Billie Eilish responds to rumors she and brother Finneas O'Connell 'had a falling-out': 'How do we move on?'

Billie Eilish addressed rumors that she and brother Finneas O'Connell, her collaborator, have had a falling-out.

Key Points

• The "Wildflower" singer says she and O'Connell are siblings, and they fight.

• O'Connell was absent from his sister's most recent tour.

Billie Eilishknows there are rumors about why her brother and longtime collaborator, Finneas O'Connell, isn't with her as much these days.

"I heard somebody say, 'Did you guys hear Finneas and Billie had a falling-out?'" the singer recalls in an interview published Tuesday inElle.

The "What Was I Made For?" singer's response was clear: "Finneas and I have never and will never have a falling-out, ever in our lives. We'll get in the biggest f---ing fight you've ever heard of in your life…and five minutes later, we're back, laughing and making music. It's sibling s---. There's nothing else in the world like sibling relationships."

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In fact, Eilish said, much of her work depends on her brother.

"If I never saw Finneas at all, I might literally never make a song again," she said of her older brother. "But how do we move on and have separate lives?"

They gave that a go with Eilish's latest tour, in promotion of her 2024 albumHit Me Hard and Soft, which he contributed to as usual.

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"It was a few years in the making," Eilish told the magazine. "We got so busy that we would only see each other right before going onstage. Finneas and Andrew [her touring drummer], who were the only band members I had back in the day, performed on some sort of platform that was hard to leave. Finneas was stuck in a tower—like Rapunzel! He never said it, but I was feeling like, 'You have more to be doing than being my band member in the back.'"

In the meantime, O'Connell was able to release solo music that he promoted with his own tour.

Like his sister, he's already quite accomplished, with 11 Grammys to his name, compared to her 10.

"I think that it's the closest I am with Billie to like total trust of anyone," he toldCBS Newsin January 2024. "And total vulnerability. I'm sure there's something that she would be embarrassed to say in front of me, but not much."

He acknowledged that he had missed her when she was gone, and he even popped up at a few dates.

"It's basically true that I don’t like touring, but I love the show part of it," he toldElle. "And I love being around Billie. This past year, when she would be on tour for months, I missed her a lot."

A scene from Eilish's new concert film,Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), shows her reading a note that O'Connell sent her on the road. The James Cameron-directed film arrives in theaters May 8.

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Billie Eilish responds to rumors she and brother Finneas O'Connell 'had a falling-out': 'How do we move on?'

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Robot dogs with Musk and Zuckerberg heads roam around Berlin gallery in Beeple's new exhibit

BERLIN (AP) — Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after world-renowned figures — including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg,Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso — can be seen roaming around a Berlin gallery, occasionally “pooing” printed images of their surroundings which they've previously captured with integrated cameras.

The animals are part of an interactive installation byAmerican artist Beeple(Mike Winkelmann) currently showing atBerlin's New National Gallery.

Each printed image shows a snippet of reality transformed by AI to resemble the personality of the dog or, in other words, the worldview of the human figure on its shoulders (i.e., the Picasso dog will produce images in Cubist style and Warhol's in pop art).

It's a commentary on how our perceptions are shaped by algorithms and technology platforms, the organizers of the exhibition write in the description of the event.

“In the past, our view of the world was shaped in part by how artists saw the world,” Beeple told the AP. “How Picasso painted changed how we saw the word, how Warhol talked about consumerism, pop culture, that changed how he saw those things.”

Now our view of the world is shaped by tech billionaires who own powerful algorithms that decide what we see and what we don’t see, the artist added.

“That's an immense amount of power that I don’t think we’ve fully understood, especially because when they want to make a change, they don’t need to lobby the U.N. They don’t need to get something through Congress or the EU, they just wake up and change these algorithms.”

The dogs also wear heads in Beeple’s own image.

Lisa Botti, the curator of the exhibition in Berlin, said thatartificial intelligencewas one of the phenomena most impacting our lives today and that “museums are the places where society can reflect” on such transformations, which is why she wanted to have Beeple’s work shown.

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The work, entitled “Regular Animals,” was first first shown atArt Basel Miami Beach2025.

Beeple is a graphic designer from South Carolina who does a variety of digital artwork. He is one of the founders of the “everyday” movement in 3D graphics: For years, he has been creating a picture every day and posting it online without missing a single day.

According to Christie's, he is the third most expensive living artist to sell at auction, after David Hockney and Jeff Koons.

In the spring of 2021, Christie’s opened bidding for Beeple's digital collage entitled “Everydays: The First 5000 Days,” with the sale ultimately closing at over $69 million. The auction house described the artwork as “critiques of modern society, the government and social media” in the form of “grotesque, dystopian futures, often featuring celebrities like Donald Trump and Kanye West.”

Christie’s said the sale marked the first time a major auction house offered a digital-only artwork with a non-fungible token as a guarantee of its authenticity, as well as the first time cryptocurrency has been used to pay for an artwork at auction.

Non-fungible tokens, known as NFTs, are electronic identifiers confirming a digital collectible is real by recording the details on a digital ledger known as a blockchain. The tokens have swept the online collecting world recently, an offshoot of the boom in cryptocurrencies.

At the Art Basel 2025 event, Beeple gave away the photos pooed by his dogs to audience members, accompanied by a certificate that read “100% organic GMO-free dog shit.” Some prints had QR codes that gave access to free NFTs, which in practice meant Beeple was giving away his digital art for free for people (sometimes the subjects of the photos themselves) to potentially monetize.

Ciobanu reported from Warsaw, Poland.

