There's a new book out called "Tarnished Heisman" that claims 2005 Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush was provided with hotel stays, cash for shopping sprees and money to buy and customize a car...
Remember last March when G Unit rapper Tony Yayo got arrested for slapping and punching a 14 year old boy on a New York city street, allegedly because the kid was wearing a rival industry foe's Czar Entertainment t-shirt and the kid turned out to be Czar's head honcho and rapper The Game's manager Jimmy "Henchman" Redmond's son James? Anyway, come to find out, a pal of Yayo's has already admitted that he was the one who hit little Jimmy, not Yayo. They say dude confessed back in August, but that the investigators suppressed the confession. Lowell Fletcher told cops that he was the one who slapped little Jimmy and that all Tony Yayo did was pull him away from the boy. Lowell is currently in jail serving a 2 1/2-year sentence for drug possession. "They disclosed it today, and we plan to file a motion for dismissal,” said Scott Leemon, Yayo’s lawyer.
Cops were called to a Brockton, Massachusetts Holiday Inn on December 1 to break up a fight and were directed to a 2004 Navigator in the parking lot where they found Bobby Brown in the front seat. Police are seeking to charge Bobby with a single count of possession of a Class B substance, which the court papers identify as cocaine.
Congratulations are in order. Internet chatter says singer Monica and Rocko had their baby on January 8th. They say it's a boy and he weighes 5 lbs 6 oz, and is 19.5 inches long. No word on his first name, but they say his middle name is Montez, after Monica's brother. This is Monica and Rock's second child. 
Sources say New Jersey Net Jason Kidd's girlfriend Hope Christine is pregnant. Insiders claim, "Hope, Jason and their parents all celebrated her pregnancy announcement at Sabor Latin Bistro in Edgewater Sunday night," and that, "Since Hope started showing, she has stopped sitting courtside." Remember this past October when Jason's soon to be ex-wife, Joumana, was complaining that Jason rarely spent time with their 3 children and that when he did, his girlfriend Hope was always present and that it was upsetting the kids and how Joumana tried to get the judge to make Jason keep Hope away from them? Joumana is pretty pissed off right about now.
She tells this month's Essence magazine, "I'd go to work [on 'The Tyra Banks Show'], and women would be crying in my arms. But then I'd go home and put my key in my door and … nothing. No friends, no husband, no children. I feel so full when I'm at work but so empty when I come home."
Beans got busted for parole violations after it was reported that he was in Atlantic City ballin'. On December 3rd the Philadelphia Daily News' gossip blog at Philly.com posted, "South Philly rapper Beanie Sigel was laying major money on a craps table at Atlantic City's Tropicana over the weekend. At one point, Sigel, whose new album "The Solution" is out Dec. 11, called over a fly honey for good luck, telling her he was down, but had $12,000 left to play with. She advised he keep it real and lay down another grand. No word on whether big Beanie won back his $$$." Federal authorities said they learned of Beans' visit to the Tropicana from the online report. Beans got hauled into court and U.S. District Court Judge R. Barclay Surrick ordered him to spend the rest of the day locked up. Beanie Sigel, real name Dwight Grant, is in trouble because Atlantic City is outside the area in which he can travel under the terms of his parole violation. He was also sentenced to 6 months in a halfway house, where he will be allowed to leave each day for work. 
There's this great book out called "Daughters of Men" by Rachel Vassell. It's full of portraits of African American women and their dads. Sanaa Lathan and her dad are in it, Meagan Good and her dad, Tischa Campbell and her dad, you get the picture. Anyway, one of the portraits is of LisaRaye and her father David Ray McCoy, and though she looks really pretty on her picture LisaRaye also looks really sad and old heads from Chicago know why. In 1988 LisaRaye's pops was found shot and killed in the back seat of his Cadillac in a Southside Chicago alley, LisaRaye was 22 years old at the time. Ray McCoy, a savvy Southside millionaire, owned a string of motels and nightclubs and loaned money to hundreds of people who wanted to start their own businesses. The mystery of Ray's murder gripped the city. But as it turned out Ray, who at age 52 was a paraplegic, was killed by his 32 year old live-in girlfriend and her 20 year old brother after they got into an argument over a high electric bill and who should rake the leaves.
Go and pay your bills little duffle bag boy. Lil Wayne is being sued by this guy in California for $80,000 over restorations on his 1999 Bentley. The dude, LeMarck deAndre, says Wayne promised to pay him at least $120,000 to repair and refurbish his 1999 Bentley Arnage but after paying him $78,000, Wayne refused to make any further payments. LeMarck has been holding Wayne's Bentley hostage ever since. Go over to The Smoking Gun if you want to read the legal papers. 
