BallerStatus Reports
The 10th edition of our own Digital Dynasty mixtape series is currently in the works. This time around, BallerStatus and Tha Advocate joined forces with DJ Whoo Kid for the anniversary edition of the series.
After nine volumes, the Digital Dynasty series has created a massive buzz around the web, boasting over 500,000 downloads among all titles, and linking up with some of the hottest artists from Chamillionaire and Stat Quo to Crooked I and Alchemist.
"Within a year we have had so many downloads," says The Advocate, who believed in the concept since day one. "I knew Digital Dynasty would be big, but this exceeded my expectations. Doing Volume 10 is a blessing. Having DJ Whoo Kid host it is just another testament to what we are about."
"Right now we are locked and loaded and I am teaming up with BallerStatus.com and Tha Advocate…damn - Digital Dynasty Pt. 10 ! This is crazy!?" Whoo Kid says about the mixtape.
As always, we're looking for those up-and-comers with heat to get on. For more info about how to acquire a slot, contact Tha Advocate at shadowfalinx@hotmail.com.
Digital Dynasty Pt. 10 will hit BallerStatus.com and the rest of the worldwide web later this month.
London Times Reports
There are many places you might expect to find an A-list star in Hollywood, but a scruffy dance studio at the wrong end of the Walk of Fame isn’t the first that springs to mind. The homeless and the addicted hustle the star-spotting tourists who wander wide-eyed into souvenir shops selling Michael Jackson memorabilia, utterly unaware that, two floors above them, his youngest sister is rehearsing the choreography for her new single, Make Me.
“I love the natural light,” says Janet Jackson, nodding towards the huge windows that look out onto the gritty streets below. She's devoid of make-up and dressed in black tracksuit bottoms and a grey cashmere top, a low-key look that matches the location. There is no big entourage in tow, either, just her personal assistant and a publicist. It’s surprising to find such a huge celebrity in such understated circumstances, particularly given the intense scrutiny the Jackson family is under following the loss of its most famous member in June this year.
“People don’t really know, they don’t look in,” she says, staring back to the boulevard once more. “Nobody notices.” Brief respite, perhaps — since she appeared on stage with the Jackson 5 at the age of seven, all people have done is peer portentously at Janet Damita Jo Jackson’s professional and private life. “Certain aspects [of fame] aren’t easy, but I’ve been fortunate,” the 43-year-old says of life in front of the lens. “There are always paparazzi, but there are restaurants or places that they don’t know you frequent. And the people there are loyal, so they stay quiet.”
Unlike some of her siblings, Jackson knows about discretion. Since Michael’s death, she has been the quietest of the clan. Generally, despite a celebrated singing career that has ranged from the provocative to the political, she has kept her private life just that. Nobody knew she had married the choreographer René Elizondo in 1991 until they divorced in 2003. Her relationship with the producer Jermaine Dupri, which ended earlier this year, was also kept relatively clear of tabloid tittle-tattle.
“I think, to this day, people view me as a very shy person,” she says. “I don’t think I’m shy. I’m just quiet until I get to know you. I sit back and I watch and I observe. Though I’m someone that loves life, loves to have fun — I love being around my family. And I’m ambitious.”
Driven she absolutely is. Over the three decades of her recording career, she has reinvented herself almost as many times as Madonna. She has done political, playful, sensual, charitable and, following that infamous Super Bowl boob, controversial. Initially, however, she was little more than a pop puppet. “I was never really into the earlier stuff,” she remarks of the trite teenage albums Dream Street and Janet Jackson. “At that point, my mind was set on going to college, but I did music because it was what my father wanted me to do.”
A notorious disciplinarian, Joe Jackson was incredibly tough on his children. Janet has said in the past that the rigorous regimen was a double-edged sword: “Because of it, I’ve been able to achieve a lot of things that I wanted to. Granted, it took a lot of childhood away from me, but to have that focus has truly blessed me.” She wrote her first song at nine, appeared on the family variety show the same year and signed a recording deal at 14. She has never ridden the subway, and can’t go out for coffee, but she doesn’t seem regretful. “I can’t say I miss it, because I don’t experience it. And don’t get me wrong, I still get to enjoy it here and there.”
