January 2015 Blog Posts (133)

The last time Eddie Murphy made an appearance on "Saturday Night Live" was Dec. 15, 1984. Thirty-one years later, it appears Murphy will finally return to the show that helped make him a star. In an interview with Roland Martin for NewsOne Now, Murphy said he'd appear on the forthcoming 40th anniversary special for "SNL" that NBC will…

A Playboy model has spoken for the first time about her secret heartache, after discovering her father had killed himself after seeing she had become a nude model.

Loredana Chivu had always had a close relationship with her father, but said that changed when — as an 18-year-old — she stripped off for a…

Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight was arrested early Friday on a murder charge in a fatal hit-and-run.

Knight was arrested at about 3 a.m. and was being held on $2 million bail, said Sgt. Diane Hecht of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's information office. She said he is being held at the West Hollywood sheriff's station.

Knight had…

Hip-hop star Jay-Z is buying a Scandinavian music streaming company for $56 million to add to a business empire that has spanned clothing and sports bars.

Project Panther Bidco Ltd, a company controlled by the 45-year-old rapper, said on Friday it had agreed to buy Sweden-listed Aspiro, which runs the music streaming services WiMP and Tidal, for 464…

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Danielle McDowell  

Eric L. Colvin  

Gregory Brown  …

Jody Watley- 56 years old

Christian Bale (actor)- 41 years old

Dick Cheney – 74 years old

Gene Hackman- 85 years old

Kylie Bunbury (actress)- 26 years old…

Kyle Norman of R&B group “Jagged Edge” was arrested earlier today on aggravated assault charges after he beat up his fiancé and shoved an engagement ring down her throat.

According to CBS 46 news, police were called to a home about a fight between an engaged couple. When police arrived, Kyle’s…

A woman who worked as a live-in nanny for Mariah Carey's twins has filed a lawsuit, claiming she deserves thousands of dollars of overtime for taking care of the kids while off the clock.

Simonette Da Costa says she went…

After an intense legal battle, Ludacris has been granted primary custody of his one-year-old daughter Cai. He got the news Monday, but it's just becoming public now.

The legal saga started when the baby's mother, Tamika Fuller, demanded an increase in…

The other shoe has dropped in the battle between Lil Wayne and Cash Money. According to TMZ, Wayne has filed a lawsuit against the label asking for $51 million and for him to be let out of his contract with Birdman's label. And that's not all -- he's also asking to be the joint copyright owner of Drake and Nicki Minaj's catalog,…

A St. Louis City Hall meeting that was supposed to create some trust between the police and civilians ended abruptly when a brawl broke out.

The meeting was called to discuss a proposed bill that would create a civilian board to oversee police. It was…

Oprah Winfrey – 61 years old

Charlie Wilson – 62 years old

Tom Selleck – 70 years old…

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    Angela Shelton…

Funk legend Sly Stone was awarded $5 million on Tuesday in a breach-of-contract suit that claimed his business partners and his own company cheated him out of royalties.

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury ruled for the 71-year-old performer in his action against…

Anthony Hamilton – 44 years old

Rick Ross – 39 years old

Marvin Sapp- 48 year old…

    Akia Leonard

    Alan L. Lusby

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Tyrese Gibson thinks he'd make a good superhero.

The Transformers star has launched an intense campaign to get himself cast as Green Lantern in the upcoming Justice League movies. He posted more than a dozen images on Instagram depicting himself as the DC…

Less than 24 hours after releasing its new Super Bowl commercial, web hosting company GoDaddy has pulled the ad under pressure from animal rights activists,

The ad, titled "Journey Home," shows a golden retriever puppy falling off the back of a pickup…

Some law enforcement officials are unhappy that the app allows users to find out the location of officers and have asked Google, which owns Waze, to shut that functionality off.

One of the law enforcement officials speaking out is the Los Angeles Police…

Former Vanderbilt football players, Brandon Vandenburg and Cory Batey, have been found guilty on all charges.

Those charges are as follows:

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