Celebrity Dish IX

[CrimsonTide4]

P. Diddy's bid to beat J.Lo to the altar

Rap superstar Sean 'P Diddy' Combs has come up with the perfect plan to upstage ex-lover Jennifer Lopez -- he's going to beat her to the alter.

J.LO has married and divorced and is now engaged to actor Ben Affleck -- all since splitting from Diddy in 2000.

But Combs is hoping to get the last laugh, by tying the knot to lover Kim Porter in a spectacular $10 million ceremony before Lopez and Affleck have the chance to get hitched.

Although signs point towards a spring ceremony, Jen and Ben have yet to set a date. But that hasn't deterred Combs.

According to British tabloid the Daily Star he has already splashed out on a $1.9 million engagement ring - and is hell-bent on making his wedding to Porter the celebrity event of the year.

A source tells the Star, "His wedding will be in true Puffy style. First class all the way and totally over the top.

"Next to this Jennifer and Ben's wedding will look like a prom."


He is acting like an azz.
As a wedding present, maybe Kim will get Puff an ORTHODONTIST.

WTF!! The only reason he is marrying her is to decrease his child support payments for Christian and before Baby Mom #1 steps up to the HIGHER CHILD PAYMENTS as well.

Ladies would you have taken P SHYTTY back?? Not I.

[prayerfull]

Well...it's about time that P Diddy married Kim Porter. I think that Kim has put up with some serious SHNIT from Diddy. He was screwing around with J Lo when Kim got pregnant and then he went right back to Kim when J Lo dumped her and was putting all of his "I need my ho" back songs. I felt pretty bad for Kim. Good for her, marry his ass...stay married for 10 years and take HALF...legally guaranteed!

[Gyrl7]

Originally posted by prayerfull
Well...it's about time that P Diddy married Kim Porter. I think that Kim has put up with some serious SHNIT from Diddy. He was screwing around with J Lo when Kim got pregnant and then he went right back to Kim when J Lo dumped her and was putting all of his "I need my ho" back songs. I felt pretty bad for Kim. Good for her, marry his ass...stay married for 10 years and take HALF...legally guaranteed!

I KNOW thass right!!!!

[AKA2D '91]

Riddick Bowe sentenced to jail
01/16/2003

Associated Press


CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe was sentenced to 18 months in prison Thursday for the 1998 abduction of his estranged wife and children.


U.S. District Judge Graham Mullen had twice previously given the boxer lighter sentences that were rejected by the appeals court.


After Bowe gets out of prison, he must serve two years' supervised release.


In 1998, Bowe went to Judy Bowe's Charlotte home, forced her and the children into a car and set out for his Maryland home. At a restaurant in Virginia, Judy Bowe called her sister, who guided police to the restaurant.


In his prime, Bowe was a 6-foot-5, 235-pound heavyweight fighter who won his first 31 fights, 29 by knockout, to earn a title shot against Evander Holyfield. He beat Holyfield in 1992. He later lost a rematch.


Bowe earned more than $75 million in the ring.


(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

[Afrochic]

Joy Rider Who Stole Missy's Car Jailed
Copyright 2003 World Entertainment News Network

A car thief who wrecked hip-hop star Missy Elliott's Lamborghini has been jailed for three years.

Joseph Johnson, 34, drove the Grammy-winning singer's $300,000 car away from the garage where it was stored and crashed into a traffic sign, a tree and a couple of curbs soon after. (Well, damn, was it anything else left to hit besides pedestrians?)

Attorney Mike Huberman says, "He takes a vehicle that is worth more than most houses and totals it."

As well as a three year jail sentence, the Judge also ordered $170,000 in restitution for the car and $1,975 for curb repairs at the wreck site.

(Maybe it's the broke woman in me but I don't see the need for a 300,000 car. And how did he get on her property and in her garage so easily? )


Soul Star Rawls Arrested for Battery

Smooth soul legend Lou Rawls has been arrested in New Mexico on battery charges.

The singer posted bail and was released from jail after he was arrested and booked on one count of battery against "companion" Nina Inman.

Police were called to a hotel in Albuquerque after hearing complaints of a fight. Inman told officers she and Rawls had been talking about their relationship when the conversation escalated into a fight.

Officers arrested Rawls and booked him into the Bernalillo County Detention Center.

The 67-year-old singer was in Albuquerque to perform two concerts at Isleta Pueblo's casino.

(Lou needs to sit his old a$$ down. Singing...."you'll neva find as long as you live, someone who loves you tender like I do ....)

Rapper Fabolous Arrested in NY

Gangsta rapper Fabolous is in trouble after police in New York arrested him on suspicion of driving with a suspended licence.

