By now you know that Jermaine Dupri couldn’t make it to Pure Atlanta last night because he was in Dubai with Janet Jackson for the Grand Opening of the world’s most expensive hotel, the $1.5 billion dollar Atlantis on the man-made Palm Jumeirah island. I know you’ve all seen pictures of it.
According to JustJared, more than 2000 celebrities from all over the world traveled to Dubai to indulge in the wasteful excess, including A-listers like Charlize Theron, Robert De Niro, Lindsay Lohan, Kylie Minogue, Lily Allen, Michael Jordan, Denzel Washington, Mary-Kate Olsen and even Oprah. B-listers Wesley Snipes and Chris Tucker were also there.
International singing star Kylie was paid a whopping $4 million to perform for one hour. The Grand Opening party for the ultra luxurious Palm Jumeirah man-made island cost more than $32 million and the party guests were worth billions in personal wealth. I’m sure security for the party was ridiculous.
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thats where all the oil is.
new tourist attraction. i will save my money and continue to visit hawaii. thats the closest you can get to paradise
he was ONE chromosome away from having down’s syndrome or being a midget. i swear he was…..
LMAO @ kwallace! I thought that you were supposed to be doing work!!! LOL!!!
Sandra, did YOU go to Pure last night?
sandra please…Dubai is filthy rich…you’re making a big deal out of the money, but those guys can make it RAIN for REAL…
kwallace i am through with you for the day. lmao
Man I saw that celebration on CNN or Today this morning and I can’t wait to hit the lottery so I can go to Dubai and stay at that gorgeous island hotel. If I can’t stay there I at least have to see it. The fireworks display was out of this cotton picking world.
why didn’t you post that hideous pic of wesley snipes looking like a vertical banana?!
Sandra I could have sworn the name of the new hotel was something differant than what you listed. I look forward to more pics of the 3-day event.
My paradise is Miami. . . I left my heart in South Beach!
janet looks good as always. please do NOT put the jackson’s “crazy gene” with the “possible congenital defect gene” together janet and jermaine.
no telling WHAT may happen.
his baby momma prolly thank her lucky stars their beautiful baby girl dodged the bullet….don’t nothing have you shook like having a baby with somebody who may be gene challenged. i know first hand.
ahhh, Hermosa, I left my heart there when I moved from Miami to Atlanta - I have to go back and get it!
Good Lawd I need some money!
@Kwall: Dont start today. LMAO. Puleeez, I havent done any work all week.
kw you are in time out . lmao
ok … and ..
one chromosone away .. priceless … he DOES look like a Umpaa loompaa
totally unrelated, but have we ever had blair underwood as morning wood whew lawdy…looking at that pic on b o s s i p messed up my memory (and damn near something else)…
@14…SIGH OKAY…..i deserved it i guess. but it is the TRUTH! with his small chicklet sized teeth and as dbrown said “ole tangled up eyes” they still tangled up behind those glasses….they not helpin’ him one BIT.
okay okay i am going…..
DIIVVVVAAAA. . .I LOVE MIAMI!!! I went in February of this year and I fell in love with Miami Beach. I never thought that I would enjoy myslef so much but, man do I miss it. I wish I would’ve spend more time on the beach. I’m seriously considering moving there. IT’S GORGEOUS!
Kwall when I get fired from laughing LOUD at your crazy self, can’t I come stay with you? I CAN’T BREATHE!!!! And thanks to Kymystry I have the damn Umpaa loompaa song in my head!!! Thanks guys
-Blogger-
IMO Blair Underwood is so much better than Denzel. He is pure sexy. He has like this devilish grin that lets you know that he can do some freak
sh!t! Loved him Sex and the City!
Blair is on Dirty Sexy Money too with his sexy self. Last episode he had a scene with nothing but a towel…NICE
@hermosa: girl, HE can get IT! i looked at his pic and my leg jerked, okay maybe that’s TMI though…
miami, miami, miami…i have a lot of fond memories from all of my trips there…
oh i need to see if i can pull up that episode, melinla…yummy!
The light show was mesmerizing…I don’t think JD had plans on making it rain in anybody’s club that night.
Hermosa, yeah, it’s gorgeous, but insurance and taxes there are a GRIP!!!! You know we have all those friendly hurricanes
Them eyes are tangled. Double vision like a mo’fo.
Janet, Janet, Janet…I love you. But, your makeup is a tad heavy today. Especially your concealer. I know you been on tour and errthang and you prolly have raccon eyes right now. But DAMN…PUT THE STUDIO FIX DOOOOOOWN!!!!
We’re not even gonna talk about zoot suit Jordan.
