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August 20, 2003
Focus
Queen o f Hip-Hop
to Perform at MTV
Music Awards
(AP) — Mary J. Blige is among the latest
stars lined up to perform at the MTV Video
Music Awards.
The queen o f hip-hop soul joins previously
announced performers 50 Cent, Coldplay, Chris­
tina Aguilera and Good Charlotte.
MTV also said last week that the original five
members o f Duran Duran will be presenters at
the ceremony, along with Drew Barrymore,
Avril Lavigne, Ben Stiller, Nelly and Pamela
Anderson.
The 20th annual awards show is scheduled to
air live at 8 p.m. EDT Thursday, Aug. 28 from
Mary J. Blige
Radio City Music Hall. Chris Rock is the host.
performs during the
Missy Elliott has the most nominations - eight VH1 Divas Duets
- for her “ Work It” video. She’s competing for show in Las Vegas.
video o f the year honors against Justin (AP photo)
Timberlake, who has seven nominations; Johnny
Cash, who has six nominations for his cover o f
the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt”; and 50 Cent
and Eminem, who each have five.
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Rap Industry Insider Cuts Plea Deal
F O O D A N D B EVERAGES W IL L BE
A V A IL A B L E FOB PU R C H A SE.
(A P ) — A rap industry insider
has q uietly cut a plea d eal with
au th o rities in vestigating alleged
ties betw een a m usic label and New
Y ork C ity ’s violent drug trade.
Court papers show that Jon Ragin
- a con v icted drug dealer w ho co ­
produced a recent film m arketed by
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M urder Inc. records - pleaded guilty
to fed eral c o n sp ira c y ch arg es.
A nother man arrested w ith Ragin
earlier this year, Derek H ayes, has
also agreed to a plea bargain with
prosecutors in B rooklyn.
P ro s e c u to rs h a v e d e s c rib e d
R agin as a close associate o f K en­
Two Men Sue ‘P.
Diddy’ over Attacks
Snoop Dogg
Sued by
Teens for
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secretly bankrolling M urder Inc., V ivendi, according to docum ents
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A shanti and Ja Rule.
McGriff, Gotti and Vi vendi 'scorn-
M urder Inc. is a 50-50jo in t ven­ pan ies have not been charged in the
ture betw een M c G riff s longtim e ongoing investigation. M cG riffand
friend, Irv Gotti, and Island-D efJam Gotti deny any wrongdoing.
(A P ) — R ap artist-acto r Snoop
D ogg is b eing sued by tw o L ouisi­
ana w om en w ho say they w ere o f­
fered drugs during M ardi G ras 2002
to flash th eir breasts for pictures
that later appeared on a co v er o f the
video series “G irls G one W ild.”
Snoop Dogg
T he suit by Jaim e C apdeboscq,
w ho w as 17 at the tim e o fth e alleged w ith a video. H ow ever, w hen the
incident, and W hitni C'andiotto, video— known as “Girls Gone Wild
w ho w as 18, also nam es Joseph R. D oggy S tyle” — cam e out, the
Francis, the ow ner o f M antra Films w om en found their pictures on the
Inc., w hich has produced the series cover, the suit alleges.
o f m ail-o rd er videos that feature
A ttorneys for Francis and Snoop
nudity and sexual activity.
D ogg— w hose real nam e is C alvin
T he w om en claim that Francis B roadus and w ho w as host o f the
broke a prom ise that the picture video
have both denied the alle­
w ould not be used in connection gations in court filings.
(A P) — T w o m en have sued
Sean “ P. D iddy” Combs» for $25
m illion each, claim ing that a secu­
rity team at the rap m o g u l's record­
ing studio attacked them for no
reason.
L aw suits filed M onday in M an­
hattan on b eh alf o f T hom as G uest
and Damon Jackson allege thatthey
w ere assaulted in A ugust 2002 at
the D addy’s H ouse studio on W est
44th Street.
C o m b s’ spokesw om an, Susan
M akarichev, said the law suits w ere
“totally baseless” and “the allega­
tions are ridiculous.”
G uest and Jackson w ere trying
to visit C om bs, a friend o f G uest,
w hen one o f the security guards
“confronted plaintiff, threatened
him and thereafter physically as­
saulted him , causing serious physi­
cal injuries and rendering him un­
conscious,” the law suit said. ‘
W hen Jackson w ent to G u e st's
aid, he also w as assaulted, a sepa­
rate law suit said.
Heavy D is Heavy on Lyrics, Light on Scale
H eavy D isn 't so heavy an y ­
more.
T he rap p er-tu m ed -acto r says
h e ’s dropped 135 pounds in the last
year. A lthough he d id n 't say whal
he previously w eighed - o r how he
lost the w eight - H eavy D, w hose
real nam e is Dwight M yers, said the
loss w asn 't prom pted by health
concerns.
“ I w ent on a couple auditions and
one director was kind enough to say,
‘Look, you w ould’ve had this part
but y o u ’re not fitting, y o u ’re stifling
yourself,” he told the Television
Critics Association last week.
H eavy D plays a m echanic in
“T he T racy M organ Show ,” a pro­
posed show starring the form er
“ S aturday N ight Live” com ic. It’s
not yet on N B C ’s fall schedule.
H eavy D com posed and perform s
the sh o w ’s title them e.
T he 36-ycar-old has no plans to
lose the m oniker h e ’s used since he
broke into the m usic business.
H eavy D and the Boy z earned three
G ram m y nom inations and scored a
hit w ith “W e G ot O ur O w n T hang.”
“T here’s a lot o fchecks involved
w ith ‘ Heavy D, ’ so that nam e stays,”
he said.
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