All Blog Posts Tagged 'MILLION' (236)

One wealthy Wu-Tang Clan fan will have the chance to own a very rare item from the legendary New York super group. According to Forbes, the crew recorded a “secret” double-album titled The Wu: Once Upon A Time In Shaolin that will be sold to a single buyer for an asking price starting at $1 million. The covert LP, which has been recorded over the last four years,…

A rare pink diamond once owned by Indian royalty has sold for $39.3 million at auction in New York City.

The price for the 34.65-carat diamond that sold at Christie's on Tuesday was the second-highest ever for a jewel sold at auction.

The seller and buyer were anonymous.

The gem nicknamed the Princie Diamond was discovered 300 years ago in the Golconda…

Rick Ross is crestfallen over losing his Reebok deal because of that date rape song ... but he's also bitter because he believes the shoe company owed him a second chance.

Sources close to the rapper tell TMZ ... Ross will lose between $3.5 million and $5 million ... he was getting a check each time he wore the shoes.

Reebok dumped Ross for releasing the song…

Dionne Warwick is broke as hell ... like "Nic Cage" broke ... and owes more than $10 million in unpaid taxes, this according to the singer's rep.

The "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" singer filed for bankruptcy in New Jersey claiming she only had $25k in assets ... but owes more than $10.2 million in taxes and fees to the IRS and the State of CA.

Warwick's…

Lil’ Kim filed a $1 million lawsuit against a lawyer and businessman who she claims duped her into signing a series of bad licensing agreements.

The 38-year-old former rapper says Sunny Barkats bamboozled her into entering transactions that gave himself and his partner, Andrew Ro, a 44% stake in a corporation formed to license her brand names. Lil’ Kim claims that she…

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Jermaine Dupri settles his debt to Uncle Sam.

Jermaine Dupri has paid off a $3 million lien for failing to file taxes as far back as 2006.

According to TMZ, the So So Def honcho was slapped with a tax lien by the IRS in 2008, owing a total sum of $3,095,004.65. Dupri made good on his debt, with the IRS releasing the lien on January 18th.

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Timbaland is still crying over that $1.8 MILLION watch that went missing two years ago (wouldn't you be?) -- and now he's filed a lawsuit against his insurance company ... claiming it REFUSES to cough up the cash to cover his claim.

According to a lawsuit filed against American Home Assurance Company last month, the music mogul claims he paid over $50,000 to take out…

$6 Million? Six million dollars? That’s what court records are saying Chief Keef’s record deal with Interscope is worth. But as many guessed, it’s all based on incentives — it’s not just a one time fee of six millie. Since Keef is a juvenile, court approval was needed to release the terms of the deal to the public, and today DNAInfo did just that:

The teenage rap star…

Got $75 million handy? If so, you can sign T.I. to your label ... the hip hop star just became the number-one free agent in rap -- and despite the steep price tag he's putting out ... some deep pockets are already lining up.

Sources close to T.I. tell TMZ ... T.I.'s 10-year contract with Atlantic ran up only a month ago ... but he's already put together his own idea…

A Grammy-nominated rapper whose music files disappeared when his laptop was stolen was ordered to pay nearly $1.2 million to a German man who claims to have found the computer in a forest.

Rapper and R&B singer Ryan Leslie, who was nominated for a Grammy award in 2011, offered a reward of $20,000 for his missing backpack after it was taken from…

Slap-happy Katt Williams better learn to take it like he gives it -- because the IRS just walloped the comedian with an astronomical tax lien ... totaling over $4 MILLION.

Uncle Sam filed the lien against Williams, claiming the comedian failed to pay $3.2 million in taxes in 2008 ... and also bailed on another $829,352 in 2009.

It's not the first time Williams…

Rihanna knows the real reason for the season: helping those who need it most.

According to E! News, the Barbados-born beauty, 24, has donated $1.75 million to help modernize a hospital in her home country. The generous gift to Bridgetown's Queen Elizabeth Hospital is in memory of her late grandmother, who passed away this summer.

"This was my way of giving back…