Sports Illustrated is going to bat for Ashley Graham after Toccara Jones called her twerking abilities subpar -- and this new video of her booty-shaking in the sand ... is the perfect re-butt-al. Twerk it. Twerk it real good. 😉 @theashleygraham owned this twerk-off battle at the beach! 🔥 A post s..

EXCLUSIVE Akon's learning the hard way that giving the cold shoulder never pays ... especially when it comes to lawsuits, cause now he's gotta cough up tons of dough. Akon's been ordered to pay $164,786.99 to a company that leased him some space on the 66th floor of the Empire State ..

EXCLUSIVE Danielle Bregoli doesn't have a father anymore ... legally speaking. Danielle's mother, Barbara Bregoli, filed docs -- obtained by TMZ -- to formally remove her dad's name, Ira Peskowitz, from her birth certificate. A judge has signed off on it to make it official. As we&..

EXCLUSIVE George Clooney and Scooter Braun are secretly working behind the scenes for the March for Our Lives campaign ... and TMZ knows this all because we wanted to find out how many MOL t-shirts were sold. One of our producers emailed members of the campaign triggered by the Marjory Stoneman Dou..

EXCLUSIVE Some of the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High are planning on using their newfound star power to get their gun control message out ... through a good page-turner. Sources tell TMZ that at least two of the outspoken survivors have been in talks with publishers for book deals. The d..

EXCLUSIVE NBA YoungBoy will be cooling off in jail for a while longer after his arrest for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend -- the judge just ordered him held without bail. The 18-year-old rapper's been transferred to Georgia's Ware County Jail -- where he got a new mug shot -- and f..