Beyond the lifetime ban and hefty fine that the NBA slapped Donald Sterling with on Tuesday, the league’s commissioner, Adam Silver, also announced that he’s maneuvering to make the Los Angeles Clippers owner sell the team. The punishment came after the 81-year-old made racist remarks in a recording that surfaced over the weekend. If Sterling… Read more
An emotional Amanda Knox is vowing to fight her murder conviction once again, saying defiantly “this is wrong” and that she will never willingly return to Italy. A jury found Amanda Knox guilty yesterday in the 2007 slaying of Meredith Kercher, which she spent four years in prison for before being released on appeal. Amanda Knox Good Morning America Interview Prosecutors in Italy retried the case, however, and Knox was convicted a second time. She has been in the U.S. since her 2011 release, however. She wasn’t present for the retrial, and Friday morning, she struggled to hold back tears as she railed against the verdict, saying: “This is wrong.” Appearing on Good Morning America , the Seattle native expressed outrage at the verdict and 28 year sentence the Italian justice system handed down. She told Robin Roberts she is “going through waves of emotions” and said she couldn’t believe what she was hearing when the decision was read. “It really hit me like a train,” Knox revealed, with her chin quivering and her voice cracking throughout the interview. “I did not expect this to happen.” She said, “No, this is wrong,” about her guilty conviction and said she’s determined to fight, telling Roberts “I’m going to do everything I can to prove it.” Amanda Knox Photos: Through the Years Open Slideshow 1. Amanda Knox Photograph What a beautiful Amanda Knox photograph! View As List 1. Amanda Knox Photograph What a beautiful Amanda Knox photograph! 2. Amanda Knox Pic Amanda Knox. She’s allegedly a killer. Bad news. 3. Amanda Knox Photo Amanda Knox is a free woman. First time in awhile since she and Raffaele Sollecito were convicted of murder. 4. Foxy Knoxy Amanda Knox was given the nickname Foxy Knoxy at one point. 5. Amanda Knox Book Cover The cover of Amanda Knox’s new book, Waiting to Be Heard. 6. Amanda Knox Halloween Costume Amanda Knox dresses up as a cat burglar for Halloween. Not cool. 7. Hard Knox Amanda Knox has had a tough go of it. She now faces a new trial. 8. Amanda Knox, James Terrano Amanda Knox is going strong with her boyfriend, James Terrano. Check out this pic of them, they seem happy. 9. Amanda Knox O-Face It’s not really an o-face. More like an uh-oh face! 10. New Amanda Knox Pic Amanda Knox in February 2012. Back to school. 11. Amanda Knox Speaks Amanda Knox speaks after her release from an Italian jail. Her case sparked widespread media interest. 12. The One Who Knox Amanda Knox on the Today Show September 20, 2013. She will not go back to Italy for her new trial. 13. Hard Knox Life Amanda Knox has been found guilty of murder for the second time in the death of Meredeth Kercher. Her next move is unclear. 14. Amanda Knox on Today Show Amanda Knox on the Today Show September 20, 2013. She says she is innocent. 15. Amanda Knox Interview With Diane Sawyer The first part of Amanda Knox’s interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC News. 16. Amanda Knox Verdict Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito have been found not guilty of the killing/murder and sexual assault of Brittish exchange student Meredith Kercher. 17. Amanda Knox on Good Morning America Amanda Knox on Good Morning America in 2013. She’s speaking out for the first time. 18. Amanda Knox Lifetime Movie Trailer The trailer for Amanda Knox: Trial in Italy. Hayden Panettiere stars in the Lifetime film. Emotionally, Amanda Knox said, “Really horrible things can happen and you have to stand up for yourself and you have to believe that it’s going to be ok.” She admitted that the first time she cried was en route to the Good Morning America studio and blamed an “overzealous prosecutor and biased investigation.” “These things happen,” she warned, insisting that “I’m not crazy,” and noting that she will “never willingly go back” to Italy to serve her sentence. Her ex, Raffaele Sollecito, did attend his re-trial, and was also found guilty. He was stopped by police near the Italian/Austrian/Slovenia border Friday. Knox and Sollecito have maintained their innocence throughout the ordeal and they can appeal their convictions (again) to the Italian Supreme Court. As for whether Italy will seek extradition of Knox, it’s unclear, but she’ll clearly fight it under U.S. law, which bars prosecuting people twice for the same crime. Amanda Knox : Guilty Innocent View Poll »
Work, work, work, work, work, what you twerkin’ witttttt?????? We all remember “Tan Mom” correct ??? If not, here’s a little refresher… Via HLNTV: Patricia Krentcil, now known as ‘Tan Mom,’ could face up to 10 years in prison if she’s convicted of child endangerment for allegedly taking her five-year-old daughter into a tanning booth last month. The Essex County New Jersey Prosecutor’s Office complaint warrant states that Krentcil took her daughter “in a stand up tanning booth causing first-degree burns on her body.” The warrant also says Krentcil was granted release on $25,000 bail. Well apparently, Tan Mom has quit tanning, but she has not quit with the fawkery! Here she is at XL nightclub in NYC all the way turnt up!!!!! WENN
