George Hamilton, Mr. Leather, is one of these people who is famous for being famous. He used to have a cigar/martini bar in Vegas, when I lived there. It's now closed. It was selling martinis for around $8 a pop.

Kia? My Neck, My Back...
 

Yall, her boyfriend killed her. Can yall believe that? I think it happened a couple weeks ago. Yall bet' not hadda known and not said nothin'. Could someone post an article... I don't know where yall get that stuff.

CT4 said it's a rumor. What yall know?

Re: Kia? My Neck, My Back...
 

Well Khia will be here in concert, opening for Jagged Edge this Saturday and so far the DJ's are still advertising her too. I haven't heard anything about this either.:confused:

Hugh Grant's Divine Memories

London, Tuesday 25 June 2002:

Hugh Grant is furious with the Britain's BBC TV network after discovering they are making a documentary about his 1995 encounter with a Los Angeles prostitute.

The actor was arrested on Sunset Boulevard, LA after being caught by police having a sex act performed on him by Hollywood hooker Divine Brown.

Grant was given a $1,180 (£786) fine and two years probation and the scandal made front page news on both sides of the Atlantic.

Now Hugh - who was dating Elizabeth Hurley at the time of his indiscretion - looks like he will have to relive the horror of his arrest after the British Broadcasting Corporation revealed they plan to make a TV show all about his encounter with Brown - called MY WORST WEEK.

And the star is furious.

A source told British tabloid the Daily Mirror, "Hugh's people were livid when they heard the show was going to be dragging up all the Divine stuff.

"Hugh went spare and ordered his aides to 'close down' the situation.

"He made his people talk to all his friends - anyone who was likely to blab about the matter.

"They were informed that if they spoke on camera about the incident, Hugh would never speak to them again."

According to the Mirror, Hugh managed to silence his pals, but the show - due to be aired on British television later this year (02) - is expected to include a new interview with Divine and some of the people involved in catching her and the actor in the act.





Jacko Begged for MIB2 Movie Role
Los Angeles, Tuesday 25 June 2002:

Pop superstar Michael Jackson's role in Men In Black II was never a last-minute decision - the singer begged for the part for years.

The Thriller star features in the Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones-fronted flick as an undercover alien intelligence officer.

And Smith admits that Jackson had strong desires to be a part of the film ever since seeing the original Men In Black flick.

He says, "Michael called after the first film. He called four years ago and he said, 'Look, if there is ever a Men in Black II, I'm in that movie!'"

And Smith says the King of Pop's celluloid presence has proved to be a huge hit with preview audiences.

He adds, "The way the audience reacted felt really good for me. I saw it with an audience the other night and people were just screaming and applauding."

RACHEL FIGHTS BACK
Everybody's favorite Friend Jennifer Aniston — who is suing two magazines for publishing photos of her sunbathing topless — will have her day in court next week, although it will be sans a jury. U.S. District Judge Ronald Lew said he would conduct a court trial and render a verdict himself because Aniston's lawyers failed to demand a jury when the lawsuit was filed in 2000. The 33-year-old actress is expected to testify at the trial, which gets underway July 2 in Los Angeles.
MORE LEGAL STUFF
Pop diva Elton John's bid to reopen his $21 million lawsuit against former accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers was rejected Monday by Britain's Court of Appeal. John insists the company failed to keep track of his finances.
LIFE AFTER ANN
The Ann Landers advice column — penned by the late Esther Lederer — will be replaced by two columns: one written by her daughter Margo Howard and one by two of her editors. However, the two new columns will not fall under the Ann Landers banner, as per Lederer's wishes. Lederer died of cancer on Saturday at age 83.

Hugh Grant
 

Hugh Grant has no game. Why would a man who was going w/Elizabeth Hurley at the time go out and buy sex?
:confused: http://www.uniquehardware.co.uk/serv...inkai/tool.gif

As an actor, HG's too old to play these foppish, confused boyish men. He and Meg Ryan remind me of each other. Meg is 40 -- it's way past time to be the ingenue.

Re: PM my left eye
 

Hey when your last 2 cd's sold about 3 MILLION, and your late3st effort is stalled at 700,000 and you want to keep your contract, you might get out the bed, lol!