Jackson finally took charge of her career on her 1986 album Control, when she began writing, producing and playing keyboards. “My brothers took piano lessons when we were kids, so I wanted to take piano lessons. Then they quit because they went on tour, so I quit because I didn’t want to take them by myself. But that’s where it started from; I started playing by ear.”
If Control, with lyrics such as “When I was 17 I did what people told me/Did what my father said and let my mother mould me”, was about cutting the apron strings, 1989’s multiplatinum-seller Rhythm Nation 1814 saw Jackson develop a social conscience. “There was a major drug issue back then,” she recalls. “Crack cocaine was being introduced in the inner cities, and it was cheap. I remember seeing something on CNN about a little kid who was homeless, sleeping in the back of a car. And that was what it all sparked from.”
As well as politics, she has drawn inspiration from all manner of places: “I used to watch a lot of MGM movies, so Sammy Davis Jr.” She is also an unlikely fan of that mammary-mad British milkman Benny Hill. “I love [him]. When I was in school, I would watch it before going to sleep.” Later albums such as The Velvet Rope explored Jackson’s sexual side, a subject she continued to discuss as recently as her 2008 release, Discipline. Yet her new single, Make Me, recorded for her greatest-hits compilation, The Best, is simply about partying: “I think people want escapism right now, because there’s so much going on,” she says. “There’s so much heartache, there’s so much pain, there’s so much death. It’s a sad world right now.”
Although she might not be singing about it, Jackson is still in touch with her political side. “I think people are giving [Obama] really such a hard time. Everyone wants everything to turn around immediately. It took us how many years to get to this point? People say, ‘His first 100 days in office, what has he done?’ You can’t do that to the man. It’s not going to happen tomorrow. It's going to take us time to get out of it.”
Having sold more than 100m albums, Jackson has had an impact on popular culture that shouldn’t be underestimated. This was a young black woman who wrote, produced and played much of her music, and whose cutting-edge choreography continues to inspire the newer generation of acts. Cheryl Cole’s recent X Factor performance tipped a military-clad nod towards Jackson’s Rhythm Nation iconography, while Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera have cited her as an inspiration. “She was one of the first female pop icons that I could relate to,” says Rihanna. “She was so vibrant, she had so much energy. She still has power. I’ve seen her on stage, and she can stand there for 20 minutes and have the whole arena scream at her. You have to love Janet.”
Jackson is appreciative of, if not fawning about, the flattery bestowed on her by today’s pop princesses. “I think it’s great for someone to emulate you,” she says slowly. “It lets you know that they’ve watched your work and admired what it is you’ve done.” For her part, Jackson “enjoys” Lady Gaga and “loves” Alicia Keys, for both her music and her spirit. “She has such a beautiful soul. I love her for that. There’s not a lot of them.”
Preparing to put herself back among the Rihannas and Gagas, Jackson is promoting The Best while preparing a European tour for 2010 and writing a book, True You, which, she says, will look at her struggles with weight gain and self-esteem. Yet for all her insecurities — she was quoted recently as saying that she hated her smile — Jackson seems strong. There’s no high-pitched simpering, no glibness, just steady, if occasionally guarded, opinion. It does, however, take time for her to be drawn on Michael. She finally opens up when pressed about her tribute performance at the MTV Video Music Awards in September. “It hit me before I was about to do the performance, and it hit me when we were in rehearsal. There was a huge image of him on this screen, and I started to cry. I had to step away.” She saw her brother two days before his death, and for months after avoided watching television, but his image is impossible to escape. “You know, a day doesn’t go by where you don’t think about him,” she says. “It’s always there, in every sense. “But it will get better. It’s not easy, but I know with time it will get easier.” She stops. “But it will never be easy. It’s my brother.”
Almost as soon as the M-word is mentioned, the PR machine kicks in, and Jackson must return to rehearsals. What motivates her to keep going? Surely she could sit back, admire the awards, the accolades, the achievements? “I think it’s just passion. That’s all it is. Would you do it for free, that’s the question. And if you’re passionate enough, you will. That’s what I think the secret to success is. You don’t want to stop, so, as long as you can, you keep going.” She pauses. “I hadn’t listened to any of the old stuff until we put this compilation together. The body of work trips me out, but I almost forget it’s there. I don’t look back, I just try to keep going.”
