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Michael Jordan In Tears At Grand Opening Of Novant Clinic In Charlotte: It’s “From The Heart” [Video]

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Future Accuses Alleged Baby Mama Eliza Reign Of Trying To Extort Him & Exaggerating “Broke” Claims (Exclusive)

Source: Jerritt Clark / Getty “Mask Off” Rapper & Social Media Star Locked In Bitter Court Battle Over Child Support Future has accused the Instagram star who said she gave birth to their daughter of lying about her income and trying to extort him in their child support case. The Atlanta rapper said although his alleged baby mama Eliza Reign pled poverty in her paternity and child support suit against him, she filed a financial affidavit that showed she had three bank accounts and was leasing a 2018 Range Rover. In addition, Reign posts pictures of herself flossing in luxury vehicles online and boasts about being a bail bondswoman and being a brand ambassador for a hair extension line, which contradicts her claims that she has no income, car or bank accounts , Future said in court papers obtained by BOSSIP. Future said Reign was straight up lying to the court in an “attempt to extort money” from him, the court papers state. He said that the fact that she allegedly lied at the outset of the case undermined the entire suit. He even recommended the judge to refer the case to the state attorney’s office for an investigation. Reign sued Future in August, alleging that he was the father of her baby girl, who was born in April. She said that Future has never met her daughter, but she wants the baby to have a relationship with him if he acts in the child’s best interest. Reign said Future is a high-income earner, so she asked for an increase from regular child support guidelines. She also wants him to reimburse her for her hospital bills from giving birth, her lawyer’s fees and for him to pay for the baby’s health insurance. We’ve reached out to the lawyers for both Future and Reign. Both sides are due back in court next month.

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For Your Viewing Pleasure: Missy Elliott Is Back With A New Music Video For “DripDemeanor” [Video]

Source: Noam Galai / Getty Missy Elliott Releases “DripDemeanor” Music Video Missy Elliott is an icon and she knows it. The legendary musician and visual artist is back with a new music video for her single “DripDemeanor” featuring Sum1 and we are HERE for it. Press play down bottom to feast your eyes on Missy’s latest creation. Bow down, b!t¢#es!

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For Your Viewing Pleasure: Missy Elliott Is Back With A New Music Video For “DripDemeanor” [Video]

Source: Noam Galai / Getty Missy Elliott Releases “DripDemeanor” Music Video Missy Elliott is an icon and she knows it. The legendary musician and visual artist is back with a new music video for her single “DripDemeanor” featuring Sum1 and we are HERE for it. Press play down bottom to feast your eyes on Missy’s latest creation. Bow down, b!t¢#es!

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Press Play: Kerry Washington Stars In Excruciating Trailer For “American Son”

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HELLO WORLD: Enhance Your Girls Trip To Bermuda With These 10 Black Owned Businesses

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Source: Kendall Trott / Kendall Trott/ L-R: Kristin White, Monroe Steele, Starr Rocque, Ashley, Rhonda D. Earlier this year, New York City-based style and travel influencer Monroe Steele posted that she had teamed up with Kristin White , the Mayor of Black Bermuda (joking, but not really), to host a trip to Bermuda in the Fall. I decided to roll solo, but ended up meeting some other dope female solo travelers and Bermudian locals who fell nothing short of #BlackGirlMagic. Let’s start from the beginning.  Monroe has been to Bermuda a couple of times and describes it as one of her favorite places in the world. Kristin White is a Bermuda native and renaissance woman who loves to tell stories about people from her island, especially when it comes to Black entrepreneurs, especially women. Kristin is a writer, talk show host, owns a gift shop called Long Story Short , and she hosts history tours. She can count Yara Shahidi ’s family among her happy tour customers. However, Kristin decided to take the concept of her tours to a higher level.  Source: Kendall Trott / Kendall Trott After learning that the Bermuda Board of Tourism wanted to attract more African American visitors, which currently stands at 4% , Kristin decided to host a full trip to her island to provide a deeper look into what it has to offer. When most people think of Bermuda, they think of rich White travelers and business people who come to play. While all of the above is true, Kristin also wants travelers to explore the island’s rich African diasporic heritage, as well as its bustling population of Black creatives who are turning their passions into profit and achieving milestones in Black History. So, she slid into Monroe’s DM’s to see if she would be interested in tapping into her follower base to host a group of stylish women on the island and “Untold Stories” was born. Bermuda is a 90 minute flight from JFK. It’s chill, the beaches aren’t overcrowded, and it’s a great place to experience luxury that rivals that of a weekend in the Hamptons.  Myself plus two other young stylish Black women joined the fun as we explored Bermuda over a four day weekend. We stayed at the luxurious Hamilton Princess Bermuda and traipsed around the island visiting modern museums, tasting epic food, getting history lessons, and visiting chic Black owned boutiques. Here’s a rundown of places you’ll want to visit when you touch down in Bermuda.  View this post on Instagram No caption necessary. . : @iamkendaltrott . #visitbermuda #blackgirlstravel A post shared by Starr R. (@starr_rocque) on Oct 16, 2019 at 9:50am PDT

