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I read in the newspaper today that Mo'Nique is pregnant with twins. :eek: :eek: She usually hosts one of the superlounges @ Essence. Since she's pregnant (with twins), she won't be able to fulfill that obligation.

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GIRL HURSH YO'MOUFF!!!:p.......Maybe that's why she looks a "little" bigger these days....:confused: :eek:

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I am LMAO at "little."

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I mean I aint poking fun at her or big goils cause I know and have plenty in my family including MamaGyrl7.....but I don't even want to see her at 9 months carrying twins.:o :o

And the Detective guy that was on Biggie's "Behind the Music"( VH1), has suddenly recanted everything he said about the Row's connection to his murder. I forgot what he said was the reason but it was hogwash :confused: :mad:

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I wonder who the baby(ies) daddy is, if it's true :p

Epilogue for 'Stella' author: a messy divorce
 

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...AGTQDF4S01.DTL


Epilogue for 'Stella' author: a messy divorce
Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross

Sunday, June 26, 2005


In a tale rich in lost love, closeted secrets and acrimonious divorce, it turns out that famed local writer Terry McMillan -- whose celebrated romance and subsequent marriage to a man 23 years her junior became the subject of her fictionized best-seller "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" --

actually got her groove back with a man who now says he's gay.

The story is spilling out in made-for-Hollywood detail in Contra Costa County Superior Court, where McMillan has filed for divorce from her Jamaican- born husband of six years, Jonathan Plummer.

McMillan, 53, said in court documents that the marriage was based on a "fraud'' because Plummer lied about his sexual orientation -- and married her only to gain U.S. citizenship.

"It was devastating to discover that a relationship I had publicized to the world as life-affirming and built on mutual love was actually based on deceit,'' she wrote in her declaration. "I was humiliated."

Plummer, 30, countered in court papers of his own that McMillan has turned on him with a "homophobic'' vengeance and is trying to force his return to an uncertain future in Jamaica. He wants to void the couple's prenuptial agreement that would keep from him most of the millions she's earned as a writer.

He also claims he was denied his full share of royalties, as spelled out in the prenup, from "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," the fictionalized account of a single mother's torrid relationship with a Jamaican young enough to be her son that very much parallels the lives of McMillan and Plummer.

Plummer's attorney, Dolores Sargent, said her client has no interest in embarrassing McMillan or extorting money from her.

"All I want to do is settle the case in a way that's fair to both parties ... and that allows Jonathan sufficient funds to re-establish himself,'' Sargent said. "And we have been blocked.''

In court papers, however, McMillan leaves little doubt that she believes Plummer was always motivated by money.

"Jonathan has manipulated me from the very beginning in his scheme to come to the United States, become a citizen and get rich through someone else's effort,'' McMillan wrote in one of her filings.

In fact, McMillan says Plummer zeroed in on her precisely because of her celebrity status as an author whose earlier books included "Waiting to Exhale, '' which sold some 4 million copies and was made into a movie.

In an interview, Plummer insisted that he didn't know he was gay when he met McMillan in June 1995 at a Jamaican resort. Nor, he says, did he seize on the author's fame.

"I was a 20-year-old kid when I met her and had no idea that she was anybody other than an attractive, older woman,'' he said in court papers.

For her part, McMillan, who was then 42, said she worried when she first met Plummer that he was interested only in her money. "But Jonathan was very charming and made me believe that he was crazy about me,'' she told the court.

The two eventually married in Maui on Sept. 8, 1998 -- but not before Plummer signed a prenup that waived his rights to everything should they ever part, including "temporary and permanent spousal support and attorney's fees, '' according to court papers filed by McMillan.

The couple settled in McMillan's $4 million Danville home and, at least according to Plummer, enjoyed a happy life -- until the last few years when the marriage started coming undone.

"He became less attentive, less charming, more distracted and absent from the home,'' McMillan wrote in her declaration.

Plummer said he was spending long hours with a dog-grooming business in Danville that McMillan had set up for him a couple of years ago in apparent anticipation of a split.

It wasn't until just before last Christmas, Plummer says, that the two finally split -- after he revealed he was gay.

"I was kicked out of the house in December right after I told her,'' he said in the interview.

In court records, however, McMillan says Plummer confessed to being gay only after she confronted him about all his hours of phone calls to a male friend living in Jamaica. She also says she later learned that Plummer was participating in online gay chat sites.

In any event, judging from the court filings, the disclosure quickly turned ugly. McMillan obtained a restraining order to keep Plummer from their house, and she claimed she recently discovered that Plummer had embezzled at least $200,000 from her bank accounts before and during their marriage. (He admits in court papers "a gross error of judgment" in taking $62,000 without her knowledge, but said that he was financially dependent on her during the marriage and that he intends to pay it back.)

