Actor Wesley Snipes received the maximum jail sentence of thirty six months on his three misdemeanor tax evasion charges. Snipes, who starred in the Blade trilogy and movies like Demolition Man and New Jack City, also faces a $5 million fine for failing to pay $15 million of income taxes over a decade of what the prosecutors called “fraud”.
They might be tight-lipped about their wedding but public record confirms Beyonce and Jay-Z did indeed get married. The superstar couple had filed their signed wedding license Friday in Scarsdale.
People magazine reports that according to Town Clerk Donna Conkling, the license, which lists the wedding date as April 4, was received on Friday afternoon. The “Crazy In Love” singers applied for the license three days before the event itself.
Conkling also says that although their license was filed more than five days after the wedding, it’s expected to be processed with the state without penalty as the penalty is frequently waived.
The much-talked about, but never confirmed, wedding was attended by friends and family of the couple, including her parents Tina and Matthew Knowles, sister Solange, and Destiny’s Child members Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z arrived at Scarsdale Village Hall shortly after it opened at 9 a.m on Tuesday to get their marriage license. “It was just the two of them,” an eyewitness tells PEOPLE. “They were very polite and smiling as they filled out the paperwork. They were holding hands for a while. They looked really happy.”
Could their happiness be because the longtime couple is finally putting the constant wedding and split rumors to rest? Although a rep for Beyoncé, 26, had no comment and a rep for Jay-Z, 38, could not be reached, the courthouse trip is the first real indication that the pair – who first started dating in 2002 – will walk down the aisle.
Rumors of a wedding have long followed the couple, and Beyoncé has admitted to thinking about how it would happen. “I don’t know when I’ll want to get married,” she told Cosmopolitan in January 2006. “I never pictured myself as a bride, but after my sister’s wedding, I did start thinking about what kind of wedding I’d want. I don’t think I want a big one.”
A year later, she told InStyle, “Maybe me and my man will go away to an island; maybe we’ll go to a church. I have no idea.”
(AP) - The rapper known as Juvenile was arrested Tuesday after police pulled him over for an expired tag and found marijuana in his car, authorities said.
Juvenile, a 32-year-old whose real name is Terius Gray, was arrested on misdemeanor marijuana possession after he was stopped on Interstate 20 near Meridian, Lauderdale County Sheriff William Sollie said.
“A small amount of marijuana was seized and he was placed under arrest,” Sollie said.
Juvenile, who lives in New Orleans, was released later Tuesday.
It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney, and a woman who answered the telephone at a listing for a T. Gray declined to confirm that it was the rapper’s residence.
The rapper, best known for the song “Back That Thing Up,” was headed from Atlanta to New Orleans when his car was pulled over, Sollie said. At least one other person was in the car, but no one else was charged, he said.
Juvenile has been arrested at least four times on charges ranging from failure to pay child support to resisting an officer in a scuffle at a Florida mall in 1999. Most of the charges have been dismissed.
In 2003, he pleaded guilty to felony battery and was sentenced to 75 hours of community service for hitting a man on the head with a champagne bottle.
Hollywood diva Jennifer Lopez was in full bloom as she walked the red carpet at a UNICEF charity benefit hosted by Madonna at the United Nations headquarters in New York last night.The singer, who is expecting twins, arrived with her husband Marc Antony in tow, and joined a star-studded crowd inside which included Gwyneth Paltrow, Gwen Stefani, Demi Moore, as well as Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.
Earlier, she told People magazine: “I’m feeling good,” but admitted, “I haven’t gone out a lot for the past few months.”
She added “Right now the best thing I can do for myself, for my body is to keep resting which is not easy for me. I like keeping busy and it is very hard because if they say ‘be off your feet for four hours a day’, I’m like ‘oh, God!’ It’s hard.”
It comes just days after her farther David Lopez confirmed wide-spread reports J-Lo is expecting twins.