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Luke Parker is Still Blaming Hannah Brown for Having Sex

Hannah Brown may be Dancing with the Stars at the moment. But Luke Parker is still whining about how he was portrayed on The Bachelorette. The scorned former suitor still takes exception to that whole slut-shaming thing . For those who need a refresher: Parker was a polarizing contestant on this past season of the aforementioned ABC reality series. An admitted player in college who often got his intercourse on, Parker explained that God spoke to him one day in the shower and told him to cool it with all that pre-marital pounding. As a result, he was committed to a newly-discovered life of celibacy until he exchanged vows with someone. Which, you know, cool, awesome, terrific… whatever makes you happy and fulfilled, dude. Go with God, man . This viewpoint became an issue, however, late in Parker’s run, most notably when he sat down for dinner with Hannah right around Fantasy Suite Week. “Sex is an incredible thing, and it’s a beautiful thing…only when it’s within the guidelines of marriage,” Parker said to Hannah during this meal, expounding as follows at the time: “And thinking about fantasy suites, like I’ve heard people proclaim their faith, but yet they’ve said things like, ‘I’m excited for fantasy suites, I want to explore this relationship on a sexually intimate level, and that’s what I’m looking forward to,’ and to me that’s like, uh, what, excuse me? “There’s something I’m missing here. “Like I don’t believe that’s something that you should be doing and I just want to make sure you’re not going to be sexually intimate with the other relationships here.” This obviously sounds totally ridiculous and controlling and insane and against the entire point of the show, which is to find out — in various ways — with whom the star has chemistry. And yet Luke wasn’t even finished. “I totally have all the trust in the world for you, but at the same time I just want to make sure we’re on the same page,” he said back then. “Like, if you told me you were having sex, or you had sex with one or multiple of these guys, I’d be wanting to go home, 100 percent. “But if that’s something you’re not going through then I’m just going to continue to grow the relationship and move on.’ It’s actually not unfair at all to want assurances you and your potential spouse share the same view on sex — it just seemed evident from Hannah’s reaction that she and Parker did not. And, based on how she responded, that she never gave Luke any indication to think otherwise. “Umm…sex is a very big deal to me, and I’ve said like, I’ve had sex with two people in my life, and it was long relationships I thought were going to be my husband,” she replied at the time, adding: “But like, some of the things that you said, I don’t agree with at all. And honestly, I’m like kinda mad, because like, the way that you just said that is like, why do you have the right to do that? “Because you’re not my husband.” As it turned out, Hannah had slept with Peter Weber inside of a windmill — four times in one night. Brown ended up sending Parker home for the way he talked to her and treated her. However, Luke just went on Reality Steve’s podcast yesterday and once again tried to defend himself. “She told me she shared the same heart and convictions as me and she wanted to abstain from sex before marriage,” Luke said on the show. “That’s why I’m so confused and that’s why you see the look on my face when she tells me about the windmill.” It’s very possible that Luke and Hannah talked in a general sense about a shared religion and/or faith in Jesus Christ. But unless Hannah specifically said she was not going to sleep with anyone until marriage, Parker is either full of it… or simply wildly misunderstood what Hannah was saying. “I didn’t have an issue with it towards her,” Luke said on the podcast about her Fantasy Suite sex. “It was the fact that she told me that was what she didn’t want to do.” Did she really say that, though? “On the fantasy suite date dinner night in Greece, she’s telling me that she doesn’t want to have sex before marriage,” Luke said straight up to Reality Steve here. He continued: “And then she drops all of this on me. And I’m sitting there and I’m like, well alright, if that’s something you don’t want to do and now you’re telling me you’ve done it… “This is the path that now you’re on when you told me you wanna be on this path, let’s go on this path together, let’s make it work, let’s figure this thing out. And she’s looking at me like, uh-uh, go home. “So I was just caught off guard.” It’s hard to know exactly what to believe here, except for this: Luke Parker could have had sex with Hannah Brown and chose not to. What an idiot. View Slideshow: The Bachelor Spoilers: Peter Weber’s Final 12; Hannah Brown Still Trying to Win Pilot’s Heart?!

