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It looks like there is trouble in paradise for Scooter Braun, and this time the trouble has nothing to do with Taylor Swift.

Over the weekend, Braun deactivated both his Twitter and Instagram accounts. He did not give a reason for the deactivation, but it could have something to do with the recent divorce news.

Just days earlier, it was revealed that Braun filed for divorce from his wife of seven years, Yael Cohen Braun. They have three kids together, so this legal battle could get a little messy.

According to the court documents, Braun is asking for joint custody of their children and has already agreed to pay Yael spousal support, which would make sense considering he’s worth an estimated $400 million.

What’s interesting is that their split was first reported back on July 11, but at the time, sources seemed hopeful they’d work it out. The sources said the couple had been going through a rough patch for the past couple months, but thought that time away from each other would help.

They aren’t giving up on the marriage and are hopeful they can find a way to make it work. But for now being apart is for the best.

Well, that source must have received some bad information because just a couple weeks later, Braun made this divorce filing…giving up on their marriage.

The couple got married back in 2014. According to Braun, he first saw Yael four years earlier when she was giving a TEDx Talk. “I saw a video of her talk and I just really wanted to meet her,” he said at the time.

Sad they couldn’t work things out. Hopefully we don’t find out that Braun was cheating. The deletion of the social accounts is a bit suspicious, but perhaps he just doesn’t want to deal with the divorce haters at the moment.

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Damn. Eddie Murphy’s son, Eric Murphy, is trying to create a super baby comedian with Martin Lawrence’s daughter, Jasmin.

On Saturday, the pair made it Instagram official. Jasmin went on her Instagram and posted two photos of herself with Eric, writing, “Happy birthday, my love! I’m so incredibly blessed to know you, to love you, and to have you by my side.”

She ended her caption by stating she loved him so much, which makes it sound like they’re pretty serious. For those who don’t know, Jasmin is 25-years-old and graduated from Duke University, so she got brains as well.

Eric is Eddie’s eldest son, and Jasmin is Martin’s eldest daughter.

Both of their dads starred in the 1992 film Boomerang and the 1999 flick Life, which was nominated for a 1999 Academy Award for the makeup in the movie. (I almost forgot that Martin was in Boomerang...)

Martin’s daughter’s feed consists of style posts, pics with her dad and even an inspirational photo of Vice President Kamala Harris. One of her pics showed Jasmin with her arm wrapped around Eric while he kissed her cheek. She was grinning from ear to ear.

Eric is 32-years-old. He’s also posted photos with Jasmin on his social media feed, so the love goes both ways.

Can you imagine if they have kids together? You got Eddie Murphy blood and Martin Lawrence blood? If those aren’t the funniest damn kids in the world, then what are we even doing in life?

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A typical date night for the average American? A dinner for two at Chili’s followed by a movie starring Vin Diesel, and then a smash-fest, some aftersmash Call of Duty why she texts her girlfriends.  

But Drake is not your average dude. He’s he’s worth nearly $200 million, so a basket of mozzarella sticks from Chili’s just ain’t gonna cut it.  Although it could, it really could.  But Drake has got to be extra.  

For those who don’t know, Drake has a new thing going on with Johanna Leia, who is the mother of Sierra Canyon star basketball player, Amari Bailey. He’s teammates with LeBron’s son, and that’s apparently how Drake and Leia connected.

Drake sat between her and Michael B. Jordan during a recent basketball game…

That was back in mid-June, and now just a few weeks later, their relationship has heated up.

Drake rented out an empty Dodgers stadium on Thursday to surprise Leia with dinner in front of the dugout.

A  helicopter camera spotted the 34-year-old at a table with Leia near the dugout on the third-base side of the field … and there was a white table cloth, multiple dishes, flowers and even a personal bartender for the couple.

In fact, the two appeared to have gotten personalized Dodgers jerseys for the occasion … with Leia rockin’ hers right at the table!

What’s interesting is that this date night was exposed when a news helicopter just happened to be flying over the stadium.  One thing for sure...we all know that she is definitely Drake's type!!

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Let's be clear.....She tested positive for Marijuana.  

All these headlines out here talking about "DRUGS" as if she took some performance enhancing substance.  She literally smoked some weed.  When you write a headline like this:

"U.S. sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson reportedly fails drug test, could miss 100 meters at Tokyo Olympics 2020"

or this

"Sha’Carri Richardson to miss Olympic 100 after failed drug test"

It leaves out the substance and the fact it's only a 30 day ban.  