Re: Re: PM my left eye
 

Well she needs to go back to the formula used on the first CD which is her best IMO. This CD has too many synthesized beats, Darkchild interjections and B Rocka interjections as well. I did buy all 3 but her 3rd one did not get the play that her first two did.

Re: Kia? My Neck, My Back...
 

Nah this is a rumor. It started down here and spread like wildfire to the point that the radio stations were like look Khia is not dead! That rumor started like 3 months ago.

Re: Re: Re: PM my left eye
 

:eek: :eek: :eek: CTFU!!! I know my family wouldn't even hear of me going to the mailbox before six weeks, and I was very firm in telling people not to come by if they had a cold or something.


......CT4 and those one liners:D :p

Re: Re: Re: PM my left eye
 

I bought the first CD, too. But guess what, I think the ONLY reason the first CD SOLD millions was because of the "I Wanna Be Down" REMIX with Latifah, Yo-Yo, and Lyte. I do not think many were "feeling" the original version song/video. I bought it AFTER the remix came out, then was disappointed the version wasn't on the CD. :mad:

Re: Re: Re: Re: PM my left eye
 

Maybe this depends on your peer group- I was the same age as Brandy when that came out, and I can tell you that me and all my little friends were ALL about that video, and how cute the boy in it was, lol. It was pure pop, and that's what we liked.

Walked around doing that little hand movement and everything.

Brandy's new cd is definitely not as good as the last one, but I do like some of the songs:

Full Moon
Like This
What About Us
He is...that's my song right there!

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: PM my left eye
 

Me too! Me too!

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: PM my left eye
 

Soror, I am CTFU because I know *exactly* what you are talking about, lol! :D

Count me in for those 2 + WOW. Those are the songs I will listen to.

NO DIGGITY, NO DOUBT
 

HOLLYWOOD — Everybody, Blackstreet's back. No, not Backstreet as in the Boys, Blackstreet as in "No Diggity."

New Jack Swing pioneer Teddy Riley revealed at Tuesday's BET Awards that he and Chauncey Hannibal have put aside their bitter rivalry and re-formed the group with singers Mark Middleton and Eric Williams.

Those four have also reunited with past Blackstreet members Levi Little, Dave Hollister, Joseph Stonestreet and Terrell Phillips for a ballad fittingly titled "Bygones," according to a spokesperson for their new label, DreamWorks.

Blackstreet are recording an album now and plan to release it October 22. "The name of the album is Level Two, though we're not really sold on the name yet, but Level Two is the idea," Riley said.

So far the group has recorded with Havoc from Mobb Deep and hip-hop legend Erick Sermon, who produced a portion of the band's 1994 self-titled debut. "We have more people coming," Riley said. "They want to get in on the project because they hear what the first single is sounding like, so they love it."

The kickoff single, the party track "Wizzy Wow," features guest vocals from Mystikal. Blackstreet are shooting a video for the track late next month in Toronto. "It's just an unbelievable track," Riley said. "Everybody loves it. We tested it everywhere. We were gonna drop it at the end of August, but they pushed it up to August 1st." (THAT IS SUCH A GREEEEEEEEAT DAY:D :cool: :p -- I accept $$$)

The group, which had gone through several lineup changes, split bitterly in 1999, with Riley suing Hannibal for slander over comments he made on a solo album.

Since then Riley has maintained his status as a top producer, working with 'NSYNC, Michael Jackson and Joe, including his #1 hit "Stutter."

Blackstreet won a Grammy for their 1996 single "No Diggity," which featured guest vocals from Dr. Dre.

—Corey Moss

Jackson v. Motola
 

Jackson: Recording Industry Racist

By Verena Dobnik
Associated Press Writer
Monday, July 8, 2002; 4:40 AM


NEW YORK –– Multiplatinum singer Michael Jackson, already feuding with his record company, charged Saturday that the recording industry was a racist conspiracy that turns profits at the expense of performers – particularly minority artists.

"The recording companies really, really do conspire against the artists – they steal, they cheat, they do everything they can," Jackson said in a rare public appearance. "(Especially) against the black artists."

