The Latest Breaking News from Hunter S Thompson

Despite being ordered to pay magazine writer E. Jean Carroll £3.9 million in damages, after being found liable for sexually abusing her in a dressing room in the 1990s, Donald Trump is now counter-suing her for defamation. Here’s everything you need to know about the woman behind the headlines

A look at the American’s drug- and alcohol-fuelled writing from his legendary heyday in the 60s and 70s. Plus: there are deep-seated tensions in Rain Dogs. Here’s what to watch this evening

She was no stranger to self-mythologising. But the prices fetched at her estate sale were more about glamour seeking substance, says writer Rachel Connolly

LOS ANGELES — Feet wet and thoughts adrift, a handful of us slouched on wooden chairs in the middle of the Big Sur River, shaded by tall trees, surrounded by gently moving water.

Throughout his five decades at Rolling Stone, the magazine’s co-founder Jann Wenner wrote hundreds of articles and spent time with some of the biggest names in music — Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon and Bob Dylan, to name a few — and politics, too, including presidents Bill…

Looking back at sixties California from the vantage point of murky 1971, Hunter S Thompson climbed a hill in nearby Las Vegas and looked West. "With the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark" he wrote. "That place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

When even Hunter S Thompson tells you to take it easy, you must be overdoing it. The bestselling author talks about marrying Martin Scorsese, sobering up, and writing a bestseller

He couldn't get elected president, or even mayor. But he still thinks he can revolutionize American politics

Longtime Hells Angels president who cultivated his outlaw image and turned the motorcycle club into a global brand