The Best is out now
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Tiger Woods and wife Elin Nordegren refused to talk to police about the car accident again on Sunday.
NY Daily News Reports
Tiger Woods broke a three-day silence Sunday to admit his "obviously embarrassing" car crash was all his fault - even as he continued to stonewall investigators.
"I'm human and I'm not perfect," the golf champ wrote in a cryptic statement on TigerWoods.com.
"The only person responsible for the accident is me," Woods wrote. "My wife, Elin, acted courageously when she saw I was hurt and in trouble. She was the first person to help me. Any other assertion is absolutely false."
Woods divulged no details of what caused the bizarre crash outside of his suburban Orlando home early Friday, or the status of his relationship with his wife, Elin Nordegren.
He also did not address allegations of a relationship with Manhattan club hostess Rachel Uchitel.
For the third time, Woods canceled a sit-down with state troopers who want a word with the the embattled athlete about the smash-up.
The Highway Patrol had expected to interview Woods and his wife at 3 p.m. but were told by Woods' lawyer, Mark Nejame, that the meeting would not happen.
"It has not been rescheduled," said Sgt. Kim Montes, spokeswoman for the Florida Highway Patrol. "He's not required by law to give us a statement."
"The crash investigation is ongoing and charges are pending," she said. It was not clear if anyone actually would be charged.
Nejame did provide cops with Woods' driver's license, registration and proof of insurance, as required
Police have said Nordegren used a golf club to smash a window of Woods' Cadillac Escalade to free her husband after he rammed a fire hydrant and then a tree shortly after pulling out of their driveway.
TMZ.com has reported that Woods was running away from his Swedish supermodel wife after a fight over allegations he had an affair with Uchitel.
Alleged Tiger Woods mistress Rachel Uchitel with celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred after arriving in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Woods said in his statement he had "a single-car accident earlier this week, and sustained some injuries."
"I have some cuts, bruising and right now I'm pretty sore," he said, adding that the incident has been "stressful."
A recording of the 911 call in the moments after the crash offered few clues about what transpired. A neighbor called to report the crash and ask for an ambulance - but didn't mention who the famous victim was.
"[He's] laying on the ground now," the neighbor said. When asked if the driver appeared to be conscious, the neighbor replied "no."
Meanwhile, the party girl who reportedly has Tiger Woods in the rough with his wife fled her Manhattan apartment early Sunday for Kennedy Airport.
Beauty Rachel Uchitel emerged from her Meatpacking District pad at 5:45 a.m. to walk her two dogs before hopping in a black car bound for the airport. She had a large duffel bag in tow.
"You know I would love to speak to you, but you know that I can't," Uchitel said when approached by a Daily News reporter. "I really wish that I could say something, I really wish I could."
In an interview published this week, Uchitel's bar mate, Ashley Samson, told the National Enquirer that Woods was stepping out on his wife with the nightclub hostess.
Uchitel had denied an affair with Woods and told The News she never met Samson. The Enquirer countered Uchitel's dismissal with photos of the two girls partying together in Spain.
Rachel Uchitel And Ashley Sampson Partying In Spain
Uchitel arrived in Los Angeles in the afternoon and was met by her new attorney, celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred. The two ducked into a Town Car without speaking to the crowd of reporters at the airport.
Uchitel told Fox News on Sunday she "never crossed paths with Tiger in Melbourne" this month during the Australian Masters, contrary to the Enquirer's claim that the two had a tryst at the event.
Woods did not address the alleged affair in his statement, instead saying "the many false, unfounded and malicious rumors that are currently circulating about my family and me are irresponsible."
Woods, one of the world's most recognizable faces, is due in California on Tuesday for a tournament, but it was not clear that he would still attend.
TMZ.com reported Sunday that Woods talked about giving his wife a "Kobe Special" after the fight - referring to the $4 million purple diamond ring basketball star Kobe Bryant bought his wife, Vanessa, after he was acquitted of rape charges in 2003.
