Courtney Stodden Pushes California to End Child Marriage
Courtney Stodden is putting her advocacy where California’s lawmakers can see it. In an interview with Us Weekly published September 13, Stodden said she has been working with Unchained at Last on AB 1267, legislation intended to end child marriage in California without exceptions.
Stodden said the campaign has included repeated trips to Sacramento with survivors who have joined the effort. She described the push as the culmination of roughly nine years of work, and said she believes the bill could reach Gov. Gavin Newsom for his signature.
That last step is important: reaching a governor’s desk is not the same as becoming law. The available reporting confirms Stodden’s advocacy and her expectation about the bill’s path, but it does not establish that AB 1267 has passed or been signed. For now, the finish line is a forecast, not a done deal.
The California fight also sits inside a much larger legal patchwork. Child marriage is defined here as a legal union involving someone under 18, and the practice remains permitted in 34 states. California, Mississippi and New Mexico are identified in the supplied reporting as having no minimum marriage age, making California’s proposed “no exceptions” language especially consequential if enacted.
The scale behind the campaign is grim rather than abstract: nearly 300,000 minors were legally married across the United States between 2000 and 2018, when all 50 states allowed the practice. Most were girls. That history helps explain why Stodden is framing the legislation through survivor experience instead of treating it as a niche Sacramento policy fight.
Stodden’s public advocacy arrives amid a broader reckoning over how powerful adults treated her and other young women. But the specific legislative claim is the news here. She is lending celebrity visibility to a survivor-led campaign, while California lawmakers and the governor still determine whether the promised breakthrough becomes law.
Dakota Johnson and Machine Gun Kelly Fuel NYC Date Talk
Dakota Johnson and Machine Gun Kelly are suddenly sharing a gossip spotlight, thanks to reports of a private New York City meeting that has been framed as something more than casual. TMZ reported that the pair were seen on what it described as a secret NYC date, placing the outing after Johnson’s split.
That timing is doing plenty of work in the rumor cycle, but the available reporting does not identify Johnson’s former partner, give a timeline for the split, or provide a statement from either Johnson or Kelly. In other words: the “after the split” detail comes from the framing of the report, not from a fuller relationship history supplied here.
Just Jared also covered the encounter, describing it as a private hangout at Taylor Swift’s apartment. That adds a more specific setting, while also making the reports slightly different in tone: one calls it a date, the other calls it a hangout. Neither description, as provided, confirms that Johnson and Kelly are dating.
The overlap between the two reports makes the sighting worth watching, but it does not turn a private meetup into a relationship announcement. Celebrity circles are famously small, and an apartment appearance can mean romance, friendship, work, or simply an invitation. Without direct confirmation from Johnson or Kelly, the most responsible read is that the rumor has two pieces of media coverage and no public confirmation attached to it.
That is enough for a juicy question mark, not a new-couple declaration. For now, the story is less “Dakota and MGK are official” than “why were they together, and why is everyone suddenly calling it a date?”
Brad Pitt and Ines de Ramon Share a Tennis Date
Brad Pitt and Ines de Ramon made the U.S. Open women’s final their latest courtside date, with Us Weekly reporting that the pair cuddled and watched the match together at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens on Saturday, September 12, 2026. Related coverage from Just Jared also places them at the tournament.
The outing had a public-but-relaxed rhythm. Pitt was photographed chatting with women seated behind him and taking a selfie with them, while de Ramon was seen with her arm linked around his as they followed the action. The moment reads less like a carefully staged red-carpet appearance and more like two famous people settling into a very visible seat at a major sporting event.
The match itself gave the date plenty of star power without requiring a celebrity sideshow: Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina defeated Belarusian player Aryna Sabalenka in the women’s final. Former New York Yankee CC Sabathia and his 20-year-old daughter, Jaden, were seated nearby, adding another recognizable name to the box-area guest list.
This is also not their first reported tennis rendezvous. The pair were previously spotted at the French Open in Paris in June, when Mirra Andreeva won her first Grand Slam title against Maja Chwalińska. Their repeated appearances at major tournaments suggest tennis has become a shared public setting for the two, rather than a one-off celebrity sighting.
They have also appeared together in more formal surroundings: Pitt wore a tuxedo and de Ramon a black lace dress for an impromptu photo session before a star-packed July 3 wedding at Madison Square Garden. Compared with that polished snapshot, the U.S. Open appearance offered a looser picture—fan selfies, linked arms and a long afternoon of tennis. The romance label comes from the entertainment coverage, while the reported photographs provide the clearest evidence of the public outing itself.