ACTOR MEKHI PHIFER'S FIANCEE ONI, GIVES BIRTH TO THEIR FIRST SON, MEKHI THIRA PHIFER.

ERs Mekhi Phifer and his fiancée Oni Souratha have welcomed their first child together, his rep tells PEOPLE exclusively. Mekhi Thira Phifer was born in Los Angeles on Tuesday at 6:47 a.m., and weighed 5 lbs., 4 oz. "We are really happy and excited," the couple tells PEOPLE. "He is beautiful." The boy joins Omikaye, the actor's 8-year-old son from Phifer's first marriage to actress, Malinda Williams.

The couple showed off their son's green-themed nursery to some 200 friends – including Don Cheadle, Larenz Tate, Bill Bellamy, Judge Greg Mathis, Allen Payne and Laura Linney – at their baby shower earlier this month. "This is just the start of the tribe," Phifer, 32, told PEOPLE at the shower. "I want to have four or five kids." Phifer went on to say he's 'well-prepared' for the birth of his second son. “I know what it takes and I’m looking forward to it. I have to be right there. With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I’m a hands-on father, to say the least.”

Phifer and his fiancee plan to tie the knot in the following year or so.

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ACTRESS ELISE NEAL SPILLS TEA ON HER 'RELATIONSHIP' WITH 50 CENT & PORTRAYING 'SUPERHEAD' ON THE BIG SCREEN.

Actress Elise Neal revealed to King magazine (November 2007 issue) vague details of regarding her 'relationship' with rapper 50 Cent who has most recently been romantically linked to 22-year-old R&B singer Ciara. According to Neal, she and the multi-platinum rapper had met long before he asked her to play his love interest in his Follow My Lead video last April. Coincidentally, their relationship took a romantic turn in 2004 when the rapper asked the folks at King magazine to pair him up with the K-Ville star for a photo shoot. The 40-year-old actress, who was once engaged to marry Hollywood film producer F. Gary Gray, went on to say that the gestures 50 Cent bestowed upon her in that juicy magazine photo shoot 'goes down as one of the most gentlemanly gestures that has come my way, as far as a guy really trying to get to know me.'

She continued, 'I've gotten to know [50 Cent] him a lot in the past three three years, and he's a wonderful person. You've got to really know him to know that, and I'll always have his back. Right now we're really just cool, but it would be it would be the understatement of the year for me to say it was always just that.' Say word?! Damn, Elise! Was it like that?! Talk about keeping things on the low! But hold up! Wasn't this during the time when 50 Cent was openly dating actress Vivica A. Fox? Neal added that she and 50 Cent are now, 'friends enough to where he knows that if we're doing something I'm not gonna go run and tell Us Weekly. That's not my personality. I think that's the problem with the entertainment industry right now.' Maybe if Vivica had done the same thing Elise did, she'd still be with 50 Cent instead of being known as the dude's number one celebrity stalker. Well, I guess that is now water under the bridge.

In the meantime and in between time, there were once whispers that Neal, who also happens to be one of the industry's first and original clean-cut video vixens (back in the 90s, she appeared in music videos for Father MC, Chubb Rock and Black Sheep), will portray the most nastiest and 'no shame in her game' video vixens in the world: Karrine 'Superhead' Steffans. in a full-length feature film based on turbulent life. Neal says the possibility of her playing that role remains at a standstill. 'I just want it to be something tat she has a lot of control over, which is difficult sometimes in making movies. But I would still do it if it came together in the right way.

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5 YEARS AFTER THE EXECUTION-STYLE DEATH OF JAM MASTER JAY...AND STILL NO LEADS....OR SNITCHES HAS SURFACED.

He was doing what he loved most in a neighborhood recording studio any other hip-hop star would have abandoned long ago - but Jam Master Jay always did his own thing. And that October night in 2002, the pioneering Run DMC deejay, whose real name was Jason Mizell, was doing what he did best - mixing beats - when he was shot in the back of the head in a Queens studio full of people. The execution-style murder of the hip-hop legend remains one of the most notable of the city's unsolved homicides. With the fifth anniversary of his stunning killing approaching, family members of the iconic deejay are still fuming over the lack of cooperation from those believed to have witnessed the murder. "It's five years already and none of his so-called friends that were in the studio have come forth yet," his brother, Marvin Thompson, 53, told the Daily News. "Come on - you were in the studio and you didn't see nothing? It just doesn't make no sense. ... As far as I'm concerned, everybody that was there and hasn't said anything had something to do with it."

Mizell's Oct. 30 murder cast a pall over the hardscrabble Hollis neighborhood where he grew up, and left several members of hip-hop's elite shattered over the death of one of its most beloved and influential figures. The investigation was complicated by the fact that no one in the studio where Mizell was killed would speak with cops, authorities said. This lack of cooperation infuriated the Mizell family, leading them to cut ties with the likes of Randy Allen, Mizell's longtime business partner, and his sister, Lydia High, who allegedly buzzed the killers into the studio.

In the weeks following the killing, cops identified a number of men wanted for questioning. All shared a dubious connection: They once were close to the 37-year-old turntable wizard.

There was Curtis Scoon, an old friend who investigators said had threatened to visit the ground-breaking deejay to settle a decade-old drug debt in the weeks before he was killed. There was Ronald (Tinard) Washington, a career criminal who has told investigators he was outside the Merrick Blvd. studio at the time of the attack, but had nothing to do with it. And then there was Darren (Big Dee) Jordan, a former promoter for Island Def Jam Recordings, and his son, Karl Darren (Little Dee) Jordan. Washington implicated the father and son in Mizell's murder.

