The 13th Annual Bermuda Music Festival boasts a hawt lineup this year! The headliner is Alicia Keys who will share the stage with Beyoncé and her sister Solange. Playing second fiddle must feel strange to Bey, but we’re sure she will adjust quickly! The Music Festival is scheduled to kick off on October 1st and wind down on the 4th.
Rapper Bun B attended a private listening party for his new CD "II Trill" with his wife Queenie and grown kids at a Louis Vuitton store in Houstonyesterday. Notice the lack of fake jewelry around his neck? I learned yesterday from a celebrity that rappers have "copies" of their jewelry made forwhen they are slumming. That's why 90% of the sh*t looks fake. If I have to wear something fake I'd rather not wear it at all. Bun B's real name isBernard Freeman, by the way.
The child custody battle between Russell Simmons and Kimora Lee just got a little more interesting - at least to me.
According to That Bitch, Russell has threatened to reveal Kimora’s past lesbian sexcapades if she doesn’t play nice. But these idle threats have been made before. My regular readers know of at least two women Kimora allegedly “kept” in upscale Manhattan apartments while she was married. But are there more women? Does anyone care at this point?
Jacob Arabo also known as Jacob the Jeweler, was once the jeweler of choice for celebrities from Jay Z to Elton John.
Arabo, who designed Mariah Carey’s $2.5 million wedding rock, was banned from hosting a charity event on Wednesday for NYC’s Hale House. A spokesperson for the charity tells the New York Daily News, “Hale House completely disassociated itself from [Arabo].”
Arabo is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to money laundering and giving false statements to federal agents. He was accused of laundering $270 million dollars for the Black Mafia Family in June 2006.
The R Kelly child pornography jury consists of eight whites and four Blacks. Of the four alternates two are Black, one Hispanic and one is white. Kell's lawyers accused the prosecution of trying to get rid of African Americans from the jury during the voir dire [look it up]. "I think they're using these (challenges) to get rid of African Americans," said Sam Adam Sr., one of Kelly's attorneys. A little later, he complained that "they've used 50 percent of their challenges on African Americans." Prosecutor Shauna Boliker shot back, telling the judge that the defense had "used all six of their preemptories (preemptory challenges) on whites." So there. Interesting note, one of the jurors is a rape victim.