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Robot dogs with Musk and Zuckerberg heads roam around Berlin gallery in Beeple's new exhibit

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Hilary Duff Shares Cute New Clips of Daughter Townes Ahead of Her 2nd Birthday: 'The Things We Do for These Giggles'

Hilary Duff shared some adorable Instagram clips of her daughter Townes laughing and playing ahead of her 2nd birthday

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• Another video showed Townes hilariously telling her mom, "No, no pictures"

• Townes will turn 2 on Sunday, May 3

Hilary Duffwill do anything to make her kids laugh!

On Tuesday, April 28, the singer and actress, 38, posted a series of cute clips of her youngest daughter Townes, 23 months, as the mother-daughter duo had some sweet moments together.

The first clip showed Duff making cat and bird noises as Townes, who turns 2 on May 3, played with her hair and smiled at the camera.

The mom of four then started rolling around on a rug, in what appeared to be Townes’ bedroom, as Townes laughed repeatedly, before running and burying her face in a beanbag.

Duff then followed her daughter and started tickling her while pretending to be a cat, as Townes continued to giggle.

“The things we do for these soul soothing giggles,” Duff wrote across the video on her Instagram Stories.

TheYoungerstar next shared a clip of her daughter playing with two dinosaur figurines and hilariously telling her mom she didn’t want to be on camera.

“No, no pictures,” Townes said as she threw her arms up in the air.

“No 📸 Also please note shirt,” wrote Duff, referencing Townes’ T-shirt, which appeared to feature lyrics from her 2003 track “What Dreams Are Made Of.”

The video was followed by a photo of Townes beaming at the camera in her cute blue cardigan with the caption, “But she’s so cute.”

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TheLizzie McGuirealumannounced Townes’ birthon May 7, 2024, sharing that she welcomed her little girl in ahome water birth.

Duff shares Townes, as well as older daughtersBanks, 7,Mae, 5, with her husbandMatthew Koma. She is also mom to sonLuca, 14, with her ex-husband, Mike Comrie.

Earlier this month, Duff told PEOPLE how Koma and herbroodwill bejoining her this summerwhen she embarks on herThe Lucky Me tour.

"I spent hours with my assistant [looking at] the tour schedule, being like, 'Okay, I want them here for this stretch. They can go home these days,' " Duff said. "It's been a lot of logistics that can seriously bend a brain, but it's going to be an adventure."

"All of these cities have so much to offer, and I feel like there would be no other time when my kids would see the U.S. like this, so we're just thinking of it as a big, long road trip," she continued to PEOPLE, adding with a laugh: "And hopefully, they don't get bored with seeing my show every night."

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Duff went on to share that her son Luca will be “bopping in and out” of the tour, joking, "[He's] a teenager, so he's not going to be giving me four weeks of his summer.”

"I think that the little ones are going to be there most of the time," she added.

Her tour is set to kick off on June 22 in West Palm Beach, Florida. As well as touring cities across the U.S., Duff is also due to perform in Canada, Mexico, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

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Purdue Pharma to be sentenced, paving way for opioid settlement

By Dietrich Knauth

NEW YORK, April 28 (Reuters) - Purdue Pharma will be sentenced on Tuesday in New Jersey federal court for deceiving government regulators and paying kickbacks to doctors to boost opioid sales, completing a plea deal ‌that clears the way for the company to dissolve in bankruptcy and use its assets to fund a $7.4 ‌billion settlement intended to compensate people harmed by the opioid epidemic.

The company agreed to $5.5 billion in criminal fines, most of which will go unpaid under a 2020 ​agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice in which the agency will collect just $225 million. That deal allows Purdue to direct its remaining assets to repaying creditors, mostly state and local governments, which were left to deal with the cost and consequences of the opioid crisis in their communities.

Purdue had been scheduled to be sentenced last week, but U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo postponed the hearing ‌to allow greater public participation from people ⁠who wanted to speak up about the company's marketing of its painkiller OxyContin and its role in fueling the opioid epidemic in the United States.

"We recognize the importance of ensuring that victims can be ⁠heard, and we respect the court’s decision," Purdue said in a statement ahead of Tuesday's hearing.

Several victims of the opioid crisis sent letters to the court with personal stories of suffering, loss and addiction, some of them urging the judge to reject the plea deal and ​insist on ​prison time for the company's executives and its owners.

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The sentencing comes ​as people harmed by opioids say the company’s long‑running ‌bankruptcy has left them frustrated. The $7.4 billion settlement, which includes an $865 million fund for individuals affected by the crisis, has been hailed by Purdue and plaintiffs’ lawyers as a victory for victims, but a recent Reuters examination shows how the process has created daunting hurdles for many people seeking compensation.

Arleo is expected to accept Purdue's plea deal at Tuesday's hearing in Newark, New Jersey, imposing a $3.5 billion criminal fine and $2 billion in criminal forfeiture.

Purdue's bankruptcy case is coming to a close after more than six years ‌in court, following a lengthy series of appeals which went all the ​way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The sentencing is one of the final hurdles ​before the bankruptcy settlement can proceed. Purdue said it ​remains on track to emerge from bankruptcy on May 1, ceasing its previous operations and emerging ‌as a new nonprofit company that will make opioid ​addiction treatment and overdose reversal medicines.

As ​part of the plea agreement, Purdue admitted to paying kickbacks to doctors to fuel OxyContin sales and to deceiving federal regulators about its efforts to prevent illegal drug use. No company executive or owner was charged as part of ​the latest criminal case.

The company previously pleaded ‌guilty to misbranding and fraud charges related to its marketing of OxyContin in 2007, admitting it falsely marketed ​OxyContin as less addictive, less subject to abuse, and less likely to cause withdrawal symptoms than rival pain ​medications.

(Reporting by Dietrich Knauth, Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi and Lincoln Feast.)

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