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Lady Gaga to Perform at 2020 MTV VMAs

Lady Gaga attends the AT&T TV Super Saturday Night at Meridian on Island Gardens in Miami on Feb. 1, 2020, in Miami, Fla. (AP)
Lady Gaga attends the AT&T TV Super Saturday Night at Meridian on Island Gardens in Miami on Feb. 1, 2020, in Miami, Fla. (AP)
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Lady Gaga to Perform at 2020 MTV VMAs

Lady Gaga attends the AT&T TV Super Saturday Night at Meridian on Island Gardens in Miami on Feb. 1, 2020, in Miami, Fla. (AP)
Lady Gaga attends the AT&T TV Super Saturday Night at Meridian on Island Gardens in Miami on Feb. 1, 2020, in Miami, Fla. (AP)

Lady Gaga has been confirmed as the latest artist to perform at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards. Lady Gaga will join the group of performers who were previously announced, which includes BTS, Doja Cat, The Weeknd, Roddy Ricch and Maluma.

The VMAs will air live on Sunday, August 30th at 8pm ET/PT.

Lady Gaga whose latest album "Chromatica" dropped on May 29, is up for nine video music awards. "Rain on Me," the second release from the album featured a collaboration with Ariana Grande, earned seven of those nominations including Video of the Year and Song of the Year. Grande and Lady Gaga lead this year's nominations, followed by Billie Eilish and the Weeknd with six nominations. All four artists have been nominated for video of the year.

Lady Gaga confirmed the news on her Instagram page. She wrote: "I've been at home dreaming of #Chromatica, and it's finally time to take off for the first live performance ? Tune in to the #VMAs on 8/30!"

As previously confirmed, BTS will make their first VMA appearance and debut the group's forthcoming English single, "Dynamite," due to be released on Aug. 21.

MTV Awards allows for fans to vote for their favorites across 15 categories including Video of the Year, Artist of the Year, Best Quarantine Performance via social media and the MTV website until Aug. 23.

The awards show will no longer take place at the Barclays Center, as previously announced. Instead, artists will take to the stage at audience-less locations around New York City.

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Lawyers: Kardashian Ready to 'Confront' her Paris Attackers in Court

FILE - American television and social media personality,socialite, and model Kim Kardashian attends the Cannes Lions 2015, International Advertising Festival in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, June 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
FILE - American television and social media personality,socialite, and model Kim Kardashian attends the Cannes Lions 2015, International Advertising Festival in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, June 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
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Lawyers: Kardashian Ready to 'Confront' her Paris Attackers in Court

FILE - American television and social media personality,socialite, and model Kim Kardashian attends the Cannes Lions 2015, International Advertising Festival in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, June 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
FILE - American television and social media personality,socialite, and model Kim Kardashian attends the Cannes Lions 2015, International Advertising Festival in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, June 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)

Kim Kardashian is ready to "confront" her Paris attackers as the US celebrity prepares to testify in person next week at a trial over an armed robbery of her jewelry in 2016, her lawyers said Monday.

"She is committed to attending in person the trial and to confronting those who attacked her. She will do so with dignity and courage," her French lawyers Leonor Hennerick and Jonathan Mattout told AFP.

In late April, 10 suspects went on trial in Paris over the 2016 robbery of the US celebrity, which saw some $10 million worth of jewelry stolen from the reality TV star and influencer.

On the night of October 2-3, 2016, Kardashian, then 35, was robbed while staying at an exclusive hotel in central Paris. She was threatened with a gun to the head and tied up with her mouth taped up.

Kardashian, who has been keeping abreast of developments during the first week of the trial, is due to testify on May 13 in a court appearance certain to attract huge media attention.

The lawyers, who are representing Kardashian alongside her American counsel Michael Rhodes, declined to comment on the content of her upcoming testimony.

"We want to give everyone the opportunity to hear her testimony in her own words so we won't be commenting on the substance of what she will say," they said in a statement.

During what the French press has dubbed the "the heist of the century", masked men walked away from the Parisian hotel with millions of dollars worth of jewels in 2016, including a diamond ring gifted by her then-husband, rapper Kanye West.

The theft was the biggest against a private individual in France in the past 20 years.

Those on trial are mainly men in their 60s and 70s with previous criminal records and underworld nicknames like "Old Omar" and "Blue Eyes" that recall the old-school French bandits of 1960s and 1970s film noirs.

Kardashian, her lawyers said, "is genuinely grateful for the way in which the French authorities conducted the investigation that led to the discovery of the persons facing charges in this trial.

"Throughout the process, the utmost respect and consideration has been given for Ms. Kardashian," they said.

She "will cooperate with the judicial process and answer all questions," her lawyers added.

The trial is due to last until May 23.