Lisa Rinna claims she was drugged with fentanyl at the “Traitors ”premiere party

Lisa Rinna claims she was drugged with fentanyl at the Traitors season 4 premiere party in January.

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• "I had fentanyl, high levels of amphetamines and other things," the Melrose Place star claimed. "But I can't talk a lot about it, because we're still dealing with it."

• Rinna declined to state whether she believes she knows who is behind the alleged drugging, but thanked her husband, Harry Hamlin, for being "able to get me out of there."

Lisa Rinnais opening up about a harrowing experience at a recentTraitorspremiere party.

TMZfirst reported on Monday that the pop culture icon was allegedly "roofied" at a premiere celebration for the fourth season of the hit reality competition series, which features Rinna and several beloved reality stars. The party took place at The Abbey, a popular gay bar in the West Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, on Jan. 8.

Now, Rinna herself has confirmed the speculation. When asked on Thursday byFox 5host Rosanna Scotto if she knew "for certain" that she was drugged, Rinna replied, "Well, I do."

"I had fentanyl in my system," Rinna said, confirming when Scotto asked if she took "a test" to verify the suspicion. "I'm not kidding. I had fentanyl, high levels of amphetamines, and other things. But I can't talk a lot about it, because we're still dealing with it. It was leaked, and my team is dealing with it now."

Rinna declined to state if she believes anyone in particular at the party was responsible for the alleged drugging, but expressed gratitude that her husband of 28 years, Harry Hamlin, "was there and able to get me out of there."

Temporary Fox 5 cohost and Rinna's fellow Bravolebrity, Jerry O'Connell, asked theMelrose Placealum what she thinks can be done to prevent such incidents.

"Well, I don't know," she said, claiming, "So many people that I know have had this happen at The Abbey — all my daughters' friends. I mean, this is not a first-time thing... and I do think it needs to be a conversation."

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The Abbey opened in 1991, and moved to its current location in the heart of West Hollywood's bar district in 1994. New owner Tristan Schukraftaddressed "wild conspiracy theories"of drinks regularly being spiked there in 2024, calling it "a widespread issue, not just something unique to us."

"If we see anyone tampering with a drink, they are immediately removed, handed over to law enforcement, and permanently banned," he said.

Entertainment Weeklydid not immediately hear back from representatives for Rinna, The Abbey, orTraitorsnetwork NBC.

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Rinna has been at the heart of some of the most talked-about drama from the fourth season ofThe Traitors, which winds down to a dramatic finale on Thursday.

Regarding rumors thatBacheloralum Colton Underwoodstormed out of the season 4 reunionafter getting into an argument with Rinna, the actress told EW, "I didn't see it myself... I saw him leave, but I saw other people leave, too, to go to the bathroom and such, but it took a long time for people to come back. That I can share with you."

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Tish Cyrus and Dominic Purcell Kiss on PCH After Checking the Surf in Malibu

Tish Cyrus and Dominic Purcell were spotted kissing in Malibu

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• The couple tied the knot in August 2023

• She was previously married to Billy Ray Cyrus for nearly 30 years

Tish CyrusandDominic Purcellare still going strong.

The 58-year-old producer and manager was seen packing on the PDA with the 56-year-old Australian actor,whom she married in 2023, in new photos shot in Malibu on Thursday, Feb. 26.

In the images, the husband and wife embraced one another as Purcell planted a kiss on Cyrus' cheek while the couple spent some time outdoors along California's Pacific Coast Highway on a sunny day.

Themother of fiveand thePrison Breakactorwent public with their relationshipin November 2022.They announced their engagementfive months later, beforetying the knot in August 2023.

Cyrus has two children —Brandi, 38, andTrace, 37 — from a previous marriage to drummer Baxter Neal Helson.

After marryingBilly Ray Cyrusin 1993, the country music star adopted Tish's two kids before the former couple welcomed three more children during their nearly 30-year marriage:Miley, 33,Braison, 31, andNoah, 26.

