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Tiger Woods Moves Into NYC Bachelor Pad

Tiger Woods Us Magazine is reporting that the newly-single Tiger Woods moved into his new apartment in downtown Manhattan over the weekend. A witness saw the golfer — who finalized his split from Elin Nordegren last Monday after his affair scandals — “introducing himself as the new neighbor,” the source tells Us. Nordegren is currently renovating a $3 million waterfront estate in her native Sweden that she bought in 2009. She will also reside in the family’s estate near Orlando. They are parents to daughter Sam, 3, and son Charlie, 18 months.

Divine Brown Reflects on ‘Trick that Changed My Life’

Divine Brown  The ex-prostitute who became famous in 1995 for her $50 rendezvous with Hugh Grant has publicly thanked the actor for “changing” her life – because she was able to carve out a “wonderful” new existence in the scandal’s wake. After the British actor was arrested in Los Angeles with Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown, she went on to land a series of lucrative publicity deals just for discussing her experience with the actor. “I was just trying to pay a few bills that night,” she tells Britain’s Daily Mail. “Lo and behold I got a celebrity. I’d agreed to go with him for $50, but ended up with more than ten thousand times that. God has a path for us all.”

Brown – whose real name is Stella Thompson – is now 41 and living in the suburbs of Atlanta.   She claims to have earned more than $1 million from media interviews and guest-show appearances immediately following the scandal. Most of the money was spent on expensive cars and a flashy lifestyle, she admits, but enough was invested wisely in property to allow her to put her two older daughters, Cheyenne, 21, and Brianna, 20, through college. That was the trick that changed my life. The event that earned me a million dollars,” she says. “The fuss afterwards scared me right there and took me off the game… I have the most wonderful life now. I’ve got a nice new home… there’s no pool but there is a picket fence. I thank the Lord everyday. “I was always attracted to the glamorous life and that half an hour with Hugh Grant made me able to buy all the things I’d dreamed of having. That film ‘Pretty Woman’ seemed to be what my life was about. Hugh Grant was my Richard Gere.” Brown is convinced the embarrassing incident also worked in Grant’s favor when all was said and done. “I know he helped to upgrade my future and my family, but I upgraded his, too,” she says. “He got more recognized and more movies after that night.”

Poor Kat Stacks: Mello’s Got a 5k Bounty Out on Her

  And now a  story as told by one Scarlet Henderson (EUR rendition) that shares the account of a young, delusional and disturbed Kat Stacks. Her journey from abused teen to strangely desperate young mother, wanna be “Super Head” is one to laugh at and at the same time, shake ya head at. Enjoy! Once upon a time there was a Venezuelan babe called Andrea Herrera who dreamed of acclaim and affluence but alas, poor Andrea had no real talent. Kinda pretty, but not certainly not overwhelmingly beautiful. She just wasn’t it and couldn’t find her path to success. She looked in Miami, Florida and Brooklyn, New York. It was not there. Andrea grew despondent, but one day she had an epiphany. She looked down and said, “Lo and behold, I have a vagina and breasts!”

  It was not continued afore she accomplished that boys like vaginas that are connected to nasty girls. And so, Andrea renamed herself Kat Stacks and set off with a dream, some breast implants and her vagina. Life was no chicken brick road. There were lots of monsters and ogres in her path. She says that her life has been tough, nearly causing her to commit suicide. She reportedly had a child during her adolescence by a man whom she says beat her. She claims that she would generally drink, use drugs and cut herself to get her mind off things. Realizing life wasn’t what she wanted, she took an opportunity to get freaky with rappers. And they had money; lots of money with which she could buy the things she desired. And she had sex; lots of sex (according to her. No one absolutely knows who Kat has sexed up but according to her, she’s had sex with abundant rappers and is not abashed to name names. Because no one actually believes her, she took it a step further and announced some personal phone numbers and other info online.      Recently, she filmed a video of cocaine in the allowance of a famous, adolescent rapper. She has mentioned that abounding rappers are secretly gay and has fabricated all kinds of added allegations. Rumors recently surfaced that child protective services are investigating her and that she has been institutionalized for some mental issues. The sad thing about this story is that no one really knows and probably doesn’t care who Stacks allowed to crawl up into her vagina. All of the attention she has received in the past year has been nothing but negative. And this kind of negative probably won’t benefit her “career” too much longer. She isn’t too cute and she’s already been invalidated by the industry. Ah, po’ child. But that’s not the end of the story. Various media outlets have reported that more drama has ensued between her and b-baller Carmello Anthony’s celebrity wife, LaLa Vasquez, via Twitter. The drama was initiated by of course Stacks when she wrote on the NBA player’s Twitter: “hey @carmeloanthony do you taste like caramel?” From there, a back and forth dispute went on between the poser and the wife.

Anthony also responded, writing: “I got 5k for whoever see @ihatekatstacks and slap the s**t out her pigeon face a**. Real talk. U messed with the right one now.” But by now the conversation has been erased offline. Stacks final words: “See you in court @CarmeloAnthony” Someone PLEASE give this girl some attention … medical and psychiatric.

