The time Kobe Bryant's father spent in the WNBA is proving to be more costly than he thought -- he's accused of stiffing the lawyers who repped him when he got fired from coaching the L.A. Sparks.
TMZ obtained a lawsuit filed in L.A. County Superior Court -- in which the Russ August & Kabat law firm claim Joe "Jellybean" Bryant never forked over the $76,520.78 he owes for the work the firm did during Jellybean's "dispute with the Los Angeles… Continue
G-Unit member Lloyd Banks and three associates, who were jailed after allegedly assaulting and robbing a concert promoter in Canada, were released on bail Tuesday (January 12), but Banks and associate Nicklas Sloane were remanded by Canadian immigration.
According to Olaf Heinzel, a spokesperson for the Kitchener (Ontario) Police, the two were held for unspecified immigration issues; a Canadian immigration spokesperson told MTV News that details… Continue
Lloyd Banks' lawyer said the rapper should be headed home to America on Tuesday.
Since Saturday morning, Banks has been held in a Kitchener, Ontario, jail on assault and robbery charges after an incident involving a local promoter Friday night. Authorities say Banks and three others assaulted the promoter after the G-Unit member performed at Club NV in nearby Brantford late Friday night. There will be a… Continue
Troubled comic Artie Lange landed in the hospital after stabbing himself nine times in an apparent suicide attempt, sources told The Post. Lange's frantic mom called 911 Saturday morning after she entered his Hoboken apartment and found the bloodied funnyman, a law-enforcement source said. Lange sustained six "hesitation wounds" and three deep plunges. A source close to Lange's management team confirmed that the Howard Stern sidekick stabbed himself,… Continue
The city's bodegas and barbershops are secretly selling kids as young as 14 an illegal and potent mix of fruit punch and alcohol, a Daily News investigation found.
"Nutcrackers," and a frozen version called the "Nemo," sell for $5 or $10 a cup - an easy buzz for teens who like the sweet taste and the cheap price.
"They are poppin'. They get you sauced," said Shaquel, a 15-year-old who declined to give his last name.
He was killed over a game.
A 9-year-old boy visiting his family in Harlem sat down Saturday to play a video game starring his skateboarding hero, Tony Hawk.
By 3:30 a.m., play time had turned to horror.
Police said Alejandro Morales, 25, plunged a knife in the boy's chest, sending him staggering to his uncle's bedroom door.
"Uncle, uncle, I've been stabbed!" Anthony Maldonado cried out, before collapsing on the… Continue
Queens rapper Lloyd Banks performed at New York City’s B.B. Kings. The streets may have been filled with snow and slush, but the bad weather didn’t stop fans from coming out to see the G-Unit solider.
Banks ran through classic mixtape cuts, including “Victory Freestyle,” before he took fans back to choice selections off his platinum debut, The Hunger For More, like “I’m So Fly” and “On Fire.” Blue Hefner balanced out the show with more solo material from his second… Continue
Sorry, Mary. The unstoppable Susan Boyle is expected to block Mary J. Blige from the No. 1 slot on this week's Billboard album chart. According to industry insiders, Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" could sell another 500,000, while Blige's just-released "Stronger With Each Tear" is on course to move just 300,000.
According to Freddyo.com, who was in the building taking pictures, Plies may have gotten locked up by the FED’s after Jingle Bash in Atlanta Saturday Night.
Last night after the Jingle Bash concert, I got over 20 calls from different people who said that Plies was arrested by the Feds after he got off stage at the concert in Atlanta for 107.9… The sources say:
“He was walking to his bus when they ran up on him and arrested… Continue
The passenger who tackled a suspected terrorist on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 said Saturday that he’s “happy” to be alive.
Jasper Schuringa, a video director and producer from Amsterdam, told CNN how he helped the cabin crew to subdue Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old who reportedly ignited a small explosive device on board the plane Friday as it prepared to land in Detroit.
Schuringa said he heard a sound that reminded him… Continue
Four men were shot in the leg during a drive-by shooting on a snow-covered Bronx street Monday night, police said.
The victims were hit shortly before 6 p.m. along Townsend Ave. in Mount Eden by a shooter who fired from inside a dark-colored Honda, police said.
All four men - who were between the ages of 22 and 32 - were in stable condition at area hospitals. They are believed to have been the shooter's intended targets, a police… Continue
Tom Cruise has mastered the art of espionage on screen, and now, he's being sued for spying in real life.
Court documents obtained by TMZ.com reveal that magazine editor Michael Davis Sapir is suing Cruise for $5 million dollars, accusing the actor, attorney Bert Fields and private investigator Anthony Pellicano of wiretapping his phone.
It is not the first lawsuit between Cruise and Sapir.
(Philadelphia, PA- Dec. 20, 2009) Saturday, December 19th rapper Beanie Sigel was leaving a Baltimore studio and was side swiped by a tractor trailer on I-95 that fled the scene. The vehicle that Sigel was traveling in was totaled and he escaped with several injuries to his face, arms and legs.
Bruised, battered, scared but hard, Sigel declined hospital treatment and miraculously performed the next day in Norfolk, VA and is tentatively scheduled… Continue
Lil' Wayne was rollin' through Texas with marijuana on multiple tour buses, this according to the U.S. Border Patrol.
Border Patrol agents tell TMZ a random search of the vehicles (pictured above) uncovered a pot stash on two buses -- but we're told no drugs were found on Wayne's person ... or anyone else in the entourage.
Officials tell us a drug-sniffing K-9 unit picked up the scent outside the bus. Agents then walked the dogs onto… Continue
OMG! Twitter was taken down!
Hackers calling themselves the "Iranian Cyber Army" briefly brought down the popular microblogging service early Friday morning, CNN reports.
Users hoping to tweet were reportedly redirected to a Web page that bore a green flag and read, "This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army."
CNN was unable to obtain a comment from Twitter representatives on the outage -- but the company did tweet… Continue
Queen Latifah and Mary J. Blige will be among 4 esteemed honorees next March at Essence’s third annual Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon.
The event recognizes women of color who’ve made strong impacts in the entertainment industry.
Next year, the award luncheon will also commemorate Essence’s 40th anniversary. Latifah is being honored with the “Power Award” for her numerous milestones in… Continue
Man's best friend apparently isn't averse to making a meal out of a man.
Two pugs feasted on the flesh of their owner for two weeks after he died, cops in Papillion, Nebraska told the Associated Press. An autopsy determined the man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
A Human Society spokesman, Mark Langan, told the AP that feeding on the corpse would be normal behavior for dogs left without food or water for such a long time, but… Continue
BERLIN - German police say a zookeeper is in critical condition after being attacked by three tigers.
Hamburg police said Wednesday that the 28-year-old animal handler at the private Hagenbeck Zoo tripped during a performance involving five tigers Tuesday night.
As he lay on the ground, three of the tigers descended upon him, clawing and biting him.
Bild newspaper reports the tigers were driven back into their cages with… Continue
They were there to sell fish - but a group of black workers said they became the meat.
The feds filed suit Monday against a family-run fishmonger in Brooklyn charging bosses with racially and sexually harassing male employees - and even jabbing workers in the buttocks with fish hooks.
Sunu Chandy, a lawyer for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said most of the abuse was directed at black workers by their white bosses at… Continue