Is he right?? White Businessman Demands End Of Black History Month Georgia Businessman Jim Thompson claims America has already done enough for Black people and those who historically have been downtrodden. Including Black History Month … Via Chillico The Gazette reports: Black History Month is observed in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain. When it comes to Black History Month, I look forward to the day that we don’t have or need a Black History Month — not for a lack of respect for African-Americans, but because, as a whole, we have decided equality has been achieved. However, at the same time that I look forward to this, I also am pessimistic this will happen, at least in my lifetime. Read on. I was born out-of-wedlock to two deeply religious people, one of which was married and had four children. My father divorced and married my mother. Yet, for decades to come, they beared the guilt and shame of their actions (would that people did just a little of this today in similar circumstances). Their way of dealing with this was to spoil me. As many of us know, we who have been spoiled often do not realize it. It took me decades to understand how destructive this was to me. Likewise, as a country as a whole, a country founded on equal opportunity for all, slavery was a contradiction and a stain on our national psyche. The Civil War merely, barely started to solve the problem. The next 100 years were more a hindrance to equality than a step forward. Only in the lifetime of the living today have we made near final steps in solving these problems. However, as a country, we still have the shame and guilt of our forbearers’ actions. We have overcompensated. We have spoiled those for whom we feel guilty for having wronged. Like me at one time, they don’t realize they are spoiled and how limiting that is to their self-worth and potential. And when an old white guy like me points this out, I am called a racist (note: Bill Cosby preaches almost the same message). So, welcome to Black History Month. I challenge you to find the equivalent to our Black History Month anywhere other than the countries I previously named; indeed I challenge you to find any country that has done as much for past downtrodden minorities as we have in the United States. We, the U.S., have nothing to be ashamed of in the current world. It is time we quit trying to assuage our own national guilt by spoiling others, an action that is selfishly serving only the spoilers and is a disservice to the spoiled. Further, when I place Black History Month in the context of my own experience of being spoiled as shared above, I would suggest it has become a bit of a sly white racist joke. Yes, if you search its history, it was started in the 1920s as Black History Week to instill a sense of pride in African-Americans. Those days are long past — African-American examples of great achievement are all around us today. Now it is like other things here in the South that sound caring but are not. The greatest example of this is, “Bless his heart …” It is used like this, “Bless his heart, he had a car wreck.” The correct interpretation of this is, “He is such an idiot, he probably had trouble riding a tricycle.” Likewise, if you are forced to receive special attention, there is an implication of weakness, a weakness I have not found to be true with African-Americans. When the day comes that African-Americans demands the elimination of Black History Month because they recognize it is not done for them but for the spoilers, we will know true equality has been achieved. Colorblindness is true racial equality. Discuss….
This year’s nominees for the Golden Globes have been announced, and the nods include plenty of talent… and skin! It’s nice to see these nude ladies getting the credit they so hardily deserve from Tinseltown’s most titillatingly named award show. The Best Actress in a Drama category features the most nominudes [ nude in the role they were nominated for- SC ], with three of the five delivering the naked goods. Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone (2012), Naomi Watts in The Impossible (2012), and Rachel Weisz in The Deep Blue Sea (2012). Other highlights include Best Supporting Actress nominude Helen Hunt who made her full-frontal debut in The Sessions (2012), Best Actress In A TV Series – Comedy with a nod to Lena Dunahm for consistently showing her girls in Girls , and Best Actress In A Series, Mini-Series Or TV Movi e acknowledging that Nicole Kidman made us very Gel-horny in Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012). Finally, the Lifetime Award is going to Jodie Foster , who is also a lifetime skinchiever here at Mr. Skin for flashing her pint-sized pair! See pics after the jump!
‘I know what I have to do,’ Whitney Houston’s only child says of a proposed meeting with her father on ‘The Houstons: On Our Own’ clip. By Maurice Bobb Bobbi Kristina Photo: Lifetime
Jordin Sparks and Jason Derulo sit down for their first exclusive interview as a couple on The Wendy Williams Show. Find out how to two singers met and if they’re living together. youtube
If you don’t know who Stuart is… you better ask somebody. Stuart Weitzman Receives Footwear News’ Lifetime Achievement Award with a Special Video Tribute by Beyoncé. Stuart Weitzman was awarded The Lifetime Achievement Award for his many successful years as a luxury shoe designer by Footwear news tonightin a ceremony held at The MOMA in New York City. Among his many fans/clients around the world is Beyoncé Knowles, who taped a special video ‘Shout Out Tribute’ for the occasion. Weitzman and Beyoncé have collaborated together for years on her performance shoes, so it made the celebratory evening quite special for the designer. youtube
‘Being her daughter is a huge blessing, but also a curse at times,’ she says of her late mother on ‘The Houstons: On Our Own’ clip. By Maurice Bobb Bobbi Kristina in “The Houstons: On Our Own” Photo: Lifetime
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