Some blogs post that headline without any context at all.  I get it, yes, it is a drug.  But it's a whole set of different circumstance then it being some type of steroid.

In fact, her times are even more amazing considering she ran with weed lungs and still "Smoked" everyone.  

Banning for performance enhancing drugs is a much longer suspension.  Just two weeks ago Runner Shelby Houlihan was banned for 4 years after testing positive for anabolic steroid.  She says it's a false positive based on a burrito she ate. But the penalties for steroid usage are much stiffer.  

Now, shame on Sha'Carri, her team and her plug for not doing the right thing and ruining what could be the biggest opportunity of her lifetime.  We need to do better.  We don't get a chance to be sloppy.  Greatness for us often comes with the task of needing to be great, not perfect, but great 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year.  The 2nd you slip up, they got you.  Because they are watching and waiting.  

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Lil Nas X could have been a one-hit wonder. In fact, I’d argue that’s what most people thought he’d be after releasing the hit single ‘Old Town Road‘, which spent 19 weeks atop the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the longest-running number-one song in history.

Even with all that success, he could have faded into obscurity had he not backed it up with more hits and more tricks. The dude knows how to build an audience, especially on social media, and now he’s one of the hottest acts out there.

On Sunday, he gave perhaps the most entertaining performance from the BET Awards.

On Sunday, June 27, the 22-year-old singer set the stage ablaze at the ceremony, where he sang his hit song, ‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name).’ While his performance received instant buzz due to the homage paid to Michael Jackson’s iconic song, ‘Remember The Time,’ it also received praise and notable attention due to the steamy kiss he shared with one of his male dancers.

He did the damn thing on stage, and at the end, he shared a pretty long kiss with a male dancer. After the kiss, the audience cheered and he received a standing ovation from the audience. It was a pretty special moment. Honestly, it’s a little weird that this is getting so much attention, ’cause there have been several instances of women kissing on stage. But if two dudes kiss, everyone got something to say.

For the most part, everyone was supportive. Even Diddy gave him a shout-out on Twitter, writing, “Lil Nas X did that!!! Be fearless!!!”

But of course, there’s always a few haters. One user slammed Lil Nas X for not respecting “our ancestors,” and Lil Nas X fired back…

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Oh, boy. The conservatives and patriotic Petes are all upset today after an Olympic hammer thrower named Gwen Berry turned away from the flag while the national anthem played during an Olympic trial event in Oregon.

Gwen Berry — who qualified for her second US Olympic team during the trials — shifted to face the stands rather than the flag before holding up a black shirt that read, ‘Activist Athlete.’

You can see her in the photos looking uninterested in the whole thing. In fact, she kinda looked annoyed, as if someone was pulling a prank on her.

And it turns out, she was annoyed. After the event, and after the moment went viral, Berry explained that she feels as if she was setup.

“They had enough opportunities to play the national anthem before we got up there. I was thinking about what I should do. Eventually, I stayed there and I swayed … It was real disrespectful. I don’t really want to talk about the anthem because that’s not important. The anthem doesn’t speak for me. It never has.”

I’m all for a good conspiracy theory, but I don’t about this one. I don’t think this is the kind of attention the US Olympics wants, but what do I know.

A rep for the USA Track and Field team denied her accusations, claiming the anthem is scheduled to play daily at a certain time.

“We didn’t wait until the athletes were on the podium for the hammer throw awards. The national anthem is played every day according to a previously published schedule.”

Some of you may remember that the International Olympic Committee has already said athletes who compete at the games are forbidden from making political/social scenes during the events or while at the podium. So it’ll be interesting to see if athletes respect that, or say “f**k it, they can’t ban us all!”

I’m not sure why the committee made that decision, honestly. I think it just made things more heated. When you tell someone they can’t do something, they want to do it even more.

In any event, the backlash is pretty stupid. Just because you don’t put your hand over your heart during some obnoxiously patriotic song, does not mean you don’t love or even respect your country…whatever the hell that means anyway.

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Tyrese Gibson has said and done a lot of dumb things throughout his career. At 42-years-old, he still hasn’t developed a filter, even when it comes to people he’s working next to on set for 12 hours a day.

Some of you may remember that Gibson called out Dwayne Johnson back in October of 2017 for delaying the ninth Fast & Furious movie after he was offered his own spinoff, Hobbs & Shaw.

Gibson went on TMZ and said Johnson was just being selfish:

“I just got a problem with Dwayne. It appears that he’s being selfish, it appears that he’s so focused on furthering his own self-interests.”

He also threatened to quit the franchise if Johnson returned, which was a silly move on his part, because you know they’d choose The Rock over Gibson. No question.