An unnamed source told TMZ he spoke to Woods over the phone on Friday, and that the golfer said he needed to visit Zales jewelry store to buy his wife "a house on a finger."
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Some groups of teenagers in Harlem use the messaging website Twitter, via their mobile phones, to organize street fights and other shady activities.NY Daily News Reports
New York City's city's street gangs are becoming tweet gangs.Manhattan's young thugs have turned to Twitter, and the cops who track them are fast behind, the Daily News has learned.
It's old-school crime meets new technology: attacks being plotted - and thwarted - 140 characters at a time.
One investigator recently warned parents and teens that the bastion of OMG and LOL has been infiltrated by violent crews waging turf wars.
A boy shot in the leg weeks earlier on Lenox Ave. may have been targeted because of a battle the Original Young Gangsters crew started on Twitter.
"It's horrible," NYPD Lt. Kevin O'Connor of Manhattan North's gang intelligence unit told a forum in Harlem.
A basic search of the social-networking site for OYG or Jeff Mob, the gang based in the Jefferson Houses in East Harlem, yields shout-outs and throwdowns.
"I knoe b*tches from oyg that would dead mob yah s--t in harlem," one girl wrote in a series of tweets aimed at drawing out a rival for a fight.
Investigators are monitoring the traffic in hopes of sweeping up gangbangers before the bloodshed - and searching Twitter after attacks for clues.
"It is another tool ... just like old phone records," a police source said. "We can go through them [messages] to track these guys."
Harlem pastor Vernon Williams, who runs Perfect Peace Ministry Youth Outreach, said his staff uses Twitter, MySpace and instant messaging to keep track of 4,000 at-risk teens.
A week ago, Twitter helped the volunteers stop a street war after they saw the Get Money Boys, based in the St. Nicholas Houses on W. 127 St., exchanging threats with Goodfellas and The New Dons, based just a few blocks north.
"They were threatening to go and hurt two people," said Williams, 51, who sent staff out to find the tweeters.
An NYPD spokesman and the Manhattan district attorney's office declined comment on the phenomenon, and Twitter did not respond to e-mails.
Gang members who grew up in the digital age are blasé about their tweeting.
One 15-year-old in the 28 Gunnaz gang said it's just like any other "form of communication," except that the world can listen in on the conversation.
That feature can actually fuel disputes. A heated exchange between rivals on the service can turn into a full-fledged beef when others get wind, he said.
A 15-year-old nicknamed Lil V, who belongs to The New Dons, says Twitter is useful for "settin' up the fights" and making plans.
He seemed aware that the cops or anyone else could follow them - and said the gang takes precautions, using lingo gangsters from an earlier era wouldn't even understand.
"We got our own page," Lil V said. "Our page is private."
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HipHopWired Reports
"I went down when my co-defendant told on me and my life was over as a musician. To get ten years, that's like a death sentence. That's like going to death row and them injecting me with lethal injection but that's life. I move on."
While Shyne Po may be hated on by the U.S. right now as he was recently deported back to his native Belize after serving nearly ten years for a club shooting, he's still using his positive energy to make sure others don't follow in his path. Converting to Judaism while in jail and now legally known as Moses Michael Leviy, the former Jamal Barrow spoke to inmates in Belize, stating,
“I understood, I made a mistake. I accepted responsibility for my mistake. I didn't blame anybody else for my mistakes. It wasn't my co-defendants fault that I shot somebody in the club. I did that shit. It was a terrible mistake and I moved on. So that's what I challenge you guys to do. Don't blame the C.O.; don't blame the police that caught you. Don't blame the dude that you shot. You have to take accountability for your actions and you have to decide what's your future gone be.”
As previously reported, Shyne recently completed over eight years in October following a 1999 shooting in Club New York. Shyne was convicted of first-degree assault and reckless endangerment in 2001 in relation to the shooting, which left a woman with facial injuries. Shyne was reportedly defending his boss who was being disrespected and had money thrown in his face. Shyne claimed he feared for his and Combs' life, which sparked the shootout.
Diddy's former girlfriend was also at the club with them at the time as the two fled together. Diddy was also charged with felony gun possession but walked and was perceived by many that he left Shyne holding the bag and the time while he scatted away free.
