June 29, 2011. Yesterday MediaTakeOut.com posted some EXPLICIT photos of Amber Rose. Since we are a FAMILY SITE, we blocked out the EXPLICIT parts.
But we were INUNDATED with emails from men and women asking to SEE what Amber's working with. So just the ONCE . . . we're gonna bend the rules. And show you Amber BUSSING IT WIDE OPEN!!!
Don't say we never gave you NOTHING!!!
Oh and FYI - Amber has said that she NEVER sent those pics to Nicki's boyfriend Safaree. We're going to give her the benefit of the doubt . . . and assume shes telling the truth.
This is a rare marketing and A&R disaster in the making: Beyonce‘s new album, called “4,” will be released officially on Monday in the UK and in the US on Tuesday. It’s a potential dud, big time. Already attacked on Page Six in the New York Post yesterday, “4″ was “leaked” back on June 9th to blogs and on Twitter. Now it’s officially streaming on AOL. You can listen to it and judge for yourselves, but this CD is problematic to say the least.
Blaming Sony’s Rob Stringer is not the answer. I think the responsibility for this debacle will rest with Teresa LaBarbera Whites, senior A&R exec for Columbia Records. Whites has been working with Beyonce since discovering her at the age of 9 in Texas two decades ago. Whites moved back to Columbia from Jive Records earlier this year just to work with Beyonce on this CD. (It was Whites who resuscitated Britney Spears on her last two albums.)
Beyonce has always been in a strange position with her solo albums. Her first hit, “Crazy in Love,” was a reworking of a Chi Lites record, with a huge sample of the horns and rhythm section. Since then she’s had really just a couple of actual hits–”Single Ladies” and “Irreplaceable.” Beyonce herself is not a writer, and she generally has poor song selections. On her last album, the song “If I Were a Boy” was appropriated from young singer songwriter B.C. Jean, who consequently got a recording deal with Clive Davis.
“4″ is very misguided. I’m actually surprised that the collection is so uninspired and has no cohesive vision. The first three tracks are desultory ballads. There’s actually a song called “Rather Die Young.” Really? Beyonce would rather die young? Drop dead gorgeous, married to a hip hop mogul (Jay Z), gifted with a fabulous voice–and she’s singing about dying young? Who allowed such a thing to happen?
Better track sequencing could have really helped “4.” Tracks 8, 9, 10, and 11– the excellent “Love on Top,” the inventive “Countdown,” a very catchy “End of Time,” and “I Was Here” — are the standouts. I would have led with these tracks instead of burying them. (But didn’t Beyonce already have a song called “Until the End of Time”?) The new album has a feeling of being tired, and rushed, and not really thought through in any meaningful way. Those four songs should have been the singles and hits–and featured prominently.
Never at this age did Aretha, Gladys or Tina sound this disengaged from their own work. But — as pointed out in current stories– Beyonce isn’t just a singer. She’s an empire. Her voice is no longer an instrument. It’s a marketing tool. And not a very good one right now.
June 23, 2011. This years BET Awards is shaping up to have some INTERESTING TWISTS. Probably the MOST interesting has to do with Nicki Minaj.
According to a ROCK SOLID SNITCH, word is that BET execs have convinced her to END HER BEEF with Lil Kim. The two will be PERFORMING A SONG TOGETHER during the Awards Show.
On one hand we're happy the two chicks are SQUASHING IT. On the other hand Nicki was AT HER BEST when she was DISSING Kim . . . when she said that Kim should "hang it up - FLATSCREEN" we nearly FELL OUT!!!!
Is Lady Gaga really “Born this Way”? After a spectacular first week of sales, with almost 1.2 million copies of her CD and downloads sold, the second week shows a big fall off. “Born this Way” sold only 169,387 copies last week. That’s a drop of 85% from the first week. It’s important to remember that 440,000 of those first week sales were only for 99 cents. So the fall off is really less, I guess. But if we stick the official numbers, “Born this Way” is in swift decline.
Compare that to Adele, who “21″ album was only off 4% last week. That album continues to sell and sell. One reason is that Adele’s album is strong all the way through. It’s unclear what kind of”legs” the Lady Gaga collection really has: so far it’s spawned just one real hit, the title track. The rest of the album is monotonous. Watching Anderson Cooper’s piece on “60 Minutes” this past Sunday didn’t help.
While Stefani Germanotta is confident and smart, she is also overbearing. The costumes. the pretense, the posing to be more Madonna than Madonna–it’s too much. Gaga believes more is more. This may play her out very quickly. She’s reinventing herself at the speed of ADD. Quite clearly, the songs don’t matter-it’s the statement, the look, the attitude. Her supporters argue that she sings and actually plays the piano and writes songs. But that’s getting lost. If sales drop again next week by huge numbers, Lady Gaga may have to lose the egg.
When Pink and Carey Hart's week-old daughter Willow Sage posed for her first family photo shoot on June 9, she didn't miss a beat.