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Bella Hadid Named Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Science (Not Twitter)

Bella Hadid has been dubbed The Most Beautiful Woman in the World . By editors at People Magazine because her PR team struck up a deal with the publication? No, but something far more reliable and concrete than that… … by science. On Tuesday, cosmetic surgeon Dr. Julian De Silva explained that the supermodel took this important crown based on modern facial mapping techniques, using the classic Greek “Golden Ratio of Beauty Phi.” Really. We’re not making this up. Dr De Silva — who runs London’s Centre For Advanced Facial Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery — said this conclusion was arrived at as follows: “Bella Hadid was the clear winner when all elements of the face were measured for physical perfection. “She had the highest overall reading for her chin which, with a score of 99.7%, is only 0.3% away from being the perfect shape. Bella also came second behind Scarlett Johansson for the positioning of her eyes.” Seriously, how often have you sat there and marveled at just how well-positioned Hadid’s eyes were? The doctor continued to break it all down: “Beyoncé ran her a close second, scoring the highest marks for the shape of her face (99.6%) and getting very high scores for her eyes, brow area and lips. “These brand new computer mapping techniques allow us to solve some of the mysteries of what it is that makes someone physically beautiful and the technology is useful when planning patients’ surgery.” As detailed above and laid out below, Beyonce finished second to Hadid, Amber Heard came in third, Ariana Grande came in fourth and Taylor Swift rounded out the top five. Here’s the thing, though: While science is typically a strong indicator of something’s validity (see change, climate), there’s something even stronger out there: The passion of the Beyhive, which simply can’t believe their heroine failed to finish atop this list. “There is no world where Bella hadid looks better than Beyoncé. None. Not even on Opposite Day,” wrote one Twitter follower, while another broke out the race card: i’m sorry? i just heard that beyoncé came SECOND to bella hadid for the most beautiful person in the world????? ugh racism. Kate Moss, Scarlet Johannson, Natalie Portman, Katy Perry and Cara Delevigne also made the top 10. As for this Golden Ratio thing? It was was used by artists such as Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci to mathematically calculate beauty for their works of art. According to the equation, the closer the ratios of a face or body are to the number 1.618 (Phi), the more beautiful the object. However, when applied to the human form as a criteria of beauty, many have criticized it for preferring certain features and promoting racist stereotypes. All that said, let’s settle this debate once and for all, shall we? Go ahead and vote below: WHO IS MORE BEAUTIFUL, BELLA OR BEYONCE? And the Winner is? Bella Hadid Click Here To Vote for Bella! Beyonce! Click Here To Vote for Beyonce! Bella Hadid has been named the Most Beautiful Woman alive. But is she hotter than Beyonce? VOTE! View Poll »

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Wheel of Fortune Contestant Claims He’s "Trapped in a Loveless Marriage"

