Woman Admits HIV Hoax
A Detroit woman has admitted engineering a not-so-elaborate hoax claiming she passed HIV to 500 men. Anyone with half a brain would know that such a thing is impossible. Quick! How many men do you know who contracted HIV from a female? I can think of just one: Magic Johnson (who is probably lying to cover up an alternative lifestyle).
Jackie Braxton, 32, told the Detroit News she does not have AIDS. She said she made up the story and videotaped herself wearing a bandana over her face to educate the public. The only problem is, female-to-male transmission is less than 1% of the total AIDS/HIV cases in the country. So exactly what was she educating the public about?
Naturally, another gossip website that is known for writing false and misleading stories quickly posted Braxton’s video on Wednesday and their gullible readers as well as the media fell for the hoax.
Last year, the same gossip website also posted a video from another clown who claimed to pass HIV to 500 women — same scenario, different gender. That fool was arrested for another hoax involving Gerber baby food.
This is why you will never see this blog re-posting any stories from that other website.
Police picked up Braxton at a college she attends downtown and immediately took her to the city’s health department to be tested for the virus that causes AIDS. The test results are confidential, but Braxton said she does not have HIV. Read More…
IRS: Wyclef Jean’s Charity YELE Is Shady
Thanks to loyal reader BlackBarbie404 for sending this link to a story on Smoking Gun about Wyclef Jean’s “charity” which apparently only enriches him and his family. Now I want my money back. I think I’ll call the bank and cancel my donation.
The Haiti earthquake has already triggered hundreds of thousands of donations to musician Wyclef Jean’s charitable foundation, which expects to raise upwards of $1 million a day in the disaster’s wake. However, Internal Revenue Service records show the group has a lackluster history of accounting for its finances, and that the organization has paid the performer and his business partner at least $410,000 for rent, production services, and Jean’s appearance at a benefit concert. Though the Wyclef Jean Foundation, which does business as Yele Haiti Foundation, was incorporated 12 years ago–and has been active since that time–the group only first filed tax returns in August 2009. That month, the foundation provided the IRS with returns covering calendar years 2005, 2006, and 2007–the only periods for which it has publicly provided a glimpse at its financial affairs. In 2006, Jean’s charity reported contributions of $1 million, the bulk of which came from People magazine in exchange for the first photos of a pregnant Angelina Jolie (the actress reportedly directed that the publication’s payment go to Jean’s charity, not her personally). As seen on the following pages from the foundation’s 2006 tax return, the group paid $31,200 in rent to Platinum Sound, a Manhattan recording studio owned by Jean and Jerry Duplessis, who, like Jean, is a foundation board member. A $31,200 rent payment was also made in 2007 to Platinum Sound. The rent, tax returns assure, “is priced below market value.” The recording studio also was paid $100,000 in 2006 for the “musical performance services of Wyclef Jean at a benefit concert.” That six-figure payout, the tax return noted, “was substantially less than market value.” The return, of course, does not address why Jean needed to be paid to perform at his own charity’s fundraiser. Read More…
Celebs Out & About
Speaking of pregnant pseudo-celebrities… “singer” Christina Milian looks about ready to bust while putting gas in her tank yesterday.
Kanye West’s beard Amber Rose finally grew some hair. Now she no longer looks like a stripper version of Big Bird.
Garcelle Beauvais should never step out of the house without a pair of pantyhose on. Those legs are not the biz.
Former rapper-turned-actor LL Cool J could easily be confused for a homeless man outside a food bank. He used to be so fine and macho. I wonder what he thinks about his firstborn son being gay?
Photos: Crunktastical.net, Wireimage/Getty, Zimbio.com
Lying Heifer: VH!’s Ophilia Doing Damage Control for Trey Song
Reality TV personality Ophilia, aka Trey Song’s beard, took to her Twitter page yesterday to defend her homie Trey from the backlash that is sure to come now that it has been revealed that he takes it from the back.
This comes as shocking news to his mostly unemployed rabid fans who are mesmerized by Trey’s good looks but cluelessly ignore the obvious gay signs.
According to another gossip blog, Trey Song pulled strings to get his boy toy, singer Brandon Hines, added to Jay Z’s Blueprint 3 Tour. Ophilia posted these tweets on her Twitter page yesterday, most likely per the request of Trey.
Her tweets about getting her back twisted out by Trey (LOL) are hardly believable at all. If she was really getting it from him like that she wouldn’t have time to be on twitter 24/7. People with lives do not spend most of their time tweeting.
Also, isn’t she married with a bunch of kids?
Thanks to loyal reader Zuley for the screen grabs and the video link to Trey and Brandon singing a love song to each other.
Rapper Mystikal is Home
Former no Limit rapper Mystikal was released from prison yesterday. If you recall, Mystikal, real name Michael Lawrence Tyler, was sentenced to six years in prison in 2004 for sexually assaulting his 46-year-old hairstylist.
The New Orleans native and two of his bodyguards forced the woman to perform oral sex on them after he accused her of stealing $80,000 in checks. But the courts don’t take lightly to street justice. Mystikal was convicted on the strength of a videotape recording of the incident which was found in his home.
The 39-year-old rapper plans to come back strong on the rap scene and tells his fans to “Watch out now!” He is still signed to JIVE Records and has one album left on the deal.
Thanks to loyal reader Edward Lewis for the video link!
Deelishis and Her Pregnant Belly Cover Sister2Sister Mag
Pregnant reality TV personality Chandra Davis, aka London Charles, aka Deelishis (Flavor of Love) covers the current issue of Sister2Sister magazine.
Deelishis is around 10 months pregnant with a girl, and in the issue she talks about how she and her husband Orlando came up with the name for their baby, Lexington Brielle.
They look so happy together (despite the rampant down low rumors) but we wonder if all that hydrogel in her butt is healthy for the baby?
Tylenol Recall Extended
A Tylenol recall that only covered Tylenol Arthritis caplets has been extended this morning to include more than two dozen other over-the-counter (OTC) medicines manufactured by McNeil Healthcare LLC, the arm of Johnson & Johnson that manufactures Tylenol products.
The other OTC medicines includes Tylenol Extra Strength, Rolaids and a number of children’s medicines, affecting 27 products in all.
The recall is in response to consumer complaints of stomach pains, nausea and an odd odor from the pills.
The odor was linked to the presence of a musty-smelling chemical called 2,4,6-tribromoanisole (TBA) which results from the breakdown of the chemical in the wood pallets used to transport and store the packaging materials for the drugs.
The only difference between all Tylenol pain products is the strength of the main active ingredient in Tylenol, which is acetaminophen.
Regular strength Tylenol are 325mg each. Extra-strength Tylenol are 500mg each and Tylenol Arthritis Pain caplets are 650mg each — the strongest dosage. Other than the dosage, there is no difference in the chemical structure.
This means ALL Tylenol products should be recalled. But that’s not likely to happen because Tylenol’s stock would plummet and put the company out of business. So this is a case of the public health being placed at risk to protect the market share of a large corporation.
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