In July of 2018, Johnson went on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, and basically revealed the feud was entirely one-sided…

“We haven’t talked at all. That whole thing with Tyrese, it was pretty disappointing because I’ve been friends with Tyrese for a very long time. And, you know, I always feel like a beef requires two people to actually jump in it, and it was really one-sided and he had voiced his opinion a lot on social media.”

And that’s what Gibson does. He talks a lot of trash on social media. Anyway, the beef continued into August 2019, after Hobbs & Shaw released to slightly disappointing box office numbers.

Gibson went on his Instagram and wrote:

“I have to show my respects for one thing … He tried. Folks called me a hater … And attacked me for speaking out … Breaking up the family clearly doesn’t have the value that one would assume it does.”

Certainly sounds like Gibson is jealous of Johnson, no? Seems clear to me.

Anyway, after ‘F9’ was finally released this past weekend, Gibson went on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and revealed his feud with Johnson has ended. In fact, they’re now talking every week on the phone, sometimes for several hours.

“We’ve been on the phone every other day. We reconnected in a real way. I think we’re both better men on the other side of all that stuff that went down. To be honest, I didn’t know how the phone call would happen. But it did happen and we’re about 20 phone calls in. We’re in a competition right now on who can leave the longest voice note.”

That’s cool and all. Proves Johnson is a bigger man than I am. I would have dropped Gibson a long time ago if I were The Rock. I would have said I wasn’t returning to the franchise if Gibson was there, ’cause I’m a petty bitch.

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Lot's of words come to mind when you think about Jay-Z; some good some bad.  After the news came out that he was suing Dame Dash over his attempted NFT auction of the copyrights to Reasonable Doubt, Jay was called a snake, thief, shady and a whole host of colorful adjectives.  

Now this.  Yikes!  It's sort of a slap in the face to Dame.  Sort of.  On the surface it looks like he ripped off Dame's idea, but it is very different and it was probably in the works long before we heard about the law suit.  

WHAT EXACTLY IS GOING ON?

Jay-Z is basically auctioning off an NFT (non-fungible token) in the form of digital art, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Reasonable Doubt.  He commissioned, Brooklyn based artist, Derrick Adams to create the animated digital piece that will be used for the auction.  The picture is aptly titled, "The Heir to the Throne".  That was supposed to be the original name of Reasonable Doubt.  

Sotheby's is running the auction and bidding starts at $1000.  The auction started yesterday and will run until July 2nd.  Jay-Z is not playing.  

On Sotheby's site, where you can actually make a bid right now, it provides a brief description of the auction:

"Heir to the Throne is the only official event authorized by JAY-Z to commemorate Reasonable Doubt’s historic 25th anniversary and is being presented as a standalone online auction. The digital artwork is now on view in Sotheby’s York Avenue Galleries and virtually via Sotheby’s gallery in the Voltaire Art District in Decentraland."

Sotheby's also provides more historical context related to the album as well as the artist, Derrick Adams.  It's all very well done.  This was not thrown together overnight.  

Although "NFT" is being used to describe what Dame tried to do and what Jay-Z is doing, the projects are very different.  Jay-Z is doing something that has been done before. He's selling a piece of digital artwork.  Dame would have made history by selling copyrights to an album as an NFT.  Big difference.  

So far there has been no official word from Dame regarding the auction, but I'm expecting there to be something.  Dame's not the kind of person to keep his opinions quiet.  

As of the time of this post, the current bid is at $16,000.

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When celebrities go through a divorce, it’s typically friendly in the beginning, or at least they make it look friendly. They claim they’re still best friends and want nothing but the best for their kids.

But then after a year or two, the claws start coming out. Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan announced their separation nearly two years ago after almost a decade of marriage. They share a six-year-old daughter together named Everly.

And since they have so much money (and a kid) involved, the divorce process was lengthy. The divorce was just finalized last week! And while both parties are happy to close that chapter, the fight over custody is just beginning.

Tatum has filed legal docs, asking the judge to create a schedule for all the major holidays. He also wants to have consistent FaceTime calls with Everly while she’s with Jenna.

Channing says the problem is pretty common … he and ex-wife Jenna Dewan have busy lives. According to the docs, ‘Due to our constantly changing work schedules, we have had conflict over adjustments to our schedules to ensure both parties are able to have equal time with our daughter, Everly.’

Things are apparently so rocky between them that Channing has requested the help of a co-parenting counselor to help assist with the scheduling. This obviously means he and Jenna are having a difficult time agreeing on anything.

