George Zimmerman will be allowed to post bond for a second time as he awaits trial on a second-degree murder charge in the shooting death of Miami Gardens teen Trayvon Martin , a judge ruled Thursday. In a written ruling, Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester set Zimmerman’s bond at $1 million. Lester revoked Zimmerman’s $150,000 bond last month after prosecutors said he and his wife misled them about his finances during an April bond hearing. Zimmerman and his wife, Shellie, had raised around $135,000 at the time of the April hearing, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said the couple talked in code while discussing the money in conversations recorded while Zimmerman was in jail. “They used code, they used other words other than ’9,000 dollars’ to make sure that whoever was listening wasn’t aware of what was going on,” prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda said during a bond hearing last week. “Why was that done? It was done to hide the money, so that they could deceive the court, lie to the court.” Shellie Zimmerman was arrested on a perjury charge and later bonded out of jail. Zimmerman, 28, was arrested and charged in April in the shooting of Martin, 17, on Feb. 26 in a gated community in Sanford. Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty and claims the shooting was self-defense. Do you think George should have been issued bond again? Source
Zip. Zero. Stingy with dinero… Katie Holmes Will Be Awarded Nothing In Divorce Settlement With Tom Cruise According to TMZ Reports : Katie Holmes will be getting virtually nothing from Tom Cruise by way of $$$$ because their prenup cuts her out of his fortune … and sources connected with Katie tell us it’s just fine with her. We’ve learned the prenup Katie signed is long, tight and stacked in Tom’s favor. We’re told reports that she’ll walk away with $15-20 million are absurd. Our sources say Katie will walk away with what she brought into the marriage … and hardly anything else. Our Katie sources tell us, “She’s not about the money. She’s not that girl. She loves to work.” We’re told there’s one thing Katie is insistent on — she wants child support from Tom, and that could turn into a big ticket item. As for whether Katie will challenge the prenup … it’s pretty common when a divorcing couple is in conflict, and our Katie sources are not ruling that out. But they insist, “Money is not that important to her. She makes plenty on her own.” One final point … a well-placed source connected with the couple tells us, the prenup that basically gives Katie bupkis is proof the marriage is not a sham — she didn’t tie the knot for the loot. We want pre-nup, we want pre-nup, yeeaaaaaaah! Image via WENN
Zip. Zero. Stingy with dinero… Katie Holmes Will Be Awarded Nothing In Divorce Settlement With Tom Cruise According to TMZ Reports : Katie Holmes will be getting virtually nothing from Tom Cruise by way of $$$$ because their prenup cuts her out of his fortune … and sources connected with Katie tell us it’s just fine with her. We’ve learned the prenup Katie signed is long, tight and stacked in Tom’s favor. We’re told reports that she’ll walk away with $15-20 million are absurd. Our sources say Katie will walk away with what she brought into the marriage … and hardly anything else. Our Katie sources tell us, “She’s not about the money. She’s not that girl. She loves to work.” We’re told there’s one thing Katie is insistent on — she wants child support from Tom, and that could turn into a big ticket item. As for whether Katie will challenge the prenup … it’s pretty common when a divorcing couple is in conflict, and our Katie sources are not ruling that out. But they insist, “Money is not that important to her. She makes plenty on her own.” One final point … a well-placed source connected with the couple tells us, the prenup that basically gives Katie bupkis is proof the marriage is not a sham — she didn’t tie the knot for the loot. We want pre-nup, we want pre-nup, yeeaaaaaaah! Image via WENN
‘Ye finishes performance with an a cappella freestyle, then hits the stage with Jay-Z to accept Best Group for the Throne. By Carter Maness Kanye West performs at the 2012 BET Awards on Sunday Photo: Michael Buckner/ Getty Images
Maybach Music Group perform a medley of street hits, including ‘Bag of Money,’ ‘So Sophisticated’ and ‘Black Magic.’ By Rob Markman Rick Ross performs at the 2012 BET Awards Photo: Michael Buckner/ Getty Images