Jackson, 43, who began his recording career as a child, spoke at the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network in Harlem. Sharpton and attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. recently formed a coalition to investigate whether artists are being financially exploited by record labels.

He also singled out Sony Music chairman Tommy Mottola, saying he was "mean, he's a racist, and he's very, very, very devilish." Jackson also accused Mottola of using "the n-word" when speaking about an unidentified black Sony artist.

Sony Music issued a statement calling Jackson's comments "ludicrous, spiteful and hurtful. It seems particularly bizarre that he has chosen to launch an unwarranted and ugly attack on an executive who has championed his career ... for many, many years."

Sony produced Jackson's last album, "Invincible," which has had disappointing sales despite an estimated $25 million in promotion. The singer's fans say Sony didn't do enough to launch the album. Others in the industry say sagging sales were indicative of Jackson's declining appeal.

Jackson mentioned several black artists as victims of the industry, including James Brown, Mariah Carey and Sammy Davis Jr. Jackson alleged that Davis died penniless, although Davis' attorney said in 1990 that the "Rat Pack" member left an estate worth more than $6 million when he died.

"If you fight for me, you're fighting for all black people, dead and alive," Jackson said, adding: "We have to put a stop to this incredible injustice."

Outside Sony's Manhattan headquarters, about 150 fans gathered later Saturday, hoisting signs reading "Please Sony, stop killing the music," "Terminate Tommy Mottola," and "Invincible is Unbreakable."

Jackson arrived at the Midtown building on a double-decker city tour bus that twice circled the block. He stood in the open top deck and, raising his fists, joined the crowd in chanting "Down with Tommy Mottola!"

Jackson held up a poster with three boxes marked "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" – with an image of himself in the "The Good" box and Mottola's face with devilish horns in "The Bad" box, while Mottola's real image adorned "The Ugly" box.

© 2002 The Associated Press

Re: Jackson v. Motola
 

My word, Blutang, you beat me to posting this! I was just on the WP website.
Sorry, but I'm CTFU at Michael "Bleach" Jackson railing at the industry. Reminds me of Ohhhjjjj hosting rap concerts. :rolleyes:

Gagagoogoo
 

NEW YORK (AP) Chris Rock has something to smile about the actor-comedian is the proud father of a baby girl.

Rock's wife, Malaak Compton-Rock, gave birth in New York on Friday, Rock's publicist said Monday. The couple named the girl Lola Simone, not Holiday, the name that Rock had touted before the baby's birth.

It is the first child for both Rock, 36, and his wife, 32.


Rock's latest movie is the comedic thriller "Bad Company" with Anthony Hopkins. Compton-Rock is the executive director of the charity Style Works.

Well, thank Goodness that Chris Rock gave his baby girl a decent name. :)

Oh Lawwd
 

From the Philadelphia Daily News. This is sad to read. AI was actually growing on me -- he's got wonderful game and I was willing to overlook the peccadilloes.

Posted on Tue, Jul. 09, 2002

ANOTHER FOUL ON ALLEN?
SOURCES: THREATS INCLUDED A GUN

By Jenice Armstrong, Will Bunch, Kitty Caparella, Rose DeWolf, Scott Flander and Sally Turner
Daily News staff writers

ALLEN IVERSON had been fighting with his wife, Tawanna, at their Main Line mansion.

Iverson kicked Tawanna out and she left the house with Iverson's cousin, Shaun Bowman.

Hours later, in the dead of night, Iverson and a friend got in his Mercedes-Benz 600 coupe and went out looking for them. He banged on the door of Bowman's West Philadelphia apartment, and angrily demanded that Bowman's roommate and a friend tell him where they were.

As the 76ers superstar heatedly spoke, a handgun bulged from his waistband. If he didn't find his wife, Iverson said, "I'm going to hurt somebody."

Iverson then allegedly said "somebody's going to die tonight, and it's not going to be me."

Sources said he made the apartment dwellers reach his wife and Bowman on a cell phone, and then Iverson said into the receiver: "I have a gun to somebody's head."

Bowman then called 911.

