Unreleased Beyoncé music stolen during 'Cowboy Carter' tour
Unreleased music by Beyoncé along with footage, show plans and concert set lists were stolen from a car in Atlanta rented by the singer's choreographer and one of her dancers, according to a police incident report.
The theft of the materials, stored on five thumb drives, happened on July 8, two days before Beyoncé began a four-day residency at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Beyoncé was set to take the stage Monday evening for her last night in the city.
The Atlanta Police Department said in a news release Monday it has secured an arrest warrant for a suspect whose identity was withheld.
Two MacBook laptops, Apple headphones, as well as luxury clothing and accessories were also reported stolen, according to the incident report.
Beyoncé's choreographer, Christopher Grant, and dancer Diandre Blue told police they parked their rental car, a 2024 Jeep Wagoneer, at a food hall in the city at about 8:09 p.m. The pair returned to the car just after 9 p.m. to discover the trunk window had been damaged and two suitcases had been taken.
Grant told officers that “he was also carrying some personal sensitive information for the musician Beyoncé,” the police incident report stated.
The report identifies a possible suspect vehicle as a 2025 red Hyundai Elantra. Responding officers were able to identify “light prints” at the scene, and security cameras in the parking lot captured the incident, according to the report.
Officers canvassed an area where the stolen laptop and headphones were tracked by using the devices’ location services, the report stated.
Beyoncé kicked off her highly-anticipated tour in late April, taking her Grammy-winning album, “Cowboy Carter,” to stadiums in the U.S. and Europe. The singer will end her tour with two Las Vegas nights in late July.
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In new book, Ellen Burstyn reveals the secret that fueled her award-winning career: poetry
NEW YORK — Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn has a book coming out next year that reveals how she has been shaped by the power of words.
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Wednesday that Burstyn's “Poetry Says It Better” will be released April 28, 2026. Burstyn, 93, is known for such films as “The Last Picture Show” and “Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,” for which she won an Academy Award; the TV shows “Political Animals” and “House of Cards” and the Broadway production “Same Time, Next Year.”
Burstyn's favorite poets include Maya Angelou, Mary Oliver and William Butler Yeats.
“I’ve been lucky enough to spend my professional life as an actress: I worked as a model and dancer from the day I left high school and eventually reached a pinnacle in my career and won an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards,” Burstyn said in a statement. “Nevertheless, it is poetry that has fueled and sustained me throughout my career and has been interwoven with every major life milestone I’ve ever experienced.”
Burstyn also is the author of “Lessons in Becoming Myself,” a memoir published in 2006.
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Paramount comics Colbert and Stewart are sharp critics of the '60 Minutes' deal
NEW YORK — CBS “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert condemned parent company Paramount Global's settlement of President Donald Trump's lawsuit over a “60 Minutes” story as a “big fat bribe” during his first show back from a vacation.
Colbert followed “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart's attack of the deal one week earlier. Stewart works for Comedy Central, also owned by Paramount, making the two comics the most visible internal critics of the $16 million settlement announced July 1.
Colbert's “bribe” reference was to the pending sale of Paramount to Skydance Media, which needs Trump administration approval. Critics of the deal that ended Trump's lawsuit over the newsmagazine's editing of its interview last fall with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris suggested it was primarily to clear a hurdle to that sale.
“I am offended,” Colbert said in his monologue Monday night. “I don't know if anything — anything — will repair my trust in this company. But, just taking a stab at it, I'd say $16 million would help.”
He said the technical name in legal circles for the deal was “big fat bribe.”
From combined wire services