But the leads went nowhere.

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HAS KEYSHIA COLE'S MOM & SISTER SHARPENED THEIR 'GHETT-IQUETT'E SKILLS? FIND OUT TONIGHT ON THE 2nd SEASON PREMIERE.

I don't know about you all, but I'm really looking forward to seeing the second season premiere of Keyshia Cole's reality show, Keyshia Cole 2: The Way It Is tonight on BET. And after reading the article below, I think it's a safe bet to assume that this season is going to be filled with nothing but utter, dramatic drama and complete and colossal-sized madness and then some. Therefore and thus and such, you can best believe I already have my DVR set and ret' to record. Let's just hope Keyshia's mama and sister have honed at least a small portion of ghett-iquette (ghetto etiquette) skills...but for some reason I highly doubt it.

Almost no TV show, "reality" or otherwise, can survive with only a lead character, no matter how famous that character is. So what makes R&B singer Keyshia Cole's BET show more compelling as it enters its second season is that Cole's mother creates as much dramatic tension as the star herself. Cole's mother, Frankie, spent the first season in jail, finishing up a three-year sentence on drug charges. Now Frankie's out, and while she's saying the right things, nothing about her life suggests we're guaranteed a "happily ever after" ending. Cole, for now, has moved her mother into her Atlanta mansion and is trying to provide the material and emotional support for her to stay clean and sober.

This includes a "no visitors" rule that also applies to her sister Neffie, who has a drinking problem. Neffie doesn't like the rule, friction develops, and Cole asks a therapist if she can help her family without debilitating herself.

"Reality" shows live for these kinds of soap-opera scenarios, of course, but this one feels a little more genuine than most. One long scene has Cole reclining on a couch, asking for a cup of tea and telling her manager not to cancel a couple of magazine photo shoots, just reschedule them. She looks genuinely worn down. But the greatest dramatic promise here may lie with Frankie, whose life feels as if it's still up for grabs. She says the right things - about how she has to work to regain the love and trust of people in her life - but one imagines all addicts say that.

The question is whether she will follow through. That battle, the stakes of which go way beyond its TV entertainment value, is a major reason "Keyshia Cole 2," tonight at 10:30, will be worth return visits.

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'THE WIRE' ACTOR, IDRIS ELBA IN TALKS TO STAR IN JADA PINKETT SMITH'S DIRECTORIAL FILM DEBUT

Blackfilm.com is reporting that Idris Elba is in negotiations to topline Jada Pinkett Smith's directorial and screenwriting debut, The Human Contract. The actor would play Julian Wright, a charming and prosperous businessman who hides a secret from the rest of the world which tears his soul apart every day. As his personal life falls apart, he meets Michael Reed, a gorgeous stranger who entices Julian to forget his rigid corporate world and try a more bohemian lifestyle, a decision that will not only affect his own life but those of his boss and co-workers. The move also inspires his half-sister, Rita, to re-examine her life with an abusive husband.

Jada Pinkett Smith's husband, actor Will Smith, is producing the film under his Overbrook Entertainment shingle along with partner James Lassiter.

Elba divulged the news of his possible signing during interviews for his upcoming film, This Christmas, a drama that centers around the Whitfield family and their first holiday together in four years.
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REAL OR RUMOR: LISARAYE'S HUBBY RECENTLY SPOTTED CANOODLING WITH EDDIE'S EX-WIFE, NICOLE

First of all, excuse me for being so late with today's top celeb news stories. The beginning of FAMU's homecoming week has started and there's a plethora of activities and events taking place...and with me being a true, through-and-through Rattler, I intend on attending most of this week's activities...but I also intend on keeping this blog updated as much as possible because hey, even though I heart FAMU with a passion, I heart my blog even more. Just wanted to make that clear to everybody! LOL!

Anyhoo, according to the New York Daily News, LisaRaye McCoy-Misick's husband, Turks and Caicos premier Michael Misick, attended the opening of the Mediterranean Village at Sandals' Grande Antigua resort with none other than Nicole Murphy, the ex-wife of film star Eddie Murphy.

McCoy-Misick and Michael are one of the more glamorous couples you could meet. He is the premier of Turks and Caicos, and she, an American actress from TV's All of Us, is the country's First Lady. A month ago, he feted her with a gala 41st- birthday party, attended by celebrities including their mutual friend, Nicole (the ex-Mrs. Eddie) Murphy. But the following weekend, it was Misick and Murphy who were thisclose at the opening of the Mediterranean Village at Sandals' Grande Antigua resort. Mrs. Misick did not attend. Our spies say the premier's bodyguard made sure there were no photos taken of the two. And he did a great job: neither WireImage, the event's official photographer, nor Access Hollywood, who did a segment on the launch, mentioned either of them being there.

But other guests said the pair seemed especially chummy on Friday, Oct. 5, during a party at the Cricketer's Arms, a pub on the property. And some folks started whispering when friendly kisses were exchanged. "It's funny - if you didn't know better, you would have thought they were together," says a source on the island. Misick's office referred us to a spokeswoman, who did not comment (other than to ask if we had a picture).

But the premier and his wife have seemed very much the happy couple at public events since that weekend, including the Turks and Caicos International Film Festival last week. LisaRaye said through a rep: "Nicole is a good friend, and she and Michael were both there for an event but not together."

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