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NEW YORK (AP) — Some of hip-hop's biggest stars are gathering for the Manhattan funeral of manager Chris Lighty. The mourners Wednesday include Sean "Diddy" Combs, Missy Elliott, Q-Tip, LL Cool J, Russell Simmons, 50 Cent and Grandmaster Flash. The 44-year-old hip-hop mogul was found dead in his Bronx apartment last week with a gunshot […]
Michael Clarke Duncan and Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth were secretly engaged. The wedding was set for this January. According to TMZ: Sources connected with the couple tell us, Michael and Omarosa kept the engagement a secret from the media … only telling very close friends and family about the pending nuptials. We’re told the couple had just […]
"Friday” standout actor Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister, who played the notoriously-feared character, “Deebo,” in the cult flick, has agreed to plead guilty to a $3.8 million dollar mortgage fraud scheme. Prosecutors charged the 54-year-old actor, who has made more than 100 movies, with conspiring to buy homes he could not afford from 2005 to 2007. Lister, […]
Two black men died untimely deaths in the last two weeks. One, Michael Clarke Duncan, was a major movie star known to millions as John Coffey in “The Green Mile,” the other, music manager Darrell “Baby Chris” Lighty, was well known to the music industry but not as much of a public figure. The two […]
TMZ is reporting that Randy Jackson will no longer sit on the “American Idol” judging panel following Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler's cue. After serving 11 seasons on the show, sources claim that the lone remaining original judge will transition into a mentor role when the series returns in January. A rep for FOX had […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson's estate will begin making its case to a jury that a businessman working with the singer's mother should be forced to pay millions of dollars for infringing on several copyrights. The amount is the sole issue at stake in a trial set to begin on Tuesday against Howard Mann, […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson's estate and a businessman working with the singer's mother settled a copyright infringement lawsuit for $2.5 million on Tuesday, shortly before a trial in the case was scheduled to begin. The settlement also restricts Howard Mann and his companies from using Jackson's likeness without permission in the future. It […]
The legendary 62-year-old musical genius has issued an apology in the wake of comments he made about the sexual orientation of R&B newcomer Frank Ocean, who, not too long ago, told the world that his first love was a man. “I’m sorry that my words about anyone feeling confused about their love were misunderstood,” said […]
"People need to know before I’m associated with any party, I am an American and that’s what I want to drive home at the RNC.” – BeBe Winans, Gospel/R&B singer BeBe Winans knew some African-Americans would have a problem with the fact that he sang for Mitt Romney and his party at the RNC, but […]
After attempting to recover from full cardiac arrest for almost two months, Oscar, Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe-nominated actor, Michael Clarke Duncan, passed away at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles this morning, according to a statement released by his fiancée Rev. Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth via a publicist. He was 54-years-old. “Manigault is grateful for all […]
It is being reported that the wife of singer Bobby Brown was rushed to the hospital just hours ago. Alicia Etheridge, Brown's bride of just three months, was transported by ambulance to a nearby hospital in Floridal. Sources say the singer was preparing for a Saturday night show with New Edition at the 2012 Allstate […]
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