It was the interview heard ‘round North America—the clandestine meeting between actor Sean Penn and notorious drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, and the Rolling Stone article that followed. But what Penn intended to be a vehicle to initiate a deeper conversation about US drug policy ended up being a mockery of investigative journalism, and an example of a lifelong criminal manipulating an American activist for his own agenda.
Only days after his client’s capture and the highly controversial interview of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán by actor Sean Penn, Guzmán’s lawyer is calling the actor’s retelling of El Chapo’s drug trafficking claims “a lie” and “absurd speculation.”
A series of photographs taken by Mexican authorities and released Monday revealed that actor Sean Penn’s journey to a secret interview with drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera was closely tracked by the country’s law enforcement agencies.
A Los Angeles clothing store is cashing in on the publicity surrounding the arrest of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, who was photographed wearing two of the store’s flamboyant silk shirts during his interview with actor Sean Penn.
Actor Sean Penn said Monday he has “nothin’ to hide” about his clandestine visit to Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, dismissing criticism over his interview with the fugitive who was captured two days ago.
Matt Damon is jumping to the defense of fellow actor Sean Penn amid mounting criticism of Penn’s clandestine exclusive interview for Rolling Stone with violent Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera.
Florida-based drug rehabilitation center Harbor Village is denouncing actor Sean Penn’s Rolling Stone feature in which he glorifies drug lord and mass murderer El Chapo.
As the media whirlwind continues over the highly controversial interview of Mexican kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán by actor Sean Penn, many people keep asking about the woman he partnered up with to broker the meeting. Who is this Mexican actress best known for her television role as the female counterpart to Guzmán?
Last night, Rolling Stone magazine published an interview with Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera,conducted by Hollywood actor Sean Penn. Mexican actress Kate del Castillo was also present at the meeting, which took place last September 28. Penn later made a detailed narration of the events for the magazine, and recalled a 7-hour conversation with the drug lord who was absolutely unapologetic and seemed very much at ease while talking to the actor. In addition, Guzmán also dedicated a video interview to del Castillo and Penn.
The Sinaloa Cartel has been busy dumping and replacing their communication structure following the arrest of their leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera and the public outing that they had been compromised thanks to their meeting with Hollywood actor and activist Sean Penn. The fateful interview has since caused much discord within the top ranks of the Sinaloa Cartel where the top brass has been pointing the finger at the actor and at Ivan Archivaldo Guzman as the responsible parties.
Florida senator and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio denounced the interview of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, calling it “grotesque.”
In a move reminiscent of then-ABC journalist John Miller’s 1998 interview of deceased terrorist Osama Bin Laden, actor Sean Penn has interviewed the Western Hemisphere’s most notorious drug lord and fugitive under legally questionable circumstances.
Sean Penn interviewed fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as “El Chapo,” who was captured and returned to prison Friday, for Rolling Stone magazine. Guzmán was said to have been captured when he reached out to producers and actors about making a biopic of his life.
“Milk” screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and director Gus Van Sant are developing an eight-hour miniseries for ABC, which will chronicle the history of the gay rights movement.
Few Americans are more worthy of the big and small screen than Andrew Jackson—a poor, orphaned child of immigrants who fought in the American Revolution, moved to the frontier, and rose to become president of the United States. HBO is producing a six-hour miniseries based on Jon Meacham’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Actor Robert Redford joined world leaders, legislators, and a handful of celebrities at the Cop21 international climate change conference in Paris over the weekend, where he urged attendees to “change the momentum” to halt global warming and declared that “people are feeling climate change in their own backyard, seeing climate change from their homes.”
Top international global warming expert Sean Penn has given his verdict on the COP21 Paris climate conference: everything’s going to be OK because both his kids drive Priuses and because climate change “deniers” don’t actually exist. Penn, who met with France’s
Famed Hollywood actor Sean Penn met with former president Shimon Peres at the Peres Center for Peace in Jaffa on Monday, as part of the actor’s two day visit to Israel.
Actor Sean Penn has filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against Lee Daniels for a recent interview in which the creator of the hit show Empire suggested that Penn is physically abusive toward women.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph this week, actor Sean Penn explained that he watches beheading videos made by the Islamic terrorist group ISIS in order to see and understand “real violence.”
Sean Penn’s “The Gunman” was no match for the rebel kids of “Insurgent.”
Sean Penn had some harsh words for former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney during his Wednesday night appearance on Conan.
Actor and director Sean Penn argued that the letter to Iran by 47 Republican Senators was “mutiny” and “perhaps” criminal on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time.” “When a young William Jefferson Clinton was at Oxford and protesting the Vietnam War, and
Bill Maher criticized “politically correct a**holes” during an interview with Sean Penn on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time.” Maher discussed the outcry over a joke Penn made at the Oscars where he remarked “who gave this son of a
Actor Sean Penn unapologetically responded to questions about his Alejandro Iñárritu green card Oscars joke on Saturday in Beverly Hills, CA, and instead opted to blame a “xenophobic” country for the controversy.
During the most political Academy Awards ceremony in years, an event filled with partial nudity, political statements, and a lot of farcical back patting, Hollywood’s elite once again gathered to secularly wrap up another year in film.
In January 2013, Sean Penn criticized personal firearms as “cowardly killing machines” and sold all his guns in order that they might be rendered inoperable. In 2015 he is starring in The Gunman, a soon-to-released film by the makers of the Taken series, and one in which Penn relies on guns to save himself and his love interest.
A documentary, which calls into question the relief efforts to assist the People of Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, has Sean Penn likening its director to a “Nazi.”
Sean Penn raised $6 million for his Haitian relief organization J/P HRO Saturday night at an event in Beverly Hills, CA pulling in funds from an A-list crowd that included former President Bill Clinton.
Actor Sean Penn argued that a boycott of the distributors of “The Interview” “should be considered” to support “free speech and free thinking” on Friday’s “Hardball” on MSNBC. “We have to realize that this is a genuine emergency, this is