Billy Ray and Tishannounced their divorcein a joint statement to PEOPLE in April 2022.

During a February 2024 appearance onCall Her Daddy, Tish recalled watching Purcell onPrison Breakwith her daughters Miley and Brandi, and that she was always enamored with his "dangerous" character.

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In that same podcast episode, she said he slid into her Instagram DMs in 2016, but she missed the message.

Years later, after her relationship with the "Achy Breaky Heart" singer ended, a friend encouraged her to reach back out to Purcell, and they connected. Brandi and Miley served as bridesmaids for their mother in the wedding.

TheBlade: Trinityactor was also previously married before saying "I do" to Tish.

Purcell and Rebecca Williamson are mother and father to four children: daughters Lily-Rose and Audrey and sons Augustus and Joseph. The couple was together from 1998 until 2008.

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Ahead of the New Year, Tish and Brandi released an episode of theirSorry We're Cyruspodcastin which Tish shed light on their blended family's holidays.

"The more the merrier —I just love everyone being together," Tish said in December while discussing the family of a combined nine kids.

"I absolutely love Christmas and love the holidays," she continued. "But it keeps looking different every year. It gets a little harder, I think, when the kids are older and everybody's got different families that they have to be with for the holidays."

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's son Maddox drops dad's last name in screen credit for mom's new movie

Angelina JolieandBrad Pitt's son is no longer using both of his parents' names.

TheMr. and Mrs. Smithcostars' eldest son, Maddox, served as the third assistant director on his mother's new film,Couture— and in the film's credits, his name islisted as Maddox Jolie, PEOPLE reports. Maddox, who is the eldest of the ex-couple's six children together, was previously credited as Maddox Jolie-Pitt in Jolie's 2024 filmMaria, on which he served as a production assistant.

He was also listed as an executive producer on his mother's 2017 directorial projectFirst They Killed My Father, and had a cameo in his father's 2013 blockbusterWorld War Zas a child, though he did not receive an official credit for his work in the film. Maddox also worked as a trainee on the crew ofBy the Sea, the 2015 drama that his mother directed and both of his parents starred in.

A representative for Pitt declined to comment on the news. Representatives for Angelina Jolie did not immediately respond toEntertainment Weekly's request for comment. EW has also reached out to the producers ofCouturefor comment.

Couturestars Jolie as a filmmaker who discovers she has breast cancer amid the chaos of Paris Fashion Week. Directed by Alice Winocour, the film also stars Louis Garrel, Anyier Anei, and Ella Rumpf.

Maddox, 24, is not the first of the ex-couple's six children to drop Pitt's last name. His 19-year-old sister, Shiloh,filed to remove her father's namefrom her own when she turned 18 in 2024. Shiloh's lawyer said that his client "made an independent and significant decision following painful events" to change her name.

That same year, the ex-couple's youngest child, Vivienne, who is now 17, wascredited as Vivienne Pittin thePlaybillfor the Broadway musicalThe Outsiders, which she helped produce with her mother.

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Additionally, in 2023, Zahara, who is now 21,introduced herselfas Zahara Marley Jolie (without Pitt as part of her name) as she joined Spelman College's Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority in avideoshared byEssence.

Jolie and Pitt began their romance in 2005 after connecting on the set ofMr. and Mrs. Smith. They married in 2014, but Jolie filed for divorce two years later, after an alleged 2016 incident in which she claimed that Pitt was physically abusive toward her and their children on a private plane.

Though the FBI investigated the incident, the bureau later announced that it dropped the investigation in a 2022 report that wasreviewed by EW. No charges were filed against Pitt. Additionally, the Associated Press reported that a 2016 child services investigationdid not determine abuse.

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The two actorsfinalized their divorcein a settlement in late 2024. "This is just one part of a long ongoing process that started eight years ago," Jolie's lawyer, James Simon, told EW at the time. "Frankly, Angelina is exhausted, but she is relieved this one part is over."

