Jay-Z has backed out of a deal with the Aqueduct Entertainment Group to invest in the Aqueduct racino it was revealed yesterday (March 9).
According to Crain’s, Jay-Z had an estimated 2% interest in AEG through an entity he has ownership in named Gain Global Investments Network.
The racino project has generated a great deal of controversy because the losing bidders claim New York Gov. David Paterson awarded AEG the group due to… Continue
New York emcee DMX has had yet another run-in with Arizona authorities. The troubled rapper was arrested in Arizona on Tuesday for allegedly violating the terms of his probation with the use of illegal drugs. The rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, has run afoul of the law numerous times over the past few years. He was released from an Arizona jail last May after serving more than 90 days for drug, fraud and animal cruelty…
The rapper spoke on the reaction generated from claims of his alleged disappearance, which was reportedly made public on Wednesday (March 3) by his former record label, Gracie Productions.
The label revealed that J-Kwon had disappeared for nearly 30 days and requested help in locating the rapper.
News of the rapper’s disappearance caused fans and supporters to make calls,… Continue
Eight people have been hit by subway trains over the last 13 days in a baffling spike of suicides, attempted suicides and accidents, the Daily News has learned.
There was as much carnage on the tracks between Feb. 13 and Wednesday as there typically is during an entire month, NYC Transit statistics reveal.
"It's the most I can recall, and I've been a train operator for 26 years," said Steve Downs, union chairman of the train… Continue
NEW YORK – A Florida woman has sued rapper 50 Cent in New York City, claiming he unlawfully distributed her homemade sex video over the Internet after editing himself into it as a wig-wearing narrator.
Lastonia Leviston filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in Manhattan claiming unauthorized use of her name or image and emotional distress caused by the public release of a video she made with a lover in 2008.
The lawsuit claims 50 Cent posted the video on his Web… Continue
"Saturday Night Live" star Kenan Thompson got into an altercation all his own after an obviously intoxicated man interrupted his date.
"Kenan just brushed him off, but then the guy patted the top of Kenan's head like you would a little kid," says a spy at Avenue A Sushi, who adds that Thompson was with "a very attractive woman."
"At that point, Kenan got in the guy's face. The waiters came over and threw the bum out… Continue
Well it is a New Year and you guys know what that mean….it is time for “Time Out Mag” to name New York’s upscale Kings & Queens of Swag. Amongst them Kid Cudi was at the top of the list along with some other sheik New York residents and style fanatics that aren’t as popular in the urban sector anyway. In the interview Cudi talks about his obsession for… Continue
ALBERT LEA, Minn. -- Nothing says "I love you" like a half-mile wide heart made out of manure.
A southern Minnesota man created the Valentine's Day gift for his wife of 37 years in their farm field about 12 miles southwest of Albert Lea. Bruce Andersland told the Alberta Lea Tribune that he started the project with his tractor and manure spreader Wednesday and finished Thursday.
His wife, Beth, said it's the biggest and most… Continue
Emmy-winning actor Alec Baldwin blew a gasket Thursday and attacked a photographer while police and a pack of reporters looked on with amazement.
"This guy! This guy!" the actor yelled as he burst out of a lobby and grabbed New York Post photographer Tim Wiencis by the collar. Cops immediately pulled the actor off Wiencis and hustled him back inside.
A witness said Baldwin was pacing around the lobby muttering: "They are the… Continue
A former NYPD sergeant who sold out to a crack dealer for a pair of sneakers and a warmup suit will be getting new duds - courtesy of the prison system.
Roosevelt Green was sentenced Tuesday to six months for helping the Long Island drug pusher with license plate checks on undercover vehicles.
Green ran plate numbers on a police computer in his NYPD car at the 62nd Precinct in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn - then gave the registration… Continue
Michael Douglas made a cameo in Manhattan Federal Court Friday on behalf of his son - but it wasn't a speaking role.
"I have absolutely no comment," the Oscar-winning "Wall Street" star said as he left the courthouse.
He was there to sign paperwork so his son, Cameron, can get out on bail while awaiting sentencing in a drug dealing case, sources said.
The bail hearing before Magistrate Ronald Ellis was sealed, along with… Continue
The harsh reality of prison rape is examined in this shocking and sobering documentary from filmmaker Jonathan Schwartz. Inside Alabama's Limestone Correctional Facility, five inmates talk candidly about sexual abuse as a part of life on the inside. The long-term causes and conditions that perpetuate prison rape are examined, as well as the use of sex as a commodity, for comfort and for protection from the feared and brutal prison culture.…
A Queens murder took a macabre turn Wednesday as cops revealed they are searching for a heart and lungs carved from the victim.
The accused killer, Huang Chen, is in custody - but what he did with Qian Wu's organs after the vicious slaying is a mystery, police said.
"The victim's heart and lungs were ripped from the body and apparently have not been recovered," NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said.
I can't remember the last time I saw a fight break out at First Avenue or even at a hip-hop concert. In fact, the last bad fight I saw was out in the Home Run Porch at a Twins game. So it's somewhat shocking to report that last night's TC Hip-Hop Awards at First Ave reportedly erupted into a brawl on and around the stage. It started when some bozo bum-rushed the stage after Illuminous 3's set got delayed due to technical glitches, and host Boima Freeman started throwing… Continue
She stars as a struggling single parent on "Teen Mom," but Farrah Abraham has serious issues with her own mother.
The 18-year-old's mom allegedly choked and hit Abraham Saturday in their Iowa home, according to the state's Daily Nonpareil.
Debra Danielson, 54, was arrested on suspicion of domestic abuse/serious assault after the incident, according to police reports obtained by the Nonpareil,… Continue
Anderson Cooper raced to the aid of a badly injured boy in Haiti yesterday -- dropping the camera and carrying the bloodied child away from a violent incident in the middle of a chaotic scene.
Cooper claims he had heard gunfire in the area and raced to see what had happened -- when he noticed some people on the top of a store throwing slabs of concrete down at looters ... one of which smashed a child in the head.