"Willow is a pro!" Pink, 31, tells PEOPLE. "Or else she is borderline narcoleptic like her daddy – she slept the whole time."
All kidding aside, the Grammy-winner and her motocross-champ husband of five years, 35, are relishing their new roles as parents following Willow's birth on June 2.
"You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child," says Pink.
For more on Pink and Hart's experiences as new parents, Willow's birth story and the meaning behind her name – plus more family photos – pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday
Kim Crawford, 21, is charged with murdering her son, after 5-year-old Jamar Johnson was discovered to have died from blunt trauma to the chest. A Bronx mom said she beat her 5-year-old son to death because he broke the television while playing Nintendo Wii, prosecutors said Monday.Kim Crawford, 21, smacked Jamar Johnson in his back and stomach on June 13 "harder than I've ever hit him," she told cops.Crawford watched him vomit and complain of agonizing pain for five days as his internal injuries got worse. She never took him to the hospital because she feared getting arrested, she told investigators.
Jamar (r.) and Heaven Johnson, whose mother Kim Crawford is charged with murdering Jamar (Family Handout).
"I was worried they'd see the bruises and I'd get in trouble," she told cops.
Jamar died of an infection to his lacerated pancreas and intestine at Montefiore Medical Center late Friday.
Prosecutors charged Crawford with murder and manslaughter. She was ordered held without bond Monday.
"I can't believe this," Jamar's dad said outside court.
The petite single mom told cops several different stories about how Jamar was injured before finally admitting the truth, prosecutors said.
First, she claimed he simply got sick, went to sleep and never woke up, prosecutors said. She then claimed he fell while playing in the park and injured himself.
After hours of questioning, she finally admitted becoming enraged at Jamar when he told her he broke the television, prosecutors said."I hit Jamar twice in the back and twice in the stomach," she told cops.
On Friday night Crawford "held Jamar's hand and it was cold," she told cops. "He wasn't moving."
Crawford's lawyer, Camille Abate, said the mom should not have been charged with murder.
"The facts do not establish at all that this mother tried to kill her child," Abate said. "I have no idea whether hitting someone with their hand causes these kinds of injuries. It's clear that for two days she was worked over by police."
Jamar's heartbroken family called his death "inexcusable."
"Whether or not she did it on purpose doesn't matter, because my beautiful grandson is gone and he's not coming back," said Jamar's grandmother, Betsy Johnson. "It's a tragedy. It's inexcusable."
Crawford has previous arrests for drugs and assault, police sources said, and a long history of domestic incidents with the boy's father.
Police were called for domestic incidents between the pair nine times since 2006, sources said. Crawford had an open warrant for violating probation at the time of her arrest.
In a separate case, a Bronx man was charged Monday with killing his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter, police said. Edgar Algarin, 26, apparently exploded in anger because Enidaliz Ortiz-Encarnacion wouldn't eat, sources said. He told police he punched the girl in the back, sources said.
The city Medical Examiner's office said the girl was choked and beaten in the upper torso.
Algarin, who has no previous arrest record, was charged with murder and manslaughter. The child was in cardiac arrest when an ambulance arrived at the family's Mott Haven apartment early Saturday. She died a short time later at Lincoln Hospital.Sources said the girl's mother was away on business and that Algarin may have been angry that he was forced to babysit.
Autum Ashante, 13, is going to attend the University of Connecticut in the fall.
This fall, Autum Ashante will be like any other giddy freshman starting college, with one notable exception - she's 13 years old.
The Pelham Parkway teen has been accepted at the University of Connecticut, where she plans to study medicine.
"I know it's going to be hard, but I'm excited," she said.
Autum will move to Norwalk, Conn., with her father, Batin Ashante, later this summer, to be close to UConn.
"What she's doing is groundbreaking but this is not about vanity," he said. "It's about setting the tone for other black and Latino children who will come behind her. They're always being told they are underachievers. We want to show this can be done."
Petite and cheerful, Autum has always proved exceptional. She could walk at 10 months old; she could read at age 2 and by the time she was 3, she was writing and performing poetry.
By age 8, she reportedly had an IQ of 149 (the average college graduate has an IQ score of 115).
Her father took it all in stride.
"She would stand on stage and read a book, and everyone used to marvel at that," he said. "I just thought 'How do I enhance this?' "
Ashante, a single father, chose to home-school his daughter and sought out retired teachers from the community to help tutor her.
Autum, who speaks Arabic, Swahili and Spanish, has never set foot in a classroom, but that's all right with her.
"My dad always says 'the world is a classroom.' I got to go places and do different things, so it never really is boring," she said.Indeed, Autum keeps quite busy. She regularly performs spoken-word poems at different venues across the country; she does muay thai, a form of kickboxing, and she is working on a photography/poetry book and a spoken-word album.
In her downtime, she likes to read mysteries, work out and "play around and be crazy" with her friends.
"She is a blessing from God," Ashante said. "All the things we've gotten to do together have been a blessing."
