Ouch…that’s a big difference! Ex-Sacramento Kings Guard Quincy Douby was already paying $1,500 each month . Now she’s asking for $15,000!!! SMH A former NBA player who’s being asked to pay $15,000 a month in child support branded his ex-girlfriend a gold digger Wednesday who wants to imitate the “Basketball Wives” lifestyle. Quincy Douby, 28, a 2006 first-round draft pick who played three seasons with the Sacramento Kings and now stars in China, showed up at Brooklyn Family Court based a legal challenge from his ex, Tanya Raymond. The 28-year-old mother of their 5-year-old daughter, Quinn, claims Douby had been paying for her home, but recently stopped, forcing her to move in with her parents. “I’ve got a father who makes $2 [million] to $3 million a year and left the child destitute,” Raymond’s lawyer Steven Gildin said in court. Douby claimed that he’s been paying $1,500 a month for his daughter’s entire life and has been providing for all her needs. “It’s just about money for her at this point,” he said of Raymond, his high school sweetheart. The couple split before Quinn was born. “All these basketball shows on TV — girls are watching it and they want that kind of life,” the hoops guard claimed. “At this point, she can have the money. I don’t care,” Douby said. “I want everyone to know I love my daughter.” Do you think he should have to pay up that much? Source Images via Twitter/Daily News
If you’ve ever seen “C0ca!ne Cowboys” you know exactly who we’re talking about. Miam’s godmother of yayo was gunned down Monday and most folks think it’s karma. Earlier today, a motorcycle-riding assassin pumped two bullets into the head of Griselda Blanco inside a Medellin, Colombia, butcher shop; ending the life of the queen of Miami’s violent C0ca!ne Cowboys era. It was a bloody cinematic ending for the 69-year-old retired yayo trafficker who was insatiably fond of the gangster epic The Godfather — going as far as naming her youngest son Michael Corleone. Longtime Blanco family friend Cristian Rios confirmed reports by Colombian news outlets that Blanco died from her wounds after she was transported to a nearby hospital. “It’s hard to comprehend right now,” he tells Riptide. “I’m hoping the reprisals end here.” Two of her four sons were murdered while she was incarcerated in the 1980s and 1990s. She is survived by Michael, a 34-year-old Colombian American who is under house arrest in Miami while waiting for his trial on a yayo trafficking charge from last year. “Michael is just beside himself,” Rios says. “No matter what people think of Griselda, she was still his mom.” According to the newspaper El Colombiano, a pair of suspects riding a motorcycle stopped at the open-air butcher shop, located in the Medellin neighborhood of Belen Parque. An unknown man riding on the back of the bike got off and walked toward Blanco. He fired two shots at her head from close range. The report states Blanco had been in the shop for about 30 minutes with a pregnant ex-daughter-in-law who was not identified. Whoever was behind the hit may have wanted to send an ironic final message since Blanco is the reputed originator of motorcycle assassinations. Known as la madrina, or the Godmother, Blanco was a pioneer in the blow trafficking industry during the 1970s and early 1980s. According to law enforcement, she oversaw a billion-dollar criminal organization that transported 3,400 pounds of perico a month into the United States. She revolutionized smuggling by developing her own line of underwear with secret compartments to stuff drugs into. Blanco solidified her place in Colombian cartel lore as the mentor to Pablo Escobar. But Blanco was also known as a ruthless queen of death, accused of masterminding at least 40 homicides from Miami to New York, including the murder of a two-year-old boy. On February 7, 1982, Blanco hitmen fired at a car traveling on South Dixie Highway and SW 168th Street. The shooters missed their target, Jesus Castro, an ex-enforcer who had insulted her sons, but hit his boy Johnny twice in the head. According to witness testimony from federal informant Max Mermelstein, an American who worked for the cartel, Blanco boasted about little Johnny’s murder, noting she was pleased that the child had been killed “because it would upset the father.” She also earned another nickname: The Black Widow. Blanco was allegedly behind the murders of three husbands. Blanco was arrested in 1985 on federal trafficking charges and convicted a year later. In 1994, she was charged in Miami-Dade criminal court for the murders of Johnny Castro and two drug dealers who were late with their payments to the Godmother. Four years later, when she was released from a California federal