Kobe Bryant may be losing his wife to a former Los Angeles gang banger-that’s the word from a snitching source who knows the NBA trophy wife.
The snitch has a brother who briefly dated Vanessa Bryant, a former hip-hop music video model, as a teenager. Since his release from prison, he and V.B have reportedly been spending time together-and according to the tattle, Vannie’s ex is interested in more than just walking down memory lane:
“I know how my brother feels about Vanessa – that’s his heart … and it looks like she might feel the same way about him.”
“My brother was in [prison] for 5 years … but he’s out now and he’s catching up with all his old friends – including Vanessa.” Snitching sis says that V and her recently sprung bro have been out at least five times since his release from the Big House two months ago. Given some of V’s ex’s friends, Kobe had better keep his mouth shut:
“I’m not saying that he’s in [the Mexican Mafia], but when you’re Mexican and grow up in L.A. like us – you have all kinds of homies.”
Grammy Award nominee leader Mary J. Blige scoffs at recent reports that her marriage is living on shaky ground.
Dubbed the Queen of R&B/Soul, Mary J. addresses the divorce rumors in this week’s edition of Jet Magazine:
“I read the page that was on my husband’s pager: ‘News Flash: Mary J. Blige and Her Husband Are Getting a Divorce,’” she tells Jet. “I was like, but here we are in Mexico, lying around in the sun having a good time. I said, ‘This is crazy.’”
Sources for the New York Daily News broke last week that M.J.B and her husband Kendu had a nasty spat at a Golden Globe Afterparty:
“It isn’t a happy household there right now,” says the source. The snitch even goes on to claim that the pair had privately agreed to separate, a fact which they’re heading until after awards season. So what say Mary?
“That’s people that come around… You hire them and then you fire them, and then they’re disgruntled and then they start rumors over maybe something, like, they probably seen us having a quick argument or something like that.”
Mary is up for eight Grammy’s at next month’s ceremonies.
The Golden Raspberry Awards, popularly known as the Razzies, serves as a parody of the star-studded Academy Awards. Razzie nominees were announced on Monday and the most commercial unsuccessful film of 2006 starring Sharon Stone topped the list.
“Basic Instinct II” earned seven Razzie nomination, including Worst Picture and Worst Actress. But Shar-Shar will have a bit of competition from the brother-brother duo known as the Wayans Brothers. Shawn and Marlon Wayans’ “Little Man” also garnered seven nods-and both bros landed themselves a spot in the Worst Actors category. The statues will be handed out the night before the Oscars. Read the rest of this entry »
A couple of Seattle’s most popular American Idol rejects are enjoying the glamorous life in Hollywood since one of them was dubbed an NSYNC singing “bush baby” by A.I’s resident Gloomy Gus Simon Cowell.
“We can’t get enough of doing this and I can’t get enough of Hollywood,” Kenneth Swale, also known as Kenneth Briggs, otherwise known as Bush Baby, told Access Hollywood.
“We love Hollywood. It’s a blast,” adds his A.I buddy Jonathan Jayne. The two have spent the week since their on-air humiliation jet-setting between Jimmy Kimmel Live and the Today Show.
The pair even had a few experiences with some of Hollywood’s “friendliest” celebs: “Me and him both got invited by uh, Jessica Simpson, Christina Aguilera, and Nicky Hilton to go to a Hollywood party, and my mom’s like I’d love to let you go but we have to be up by 4:30 in the morning, get on flight to NY because you’re doing the today show,” K.S adds.
“I’d like him to apologize to me and my friend, I mean, he degraded a person so low to where they felt worse than dirt,” Ken complained to Today’s Meredith Viera during Monday morning’s episode.
The Associated Press is reporting that Cash Money rapper Lil Wayne (Dwayne Carter) was sued in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court last Friday by Nunoise Entertainment and Jahfari Promotions for failing to appear for a Tampa nightclub performance scheduled for October 29th, 2006.
The plantiffs claim that according to their September 18th contract with Weezy, the rapper was required to appear at another area nightclub if he failed to appear at the contracted site.
Mr. Carter did return a $15,000 deposit, but the promoters claim “The Fireman” still owes them a $45,000 cancellation fee plus $200,000 in lost profits.
Marlowe Blake is representing one of the plantiffs: “He did miss a date, he admitted he missed a date, and he was supposed to make it up. It’s a simple breach of contract type of matter.”
No word from Wayne’s camp.