Plummer obtained his own restraining order against the author, alleging that McMillan constantly harassed him for coming out of the closet, and at one point walked into his dog-grooming business and tossed a ceramic object across the room.

"She kept calling me, saying nasty things about me being gay, calling me a fag,'' Plummer said in an interview.

In a Jan. 14 letter written by McMillan and filed with the court, the author told Plummer, "The reason you're going to make a great fag is that most of you guys are just like dogs anyway. ... You do whatever with whomever pleases you and don't seem to care about the consequences."

Plummer also says McMillan came into the dog-grooming shop and left him a bottle of Jamaican hot pepper sauce on which she wrote, "Fag Juice Burn Baby Burn,'' and that she also scrawled "Jonathan's Fag boyfriend Fag'' on a photo of a friend.

"She is an extremely angry woman who is homophobic and is lashing out at me because I have learned I am gay,'' Plummer declared in a court filing last month.

McMillan's attorney, Jill Hersh -- a divorce lawyer who has handled civil rights cases involving gay couples and their children -- says her client "is anything but homophobic.''

"However, she feels betrayed and disappointed ... that her husband is gay, '' Hersh said. "And anything you have seen in the pleadings emanates from how she is experiencing the end of her marriage, and it doesn't have to do with anything else.''

Hersh also disputes Plummer's contention that McMillan was seeking an annulment as a way to get him deported, as he alleges. In pressing her claim of fraud, however, McMillan told the court that Plummer waited to tell her he was gay until he knew his application for citizenship was going to be approved.

Plummer says he understands that McMillan felt betrayed by his coming out. "But I was being truthful to myself, and didn't want to hurt her anymore,'' he said.

On June 17, a Superior Court judge handed Plummer a minor victory -- ordering McMillan to pay him $2,000 a month in spousal support, plus $25,000 in attorney's fees -- until a full trial on the validity of the prenuptial agreement and the annulment request is heard in October.

Chronicle columnists Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross appear Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays. They can also be heard on KGO Radio on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Phil Matier can be seen regularly on KRON 4 News, and also on Sunday night at 9:30 on his own show, "4 the Record." Got a tip? Call them at (415) 777-8815, or e-mail them at matierandross@sfchronicle.com.

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http://sfgate.com/c/pictures/2005/06/26/ba_happy.jpg Terry McMillan was 44 and Jonathan Plummer 21 in 1996. He says he didn't know he was gay when he met her in 1995. Time Life Pictures file photo, 1996, by John Storey via Getty Images

:o Clawd have mercy. Jonathan is gay? Well, he did "skin and grin a bit much". :o

She was just featured in Essence, but it didn't really touch upon the marriage that much. :o

That just hurts my heart to hear about Terry McMillan. I pray that she doesn't catch anything from this loser, user, scam artist. That is just a shame.

Triflin' :mad:

Black Voices Buzz 6/27
 

Some of this was already posted (Mo'nique expecting, Lisa from Save By The Bell on cocaine) so I took it out. Here is what was left.

Speaking of expecting, singer Claudette Ortiz, formerly of the Wyclef Jean group City High, is pregnant with her second child. The singer is married to her one-time City High group member Ryan Toby, and the two are expecting their second baby boy in the coming months.

X-Rated Eve?


There's yet another sex scandal plaguing rapper-actor Eve. There is a video circulating on the Internet that allegedly shows the star of the UPN self-titled sitcom having an unidentified man pleasure her with a sex toy while he masturbates. The person on the sex tape does resemble Eve; however the footage only streams for 30 seconds before cutting off.


It's obvious the tape is a home movie and the female featured looks down at the camera several times in between moans. Additionally, the video has the date (Nov. 20, 1999) and time code (12:26:50AM) shown as well.


If the person depicted on the video is Eve, then the date shown would be around the time she was dating Bad Boy Entertainment producer Stevie J.


In 2003, a picture that was supposed to be Eve during her days as a stripper surfaced online. That image showed Eve-sans her signature paw print tattoos-receiving oral sex from an unidentified female.


"I used to strip, so it could be me or it could not be me," Eve then told the New York Daily News. She also claimed a man was trying to extort her with the photo.


Eve's reps could not be reached by press time to comment on the video.
Real World


The "Godmother of Comedy," Thea Vidale, is helping to give privileged suburbanites a reality check on the Si TV series 'Urban Jungle 2.' Vidale joins the second season of the English-Spanish network's reality series as a life coach, counseling the contestants who are transplanted from their posh lives to South Central Los Angeles.