What happens in the dark, will come to light . English Mistresses Ambush And Confront Serial Cheater And Scam Artist Andie Nash first encountered Englishman Simon Reid when a friend sent her his online dating profile. “He was a nice looking guy, forty-two years old,” Nash recalled. “He was into travel, and his profile handle was ‘loving a full life.’” How full that life would turn out to be would shock the trusting Nash. Things progressed quickly in their relationship. By their second date, Nash says Reid wrote her a letter professing his love. “I feel like going against all convention and all common sense, and just stating how I really feel, which is that I love you,” Nash said Reid wrote to her. After eight weeks of seeing each other several times a week, her new boyfriend vanished. For three days, Andie frantically called and texted Reid’s cell phone. Then she got a call from a woman claiming to be Simon Reid’s wife. It seemed she was looking for him, too. Oh, but it doesn’t stop there… Devastated by Reid’s betrayal, Nash took to her blog, “Andiepants” to vent her frustration and warn other women of Reid’s cheating ways. The posting went up in August 2008 and about a year later Nash heard from a woman in England named Jo Ward who said she had also been wined, dined and dumped by Reid. Unfortunately, she had also given him money — somewhere in the neighborhood of $25,000. Nash commiserated with Ward but wasn’t sure how she could help. That was until she heard from another former girlfriend of Reid’s named Nicola Hillary who had been searching the Internet for Reid’s name. “And up popped Andie’s blog,” Hillary said , “And I nearly fell on the floor. She was calling him the anti-Christ, and I was like, “Oh my God!” Nash connected Reid’s two jilted lovers, who in turn discovered two additional women including one who was still dating Reid when they broke the news to her about his serial cheating. That’s when all the women hatched a plot to confront Simon Reid in person and on camera. “I think we all wanted to confront him and say, ‘Why?’” Ward explained. The four women gathered at the home of Laura Buckingham whom Reid was seeing in the summer of 2010. She had invited him over for dinner, but when he arrived Reid was ambushed by Hillary, Ward, Buckingham and a fourth ex-girlfriend who didn’t wish to be identified. For two hours they confronted him about his cheating ways and he admitted to deceiving them and also to being a compulsive liar. After it was all said and done, Reid admitted to being “ain’t isht” and even copped to defrauding out of her 25 racks. His excuse was pretty pathetic, yet honest. “I don’t really know what the truth is for me anymore.” confessed Reid on the videotape. “I know it’s wrong when I’m doing it. I just don’t seem to stop myself.” By the end of the marathon grilling session, Reid realized that his actions were not only hurtful but also illegal. “I defrauded you out of this money,” Reid admitted to Ward and then asked, “Are the police coming?” The police did come and Reid was arrested for fraud. He is now serving 30 months in prison in England. Have you ever come in contact with the woman (or man) that your significant other was cheating with? Did you ever plan any ambush confrontations like these women? If so, what happened? Image via NYDailyNews
‘It’s sort of like, ‘Screw you … deal with it. Come with us on this journey or bye,’ ‘ Adam Levine says of the album’s pop leanings. By James Montgomery Maroon 5’s James Valentine and Adam Levine Photo: The first thing you’ll probably notice about Maroon 5’s Overexposed album is the lengthy list of collaborators attached to it: a Murderer’s Row of pop hitmakers like Ryan Tedder, Shellback and Benny Blanco, with Max Martin helming it all as executive producer. The second thing you’ll probably notice is that it’s called Overexposed. Because, reinvigorated by the worldwide success of their hit “Moves Like Jagger” — which marked the first time the band had written with outside sources (in this case Blanco and Shellback) — M5 make no bones about the fact that, this time out, they’re aiming to become the most popular, inescapable and, yes, overexposed band on the planet. “The title is kind of pre-emptively saying, ‘Hey, we’re overexposed. Deal with it,’ ” frontman Adam Levine told MTV News during the