Nick Cannon lent a helping hand at the Feeding America day of service yesterday at Hudson Park's Pier 40: The actor/deejay (and hubby of Mariah Carey) helped pack a whopping 40,000 pounds of apples into bags that will be distributed to the needy.
The rapper - who spent seven months behind bars on weapons charges - partied with a hefty entourage at 1Oak.
"He got behind the deejay booth with DJ Sal Morale and yelled, 'I'm king, and I'm back!'" says a club spy. "The deejay then played T.I.'s song 'I'm Back,' and the crowd went wild."
The Fulton County prosecutor’s office in Atlanta dropped charges of voluntary manslaughter against the alleged killer of Kandi Burruss’ ex fiancé, A.J. Jewell.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office ruled that Jewell died as a result of a sickle cell crises and not the injuries sustained in a fight with Frederick Richardson, the manager of the strip club Body Tap in Atlanta.
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said the decision to prosecute or drop the charges was delayed because Jewell’s family disputed the original autopsy findings.
“Following the initial announcement from the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office that Mr. Jewell’s death resulted from a sickle cell crisis, the family of the deceased expressed grave concern regarding the accuracy of the autopsy findings,” DA spokesperson Yvette Brown read in a statement. ““For that reason, our office enlisted the service of two additional medical experts who specialize in the area of sickle cell diagnosis and treatment.” Brown’s statement said the other medical experts concurred with the initial autopsy findings that Ashley Jewell died as a result of a sickle cell crisis.”
Jewell’s family remains irate at Burruss, whom they blame for prejudicing the case to prosecute Richardson when she went on the “Housewives”‘ reunion show and hinted that Jewell passed away from complications from sickle cell anemia.
"We get married every year! That's our thing," Cannon explained at Monday's PepsiCo Feed America Volunteer Day event in NYC.
"So it's going to be our third wedding this year. That's what we'll be doing on the actual [anniversary]...We'll do something...A party or event, just to celebrate."
The Grammy-winning singer is definitely getting more bling from her spouse. Cannon confirmed to Us that he'll be getting his wife another diamond ring for the occasion. "That’s totally right," he said. "This is the third ring I have to buy...It’ll be something different. Something good."
GV Says: This is slightly excessive....they need something to do.
Jay-Z has a case of jacking on his hands. But this time it involves the 40/40 club. Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz got the bright idea to open his own club in the Dominican Republic with the same name. But it's written as The Fourty Fourty club.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Manhattan federal court, accuses Ortiz of naming his Santo Domingo club Forty-Forty in the hopes of trading in on the rap star's fame. The suit seeks over $5 million in damages and for Ortiz to forfeit any use of the 40/40 name. Jay-Z's string of bars can be found in Manhattan, Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
And if you thought David just didn't know about Jay's 40/40 for some reason, he knows it very well. Even partied there on several occasions:
"David Ortiz is fully aware of Plaintiff's Manhattan 40/40 club, since he had been a patron there on several occasions before he opened his Infringing Forty/Forty club," the lawsuit states.
Kim Kardashian scored with soccer stud Cristiano Ronaldo last week.
The newly single reality star and the Real Madrid player shared a romantic lunch - and a smooch - in Spain on Monday, Usmagazine.com reports.
Kardashian, 29, and Ronaldo, 25, were "very affectionate" at Madrid's La Dorado restaurant and though paparazzi photographs show the duo leaving the restaurant separately, Kardashian reportedly then drove to Ronaldo's mansion.
Kim and New Orleans Saints star Reggie Bush ended their three-year relationship last month.
The "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star is currently appearing in the May issue of Harper's Bazaar, the reality star bares all to flaunt her famous physique in a pictorial that is not airbrushed.
Days after Shaquille O'Neal warned his ex-wife not to mention him on her VH1 show, she is slamming the basketball star anyway.
In a document obtained by TMZ, Shaunie O'Neal claims her ex-husband told their six-year-old son to deliver death threats to her new boyfriend.
