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Selma Blair Arrest: What Happened on Delta Flight 938
Selma Blair was arrested after an alleged altercation on Delta flight 938. Here is the timeline, charges, and what we know about the Selma Blair case.
You want the facts about the Selma Blair arrest without the tabloid noise. Here is a clear timeline of what happened on Delta flight 938, the charges she faces, and the legal next steps.
What Happened on Delta Flight 938
Selma Blair, 54, was taken into custody late Sunday night, Oct. 11, 2026, after a Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. According to NPR, authorities said she was physically abusive and injured two flight attendants.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said police took Blair into custody when the plane was parked at the gate. Both Blair and one flight attendant were taken to a hospital for evaluation.
Dispatch audio obtained by CNN described minor injuries including a bloody nose and bite marks. A law enforcement source told CNN that Blair bit one flight attendant and left another with lacerations. The audio also mentioned the disruptive passenger may have bashed her head on the bulkhead.
Blair was put in plastic restraints on the plane and arrested upon landing, according to TMZ.
The Charges and Court Appearance
Blair was charged with two counts of second-degree assault. She appeared in Queens Criminal Court on Monday evening wearing blue jeans and a light grey hoodie. She did not enter a plea.
Prosecutors said Blair kicked a Port Authority officer while being strapped into a stretcher before being loaded into an ambulance. According to a criminal complaint, she freed her leg from the stretcher straps and kicked the officer in the head and chest. Hours later, she kicked a nurse in the chest during additional treatment.
Judge Indira Khan set bail at $20,000 and issued an order of protection for the nurse. Blair is due back in court on January 19.
Her attorney, Shawn Barnes, said Blair boarded the flight after extensive hours on set, fell and hit her head on the plane, and missed her medication. Barnes also said Blair spent seven to eight hours at the hospital before she was in police custody, and then had to return to the hospital.
What Blair’s Representative Says
A representative for Blair told PEOPLE that the actress experienced a medical emergency that led to the alleged conduct. The rep said she received immediate medical attention upon landing and is in stable condition.
Delta Air Lines told CNN in a statement that the airline has zero tolerance for unruly or unlawful behavior, saying the safety of customers and crew always comes first. Delta also confirmed law enforcement met the plane upon arrival.
The FBI is investigating the incident. The agency said it is responsible for investigating all assaults aboard aircraft but does not comment on ongoing investigations, per long-standing DOJ policy.
How to Track This Case Yourself
If you want to follow the Selma Blair case without relying on social media rumors, here is a simple workflow.
Step 1: Set a Google Alert. Go to google.com/alerts. Enter Selma Blair and choose As-it-happens. This pulls new stories into your inbox.
Step 2: Check court records. New York State Unified Court System has a WebCivil Supreme and WebCriminal search. Use the case number from her next appearance on January 19. If you do not have the number, search by her name in Queens Criminal Court.
Step 3: Verify airline incidents. The FAA tracks unruly passenger reports. According to the Flight Aviation Authority, there have been 1,331 reports of unruly passengers on airplanes so far this year. You can compare this case against broader trends.
Step 4: Read primary statements. Blair’s publicist and the FBI have both declined or not responded to requests for comment. When they do, the statements will likely appear first via AP, CNN, or PEOPLE.
Step 5: Separate medical context from legal facts. Blair was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2018 and has been an advocate for disability rights. In 2023, she joined President Joe Biden at the White House to celebrate the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Her representative cites a medical emergency, but that is a claim, not a legal finding.
A Prior In-Flight Incident
This is not Blair’s first run-in with authorities on a commercial airliner. In 2016, she was removed from a flight from Cancun to Los Angeles on a stretcher and hospitalized. She publicly apologized, telling Vanity Fair at the time that she mixed alcohol with medication, which caused her to black out and led her to say and do things she deeply regretted. She was traveling with her son Arthur and his father Jason Bleick.
Blair shared a video recap of her recent travels on Instagram on Sunday, with a caption reading, From LA to New Mexico to La to nyc to LA Scout and I have been busy. She was expected to appear at 90s Con in Hartford, Conn., from Oct. 16 to 18.