That's one version of the July 3 middle-of-the-night encounter that Philadelphia cops and a growing phalanx of lawyers are now trying to sort through.

Police and prosecutors must now figure out if that's exactly how it happened, and - if it is - whether Iverson broke any laws. It might all boil down to whether the NBA superstar was indeed packing heat last Wednesday morning. Iverson pleaded no contest to a weapons charge in 1997 and was given probation.

"To our knowledge, Mr. Iverson does not own a gun or have a permit to carry a gun," Police Lt. Michael Chitwood, who is running the investigation, told the Daily News yesterday.

Chitwood spoke after a highly unusual, hourlong meeting with Iverson's chief lawyer, Lawrence H. Woodward, of Virginia Beach, Va. The meeting also included Chitwood's boss, Southwest Detectives Capt. Steven Glenn; Chief of Detectives John Maxwell and Police Counsel Karen Simmons. Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson even stopped in the meeting briefly.

In a city where a murder is committed almost daily, it's unusual for the police commissioner to get involved in what for a mere mortal might be considered just a low-grade firearms case.

But nothing is ever usual when it comes to Iverson, the hard-charging, 6-foot, three-time NBA scoring champ who is loved by hoops fans for his moves on the court but loathed by some critics for his gangsta-rap lifestyle.

Regardless of the outcome of the police investigation, the allegations against Iverson have rocked a Philadelphia sports world already reeling from a string of disappointments in the increasingly distant 13 months since the Sixers' guard took them to the NBA Finals.

Ironically, Sixers fans had been encouraged when Iverson decided to spend the summer here in Philadelphia rather than his native Hampton, Va., where he'd encountered so much trouble in past years.

Yesterday, one family insider said she now wished Iverson had gone to Virginia, instead. "I told him, you need to come down south," she said. "It's just because he's a big celebrity, a superstar. People are out to get him."

Iverson has not yet told his side of the story - neither to the news media nor to the detectives trying to get to bottom of what happened at the Cobbs Creek Court Apartments at 62nd and Chestnut last week.

"Mr. Iverson has been in regular contract with his attorneys since the allegations surfaced and has also been in contact with the Philadelphia 76ers," Iverson's lawyers - Woodward and Thomas Shuttleworth - said in a written statement.

"Mr. Iverson's attorneys have provided information to the authorities and will continue to do so as needed," they said. "Mr. Iverson will not make any public comments as the allegations are still being reviewed by the authorities. Mr. Iverson understands and respects that the authorities must investigate the allegations."

At the Iverson home on Monk Road, in Gladwyne, children's squealing voices could be heard from inside the three story brick mansion, which has a four-car garage, swimming pool and regulation size basketball net off the parking lot. No one answered the driveway intercom.

One man that police were talking to last night was Duran Topping, the apartment-house resident who told the Daily News on Sunday that he ran into Iverson about 3 a.m. Wednesday. Yesterday, people who know Iverson confirmed that the visitor's unusual greeting - "What's going on, cat daddy?" - is frequently uttered by Iverson. And they said Iverson drives a dark Mercedes like the vehicle Topping saw.

Last night, the two men who encountered Iverson - Bowman's roommate, Charles Jones, 21, and a 17-year-old neighbor - spoke briefly with reporters.

"He had a gun," the 17-year-old, who said his name was Hakeem, told reporters. When asked if he was wielding it around he said, "No, we just saw he had it."

There were scuff marks on the door to Bowman's No. 309 apartment. Sources say the two have filed an official police report.

The latest incident comes at the end of a tumultuous year for the 27-year-old Iverson.

At this time last year, Iverson was on top of the world. His brilliant, pain-wracked play in the 2001 NBA playoffs, singled-handedly carrying the injury-riddled 76ers all the way to the Finals, had made him Philadelphia's most popular athlete. Then he donned a white tuxedo to marry Tawanna Turner, his longtime fiancee and mother of his two children.

Iverson's many fans prayed that newfound maturity would finally dissipate the clouds of controversy that have swirled around his life off the basketball court.

But death and violence would come back to haunt Iverson one more time, and friends agree that this time it him hard.

