Tuesday, the model said she has “never undertaken philanthropic work for personal gain, nor will I ever do so.”
“My investigation has revealed identity fraud and deception and helps uncover why most of the funds weren’t used as intended,” she said. “What my legal team has unearthed is shocking, involving fake email addresses and forged communications with the authorities.”
The commission also found fellow trustee Bianka Hellmich received around 290,000 pounds ($385,000) of unauthorized funds for consultancy services. She has been disqualified as a trustee for nine years. A third trustee, Veronica Chou, was barred for four years.
Fashion for Relief was registered in 2015 with the aim of uniting the fashion industry to relieve poverty and help those affected by natural or other disasters around the world. The organization was dissolved and removed from the register of charities in 2024.
Michigan
Chatfield pleads guilty to embezzling from Peninsula Fund
On Tuesday, in the 30th Circuit Court in Ingham County, Stephanie Chatfield, 38, of Levering, pled guilty to one felony count of Embezzlement from a Non-Profit, $200-$1,000, announced Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Per a plea and sentencing agreement submitted to the Court, Chatfield will serve a term of probation as determined by the Court and, upon successful completion of that term of probation, the remaining counts against her will be dismissed.
Chatfield was charged in April of 2024 with one count each of Embezzlement from a Non-Profit Organization and Conspiracy to Commit Embezzlement from a Non-Profit Organization. She was bound over to stand trial on these charges in the Circuit Court in May of 2025. As the victim non-profit Peninsula Fund is now defunct, no restitution is likely to be ordered.
“Non-profits and 501(c)4 organizations are meant to support the public welfare and wellbeing, they’re not a personal slush fund for the politically connected,” said Attorney General Nessel. “These are strictly regulated accounts and that regulation relies, in-part, on honest operations and truthful financial reporting. When public oversight fails to hold their operators accountable to their mission, and their donors, my office will act to maintain the public integrity, including, when necessary, by securing criminal convictions such as this one.”
Chatfield is scheduled for sentencing on July 20th in the 30th Circuit Court.
Swedish court imprisons man convicted of pressuring his wife to sell sexual services
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court on Tuesday convicted a man of charges including aggravated procurement for pressuring his wife into selling sex to a large number of other men, and sentenced him to four years and five months in prison.
The district court in the Angermanland region of northern Sweden also convicted the man, whose name it didn’t release, of one count of attempted rape, two of assault, six of unlawful threats and a minor doping offense. It ordered him to pay damages of 200,000 kronor ($21,300) to his wife.
The man has been in custody since October after the woman reported the incidents to police. Prosecutors said earlier this year that he was suspected of selling sex with his wife to at least 120 men.
After a hearing that ended in late May, the court acquitted the defendant of eight counts of rape and another three of attempted rape.
It said that it was unable to establish in seven cases that the plaintiff’s participation was involuntary and, in the other case, it wasn’t clear what sexual acts took place.
The court established “that the man influenced and coerced his wife into performing sexual acts on herself, broadcasting them online, receiving additional sex buyers, and attempting to persuade neighbors and customers to have sex with her,” Judge Johan Ahlberg said in a statement. “In many cases, this was also done through prolonged nagging and the use of unpleasant and condescending language.”
The man has denied all the charges and claimed that he helped his wife, who allegedly wanted to sell sex, Swedish news agency TT reported.
Alongside the main suspect, 29 people were charged with the purchase of sexual services or acts. Twenty-eight of them were convicted of a total of 56 such purchases, the court said, and two were sent to prison.
Swedish law criminalizes buying sex and procuring it, but doesn’t criminalize the selling of sex by sex workers, who are considered exploited victims.
New York
Judge tosses out Dawn Richard’s lawsuit against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has tossed out singer Dawn Richard’s lawsuit against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, saying most of her claims of emotional and physical abuse, including groping, were not filed in the required year after the described events.
Judge Katherine Polk Failla in a ruling dated Friday and released publicly on Monday said Richard can refile her claims in state court on one allegation against the hip-hop impresario but cannot refile claims that have missed the deadline by which a lawsuit must be filed under New York law by over a decade.
The judge flexed her vocabulary in writing that the court ruling “exists independently of its disapprobation of the factual allegations, which, if true, are execrable.” In lay terms, that means the court’s ruling is not based on whether the judge approves or disapproves of what Comb’s is accused of.
Arick Fudali, a lawyer for Richard, said the singer will refile her primary claim in state court under the gender-motivated violence act.
“We certainly agree with the Judge that the allegations in this case are execrable,” Fudali said in a statement sent by email, repeating “execrable,” which means extremely bad. “We intend to continue to fight for Dawn until justice is achieved.”
Lawyers for Combs did not immediately return requests for comment. When the lawsuit was filed in September 2024, his representatives said Combs was “shocked and disappointed” by the lawsuit and questioned why Richard would work with him so long if he were so bad.
Richard, a singer in the Bad Boy Records groups Danity Kane and Diddy — Dirty Money from 2004 to 2012, testified at last year’s New York trial where Combs was convicted on prostitution-related charges but was acquitted of more serious sex trafficking charges.
She told the jury in Manhattan federal court that she saw Combs beat his girlfriend in 2009 and that Combs later threatened her to remain silent about what she witnessed.
In her lawsuit, Richard alleged that during her eight-year association with Combs, she suffered abuse, manipulation and violence and was subjected to Combs routinely using disparaging language to describe women.