"The show is funny! I'm just being me, keeping it real and telling their bourgeois asses, 'Welcome to the ghetto,'" said Vidale, who had just returned from performing at the Amsterdam Comedy Festival when we caught up with her.


'Urban Jungle 2' is being shot in a small two-bedroom, one-bath home and follows the 13 contestants as they adapt to life in the South Central neighborhood. "They didn't even have a toilet when they got to the house. They had to put their money together and buy one. Things only got better from there," added Vidale.

For three weeks contestants face harsh manual labor and are forced to pick strawberries in the fields, remove graffiti, sell oranges on freeway off ramps and clean houses in Beverly Hills. In addition to tough-living and hard labor, participants will volunteer their time working with children at the neighborhood community center. They ultimately aim to win $50,000 in cash and prizes.

The Other Side


Comedian Arnez J. denies the accusations made by fellow comic Rickey Smiley and the story about Alex Thomas in the BV Buzz on June 13.


On squashing his beef with Smiley, Arnez told columnist Lee Bailey: "I haven't talked to Rickey. I haven't heard one thing from him. But it's ironic... I get a call from his lawyer stating that Ricky wants to call me and apologize."


On comic Alex Thomas calling Arnez J. a joke thief he countered to Bailey: "Alex Thomas never approached me in my face and asked me about a bit, nor do I bite off of anybody's material. I don't have to, only because number one, I'm a physical comedian."


Arnez J. concluded: "In this business, everybody's just not gonna like everybody, and that's just the way it is," he said. "You're gonna have people who like to follow suit and join the monopoly. More or less, I'm a loner, so I don't really clique a lot. I don't have time to backstab and talk about people. But unfortunately in this business, a lot of times, that's what happens."


BV Buzz must note that prior to the story run on June 13, we contacted Arnez J.'s management of note via telephone and sent e-mail correspondence to no avail. The comic explained that he had recently changed managers and the former representation had not passed along the requests.


In other gripes, the UPN network took issue with last week's lead story. Despite being contacted prior to the story running and only being serviced with a generic press release, in typical fashion, now the network would like to respond in more detail and challenge a portion of our report.


Despite the fact that we stand by our story, as a courtesy we're sharing their better-late-than-never reply. "Reporting that Elise Neal is leaving 'All of Us' as a result of UPN's instructing all of its sitcom producers to cut costs across the board is blatantly inaccurate. License fees for television series are negotiated prior to the first season and are contractual. The network cannot and did not ask for expenses to be cut on any show. As UPN said in a joint statement with studio partner, Warner Bros., Neal's departure was due to a change in the creative direction of the series," said Joanna D. Massey, UPN's senior vice president of media relations.
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Can't Say Names...


... Sources say things are a little awkward on a current summer tour scene with two performers who share something in common -- they both dated the same man. We hear that things are tense between the two singers, as one of the singers had an affair with the other singer's boyfriend and things got messy. The whole ordeal included a breakup, a makeup and the purchase of an expensive SUV to make good on the drama. Both have moved on, apparently, but the ill feelings still remain.


Buzzworthy


... Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams will join John Legend as one of the new faces of Gap. Williams, who replaces the short-lived campaign by blue-eyed soul singer Joss Stone, recently shot her new Gap campaign ads and recorded a remake of Al Green's 'Let's Stay Together' that will be featured in the show's commercial. Sarah Jessica Parker, Missy Elliott and Madonna have also been featured in recent Gap campaigns.


...Good news for fans of the R&B trio Next. The group -- RL (Robert Huggar), Tweet (Raphael Brown) and T-Low (Terry Brown) -- have apparently worked through their differences and plan to head to the studio to work on a new album. We'll keep you posted...


...Sources say that Brian McKnight has left the Motown label. McKnight has recorded for the legendary record company since 1998, when his previous label Mercury Records was dissolved. The crooner released five albums for Motown, including the multi-platinum 'Back at One' and his most recent release 'Gemini,' but opted to leave the label after, according to a source, feeling as though he wasn't a priority anymore. Sources now tell BV Buzz that McKnight has already inked a new recording contract with Virgin Records.
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I've been reading about the divorce of Terry McMillian and her soon-to be-ex husband on the 'Net and hearing it on the radio but not as much detail as that posting!

Terry and Star may need to have a talk!

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This Terry McMillian is all that they are talking on the radio this morning....I'm just shaking my head....but I did think that ole boy Jonathan had a little suga in his tank when I first saw him.