@melinla yes you can come to my house. me, my husband who is only home 2-3 days out of the week, and my two girls.
the oldest one is who daddy is genetically challenged. he was born with one hand that doesn’t have all of his fingers (he is missing one but it is not noticeable to outsiders…)
my momma AND my sister BOTH confessed to counting all of her fingers and toes in the delivery room…on the sly. cause him and his mom were in there too. my sister leaned over and whispered “she has them all” so i would have to holler out…in the delivery room….”does she have all of her fingers???” in front of them….that woulda been REAL ugly….
and i don’t want janet to have to go through that (counting toes…not noticing until a week later the innocent baby may have tangled up eyes…not knowing until school starts if the baby got chicklets or not….) best for them to love the one he got or adopt. yes sir.
blair been fine since that show back in the day “LA LAW.”
janet might get lucky and have a beautiful baby . look at his daughter. she favors him , but not too much .
damn you kwallace! that would’ve been ugly and hilarious! his mom gotta know what you were thinking lol…
Hermosa, me and my friends are to south beach in feb, I miss it I havent been to south beach in 2 yrs, 2yrs too long for me to act up!!!
Diva-Taxes are a grip down there and you do have the hurricanes but it’s all worth it to live in paradise!
Good monrnin” fam
@ mizzdallas
The atmostphere that Miami gave me so was different from Chi City. Don’t get me wrong, I love my city, Chi City but ain’t no place in this world like Miami.
*except the airport, that airport is all sorts of wrong! lol
LMAO @ KWALL
Morning model and everyone 1 …
Ummm JD … I can’t not that freezed image - why Sandra??
Please do not post pics of him I can’t take these comments.
Thank you very much.
On topic … can we get some more pics form the event Sandra? And Janet looks very NICE.
Dubai is really a nice place love it every time I go, if u like gold, you can get really good stuff at more reasonable prices. Of course half the treat is flying on Emirates.
Regarding security in Dubai… I doubt it was higher than any other event, people will not pull shenanigans, it’s still the Middle East your butt will get locked up.
@hermosa
As wendy williams say yesssss Honey!!!
As wendy williams say yesssss Honey!!!
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LMAO… I love your love for Wendy.
IS THAT JANET’S HANDS IN HER LAP!!!! MAN HANDS!!!
JJ looks great. but what’s up with the first pic i’m trying to understand why the table cloth looks like it’s part of her shirt (green) but the rest her top is clearly black?
@bloggergirlz to this DAY my momma swear his momma caught her counting….and rolled her eyes. my momma is realer than ME and states…”i don’t give a shyt WHAT she saw me doing. i had to make sure my grandbaby wasn’t illy-formed.”
My friend went to visit in Dubai, she said it’s beautiful.But you know I can care less about who is worth what.JD ain’t worth that much.
Blair on Dirty Sexy Money, with nothing but a towel on :shock: oh geez where I been.I love Blair, he was just sooooo sexy in Set It Off!!
@ iscream
The green you see is the chair she is sitting on. It looks like the back of the chair and she is turned sideways.
Dubai really has it going on…hope to see it one day.
Janet does look very nice…never understood what she saw in Jermaine’s magically delicious ass as Toni Childs would say…
@KWALL!!! Girl I am sittin’ up in here hollerin!!! I know these fools think I’m crazy as he!!…Whew, that shyt is too funny! Thank you…I needed that belly laugh!!!
@ nina thanks I just saw the pic on another site. it’s the chair also her hands are photoshpped or something in these SR pics because they don’t look that manly on another site when i saw them. Just wanted to clear that up.
GO MS. JACKSON!(cause I’m nasty) she looks so fly. I really like the first pic,
That poodle skirt is not cute. That SHIET look like the little lace doily things my grandma use to put on the arms of her couch.
Gangster hat and poodle skirt. Hmmmm, new trend alert people! Ya’ll go head and take this one.
@43….if yall think i’m crazy…kwall ain’t got NATHAN on “mama kwall.” she is old skool crazy. she do stuff and DARE you to say something about it. and if you DO…she will cuss you out so bad it will make you wish you were dead!! LOL. i remember how she used to cuss my daddy the hail OUT. hell they been divorced for 25 years and she STILL call and cuss him out..about some shyt he mighta did back in 1978 and she got to thinking ’bout it and it pissed her off all over again.
ROTFL.
mizzdallas, let me know and I’m going up too!! I’m already going in January, March, May, and July!!! I have to go back and see my peoples!!! And my mommy - I miss my mommy…
JD please sit down, I beg of you. People, let’s get this straight; my opinion of something you’re doing does not make me a hater. it’s my opinion. that’s first.
secondly, at 30+ years, should we still use the term ‘hater?’ Janet could do so much better. this guy is ****y for all the wrong reasons. when will he become the 30something man, and leave is “jump jump” ways behind? it’s time to grow up.
I see she covered up at this event…nothing revealing or fitting. she looks nice.