The 25-year-old up-and-coming Ghetto Fabolous star was driving his new Range Rover through Manhattan on Wednesday evening when he made an illegal turn, according to police.

Fabolous, whose real name is John Jackson, faces a charge of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

(So what F.A.B.O.L.O.U.S. )

Mya's Car Crash

Smooth R&B vocalist Mya has escaped uninjured after crashing her Range Rover into a parked car.

The 24-year-old singer managed to demolish the parked Volkswagen Passat, but walked after from the smash in Washington D.C. last month unscathed.

Her stunning appearance at Monday's American Music Awards confirmed that the songstress is still in top condition.

The "Ghetto Superstar" was driving to her mother's house in the Washington D.C. area at the time of the collision.

(How the hell do you just run into a parked car? It's parked!)

Mariah's Diva Behavior Over Limousines



Singer Mariah Carey's diva-like behavior has been called into question again - by one of her former limousine drivers.

The pop star is always keen to play down reports she's a demanding diva, but driver-to-the-stars Paul Monroe claims her vehicle needs are both expensive and ridiculous.

He says, "We would get a call in the office for a fleet of cars to arrive first thing in the morning at Mariah's place. We'd all get there, then we'd sit outside her residence all day without moving.

"The cost to go nowhere was easily $7,000 to $8,000.

"I can't count the number of times that happened. Over the years, Mariah spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in cars that never got used."

[CrimsonTide4]

Ervings parting after 29 years
The former Sixers star reportedly has admitted fathering a second out-of-wedlock child.
By Annette John-Hall
Inquirer Staff Writer




Julius Erving and his wife, Turquoise, with their children in a 1973 photo.


Cuddling during NBA All-Star weekend in February, Julius and Turquoise Erving were the picture of marital bliss.

Who could have known that in May, Turquoise would file for divorce? Perhaps not even Turquoise herself.

Admirers of the Sixer Hall of Famer and his elegant wife, married 29 years, were surprised yesterday to learn that the couple are in the midst of divorce proceedings. The news came as a double shock, accompanied by reports that Dr. J has accepted responsibility for a second out-of-wedlock child, whose mother Turquoise says lives in Orlando, Fla.

Erving, now vice president of the Orlando Magic, admitted in 1999 that he was the father of professional tennis player Alexandra Stevenson, then 18. Stevenson's mother is former Philadelphia sportswriter Samantha Stevenson, with whom Erving acknowledged having an extramarital affair in the early '80s.

According to a personal financial affidavit Julius Erving filed with the Circuit Court of Seminole County (Fla.) in November, he is paying $2,000 a month to support a son, who is named in the document.

Whether Turquoise's discovery that her husband has a second illegitimate child led her to sue for divorce - officially, she cites irreconcilable differences as the reason - is unknown. A lawyer for Turquoise has told the Orlando Sentinel that his client will not comment, and wishes to keep the matter private.

Turquoise is asking for the family's home, valued at $1.1 million, in the exclusive gated community of Alaqua, Fla. Julius is living in a condominium in downtown Orlando.

The couple, both 52, are parents of three grown children. Jazmin, 25, a model, and Julius 3d, 28, live in the Philadelphia area. Julius 3d, known as J, is co-owner of Erving Wonder, an entertainment management firm. Cheo, Turquoise's son by a previous marriage, is 30. The youngest child, 19-year-old Cory, was found drowned in his car, which he had driven into a pond near the family's home in May 2000.

The Ervings have lived in Florida since 1997, when Julius Erving took the job with the Magic. In Philadelphia for All-Star festivities, the couple party-hopped and stayed at the Rittenhouse Square Bed & Breakfast, where they reserved 10 rooms and hosted friends including Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham, Samuel L. Jackson and his actress wife, LaTanya Richardson, and casino mogul Steve Wynn and his wife, Elaine.

All weekend, the Ervings cut dashing figures. He would emerge from a stretch limo and gallantly open her door. She would rest her head on his shoulder as they strolled to the next affair. It was just like 20 years ago, when "Doc" was the Sixers' classy superstar and he and "Turk" were the city's golden couple.

Even now, it's hard to see Erving - who owns condos here and in Atlantic City, and is part-owner of the Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Co. - as flawed. After 11 seasons with the Sixers, the elegant, erudite former Sixers forward remains Philadelphia sports royalty. He's a man former Sixers general manager Pat Williams, now Orlando Magic executive vice president, has said "brings quality to everything he's involved with."

But the Ervings have been rocked by tragedy and scandal. Nearly a year after a Florida newspaper produced the birth certificate that revealed Erving was Stevenson's father, Cory Erving turned up missing. The Ervings launched a two-month nationwide search in May 2000. At that time, they acknowledged that Cory had been battling drug problems.