Raising a genius though, he said, has its challenges. The 50-year-old retired Corrections officer said he sometimes struggles to keep up with Autum's active mind."She tries to outthink me all the time," he laughed. "She's quick with it. You have to be sharp. She has me drinking ginkgo on the regular."
A police sting operation nabbed Willard Yoder after he showed up for his "date" at the Takehome restaurant in Milroy, Ind.
An Amish predator hunting underage girls was arrested inside his horse and buggy after arriving for a restaurant rendez-vous with a 12-year-old girl.
A police sting operation nabbed Willard Yoder after he showed up for his "date" at the Takehome restaurant in his hometown of Milroy, Ind., The Smoking Gun reported.
The arrest mixed 18th century transportation with 21st century technology, as authorities reported Yoder sent nearly 600 sexting messages to the girl.
Yoder, 21, included five shots of his genitals and graphic videos during his perverted barrage, the web site said.
Yoder also proposed a tryst inside the buggy.
But he was unaware that his intended victim's parents had intercepted his messages and gone to authorities once the couple was alerted by their daughter.
A police report quoted Yoder as saying that he "realized that it was a bad decision and had never done anything like this before."
After his arrest, "Yoder was cooperative and walked his horse and buggy around the building and tied it to a post," the report said. His parents later came by to pick up his ride.
He's facing four felony counts for soliciting sex from a minor, authorities said. Police said Yoder made a videotaped confession after his arrest, and his cellphone was seized as evidence.
Lindsay Lohan will return to court because she violated her probation, according to a report.
LOS ANGELES - Lindsay Lohan is due for an unscripted court appearance Thursday after reportedly flunking an alcohol test while under house arrest.
The 12-stepping starlet will be hauled in front of Judge Stephanie Sautner for a surprise probation violation hearing, the Daily News confirmed.
Currently confined to her posh beachfront pad for misdemeanor theft of a diamond necklace, Lohan purportedly flunked one of two booze tests last week - not long after hosting a rooftop BBQ - TMZ.com reported.
Probation officials want the judge to toss Lohan in jail for defying the terms of her supervised probation stemming from two back-to-back DUIs in 2007, TMZ said.
Lohan's spokesman Steve Honig declined to comment.
Before reports of the dirty test broke, Honig told the News that the "Machete" actress axed an interview with "Today" show host Matt Lauer at the last minute Tuesday after he flew across the country to chat.
He said Lohan, who's bounced in and out of jail and multiple rehabs including Betty Ford, was caught off guard when Lauer arrived around 4 p.m. with intentions to tape a lengthy, in-depth piece for NBC's nighttime news program "Dateline."
Up until then Lohan thought she was primping for a 15-minute "check-in" segment for "Today," he said.
"Of course there was a little stress involved," Honig said. "She woke up thinking it would be a brief Today show segment. And you can't just all of a sudden go from that to let's sit down and talk about your life for two hours. She wasn't mentally prepared."
"There certainly are no bad feelings on our part. We'll bend over backwards to accommodate them going forward," he said.
A Today show publicist did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Lohan, 24, pleaded no contest last month to taking the necklace from a neighborhood jewelry store without paying for it.
"Matt was a perfect gentleman to her and very caring and compassionate. And Lindsay greatly appreciated that," Honig said. "This kind of interview is just better afterwards, when you're out of the woods, when you can look back and reflect a little bit." ndillon@nydailynews.com
Women receiving silicone gel breast implants experience frequent complications including needing additional surgery to fix or replace them, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Wednesday, releasing preliminary data from post-approval studies.
Still, the agency said the studies did not show any unexpected or new safety concerns for silicone implants, two types of which were approved in 2006. The studies were funded by the implant manufacturers, Allergan Inc. and Mentor Worldwide LLC, a unit of Johnson & Johnson.
"Despite frequent local complications and adverse outcomes, the benefits and risks of breast implants are sufficiently well understood for women to make well informed decisions about their use," the FDA said in a safety update posted on its website Wednesday. The likelihood of complications increases the longer a woman has implants.
Jeffrey Shuren, the head of the FDA's device division, said it is important for women with implants to get routine MRI scans to look for problems such as implant ruptures and to talk to their doctors if they have any changes in their breasts such as pain or swelling.
One set of data involving a group of women who were part of the original studies used to gain approval of the implants in 2006, showed 20 percent to 40 percent of women receiving implants for augmentation, and 40 percent to 70 percent of women who received implants for reconstruction -- usually after breast cancer -- had to have a reoperation in the first eight to 10 years after they received their implants.
Overall, the FDA said the most common side effects are capsular contracture, or hardening of the breast around the implant, reoperation and implant removal. Other side effects include implant rupture, scarring, pain and infection.
Until 2006, sales of silicone implants had been restricted for more than a decade amid concerns that leaking silicone gel caused health problems like connective tissue disease.
FDA said there is no "apparent" association between silicone implants and connective tissue disease, breast cancer or reproductive problems.
