Rick Ross has been arrested and charged with battery after his ex-girlfriend allegedly accused him of striking and choking her during a jealous confrontation.

Inmate records reviewed by the Daily Mail show that he is facing two domestic violence charges in Miami-Dade County: battery and battery by strangulation.

Ross, 50, whose legal name is William Leonard Roberts II, surrendered to authorities on Thursday morning. The arrest came two days after his former girlfriend contacted police to report the alleged incident, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the Daily Mail.

During his Thursday hearing, one of Ross’ attorneys asked whether his release could be “expedited” because of the rapper’s celebrity status and the potential danger he could face in custody. The exchange was broadcast by South Florida news station WSVN 7.

“I don’t know,” Judge Mindy Glazer replied before addressing the defendant. “Hi, Mr Roberts, I have no idea who you are, except as somebody here in the court who’s gonna be treated fairly just like anybody else here.”

Ross was booked at 6:10 a.m., posed for a mugshot and pleaded not guilty to both charges. His bond was set at $5,000.

After leaving jail later that day, Ross told reporters that he was “totally innocent of these fabricated allegations against me,” according to WSVN 7.

He also said he would be “in Dubai tomorrow, Paris Saturday” and planned to eat “a bowl of rigatoni with heavy marinara Sunday.” He added: “I repeat: rigatoni, heavy marinara.”

His attorneys, Steve Sadow and Bradley Horenstein, issued a statement arguing that William Roberts II, known professionally as Rick Ross, was “being wrongfully accused by an ex-girlfriend whose true motivations are unclear.”

The lawyers also said the accuser “did not even file a police report until a month after the claimed incident allegedly took place,” according to TMZ.

“Mr Roberts is innocent and has pled not guilty to the charges. He respectfully requests that his friends, fans and the general public not prejudge the situation and allow the judicial process to run its course,” his attorneys said.

The Daily Mail has contacted Ross’ representatives for comment.

According to the arrest affidavit, Ross’ former girlfriend said the alleged domestic violence incident occurred on the morning of August 28.

She alleged that Ross woke her at about 7:44 a.m. while “enraged” over a photograph he had reportedly seen her tagged in on social media.

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The former couple’s account states that Ross then allegedly slapped her in the face after questioning her about “lying to him,” according to the legal document.

The woman further alleged that Ross accused her of being “in a relationship” with another person, whom she maintained was only a “friend,” the arrest record states.

According to her account, the argument intensified when Ross allegedly struck her chest “several times” and choked her by twisting the collar of her hoodie until she could not breathe.

He was also claimed to have ‘grabbed’ her ‘by the ponytail’ and slammed her into the wall, via his ex’s account as presented in the affidavit.

She accused him further of giving her a ‘busted lip’ by hitting her while she was bent over, and of attempting to spray her with water from the shower head.

Although she was able to ‘escape’ the residence, she then went back and remained there until Ross left, whereupon she also exited with her belongings, the affidavit said.

The arrest record indicates that Ross’ ex-girlfriend had been romantically involved with him for a year and was living with him at the time of the purported incident.

She is also said to have provided a sworn statement to police, along with time-stamped photos of the injuries she claimed she sustained, per the affidavit.

According to Ross’ accuser, she called a friend to pick her up from the residence, but the friend was ‘turned away’ in a moment supposedly caught on CCTV

Ross’ arrest this week comes nine years after he accepted a plea bargain in a highly-publicized kidnapping trial that saw him accused of holding a groundskeeper at gunpoint and pistol-whipping him at his Georgia compound, according to TMZ.

The Hustlin’ hitmaker pled no contest to one count of felony aggravated assault, and, having already spent a week in jail, received a sentence of time served.

Ross was also fined $10,000, but was classified as a first-time felony offender, meaning that upon payment of the fee the conviction was wiped from his record.

He was further sentenced to 60 months’ probation on five misdemeanor convictions – one count each of assault, battery and possession of under an ounce of marijuana, plus two counts of pointing a pistol at someone.

Don’t fuggedabout history: Long Island’s Italian-American story is about to get a museum of its own.

Suffolk County is moving forward with plans for a new museum devoted to Italian-American history, culture and heritage — including the generations of families who helped shape Long Island.

County officials joined Italian-American organizations and community advocates Thursday to announce the project. The museum is expected to explore Long Island’s development while highlighting the Italian-Americans whose work and contributions helped build the region.

“So many Italian Americans have contributed to building Long Island and its continued success — we’re finally going to celebrate that properly,” Bob Fonti, leader of the Italian American Political Action Committee, told The Post.