For some reason, men have come up with a number of unpleasant euphemisms for their wives over the years. Old ball and chain . Old battle-axe . Most don't say these things within earshot of their wives. But this week, a Wheel of Fortune contestant did that and more on television, announcing that he was trapped in a loveless marriage. Blair Davis owns a small trucking business in San Diego. While some Wheel of Fortune contestants may hope to get a boost to sales by appearing on TV, Blair drew attention for another reason. And no, it was not his incredibly distinctive beard. His comments about his wife, children, and grandchild raised eyebrows. Some viewers were shocked while others were rolling around on the floor in stitches. “I've been trapped in a loveless marriage for the past twelve years,” Blair states matter-of-factly. He continues, saying that he has been married “to an old battle-axe named Kim.” “She cursed my life with three stepchildren,” Blair accuses. “Named Star, RJ, and Ryan.” “And,” he concludes. “I have one rotten grandson.” At this, Blair nearly breaks character as he smiles. The audience laughs, some amused and in on the joke, the others nervously, though the smile helped give it away. Host Pat Sajak makes the best of it, yelling “Yayyy!” He then acknowledges: “I know you're being facetious.” Busted, Blair fully smiles and acknowledges that. “I love them like nobody's business,” he says. Some folks on Twitter took the man's jokes a little too seriously. “Most likely will be either sleep on the couch or in the guest bed,” predicted one tweet. Another wrote: “Game shows need more brutal honesty.” “Well all I can say is…'Pat handled that very well'…” another added, referring to the initial awkward tension. “So was he serious or what?” another tweet straight-up asked. “I think he meant sexless? He looks drier than hell,” accused one tweet. One of the Twitter denizens who saw that took the opportunity to strongly disagree. “Most truckers are hornier than rabbits in an eat patch and can usually deliver,” a reply reads. That same tweet continued: “My late one really could deliver the goods. Don't be deceived by the packaging.” Well that's more than we needed to know. Will any of us ever look at truckers the same way again? “This could be us,” one young man tweeted in response to the video, tagging a young woman. She saw the tweet and the source material, and replied with her own jab. She wrote to him: “Get to growin that beard then.” Be careful when you make jokes like that. Some guys will take it seriously and then get too into it. Imagine getting trapped with a beard like that because of an offhand joke. Others just enjoyed the bit for what it was. “He said what we always wanted someone to say. Fantastic,” applauded one. Another simply commented: “This was hilarious.” Of course, then a truther with a profile photo from James Cameron's Avatar of all things piped up. “He wasn't joking at first,” the tweet asserted. “It was just spun off as being such.” We have a sneaking suspicion that he was joking the whole entire time. What a cute moment.

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Jenelle Evans: I’m Depressed Because Everyone Hates Me, Dude!

Attila the Hun. Genghis Khan. People who are too busy spending their life's savings on scratch-off tickets to notice that you're behind them in line just waiting to pay for your gas. Is Jenelle Evans as delporable as these monsters? Short answer: yes.  Long answer: no, she's actually worse. That may sound extreme, but was G-Khan ever complicit in the murder of a French bulldog puppy ? We think not. Anyway, it seems Jenelle just learned this week that she's one of the more widely-despised figures on the internet, and it's got her, like, totally bummed out dude. Check out the gallery below for Jenelle's deep thoughts on the subject: 1. The Moment of Realization Jenelle Evans is having a hard time. It seems the former Teen Mom 2 star has recently become aware that she’s not particularly well-liked on the internet. Or anywhere else, for that matter. 2. Tough Times How is it possible that Evans is JUST NOW realizing how unpopular she is? Well, lately, it’s been one rough patch after another for the Carolina Hurricane, and it seems the events of the past few months have led her to some uncomfortable truths. 3. The Nugget Incident It all started, of course, when Jenelle’s husband, David Eason, beat, shot, and killed her french bulldog puppy, Nugget. 4. Evil People It may sound like Jenelle is the victim here, but she actually assisted David in covering up his crimes, even going so far as to tell police that the poor pup had simply run away. 5. Whoops! David’s senseless dog slaughter set off a domino effect. Police never found Nugget’s body, but they DID find Jenelle’s kids living in deplorable conditions. 6. Justice You probably know the rest of the story — the kids were taken away by CPS; Jenelle was fired by MTV; the peasants rejoiced. View Slideshow

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