PIC: USHER & CHILLI....TOGETHER AGAIN? CHILLI'S GOES 'BI-POLAR' ON NEW ALBUM + LISTEN TO USHER'S 'LOVE IN THE CLUB' REMIX FEAT. BEYONCE & LIL WAYNE.

Sandra, you crazy for this one! LOL! If I didn't know that this is an old picture, you may have gotten me...cause Lord knows I don't can't tell when a photo has been Photoshopped. But I must admit, the picture is still cute to look at even if it isn't real. For those of you who were fooled at first glance, the picture above was actually taken of the couple as they played a Nintendo Game Boy while attending the Smirnoff Ice Triple Black Lounge/swag room (where celebrities get a whole bunch of sh!t they don't need for free!) during the 3rd Annual BET Awards in Los Angeles in June 2003. Usher and Chilli broke up about six months after this pic was snapped. Oh, and the magazine they happen to be 'looking at together' is actually the May 2008 issue of Sister 2 Sister magazine with Chilli on the cover. In her cover story, Chilli dished details on her relationship with Usher as well as her upcoming solo debut album. It's been confirmed that the name of the new disc will be called Bi-Polar. Yeah, I know, it threw me for a loop too! But folks in her camp say the singer chose Bi-Polar because it basically serves as the theme behind the album's tracks. You know? Emotions all over the place and every which-a-way and whatnot. But remember, people: although the title is rather um....different, wait and listen to it before passing judgment. It could be fire. (Thanks Zay, for the album title info!)

Speaking of new music, CLICK HERE to listen to Usher's Love in the Club Part II featuring Beyonce and Lil Wayne & CLICK HERE to view another promotional pic from his upcoming album. For more news on Chilli, plug her name into Real Gossip 101's customized search box (up above).

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WOMAN ACCUSES CHRIS TUCKER OF BEING A DEADBEAT DAD TO HER 2-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER.

According to the National Enquirer, actor/comedian Chris Tucker is facing a legal battle with a woman who claims he is the "deadbeat father' of her two-year-old daughter. Gail Webb is demanding child support payments from the 35-year-old comedian, claiming the pair dated for years before he disappeared as soon as they discovered she was pregnant with little Krista Jane. She says, "I just want help with Krista and want her to know her father. If Chris Tucker wants to go to court, I welcome the opportunity to show the world what a big liar - and deadbeat father - he really is." But the Rush Hour star maintains he has never even met his accuser. His representative tells the National Enquirer, "Chris has never met or had a child with Gail Webb. And he has never seen the court papers."

Okay, so this must mean either someone's head is crammed with craziness or someone needs to invest in a paternity test to prove to that other someone whose mind in crammed with crazy that she is indeed stuck on stupid.
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STAR JONES REYNOLDS FINALLY FILES FOR DIVORCE FROM HER HUSBAND OF 3 YEARS.

Are we really surprised to hear of an impending divorce between Star Jones and her husband of three years, Al Reynolds? I mean, really? According to Entertainment Tonight, Jones, 46, filed divorce papers March 26 in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan. The papers are reportedly sealed. In a statement to Entertainment Tonight, Jones wrote: "Several years ago I made an error in judgment by inviting the media into the most intimate area of my life. A month ago I filed for divorce. The dissolution of a marriage is a difficult time in anyone's life that requires privacy with one's thoughts. I have committed myself to handling this situation with dignity and grace and look forward to emerging from this period as a stronger and wiser woman."

Mmmm-hmmm. Girl, you knew exactly what kind of person you were marrying when proposed to ol dude three years ago.

A source close to the former talk show host says the couple’s relationship has been in peril for some time, saying, “It hasn’t been an easy relationship for a while. There were all these rumors out there, all this speculation, which made it difficult for Star.” Jones and Reynolds were married in November 2004 in New York City. The massive ceremony included 500 hundred guests, three matrons of honors, and 12 bridesmaids. Jones was publicly criticized by several peers for using her wedding as an excuse to gather freebies from the wedding industry.
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FOXY BROWN COMMITS A BIG NO-NO: ATTEMPTS TO NEGOTIATE A PLEA DEAL WITH FLORIDA STATE ATTORNEYS WITHOUT HER LAWYER.

Don't you just hate it when people do stupid sh!t? Foxy Brown hasn't been home for jail for a week, and yet she's already inching herself back into her old ways. The same old ways she claims to have left behind Rikers prison walls in order to 'embrace her maturation' and 'foster her growth.' If her Tuesday (April 21) courtdate is any indication, Foxy still has a lot more maturing to do. The rapper showed up in a Broward county courtroom for a status hearing for assault charges stemming from a February 2007 altercation at a beauty supply store, without her lawyer and proceeded to make an attempt at negotiating a plea deal with the state attorney. It was this move that led to her lawyer resigning himself from her case. And can you blame him? How in the hell do you think that trying to negotiate with the prosecutors ON YOUR OWN will make your legal situation better? Especially when you just got out of prison?