Suffolk County is home to about 320,000 Italian-Americans, the largest Italian-American population of any county in the nation, according to census data. They represent nearly one-quarter of the county’s total population.

Another 238,000 Italian-American residents live in neighboring Nassau County. Together, the two counties are home to more than 557,000 Italian-Americans — approximately 20% of Long Island’s overall population, census records show.

Those numbers make Long Island an ideal setting for the museum, said Dr. Joseph Scelsa, founder and director of the Italian American Museum on Mulberry Street in Manhattan’s Little Italy.

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“It’s about time,” Scelsa said while announcing the museum plans.

“How did we get here — from steerage to the suburbs — that’s what this museum is going to talk about, that’s what this museum is going to tell you about,” Scelsa said, describing the story of Italian-American life and achievement.

Italian immigrants began arriving on Long Island in large numbers around the turn of the 20th century. Many traveled by Long Island Rail Road from New York City to jobs including work in Port Washington’s sand mines and Patchogue’s lace mills.

Others settled in Glen Cove, where they helped construct and care for the Gold Coast’s grand estates. In 1920, the city became home to Long Island’s first Sons of Italy lodge, founded by an immigrant from Sturno, a village in Italy.

Copiague’s Italian community was even known as “Marconiville,” a nickname inspired by radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi. According to the Long Island History Journal, Marconi visited the town’s Italian enclave several times between 1913 and 1917.

Officials have not yet announced a location, projected budget or firm opening date for the museum. They hope to have it operating within the next few years, with the project funded privately.

“I hope, next year, we’ll be making announcements on choosing a place — we have exhibits that we’re looking to do,” County Executive Ed Romaine told reporters during Thursday’s announcement.

Romaine added: “I cannot say enough about Italian-American traditions, family, their culture, and their food, all of which we enjoy here on Long Island.”

Massachusetts Judge William Sullivan has rejected Lindsay Clancy’s request for a required finding of not guilty.

Sullivan denied a similar motion when Clancy’s mistrial was declared on Sept. 4. He rejected the renewed request Thursday after Reddington argued earlier this week that Plymouth County prosecutors had not presented enough evidence at trial to establish Clancy’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

“There was evidence introduced, both physical and circumstantial, that would permit a rational trier of fact to find beyond a reasonable doubt the elements of the charge of murder,” Sullivan wrote.

The judge also rejected Reddington’s claim that prosecutors had failed to prove Clancy could be held criminally responsible for the deaths.

“Mental illness alone does not preclude a finding of criminal responsibility beyond a reasonable doubt,” Sullivan wrote.

“The Commonwealth’s theory of criminal responsibility was that when the defendant committed the crime, she did not lack substantial capacity to appreciate the criminality or wrongfulness of her conduct and did not lack the substantial capacity to conform her conduct to the requirements of the law,” he continued. “In support of this position, the Commonwealth introduced evidence regarding the nature and methods of the killings and the defendant’s actions and demeanor at times surrounding the killings.”

Clancy is scheduled to return to court on Nov. 2 for a hearing on her pending double jeopardy motion, along with Reddington’s request for an inquiry into the sole holdout juror who wanted to find her guilty.

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Woody Allen made a rare public appearance in Madrid this week with his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, as the 90-year-old filmmaker prepares to return to the director’s chair.

The Oscar-winning director was photographed holding hands with Previn, 55, during a low-key outing in the Spanish capital. The appearance marked the first time the couple had been seen together publicly in roughly a year.

Dressed in a blue shirt and chinos, Allen appeared to lean on his wife as they walked. Previn wore a floral dress paired with a sunhat.

Previn is the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow, Allen’s former partner.

Farrow and Allen began their relationship in 1979. Their partnership ended in 1992 after Allen, then 55, and Previn, who was 21 at the time, became involved in an affair.

Allen and Previn married in 1997 and have since adopted two daughters, Bechet, now 28, and Manzie, 26.

Allen’s most recent film, the 2023 drama Coup de Chance, was followed by the presentation of his next project in Madrid on Thursday. The new movie is provisionally titled WASP 2026.

Coup de Chance received positive reviews and took in $7.8 million at the global box office in 2023.

During a 2023 appearance at the 80th Venice International Film Festival to promote the movie, Allen faced booing from people who objected to his presence because of allegations that he sexually assaulted his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow. Allen has vehemently denied the allegation and has never been charged or prosecuted.

His planned $68 million, four-film deal with Amazon Studios was canceled during the 2020 #MeToo movement. Since then, Allen has faced increasing difficulty securing distributors for his projects.