Channing also hopes to get permission to take their daughter out of school for up to 5 days per year for special “work-related occasions.”

[Jenna] and I are fortunate to have employment that offers us unique and once in a lifetime opportunities. I would like to be able to share these experiences with Everly and believe that Everly would benefit from getting to take advantage of such opportunities.

We’ll have to see how this all plays out. It’s good he’s going to the court for help though. Sometimes you need an outsiders perspective. Maybe Channing and Jenna should watch the recent flick ‘Marriage Story‘ that sh*t will hit them hard. For those who haven’t watched it, it’s about a director and an actress going through a divorce and fighting over custody of their kid.

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Taylor Swift Becomes Winningest Artist In AMAs History With 29 Awards, Gives Speech That Makes Her Mom Cry

Once again, playing the victim turned out pretty well for Taylor Swift. In the two weeks leading up to the 2019 American Music Awards, there was a lot of controversy surrounding Swift’s performance. She sent out a letter to her fans claiming her old record label, Big Machine, wouldn’t allow her to perform her old songs.

She called out Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta, basically encouraging her fans to give them hell.

It worked. Her fans sent thousands of messages, and some even sent death threats. One person even called Braun’s wife at home and threatened to kill his entire family. This caused Braun to send out an open letter, saying Swift is free (and was always free) to perform her old songs.

So yeah, another win for T-Swift. It’s hard to believe one of the most powerful artists in the world, who has a net worth close to $400 million, could be the victim so often…but here we are.

Anyway, she had a special night at the AMAs on Sunday. She became the winningest artist in AMAs history with a total of 29 awards. She was presented the Artist of the Decade award and won the Artist of the Year award. In addition to all that, she also put on a performance, where she was allowed to perform her old songs.

During one of her many speeches, she thanked her fans and made her mother cry…

Guys, we’ve had fun, incredible, exhilarating times together and may it continue. Thank you for being the reason why I am on this stage. From the very first day of my career until tonight, I love you with all of my heart, thank you for everything. Thank you, AMAs. Thank you. Just, thank you. I’m so lucky to get to do this. Thank you.

This industry is really weird. Sometimes people who do what we do feel like, I’m sure some of you feel like this too, with your lives — like, you feel like your stock is up or down, or people like you or they don’t, or you’re feeling bad about yourself. But, the people that hang in there for you are the ones that you will never forget.

She did not directly mention the controversy with her former record label; however, she did wear an outfit (in the beginning of her performance) which featured the names of her old albums.

Shade thrown? No doubt.

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It’s been almost exactly one year since the death of Mac Miller. The 26-year-old rapper died from a fatal drug overdose back on September 7, 2018. His death was a shock to the music industry and basically sparked the start of a new life for his ex-girlfriend Ariana Grande.

After his death, an autopsy revealed Miller had fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol in his system. For those who don’t know, fentanyl is EXTREMELY dangerous. Even most drug addicts don’t knowingly f**k with it unless they’re way off the deep end.

Police have been investigating Miller’s death for a year now, and they just made their first arrest.

According to the reports, police have arrested a man named Cameron James Pettit for allegedly selling Miller fentanyl-laced pills just two days before his overdose.

Per the docs, prosecutors claim Mac had asked Pettit for “percs” — short for percocet, a prescribed painkiller full of oxycodone — and that the dealer ended up supplying the pills that contributed to Mac’s overdose death last year. The AP was first to report the story.

According to the press release, Pettit actually went on Instagram shortly after Miller’s death and messaged some of his friends saying he shouldn’t say anything “just to be smart.”

No word on how much time he’s facing behind bars, but it’s likely more charges will come out against him.

Fentanyl is scary sh*t, folks.

Back in July of this year, Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Tyler Skaggs was found dead inside his hotel room. Just last week, his toxicology report was released, and it turns out he had a mix of fentanyl, alcohol and oxycodone in his system. Police are trying to figure out who gave him those drugs.

I'm not advocating drugs by any means, but it seems if you are going to do them, stay away from Fentanyl.  

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You might take a quick look at Brad Pitt’s life and think, “Pfft, this dude has it all,” but having it all doesn’t always equate to being happy…as Justin Bieber explained the other day.

Pitt might be one of the biggest movie stars in the world, but throughout much of his life, he’s been dealing with a drinking problem. A problem so severe that it ruined his marriage with Angelina Jolie and ruined his relationship with a few of his kids.

After losing his family, Pitt decided it was time to really face his demons.

In a new profile piece for The New York Times, Pitt talked about removing his “drinking privileges” for the first time in his life.

