Being a swordsman has cost Tiki Barber his job as a pitchman.
A chain of cycling fitness centers is suing the former Giants running back for $1 million, charging that he's stiff-arming their demands he return stock in the company after he got sacked over his scandalous extra-marital romps with a 23-year-old woman.
Tricera Revolution, which operates Flywheel Sports in Manhattan and Sag Harbor, claims the jock-turned-broadcaster's value… Continue
The Real Rick Ross Goes On TV Explaining Why He's Suing Rick Ross To Change His Name! "Hes A Fake" (Wants $10 Million & 50% Of Rick Ross's Royalties) "A former crack cocaine multi-millionaire drug dealer, known as "Freeway Ricky Ross," is suing a successful rap artist who, he says stole his name and image to make millions of his own. Chris Blatchford talked with the real Ricky Ross and has more in this video… Continue
Alicia Keys soon to be baby’s father has some TAX ISSUES that he’s gotta straighten out. You see, the IRS and the state of NY just filed $2.2 MILLION worth of liens on his assets
Here’s what he owes, according to our peeps over at DetNews.com:
The state of New York filed a $162,300 tax warrant against Dean and his ex-wife Feb. 4, 2009, with the New York County Clerk.
The IRS filed a $556,986 lien against Dean and his ex-wife… Continue
The Kellogg Co. has issued a voluntary recall of 28 million boxes of some of its most popular cereals because of an "uncharacteristic off-flavor and smell" coming from packaging.
The recall includes Froot Loops, Apple Jacks, Corn Pops, and Honey Smacks that have been sold around the country, the company says.
Kellogg, based in Battle Creek, Mich., says it issued the recall in consultation with the FDA.
Bret Carr knows that his mom loved him more than her dog. And now he's saying that his heiress mother -- who left millions of dollars in cash to her beloved pooches instead of to him -- was manipulated by her staff.
Conchita, a pet Chihuahua, and two other dogs were left with a $3 million trust fund and a Miami Beach mansion by their recently deceased owner, Gail Posner.
Her staff, including bodyguards, housekeepers and a personal… Continue
NEW YORK — Battle-scarred rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight and volatile hip-hop star Kanye West faced off Friday over a beef involving a bullet — with a conference table between them.
The two rap titans were there for West to answer questions about a celebrity-packed Miami Beach party where an unknown gunman shot Knight in the leg. West hosted the 2005 fete at the posh Shore Club before the MTV Video Music Awards, held that year in… Continue
Weezy calls Mack Maine from prison, and they talk about the sales of Drake's upcoming Thank Me Later. Wayne hadn't heard the completed LP before he went to prison in March.
"What that boy's sh-- sounding like?" Wayne asks Mack. "A million in a week?"
"Yeah. Like a classic. Big money," Mack answers.
"A million in a week? I need him to do more than Tha Carter III," Weezy adds of his breakthrough album, which sold more… Continue
Washington Redskins defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth looks like he may be in need of a good defense — of the legal kind, now that more details are beginning to trickle out about the Brooklyn stripper who claims she is carrying his child and suing him for $10 million.
Salvatore Strazzullo, the attorney for Silvia Mena, a former exotic dancer at Lookers in Elizabeth, N.J., tells Gatecrasher that his client has an audio tape she made of a phone… Continue
NEW YORK - Ke$ha's former managers say the pop star squeezed them out of her career under pressure from hit songwriter Dr. Luke, but her lawyer said Friday she simply exercised her rights to fire the managers when they didn't perform.
Ke$ha, who had the No. 1 song in the country with "TiK ToK" earlier this year, signed up with ex-managers DAS Communications Inc. when she was an up-and-comer in 2006. Their agreement called for her to pay the New… Continue
On Friday, when Google embedded a playable Pac-Man game in its logo to celebrate the game's 30th anniversery, the Daily News predicted that productivity would take a serious hit as gaming enthusiasts stopped working to play.
According to a new study, we were right.
