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Entertainment Nicki Minaj’s Blue Ivy Carter May Be
Frank Ocean’s Dad Suing Him For $14.5M
Brother Set For Trial After Rejecting Plea Deal
Nicki Minaj and her brother, Jelani Maraj at her brother’s wedding in 2015. Maraj’s wife has since di- vorced him.
Nicki Minaj’s brother re- jected a plea deal in a case where he is facing rape charges and will now go to trial, Bossip reports.
Jelani Maraj was offered a deal of 15 years to life as he was indicted for child rape back in April. He is being ac- cused of raping a 12-year-old victim multiple times in 2015. He will now stand trial in Nas- sau County where a jury will decide if he is guilty or inno- cent of the charges. The trial might feature the alleged vic- tim testifying against Maraj.
Pre-trial hearings are to begin within the next few weeks.
“He is choosing to go to trial because he is not guilty of these allegations and has faith in our system of justice,” Maraj’s lawyer, David Schwartz said.
As the legal process has con- tinued, it was falsely reported that Minaj paid for her brother’s bond when in fact it was their mother who put up her house and two $50,000 promissory notes to get her son out of jail. Maraj’s wife filed for divorce amidst the case’s proceedings.
Maraj could face life in prison if found guilty.
Launching Her Own Fragrance And Hair Care Line
Frank Ocean’s “dead- beat” dad is looking for a come up from his son.
Calvin Cooksey is suing his music star son for defamation, claiming Ocean threw dirt on his name after alleging that he used a homo- phobic slur decades ago.
Cooksey is referring to a post on Ocean’s Tumblr page from last year following the Orlando nightclub shoot- ing where he shared an expe- rience he had with his dad as a child.
Cooksey, a struggling actor and musician, claims Ocean’s public statement is false, adding that it also blocked opportunities to pur- sue film and music jobs. Ac- cording to reports, he wants $14.5 million in damages.
Frank Ocean claims his son defamed him.
sued Russell Simmons for $142 million for calling him a deadbeat dad.
Ocean has no relationship with his father, who he says walked out on him when he was 6-years-old.
Not only is Blue Ivy Carter Grammy Award- nominated for lending her vo- cals on her mother’s self-titled album Beyoncé at the very young age of 3, now she’s on her way to becoming a mogul with the launch of her own fragrance and hair care line at 5 years old.
Beyoncé’s company has registered the legal docs to trademark baby Blue’s name to make it happen already. Clothing, mobile devices and video games among other products are all in the domain of possibilities for her to cre- ate. The application is on the road to being approved very soon, according to TMZ.
It may be a while before we
BLUE IVY CARTER
get to experience what Blue comes up with for the masses, but she’s already shown inter- est in beauty products and fashion. The budding mogul already knows to let every- body aware of who she’s wearing.
How Rumors Get Started: T. I. Photographed With Woman During Super Bowl Events
Back in 2014, Cooksey R&B Diva’ Lil Mo
Fired As Radio Host
Lil Mo and castmate Chrisette Michele has been fired from radio show.
T.I and Kristen Ingram
8th ‘Fast & Furious’ Movie To Hit Theaters April 14
The cast of ‘Fast & Furious 8’
While enjoying festivities for tonight’s big game, T.I. turned heads in Houston when he walked a red carpet with a new woman.
The King of the South was seen at the NFL Media party with a beautiful woman by his
side... The woman is actually Kris-
ten Ingram and she’s the head of affiliate marketing for the NFL.
Furthermore, she’s NOT dating T.I., at least not ac- cording to T.I.’s publicist.
R&B singer turned radio personality, Lil Mo was fired from Radio One D.C., as a member of “The FAM” in the morning.
Lil Mo’s exit from the morning show comes two weeks after she backed her friend, and ‘R&B Diva’ cast- mate, Chrisette Michele’s performance during Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Contrary to those incidents,
a source told the Jasmine Brand, “She was fired over un-professionalism and it has nothing to do with her com- ments she made about Spike Lee, over Chrisette [Michele].”
The source adds: “She’s super talented and gave lots of energy on-air, but there was another side that was alarming to the station.
‘Greenleaf’ Headed To Netflix
Greenleaf was #1 series on OWN.
The Fate Of The Furious is the eighth Fast & Furious movie and just unveiled a souped-up Super Bowl promo ad that will certainly target the franchise’s key audience.
The pic opens April 14.
Through seven titles, the Fast & Furious franchise has racked up $3.9 billion in global box office. The previous in- stallment, Furious 7, was the first in the series to cross the billion mark with $1.5B world-
wide and also posted the fifth highest global opening with $397.7M.
The movie returns Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Nathalie Emmanuel, Elsa Pataky and Kurt Russell from Furious 7.
F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton) has taken over the wheel to direct.
Oprah’s/OWN’s hit show “Greenleaf” will be headed to Netflix.
The deal from Lionsgate, which produces the series and has streaming rights will air season one of “Greenleaf” on March 3.
“Greenleaf’s” second season will debut on OWN on March
15, 2017. Production is cur- rently underway in Atlanta.
Greenleaf premiered last June as the #1 series debut in OWN history and was 2016’s #1 new cable series for women, averaging over three million viewers in Live+3 in its first season. (Source: The Nielsen Company)
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