“I had taken things as far as I could take it, so I removed my drinking privileges,” he explained. He then talked about how he went to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings for over a year.

"You had all these men sitting around being open and honest in a way I have never heard. It was this safe space where there was little judgment, and therefore little judgment of yourself. It was actually really freeing just to expose the ugly sides of yourself. There’s great value in that."

According to Pitt himself, he’s been living a sober life since 2017 and it’s changed his life completely.

He talked to GQ back in 2017 about how he couldn’t remember a day without alcohol or a joint. It had been a constant in his life since college.

"I’m running from feelings. I’m really, really happy to be done with all of that. I mean, I stopped everything except boozing when I started my family. But even this last year, you know — things I wasn’t dealing with. I was boozing too much. It’s just become a problem."

Now that he’s sober for the first time in his adult life, hopefully he can start to work on repairing his relationship with his son, Maddox. That’s who he got into a fight with during the infamous plane incident. Last we heard, Maddox still doesn’t want to spend time with Brad.

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You had to know this was coming. Kevin Spacey’s criminal case has been dismissed. It always seems go that way for wealthy, white actors, huh?

According to the legal docs, the sexual assault case was dropped “due to the unavailability of the complaining witness.”

In case you don’t know the story, the man (who was 18 at the time) claims Spacey repeatedly groped him in a bar. While being questioned by Spacey’s lawyer earlier this month, the alleged victim was “grilled over his cellphone and whether he deleted texts that were exculpatory for Spacey. He then took the 5th.”

The case started off strong back in 2016 when the man first made the claims. He worked at the bar Spacey was at and even had text messages he sent to his girlfriend while the groping was taking place.

But those texts ended up getting him in trouble because he refused to deny the fact that he may have deleted messages.

For what it’s worth, the victim’s mother claims she’s the one who deleted a chain of texts, but only to protect her son’s “frat boy activities,” whatever the hell that means.

So yeah, looks like Kevin Spacey is a free man now. Will this mark his return to Hollywood? Probably not, considering all the other sexual misconduct claims from his past, but I suppose it’s a small victory for him.

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Lamar Odom was dropped from the BIG3 basketball league earlier this month. He just wasn’t ready to play competitively again. His game on the court wasn’t there.

And while we’re sure it was incredibly disappointing news to hear in the moment, Odom is trying to make the best of it now.

The 39-year-old former NBA star went on his Instagram account to talk about life following basketball. He admitted that he’d always run to basketball whenever something bad happened in his life. He’d run to the court so he could avoid dealing with his feelings.

Instead of running away from life, he’s going to face it. In the lengthy post, Odom talked about reconnecting with his children.

"Together with my daughter Destiny and the mother of my children, Liza Morales, I am going to use this opportunity to connect to my children and break the cycle of my past. All three of us have been through extreme difficulties, individually and as a family, that we have not spoken about."

Oddly enough, I didn't become a Lamar Odom fan until he was dating Khloe.  For some odd reason, I loved them as a couple and I was rooting for the both of them.  I'm still rooting for Lamar.  He’s certainly saying all the right things. That’s exactly what you want to hear, but actually doing it is another story.

Hopefully he stands by his statement. He’s still an addict and those temptations will always be there for him, but hopefully building a better relationship with his children will give him a stronger support system.

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Pernell “Sweat Pea” Whitaker was killed on Sunday night after being hit by a car in Virginia Beach. The boxing legend was only 55 years old.

The accident occurred around 10:00 PM. When authorities arrived they found the person who had been reported as struck by a vehicle and reports were that he was in bad shape. EMT was dispatched and they tried to resuscitate Whitaker but were unfortunately not able to bring him back. He died on the scene.

Early reports say that Whitaker was crossing the street when he was struck by the car. The driver of the vehicle remained until police arrived.

Whitaker was considered to be one of the all time boxing greats. He fought all the big names and retired with a 40-4-1 record including 17 knockouts. He won a Gold Medal in the 1984 Olympics, which was a huge deal because that was when the Olympics was held in Los Angeles. He was recognized by boxing publication Ring Magazine as Fighter of the Year in 1989. In 2002, the magazine ranked him the 10th greatest boxer of the last 80 years. He won titles in 4 different weight classes: lightweight, junior welterweight, welterweight and junior middleweight.

The driver of the car has cooperated fully with authorities. There appears to be do drugs, no alcohol or excessive speed. This is currently being labeled as a very unfortunate accident.

Whitaker is survived by his 5 children. Our condolences to the Whitaker family.