Ron Artest Gets Community Service For Beating His Wife

I got this straight from ESPN word for word.

Sacramento Kings forward Ron Artest pleaded no contest Thursday to a misdemeanor domestic violence charge stemming from a March 5 dispute with his wife, the latest in a string of off-court problems.

Placer County Superior Court Judge Francis Kearney sentenced Artest to 100 hours of community service and a 10-day work project through the county sheriff's department. Artest also was fined $600 and ordered to get extensive counseling.
Kearney modified the restraining order that has kept Artest away from his wife, Kimsha, and three children since the incident at his $1.85 million mansion in Loomis, 25 miles northeast of Sacramento.
Artest will be allowed to have peaceful contact with his wife, and there are no restrictions on contact with his children. The judge said an attorney for Artest's wife appeared before her Thursday morning to say that Kimsha Artest no longer wanted any restrictions on their contact.
He was accused of grabbing, pushing and slapping his wife during an argument and preventing her from calling 911. The couple's 3-year-old daughter was home at the time.
Artest was charged with corporal injury to a spouse, battery, false imprisonment and dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, all misdemeanors. He pleaded no contest to the first charge, while the others were dismissed, although they could be restored if he violates the terms of his three-year probation.

The Reason You Never See Black Girls On Girls Gone Wild

Before he went to jail for contempt of court stemming from a charge of exploiting minors, Tyra Banks asked Girls Gone Wild creator, Joe Francis, how come he never has black girls in his videos. Joe said, "Here's the problem with black girls, they want to get paid. ... [Other girls,] I just ask and they do it."

(NY Daily)

Busta Rhymes Released On $7,500 Bail

So the other night, Busta Rhymes got pulled over for having too dark a tint on his SUV and after they got him over, the cops smelled alcohol on his breath and arrested him for DUI. I hope he knows the cops are going to keep messing with him until he spills his guts in the Israel Ramirez case.

(Starpulse)

Usher Ready to Fire His Momager?

Tameka Raymond must be really putting it on Usher cause they say he bout to fire his mama as his manager and hire Tameka in her place. You know Jonetta and Tameka never got along, ever since Jonetta fired Tameka as Usher's stylist back in the day. This is getting so messy and I so love it....

Eddie Murphy Refusing Mel B DNA

Scary is taking Eddie Murphy to court to force him to take a DNA test. She told People magazine,"He's not doing a DNA test and he's not signing the birth certificate. "So it's going to have to go to court so he can be forced to do it, which is strange since he was the one asking for it."

(People)

Feds Dismiss Oprah Blackmail Case

Remember that dude from Atlanta who tried to Blackmail Oprah for 1.5 mil , saying he had one of her employees on tape talking bad about her? Case dismissed. In exchange for the dismissal, Keifer Bonvillain, 36, must successfully complete a yearlong program where he has to perform 50 hours of community service, undergo drug testing, attend school or work regularly and pay $3,000 in restitution to the FBI for the cost of its investigation.

(MSNBC)

Chuck D On Russell Simmons 3 Word Ban

Keyshawn Johnson Dropped By The Panthers

"This is a great pick. We need another wide receiver," Johnson gushed while working as a draft analyst for ESPN. "This guy is much like me. I'm going to teach him how to play from the point of attack."

That's what Keyshawn said when When the Carolina Panthers drafted Southern California receiver Dwayne Jarrett in the second round. He didn't realize they were drafting his replacement. Ouch.



(ESPN)

R Kelly's Little Brother Tells All

I Heard..

Trulife beat up Cam'ron outside stereo last night. Listen to Tru tell the story here.

James Brown's Widow Spotted with Magic Don Juan

Tami Rae Hynie went to the Pimps and Hoes ball with Bishop "Magic" Don Juan. Either she got the DNA results back and they say James Brown is her baby's daddy and she set for life or she got the results back and they say James ain't the daddy and she looking for her next boyfriend.

Summer 2007

Israeli fashion house Irit has these photos up for their Summer 2007 campaign. The chick in the middle is Bar Refaeli, Leo DiCaprio's new main chick.

(Black Folks)

Ray J Celebrates Release of Tape with Kim Kardashian

Ok, didn't Ray J sell his tape for $1 million dollars? Kim Kardashian just settled for $5 million. Look at his dumb self. Standing up there being sold and smiling like its is cute.

?uestlove Detained At Buffalo Airport

Ok, I didn't write this account of what happend to ?uest. I got it off a message board, but how am I supposed to credit "Piano Man" from some random board? It was Urban Chocolate.com.

Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson, the drummer for The Roots, was detained by the DEA sometime last week while attempting to board a plane at a Buffalo airport. ?uestlove wrote about the altercation on his MySpace blog, which he described as “possibly the most humiliating hour of my life.” The incident occurred when ?uest purchased his plane ticket 24 hours before the flight, automatically placing him in a special security line. When his luggage was checked, authorities found with a Louis Vuitton bag containing money from various countries. “Thing is, I absolutely forgot that I was carrying around all of my post Roots show DJ ?uestlove gig money,” he wrote. “It was there they discovered my DJ money stash from countries all around the world.” ?ueset claims he forgot to deposit the money before boarding the plane and was subsequently transferred from the airport security to the DEA. Authorities then questioned ?uest about his bag full of “$100,000 in China money.” When the heavyset drummer tried to convince security he was a Grammy award-winning artist, they picked up an issue of XXL out of his luggage and asked, “Where are you in this magazine? You said you were in a rap group, huh? How can a rapper not be in a rap magazine?” Security then forced ?uest to remove his pants, which he describes as “single handily the most embarrassing moment of my career.”
To read all of ?uestlove’s story, visit http://myspace.com/questlove.