However, in January the agency warned there may be a small but increased risk of women being diagnosed with a rare type of lymphoma called anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL), which in about 60 cases has been found adjacent to the breast implant, including silicone and saline-filled implants. ALCL is a type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is not breast cancer. There was no additional information released about ALCL Wednesday.
The Winklevosstwins are waiving the white flag in their epic legal war with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
The Winklevi have been fighting Zuckerberg for 7 years, claiming he jacked their idea for a social network.
The Twins claim Zuckerberg actually screwed them twice -- the second time by hiding documents that could have scored them more than the $65 mil they settled for back in 2008.
The W.T.'s were trying to get a judge to invalidate the settlement so they could renew their fight for more money, but after a series of legal setbacks, they have now officially dropped the case.
According to the final court filing today, the Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss agreed to accept the settlement of $65 million in stock.
Now here's the good news for The Twins. The stock has now swelled in value to $100 million.
Invest wisely boys, and stay away from the really smart kids at Harvard
June 22, 2011. We had to do a DOUBLE TAKE when MediaTakeOut.com heard this . . . Reggie Bush is dating a KIM KARDASHIAN IMPERSONATOR!!!
Yes, you read that right. As the photos show, Reggie threw a BIRTHDAY PARTY for his new girlfriend, a D-list actress named Melissa Molinaro. And Melissa's biggest claim to fame . . . she played KIM KARDASHIAN in an Old Nav commercial.
Reggie . . . you want Kim back SO MUCH that you've started dating IMPERSONATORS . . . FAIL!!!
Sacramento police have arrested a mother after an investigation found her baby likely died from burns suffered in a microwave oven.Ka Yang, who is 29, is being held without bail in Sacramento County Jail. She was arrested Tuesday, three months after her 6-week-old daughter was found dead in the family home. Mirabelle Thao-Lo, was found dead on March 17 after police were called to a home in the 800 block of Sacramento's Rood Avenue.Police described the child as suffering "extensive thermal injuries." Officer Laura Peck says investigators pinpointed what they believe is the cause of death by looking for other cases involving similar injuries.They found three in the U.S., all after children were burned in a microwave: in Dayton, Ohio; Galveston, Texas; and New Kent County, Va.
"Based on that research and the autopsy results," a statement said, "detectives believe the injuries occurred as a result of the child being burned in a microwave oven."
Peck says police do not have a motive. No attorney was listed for Yang.
David Flory, a physics teacher at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, was arrested Tuesday for running an online prostitution website, according to police.
Flory holds a master's degree from Columbia University and a doctorate from Yeshiva University.
He had a vacation home in Santa Fe, but ran a website called Southwest Companions from his home in New York, his vacation home in Santa Fe, and even from a school computer, reports say.
Flory told police he did not make any money off the website and saw it as more of a "hobby."
The website had as many as 200 women, and more than 1,200 'johns", and was reportedly "very secure" requiring users to go through various levels in order to become "trusted" users.
Trusted users were frequent users of the website and had access to more women, message boards that ranked the prostitutes, and instructions on what to do if caught by police.
Police on Long Island are warning several area pharmacies to be on high alert as they continue their hunt for an armed drug addict who killed four people execution style during a robbery at a Medford pharmacy Sunday.
Authorities believe the suspect will emerge once his current stash of painkillers run out.
The alert comes as new, chilling images of the killer surface, revealing more information about the identity and character of the heartless murderer who took four lives.
According to detectives, the fatal shooting unraveled in the Haven Drugs Pharmacy minutes after it opened at 10 a.m. Sunday. That's when a man who police describe as about 5-foot-8 with a thin build, in his late 20s or early 30s with dark hair and a dark beard shot and killed two employees and two customers of the pharmacy at 76 Southaven Road.
The seven new images released by the Suffolk County police commissioner Monday afternoon join the two pictures that police released on Sunday. The new pictures were taken by the pharmacy's surveillance cameras as the suspect carried out his deadly crimes. In one picture, a gun is visible in the man's right hand. Detectives say it's the firearm the man used to kill everyone in the pharmacy.
His victims were Jennifer Mejia, 17, the pharmacist's assistant, who was filling in for somebody else's work shift Sunday morning. Her wake will be held Tuesday and Wednesday evening in Patchogue. Wednesday would have been her senior prom night, and she was supposed to graduate from high school on Thursday.
The pharmacist, Raymond Ferguson, 45, was also filling in on someone else's shift on Sunday when the man opened fire. When the gunshots stopped, Ferguson was dead and so were two pharmacy customers, Bryon Sheffield, 71, there to pick up his sick wife's heart medication, and Jaime Taccetta, 33, a single mother with two kids, whose wedding date was set for next month.
"He killed four people. For what?" asked her father, Ralph Taccetta, when he came by the pharmacy Tuesday morning to admire the two growing makeshift memorials there, one on the sidewalk, the other by the front door. The dozens of candles, flowers and cards are dedicated to Taccetta's daughter and the other victims.