What Comes Next
Blair is expected to be released on $20,000 bail. Her next court date is January 19. The FBI investigation is ongoing, and federal prosecutors have not announced charges. TMZ reported that the FBI issued Blair a federal summons charging her with assault within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
If you want one reliable next step, bookmark the Queens Criminal Court calendar and set a reminder for January 19. That is when the next verified update will come.
Frequently Asked Questions
What was Selma Blair charged with?
She was charged with two counts of second-degree assault — one on a police officer and another on a nurse. She did not enter a plea.
When is Selma Blair’s next court date?
She is due back in court on January 19. Bail was set at $20,000 by Judge Indira Khan.
Is the FBI investigating the Selma Blair flight incident?
Yes. The FBI is investigating the incident because it handles all assaults aboard aircraft. The agency does not comment on ongoing investigations.
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California Billionaire Tax: Who Pays Under Proposition 40
California billionaire tax: Proposition 40’s one-time 5% levy on roughly 200 billionaires, the $100 billion estimate, and the billionaires who left.
California voters will decide next month whether to impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of the state’s roughly 200 billionaires, a levy projected to raise $100 billion over five years and the first wealth tax of its kind to reach a statewide ballot.
The measure, Proposition 40, sits among 14 propositions on the ballot. It was placed there by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West and its president, Dave Regan, who frames it as a five-year bridge rather than a permanent fix. “We’re not trying to pretend that it’s a permanent solution,” Regan told CBS News, “but a five-year solution is better than no solution.”
What The California Billionaire Tax Would Actually Do
The initiative text confirms three things. It applies to California residents with net worth above $1 billion. It is levied once, at 5%. And it is written into the state Constitution, not merely state law, a detail that governs every argument about what happens after passage.
Ninety percent of revenue would flow into a special state reserve for healthcare, including Medi-Cal. Nearly one in three Californians depend on that program, according to the California Budget and Policy Center, as cited by USC Annenberg Media. The remaining 10% would fund K-14 public education and food assistance such as CalFresh and school nutrition programs.
The stated trigger is a specific federal law, not inequality in the abstract. Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July, cutting more than $1 trillion from federal healthcare spending over a decade. The California Department of Health Care Services expects the state to lose about $30 billion a year, Annenberg reported. Regan says 3.5 million people would lose coverage. That figure is his, and the source material contains no independent verification of it.
The Fight Over What Lawmakers Could Do Later
Opponents have built their campaign on a second-order claim: that the measure is a “Trojan horse” for wealth taxes on ordinary Californians, because it lets the Legislature amend the tax by two-thirds vote so long as changes are “consistent with and furthers the purposes” of the act.
CalMatters rated that claim partially true. California courts have granted lawmakers real authority over ballot initiatives that permit amendment. The Mental Health Services Act, a 1% income tax on millionaires passed in 2004, has been amended 10 times, though never on its rate. Election-law attorney Michael Colantuono told CalMatters that legislators “could probably adjust the structure of the tax in marginal ways,” but that they could not turn it into more than a one-time tax or lower the wealth threshold. Regan’s answer to the ad campaign was flat: “The billionaire tax is a tax on billionaires. Period.” Rob Lapsley, president of the California Business Roundtable, which funded the ad, said the intent was to show “what they could mean for taxpayers and the state’s economy.
Billionaires Who Left, And The One Who Said Yes
On one measurable point, both sides agree: since the California billionaire tax was proposed, some of the state’s richest residents have moved out. CBS News reported that venture capitalist Peter Thiel and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have left California. Brin is spending more than $100 million to oppose the measure.
Opposition is not confined to the wealthy. Governor Gavin Newsom calls Prop 40 “a flawed initiative.” Former congresswoman Katie Porter, who describes herself as a progressive, argues the design defeats its own purpose. “When somebody leaves California, we can no longer tax them,” she told CBS. “That is a permanent problem.”
