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Thursday, July 23, 2009
“Milkshake” singer brings baby to the world, gets $44,000 a month support settlement
It has been a very good two days for hip hop singer Kelis.
She welcomed a baby into the world on Wednesday, July 22, and today, was awarded a $44,000 a month in support payments.
A judge ordered her estranged husband, the rapper/ actor Nas, to pay the loot for the near future, the Associated Press reports.
Best known for the hit single “Milkshake,” Kelis, 29, filed for divorce from the rapper in April.
The pair have been fighting for months over support. Kelis contended that Nas barely contributed anything to the costs of her pregnancy.
Nas’ camp tried to play it cheap in court.
His attorney asked the judge if the rapper could pay Kelis $20,000 until an appropriate spousal and child support amount could be set.
On the baby front, Kelis, who was in labor three days, is doing well, her spokeswoman told the Associated Press.
She tweeted about the birth of baby Knight, her first child, earlier today.
“Ok so I did it, he’s 7.8 pounds of the greatest stuff on earth,” she posted on Twitter, a social network.
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Amy Winehouse in court for punching fan
Amy Winehouse has gotten rid her Blake, but not her troubles.
The beehive-wearing British singer appeared in a London court today, Thursday, July 23, to answer charges that she punched a fan in September.
Winehouse told the court she was too short to punch her accuser, Dancer Sherene Flash, in the face, the Associated Press reports.
Maybe, but we all know that short gals can punch tall - tiny but deadly.
The alleged punch happened after the dancer asked to take Winehouse’s photo at a September charity ball.
That was apparently too much for the soul singer to handle. She freaked.
“I pushed her up, like away. I wanted her away from me,” the 25-year-old “Back to Black” singer said. “It was more like an indication of ‘leave me alone, I’m scared of you.’”
Winehouse was granted a divorce from her crazy husband Blake Fielder-Civil a week ago.
This isn’t the only time Winehouse has been accused of throwing punches. See video of her apparently punching a fan during her set at Glastonbury 08.
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Is Jon Gosselin robbing the cradle?
From Laura Houser, Staff Writer
Maybe neither Jon nor Kate deserve our sympathy.
Both have ‘issues’ and both seem to be trying to milk this thing.
Last week, Jon, 32, announced he was teaming up with Ed Hardy designer Christian Audigier to design a children clothing line … and will be using his own children as models.
Putting aside Jon’s questionable fashion tastes, or the clothing’s potential as a platform for revenge (“Mommy is a Heartless Shrew” onesies, anyone?), the move cements Jon’s scummy role in all this mess.
But is he worse than Kate?
I mean, Kate is pretty despised right now.
Christian book publisher Zondervan has put the brakes on her cookbook “Love Is in the Mix: Making Meals into Memories.”
The Los Angeles Time suggests that maybe, just maybe there ‘isn’t quite as ravenous an appetite now for ‘an inside look at one of America’s most close-knit families’.”
Both Jon and Kate have gotten a good share of criticism from the “Jon & Kate Plus Eight” nation.
Some say Jon Gosselin is an adulterer and robbing the cradle with Hailey Glassman, his ‘new’ 22-year-old girlfriend (see poll below).
Others diss Kate for her nasty verbal abuse of Jon.
So, who is exploiting their ill-begotten fame more, and how long do you think the attention will last?
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Obama says Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting black scholar
Call him crazy, but President Barack Obama thinks it is wrong to have arrested someone for disorderly conduct after accusing them of breaking into their own house.
Obama responded Wednesday, July 22, to the Cambridge, Mass. police’s arrest last week of Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
“Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof he was in own home,” Obama said during a prime-time news conference that otherwise focused on the health care debate.
Read Associated Press story here.
Gates’ arrest followed a report of a possible burglary. A woman apparently saw Gates force the front door and called police. Police came and demanded that Gates show identification.
Gates was arrested shortly afterward for alleged disorderly conduct, a charge that was dropped Tuesday.
Obama acknowledged that he and Gates are friends and that he doesn’t know every detail of the case.
He said police acted correctly in confronting Gates - the professor apparently forgot his keys and was jimmying his door. But the president, who joked that even he’d get shot if caught trying to force his way into the White House, said the arrest seemed an example of a larger racial problem.
“There is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionally,” he said during the conference. “That’s just a fact.”
The police have apologized, calling the whole thing “regrettable and unfortunate.”
In a column written by his daughter, Gates, one of the nation’s most well-known African American scholars, calls the account of his arrest in the police report ‘pure fabrication.’
In the report, Gates, a PBS regular, is described as “loud and tumultuous,” according to the posting “My Daddy, the Jailbird” on The Daily Beast by Elizabeth Gates.
Gates said there are both good and bad police officers.
” We depend on the police—I’m glad that this lady called 911. I hope right now if someone is breaking into my house she’s calling 911 and the police will come! I just don’t want to be arrested for being black at home! I think this was a bit of an extreme reaction,” he said in the posting.
What do you think?
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