Jesse Jackson is a deadbeat dad
Comedian Bill Cosby and Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson have more secret children than Joe Jackson.
Jesse Jackson, who is no relation to Joe, admitted he fathered a daughter, Ashley, by a woman he carried on an affair with in 1999. The girl is now 12, and Jackson owes her mother, Karin Stanford, $11,694.50 in back child support, according to the ENQUIRER.
Stanford was a top aide with Jackson’s Rainbow PUSHCoalition until The ENQUIRER exposed the affair — and the love child — in 2001 (how many of you are thinking at least she’s black?)
After admitting paternity, Jackson paid the court ordered child support and visited Ashley (and Stanford) at their California home regularly over the past decade.
Drake Dumping Massive Condos Featured in “I’m On One” Video
The real estate market is still in a slump, so why would Canadian rapper Drake drop almost $2 mil on luxury condos in Miami? Probably because he believed the real estate broker’s pitch that the housing market was hot again, and his 2 investment properties would increase in value.
Now Drake is trying to cut his losses, and he hopes one of you will love him enough to want to tattoo his name on your forehead take his 2 condos off his hands.
According to TMZ.com:
Drake put the properties up for sale last week — located right next door to each other in Miami’s ritzy Marquis highrise — listing one for $1.9 million and the other for $599,000. Drake combined the two into one MASSIVE condo, and lived in both simultaneously.
The larger one is a sprawling 3,800 square feet with 3 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms. The “smaller” one-bedroom condo is still gigantic … at 1,675 square feet.
Drake purchased the properties together in January 2011 for a combined price of $1.903 million. So, if Drake gets his asking price … he’ll make $596,000 in profit (even though no one ever gets their asking price).
Gingrich: why are blacks offended by his plan to put children to work?
During Monday night’s GOP debate in Myrtle Beach, SC, presidential candidate Newt Gingrich once again spoke on his much-derided plan to put school children to work. Sometimes it isn’t what you say but how you say it. So Gingrich was careful to couch his controversial plan in more acceptable phrasing.
Gingrich insists that black kids don’t need handouts from President Obama — they need jobs. Gingrich says schoolchildren should be given janitorial jobs because, in his opinion, janitors in the NYC public school system earn way too much money.
The average annual salary for a NYC public school janitor is $80,000, compared to a teacher who earns $45,000 annually.
According to the NY Daily News, Gingrich argued the best thing public schools could do for students – particularly black students – was to give them a broom.
“Can’t you see that this is viewed at a minimum as insulting to all Americans, but particularly to black Americans?” asked Fox News questioner Juan Williams, who is part Hispanic and black.
“No, I don’t see that,” Gingrich responded, with rousing applause from the majority white audience.
Tiger Wood’s Ex-Wife Tears Down $12 Million Manse to Build Up-to-date Version
Gossip website TMZ.com reports that Tiger Woods’ ex-wife, Elin Nordegren is building “the same” $12 million mansion that she razed to the ground last week. But the architectural rendering of the new home shows a vastly different house from the old mansion which was one massive 9,000 sq ft structure.
The only similarities in the 2 structures are the roof line and the shape of the building. But that’s where all similarities end.
The new home is one main house surrounded by smaller houses on either side of it.
A source told PEOPLE.com the old house was 90 years old, infested with termites, and didn’t meet code to withstand hurricanes. Elin likely settled on the old house because it reminded her of the stately white stucco mansions back in her native Sweden.
Elin filed for divorce from Tiger Woods after his minor SUV fender bender in Dec. 2009 revealed his secret double life.
According to TMZ, who obtained the public floor plans that Elin submitted to the Palm Beach County Dept. of Planning, Zoning & Building, the new house boasts:
– 9 bedrooms
– 2 large living rooms
– huge formal dining room
– 2 kitchens
– large pool
– GROTTO!!!
– pool cabana with HUGE living room
– 2 jacuzzis
– detached guest house with 3 bedrooms
– 3 guest bungalows
– wine cellar
– ginormous master wing with crazy big walk in closet
– basement that runs the entire length of the house
Daryl Strawberry’s Ex-wife Forced to Get a Job
According to gossip website TMZ.com, the gold digging ex-wife of former NY Mets baseball star Daryl Strawberry will be forced to get a job after she lost an epic court battle over some of his money.
Strawberry’s ex-wife, Charisse Strawberry, was promised $800,000 by Strawberry as part of their $5 million divorce settlement in 2005, according to court documents.
Apparently, Charisse burned through the $5 mil that she already collected in the settlement. So she went after the Mets for monies Darryl earned in the 80s.
The only problem is Daryl, 49, owes the IRS around $470K — so the Mets told Charisse their hands were tied. Charisse took the Mets to court whereupon the Mets explained to the judge that Daryl receives $8,891 a month as delayed compensation for his time with the ball club.
The judge ruled in favor of the Mets, saying the IRS always gets first dibs on any monies owed by a living, breathing taxpayer. And even though Daryl was diagnosed with metastatic cancer in the late 1990s, he’s still alive.
According to TMZ, “Charisse and the Mets finally agreed last month to let the IRS take its cut first — but since the Mets are only doling out $8,891 a month in Darryl’s name … it’ll be at least until 2016 before Charisse sees a penny.”
Now Charisse is forced to get a job to sustain her lifestyle until the Mets — and the IRS — sort out who gets a cut first.
Concert Promoter and His Son Kidnapped At Gunpoint After Nas is a No-Show
An American concert promoter and his son learned the hard way that rappers are not the most scrupulous businessmen in the world.
According to TMZ.com, AllGood Entertainment CEO Patrick Allocco and his son are currently being held at gunpoint in an Angola hotel until rapper Nas and another rapper returns the $315K each that they were paid to perform a New Year’s Day concert.
Allocco’s people tell TMZ that Nas and opening act Jemiah Jai were paid $315k to perform 2 shows (Nas’ cash was wired to him in America) — but Nas failed to make his flight in the U.S., and apparently he didn’t reschedule the concert.
Naturally, the Angolan money man who ante’d up the cash for Nas’ concert fee assumed he was being screwed. So he sent his goons to fetch the promoter and his son and bring them to him — at gunpoint.
The promoter and his son were handed over to Angolan police and interrogated for 7 hours until the U.S. embassy stepped in to secure their release.
But they’re not quite free to go.
According to TMZ, the men are being held (likely at gunpoint) “in residence” at a local hotel while the two sides try to resolve the money situation.
Alloco’s people released this depressing message to Nas and his people:
“The hope is that Nas and Jemiah Jai will return all of the monies that were wired to them immediately so that our ransom may be paid and our safe return to the United States may be facilitated.”
Sadly, they’ll be waiting a long time if they expect Nas to return any of that money. We are taking about rappers here.
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