I guess the prayers she made at a New York church the other day weren't in vain because the judge in her case gave her two weeks to find a new attorney and to return to court on May 8th. She better be thankful the judge has given her more time to seek legal counsel...something she wouldn't have had to do if she had conversed with first lawyer on what strategy they would use to get her a decent plea deal. The girl goes to prison for 8 months, gets out and all of a sudden she think knows everything there is to know about the judicial system. Somebody better tell her she can't be bringing her jailhouse-lawyer teachings into the real world.

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Foxy was arrested in Pembroke Pines in Broward County after allegedly throwing hair glue at a beauty supply store employee last year. Police claim she became angry after being asked to leave the store since it was closing. Brown was also charged with resisting an officer with violence, battery and struggling with an officer on the scene. After posting bond, Foxy was permitted to return to New York and later wound up in trouble with the law again. Foxy was already on probation for assaulting two manicurists in a Manhattan salon in 2004. She was warned by a judge in March 2007 that she would be sent to prison for a year if she got into any trouble with the law. Five months after the warning, Foxy was sentenced and incarcerated (Sept. 7) for assaulting her neighbor, Arleen Raymond.

Brooklyn's Don Diva is scheduled to be released on May 13.

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JANET JACKSON REVEALS HER CELEBRITY GIRL CRUSH.

Janet Jackson has revealed her girl crush. When questioned by E! online what celebrity she'd have a girl-on-girl (lesbian) relationship with, the singer said Alicia Keys. "I think I would pick Alicia Keys. I think she's wonderful." Jackson said she felt the media questions the sexuality of stars such as Keys and talk show host Oprah Winfrey due to their strength of character. "They are strong women. Maybe they want to put something else behind it because of the strength. Like, you can't be a woman and be strong, and there has to be something else to it."

Janet has been dating record producer Jermaine Dupri for six years and admitted she would be distraught if he revealed he was gay. "I'd be upset because I want to be with him! It's so funny because I joke with him, 'It drives me crazy to be a girl sometimes, so in my next life I'm going to come back as a guy, and you're going to be my b****!'"
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ORISH GRINSTEAD, TWIN SISTER OF 702 MEMBER IRISH, DIES AT THE AGE OF 27 OF KIDNEY FAILURE.

Orish Grinstead, founding member of R&B girl group 702 out of Las Vegas, Nevada, passed away on Sunday, April 20th from kidney failure. She was 27 years old. Orish, who created the group along with her twin sister, Irish and big sister Lameisha, was what friends called 'a good person, sweet, sincere, humble and full of life.' According to friends Orish had been ill for a long time, and sadly, due to other medical complications she suffered from including cancer that had yet to be treated, she was not expected to live too long. I'll post more details as they become available. But for now, my condolences sincerely go out to the Grinstead family, especially to Orish's twin sister, Irish, during this time of their bereavement.

702 got its start during the mid-90s. after being discovered by comedian/actor Sinbad in the lobby of Caesars Palace where they would sing to anyone who would listen during big boxing matches. Originally called 'Sweeta than Suga' before they knew it, with the help from Sinbad, the three sisters headed to Atlanta to compete in a talent show, coming in second place. Later that same night, the ladies met Michael Bivins (New Edition, Bell, Biv, DeVoe) and sang for him. Bivins, who had already signed Chicago-based boy-band Subway to his Biv 10 Entertainment record label--a subsidiary of Motown Records) agreed to work with the sisters. According to Wikipedia, the sisters (along with their cousin Amelia) made their recorded debut on Subway's hit single This Lil' Game We Play (watch video HERE.) Before their solo album No Doubt was recorded and released in the fall of 1996, Orish left the group and was replaced by childhood friend, Kameelah Williams. The three members renamed themselves '702,' which is Las Vegas' area code.

Thanks to DSR at LSA for the details.

No Doubt, spawned such hits as Steelo, All I Want, Get It Together and the album's title track; as well as a Soul Train Lady of Soul Award for BestR&B/Soul Album of the Year - Group, Band or Duo in 1997. It went gold for selling over 500,000 copies worldwide. In 1999, the release of the group's self-titled sophomore album, 702, awarded the girls only one hit single, Where My Girls At? (which was written and produced by Missy Elliott). Still, the album eventually went gold.

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