GQlater asked Pitt if he felt relieved by the divorce's finalization. "No, I don't think it was that major of a thing," Pitttold the outlet. "Just something coming to fruition. Legally."

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'Fishing expedition': Hillary Clinton berates lawmakers after Epstein testimony

Former Secretary of StateHillary Clintonsaid on Feb. 26 that Republican lawmakers who called her to testify aboutaccused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epsteinwere not serious in their investigations and should have made her testimony open to the public.

"They had a chance to do it in public and I wish they had done it in public, I think they're making the wrong decision by avoiding doing it in public," Clinton told reporters outside the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center, where she wascalled to testifyin a closed-door hearing near her home in suburban New York.

Clinton was deposed by House lawmakers after they subpoenaed her for information about Epstein, the disgraced financier suspected of facilitating the philandering or worse of some of the world's richest and most powerful people. Among thosecaught upin the scandal — some facing serious consequences — are former Obama administration Treasury SecretaryLarry Summers, the United Kingdom's former PrinceAndrew Mountbatten-WindsorandMicrosoft founder Bill Gates.

Clinton said that she told the committee in her opening statementthat she knew nothingabout Epstein's criminal activity.

"I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein. I never flew on his plane or visited his island, homes or offices. I have nothing to add to that," she said in the statement to the committee, according to apost she made on X.

Clinton also urged the committee not to rely on press gaggles with PresidentDonald Trumpbut to ask him "directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in the Epstein files."

Former President Bill Clinton is among the elite figures to appear in the so-called Epstein files, a trove of millions of documents the Justice Department has been releasing in accordance with a law passed by Congress and signed byTrump, Epstein'sonetime friendwho alsoappears prominentlyin the files.

Bill Clinton is expected to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Feb. 27.

House Democrats on the Oversight Committee released photos from Jeffrey Epstein's email on Dec. 12, 2025, that show former President Bill Clinton and Ghislaine Maxwell with Epstein in this undated photograph. Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed to give depositions to a House committee about accused late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, defusing a potential showdown between the legislative and executive branches.

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House Democrats on the Oversight Committee released photos from Jeffrey Epstein's email on Dec. 12, 2025, that show former President Bill Clinton and Ghislaine Maxwell with Epstein in this undated photograph.Former President Bill Clintonandformer Secretary of State Hillary Clintonhave agreed to give depositions to a House committee aboutaccused late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, defusing apotential showdown between the legislative and executive branches.

What did Hillary Clinton say about being called to testify?

Clinton accused House lawmakers of going on "a fishing expedition" for information rather than questioning Justice Department officials who failed to prosecute Epstein.

"If the majority was serious, it would not waste time on fishing expeditions," she said. "What is being held back? Who is being protected? And why the cover-up?"

The former Democratic candidate for president who lost to Trump in the 2016 election said the questioning she faced "didn't seem to me to be very productive."

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"It was very repetitive," Clinton told reporters Thursday. "They asked literally the same questions over and over again, which didn't seem to me to be very productive."

Some questions were "totally off subject," she said.

"If they are going to fulfill their responsibility literally to investigate the investigations," said Clinton, "they could have spent the day more productively."

Clinton's testimony behind closed doors comes after she had challenged Rep. James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky leading the inquiry, to ask her his questions in public.

"If you want this fight, @RepJamesComer, let's have it — in public," the former first ladysaid on social media. "You love to talk about transparency. There's nothing more transparent than a public hearing, cameras on."

Clinton said she has asked for video and the transcript of her testimony to be released as soon as possible.

What will Bill Clinton be asked?

Clinton's husband, the former president, will testify before the House Oversight Committee on Friday.

The former first lady appeared unphased when asked about the "numerous times" her husband appears in the Epstein files, including one photograph showing the 42nd president lounging in a hot tub. Another photo shows the former president in a pool with Epstein'sconvicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

When asked if she was "100% confident" her husband didn't know about Epstein's crimes, the former first lady said, "I am."

"The connection he had with Epstein ended several years before anything about Epstein's criminal activities came to light," said Clinton.

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