premiere of M5’s new “One More Night” video . “Bands like to do this thing where they’re like, ‘Oh, man, we just didn’t know. Oh my God, it’s so crazy, we just wrote this song,’ and that’s true, but we like that. We want to have that experience, we want to have hits, we want to have songs that, internationally, people are going to know. “It’s exciting when you go to a country you’ve never been to, when you go to Jakarta, and they’re singing the lyrics to ‘Payphone,’ it’s so cool, ” he continued. “And that’s something that we not only love, but we pursue, unabashedly. Our sense of purpose was very dialed in. … We knew what we wanted, we knew in our minds how to achieve it on an album … and I think we found it.” And, in a lot of ways, it’s fitting that Overexposed (in stores now) comes exactly 10 years after the release of Maroon 5’s debut disc, Songs About Jane. Because ever since that album, they’ve been hearing complaints from fans who want them to return to their roots. The difference now is that they no longer listen to those complaints. Backed by the biggest names in the pop business, Maroon 5 are going for greatness these days, and like it or not, they’re not going to change course anytime soon. ” Songs About Jane was alienating a certain amount of our fanbase back then, and if we’re not alienating a small percentage of our fanbase every time we make a record, we’re doing something wrong,” Levine said. “And usually, I find that people who complain about wanting that original sound would be the same people where, if you had a record that sounded like the first one, they would say, ‘Why don’t you guys branch out and change a little bit?’ So it’s sort of like, ‘Screw you … deal with it. Come with us on this journey or bye!’ “When you’ve been in a band for a decade, even longer, you start thinking, ‘OK, well maybe now we should explore this or change things up,’ because you don’t want to have it sound formulaic or too much like what you’ve always done,” he continued. “So we’re totally cool with kind of being born again. … At the heart of it, it still sounds like us, but we embrace this side of our band, and now that we’ve fully captured it on this record, we’re going to see what happens, and I think it’s going to be really positive.” Stick with MTV News for more from our exclusive interview with Maroon 5! Related Videos MTV First: Maroon 5 Related Photos MTV First: Maroon 5 Related Artists Maroon 5
Wale, Meek Mill, French Montana, Omarion and Stalley will join Rozay in sit-down with Sway Calloway. By Rob Markman Maybach Music Group Photo: Looks like MTV News is going to need a few extra parking passes because Rick Ross will be bringing his entire Maybach Music Group up to “RapFix Live” on Wednesday. Rozay, Wale, Meek Mill, French Montana, Omarion and Stalley will all be in the building to sit and chop it up with host Sway Calloway on a very luxurious episode of “RapFix Live.” On Tuesday (June 26) the MMG crew released their Self Made Vol. 2 label compilation. The LP, led by the T-Pain-assisted single “Bag of Money,” features appearances from Nas, T.I., Wiz Khalifa, Kendrick Lamar and Bun B. The compilation sets up a very busy summer for Rozay and his boys. On July 31 Ross will drop his long-awaited God Forgives, I Don’t LP, and Meek Mill is prepping his debut, Dreams and Nightmares, for an August 28 release. French Montana’s Excuse My French is also scheduled to drop later this year. Back in May Ross held a press conference in New York City to announce his label’s release dates and the signing of R&B star and former B2K frontman Omarion. “I think it was a great day for hip-hop. It was a great energy for hip-hop,” Ross told MTV News of the MMG press conference. “When you reflect on hip-hop on a boss level, for the last 10 years, the business of hip-hop has been kinda shaky, it’s been in a decline. … I think this was a new energy that the hip-hop game needed, a momentum change.” The MMG crew members, though mostly known for music, occasionally make a few headlines outside of the studio as well. Most recently Meek Mill’s name came up in reports surrounding the fight between Drake and Chris Brown’s entourages at a New York club on June 14. See what Meek has to say about it all on Wednesday. Catch Rick Ross and his Maybach Music Group on “RapFix Live” on Wednesday, June 27, at 4 p.m. ET on MTV.com! Related Artists Rick Ross Maybach Music Group
