Lady Gaga had an unusual opening act over the weekend: President Barack Obama.
The songstress performed at the Human Rights Campaign dinner in Washington D.C. on Saturday Night, but not before the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prez could get a laugh from the crowd.
"It is a privilege to be here tonight to open for Lady Gaga. I've made it," the President told the crowd, according to E! Online.
And for this performance the 23-year-old Gaga left her usual… Continue
Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is being sued more than $316,000 by a former flight attendant on her private jet.
Corrine Gehrls, 39, claims she was fired after false allegations that she had sex on board with chief pilot Terry Pansing, 57, back in June while the star and other passengers slept, reports London’s Daily Mail.
The recently-filed lawsuit alleges that Myron Gooch, a flight attendant, and Kirby Bumpus, the daughter of… Continue
R&B singer Chris Brown's about to be hit with some bad news.
You'll recall that shortly after the Rihanna incident, Wrigley's Gum canceled their multi-million dollar Doublemint campaign with Chris.
Well now according to reports, Wrigley's is looking to their recoup losses from the campaign - by suing Brown.
And get this - those losses, which included tv and print ads amount to MANY MILLIONS of… Continue
On Saturday night, NY rapper JR Writer was shot. Reports are still sketchy but word is that he was ambushed by a group of goons and was lucky to escape with his life.
We have confirmed that JR is in good shape and he’s expected to make a full recovery from the shooting.
No word yet on who did it, or whether the streets (or police) have any suspects.
BET picked up a second season of the Tiny & Toya's show and they're looking to start shooting immediately.
According to our snitches, the producers want to film as many episodes of the show before T.I. gets let out of prison.
Why? Well because MediaTakeOut.com has been told that T.I. hates the way the show makes his fiance Tiny look. And that once he's out, he's going to do everything in his power to end production of the… Continue
A "disaster" of an experiment to streamline the Bronx courts has led to a log jam that's delaying justice in hundreds of cases.
The backlog is so severe that the number of felony cases brought to trial annually has plunged by half over the last five years.
A 2004 merger of the criminal courts has crippled the system with delays, scheduling conflicts and overburdened judges, lawyers on all sides say.
Check out this Tim Westwood interview with Lil Wayne which they did last Wednesday while Weezy is in the UK touring. They talk about his new tattoo, baby mommas, retiring, his cup, Death of Autotune, MTVs Hottest MC list, Omarion, Jay Sean, No Ceilings mixtape, Drake, Tha Carter IV, Young Money, Rebirth, and… Continue
T.I. didn't need to attend the BET Hip-Hop Awards to win two trophies on Saturday.
The rapper, who is locked up in an Arkansas penitentiary on a federal weapons conviction, won the best collaboration award with Rhianna for the song "Live Your Life" and the album of the year award for "Paper Trail." His fiancee Tameka "Tiny" Cottle accepted his awards at the ceremony in Atlanta and read a letter by the rapper, who began serving a yearlong sentence… Continue
Kourtney Kardashian is seeing blue!
The pregnant reality star is expecting a baby boy with on-again boyfriend Scott Disick, Eonline.com reports.
"A boy is definitely needed in this family!" Kardashian, 30, gushed. "Scott and I are thrilled to add a little boy to the bunch. Bruce [Jenner] and Rob [Kardashian] told me it would be a boy the whole time!"
Now that she knows the sex of the baby, the mom-to-be is ready to begin… Continue
ATLANTA — At the Atlanta Civic Center, Young Jeezy — who often has high-profile guests to join him onstage — pulled off a huge move during the BET Hip-Hop Awards, kicking off the show by bringing out surprise guest Jay-Z. Hov and Young opened the show with "As Real As It Gets," with the two hip-hop heavyweights going back and forth on verses. With the… Continue
Members of a brazen Brooklyn crack gang raked in more than $500,000 in taxpayer money by repeatedly suing the city for civil rights violations, records show.
Accused drug dealers from the East 21st St. Crew and associates sued the city more than 20 times - and the city settled every time, even though many of the same people sued again and again.
The reason: The city's policy of aggressively settling cases rather than risk a big… Continue
The Game is in a serious feud with the wrong gang of homies -- the lawyers who saved him from 5 years of hard time.
The legal team who repped the rapper in the wake of his 2007 arrest on gun charges claims Game never forked over $34,683.90 in bills for the work they did.
In the suit, filed in L.A. County Superior Court, the firm, Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert, claims they even got the guy "a successful… Continue
The toy company that created the Barack Obama action figure has done the same for his wife, Michelle - but don't even think about calling her a sidekick.
Jason Feinberg of Jailbreak Toys says he thinks the First Lady doll will outdo the President's version, which has already racked up 200,000 sales.
"Batman has nothing on Michelle Obama," agreed Manhattan mom Eileen Ramos, 38, who said her three kids love the First… Continue
DETROIT — Viagra and pornography are not staples on the government's food stamp list. But authorities say a Detroit store supplied them during a series of illegal deals.
Federal prosecutors filed fraud charges this week against three people who worked at Jefferson's Liquor Palace.
The alleged scheme worked this way: Food stamp recipients would get cash from the store in exchange for swiping larger amounts off their electronic cards.… Continue
You thought those Baltimorons who lifted Cal Ripken's No. 8 statue were going to remain your favorite dumb baseball thief story of the year?
Heh, not even close.
Not to be outdone at badly planned crimes that make the rest of us laugh, a Phillies fan has been charged with stealing three 2008 World Series rings from a Citizens Bank Park office during Thursday's Game 2 loss to the Rockies.