All Blog Posts Tagged 'MILLION' (236)

An Australian judge has ordered KFC to pay 8 million Australian dollars ($8.3 million) to the family of a Sydney girl left brain damaged after eating one of the fast food giant’s chicken wraps.

Monika Samaan’s family sued KFC, claiming the then-7-year-old girl contracted salmonella poisoning from a KFC chicken wrap in 2005. Samaan was in a coma for…

"The X Factor" producer reached a deal with Britney Spears to fill one of the vacant judges’ seats for the upcoming season of the reality singing competition show, TMZ.com reported.

There are at least two openings for judges on "The X Factor" because Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger, as well as host Steve Jones, were fired from the show in January.

The…

It was only a matter of time before outspoken music business man Damon Dash responded to a lawsuit brought by former friend Curren$y.

Dash’s legal team released a statement today (Marcy 27) in response to the lawsuit; the suit finds Curren$y suing Jay-Z’s former Roc-A-Fella partner for $1.5 million in damages for releasing C’s music without…

Game must pay five officers $1 million apiece for an incident from October 2005.

A North Carolina court upheld a 2010 ruling yesterday for Game to pay $5 million in compensatory damages to five Greensboro police officers.

According to MyFox8, the officers filed a defamation suit against the West Coast rapper and Bungalo Records, Inc. in 2006. They claim they…

Nas is great at a lot of things ... rapping, feuding ... but paying taxes isn't one of them ... and now he's on the hook for another $339,000 he allegedly kept from Uncle Sam.

According to official documents obtained by TMZ, Nas never forked over $339,005.49 in federal income tax he owed for 2010 ... and now the U.S. government has obtained a lien on his…

Lil Kim's tax problems are well-documented and go back nearly 10 years. According to documents filed with the L.A. Recorder's Office, Kim owes money every year from 2002-2009.

The 2009 amount, $86347.85, was just recently tacked on -- bringing her total $1,026,862.42.…

From the outside, 610 Morris Park Ave. in the Bronx looked like a nondescript apartment building — but on the inside, it was one big marijuana farm, police said.

Authorities raided the five-story building in the Van Nest section early Tuesday afternoon, pinching three people and confiscating more than 1,000 pounds of pot, police…

Terrell Owens has always been an island of sorts. His brash personality and self-absorption routinely alienated his teammates during an NFL career that teetered between terrific and toxic, leaving him to fend for himself.

Now, at 38 and out of football, he's lonelier than ever, and running out of money. In a GQ profile, Owens comes across as wounded, broke and…

A British woman who's become a celebrity in the U.K. because she was born with two fully formed vaginas may finally be able to cash in on her crotch ... TMZ has learned she's just been offered $1 MILLION to bone on camera.

Her name is Hazel Jones -- and the 27-year-old beauty has been making the media rounds across the pond to discuss "uterus…

Kobe Bryant has reportedly given up two of the mansions he and his soon-to-be ex-wife Vanessa bought, after receiving settlement in there divorce and word is she may also receive $75 million…. Talk about getting paid!!!!



The LA Lakers baller has…

The celebutante daughters of Run-DMC beat master Rev. Run appear to be deadbeats when it comes to taxes.

Vanessa and Angela Simmons, made famous by four seasons of “Run’s House” on MTV, owe nearly a half million dollars in back taxes, according to the Detroit News’ Tax Watchdog column.

Angela Simmons, 24, owes a whopping $225,910 based on liens filed by Uncle…

Rihanna is moving on. The “We Found Love” singer has sold her mansion in Beverly Hills for $5.03 million.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the Beverly Hills Post Office-area home went above the asking price of $4.5 million. However, the sale price was substantially less than the $6.9 million she paid two years ago.

Rihanna is hoping to recoup some of her…

Russell Brand may be losing a bride, but he reportedly could be raking in some major money by ending his marriage to Katy Perry.

The 36-year-old told New York Magazine last year that the couple did not sign a pre-nup, which could mean he’s entitled to half of Perry’s millions.

According to California law, the couple — who wed there in October 2010 — must split…

The ex-wife of comedian Eddie Murphy lost a $7 million chunk of her divorce settlement after some not-so-funny business with a brazen con man, federal prosecutors said.

Authorities didn’t name Nicole Murphy in court paperwork unsealed Tuesday, but a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles last year outs her as the victim of Troy David Stratos' alleged fraud.

Stratos was…

Vybz Kartel has been ordered to pay $15 million to a promoter as a fine for failing to show up on a scheduled concert in 2009.

The event took place at the Turks and Caicos Islands in August 2009 where Jamaican star was supposed to attend, but did not.

The Supreme Court has ordered the troubled star to pay to the promoter Alton Salmon a total of $15 million for…

TMZ has learned ... contrary to news reports about Kobe Bryant's wealth -- the BBaller's net worth is approximately $150 million, according to sources in a direct position to know.

Sources intimately familiar with the situation says the $150 mil accounts for real estate holdings, stock, cash and other assets.

The figure is far less than news reports which set…

Lil Wayne's I Am Still Music tour was one of the country's most successful tours raking in $47 million. The rapper, who also holds the highest selling hip hop album of the year with Tha Carter IV, spent 2011 touring three continents, performing in 78 venues and selling 32,000 tickets in Chicago; 27,000 in Buffalo, New York; and 28,000 tickets in both Philadelphia and…

A once down-on-his-luck stray cat has become the world’s richest kitty — thanks to a childless widow who left him $8.5 million in her will.

Tommaso the black cat, who once scoured the streets of Rome for food, can now afford a gilded litter box with the inheritance.

In a handwritten will penned shortly before her death last month, Maria Assunta, 94, ordered…

Flo Rida knows ... it's not very safe to keep a MILLION DOLLAR car in your garage when you go out of town ... so he worked out a deal to leave it with a local exotic car shop -- and the move is paying off BIGTIME for the dealership.

TMZ has learned ... last year, Flo decided he needed to find a safer place to store his famous Bugatti Veyron when he went out on tour…

“Call of Duty” blasted its own one-day sales record to pieces — and pretty much obliterated the launch-day sales records of any entertainment form. Released Tuesday, “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3,” the latest installment in the video war game series, sold 6.5 million units and raked in more than $400 million in its first day in stores, making it the…