One billionaire spoke on the record. Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang, whose Forbes-listed net worth is about $200 billion, said he does not object to paying. Asked about a bill of perhaps $8 billion over five years, he replied: “The fact that I can afford to pay $8 billion in taxes over five years is a privilege.” He added: “I’m not afraid of paying taxes. I’m just afraid of being poor.” He did not say how he intends to vote, and the source material does not indicate whether he has taken a position on the measure.
Why Valuation, Not Politics, May Decide The Outcome
Beyond the campaign, the California billionaire tax creates an administrative problem the state has never faced: assigning a price to assets that are rarely sold, including private companies, art and car collections. Valuing a pre-revenue tech startup is especially difficult.
“The excise tax that’s being proposed here is on potential,” Chris Parker, a principal tax attorney at Baker Tilly, told CalMatters. “The question then is, if we open the door to taxing potential, when does that stop?”
Ray Madoff, a professor at Boston College Law, told CBS the underlying system is “deeply broken” because most billionaire wealth sits in stocks that are not taxed until sold. She compared the arrangement to “the aristocracy of pre-revolutionary France.” She also described Prop 40’s value as largely symbolic, arguing that meaningful change has to happen at the federal level.
What To Watch On November 3
Two competing measures could void the result. Proposition 41 would require pre-election audits of initiatives proposing special taxes once they report 25% of required signatures. Proposition 42 would bar taxes enacted on or after January 1, 2026 on the ownership or control of individually owned assets and personal savings. If either receives more votes than Prop 40, the wealth tax is nullified.
Polls have tightened, according to CBS News, and the outcome is not settled. The structural questions the California billionaire tax raises travel well beyond one state: how to value private wealth, how to keep a taxable base from moving, and whether a five-year sunset survives political pressure. Colantuono noted that temporary taxes have more than once become permanent because of “tremendous political pressure to prevent the sunset.”
Readers in African economies weighing similar levies face the same measurement and mobility problems, and this report draws no statistical comparison because the source material contains no data on African wealth-tax proposals. The comparison here is structural only. Regan is already predicting replication: “California is America’s coming attraction, and this is coming to a state near you after we pass it on November 3.” Whether that forecast holds depends less on the rhetoric than on the count, and on what courts do with the amendment clause if the California billionaire tax passes.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Proposition 40?
Proposition 40 is a California ballot initiative that would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of state residents worth more than $1 billion. It was placed on the ballot by SEIU United Healthcare Workers West and is projected by supporters to raise about $100 billion over five years, with 90% earmarked for healthcare.
Which billionaires have left California since the tax was proposed?
CBS News reported that venture capitalist Peter Thiel and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have left California since the wealth tax was proposed. Brin is spending more than $100 million to oppose the measure. The source material does not give departure dates or confirm the reasons for each move.
How could Proposition 41 or Proposition 42 block the wealth tax?
Both are competing ballot measures backed by opponents. Proposition 41 would require pre-election audits for initiatives proposing special taxes once they report 25% of required signatures. Proposition 42 would prohibit new taxes on the ownership or control of individually owned assets and personal savings enacted on or after January 1, 2026. If either receives more votes than Prop 40, the wealth tax result is voided.
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Uncle Wins Tokyo Gap-Financing Market Top Prize
Yen Hao-hsuan’s debut Uncle won the Tokyo Project Award at the seventh Tokyo Gap-Financing Market and the Asian Gen-Z Award.
Taiwanese director Yen Hao-hsuan’s debut feature project Uncle won the Tokyo Project Award on Friday at the seventh Tokyo Gap-Financing Market, the financing forum held inside TIFFCOM, the content market attached to the Tokyo International Film Festival, Variety reported.
The same ceremony handed Uncle the Asian Gen-Z Award, decided by a committee of five film students and now in its second year. The project was one of 24 selected for this year’s market. Prizes went to a handful of them.