WASP 2026 is described as a romantic comedy written and directed by Allen. Production is scheduled to begin on October 5, with filming set to take place primarily in Madrid and nearby Aranjuez. Jemima Kirke, Alexi Wasser and Peter Vives are attached to the cast.

“I will be very happy to return to Spain,” Allen said. “This will be my third time filming there and my first opportunity to make a film in Madrid, a city I have always loved.”

The project will receive €3 million in public funding from the Madrid Regional Government and Madrid City Council.

The Daily Mail has contacted Allen’s representative for additional comment.

Previn was adopted from Korea by Farrow and her then-husband, conductor André Previn, when she was six years old.

Allen first met Previn when she was about 11, while he was in a relationship with Farrow.

By the time Previn was 21, an intimate relationship had started between the two.

The affair with Previn began in December 1991, the same month that Allen adopted Dylan and Moses Farrow, Mia Farrow’s children, according to The New York Times.

It is alleged that Korean-born Previn bonded with Allen during her final year of high school when she told him that she wanted to be a model.

After spending more time together, the pair’s relationship grew stronger, according to Vanity Fair.

So strong, that in January 1992, Farrow found nude polaroid photographs of her adopted daughter in Allen’s home, when they were still together. The affair continued into August.

During the same month, Dylan, who was seven at the time, claimed that Allen sexually abused her on CBS This Morning.

Previn has insisted that Allen is innocent.

The relationship continued, and by 1997, Allen and Previn wed in Venice. 

Dylan’s sexual abuse allegations were investigated, and no charges ever brought.

Ronan Farrow, the journalist brother of Dylan, wrote about it in 2016, and condemned Hollywood for continuing to work with their father.

Their brother Moses Farrow, however, has consistently defended their father and accused Farrow of coaching Dylan to accuse Woody, in anger at their divorce.

Allen has remained relatively tight-lipped when it comes to his relationship with Previn, but in March 2021 on CBS Sunday Morning, he commented on the marriage in conversation with Lee Cowan.

He was asked if he ever considered a relationship with his girlfriend’s adopted daughter to be inappropriate.

Allen said ‘no,’ adding ‘there was never a moment that it wasn’t the most natural thing in the world… it didn’t give me pause, because the relationship with Soon-Yi was very gradual. It wasn’t like I went out with her one night and kissed her.

‘I would say of the many women I’ve dated in my life, many women, they were all what the appropriate police would call appropriate – age appropriate,’ he said. ‘Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow, Louise Lasser, my first wife; until Soon-Yi, which is unusual for me.’

Allen added: ‘If you’d have told me I was going to wind up married, and happily married, to an Asian woman much younger than me, not in show business, I would have said ‘the odds of that are very slim. I don’t think you’re going to be right.’ But that’s what happened.’

The Biden administration approved more than 99% of sponsor applications for unaccompanied migrant children in fiscal year 2024, potentially exposing vulnerable minors to rapists, gang members and murderers amid what investigators described as a “less stringent” vetting process, according to a memo obtained by The Post.

From 2021 through 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services processed nearly 500,000 migrant children placed with sponsors through the Office of Refugee Resettlement. By Biden’s final year in office, however, almost no applications from households seeking custody were being rejected.

One case examined by HHS involved a 15-year-old girl who was released to a man identified as her alleged biological brother. Investigators later determined that the purported sponsor was not related to her. He allegedly raped and impregnated the child in fall 2023.

“The sponsor has been charged by the state, and the case is under investigation by Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Justice. Prior to sponsoring the 15-year-old female, the purported sponsor had sponsored three [unaccompanied migrant children],” the ORR memo stated.

The memo said the approval rate followed a broader period, from 2022 to 2024, when “less stringent policies allowed for potential and actual sponsors to exploit gaps in the ORR sponsor vetting process.”

Since President Trump took office, HHS investigators have been reviewing a backlog of more than 65,000 reports involving potential threats to the health or safety of migrant children. The reports, known as Child Level Events, or CLEs, were submitted after ORR was alerted to alleged problems.

“ORR’s tracking of fraud trends shows that the average rate of intentional document or information fraud, regardless of the number of children assisted per month, remains at approximately 77% of reported Child Level Events (CLE),” the memo said.

Between Oct. 1, 2023, and Oct. 31, 2024, HHS’s Office of General Counsel reviewed nearly 1,700 CLEs and determined that about 85% of the sponsorship applicants involved had engaged in “intentional document fraud.”

Investigators found that alleged fake sponsors used fraudulent identification, altered photographs, unverifiable addresses and falsified fingerprints. Others misrepresented household members or misstated the ages of migrant children placed in their care.

“The Biden Administration failed in its most basic responsibility: protecting vulnerable children in federal care,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement.