On Oct. 14, one of the groomsmen from Iverson's wedding, Rahsaan "Ra" Langford, 29, was murdered after a barroom fight back home in Newport News, Va.

"He helped me so much just by being a real friend and always telling me when he thought I was wrong," Iverson told local writer Larry Platt in a Playboy interview this year. "And I needed that in a friend, instead of a bunch of people telling me everything I want to hear. That's not going to help."

He wore a black armband that said "Ra" and tapped it before every foul shot.

But things were not going well on the court. Iverson's belated decision to undergo shoulder surgery caused him to miss all of training camp and the first five games of the regular season - all Sixer losses. When he returned, he carried all of the burden of the Sixers' offense on his repaired shoulders, and his shooting average dipped below 40 percent. The team got knocked out of the playoffs in the first round.

His on-again, off-again relationship with coach Larry Brown hit the skids - culminating in trade rumors and finally Iverson's bizarre, rambling postseason press conference where he wondered what all the fuss was about missing practices.

This was his first full summer in Philadelphia. Hampton had seemed to bring nothing but trouble. Iverson grew up there in abject poverty, born to an unwed 15-year-old mother and raised in an apartment that was frequently flooded by a busted sewage pipe. One summer growing up, his best friend, Tony Clark, was murdered, and so were seven other buddies.

In 1993, when Iverson was 17, he was the one in trouble. No one has ever firmly established what happened that February night inside a Hampton bowling alley. All anyone can agree on is that there was a racial brawl. Cops arrested Iverson and three other black teens, but no whites. He spent four months behind bars before the governor granted him clemency, and his conviction on the obscure charge of "maiming by mob" was later tossed altogether.

Still, Iverson went back to Virginia - and trouble. Mercedes and guns tended to be involved. In 1997, after he was named the NBA Rookie of the Year, he was a passenger in a vehicle stopped for speeding near Richmond, Va., when police found two marijuana cigarettes in the car. They also found a .45-caliber handgun that belonged to Iverson in the front seat. Iverson got probation in the court of law and a one-game suspension from the NBA courts.

The next year, two friends back home borrowed Iverson's $138,000 Mercedes and got busted on drug charges.

This summer was going to be different. Friends say that he wanted to oversee work on an addition to his home. Sure, he and his buddies hung out in the usual spots, shooting pool at Dave & Buster's and hitting some after-hours clubs. But he also showed up at the Sixers rookie camp for the first time, and it seemed he couldn't wait for next season.

By now, though, he had a large crew in Philadelphia. That group included his cousin, Shaun Bowman. Iverson's aunt Jessie Bowman - the sister of his mom, Ann Iverson - had been cook and housekeeper for Iverson earlier in his NBA career. Sports Illustrated said Iverson supported Bowman and her three kids including Shaun, the oldest.

Records suggest that Shaun Bowman served in the U.S. Army at Fort Gordon, Ga., in 2000 and 2001 and lived for a short time in Hampton before coming back to Philadelphia this spring.

Sources said both Bowman and Tawanna were considered outsiders in the tight-knit Iverson family, and that he was somebody she could turn to in an hour of trouble.






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http://www.philly.com

Re: Re: So much to say...
 

i also heard that puffy likes men too. i have a friend with an "inside" who said that is the reason that mase left...

Page Six celebrity dish
 

Page Six, the New York Post gossip column -- www.pagesix.com, always has interesting bits. One of them had Justin Timberlake (gross) seeing Janet Jackson.

But here's another bit from Page Six on Halle and Eric B. I am slightly dubious on because the source material's the [/I]National Enquirer.[/I]

BEING married to red-hot Halle Berry hasn't tamed Eric Benet's cheatin' heart. The National Enquirer reports that Benet sought treatment for sex addiction after Berry learned he was two-timing her and threatened to divorce him. Hunky soul singer Benet checked into The Meadows, a rehab clinic in Wickenburg, Ariz., last month, tattles the tab. Berry - taking a break from filming "X-Men 2" - was snapped by an Enquirer photographer visiting Benet at the rehab center with his daughter India.