Since the passing of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, immigrants are being heavily deported if convicted of violent crimes. Shyne who grew up in New York but was still a Belize citizen was thrown out of the U.S. following his release.
Still not discouraged, he told those still incarcerated,
“Let's come up with a plan. That's what I did. I went down when my co-defendant told on me and my life was over as a musician. To get ten years, that's like a death sentence. That's like going to death row and them injecting me with lethal injection but that's life. I move on. I dint sit there and cry I said this situation is not gonna affect me…I'm gonna affect this situation and that's what you guys gotta do and that's what I challenge you to do.”
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Video After The JumpLady Gaga's much hyped 'Monster Ball' Tour finally kicked off in Friday (Nov.27th) In Montreal, Quebec, Canada. After Kanye West dropped out of the tour, originally titled 'Fame Kills'. Cleveland rapper Kid Cudi filled his slot. Gaga brought him out during her set to perform his hit song which samples her voice "Poker Face"
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Rap-Up Reports
Out of all the pop princesses who came after her, Janet Jackson holds a special place in her heart for one in particular.
Miss Jackson reveals to The Times that she “loves” Alicia Keys’ music and spirit. “She has such a beautiful soul,” she tells the U.K. newspaper. “I love her for that. There’s not a lot of them.”
In addition to Keys, the 43-year-old singer “enjoys” Lady Gaga and appreciates the flattery from her younger peers. “I think it’s great for someone to emulate you,” she says. “It lets you know that they’ve watched your work and admired what it is you’ve done.”
Jackson’s greatest hits album Number Ones is available now.
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LA Times Reports
USC and UCLA squared off yesterday at the Coliseum, but it wasn't allegiance to the Trojans or Bruins that brought Ice Cube to the empty stadium earlier this week. He was lamenting a team that hasn't taken the field here in more than 14 years.
Rather than celebrating the cardinal-and-gold or the blue-and-gold, the rapper-actor-producer roamed the stands recalling the darker, more ominous colors belonging to the last NFL team to call the Coliseum home -- the Los Angeles Raiders, a band of outlaw athletes who united rowdy football fanatics and hip-hoppers with roughhouse antics and championship play.
"The silver and black may have another home," said Cube, motioning to the vast emptiness of the stadium as a small camera crew followed him, "but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles."
Cube was finishing up his upcoming salute to the departed Raiders -- now in the midst of another losing season in Oakland -- for ESPN as part of the cable network's "30 for 30," a slate of documentaries by several noted filmmakers including Barry Levinson, Peter Berg and John Singleton. Cube produced the film, which will combine archival footage with interviews with numerous celebrities, athletes and journalists (several Los Angeles Times sportswriters are participating in the film).
The title of Cube's project, "Straight Outta L.A." is a play on the title of the landmark album he and gangsta rap group N.W.A. recorded just over 20 years ago, "Straight Outta Compton."
"Straight Outta L.A.," which does not yet have an air date, chronicles how the Raiders between 1982 and the team's announced departure in 1995 were embraced by gangsta rappers as hip-hop exploded on the music scene. In one of the first instances of merchandising synergy between sports teams and cultural cliques, rappers started wearing Raiders gear -- black and silver jackets, hats and hoodies emblazoned with the team's logo of an eye-patch-wearing pirate. They showed up at games, and their rowdy behavior was an integral element of the ambience that intimidated calmer fans.
"The Raiders had a cast of characters that looked like a gang of pirates," he said, fingering the Raiders windbreaker he wore over his Raiders shirt. "Any kind of outlaw mentality we loved. It wasn't that they were bad. They just played by their own rules."
Even now, after spending much of the last several years starring in and producing crossover, family-friendly fare such as "Are We There Yet?," "First Sunday" and "The Longshots," his Raiders fever is as fierce as ever, re-igniting the snarlthat first established him as one of rap's first statesmen. He even has a new anthem, "Raider Nation," which he unveiled at the start of the season.
"It's the Oakland Raiders, get your mouthpiece," he growls. "You're in the black hole with the black beast . . . This ain't black gold, this is black silver. Commitment to excellence we deliver."