The other winners were the Japanese-Canadian co-production Wild Zero Overdrive, from Takegei Company Limited, which took the White Light Post-Production Award carrying $25,000 in services from Thailand-based White Light; and the Brazilian feature Nature Boy, directed by Matias Mariani and produced by Primo Filmes, which won the Mellow Tunes Sound Design Award, offering in-kind sound design valued at up to $10,000 from Thailand’s Mellow Tunes.
TIFFCOM managing director Ikeda Kaori hosted the ceremony. The jury was Nam Jongsuk, a programmer at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival and managing director of the Network of Asian Fantastic Films; producer Meiske Taurisia of Palari Films; and Paolo Bertolin, a consultant for the Venice Film Festival.
What The Tokyo Gap-Financing Market Jury Actually Awarded
The Tokyo Project Award is a jury citation. Reporting on Friday’s ceremony did not state a cash value for it, which separates it from the Gen-Z prize’s JPY500,000 ($3,300) and from the in-kind awards given to the other two projects. That distinction matters for anyone reading the headline as a financing event. A market prize signals curator interest, not committed money.
Wild Zero Overdrive reached Tokyo through the Frontières fiction feature selection, part of TIFFCOM’s first partnership with the co-production market of Canada’s Fantasia International Film Festival. Directed by Takeuchi Tetsuro, it is a follow-up to his 1999 cult film Wild Zero and stars the punk band Guitar Wolf, who headlined the original. There was no acceptance speech; winners and presenters shouted “rock and roll!” instead.
A Taiwanese Feature Uncle Turns Eighteen Years Of Family Memory Into A Pitch
Uncle follows Wen, 10, and A-Tsik, the uncle he is inseparable from, in a rural Taiwanese household where Wen’s grandfather runs an illegal gambling den on the ground floor. The story runs from 1997 to 2000, with the island rebuilding after an earthquake and going through its first democratic handover of power. As Wen reaches adolescence his affection curdles into embarrassment, and the family’s attempts to police A-Tsik’s behaviour and sexuality expose how little say he has over his own life.
Yen lived with his uncle for 18 years, and the film tracks that arc: childhood closeness, teenage shame, then leaving for the city while A-Tsik stayed put. He kept the material out of his short films, unsure he could separate honesty from indulgence. “Making those short films and the time that has passed since, have given me enough distance to see him as a person, not only as a relative or as a material for a film,” he said ahead of the market, in an earlier Variety interview. “Now I think I’m ready.”
Patrick Mao Huang, founder of Flash Forward Entertainment, produces with Sung Chin-hsuan, with Flash Forward, wpd films and Soseki Studio presenting. Huang’s credits include Tiger Stripes, winner of the Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize in 2023. Sung’s work spans film, series and immersive media, including 2025 Venice Immersive Grand Prize winner The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up. The project holds a Taiwan Creative Content Agency development grant and was developed in this year’s New Director Workshop at the Taipei Film Festival.
The award closes a fortnight in which Uncle went from the Busan Asian Project Market, its first Asian market outing, to the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market.
Praise, Precedent And The Risk Of Reading Too Much Into A Prize
Nam said the project “looks at society and bravely goes against prejudices, without sugarcoating the subject,” and the jury hoped Yen would deliver something “uncompromising.” The student committee called it “a story that demands to be told right now,” adding that it was “resisting simplistic emotional appeals.
Those are the opinions of a jury, not measurements. The firmer evidence sits with the producer. Tiger Stripes did win Cannes Critics’ Week in 2023, which establishes that Huang can carry a first-time director’s film through the international circuit. It does not establish that Uncle will follow.
Yen said he had not expected the win. “I’ll take this as the energy to shoot and finish the film,” he said.
The prize also lands in a busy stretch for Taiwanese film more broadly. Left-Handed Girl, co-written and directed by Tsou Shih-Ching with Sean Baker, is Taiwan’s entry to the 2026 Academy Awards and made the December shortlist, while Shu Qi’s directing debut Girl opened in Singapore cinemas on April 16, The Straits Times reported. None of that transfers to Uncle. The projects share a passport and a festival circuit, not a budget or a distributor.