RescueTime, a company that helps businesses analyze how workers spend time on the job, took a random sample of its users and found that:
It's a high price for silence.
Wronged wife Elin Nordegren is trying to club an eye-popping $750 million out of Tiger Woods in their divorce negotiations, according to reports Friday.
Woods hasn't agreed yet, but if he does he wants total silence from his soon-to-be ex about the collapse of their marriage - forever, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Nordegren has so far said no to signing a lifetime "confidentiality clause"… Continue
For some reason, The Dream thought it was a good idea to remake Aaliyah’s classic “One In A Million.” The internets went ballistic on him. He tried to explain, but I think he’s going cut this from the song.
"No one will ever [sing] Aaliyah's 'One In A Million' like she did! Deff not me lol/ I did it because I Reilly miss her still and it was out of respect! To her I'm still just a fan not a writer not an artist a Fan! Calm down the worlds not over. But [at least]… Continue
"Iron Man 2" has landed on U.S. soil, and it's already doing big business. The sequel to 2008's second-highest-grossing film reeled in $7.5 million during its midnight screenings early on Friday (May 7), according to multiple reports.
The Robert Downey Jr.-starring comic book adaptation opened at midnight on 2,500 screens and then expanded to a record-setting 4,380 screens for the bulk of the weekend. Those are impressive midnight numbers, but they're nothing… Continue
Jailed hip-hop has-been DMX is suing a company that he says ripped him off for $1 million in royalties.
The troubled Westchester rapper filed suit Monday against Rich Kid Entertainment, charging that the entertainment company pocketed 100% of the funds from a contract signed a decade ago that was only supposed to provide a 10% cut.
"DMX has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and has had No. 1 singles and albums on the Billboard… Continue
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Missouri man who won a $258 million Powerball jackpot and plans to use some of the money to pay bills, replace his two missing front teeth and take his children to Disney World said he hasn't decided yet if he'll quit his job at the convenience store where he bought the winning ticket.
Chris Shaw - a 29-year-old tattooed father of three who was raised by his grandparents in rural southern Missouri - came forward Thursday as… Continue
State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. was accused of looting $14 million over the past five years from the non-profit health clinic where the embattled politician serves as president and CEO. The corruption charges were contained in a wide-ranging civil suit filed Tuesday by state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
Espada, who has faced allegations that he never even lived in his Bronx district, used the taxpayer money to line his… Continue
Rick Ross is proclaiming victory over a verdict where he was ordered to pay $300,000 in punitive and compensatory damages to DJ Vlad (Vlad Lyubovni). The case was resulted in a August 2008 incident where members of Ross’ entourage assaulted DJ Vlad at the Ozone Awards over the deejay posting comedic images of Ross dressed as a correctional officer.
The attack left Vlad with 7 stitches below the eye, fractures to the face, a corneal… Continue
MI – A rap music smackdown looms in a federal courtroom between oft-troubled impresario Marion "Suge" Knight and controversial star Kanye West over a shooting at a star-studded Miami Beach party.
Knight, founder of Death Row Records and promoter of some of rap's biggest acts, was shot in the right leg in August 2005 by a still-unknown assailant at the ultra-trendy Shore Club. West was hosting the party before the MTV Video Music Awards held that… Continue
Sources directly connected to "Two and a Half Men" are laughing at reports that Charlie Sheen says he's done with the show.
Although the show has been sold to CBS for two more seasons, Charlie's deal is up and the parties are far apart, but that's nothing new ... it's happened with Charlie before.
We're told Charlie is currently making $825,000 an episode, and he's asking for $1.5 million. We're told the Warner Bros. offer is… Continue
Prince is the subject of a public shaming in Ireland -- after a judge decided to release information about the singer's recent court battle because the Purple One isn't paying the piper.
High Court Justice Peter Kelly just announced that Prince owes nearly $3 million in damages to concert promoters for bailing on a 2008 show in Dublin at the last minute.
According to Kelly, the two parties reached a settlement back in February --… Continue