His wife, Jaime's Taccetta's mother, had been on a cruise to Jamaica with Ms. Taccetta's grandmother when the shooting happened, and did not learn about the murders until they pulled into port in New York Monday evening.
"Devastated, devastated," is how Ralph Taccetta described his wife's reaction. He used the same words to describe the mood of Jaime Taccetta's fiance, whose mother had died just two months ago. "[Jaime] held him together. I was at their house [Monday]. She had planted a garden there. [Her fiance and I] spent hours just crying in that garden. She loved gardening." Jaime Taccetta's oldest child, a teenager, has been told the news of his mother's death. Her youngest, who is five years old, has not.
Still, the victim's father, Ralph Taccetta, managed to see something positive in the midst of the tragedy, as he looked at the mounting offerings of condolence left by friends and strangers in front of Haven Drugs Pharmacy. "It's good," he told PIX11 News, "the outpouring of support. It's good when we all come together."
He also asked that anyone with information come forward to catch his daughter's killer, who he described as an animal. The phone number for Suffolk County Police Crimestoppers is 800-220-TIPS (8477). All calls are kept confidential, and there is now a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the man's arrest.
Investigators have also contacted drug treatment centers, hospitals and pharmacies on Long Island and asked them to review their files to see if they are aware of anyone similar to the suspect, who might have a need for prescription drugs.
That's what the man loaded up into his backpack before leaving the killing scene. It's unclear if he stole the drugs for his own use or to sell on the black market, but law enforcement authorities say that prescription meds like oxycodone can sell for as much as $8.00 per pill on the street. One bottle can contain up to 100 pills, and the pharmacy killer may have stolen dozens of bottles from the crime scene.
A man in Gaston County, N.C., was jailed after holding up a bank for $1 -- but the crime was all part of a larger plan, according to the robber.
Richard James Verone is 59 and was unemployed with multiple health issues before the crime. Varone says he robbed the RBC bank in order to go to prison and get treatment -- he said it was the only way he could get healthcare.
Verone has an undiagnosed growth in his chest, two ruptured back discs, and a problem with his foot.
His medical ailments made working difficult after his 17-year career as a Coca-Cola delivery driver ended a few years ago. He tried living off of savings and part time jobs, but still came up short. He applied for Social Security benefits but only received food stamps which did not help his medical problems.
When Verone robbed the bank he presented the teller with a note explaining that he was robbing the bank and only wanted $1. He did not want to scare anyone and was not doing it for the money. After receiving the dollar, Verone told the teller, "I'll be sitting right over here on the chair waiting for the police."
When they arrived, the police found Verone sitting on a sofa inside the bank.
"I'm sort of a logical person and that was my logic," Verone said. "If it is called manipulation, then out of necessity because I need medical care, then I guess I am manipulating the courts to get medical care."
Verone did not use a weapon during his robbery and would like a 3-year sentence, though he probably will not serve more than 12 months. He is charged with larceny from a person
According to a statement he gave to AllHipHop.com, Isaac says he was paid $2,500 by Richmond to shoot the West Coast rap icon.
"In 1994, James Rosemond hired me to rob 2Pac Shakur at hte Quad Studio. He gave me $2,500, plus all the jewelry I took, except for one ring, which he wanted for himself. It was the biggest of the two diamond rings that we took. He said he wanted to put the stone in a new setting for his girlfriend at the time, Synthia Ried. I still have as proof the chain that we took that night in the robbery."
Isaac even implies Sean "Puffy" Combs knew about the plan all along.
The Quad Studios robbery and shooting occurred less than two years before Tupac was murdered on Sept. 7, 1996.
Isaac is currently serving a life sentence for unrelated crimes at MDC Brooklyn.
Rosemond is CEO of Czar Entertainment who manages performer such as The Game and Sean Kingston.
According to the Smoking Gun, Rosemond is currently a fugitive from justice; he's wanted by the DEA and federal marshals in connection with his alleged leadership of a cocaine trafficking ring.
Isaac's full statement:
My name is Dexter Isaac. On Monday, May 23, 2011, James Rosemond released a statement in which he named myself and another individual, a Mr. Winston Harris (who I do not know), as government informants. I would like to clear the record on that statement: I have never been a rat for anybody and I do not have any deals nor was I made any promises by any government agency for information on Mr. Rosemond. Mr. Rosemond has crucified good reporters like Chuck Philips, at the LA Times, and Alison Gendar, at the Daily News, for telling the truth about him and his activities. He claims they had no proof that he was a rat for the government, which is an outright lie, because Mr. Rosemond, you signed a proffer agreement with the U.S. Attorney's office in New York on 10-20-1998. Mr. Rosemond, I have copies of your presentence report from North Carolina dated 1-13-1997 and other documents about you working with the government sending people you befriended to prison so you can maintain your own freedom. I have met with individuals on whom Mr. Rosemond has told.
