Jermaine Dupri, Funk Volume, XXL, SKEE and Chase N. Cashe are among those wishing The Notorious B.I.G. a happy birthday.
The Notorious B.I.G. was born May 21, 1972. The rapper, who died March 9, 1997, would have been 42 years old today.
Many Rap acts, personalities and brands have shared their love for Biggie today, celebrating the rapper's life and legacy. Funk Volume's official Facebook page, for instance, addressed the late emcee's birthday.
"Damn, Biggie would have been 42 today," Funk Volume says in a
statement on its page. "Would have been interesting to see how Hip Hop
would have evolved if we didn't lose so many greats at an early age." XXL also posted a birthday wish for Biggie today. "XXL wishes Big Poppa a happy birthday, as he would have been 42 today," the site says. "Rest in peace."
Jace's penchant for
violence was revealed in court records generated during a bitter divorce
with his first wife, Jennifer Bitterman. On Monday, he was taken into
custody after the alleged fatal shooting of his current wife, April.
“The Shield” actor Michael Jace once threatened to kill his first wife
if she “went to war” over visitation rights for their son, according to
reports.
Jace’s simmering penchant for violence — which exploded in deadly
gunfire in Los Angeles Monday night when he allegedly shot his current
wife, April — was laid out in court records generated during a bitter
divorce from his first wife, Jennifer Bitterman.
But Jace’s doomed wife testified more than a decade ago that her
then-fiancé was a good provider for Jordan and called Bitterman a bad
mother. At the time, she relayed the boy’s chilling concerns for his
mom.
“Usually at bedtime, (Jordan) prays for his mom and asks God to protect
her while he’s not there with her,” she told the Los Angeles divorce
court, according to the records obtained by TMZ.com. The Los Angeles Times reported that Jace threatened to kill Bitterman if she fought for visitation rights.
April bore the brunt of Jace’s fury about 8:30 p.m. Monday. About 15
minutes after she returned home with their two sons from baseball
practice, Jace allegedly shot her multiple times. They had argued over
money, police said.
A friend of his ex told the court an out-of-control Jace, best known
for playing a sexually conflicted cop on the long-running FX series,
choked his wife and slammed her against a wall as then-6-month-old
Jordan screamed in his nearby crib.
“Seeing the extent of his anger was one of the most terrifying things I have ever seen,” she said, according to court records.
Michael Jace (right) seen detained by police outside his home Monday.
“This is more than a shock,” the slain woman’s big brother, Carlo Laune, told the Daily News. “It’s out of this world.”
Laune, a 44-year-old Marine, said he had no inkling Jace and his sister were at odds.
“I was on two combat deployments with the Marine Corps and she wrote to
me like clockwork,” he said. “She knew what dedication was. She knew
what love was.”Michael Jace's acting caree“At the very least, (the kids) heard the shots,” LAPD Detective Sal LaBarbera told the Los Angeles TimesIt’s not clear where Jace, 51, got the gun. On a statement of the
actor’s assets, he checked a box
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Jace reportedly confessed to the murder after making a damning 911 call
for help. “I shot my wife,” he reportedly told the operator, according to TMZ.com.
Jace stayed on the line and was standing in the doorway when cops
arrived and found his 40-year-old wife’s body sprawled in a hallway.
While Jace was hauled off to jail, the couples’ two young sons — both of
whom are under 10 — were turned over to their maternal grandmother.
The suspected killer was booked on suspicion of homicide and ordered
held on $1 million bail. It’s not clear he’ll be able to raise the
money. The Paterson, N.J.-born actor filed for bankruptcy in 2011 and
listed debts of $500,000 to $1 million — most of it owed on his home in
the Hyde Park section, The Associated Press reported.
Jace also owed more than $22,000 in income taxes, and still owed the
state of California more than $20,000 in back taxes for 2008. As part of
the bankruptcy, Jace agreed to a repayment plan, but by last November
he had already fallen $2,000 behind, according to the AP.
Jace and his wife were married for 10 years and her Facebook page has pictures of the couple in happier days.
April worked in the financial aid office at Biola University, a private
Christian college in L.A. She also had a grown son from an earlier
relationship
The unprecedented
judgment made in a Swiss court will also be used as leverage by Elena
Rybolovelva's attorneys to take the fertilizer magnate's $88 million
Central Park West apartment.
She just snared the largest divorce award in history — a whopping $4.8
billion — and now a scorned Russian divorcée is eying one of the
priciest pads ever sold in New York.
Elena Rybolovleva, 47, plans to use the divorce ruling by the Swiss
court to grab a hold of her now-ex-husband Dmitry Rybolovlev’s
spectacular $88 million Central Park West apartment, one of her lawyers
told the Daily News.
“We should be able to liquidate it” to help satisfy the judgment, David Newman said.
The megabucks judgment from the Geneva court calls for Rybolovlev to
pay his ex $4,509,375,184.80 — more than half his estimated $8.8 billion
fortune. That comes to about $184 million for each one of their 26
years of marriage.