Page Six dish, part 2
 

And you know that I'm crazy enough to post this. It's about Ohhjjjjenthal, of course. :rolleyes:

July 11, 2002 -- O.J.'s juicy sexcapades

HE still hasn't exposed the person who really killed his wife, Nicole, but O.J. Simpson isn't letting that frustration get him down. In fact, in a new bootleg video that's about to be marketed over the Internet, the disgraced former football star appears to be enjoying a very lusty love life.

I'm told the 30-minute tape opens with O.J., looking somewhat befuddled, boasting about how great things are in his Florida domicile, how many friends and fans he has and how he's wanting for nothing. Then it cuts to the chase -- Simpson making it with two white girls in a steamy menage a trois.

I know some of the people behind the video. It's fair to say they are "of repute" if not "reputable" and that they have sounded out some p.r. firms about marketing strategies. (In the end, they seem to have decided the video will sell itself without professional help.)

Likewise, their claim that the tape is either bootlegged or was somehow stolen from O.J.'s private stock. This could be just a gimmick to increase its sleaze value. For all we know, a cash-strapped Simpson may be an enthusiastic partner in the venture.

The only sure thing seems to be that the tape will be a huge seller in the demimonde of the Internet. In our celebrity-and-scandal-obsessed society, O.J. is some kind of sick icon and some of us will never get enough of him.

Re: Page Six dish, part 2
 

*ahem* I had enough of OJ a long time ago. I had enough of OJ before he lost his mind.

Re: Page Six dish, part 2
 

Man, who wants to see OJ's old, tired butt!! There is nothing sexy about some old black man "getting it on" with two white women! Isn't OJ in his last 50's???? :eek: :confused:

GGGRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

Re: Re: Page Six dish, part 2
 

Ohhhjjjj is 55 years old, and I know what you mean. But there are enough sickos out there that will purchase the tape. Vomit.
:rolleyes:

I just read Salli Richardson, star of Posse and Low down Dirty Shame, is engaged to marry Dondre Whitfield, who we most remember as Robert, Vanessa's boyfriend on The Cosby Show.

Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson?!?!?!:eek:

From USAToday

Justin Timberlake's new squeeze is an older woman — Janet Jackson.

Maybe it's just a fling, but the 'N Sync heartthrob, 21, has been seeing the diva, 36, for a while. The pair went public last weekend at a Miami Beach birthday party for rapper Missy Elliott, where Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire were among the celeb guests.

They also were spotted two weeks ago at an L.A. club. The New York Post reported that rapper Jermaine Dupri, who the paper said was dating Jackson, was unhappy to see them. But Dupri says he heard about it second-hand and he and Jackson are just friends.

No comment on the matchup from a rep for Timberlake, who split from Britney Spears in March and is busy making his solo album. And none on Jackson from her reps.

I don't even get it
 

All I'm sayin' is, from the way men drool over her, she could have any man she wanted, OK? Any man. A-N-Y. And I ain't hatin' cuz he young... go 'head Stella, get yo' Hakim on, LOL. ;) I'm just sayin', of all the men you could have chosen that are single, you chose Justin? Britney should be taking YOUR leftovers, not the other way around. :shakingmyhead: I can't even get past this.

I know this should be in another thread but.............
 

Ok, I just have a few questions for Ms. Jackson :D

Open Letter To Janet Jackson:

Ok, Justin Timberlake I can sort of stomache, but where you really dating Jermaine Dupree? Huh?

Y'ALL WAS SHE REALLY DATING KING COCHROACH HIMSELF?!?
:confused:

From the news sources here, Janet doesn't know who she wants. After being seen with Justin, it was reported she was caught cuddling with Dupri, who flew to Miami just to spend some personal time with her. Why do I have the feeling she is just stringing these guys along and loving every minute of it. Miss Jackson is not as innocent as she somewhat seems to be.

Re: I know this should be in another thread but.............
 

See, I refused to even believe that, lol. Oh heck no.

for Steeltrap
 

NBA Star O'Neal to Be 'Officer Shaq'
Fri Jul 12, 2:34 PM ET
By The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) - First came his third-consecutive NBA championship, then plans to produce a TV drama. Now Shaquille O'Neal wants to be a police officer.