prison, Blanco pled no contest to the three slayings. She was transferred to a Florida correctional facility. She would have faced the electric chair if the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office hadn’t bungled the case. Two of the prosecutor’s secretaries were busted having phone sex with star witness and ex-Griselda button man Jorge “Rivi” Ayala. Following her release from prison and deportation to Colombia in 2004, Blanco became somewhat of a hip-hop cultural icon thanks to the Rakontur documentaries C0ca!ne Cowboys and Hustlin’ With the Godmother. According to Rios, Blanco’s murderous exploits have been exaggerated by her former criminal associates who testified against her and the media. “People don’t understand that she was just a figurehead,” he says. “She’s not responsible for atrocities committed by others in her organization.” Nevertheless, Rios acknowledged Blanco had made a lot of enemies, some of whom are still alive and may have still wanted to collect in blood. “Unfortunately, her past caught up with her,” he says. Boy did it ever… But she still lived long enough to turn herself into quite the legend. If you’ve never seen the films about her you’re gonna appreciate this clip below: Source
Aw isn’t their bromance sweet? Jay-Z Inspires Theophilus London To Have A Child Jay-Z is even inspiring fatherhood in Theophilus London . The hip-hop artists were spotted hanging out at private Meatpacking club Soho House Thursday night. During the conversation, Jay must have been talking glowingly about his 8-month-old daughter, Blue Ivy, because London posted on Twitter around midnight: London told us he and Jay had gone to the roof to catch the sunset and the full moon and ended up talking about “life on all aspects.” Jay will rock the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at the two-day “Made in America” festival with Budweiser this weekend in Philadelphia, where Pearl Jam, Skrillex, Janelle Monae, Passion Pit, Miike Snow, Calvin Harris and others will also perform. Jay’s wife, Beyoncé, is also rumored to make a special appearance as well. London will be there, too: “got invited by Jay to see him play in philly bruh. real is real,” he tweeted Thursday night. If Hov has Theo convinced then you know Kanye must be goin’ HARD in the paint on Kimmy’s cakes. Image via INF/IMF Mag Source
These Women shouldn’t be allowed to have anymore children! After employees found a toddler walking through the parking lot of a WaWa, they called Police. Luckily the little girl was able to point out where she lived. Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Captain Mike Harvey said a store employee brought the child inside and put clothes on her before police arrived. The little girl then led officers to her home, which was located near the store. Deputy Elizabeth Scott knocked for several minutes before someone finally opened the door. The two adults inside had been sleeping when Scott had arrived, according to Harvey, adding that once let in the deputy was immediately overcome by the stench of the property. ‘Deputy Scott entered the residence and immediately noticed a strong odor of rotten food and animal waste,’ he said. ‘Rotten food was found in and around the kitchen and animal waste was found in many areas of the residence.’ In addition to the two-year-old, there were seven other children living in squalor in the home, police said. The children, who were also found to be dirty, ranged in age from seven months to 16-years-old. Lam and Craig were the only adults found living in the house. Both are charged with felony child neglect. Police say Lam is the mother of five of the children and Craig is the mother of the other three. Each woman is being held in the Rappahannock Regional Jail without bond. Detective Twyla DeMoranville, who focuses on crimes against children, and a social worker removed the eight children from the home. They were later turned over to their grandmothers. The children were unharmed, Harvey said. Animal control officers removed four dogs, three puppies and two kittens from the house. Lam was also slammed with charges of failing to maintain her premises in a sanitary condition and duties of a pet owner to provide food and water. It’s one thing if you don’t mind living in filth but don’t have kids if your dirty azz can’t take care of them. Both women, Elizabeth Lam, 38, and Crystal Dawn Craig, 29, have been charged with child neglect. Hope their Grandmothers take better care of them…but that’s questionable. Source Images via AP
‘I think it’s a great, perfect ending for that trilogy,’ he tells MTV News. By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake in “Dark Knight Rises” Photo: Warner Bros.