Dan Durbin, a clinical associate professor at USC's Annenberg School of Communication who specializes in sports media, said the Raiders' arrival in 1982 from Oakland supplanted the Los Angeles Rams in the affections of local fans while bringing a semi-outlaw element to the city's sports scene: "They were borderline -- if they didn't cheat, they came damn close to it. [Owner] Al Davis was always suing the NFL. But the other thing was, they were an excellent team."
Also, they were more appealing to hip-hoppers than the more conservative Rams, or the relatively clean-cut Lakers and Dodgers. "They had a rebellious image that resonated with a variety of subcultures, including bikers and gangsta rappers," Durbin said.
Said Cube, "I thought I had died and gone to heaven when they moved here." He and others responded to the team's outsider persona. "It was like the way it was with rap. We got tired of trying to play the mainstream game. So we decided we would just do records for the 'hood."
With the success of the group and his own solo work, Cube was able to buy Raiders season tickets. He pointed to a far-off section of the Coliseum: "There they are, around the 20-yard line, about 13 rows up. We'd come with the family, and with all the homies in their gear. The crowd was everything, from rowdy to tame. If you had the courage to be here, you belonged in Raider Nation."
The team won the Super Bowl in 1984, defeating the Washington Redskins 38-9 in Tampa, Fla. The Raiders uprooted again and returned to Oakland before the 1995 season, and they have suffered ever since.
Cube feels their pain, but says he will never stop loving the Raiders.
"It's like when your woman leaves you even after treating you bad," he said. "You hope she's doing well, then you find out she's going out with someone else. And you wish she was back."
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Video After The JumpFrench Montana aka Macaroni Wit Da Cheese doing his thing with some help from Boss Don Biggaveli, Hollywood Fergie and Dame Grease. This must have been one of the last videos Max-B shot before he went in. Hold ya head Max, that Coke Wave seems to still be in full effect.
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NY Daily News Reports
A Vietnamese man dug up his wife's corpse and slept beside it for five years because he wanted to hug her in bed, an online newspaper reported on Thursday.
The 55-year-old man from a small town in the central province of Quang Nam opened up his wife's grave in 2004, molded clay around the remains to give the figure of a woman, put clothes on her and then placed her in his bed, Vietnamnet.vn said.
The man, Le Van, told the website that after his wife died in 2003 he slept on top of her grave, but about 20 months later he worried about rain, wind and cold, so he decided to dig a tunnel into the grave "to sleep with her."
His children found out, though, and prevented him from going to the grave. So one night in November 2004 he dug up his wife's remains and took them home, Vietnamnet reported.
The website carried a photo of Van with the figure of his wife, which is still in his home.
The father of seven said neighbors did not dare visit the house for several years.
"I'm a person that does things differently. I'm not like normal people," he was quoted as saying.
BlackBookMag.com Reports
Rachel Uchitel is an accomplished nightclub VIP operations manager who's gotten rather famous, rather suddenly. In a bombshell National Enquirer story that's yet to appear online, a young lady from Las Vegas named Ashley Samson alleges that Uchitel, a friend of hers, has been enjoying a months-long affair with decidedly married pro golfer Tiger Woods; tabloids even speculate that Woods' car accident this morning occurred after he fought with wife Elin Nordegren over the revelations. The media's going nuts over the scandal, so we called Uchitel and asked for her side of the story. "I've had better days," she began.
On the merits, it seems a little implausible that someone who makes a living serving the nightlife needs of celebs (see her VIP lowdown on New York’s Griffin lounge) would be so comically indiscreet. For now, Uchitel is keeping more mum than she could be on the advice of counsel, but she did have a few choice points to make:
● “I don’t appreciate my name or what people think of me being dragged through the mud by people who don’t even bother to research what or who they’re talking about ... they should research who these stories are coming from, who they’re believing as a credible source. Not to mention that it’s in the National Enquirer.”
● “I totally deny the Enquirer story. They did contact me about it, but they didn’t use any of my quotes or any of the information I gave them. They make it sound like I said those things, but it’s all other people saying I said things.”
● On the story’s report that she followed Woods to Australia and was observed checking into his hotel and riding the elevator to the 35th floor, where Woods had a suite: “There’s just no possible way I could have done that. You can’t just walk into a place like that and ride the elevator to a floor with someone like Tiger Woods on it without someone seeing you and stopping you.”