What To Watch Before Cameras Roll
Much of what would make this a completed film is still open. Yen is writing a fresh draft and working out the visual style. No budget, shoot date, cast, sales agent or distributor has been announced in the reporting available. The producers are courting co-production partners from Korea, Japan, elsewhere in Asia and Europe, along with financiers, post-production collaborators, sales agents and distributors.
Huang has said he wants a financing and creative setup that safeguards Yen’s voice and the film’s Taiwanese character, a constraint that narrows the field of potential partners.
The reporting also does not list the full 24-project slate for the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market, so the market’s geographic reach, and whether any African project was among the selections, cannot be verified from the coverage available. Confirmed: the prizes, the names, the jury quotes. Not confirmed: anything about the finished film.
What to watch is narrower than the headline. Whether Uncle closes its financing, signs a sales agent and sets a shoot date will say more about its prospects than any citation handed out in Tokyo. For now, the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market has given Yen an award, a small cheque and a line for his pitch deck. According to the reporting available, the film has not yet been shot.
Frequently Asked Questions
What prize did the Taiwanese project Uncle win at the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market?
Uncle, directed by Yen Hao-hsuan, won the Tokyo Project Award on Friday at the seventh Tokyo Gap-Financing Market. It also collected the Asian Gen-Z Award earlier in the same ceremony.
Is Uncle finished and ready for release?
No. The project is in development and financing. Yen is writing a fresh draft and working out the film’s visual style, and the reporting available does not list a budget, shoot date, cast, sales agent or distributor.
How much money does the Tokyo Project Award carry?
The reporting on the ceremony did not state a cash value for the Tokyo Project Award. By contrast, the Asian Gen-Z Award carries JPY500,000 ($3,300), the White Light Post-Production Award carries $25,000 in services, and the Mellow Tunes Sound Design Award offers up to $10,000 in in-kind sound design.
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Selma Blair Breaks Silence on Airplane Incident Charges
Selma Blair breaks silence on the Delta airplane incident, apologising to those she alarmed, as two assault charges head for a January 2027 court date.
Selma Blair breaks silence three weeks after her arrest at John F. Kennedy International Airport, posting an Instagram video on Friday, 30 October in which she apologised to “the people that I disappointed, that I hurt, that I frightened, alarmed.” The 54-year-old actor faces two counts of second-degree assault in Queens Criminal Court, to which she pleaded not guilty on 12 October. Her case is adjourned until 19 January 2027.
The video runs barely a minute. It is the first direct statement from Blair since the night of 11 October, when Port Authority police responded at about 11 p.m. to a call about a “physically abusive passenger” aboard Delta Flight 938, which had just arrived from Los Angeles. She offers no account of what happened on the aircraft.
Why Selma Blair Breaks Silence Without Describing The Flight
“I know I’ve been quiet for a couple weeks since October 11. And you deserve to hear from me directly, and I’m sorry that it’s taken this long,” Blair says, according to NBC News. “There is a legal matter going on, and my lawyers have asked me to not say anything about that day, and I’m listening to them.”
The legal constraint explains the shape of the statement. Blair does not describe the alleged conduct, does not name the complainants and does not repeat her representatives’ medical explanation. What she offers instead is a character defence: “not one day ever have I intended to hurt or frighten anyone a day in my life.”
She also confirmed that Scout, the Labrador service dog who travelled with her, is “also okay,” and said she would be “taking care of my health and my son, and thinking of you all with gratitude and love.
Background: From Cruel Intentions To A Public Diagnosis
Court reporting across US outlets identifies Blair chiefly through her 1999 film Cruel Intentions. The more consequential public record, for the purposes of this case, begins in 2018, when she disclosed a multiple sclerosis diagnosis in an Instagram post: “I am disabled. I fall sometimes. I drop things. My memory is foggy. And my left side is asking for directions from a broken gps,” she wrote, as recorded by USA TODAY.
She has advocated publicly for the disease since and has said in recent years that she is in remission. A spokesperson said in an October statement that Blair also has pseudobulbar affect, a neurological condition the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America describes as sudden, uncontrollable expressions of laughter or crying.
