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Bobbi Kristina’s Funeral Services Thursday; Will Be Laid To Rest Next To Mom With Tyler Perry’s Help
Prince To Release New Album This Year
Empire’s Terrance Howard And Yazz Come To Blows On Set
Following his most recent release "HARDROCKLOVER,” Prince’s band, 3rd Eye Girl reveal the legend will drop a new album titled The Hit & Run Album, due out later this year.
It’s titled from his latest sur- prise concert tour throughout the U.S., which he and his band spontaneously per- formed in different cities across the country.
Breaking the news on BBC 6 Music, 3rd Eye Girl mem- bers Donna Grantis, Ida Nielsen and Hannah Ford Welton said, “Super hardcore Prince fans that know every song he’s ever recorded – we refer to them as ‘The Purple Collective’ or ‘The Purple Army’ – this album is ab- solutely for them, because it’s super funky.”
Prince has been doing sur- prise performances through- out the country. Here he is in NYC.
The new album will also fea- ture a previously unreleased version of the song called “1,000 Hugs and Kisses”, an unreleased recording from Prince’s Diamonds and Pearls era, and a new version of “This Could Be Us” from Art Official Age.
Bobbi Kristina died at age 22, on Sunday. Tyler Perry will use private jet to fly her body to New Jersey.
Terrance Howard plays Yazz’s dad on ‘Empire’.
According to Bossip,"Empire” stars Terrence Howard and Bryshere Gray aka Yazz re- portedly came to blows on set recently when Gray lost his cool during a scene and attacked Howard. Gray, who goes by the nickname Yazz, is appar- ently bipolar and many on set believe this triggered his out- burst.
“Yazz (Gray) did a scene with Terrence Howard where he was supposed to hit him with a plastic bottle, but he hit him with a real bottle... and cut him for real!” the source tells BOSSIP. “Terrence hauled off and punched him in the face.
The source went on to discuss Gray’s bipolar disorder, saying, “Yazz is bipolar, but he won’t take his meds. “Terrence felt he did it on purpose, but every- body else is blaming it on the bipolar disorder.”
Tyler Perry is going the extra mile in the wake of Bobbi Kristina Brown’s death as he works to make sure things are well with the families of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown.
A source revealed to Enter- tainment Tonight” that the en- tertainment mogul is, “intent on keeping the peace” between the family, in light of their is- sues date going back to Brown and Houston’s volatile rela- tionship.
Sources say that Perry of- fered to “take care of every- thing” related to Bobbi Kristina’s funeral. The actor-
director reportedly will allow the Brown/Houston families to use his private jet to trans- port Bobbi Kristina’s body from Atlanta, where the funeral service will take place on Thursday (July 30) to New Jer- sey where she will be buried alongside Houston.
Perry’s presence has been noted as he visited Bobbi Kristina and the family at the Hospice Care Center, where she died on Sunday (July 26). In addition, he was found at the home of Bobbi Kristina’s aunt, Pat Houston Monday morning (July 27) where the family was planning Bobbi Kristina’s funeral services.
Kelly Price And Husband Are Getting A Divorce
Medical Examiner Says There Was No Foul Play In Bobbi Kristina’s Death
Following the near-drown- ing incident on Jan 31, Bobbi Kristina’s boyfriend, Nick Gordon, was under criminal investigation as a person of in- terest in the case for foul play. However, following her death on July 26 and an autopsy, a medical examiner reports there are no obvious signs of foul play.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner states there were “no obvious underlying cause of death and “no significant in- juries were noted.”
However, the medical exam- iner’s office plans on acquiring medical records from previous hospitals BK had been admit- ted to factor in drug testing in- formation to determine if those results should be used in this investigation. Gordon has ad- mitted he and BK were doing drug activity prior to the inci- dent. An official cause of death will be announced only after the medical records are re- viewed.
It was reported that BK has bruises on her face at the time of her initial admittance to the hospital, but those injuries could have been sustained from CPR and/or a recent auto acci- dent she was involved in just days prior.
In related news, her father, R&B singer Bobby Brown has spoken about the tragic loss of he daughter. In a state-
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ment, Brown states, “Krissy was and is an angel. I am com- pletely numb at this time. My family must find a way to live with her in spirit and honor her memory. Our loss is unimagin- able."
Nick Gordon’s mother, Michele Gordon, has also spoken out about their loss via a statement to the LA Times. “The passing of Bobbi Kristina is devastating to Nick and our family. Nick loved and cared for Krissi deeply, and he has suffered greatly each and every day they’ve been apart. Nick and our family are in mourning, and we ask that you respect our privacy. Our thoughts and prayers are with both the Houstons and the Browns during this difficult time.”
Kelly Price and her hus- band Jeffrey Rolle’s have been married since they were 19.
Kelly Price and her husband, Jeffrey Rolle, Sr. are getting a divorce.
The R&B singer is divorcing him after 23 years, and he is no longer serving as her manager. The two met as teens and have been married since they were 19. They have two children to- gether—a son, Jeffrey Rolle Jr., 23, and daughter, Jonia Rolle, 21. According to the web- site, the divorce is amicable. Price said her decision was in pursuit of “mutual happiness” and that they had simply grown apart.
“After the untimely death of my sister last year, it weighed on me heavily that this was some- thing we needed to do. I ulti- mately made the decision to live the best life I can.’’
Price and her husband were featured on the first season of R&B Divas, L.A. However, the R&B singer did not return after Season 1 due to a major rift with castmates.
According to reports, Price plans to sing about the split in a way that speaks to other women on her upcoming album, “Sing, Pray, Love Vol. 2: Pray,” due next year via eOne Nashville.
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