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Recovery
Sober for three years and four months, the actor spoke at a Beverly Hills addiction-research benefit and called Spelling his “best ex-wife.” Mark Groubert was not won over by the celebrity-recovery circuit.
November 11, 2026
Charges
Police say surveillance video led them to Jack Sabato’s Chevrolet Tahoe at an Amazon warehouse hours after a 42-year-old pedestrian was killed. Sabato told officers he thought he had hit an animal.
November 11, 2026
Recovery
Hall asked strangers for $2,000 to get his family through an Arkansas winter. He says a fraud review froze the campaign while donations kept coming, and he sees no reason to give the extra back.
November 11, 2026
The party
The first reports from the Thousand Oaks bash described a knife attack. Two days later, Ventura County investigators said the neck wound came from “mutual combat” and asked attendees for phone video.
November 11, 2026
Autopsy
The Los Angeles County medical examiner found advanced, untreated HIV in the 35-year-old actress and listed chronic polysubstance abuse as a significant contributing condition. Methamphetamine and fentanyl were in her system.
November 11, 2026
Recovery
Five years after going public with her diagnosis, the actress told Jack Osbourne she is starting over with tests for lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and Lyme disease. Mark Groubert was openly skeptical of the celebrity illness circuit.
November 4, 2026
Recovery
In GQ’s Men of the Year cover story, the comedian ties the habit to a marriage he says he failed at and to a long stretch of rebuilding after his 2016 divorce.
November 4, 2026
Recovery
Lloyd’s new memoir traces a habit that began with “a couple of lines” in a nightclub parking lot and ended, eventually, after a stay at Sierra Tucson. O’Keefe says “Caddyshack” was the last time he touched the drug.
November 4, 2026
The counter
A California man says years of gas-station “whipped cream” chargers left him using a walker. A New York Times investigation describes wellness customers who became dependent on kratom within months.
November 4, 2026
Documentary
Netflix released “The One About Matthew Perry” a day before the third anniversary of his death. Mark Groubert says the blame belongs to decades of addiction, not to Kenny Iwamasa, the assistant now in federal prison.
October 28, 2026
Recovery
A text to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” co-star Susie Essman, Garlin told Ted Danson, set off the rescue that got him into treatment in Cincinnati.
October 28, 2026
Update
On a podcast taped before her Oct. 11 arrest, Blair told Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg she used to drink to cope with multiple sclerosis. Mark Groubert predicted she would not avoid prison time.
October 28, 2026
Court
The payment was requested by the same trustee who is fighting to keep Reiner’s roughly $1.5 million inheritance from him. That dispute heads to mediation in December.
October 28, 2026
Allegation
Zachary DeFazio spent about five hours with detectives in Winter Park, Fla. Scott Thompson, back onstage at the Luxor, has not been charged, and Mark Groubert said the accusations look more like a shakedown.
October 28, 2026
Sober home
The Department of Health Care Services found that Resolutions Living, the Santa Monica home where Gerber died, was not providing treatment that required a license. Mark Groubert said regulators moved “pretty quick.”
October 28, 2026
Indictment
The Justice Department says David and Nathan Young billed insurers more than $1.6 billion after paying “body brokers” to bring homeless and addicted people to sham Southern California treatment programs.
October 28, 2026
Court
New Mexico prosecutors can seek a new indictment of the “thirtysomething” actor after a judge found they kept requested witnesses away from grand jurors. They have not said what they will do.
October 21, 2026
Arrest
Blair, 54, has pleaded not guilty to assaulting a Port Authority officer and a nurse after an Oct. 11 Delta flight from Los Angeles. Her lawyer points to missed multiple sclerosis medication, a defense Mark Groubert expects prosecutors to take apart.
October 14, 2026
Trial
Brand, who faces seven charges involving six women, spent a full day on the witness stand at Southwark Crown Court and said his sexual encounters were consensual.
October 7, 2026