The service dog, Scout, is central to that account. Blair’s spokesperson said she travels with the dog because it does not leave her side, and that authorities took the animal from her at the airport.
What Is Confirmed, What Is Alleged, And What Is Disputed
The confirmed record is narrow and largely procedural. Port Authority police took Blair into custody at the gate and transported her to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center for evaluation. She was charged the following day with two counts of second-degree assault. Delta said only that law enforcement responded to an incident on arrival and that “Delta has zero tolerance for unruly or unlawful behavior, as the safety of our customers and crew always come first.”
The allegations are more specific. Charging documents allege that while Blair was secured to a stretcher, she pulled a leg free and kicked Port Authority Officer Maria Suarez repeatedly around the face, neck and chest, causing what Suarez described as substantial pain and swelling. A nurse moving her at the hospital alleged Blair kicked her in the chest.
Separately, TMZ, citing dispatch audio and sources, reported that two flight attendants were injured, one with a bloody nose and bite marks, and that Blair “bashed her head on the bulkhead.” One flight attendant was taken to hospital, Port Authority told USA TODAY. Those details come from leaked audio and unnamed sources, not from charging documents, and should be treated as unverified.
Some claims are actively contested. Deadline reported that Blair allegedly tried to open an aircraft door mid-flight. Her spokesperson rejected that directly: “There was no attempt to open the door of the aircraft. Selma did not intend to harm anyone.” The spokesperson also called suggestions that Blair does not have MS “outrageous.”
Reporting on bail illustrates how far the accounts diverge. The Guardian records bail set at $20,000 cash or $60,000 bond; Fox News reports the same figures with an added $60,000 partially secured option; Deadline describes an $80,000 bond. One figure, at most, is correct.
The Medical Defence That January Will Test
Blair’s lawyer, Shawn Barnes, told the arraignment judge that her actions were not intentional and that she had missed several doses of “a powerful medication that controls severe neurological symptoms.” He said she boarded in Los Angeles after a heavy workload, hit her head during the flight, and that these factors combined with altitude produced “a state of severe confusion and disorientation.”
NBC News reports Barnes also cited diagnoses of multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonism. The Guardian and USA TODAY, covering the same hearing, mention only the medication and the head strike. That gap matters: a medical defence built on Parkinsonism would rest on a diagnosis not established in the wider reporting.
Fox News, citing law enforcement officials, also reports that Blair was served with a separate FBI summons and faces one federal assault charge. No other outlet in this reporting set confirms that detail, and it remains a single-source claim.
Legacy And The Case Ahead
Blair’s public identity shifted years ago from actor to disability advocate, and that is the frame through which her statement will be read. Her decision to say almost nothing about the flight protects her defence; it also leaves the public record dominated by a police statement, which her own spokesperson complained about in October.
The next hearing is 19 January 2027. Until then, Selma Blair breaks silence only on her own terms: an apology, a confirmation that her dog is safe, and a promise to focus on health and family while the criminal case proceeds without her commentary.
A profile of a public figure in this position is a profile of two records running in parallel. One is a court file, built on sworn complaints and a plea of not guilty. The other is a news cycle, built on leaked audio, unnamed sources and unauthorised character assessments. The distance between them is where the truth of 11 October currently sits, and neither Blair’s video nor the charging documents have closed it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What was Selma Blair charged with?
Two counts of second-degree assault in Queens Criminal Court, relating to allegations that she kicked a Port Authority police officer and a nurse after a Delta flight from Los Angeles landed at JFK on 11 October 2026. She pleaded not guilty.
What did Selma Blair say in her Instagram video?
She apologised to “the people that I disappointed, that I hurt, that I frightened, alarmed,” said her lawyers had asked her not to discuss the day of the incident, confirmed her service dog Scout was okay, and said she would focus on her health and her son.
When is Selma Blair’s next court date?
Her case was adjourned to 19 January 2027, according to the district attorney’s office and court reporting.
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