He revealed in an interview on Spanish TV: “Yes, twins. The thing is in my family, my sister also had twins, so it’s a hereditary thing.”
And when asked how he felt about the big news, the grandpa-to-be expressed his happiness for his famous daughter.
He added: “I’m very proud. Jennifer has yearned to be a mother for many years.”
With the 38-year-old singer’s due date getting closer and closer, her dad says he already has gifts ready for the babies.
He explained: “In Puerto Rico it’s custom to buy an azabache [black stone] bracelet for babies to protect them from the evil eye, it’s part of our culture.”
However, Mr Lopez did not reveal was the sex of the babies - although friends of the star and her husband Marc were recently seen taking presents of both blue and pink to a baby shower.
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Is baby No. 3 on the way for Britney Spears?
The 26-year-old was captured checking out a pregnancy test at Rite-Aid on Monday afternoon, leaving many to wonder if the embattled singer is with boy toy Adnan Ghalib’s child.
The duo shopped for the test at the pharmacy following the pop star’s (dis) appearance at court on Monday, where they also filled out a prescription.
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As reported in the newest issue of OK!, Brit is longing for a so-called replacement baby to fill the void left by sons Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, after losing custody of them to ex-husband Kevin Federline.
“Britney hates when things are taken from her,” a family member of Kevin’s tells OK!. “The court’s taken Preston and Jayden away, so she’ll just have another kid to take their place. That’s the way she thinks.”
One of the Sicilian Mafia’s oldest and most steady revenue streams, protection money, called “pizzo” in Italian, is now at risk a new website that now provides extorted businessmen the support with which to stand up to the mob. Traditionally considered a death sentence to stand up to the Sicilian Mafia, Addiopizzo.org, which means “Goodbye Pizzo,” voluntarily lists 230 businesses who openly defy the payment to the Mafia. There is safety in numbers, and the tide of pizzo payments is indeed starting to turn. Perhaps what the website organizers should offer next is the ability for the pizzo-paying business owners to list what they are each paying for “protection.” That way, perhaps they can lend some transparency to the Mafia’s business. After all, why pay 500 euros a month if your neighbor is only paying 100 euros a month for his “I-hope-nothing-bad-happens-to-you” policy? Or, perhaps, once again, the web has brought an end to an outdated business model, and the Sicilian Mafia needs to adapt with the times. From spam to porn to gambling, the Internet is rife with shady schemes in which the well-organized gangster can participate.
The names of R&B music star Mary J. Blige, along with rap artists 50 Cent, Timbaland and Wyclef Jean, and award-winning author and producer Tyler Perry, have emerged in an Albany-based investigation of steroids trafficking that has already rocked the professional sports world, according to confidential sources. Information has surfaced recently showing those stars are among tens of thousands of people who may have used or received prescribed shipments of steroids and injectable human growth hormone in recent years. Law enforcement officials have said they have no evidence in their sprawling multistate probe that customers, including Blige or other entertainers, violated any laws. Instead, they are targeting anti-aging clinics, doctors and pharmacists who prescribed the drugs.
Still, medical experts say that use of steroids and human growth hormone — an estimated $10 billion-a-year operation worldwide — reaching into the entertainment industry illustrates how pervasive steroids use in the United States has become. It is not unique to athletics, where performance-enhancing drug use has marred many sports. For many celebrities, the lure of hormonal drugs is their supposed, unproven anti-aging effects.
While Congress is preparing to focus on baseball players alleged to have taken the drugs, medical experts are warning that steroids and human growth hormone are being illegally prescribed nationwide at an alarming rate under the misconception they will aid healing, enhance looks, strength and speed, or slow aging.
Records shared with the Times Union and information from several cooperating witnesses on Long Island indicate Blige and other stars were shipped prescribed human growth hormone or steroids — sometimes under fictitious names — at hotels, production studios, private residences, an upscale Manhattan fitness club and through the Long Island office of Michael Diamond, a chiropractor affiliated with the celebrities, sources said.