Oprah May Do Her Last Show from Football Stadium

Oprah Media mogul Oprah Winfrey reportedly wants to host the final episode of her long-running show in a football stadium. She’s planning a star-studded finale in September of 2011, when “The Oprah Winfrey Show” will end its 25-year run. Winfrey will supposedly move the production from her Chicago studio to the city’s 61,500 capacity Soldier Field, the home of the Chicago Bears football team, in a bid to pack in a bigger audience. But Winfrey has admitted the notoriously unpredictable climate in Chicago could shutter plans for an open-air finale. “I don’t know if that’s going to happen. You can never count on Chicago weather,” she tells TV Guide magazine. Winfrey is not retiring from entertainment altogether next year, but leaving her syndicated talk show to run her own TV channel, OWN — the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Rev. Wright Blasts Those Who Believe Obama is Muslim

Rev. Jeremiah Wright  The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is back in the headlines. In his sermon Sunday at New Millennium Church in Little Rock, President Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor accused people who wrongly believe Obama is Muslim. Wright was defending the church’s pastor, former state Court of Appeals Judge Wendell Griffen, for speaking out against the Iraq War when he began comparing Griffen’s opponents to those who incorrectly think Obama is Muslim.  The president, whose full name is Barack Hussein Obama, is Christian. “Go after the military mindset … and the enemy will come after you with everything,” Wright told the packed church. He added: “He will surround you with sycophants who will criticize you and ostracize you and put you beyond the pale of hope and say ‘you ain’t really a Baptist’ and say ‘the president ain’t really a Christian, he’s a Muslim. There ain’t no American Christian with a name like Barack Hussein.’” As previously reported, a poll released this month found that nearly one in five people, or 18 percent, said they thought Obama was Muslim, up from the 11 percent in March 2009. The proportion who correctly said he was Christian was 34 percent, down from 48 percent in March of last year. The poll, conducted by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center and its affiliated Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, surveyed 3,003 people. Griffen lost a re-election bid for the Arkansas Court of Appeals in 2008, after high profile battles with a state judicial panel over the rights of judges to speak out on political issues. Griffen was elected in May to a judicial post in Pulaski County, the state’s most populous county that includes Little Rock. Griffen said he invited Wright to speak at his church as part of a monthlong focus on the relationship between faith and the community.

Ron Isley Talks Prison, Taxes, R. Kelly, New Collabos

Ron IsleyRon Isley sat down with Vibe magazine to discuss his 37-month federal prison sentence for tax evasion, plans for a new album featuring the likes of Lauryn Hill, T.I. and Aretha Franklin, his relationship with R. Kelly and more…

VIBE: How’d you bide your time while you were incarcerated?

Ron Isley: My job was to work in the chapel. I sang for them every Monday and I was watching all kinds of spiritual movies and singing for the guys. I had high respect for anyone there.

Was it a recognition thing?

Yeah. When I came there, what Johnny Cash meant to the authorities is what I meant to [the inmates]. But it was a camp. It wasn’t a prison with a wall around it or nothing. You could get in your car, drive off and go home [but] you would get in a lot of trouble for leaving without permission. They had other rules where you couldn’t have a cell phone but everybody did.

So despite being held there by law, it was a breeze considering where you could have been?

Oh yeah.

Word on the street is that your fly young wife was coming to visit a lot.

Oh yeah. She was there four times a week with my baby. It was regular visits from 9am to 3pm and on all the holidays – Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. My daughter and my brother came to visit too. That made it go real fast for me.

A lot of black artists went to jail in the 60s, did you ever get locked up then?

Nah, never. This is the first time where, it wasn’t jail but it was the first time I ever been locked up somewhere where I couldn’t come home.

How, after all these years, did you fall behind on tax payments?

I had a case against the government so they had a case against me. They wanted me to drop my case and I didn’t drop it and they won. They won because I couldn’t take the stand. I had gotten sick and I don’t want to say they won because of that. They win because they can win. Everything was stacked against me but that’s over with now.

Judge to Chris Brown: ‘You’re Doing a Great Job’

Chris Brown  The Los Angeles judge overseeing Chris Brown’s probation for beating ex-girlfriend Rihanna gave the R&B star a thumbs up on Thursday and urged him to keep up the good work regarding his community service requirement. “You’re doing very well on probation,” Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg told Brown. “You’re doing a great job.” Brown, 21, did not speak during the hearing, according to the Associated Press. The judge said Brown has been consistent in his efforts to satisfy the six-month community labor sentence he was given, but she did not say how many hours he had completed. Schnegg also noted she had read positive reports from a domestic violence counseling program attended by Brown. In 2009, the singer was sentenced to five years probation and six months of community labor for assaulting Rihanna in February 2009 after a pre-Grammy Awards party.

Suge Knight, Kanye West Mediation Fails

Suge Knight & Kanye West  A mediation session meant to settle a lawsuit filed by rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight against Kanye West was not successful, reports the AP. Knight wants more than $1 million in damages from West and his companies after he was shot in the leg at a West-hosted Miami Beach party in 2005. Knight accuses West of failing to provide adequate security. Knight’s attorney, Marc Brumer, says the two sides did not reach an agreement during Thursday’s meeting in Miami, which West attended by phone. The attorney says the case will likely go to trial. The shooter has never been identified, and the case remains unsolved.

First Day of ‘Away’ School for Jackson’s Kids

Prince & Paris Jackson  Home school is now a thing of the past for Michael Jackson’s two eldest kids. Prince Michael, 13, and Paris, 12, started Wednesday at The Buckley School in the San Fernando Valley, described by TMZ as one of the most exclusive private schools in the country. Family sources tell the website that Prince wanted to go to Buckley to have “a social experience.” Initially, Paris was reluctant but changed her mind. Michael’s youngest child, 8-year-old Blanket, will remain home schooled for now. His grandma Katherine Jackson feels he’s too young to venture out, TMZ reported. Other famous Buckley School alums include Matthew Perry, Alyssa Milano, Nicole Richie, Nicollette Sheridan, Laura Dern, Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian.

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