PICS: Ralph Lauren Hosts The Annual Ludacris Foundation Fundraiser
Last night, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges held his annual Ludacris Foundation fundraiser at the high end Ralph Lauren Purple label boutique inside Lenox Square mall in Atlanta.
Celebrities included Gabrielle Union, who co-hosted with Luda; actresses Keshia Knight Pulliam and Mari Morrow, singer Bobby Valentino, football great Warrick Dunn, Kim Zolciak’s ex Lee “Big Poppa” Najjar, my winner of the $500 shopping spree Andrew Palmer and more!
Ralph Lauren’s top executives flew in from New York for the event. Everyone who attended the event donated to the foundation through purchases from the boutique. Everyone bought something, even if it was a decorative candle. 15% of the purchases went to the Ludacris Foundation.
My lucky winner Andrew Palmer, a student at University of South Georgia, was able to meet Ludacris and Gabrielle Union and take pictures with them. Then Andrew, whose username is “Acemaster” on my blog, went shopping for clothes with his winnings! Thanks again to Ludacris, The Ludacris Foundation, Jamal Coleman of J Coleman Presents and Chaka Zulu for making that happen for him!
Ludacris and his fiancee Eudoxie
My winner Andrew Palmer greets actress Gabrielle Union
MORE pics after the break!
This Should Scare You…
Remember when U.S. president Barack Obama promised he would not raise taxes on middle class families who earned below $250,000? Well, as usual, he lied.
Get ready for the VAT tax. It’s the same tax system that Europeans are under. If you think your local state tax is bad, wait until the VAT tax takes effect.
President Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that a new value-added tax on Americans is still on the table, seeming to show more openness to the idea than his aides have expressed in recent days.
After Obama adviser Paul Volcker recently raised the prospect of a value-added tax, or VAT, the Senate voted 85-13 last week for a nonbinding “sense of the Senate” resolution that calls such a tax “a massive tax increase that will cripple families on fixed income and only further push back America’s economic recovery.”
Many European countries impose a VAT, which taxes the value that is added at each stage of production of certain commodities. It could apply, for instance, to raw products delivered to a mill, the mill’s production work and so on up the line to the retailer. Read more…
What this means is, instead of assessing a tax on the final product (such as coffee beans for instance) we will now be assessed a tax on growing the beans, the manufacturing of the coffee beans, the shipping of the coffee beans, in addition to the local tax when we buy the beans in the store.
That’s more taxes than any of us have ever paid in our entire lives. It won’t do anything to revive the economy if most of us are on the unemployment line. But isn’t that what you wanted when you elected a Socialist president to the White House?
By the way, the article I linked in this post has over 6,800 comments left by angry Americans who finally get it. Welcome to Socialist America.
In Case You Missed It: Why Can’t Successful Black Women Find a Husband
ABC Nightline asks the question ‘why can’t successful black women find a man?’ I changed the title to ‘husband’ because most successful black women don’t have trouble finding a man. There are plenty of black men in our community who don’t mind being kept lavishly while spending her money. I can think of a handful of them right off the top of my head.
The problem is that these successful women can’t land a husband because doing so takes a lot more work and effort than they are willing to put out. That’s because most successful black women believe they are above black men. It’s sad but true. Society has devalued black men to the point where our women don’t even respect them any more.
Haven’t you wondered why there is such a proliferation of lesbians in our community within the past two decades?
Last week, ABC gathered together the cream of the crop within the black Entertainment industry to try and tackle the troubling question from the inside.
FanMAIL: Are Tiny & Toya Beefing? Is Reginae Kicked Out of OMG Girls?
I have no clue what’s going on, but I’ve been hearing whispers about why Tiny took her girls Shamra and Keisha (along with her daughter Zonnique) to NY with T.I., but not Toya or Reginae. Whatever it is, I hope it’s not serious and the girls can work things out peacefully between them. I love their friendship.
Loyal reader Layla writes:
Hi Sandra, Just wanted to first say that i love your site . Its My Guilty Pleasure LOL. My question is i haven’t been seeing any tweets from Antonia Toya Johnson Carter directed to Tameka ‘ tiny’ Cottle, Keishababi or Shamrastar for the last week or so , They girls usually tweet regginae but they havent in a while ! hmmmmm ‘ . They usually tweet each other faithfully. The OMG GIRLZ are in New York doing shows but without Regginae . Now Toya is tweeting about Regginae Attending Acting Classes in Atlanta. Toya Seems to have some things on her chest for the last few hours! What’s Really Going On?”
XOXOXOX
Layla
Photos by ExclusiveAccess.net
Celeb Style: Beyonce
Beyonce looked ridiculous in this loose fitting get up as she and Jay Z were leaving the Coachella Valley Music festival in Indio, California yesterday. The only thing that saved her were those fly azz shoes! You can tell a classy woman by the shoes she wears — not by how her stylist dresses her. Beyonce would be soooo lost without a personal stylist to put her look together for her. What a mess!
According to TaSH: the bag is Balenciaga and the Alexander McQueen “Military Inspired” Fatigue Peep-Toe Booties retail for $1295. They can be purchased online or at Neiman Marcus.
Celebs Out & About: T.I.
Rapper T.I. flew his baby mama Tiny, her friends and most of his Grand Hustle staff to NYC earlier this week for business (and pleasure). He was spotted outside his hotel today wearing a classic large monogram Christopher Louis Vuitton backpack.
This particular backpack debuted in 2005 and quickly sold out. The Christopher backpack is favored among urban celebs such as Jay Z, Kanye West, Nick Cannon, Chris Brown and Usher (pictured below with his).
There are a ton of knockoffs available online for as low as $30. But men who desire only the best will be lucky to find this bag on eBay or Craigslist.com since LV no longer sells it.
Photo (T.I.): INF Photo
Celebs Out & About
I’m on the phone right now with someone who knows Drake’s sexy arm piece Maliah Michel personally. Maliah is a well-known stripper at Dreams in Houston, Texas. In fact, she’s the top shelf dancer there and her image adorns all of the club’s flyers.
According to my source, Maliah is, shall we say “on loan” to Drake from her sugar daddy, a Houston businessman who owns strip clubs in the city. Apparently, this is a normal practice within the entertainment industry for pimps/sponsors promoters to “book” their girlfriends to go out of town with rappers and professional athletes.
I won’t name the dude, but my source said Maliah has been dating this man for years. She recently saw them together and as far as she knows, they haven’t broken up. But this is typical of rappers who hire voluptuous beards to cover up their secret down low lifestyles. Of course, I’m not saying this is the case with Drake, who attended the BMI Urban Showcase with his arm candy last night in Atlanta.
Brandy is one of my favorite singers and it saddens me that she threw away a stellar recording career to follow the pack of has-beens who star in reality TV shows. Brandy was spotted in NY’s West Village yesterday on her way to an event.
More after the break…
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