Jimmy, I say to you: I have kept your secrets for years. You have never been arrested because of me, or anyone of our friends because of me. How dare you call me an informant! I have stayed silent in prison for the past 13 years, doing a life sentence like a real soldier should, when you and everybody have turned your backs on me. I have never gotten any help nor asked for any help from you or anyone since being locked up.
As a matter of fact, when I was first notified a couple years ago that the feds and Chuck Philips were investigating you, I wrote you and sent you everything they sent me. I kept it real with you because that's what real G's do. Anyway, that was before I found out that you were, in fact, already a turncoat rat for the government. Mr. Rosemond, if I was an informant like you, I would've been home years ago with my family, not doing life in prison.
Now I would like to clear up a few things, because the statute of limitations is over, and no one can be charged, and I'm just plain tired of listening to your lies.
In 1994, James Rosemond hired me to rob 2Pac Shakur at the Quad Studio. He gave me $2,500, plus all the jewelry I took, except for one ring, which he wanted for himself. It was the biggest of the two diamond rings that we took. He said he wanted to put the stone in a new setting for his girlfriend at the time, Cynthia Ried. I still have as proof the chain that we took that night in the robbery.
Now I'm not going to talk about my friend Biggie's death or 2Pac's death, but I would like to give their mothers some closure. It's about time that some one did, and I will do so at a different time. Jimmy, you and Puffy like to come off all innocent-like, but as the saying goes: You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
Mr. Rosemond, I ask you: Are you going to flip on Puffy when the feds get you? To save yourself like you have done in the past? Because that's what a rat does. So in closing, we shall see who the rat is, in the near future.
If anyone has any questions regarding these statement or just want to be a friend to a real Soldier fighting for his freedom in prison feel free to write me at:
Legislative leaders in New York state on Tuesday announced tentative deals to control rent for New York City apartments and cap property taxes, possibly clearing the way for a vote to legalize same sex marriage.
The same-sex marriage bill, which would make New York the sixth and largest state to allow gay nuptials, needs only one more Senate vote to pass.
Undecided senators have cited concerns over exemptions for religious groups and individuals as the sticking point in negotiations.
A vote on the measure in the Senate, which was originally expected last week, had been delayed as legislative leaders and GovernorAndrew Cuomo wrangled over the other issues.
Cuomo and Democratic lawmakers favor expanded rent laws, while the Senate's Republican majority is seeking a simple extension. Leaders on Tuesday did not reveal details of the tentative agreement.
Emerging from a closed-door meeting with Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said a "framework" agreement had been reached on the rent laws and tax cap, but they refused to offer details or set a date for a Senate vote on same-sex marriage, which passed the Assembly last week.
Skelos said he expected the legislature to break for a summer recess Wednesday.
The legislative session was scheduled to end on Monday, but lawmakers stayed at the Capitol along with hundreds of protesters on both sides of the marriage debate.
"We have not finalized the language in terms of religious protections," Skelos said of the marriage bill.
Silver also said amendments to strengthen religious protections were still under discussion.
Gay-rights advocates remained optimistic that same-sex marriage would be voted on this week, noting that its having become a key bargaining chip was a sign that it had a good chance of passing.
"People are very hopeful; there are a lot of positive signs," said Dan Weiller, a spokesman for Empire State Pride Agenda, the state's largest gay-rights group.
While only one vote is needed to pass the measure, most political analysts believe it needs the support of an additional two or three lawmakers to shield any single senator from being seen as the deciding vote.
A group of three undecided senators met privately with Cuomo several times this week.
Last week, an inmate named Dexter Isaac said music producer James Rosemond paid him $2,500 in 1994 to rob iconic rapper Tupac Shakur.
That may or may not be true, but Rosemond was arrested yesterday on different charges: the head of Czar Entertainment has been booked for narcotics distribution and money laundering.
Incredibly, Rosemond and Isaac will likely end up in the same prison, at least temporarily, as the latter will be held at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center.
"I don't think the bureau of prisons will allow them to be in the same cell or in the same unit," Rosemond's attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, told E! News.
As for the latest allegations against his client? Lichtman dismissed them all:
Lichtman has contended the charges against his client baseless.
"The charges are the result of allegations from witnesses who have been bribed and threatened by the government. And have otherwise spent lifetimes lying. The government wants a trial. So they are going to get a trial."
Lady Gaga tweeted a self-pic early Wednesday, holding a t-shirt to benefit the ongoing restoration efforts in the Far East since the deadly tsunami struck on March 11.
"The Japanese Birkin T-shirt I designed for VOGUE JAPAN on sale 6/25 at UNIQLO worldwide. $ goes to Tsunami Relief," the hitmaker tweeted.
As we previously reported, Gaga arrived at Japan's Narita International Airport early Tuesday sporting a Pray for Japan bracelet.
The Poker Face singer, 25, is in the Land of the Rising Sun to perform at the MTV Video Music Aid Japan on June 25.
Lindsay Lohan will complete her house arrest before her upcoming birthday, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.
