Foxy Brown was sentenced to 3 years of probation this morning. The charge - the 27-year-old attacked her nail stylist over a dispute about how much she was charged for a manicure. Foxy was in danger of being sent directly to jail for not appearing in court as scheduled yesterday - she made sure she showed today to collect her sentence.
Busta Rhymes was in court today to face assault and possession of a weapon charges stemming from an incident in August where Busta spit on a man’s car. Judge Shawndra Simpson postponed Rhyme’s case until December 11th, but denied the Manhattan DA’s office request to add a weapon possession charge. A machete was found in the back seat of Busta’s SUV.
Source Magazine co-founder, David Mays has been ordered by a Manhattan Federal jury to pay $14.5 Million to a former editor, Kimberly Osorio for encouraging a workplace where executives watched porn, smoked weed and called their employees “slut monkeys” and “ugly butch pigs”.
It didn’t help the Source’s case when jurors were played a tape from Hot 97 where co-founder Raymond (Benzino) Scott went on the air to announce that the recently fired Osorio was bed-hopping with hip-hop honchos.
Kimberly Osorio was promoted to Editor in Chief (the first female to hold the position in The Source) in November of 2003 with a $130,000 salary. She was fired 2 years later with no explanation.
Snoop Dogg was detained at the John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California for attempting to carry a 22″ retractable baton in a laptop bag (yeah - that was a give away, Snoop - who the hell is gonna believe that you use a computer?!?) on to a flight. The baton was confiscated and Snoop (Calvin Broadus) was questioned and released. Charges may be filed against him as early as tomorrow.
Don’t sweat it, Snoop - once, we were detained at an airport for attempting to carry this aboard:
The US Government has found Wesley Snipes - but there is little they can do to arrest him. Wesley is hiding out in Namibia (yes, the African location Brad and Angelina hid from the press) - according to his agent, he’s filming a movie called “Gallowwalker” and has no plans of leaving the set to turn himself in. We bet that he’s flubbing all of his lines to force reshoot after reshoot - he needs this production to go on for at least the next 7 years.
Snipes has been indicted on eight counts of tax fraud - amounting to over $12 million dollars - he is facing 16 years in prison if convicted.
