A Jacksonville, Fla., man whose wife died of pulmonary disease after smoking cigarettes for decades has been awarded $40 million by a jury. The award for Andy Allen was against cigarette makers R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, both of whom said Friday they will appeal.
Allen's lawsuit blamed the companies for the death of his wife, Patty, who died in 2002 at age… Continue
The ongoing lawsuit may force Weezy to pay damages for breach of contract after the release of the critically acclaimed documentary.
It's been almost two and a half years since QD3 Entertainment released The Carter documentary based on Lil Wayne's work. Although the rapper agreed to participate in the film, he later sued the production company when it refused to… Continue
Birdman is denying reports that he was interested in signing Soulja Boy to his Cash Money/Young Money empire after the rapper previously boasted about the possibility.
As previously reported, Soulja told Rap-Up that he was asked to join CMYMB by Birdman himself after several meetings in Miami.
“I met with Baby and Slim down in Miami. He's trying to get me… Continue
Platinum producer Bangladesh is once again claiming that Lil Wayne has yet to compensate him for beats. This time the beatmaker claims Weezy stiffed him when it came to anteing up for the track for, “6' 7'.” In a recent interview with MTVNews, Bang revealed that instead of charging for the beat, which is the first single off Wayne's album Tha Carter… Continue
It's been seven months since an 11-year-old vanished from her Bronx home for five days - but horrific details of how she was turned into a sex slave are just emerging.
Lured from home by a sexual predator, the fifth-grader was pimped out to a series of men in a lower East Side flat.
"One man gave me $700, another gave me $1,000 and another gave me $500,"… Continue
Birdman is looking to add another potential superstar to his roster by attempting to sign Soulja Boy. Soulja told Rap-Up the two have already met face to face to face to discuss the possible move.
“I met with Baby and Slim down in Miami,” Soulja said. “
He’s trying to get me to come over to Cash Money.”
One drug dealer may be missing a few pounds of marijuana.
A 27-year-old Pennsylvania resident called police after she found a package of 5 pounds of marijuana on her doorstep – which was the second time that's happened in the area in the past two weeks.
Last week, an elderly couple called cops when a similar package came to their doorstep.
With “H.A.M.” released earlier this year as the first offering off their collaborative album, Watch The Throne, word is that Jay and Kanye has listed Bey and Bruno Mars for the upcoming official single, “Lift Off”. No word on the release of the single, but West, Hov and Bey were spotted in Paris last week possibly working on the project. In other related news, Kanye, Hov and… Continue
His house is a pile of rubble and he's in the hospital, but Alabama dad Reginald Eppes considers himself lucky - after his 8-year-old was sucked into a tornado and survived.
It happened early Wednesday when howling winds lifted Reginald Jr. off his top bunk bed and into the swirling darkness.
"I was reaching up for him, but my hands never made it. The… Continue
A crooked Brooklyn doctor about to report to a federal lockup stopped first at his parents' gravesite, pulled out a gun and killed himself Friday.
Orthopedic surgeon Gregory Perrier, 46, pleaded guilty three years ago to filing phony bills and was due to turn himself in to serve a one-year sentence at noon.
He asked his lawyer, Al Walker, to take him to a… Continue
The official rank of the largest penis belongs to a man measured and documented by Dr. Robert Dickinson in the earlier part of the twentieth century. This record-holding penis was 13.5 inches (34 cm) in length and 6.25 inches (16 cm) in circumference. But the living owner of the world's biggest human penis is Jonah Falcon. Falcon's 13-5 inch member… Continue
Authorities busted a dozen members of a drug ring that sold more than $70,000 in heroin to undercover cops in a leafy Brooklyn neighborhood, officials said.
Edwin Perez, 32, and two of his closest associates - Francisco Perez, 33, and Jose Trinidad, 42 - were the main suppliers for Park Slope drug dealers, authorities said. They were collared on… Continue
A 10-year-old girl is to be charged with third-degree murder in the shaking death of an infant at a Shippensburg-area baby sitter's house.
District Attorney Matt Fogal also has authorized criminal proceedings against the baby sitter, Dottie Bowers, age unavailable, of 127 Bennelton Drive, Southampton Township. Bowers is to be charged with involuntary manslaughter and… Continue
A teacher in the middle of a sudden spiritual awakening celebrated his moment of Zen by stripping naked and strolling the hallways of his school in the nude, police said.
Harlan Porter was arrested and charged with public indecency for his impromptu strip show at the B.C. Haynie Elementary School in Morrow, Ga, The Smoking Gun first reported.