A law enforcement source tells us: "Lindsay will complete her sentence on Wednesday, June 29. The ankle monitor will come off, and she will be officially released from custody."
Lindsay will have another reason to celebrate -- her birthday is on Saturday, July 2, and the Mean Girls star will be turning 25. Lindsay's spokesperson tells us: "I know Lindsay is hoping to spend her birthday with her family." Lindsay's sister Ali, and brother Michael have been visiting her while she is under house arrest.
Lindsay shot a commercial for an online shopping website over the weekend, and is expected to begin filming for the new Gotti biopic, starring John Travolta, later this year.
Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire is among more than a dozen high-profile Hollywood celebrities being sued in connection with a mega-millions illegal gambling ring that ran high-stakes underground poker games, Star magazine is reporting exclusively.
Maguire, 35, won more than $300,000 from a Beverly Hills hedge fund manager who embezzled investor funds and orchestrated a Ponzi scheme in a desperate bid to pay off his monster debt to the star and others, it's alleged. An FBI investigation into Brad Ruderman, the CEO of Ruderman Capital Partners, uncovered how he lost $25 million of investor money in clandestine poker games held on a twice weekly basis in suites at the luxury Beverly Hills hotel, Four Seasons, and the Viper Room on Sunset Boulevard.
Tinsel town A-listers Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon also played in the no-limit Texas Hold 'em games which had a buy-in of $100,000, multiple members of the ring told Star.
Others who were part of the secret society and are facing hefty lawsuits include billionaire businessman Alex Gores, The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes, Welcome Back, Kotter star Gabe Kaplan, Paris Hilton's infamous sex tape partner, Rick Salomon, record label owner Cody Leibel and Las Vegas nightlife entrepreneur and real-estate developer Andrew Sasson, among others.
Now, as Ruderman sits in a Texas jail until 2018, convicted on two counts of wire fraud and two counts of investment adviser fraud, lawyers for the clients whose funds he embezzled are filing a series of civil suits against those who won big in the illegal poker dens, in the hope of recouping some of their lost savings.
DiCaprio, Affleck and Damon are not being sued.
The games were "exclusive events, by invitation only, and that there was a regular roster of players consisting of wealthy celebrities, entrepreneurs, attorneys and businessmen," according to the lawsuit filed against Maguire in the United States Bankruptcy Court, in Los Angeles.
Ruderman lost $311,300 to Maguire, including one losing hand of $110,000, on July 30, 2007, it's claimed.
The Ponzi mastermind used clients' money to "pay for gambling losses at clandestine, high stakes poker games that were operated without any licenses or permits," the suit said.
"As part of the scheme, funds invested in (Ruderman) were transferred to persons such as Defendant (Maguire), who received the funds on account of Ruderman's gambling losses and on account of Defendant's gambling winnings."
In their attempt to win back Ruderman's losses, the trustee has claimed Maguire is "not entitled to receive the transfers from the Debtor, which transfers were compromised of improperly-diverted investor funds."
In a deposition of the alleged ringleader of the operation, which took in tens of millions of dollars beginning in 2006 through 2009, Maguire is described as a "very, very frequent player," in the games, which ended in 2009.
Maguire won as much as $1 million a month over a period of three years, one source told Star, which is on newsstands Wednesday.
"That means he could have made up to $30 to $40 million from these games," the whistle-blowing card shark predicted.
Under California law, it's illegal to play for money at underground poker clubs, although it is a crime rarely prosecuted. None of the participants are under criminal investigation, Star has been told.
Indeed, it's understood Maguire has hired an attorney to strenuously defend the allegations against him, who will argue the games were not illegal.
In a world exclusive investigation, Star detailed how the A-list aces used secret passwords to play in the covert games that were so intense, the door was manned by armed guards in bulletproof vests.
Inside the rooms, tucked away in different locations around Los Angeles, high-rollers laid down wads of cash on felt-top tables presided over by professional dealers who were part of the operation's hierarchy.
One of the participants, Dan Bilzerian, told Star that he regularly played against DiCaprio, Affleck and Maguire.
Damon, according to Bilzerian, played irregularly.
While Affleck, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay Good Will Hunting, impressed players with his poker skills, both DiCaprio and Damon did not fair as well, Star reported.
"Matt never won,’’ another whistle-blowing player told the magazine.
"In truth, Leo is a tight ass. When he lost $50,000 the look in his eyes was obvious he was crazy." Read more of Star's world exclusive investigation into the intriguing poker ring and how some of the biggest names in Hollywood gambled their fortune in the magazine, on newsstands now.
You should really stop doing cocaine. Not because it's addictive, or anything, but because it's likely laced with levamisole, a veterinary drug used for de-worming livestock, and it will make your flesh rot off.
A new report being published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology finds six patients who "developed purple-colored patches of necrotic skin on their ears, nose, cheeks and other parts of their body," apparently thanks to levamisole-cut coke. And, they say, that's just "the tip of the iceberg in a looming public health problem"!
