Thursday, October 23, 2008

50 And Shaniqua Reach An Agreement

Rapper 50 Cent and his baby mama Shaniqua have finally ironed out a child custody agreement. 50 will get one weekend per month with their son Marquise, one month in the summer and half of each his winter and spring breaks.

Lyfe Jennings' Wild Ride

Yesterday in Atlanta somebody called the police to report shots fired. When the cops arrived on the scene R&B singer Lyfe Jennings screeched off in his corvette. After a short high speed chase, Lyfe crashed into a tree and was taken into custody and charged with fleeing and eluding officers, discharging a firearm near a public highway, refusing to take a sobriety test and felony weapon possession by a convicted felon.

Diddy Bought Enyce

“I was always a fan of the brand from when Evan Davis, Lando Felix, and Tony Shellman owned it. About a year ago I heard that Liz Claiborne was considering selling it because it wasn’t a good fit for their portfolio. I knew it would be a great opportunity so we began negotiations which took about six months.”

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Tameka Pulling Out All The Stops

Somebody called gossip guru Jawn Murray and tried to give him a scoop that Usher was messing around on Tameka with an R&B/Pop singer who spends a lot of time in London. Of course the person was hinting at Kelly Rowland. Anyway, Jawn did not believe the caller because they were way too vague once he started asking probing questions and because the dates and times did not add up. Then Jawn said his people clued him in to how Usher skipped Tyler Perry's studio opening because Tameka was there and how he abruptly left the brunch Tyler gave the next morning as soon as Tameka showed up and that although Meek was at his 30th b-day party, Ursh did all he could to avoid her and did not take any pictures with her. So Jawn came to the conclusion that Tameka had one of her friends call him to get some shit started to make Usher look bad, because it looks like Ursh is waiting until after 'Meka has her baby to dump her ass. After everybody jumped on him for firing his mom as manager at Tameka's urging, he can't stand the idea of another public relations fiasco because he left his wife while she was pregnant.

Benny Medina Shutting Down Management Firm

Insiders claim Benny Medina's Handprint Management will be kaput by year's end. Handprint once counted Tyra Banks, Mariah Carey, Chris Rock, Will Smith, Sean Combs, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Nicole Richie, Jennifer Lopez, Usher, and Mekhi Phifer among it's high profile clients.

Michael Vick To Plead Guilty In Virginia

The Virginian-Pilot newspaper reported that Michael Vick's lawyers have filed papers asking the court to let him plead guilty from federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, where he is serving a two-year sentence on federal charges related to dog fighting. The papers say that Vick must resolve the state charges before he becomes eligible for admission into a halfway house. Vick is scheduled for release July 20 and could enter a program up to six months before that date.

Baby Gets Probation

Do you remember when Baby's tour bus got pulled over and it was like 12 or 13 dudes on the bus and one female and they found a pound of weed? No? Click here to catch up. For all the rest, Baby and his brother Slim were able to skate on the subsequent drug distribution charges filed against them because it was determined that the weed was for personal use and not for sale. So Baby and his brother pleaded 'No Contest' to reduced charges of possession and were sentenced to 11 months and 29 days of unsupervised probation. If they make through with no incidents, their records will be expunged.

Spike Lee Axes His Agent

After his latest film offering 'Miracle at St. Anna' flopped miserably at the box office Spike Lee was dropped from ended his 15 year relationship with the William Morris Agency and is now being repped by Endeavor.

Toni Braxton

Got kicked off Dancing With The Stars last night.

I Heard

That while Janet Jackson has been making good on her concert commitments, it's her opening act, LL Cool J, who's been the no-show lately.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Oprah Confiscates Cell Phones

Oprah Winfrey confiscated the high tech cell phones she'd issued to all the students at her Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa after finding out only half of them passed their final exams. The phones, issued after a sex abuse scandal rocked the school last year, had loads of features and access to a cell phone chat service called MXit. A parent of one student told local South African newspaper Cape Argus, "They were all handpicked by Oprah Winfrey to attend her great school. It must have been so disappointing for her to see that only half of the girls passed the last quarter - all because they are spending so much time on that dreadful MXit."

Know Your Story And Stick To It

Defense witnesses in Lil Wayne's NY gun possession trail [not to be confused with either his Georgia or Arizona drug possession cases] are not helping his cause. Cops cited weed smoke "billowing" out from Wayne's tour bus as probable cause to pull it over, while Weezy is trying to prove that's a lie, hoping the judge will be forced to toss out the evidence seized inside the vehicle - a .40-caliber handgun that could send F Baby to prison for three years. While Weezy's defense had maintained that there had been no weed at all on the bus, one of Wayne's homies cracked under cross examination yesterday admitting "Uh, I probably brought it on."

Larry Johnson Likes To Spit On People

Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson is being investigated for allegedly spitting a drink in a woman's face at a nightclub, the fourth time in five years he's been accused of assaulting a woman.

Kansas City police are looking into a report of nonaggravated assault against Johnson for telling a woman that he was going to kill her boyfriend then spitting in her face at Club Blonde on Oct. 10.

Game's Sister Got Shot


West Coast rapper Game's sister, aspiring rapper 'Bfly', was shot in a drive by shooting while sitting on her front porch in Compton on Oct 14th. She is was not seriously injured and had this to say about it on her Myspace page: "Lord please pray upon the soul of my shooter...for he needs to be blessed upon...i am happy i have another day to live....among these devils...but shelter me from evil...shelter me from harm....continue to bless me with a voice to bless others....and a heart to forgive.....i pray i have another day to pray for u...Amen"