Erving, who lists his net worth at more than $9 million and states that his 2001 earnings were just over $1 million, has been ordered by the Florida court to pay Turquoise Erving temporary alimony of $1,500 a week. She will also receive household expenses, including $8,000 for monthly credit-card charges.

Turquoise lists her monthly expenses at $15,301.25, including $2,000 for clothes, $1,200 for "cosmetics, toiletries and sundries," and $1,150 for "grooming."

Turquoise, a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., has not worked during her life with Dr. J. "I always had everything I wanted," she told The Inquirer in 1976, the year her husband signed a $3.5 million, six-year contract with the Sixers.

The former debutante and cheerleader had a three-year marriage just out of high school. Her son Cheo from that marriage was two months old when she met Julius Erving in 1971. They married a year later.

After Erving joined the Sixers, the couple moved to a lavish home in Villanova. Turquoise - tall and striking with luminous brown eyes and a cafe au lait complexion - served as the wife of Philadelphia's premier sports ambassador. She told The Inquirer that she paid no mind to the women who tried to get her husband's attention.

"The money, the publicity, the girls never bothered me," she said in 1976. "He gets all the attention on the court, but I get all the attention off the court."

On Monday, Julius Erving declined to comment to the Orlando Sentinel about his impending divorce or his illegitimate son. His silence was a far cry from his public statement following the Alexandra Stevenson revelation in 1999.

Turquoise knew about Alexandra "all along," Erving said then. By getting it out in the open, he said, "I feel relieved."

[CrimsonTide4]

Mothers Of Aaliyah, Shakur, Lopes, Big Pun
& Others To Be Honored
January 17, 12 p.m. ET, Launch

The mothers of Tupac Shakur, Aaliyah, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and other artists who met with untimely deaths are being honored. A tribute to the special women will happen at the third annual B.I.G. Night Out, a gala in March that will mark the sixth anniversary of the death of rapper Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace).

The mothers of the late Big Pun, Freaky Tah, and Big L will also be saluted, with all the honorees receiving the B.I.G. Heart Award. Wallace's former wife, singer Faith Evans, will provide entertainment, and radio personalities Ed Lover and Dr. Dre will serve as the evening's hosts.

The event is sponsored by the Christopher Wallace Memorial Foundation, an organization established in the name and memory of the Notorious B.I.G. The nonprofit group was formed by his mom, Voletta Wallace , and provides books and technology resources for youth.

[Steeltrap]

The Dr. J news is disappointing. Why? I'm sorry, I loved Dr. J when I started watching basketball in the late 1970s, and reading about this is disconcerting.

First "Alexandra J" (sarcastic gloss for Alexandra Stevenson) and now this? Damn, I guess men are men all over, no matter the polish or gloss.

[Honeykiss1974]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
Mothers Of Aaliyah, Shakur, Lopes, Big Pun
& Others To Be Honored
January 17, 12 p.m. ET, Launch

The mothers of Tupac Shakur, Aaliyah, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and other artists who met with untimely deaths are being honored. A tribute to the special women will happen at the third annual B.I.G. Night Out, a gala in March that will mark the sixth anniversary of the death of rapper Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace).

The mothers of the late Big Pun, Freaky Tah, and Big L will also be saluted, with all the honorees receiving the B.I.G. Heart Award. Wallace's former wife, singer Faith Evans, will provide entertainment, and radio personalities Ed Lover and Dr. Dre will serve as the evening's hosts.

The event is sponsored by the Christopher Wallace Memorial Foundation, an organization established in the name and memory of the Notorious B.I.G. The nonprofit group was formed by his mom, Voletta Wallace , and provides books and technology resources for youth.

Who is Big L?

[Gina1201]

Originally posted by Honeykiss1974


Who is Big L?

Big L was a rapper from Harlem. He was shot in Harlem back in 1999.

Here's a story that was on mtv.com back in 1999:

Lamont Coleman, better known as rapper Big L, was shot and killed Monday night in the Harlem area of New York City.

The rapper was gunned down in front of his home on West 139th St. and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The 22-year-old rapper was part of the group Diggin' In The Crates which also includes Fat Joe, O.C., Diamond D, Lord Finesse, and Showbiz & AG. Big L was also known for underground hits like "Ebonics" and "Hit 'Em Up." DITC had recently finished recording sessions for its debut album, which will be released by Tommy Boy Records in May.

Tommy Boy said of the rapper's death, "Big L, a talented artist and a good friend to many, will be missed by the Tommy Boy staff."

Big L had released one album, 1995's "Lifestylez Ov Da Poor And Dangerous," which featured the debut of Cam'ron as Killer Cam (on a song called "Eight Iz Enuff"). The album also featured an appearance by Jay-Z on a track called "The Graveyard."

