Trump, who did not attend the New York trial has lashed out at the judgement, describing it as "a disgrace" and "a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time".
In a statement issued through her representatives, Shakira said her lawyers were confident she would win the case but she opted to avoid a lengthy trial.
Earlier this month an Alabama woman filed an amended lawsuit naming Jay-Z as her attacker alongside Sean Combs, who is in a Brooklyn jail awaiting trial.
Cassie is also expected to take the stand and testify during the trial. The Bad Boy Records founder was arrested in Manhattan on September 16, 2024, and later indicted by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.
Federal prosecutors unsealed the new indictment targeting the front-runner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, who is set to go on trial as the election heats up in May of next year.
On June 10, the commission accused the socialite of flouting a court order and travelling to Dubai with a new passport. On June 22, a Lagos court revoked the bail granted to him due to his absence from trial.
He and his firms have since November 1, 2019 been on trial a five-count charge before Justice Chuka Obiozor of the FHC for allegedly laundering N207.1million.
Netanyahu, who is on trial over a separate series of corruption charges which he denied, has rejected the accusations regarding his aides and Qatar as "fake news" and a politically motivated campaign against him.
One of such mechanisms , Justice Onnoghen had said , would be the creation of Anti -Corruption Cases Trial Monitoring Committee to monitor and enforce the new policies.
U.S. prosecutors in New York repeatedly implicated him in his brother's 2019 drug trafficking trial, alleging that his political rise was fueled by drug profits.
Through the use of new tools in neurosciences and neuroimaging, they hope to lower the level of trial and error in cases of prescription of antidepressants.
Jude Okoye was arraigned in court and ordered to be remanded in the Ikoyi Correctional Facility until his bail hearing on March 3, 2025, with his trial set to commence on April 14, 2025.
Judge Engoron who oversaw the non-jury trial for three months last year found Trump had committed business fraud and ordered he pay the hefty penalty Feb.