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Shaquille O'Neal


O'Neal has been designated a second-class reserve officer by the police department of the Port of Los Angeles, the Daily Breeze reported Thursday.

The 30-year-old Los Angeles Lakers center has said he may consider a career in law enforcement when he retires from basketball.

This week, the entertainment trade newspaper Variety reported he's also met with executives from the major networks to pitch a one-hour drama that he would executive produce.

The basketball star — who has also acted movies including "Kazaam" and recorded rap albums such as "Shaq Diesel" — has completed enough training to fight crime with senior officers and carry a gun.

"He can now ride as a second man in a port police car — not that he can fit in it," city councilwoman Janice Hahn said about the 7-foot-1-inch, 350-pound athlete.

O'Neal's work with the department also is considered a good recruitment tool for new officers, she added.


~~~~~~~~
Now don't be calling 911 every night requesting DIESEL, ok? :p

Thanks CT4
 

I don't even live in LA County, but I promise that I won't be calling 911 asking for Officer Diesel to help a damsel :eek: in distress.

:p :D :D

Oh, My...
 

SWEETER THE BERRY... Not necessarily happier the home?


Halle Berry
(Jul. 15, 2002) *Halle Berry. She's been called one of the most beautiful women in the world.
She's become a movie idol, and, gosh darn it, she's even won an Oscar!

But, according to the very reliable (wink, wink) National Enquirer, Berry's husband Eric Benet has been cheating.

Reports say that Benet checked into an Arizona rehab clinic because of his sex addiction.

Ummm, yeah.

Apparently, a photographer snapped a photo of Berry visiting her husband at the center, when she took a quick break from filming the "X-Men" sequel.

July 17, 2002


Pilot on Cocaine in Aaliyah Crash


JO CAVALLO


An autopsy performed on Luis Antonio Morales Blanes, the pilot of the Cessna that crashed in the Bahamas last August carrying R&B singer Aaliyah, found traces of cocaine and alcohol in his body, reports the Associated Press. (Blanes, 30, was sentenced to three years' probation on charges of crack cocaine possession just 12 days before the accident.) The pilot, Aaliyah, 22, and seven members of her entourage were all killed when the plane crashed shortly after taking off from the airport. Authorities are investigating how the substances in his system could potentially have contributed to the crash. The Bahamas Department of Civil Aviation noted that the aircraft may not have undergone fuel-pump wiring modifications required in 1988 and that unidentified particles and corrosion found in the fuel filters were "indications that routine maintenance was not being performed," according to a statement released by the agency, the AP reports. An examination of the plane's engine, airframe, propeller, and fuel system, however, showed no cause for malfunction. The twin-engine plane, certified to carry only eight people including the pilot, was also 700 pounds overweight, investigators reportedly said. Aaliyah, a two-time Grammy nominee for best female R&B vocalist, was in the Bahamas to film her music video "Rock the Boat," which was released posthumously

Prostitutes do not charge too much, do they?
 

From the local news update...more @ 5:

Mystical has been arrested in Baton Rouge, LA for aggravated rape and extortion (allegations). :eek:

More details later.

Mystikal, two others accused of aggravated rape, extortion
 

Grammy-nominated rapper Mystikal, two others accused of aggravated rape, extortion

Thu Jul 18, 5:11 PM ET

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - Top-selling rapper Mystikal and two other men were jailed Thursday on charges they raped a female acquaintance at the rapper's house.

Mystikal, whose real name is Michael Tyler, surrendered to authorities early Thursday and was booked on an aggravated rape charge, police said.

Leland Ellis, 36, and Vercy Carter, 34, of Baton Rouge, turned themselves in and were booked later that morning, police said.

Tyler was released Thursday afternoon on dlrs 250,000 bond.

All three were also charged with extortion. Authorities say they threatened to tell police that the woman had received checks from the rapper's account without his permission. The extortion charge accuses Tyler of demanding sex in exchange for his agreement not to turn the woman over to police.

If convicted of the aggravated rape charge, Tyler would face a mandatory life sentence. The penalty for extortion carries a prison term of one to 15 years...

A link:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._rape_charge_1