Shaunie's lawyers sent a letter to Shaq's legal team claiming the NBA legend told his son Shaqir to tell mom's boyfriend that dad was going to kill him.
"Say it now! My daddy is going to kill you!," he told the scared child, according to the letter.
The documents also claim that the basketball star "interrogated" the couple's children about mom's new man.
Shaunie's legal team is demanding that her ex-husband no longer undertake "inappropriate discussions" with their brood.
On Wednesday, Shaq's lawyers sent a latter to VH1 demanding that the network no longer air "Basketball Wives" episodes that make reference to him.
His ex-wife, who is an executive producer on the show, reportedly signed a confidentially agreement barring her from discussing their relationship on the show.
The O'Neals were married in December 2002 and have four children together.
In September 2007, Shaq filed for divorce, but the duo later reconcile. Two years later, in November 2009, Shaunie filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences.
GV Says: Foolishness!!
Two women rumored to be linked romantically with Wyclef Jean are fighting back.
The hip-hop star's former manager, Lisa Ellis, has told the FBI and the Department of Justice that she believes someone at Sony Music illegally disseminated a nude photo of her.
We told you last month that the photo in question caused Wyclef some trouble at home when his wife, Marie Claudinette, found it on his cell phone. According to sources, Claudinette flew into a jealous rage and demanded that her husband fire Ellis.
Ellis insisted her relationship with the former Fugees singer has always been strictly professional. She also maintained that she resigned - because, according to a friend, Wyclef "wasn't listening to her advice."
Ellis looks great in the black-and-white portrait, taken by photographer Mark Baptiste for an art book he's planning, but she's furious that someone e-mailed it around the music industry.
"It's a cybercrime," she tells us. "It's a felony. It's a stolen copyrighted [image]."
Ellis suspects that the shot was leaked by a person or persons at Sony Music, where she used to be an executive vice president.
"I don't have the photo myself," she says. "Mark did not send the photo out. I am being attacked for no reason."
A Sony Music rep declined to comment.
Ellis is also shooting down a rumor that, back when they were talking, Wyclef gave her a horse.
"I got my horses on my own," says the life-long equestrian. "This fantasy drama is [bleeping] b—s—."
Meanwhile, Zakiya Khatou-Chevassus, the vice president of Clef's Yele Haiti Foundation, is knocking down allegations that the charity paid her a disproportionate salary because she was his "mistress."
A tax declaration obtained by TheSmokingGun.com reported that Khatou-Chevassus received $105,000 in 2008. Gawker.com quoted a source who said Khatou-Chevassus' pay was three times more than that of program director Suzie Sylvain, who was "actually keeping the organization running."
According to Gawker, five sources claimed Clef was "involved romantically" with Khatou-Chevassus.
Brushing off the report, the Grammy winner tweeted: "Donkeys spread rumors about me I dont Respond cause I'm the master that leads them to the Well to drink the Water."
A Yele Haiti spokesperson declined to discuss whether or not Wyclef and Zakiya indeed had a thing, but insisted that her salary was justified, especially since Sylvain reported to her.
"We need to stop talking about Zakiya other than to praise her managerial skills," said the rep for the charity, which reports raising $9,139,324 for relief activities since Haiti's January earthquake. "She is immensely proud of her professional collaboration with Wyclef Jean, and with members of his family, including his wife, Claudinette. Let's get back to work."
“Having kids man, don’t wear white. Have you ever had an explosion?” the singer asked George Lopez on Lopez Tonight Thursday. “Changing the diaper, obviously when they gotta go they gotta go.”
Usher has two sons - Usher ‘Cinco’ Raymond V, 2 ½, and Naviyd Ely, 15 months.
“I just decided, if anybody is going to [poop] on me it would be my kids,” he says. “That is real love, man. It’s like, ‘How do you produce this much doodoo?’”
But fatherhood is much more than dirty diapers and juice stains, Usher, 31, points out. “One of the most incredible experiences in life is to be able to put all of your energy and effort into making sure that you raise an incredible young man."
“I have two young boys that I love very much and I just want them to be the most incredible young men that they can be.”