This “Mom” AND TLC are gettin’ some bad press (again). The horrible child exploitation show, Toddlers and Tiaras, is back in the news and this time another Mom is under fire…and she may lose custody of her 4-year-old! TLC’s horrifying child exploitation show, “Toddlers & Tiaras,” was shoved back on our radar — if not our TVs — again when a judge banned 4-year-old Maddy Verst from participating in beauty pageants, and a court-appointed shrink recommended that primary custody should be awarded to the child’s father, Bill Verst. Maddy, you might remember, is the child The Post reported on last year when her mother, Lindsay Jackson, strapped fake boobs and a big butt on her and sent her out onstage — via “Toddlers & Tiaras” — dressed like Dolly Parton for a bogus-looking pageant filmed by TLC. Custody? These people shouldn’t have procreated in the first place! The ruling has sparked a national debate. Yesterday, George Stephanopoulos asked legal analyst Dan Abrams on “GMA” whether the court even has the right to assign primary custody based on parent-mandated activities — even if, as mother Jackson alleges, the child’s father has a criminal record? (The Post could find no criminal record.) Abrams was more alarmed, and perhaps rightly so, about the legal implications of court interference in this case. But when is the court supposed to step in to stop child exploitation — especially when it’s witnessed by the whole world on TV? Suppose parents strapped a giant pe*@s on a boy and had him parade on TV in briefs claiming he was dressed as David Beckham? Can you imagine the outrage? Of course not, because it wouldn’t happen. The sexualization of little boys is considered wrong but sexualizing little girls in these bogus pageants? No problem. What? You think those pageants are the real deal? Real for whom? Have you seen the judges? They look like they escaped from Cirque du Soleil! And worse, look at the half-filled conference rooms where these things take place. Those folding chairs strain under the weight of obese stage mothers who’ve spent thousands to participate in these grifter fests. Remember the first time baby beauty pageants were thrust into our consciousness with the murder of JonBenet Ramsey in 1996? JonBenet looks angelic compared to how parents dress their pageant girls now. I blame this step over the bounds of childhood decency on reality TV. It pushes the limits and forces the untalented slobs among us to act as badly as untamed house pets for our amusement. TLC particularly delights in showing bad parenting. Now we’ve got the “Toddlers” spinoff “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” in our faces. It stars Alana, the suddenly famous child-pageant contestant whose morbidly obese mother, June, looks like something out of “Monty Python”and sounds like she quit school in day care. And there’s Bella, also from “Toddlers,” a pageant kid so bratty she should be classified as feral as she goes around biting everything in her path. It’s like the Post said, “These girls look like sex slaves at auction to the highest bidder — and that bidder is TLC.” What do you think? Is there a line we’ve crossed as a reality show lovin’, media whorin’ society that laughs at shows about others’ personal lives. Have we become too numb? Source Images via Youtube
This “Mom” AND TLC are gettin’ some bad press (again). The horrible child exploitation show, Toddlers and Tiaras, is back in the news and this time another Mom is under fire…and she may lose custody of her 4-year-old! TLC’s horrifying child exploitation show, “Toddlers & Tiaras,” was shoved back on our radar — if not our TVs — again when a judge banned 4-year-old Maddy Verst from participating in beauty pageants, and a court-appointed shrink recommended that primary custody should be awarded to the child’s father, Bill Verst. Maddy, you might remember, is the child The Post reported on last year when her mother, Lindsay Jackson, strapped fake boobs and a big butt on her and sent her out onstage — via “Toddlers & Tiaras” — dressed like Dolly Parton for a bogus-looking pageant filmed by TLC. Custody? These people shouldn’t have procreated in the first place! The ruling has sparked a national debate. Yesterday, George Stephanopoulos asked legal analyst Dan Abrams on “GMA” whether the court even has the right to assign primary custody based on parent-mandated activities — even if, as mother Jackson alleges, the child’s father has a criminal record? (The Post could find no criminal record.) Abrams was more alarmed, and perhaps rightly so, about the legal implications of court interference in this case. But when is the court supposed to step in to stop child exploitation — especially when it’s witnessed by the whole world on TV? Suppose parents strapped a giant pe*@s on a boy and had him parade on TV in briefs claiming he was dressed