According to the lawsuit, Combs regularly deprived Richard and her bandmates of food and sleep and made her feel embarrassed and powerless when he angrily responded to her request that he clothe himself when he held meetings in his underwear.
The lawsuit also alleged that Richard was regularly subjected to drug-fueled parties where Combs and his friends would perform sexual acts on incapacitated young women.
She claimed Combs regularly exploded in rage, hurling cellular phones, laptops, food and studio equipment. At other times, the lawsuit said, Richard witnessed him choking and strangling his protege and longtime girlfriend, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura.
Ventura testified for several days at the trial that resulted in a four-year, two-month prison sentence for Combs.
Kentucky
Former Louisville police officer charged with manslaughter in fatal shooting of naked man
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A former Louisville police officer who resigned last week was charged by a grand jury Monday with manslaughter for fatally shooting a naked man while responding to an alleged assault.
The grand jury in Louisville also indicted Nathan A. Stotts on a charge of reckless homicide for the May 30 fatal shooting of 27-year-old Martin Nitzken Jr.
Stotts encountered Nitzken after being called to a neighborhood on a report that three women had been assaulted, Louisville police said. Officers were told the suspect had no clothes on and was running down the street.
On Stotts’ body camera footage released by Louisville police, the officer can be seen with his gun drawn walking toward a nude man sitting in the street. The man gets up and starts moving toward Stotts, who orders him to stop. The man continues to advance and the officer fires one shot. The man drops to his knees and doesn’t move as the video ends.
Nitzken was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police Chief Paul Humphrey said at a news conference earlier this month that Nitzken was “naked, stumbling and unarmed.”
“Sometimes we have to make decisions to take people’s lives, and this was not one of them,” Humphrey said. He said he would have rather seen the officer use nonlethal force as the victim advanced toward him.
Humphrey signaled that he would fire Stotts after the body camera footage was released earlier this month, but Stotts resigned. He joined the force in 2024.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Gerina Whethers said in a media release Monday that the grand jury declined to charge Stotts with murder.
The second-degree manslaughter charge carries a maximum prison sentence of five to 10 years and the reckless homicide charge has a maximum penalty of one to five years in prison.
An attorney for Stotts could not be located in court records Monday. Louisville police said Monday in a statement that they “remain committed to transparency, accountability, and cooperation with all reviewing agencies.”
“Because this matter is the focus of criminal and internal investigations, it is inappropriate to comment further,” the statement said.
Louisville’s police department has worked to repair its image with the public in recent years after the controversies that followed the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in her apartment in 2020.
Earlier this year, a federal judge agreed to dismiss all charges against two former Louisville officers who helped craft the warrant that was used to enter Taylor’s home before she was shot.
England
Naomi Campbell appears at court to give evidence against her charity trustee ban
LONDON (AP) — British supermodel Naomi Campbell appeared in a London court Tuesday, giving evidence in a bid to overturn an official decision to ban her from being a charity trustee in England and Wales.
The U.K.’s charity regulator in 2024 disqualified Campbell, 56, as a charity trustee for five years after finding serious financial mismanagement of “Fashion for Relief,” a charity she founded.
The Charity Commission said at the time that thousands of pounds worth of the charity’s funds were used to pay for a luxury hotel stay in Cannes, France, for Campbell as well as spa treatments, room service and even cigarettes.
Only 8.5% of the charity’s overall expenditure went to charitable grants in a six-year period from 2016, the regulator said.
Campbell launched an appeal against her ban last year, claiming she was a “victim of fraud and forgery.” In a written statement before giving evidence Tuesday, the model said she has “never undertaken philanthropic work for personal gain, nor will I ever do so.”
“My investigation has revealed identity fraud and deception and helps uncover why most of the funds weren’t used as intended,” she said. “What my legal team has unearthed is shocking, involving fake email addresses and forged communications with the authorities.”
The commission also found fellow trustee Bianka Hellmich received around 290,000 pounds ($385,000) of unauthorized funds for consultancy services. She has been disqualified as a trustee for nine years. A third trustee, Veronica Chou, was barred for four years.
Fashion for Relief was registered in 2015 with the aim of uniting the fashion industry to relieve poverty and help those affected by natural or other disasters around the world. The organization was dissolved and removed from the register of charities in 2024.
Michigan
Chatfield pleads guilty to embezzling from Peninsula Fund
On Tuesday, in the 30th Circuit Court in Ingham County, Stephanie Chatfield, 38, of Levering, pled guilty to one felony count of Embezzlement from a Non-Profit, $200-$1,000, announced Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Per a plea and sentencing agreement submitted to the Court, Chatfield will serve a term of probation as determined by the Court and, upon successful completion of that term of probation, the remaining counts against her will be dismissed.
Chatfield was charged in April of 2024 with one count each of Embezzlement from a Non-Profit Organization and Conspiracy to Commit Embezzlement from a Non-Profit Organization. She was bound over to stand trial on these charges in the Circuit Court in May of 2025. As the victim non-profit Peninsula Fund is now defunct, no restitution is likely to be ordered.
“Non-profits and 501(c)4 organizations are meant to support the public welfare and wellbeing, they’re not a personal slush fund for the politically connected,” said Attorney General Nessel. “These are strictly regulated accounts and that regulation relies, in-part, on honest operations and truthful financial reporting. When public oversight fails to hold their operators accountable to their mission, and their donors, my office will act to maintain the public integrity, including, when necessary, by securing criminal convictions such as this one.”
Chatfield is scheduled for sentencing on July 20th in the 30th Circuit Court.