Diamond, who has not been identified as a target in the case or accused of breaking any laws, helps run an anti-aging program at Clay Gym in Manhattan, according to the company’s Web site.
The Albany investigation became a nationwide spectacle last February when authorities raided a Palm Beach County wellness center and the offices of Signature Compounding Pharmacy in downtown Orlando. The wellness center’s owners and the pharmacy’s operators are awaiting trial in Albany on charges related to the sale of millions of dollars worth of prescription drugs, mostly steroids, through a suspected criminal enterprise involving allegedly corrupt physicians and a series of anti-aging “clinics” that advertised predominantly through the Internet.
In the past year the case has netted 10 guilty pleas, including felony convictions of three physicians and several operators of anti-aging clinics in Texas, Florida and New York.
Along the way it has exposed allegations of steroid use by Major League Baseball players, pro wrestlers, NFL figures, police officers, prison guards, top-ranked body builders, people with ties to high school and college wrestling programs, and now, celebrities.
In a brief interview at his Patchtogue office Friday, Diamond said patient privacy laws prohibit him from discussing the stars he has treated or why.
“I don’t have anything to do with athletes, I don’t do athletes,” Diamond said. “Anyone that wants to publicly state that they work with me can do so, it’s just I’m not allowed legally to state who I treat or who I don’t treat.”
Still, it appears evident Diamond caters to famous clients as evidenced by the many stars, including Steven Seagal, whose photographs — some autographed to Diamond — adorn his office’s walls.
“Because of this recent development as far as what I found out was going on with (Signature) pharmacy I was approached and I was … told not to discuss anything right now … because there’s investigations going on,” Diamond said, not elaborating.
Diamond said he had previously met officials from Signature pharmacy at anti-aging conventions, but that he learned of the year-old criminal case only recently.
Christina Aguilera has given birth to a boy, the pop singer announced on her Web site Sunday.
“Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman are proud to announce the birth of their son Max Liron Bratman,” the brief message said. “He is a beautiful, healthy baby boy.”
The baby was born Saturday night and weighs 6 pounds, 2 ounces. Aguilera, 27, was “resting and doing well,” according to the message on her Web site, http://www.christinaaguilera.com/.
Aguilera said that Saturday was “a very joyful and special day for Jordan and I.”
There was no immediate response Sunday to several calls seeking additional comment from Aguilera’s representatives.
Aguilera and Bratman married in 2005. The four-time Grammy Award winning singer has said she learned she was pregnant during her recent “Back to Basics” tour.
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The body double was only on stage for a few seconds, and the switcheroo was relatively innocuous. But since it involved the “Hannah Montana” show — the sold-out tour for which tickets have been scalped for hundreds of dollars — even the use of a brief stand-in for its star, 15-year-old Miley Cyrus, was enough to cause plenty of buzz when video of the switch was posted on the Internet.
“This tour is such a phenomenon everybody is trying to find some angle to write about it,” said Gary Bongiovanni, editor-in-chief of Pollstar, the trade publication that tracks tours. “This tour was the phenomenon of 2007 and it’s still going strong in 2008.”
A video posted on YouTube shows the 15-year-old entertainer, who stars on the hit Disney TV show “Hannah Montana,” onstage as her character, dancing and singing onstage with a group of dancers and the Jonas Brothers, also on the “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus ‘Best of Both Worlds’” tour.
During the song, someone ushers her offstage via a trap door. Immediately, another girl dressed like the character “Hannah” in the same pink trench coat with blonde hair covering her face dances around, runs up stairs on the stage set and then quickly leaves the stage.
While the double is holding a microphone for her less than a minute, the girl motions like she is singing. However, a rep for Miley said the switch was only for costume purposes.
“To help speed the transition from Hannah to Miley, there is a production element during the performance of ‘We Got the Party’ incorporating a body double for Miley,” according to statement from the public relations firm PMK, which represents Miley.