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“It weakened safeguards and prioritized speed over scrutiny, leaving children exposed to fraud, exploitation, and abuse. Under President Trump, HHS is restoring rigorous oversight, verifying who takes custody of these children, and putting their safety first. We will hold this system accountable and never sacrifice a child’s safety for bureaucratic convenience,” Kennedy said.

The memo described several cases in 2024 in which allegedly fraudulent sponsorship arrangements were linked to serious harm involving unaccompanied migrant children.

“ORR denied less than 1% of sponsorship applications, a data point which suggests these individuals were able to sponsor UAC with little deterrence,” the memo stated.

In one case, a 17-year-old migrant boy was released to a sponsor who claimed to be his stepsister. In October 2024, he was “found dead in the back seat of a car, with his genitalia exposed, along with an unconscious 30-year-old male,” according to the memo.

In another case, a teenage migrant boy was placed with a woman who claimed to be his mother but had gang-related tattoos. The boy “died after having been given seven marijuana joints by unrelated adult men” in August 2024, the memo said.

A separate incident in February 2025 involved a 9-year-old migrant girl who was nearly housed in the same room as her allegedly abusive 13-year-old brother. ORR staff intervened before that arrangement continued.

During a later home visit, investigators found “multiple unknown individuals.” The memo also described one room as having a strong marijuana odor and another as smelling of feces, while glass shards were scattered on the floor beneath a broken window.

“Despite these warning signs, ORR approved the UAC to be released to the mother’s household. The current status of the UAC is unknown,” the memo concluded.

The HHS review comes after a 2024 report by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General found that the agency had lost contact with 291,000 migrant children believed to be living with domestic sponsors.

The watchdog report also found that another 32,000 children were believed to be missing after they failed to appear for immigration court proceedings.

Convicted Tennessee killer Christa Pike is in critical condition after two failed lethal-injection attempts, her attorneys said Thursday, one day after the state tried to execute her for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.

“Christa is alive right now,” attorney Randy Spivey told reporters during a Zoom briefing Thursday afternoon. “We don’t have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at the moment.”

Spivey said he could not provide specific information because of limited details and federal HIPAA privacy protections.

“She is in critical condition receiving lifesaving care, that is the extent that we have at the moment,” he said.

Attorney Stephen Ferrell said it appeared the needle “either became dislodged or pierced all the way through the veins,” preventing the injection from being administered properly. He said the attorneys did not have additional medical details because of HIPAA rules.

Pike, now 50, was 18 when she orchestrated the torture and killing of Slemmer, a classmate she viewed as a romantic rival. She was scheduled to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years Wednesday evening, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an emergency stay of execution.

The execution team administered two injections at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Neither dose was fatal.

“I’m haunted by last night,” Spivey told reporters during the briefing.

Pike remained conscious and, at one point, lifted her head and asked prison officials whether her arm was supposed to feel the way it did. Witnesses said she was still breathing after the second dose had been given.

Before Wednesday’s failed execution, Pike had sought an alternative form of capital punishment because she feared the lethal injection might malfunction. Her requests were denied.

Although they declined to discuss specifics because of privacy restrictions, Pike’s attorneys did not dispute that the Tennessee Department of Correction granted her request for an all-female execution team.

Slemmer’s mother drove from Florida to Nashville to witness the execution attempt. She did not respond to News Media’s efforts to reach her.

“I cannot imagine what this was like for the family of Ms. Slemmer, or anyone who loves that family or is close to that family — or anyone who loves Christa or is close to Christa,” Spivey said. “This is awful, and this kind of thing should never happen again.”

Pike was one of three teenagers convicted in Slemmer’s brutal killing. Prosecutors said the victim was tortured, slashed, beaten and ultimately had her skull crushed with a piece of asphalt.

Pike was 18 when the attack occurred in January 1995. She, her boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp and a friend, Shadolla Peterson, lured Slemmer away by telling her they wanted to visit a music store and retrieve marijuana they had hidden in a park near their vocational school.

Pike then attacked her. As Slemmer tried to escape, Shipp grabbed her and held her down, according to court records.

Phil Keith, who was Knoxville’s chief of police at the time, told News Media that the assailants tortured Slemmer for up to an hour before she died. Pike took a piece of her shattered skull as a trophy, which she showed off the next day in school, and Shipp carved pentagrams into her chest and face.

“Pike was the catalyst,” Keith said. “She was the one that was planning out all the events, the luring, all that.”

The failed execution prompted Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to halt the state’s remaining scheduled execution this year and order “a comprehensive, third-party review to determine exactly what occurred.”