The Russian — nicknamed “the fertilizer king” for how he made his
fortune — also has to give her $146 million in property in Gstaad,
Switzerland, and fork over alimony payments that will total $150
million, bringing her total haul to $4.8 billion.
VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty ImagesDmitry Rybolovlev's net worth is estimated at $8.8 billion, and more than half will go to his ex-wife.
She was awarded custody of their 13-year-old daughter Anna, and he has
to pay a $7.5 million lump sum and $150,000-a-month in child support.
Rybolovlev got served with the record-shattering judgment on Monday,
more than five years after his fed-up wife served him with divorce
papers.
“He was not very subtle with his infidelities,” Newman said.
She sought to freeze his bank accounts, and Rybolovlev went on a wild
spending spree — apparently aimed at keeping his money out of her hands.
He bought a share of French soccer league team AS Monaco, spent $156
million for two Greek islands that used to belong to Aristotle Onassis,
shelled out $95 million for Donald Trump’s 33,000-square-foot Palm Beach
estate and blew $20 million on a Hawaiian estate once owned by actor
Will Smith.
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He also spent a then-record $88 million for his New York apartment — a 10-bedroom penthouse at 15 Central Park West.
Rybolovlev claimed the property wasn’t for him — he’d bought it as
“student housing” for their daughter Ekaterina, now 24. His spurned
spouse’s suit said the fertilizer magnate was full of it, because
Ekaterina was going to school in Boston. Rybolovleva, who now lives in
Switzerland, started court proceedings in New York, Florida and Hawaii
to bar her hubby from transferring the properties while their divorce
was pending.
“We want to be able to show he really owns these properties,” which
were purchased through various trusts, said Newman, of Day Pitney.
Rybolovlev’s lawyer, Tetiana Bersheda, told The Associated Press,
“there will definitely be a new appellate review and therefore this
judgment is not final.”
Residents of villages in the Heilongjiang province of China reported three UFOs fell from the sky on Friday morning, according to the China News Service. The circular, metallic objects crashed to the ground of two counties after “villagers heard…a huge piercing sound, and then some villagers saw a big fireball” that eventually fell in a vegetable garden owned by one of the residents. “I saw a huge ball of fire, I thought it was a meteorite,” one villager said,Chinatopix.com reported. “I hid inside my house and waited until the object…landed.” China News further described the ball-shaped objects as silver-gray, “surrounded by jagged edges and burn marks.” The object pictured in this story is reported to be “about 2-and-a-half-feet wide and weighing nearly 90 pounds,” according to OpenMinds.TV. While investigators arrived on the scene of the vegetable garden to examine the object, stories began to emerge, offering a possible explanation for all the excitement. According to Ecnsthe official English-language website of China News Service, just before the Chinese village residents witnessed unidentified flying objects in the sky above them, a Russian Proton-M rocket — carrying a communications satellite — experienced engine failure shortly after its launch Friday morning, burning up in Earth’s atmosphere. While Russia maintains their rocket mostly disintegrated above Earth, China media suggests some unburned portions of the rocket accounts for those objects that crashed
Israel has sent two anti-terror experts to Nigeria to join the search for hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by extremist Islamist group Boko Haram, an Israeli security source said on Tuesday.
“There are in Nigeria two advisers who have dealt in terrorist matters in the past,” he told AFP. “They were sent there by the state to help.” The pair were not currently serving as intelligence personnel for the Israeli government. “They are not soldiers, not officers. They are not part of the security system,” the source added. On May 11, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan with an offer to help search for more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped byBoko Haram. “We are prepared to help in locating the girls and to fight the cruel terror which has struck you,” Netanyahu’s office quoted him as telling the president. Jonathan accepted immediately. “President Jonathan welcomed the offer by Mr Netanyahu to send a team of Israeli counter-terrorism experts to assist in the ongoing search and rescue operations,” the Nigerian leader’s office said. Specialist teams from the United States, Britain, and France have been sent to help in the search opera
A Barrington, Illinois couple was charged on Friday with starving their infant daughter to death. The parents, Gene Edwards and Markisha Jones, are now in jail on $250,000 bond each. Edwards and Jones called Barrington Police on January 8 after finding their seven-month-old baby Mya dead in their home. Police noticed the child looked extremely malnourished at the time, but waited until the toxicology report came back to rule a cause of death.That report came back last week, and police announced on Friday that Mya died of malnutrition from starvation. Mya’s twin sister was malnourished as well, though she is alive and now in foster care. During their investigation, Barrington police discovered Edwards and Jones kept their young daughters in a cold, unfinished basement with only a space heater to keep them warm. The couple admitted they quit buying baby food and opted to feed their children water and some occasional cereal instead. Th
President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned the bomb blasts in Jos, Plateau state. The president reportedly described the perpetrators of the bombing as “cruel and evil” and condemned the “tragic assault on human freedom.” “Jonathan has directed all relevant agencies to mobilise support and relief efforts in aid of the victims,” Vanguard reports. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, said the president is assuring Nigerians that the government is staying fully
She just snared the largest divorce award in history — a whopping $4.8
billion — and now a scorned Russian divorcée is eying one of the
priciest pads ever sold in New York.