● On allegedly sending racy text messages to Woods: “If you talked to any of my old boyfriends, and I’m sure they all hate me, but they’d all confirm that I don’t sex-message. I don’t do it, I don’t know how to do it.”
● On Ashley Samson, the “close friend” of Uchitel’s who provided all the information to the Enquirer, along with another unnamed source, both of whom supposedly “passed” a polygraph: “I’ve met her twice in my life. We’re not friends. I’m just speculating but it seems like someone else is telling her what to say or manipulating her. After all, she got $25,000 for this.”Read more…
Daily Telegraph Reports
BAFFLED police are yet to interview Tiger Woods over a bizarre car crash just outside his Florida mansion that left the world's greatest golfer unconscious and sparked claims it was caused by a domestic spat over allegations he was having an affair.
The golfing great's wife, Erin Nordegren, said she rescued her husband from the wreckage using a golf club to smash the car window, but other reports emerging out of the US claimed she had used the club on her husband during their late-night row.
The fight that apparently led to the crash was reportedly sparked by tabloid reports Woods cheated on his wife with a nightclub hostess in Melbourne during the recent Australian Masters.
Woods, 33, suffered facial lacerations not in the accident but in the earlier fracas with his angry wife, according to celebrity website TMZ.
The crash, at 2.25am on the morning after Thanksgiving, followed the emergence of the unsubstantiated National Enquirer report claiming that Woods enjoyed trysts with 34-year-old New York party planner Rachel Uchitel in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Australia.
The magazine published a photograph of Uchitel checking into Melbourne's Crown Casino Hotel, where Woods stayed during the Masters tournament.
Both last night denied any affair. Uchitel said she had been in Melbourne two weeks ago with clients, but did not see Woods.
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But TMZ, which broke the news of Michael Jackson's death, said the allegations sparked a confrontation between Woods and Nordegren, who allegedly scratched his face and followed him with a golf club as he "beat a hasty retreat" to his Cadillac four-wheel drive.
As he tried to drive away, Nordegren hit the vehicle with the club, distracting Woods and causing him to crash into a fire hydrant, then a tree, just metres from their $2.4 million mansion.
When police arrived, they found a dazed Woods on the ground with cuts around his mouth and his wife hovering over him. The Orange County Sheriff's Office said he was unconscious for six minutes.
"He had lacerations to his upper and lower lip and a little bit of blood in his mouth," police chief Dan Saylor told The Sunday Telegraph. "They asked his wife what happened - she said the car hit a fire hydrant, then a tree. She was very distraught."
Nordegren told police she rushed outside after hearing the crash and used the club to shatter the car's rear window, so she could unlock the door and drag Woods out of the wrecked car.
Woods' representatives would not comment on reports that the couple had quarrelled.
The drama unfolded in a prestigious gated community just outside Orlando, home to a slew of sports stars including basketballer Shaquille O'Neill and Australian golfer Stuart Appleby.
Shocked neighbours brought the injured Woods a pillow and a blanket as he lay on the ground.
The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the crash and will decide whether to press charges. "Right now, we believe this is a traffic crash. We don't believe it is a domestic issue," spokeswoman Kim Montes said.
Authorities hope to interview the sports star for the first time today.
Mr Saylor said the golfer was not breathalysed at the scene: "My officers did say they had no indication he was under the influence of anything."
Officers were turned away by Nordegren when they returned to speak to Woods yesterday. She told them he was sleeping.
Police were baffled at how Woods hit the hydrant and tree, on opposite sides of the road. Airbags in the car did not deploy, suggesting that it was travelling at less than 55km/h.
Uchitel, who has a high profile in New York and lost her fiance in the 9/11 attacks, insisted she had no relationship with Woods.
"God forbid Tiger got into a car wreck because of this false report of him having an affair," she said.
AllHipHop Reports
A controversial new documentary about superstar rapper Lil Wayne has shot to the top of the iTunes movie charts.
QD3 Entertainment’s film The Carter is currently the No. 1 selling documentary on iTunes in the U.S.
