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‘Martin’ Star Tommy Ford
Judge Says Tweets Not Enough To Support Ciara’s Libel Suit Against Future
Ciara sued her baby-daddy Future for $15M to stop him from dissing her on social media.
In the $15 million dollar case between Future and Ciara, a judge ruled Wednesday (Octo- ber 12) that Future’s angry tweets about her aren’t enough to claim he damaged her ca- reer. One of the infamous tweets that Ciara claimed were libelous said, “This bi... got con- trol problems...”
Ciara, who is now married to Seattle Seahawks quarter- back Russell Wilson, also claimed that she lost out on a $500k endorsement deal with an international cosmetics company over the Purple Reign rapper’s tweets earlier this year. Future however, is certain that the endorsement deal never ex- isted and now Ciara will have to present additional evidence for her case to prove libel.
After Future went on his Twitter rant about his famous baby mama allegedly keeping two-year old baby Future away from him, CiCi filed her $15 million dollar case against him to shut him up about her and their relationship to the press.
He responded by filing a countersuit, which he later dropped because he didn’t want to give Ciara a reason to not let him see their child.
Oprah Winfrey Being Sued Over ‘Iyanla Fix My Life’ Concept
Oprah Winfrey and Iyanla Vanzant
Dies Shortly After
Having Knee Replacement
The world lost a figure from one of its most beloved televi- sion shows, Martin, as actor Tommy Ford died Wednes- day (October 12) at the age of 52, after being hospitalized on Sunday, October 9.
The actor, who played Mar- tin Lawrence’s best friend on Martin for five seasons, suf- fered a ruptured aneurysm in his abdomen, according to re- ports. He was placed on life support and his family decided to let him pass naturally.
Ford passed away sur- rounded by family and friends in an Atlanta hospital, publicist Jay Mathis confirmed on Twitter.
Oprah Winfrey is facing a lawsuit over “Iyanla: Fix My
frey had access to her ideas be- cause in 2011 she claimed copy- right infringement on another OWN show, “In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman.” But in a letter attached to the law- suit filed this week, OWN said that Strickland’s proposed show, “Conflict Solutions,” fea- tured a completely different concept based on a judge re- solving disputes, rather than a sex therapist helping couples.
“Iyanla,” which premiered in 2012, returned in September for its sixth season, drawing 670,000 total viewers accord- ing to Nielsen, slipping 7 per- cent compared to the Season 5 premiere.
Michael Jackson Outearned Every Living Celebrity In 2016
featuring life coach Iyanla Vanzant is a “carbon copy” of her own work, a proposed show called “The Agency,” and is seeking unspecified dam- ages.“The two television shows are virtually identical,” Otisa C. Strickland wrote in papers filed Tuesday in the U. S. Dis- trict Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. “Both shows involve a counselor that travels all over the United States to people homes [sic] to counsel them about their prob- lems.”
Nominees For Music Awards
Drake and Beyonce top the Soul Train nominations with 13 and 8 respectively.
The character on ‘Martin’ everyone loved, ‘Tommy’ played by Tommy Ford.
Ford had knee replacement on September 28th.
Life.
claiming that the OWN show
A Mississippi woman is
Long known as the King of Pop, Michael Jackson can now lay claim to another hon- orific: the Ka-Ching of Pop.
Forbes has released its an- nual list of top-earning dead celebrities, and Jackson sits at the top by a country mile — in fact, Jacko’s haul sets a record for any annual take for any celebrity, dead or alive, ac- cording to Forbes.
Jackson, who died in 2009, earned an astonishing $825 million. Most of that is attrib- utable to the sale of his Sony/ATV music-publishing catalog, which fetched $750
Strickland is representing herself.
Strickland says that Win-
Drake And Beyonce Are Top
The Game Releases New Album ‘1992’ On Friday
The late Michael Jackson died in 2009.
million in March.
The Game released his 1992 album October 14. The Comp- ton MC has no features on the project’s main 12 tracks, a rar- ity for the rapper who has said he loves paying tribute to the current landscape and that’s why his albums are usually chock full of guest appear- ances.
The “92 Bars” Meek Mill diss track closes out the LP. The Philly rapper blasted The Game for the song, saying he was just dissing him for public- ity to sell more copies of the album.
1992 follows The Game’s
Shortly after the announce- ment that Drake snagged a record 13 American Music Awards nominations, he fol- lows that up with 12 nods for the Soul Train Awards, the most of any artist.
The categories the Toronto megastar is nominated for in- clude Song of the Year, Album of the Year and Music Video of the Year. His most recent LP, VIEWS, has sat at or near the top of the Billboard 200 chart for a double-digit number of weeks and passed 1 billion streams last month. It has been certified triple platinum since its April release.
Beyonce follows Drizzy with 8 Soul Train nods. Her LEMONADE visual album was also nominated for four Emmy Awards.
Erykah Badu is set to re- turn as the host of the Soul Train Awards, which is set to air November 27 on BET.
Drake’s Whiskey Is Tops In Sales In Hometown
Drake’s own brand of
liquor, Virginia Black Decadent American Whiskey, has come out on top of the single-day launch sales at the Liquor Con- trol Board of Ontario (LCBO), the corporation responsible for retailing and distributing alco- holic beverages in Drake’s home province.
The whiskey, which launched September 30, sold 1,779 bottles at $39.95 (about USD$30) on the first day of sales. According to The Toronto Star, 4,650 bottles have been sold since the prod- uct’s official launch.
The Game and the cover of album ‘1992’.
run last year that included The Documentary 2 and The Docu- mentary 2.5.
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