as David Beckham? Can you imagine the outrage? Of course not, because it wouldn’t happen. The sexualization of little boys is considered wrong but sexualizing little girls in these bogus pageants? No problem. What? You think those pageants are the real deal? Real for whom? Have you seen the judges? They look like they escaped from Cirque du Soleil! And worse, look at the half-filled conference rooms where these things take place. Those folding chairs strain under the weight of obese stage mothers who’ve spent thousands to participate in these grifter fests. Remember the first time baby beauty pageants were thrust into our consciousness with the murder of JonBenet Ramsey in 1996? JonBenet looks angelic compared to how parents dress their pageant girls now. I blame this step over the bounds of childhood decency on reality TV. It pushes the limits and forces the untalented slobs among us to act as badly as untamed house pets for our amusement. TLC particularly delights in showing bad parenting. Now we’ve got the “Toddlers” spinoff “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” in our faces. It stars Alana, the suddenly famous child-pageant contestant whose morbidly obese mother, June, looks like something out of “Monty Python”and sounds like she quit school in day care. And there’s Bella, also from “Toddlers,” a pageant kid so bratty she should be classified as feral as she goes around biting everything in her path. It’s like the Post said, “These girls look like sex slaves at auction to the highest bidder — and that bidder is TLC.” What do you think? Is there a line we’ve crossed as a reality show lovin’, media whorin’ society that laughs at shows about others’ personal lives. Have we become too numb? Source Images via Youtube
National Urban League Furious Over Nike Release Of Expensive Sneakers The National Urban League is speaking out against Nike and their upcoming release of the most expensive shoe in Nike history at a whopping $315. Nike’s basketball ads in the 1980s and early 90s featuring Michael Jordan and Spike Lee’s alter ego Mars Blackmon popularized the famous line “Money, it’s gotta be the shoes!” Fast forward to 2012 – Nike is still selling sneakers and charging big-time money for them. This fall, the sneaker giant is expected to unveil its ‘LeBron X’ sneaker and if you want to wear them, it will cost a cool $315 according to the Wall Street Journal. The National Urban League wants no part of it. The civil rights organization has slammed Nike for charging so much for the shoe and is encouraging parents not to spend their money on an “empty status symbol.” The group’s president Marc Morial has asked Nike to scrap its plans to release the show altogether: “I ask Nike – and the parents whose children are targeted in this misdirected campaign – to join us in our efforts to empower young people to value their own talents – athletic and otherwise – above material tokens and work together for broader access to the economic mainstream.” The urban league released a statement earlier today, where Morial describes the LeBron James sneaker as representing “twisted priorities and confused values.” Earlier in the statement, Morial says: “To release such an outrageously overpriced product while the nation is struggling to overcome an unemployment crisis is insensitive at best.” According to the Wall Street Journal, this version of the ‘LeBron X’ sneaker includes its own electronics and will be the most expensive shoe in Nike history. Would you buy these for your child or let them spend their hard earned money to purchase them? Source
Matel Introduces ‘Drag Queen’ Barbie With election season in full swing and the controversial issue of gay rights a hot topic in the cut-throat debate arena, everyone from the fast food industry to the music industry and every where in between is chiming in with their two-cents. The latest group to put their hand in the pot is leading doll manufacturer company Matel, who recently introduced the world to the first ever ‘Drag Queen Barbie.’ Just when you thought Barbie played her final role as a heartbroken housewife cheated on by Ken with another man, the Barbie doll takes on its latest character — a drag queen. The drag doll named “Blond Diamond Barbie” is loosely based off the image of The Blonds’ designer Phillipe Blond, who likes to throw on a fabulous party dress every once in a while. The doll comes equipped with a gorgeous sparkly bejeweled cocktail dress, blinged out jewelry, and a white faux-fur coat. Finishing off the dramatic look is long wavy platinum blonde hair and full voluminous lashes. The gender bender doll does not come with an Adam’s apple or mysterious bulge but it does embody the glamorousness of a fierce drag queen. Would you buy this Barbie for your child? Or has Matel taken it a step too fa r? Source Images via Facebook