[CrimsonTide4]

R. Kelly live at Continental Arena
Photo: Walik Goshorn


EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey — R. Kelly sings to the heavens about needing a hug and on Thursday night he was embraced ().

The legally troubled crooner was showered with love by the thousands that flooded the Continental Arena for the Powerhouse, the first big concert put on by New York radio station 105.1.

At the top of the show when the evening's scheduled performers — including Nas, Ja Rule and Fat Joe — were announced, an eruption of cheers echoed throughout the arena, so it was no surprise when the sentiments carried over during the introduction of Kelly's first major arena performance since his arrest in June on child pornography charges (see "R. Kelly Arrested On 21 Counts Of Child Pornography").

Kelly — who returns to record stores on January 28 and to court on February 7 — didn't start onstage when the spotlights first hit him. He stood out in the crowd, silent for a few seconds while the people cheered. From the look on his face, the reaction almost drove the singer to tears.

"We thuggin', rollin' on dubs," he stiffly began to sing, waving his hands, trying to keep his composure. He then left the stands, and Fat Joe, who performed earlier in the night, returned to the stage to rap his Kelly-assisted hit, "We Thuggin'."

"I got four honeys in the drop," Kelly continued, now onstage with Joe. The two hugged at the end of the song and the fat gangsta left with a few words of encouragement: "Give it up for the R. That's my muthaf---in' n---a!"

Kelly then took a boom box and sat at the front of the stage with his legs dangling off. He thanked the crowd for their support and fought back tears. "I wanna try something different tonight," he said, collecting himself.



For the next several minutes, Kelly teased the crowd. He turned the dial on the radio until he arrived at a station playing one of his jams. The audience would hear and sing a few seconds of "Honey Love," "Sex Me," "Bump 'N Grind" and "Slow Dance" until Kelly stopped at "It Seems Like You're Ready" and actually sang a verse.

He briefly let the crowd sing "12 Play" and later a brief part of "Your Body's Calling." When the audience sang the chorus to "F---in' You Tonight," Kelly began to chuckle before once again turning the station.

More teasing would come as Kelly scrolled through his catalog on the boom box. When he arrived at "Feelin' on Yo Booty," people urged him to sing, but he playfully mouthed the words, "I can't do that," and made the cut motion with his finger going across his neck. He then pointed toward the backstage area with his thumb as if someone told him the song was taboo.

R. finally performed a whole song for his finale, the party-friendly remix to "Ignition." "Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce," he sang, now walking around with his mic and boom box. Before he left, Kelly used the radio one last time, playing snippets of tracks from his dead peers including Left Eye, Marvin Gaye and Big Pun. He quickly exited the stage while "Heaven I Need a Hug" played.

Kelly wasn't the only industry heavyweight who's had recent problems with the law to turn up for the show. Irv Gotti made his first appearance at a public event since the offices of Murder Inc. were raided a couple of weeks ago by the NYPD and federal agents (see "Drugs, Friends & Allegations: Inside The Murder Inc. Raid"). He did not address his problems as he accompanied Ja Rule and Ashanti onstage for their performances.

In fact, Gotti showed no signs of having any problems, yelling "I love my f---in' job," towards the end of the Inc.'s show, which capped off with "Mesmerize."

The night ended with surprise guest spots. Headliner Nas, who performed street bangers like "Ether," brought out Jadakiss and Ludacris for the remix of "Made You Look." AZ had joined his former partner in the Firm earlier.

Other surprises at Powerhouse were Erick Sermon bringing out his partner in EPMD, Parrish Smith, along with Redman, Method Man, Keith Murray and the long lost K-Solo. An old-school set was also featured. Along with Doug E. Fresh, who was on the bill, Greg Nice, Big Daddy Kane, and Dres from Black Sheep gave surprise performances.

Notable in her absence, though, was Eve, who had been scheduled to play the concert. No reason was given for her departure from the bill.

For more sights and stories from concerts around the country, check out MTV News Tour Reports.

—Shaheem Reid

[Afrochic]

I heard on the radio yesterday that R. Kelly is writing a children's book.

[Afrochic]

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by Afrochic
I heard on the radio yesterday that R. Kelly is writing a children's book.

LMAO, that sounds ALMOST as bad as this:

http://greekchat.com/gcforums/showth...highlight=CTFU

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by Afrochic

LMAO!

Bobby actually looks BETTER in this photo than he did on TV.


Now, Lou knows he's too dayum old to be hittin' on somebody! Hell, was she 80? It seems to me that she could have knocked the p*** out of that old azz man.

What's up with the Budweiser parade of stars? Has that happened yet? Will he be there?