In addition to landing the top slot on Apple's iTunes U.S.’ music store, The Carter is also in the Top 10 on the Canadian iTunes music store alongside such blockbusters as Bruno and GI Joe.
“Having our Lil Wayne The Carter documentary place in the Top 10 on both U.S. and Canadian iTunes store within the first 48 hours, competing neck and neck with multi-million dollar studio films such as Bruno and GI Joe during Christmas season is quite a feat for a self distributed indie doc and beyond our expectations,” QD3 Entertainment CEO Quincy Jones III told AllHipHop.com. “We are very excited about continuing to innovate within the digital space.”
The Carter was released on November 17th and is an in depth look at the personal and professional life of rapper Lil Wayne.
Lil Wayne, born Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., is known for his rigorous touring schedule and frequent drug use, which is spotlighted in the documentary.
In April of 2009, a judge rejected a request by Lil Wayne's lawyer to block the distribution of the DVD, due to several scenes in the movie which the rapper and his management objected to, reportedly because of his drug use.
The rapper's management claimed they requested to have the questionable scenes removed, but those scenes were still in The Carter, when it premiered at the Sundance film festival in January.
Despite the lawsuit Jones told AllHipHop.com that the documentary’s release is in line with a digital distribution strategy the company has been developing in 2001.
"It was my goal since the inception of QD3 Entertainment in 2001 to have a strong focus on digital distribution and multi platform innovation,” Jones told AllHipHop.com. “Since 2001 our primary means of marketing have been organic and viral on digital platforms. Using this approach we've been able to sell over 2 million DVD's via the QD3 (DVD) collection at physical retail….this is the era we have preparing for all along by retaining all rights to our content and were about to launch a couple of digital content and social media platforms by early 2010 utilizing our over 3,500 hour library of high quality content that includes films such as Tupac Shakur - Thug Angel and the multi platinum Beef.”
QD3 Entertainment’s The Carter was directed by Adam Bhala Lough and is currently available on iTunes for $14.99.
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ESPN Reports
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Tiger Woods has been seriously injured in a car wreck in Florida, authorities said Friday.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at 2:25 a.m. ET. Woods was driving a 2009 Cadillac sport utility vehicle.
The police report narrative said the "driver had just pulled out of the driveway at his residence ... as [vehicle] began to drive on Deacon Circle, [vehicle] struck a fire hydrant. The front of [vehicle] then struck a tree..."
Woods was taken to Health Central Hospital. His condition was not immediately known, though the highway patrol news release said his injuries were serious.
The airbags in the car did not deploy, according to a report in the Orlando Sentinel. The newspaper said that airbags typically do not deploy if a vehicle is traveling less than 33 miles per hour.
The highway patrol says the crash is still under investigation, and charges are pending. However, the highway patrol said the crash was not alcohol-related.
Woods is scheduled to play in the Chevron World Challenge beginning Dec. 3 in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He last played two weeks ago in Australia, where he won the Australian Masters.
He won six times this year after missing eight months recovering from reconstructive surgery on his left knee. Even though he failed to win a major, Woods said he considered this a successful year because he did not know how his knee would respond.
Woods, who has won 82 times around the world and 14 majors, returned to his $2.4 million home in the exclusive Isleworth subdivision near Orlando earlier this week after attending the Stanford-Cal football game, where he tossed the coin at the start of the game and was inducted into Stanford's sports Hall of Fame at halftime.
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TMZ Reports
Tyler Perry used too much of the goodness of Jesus in his movie, "Madea Goes to Jail," at least according to a new federal lawsuit obtained by TMZ.
The suit, filed by the personal representative of deceased gospel singer/songwriter Bertha James, claims Perry lifted an entire verse from a song James wrote in 1950 -- "When I Think of the Goodness of Jesus."
The suit claims Perry pilfered the verse and used it in "Madea" -- specifically, "incorporating the entire Chorus in a monologue delivered by the main character in 'Madea" referencing her deliverance from a jail sentence and leniency for repetitive criminal conduct, in a staged court proceeding presided over by 'Judge Mabeline.'"
Bertha's estate, which is also suing Lionsgate Entertainment, wants unspecified damages for copyright infringement.
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