According to the Department of Justice, some 70 percent of cocaine (most of it distributed in and around New York and L.A.) is cut with levamisole. We'd say, Who cares? Doesn't this just mean that every investment banker in New York will lose both ears? but our understanding is that i-bankers have moved on to Adderall and the ground-up finger bones of poor people. If you are in a bad rotting-flesh situation, we recommend switching drug dealers, which apparently worked for one patient the doctors wrote about in their report.
Meanwhile in Russia, the government and medical authorities are agitating against "krokodil" ("Крокодил" or "crocodile"), an insane newish opiate cooked by addicts in their kitchens out of "gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous" plus the key ingredient, codeine. Why is it called "crocodile"? Why, because bursting blood vessels at the injection site (which can be anywhere on the body! Even the forehead!) turns the skin "greenish and scaly."
average user," Time reports, "does not live longer than two or three years, and the few who manage to quit usually come away disfigured." Animal New York collected a few disgusting photos; they could be fake, but the Russian news film to the left is plenty gross and plenty real. (Don't watch it on a full stomach.)
As it is, there's not much the Russian government is currently doing to help, meaning that the care and treatment for the population of addicts—some 2.5 million total, with the number of krokdil addicts somewhere in the hundreds of thousands—lies largely with Russian Evangelical churches, which run some 500 rehab centers. A government meeting about the problem, Time writes, "has led to a meandering public debate" about the country's drug policies, but no real change yet.
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At least, that is what Fred Durst is saying. Limp Bizkit is releasing their first album in almost six years, 11 if you count the fact that this is the first album to reunite the band with guitarist Wes Borland since 2000. Gold Cobra is going to be something really special for the fans of the rap-rock quintet, but Fred insists that the disc is "definitely not a reunion. It's a comeback."
He adds:
After failing her exams, getting into debt, and dropping out of college, 19-year-old female law student Aisha Mather made up a story that she was raped so she wouldn't have to tell her parents the REAL reason why she was returning home.To ensure that her lie seemed real, she "ripped her own tights" and "wrecked her flat." She claimed she'd been dragged into her apartment by her hair, and was "brutally attacked by a tattooed stranger who followed her home." She EVEN claimed that there was a semen stain left on her tights.
As a result of her extensive lie,
U.S. President Barack Obama, surrounded by lawmakers, signs the healthcare insurance reform legislation during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, March 23, 2010.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed.
The change would affect early retirees: A married couple could have an annual income of about $64,000 and still get Medicaid, said officials who make long-range cost estimates for the Health and Human Services department.After initially downplaying any concern, the Obama administration said late Tuesday it would look for a fix.Up to 3 million more people could qualify for Medicaid in 2014 as a result of the anomaly. That's because, in a major change from today, most of their Social Security benefits would no longer be counted as income for determining eligibility. It might be compared to allowing middle-class people to qualify for food stamps.
'Doesn't make sense' Medicare chief actuary Richard Foster said the situation was keeping him up at night.
"I don't generally comment on the pros or cons of policy, but that just doesn't make sense," Foster said during a question-and-answer session at a recent professional society meeting.
"This is a situation that got no attention at all," added Foster. "And even now, as I raise the issue with various policymakers, people are not rushing to say ... we need to do something about this."
Administration officials said Tuesday they now see the problem.
"We are concerned that, as a matter of law, some middle-income Americans may be receiving coverage through Medicaid, which is meant to serve only the neediest Americans," said Health and Human Services spokesman Richard Sorian. "We are exploring options to address this issue."
Louis Farrakhan, speaking at the American Clergy Leadership Conference on May 28, lambasted President Barack Obama over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. military intervention in Libya, calling him an “assassin” and a “murderer.”
"We voted for our brother Barack, a beautiful human being with a sweet heart,” Farrakhan said, in a video making the rounds on the internet. But he has turned into someone else, Farrakhan told the crowd. “Now he's an assassin.”
America “puts her trust in her weapons of war,” he continued. “She threatens the nations of the earth and has my brother calling for the assassination of brother Muammar Gaddafi. What has he done? I can defend that man. You don't know that man.”
“My poor brother. They said they were only going over there for humanitarian reasons -- and we believed that. You've been deceived.”
Farrakhan draws a comparison between U.S. intervention in Libya and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“You talk about a man killing his own people,” Farrakhan told the crowd. “When you lie to the American people saying that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. When you lie and then take innocent young men who come to serve their country, and send them to die in Iraq, in Afghanistan, over lies, that's a murderer in the White House."
Another day, another Twitter beef. This time, it's two of R&B's biggest acts squaring off.
Earlier today, Chris Brown, for some odd reason, sent a tweet out to his followers comparing Frank Ocean to "a young James Fauntleroy and Kevin Cossom." Frank—who has repeatedly mentioned not wanting to be called an "R&B artist"—took offense to Brown's comment and compared him to "a young Sisqo or Ike Turner."
Still a bit unsure as to why Chris took it so far but hey, we expect that from the kid.
