Lou Pearlman, the infamous record producer who created such boy bands as The Backstreet Boys and ‘NSync, died in prison on Thursday, according to a Federal Bureau of Prisons record. He was 62 years old. The cause of death is believed to have been an undisclosed illness. Known in during the heyday of his career “Big Poppa,” Pearlman was one of the world’s most successful music producers in the 1990s. Based in Orlando, he created The Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, LFO and O-Town. In 2000, however, members of The Backstreet Boys filed a lawsuit against their manager, claiming that Pearlman had set up their contract in an unfair manner. Via court documents, the band alleged that they had only received $300,000 …while Pearlman received millions. Soon afterwards, NSYNC also filed a similar lawsuit, as did Aaron Carter (pictured below with Pearlman) in 2002. Still, it wasn’t until 2006 when Pearlman got into real legal trouble. At that time, investigators discovered that he had defrauded investors of over $300 million in a Ponzi scheme. He did so by somehow convincing wealthy investors to put their money into shell corporations that did not exist. Pearlman fled to Indonesia in response to the charges and was captured in 2007. A year later, Pearlman pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering, conspiracy and fraud. He was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison, although a judge ruled that Pearlman could reduce his prison time ; for every million he paid back, the judge would take one month off his sentence. Pearlman never paid a dime. “Word is that #LouPearlman has passed away,” Lance Bass wrote in response to this news, adding: “He might not have been a stand-up businessman, but I wouldn’t be doing what I love today w/out his influence. RIP Lou.” View Slideshow: Celebrities Who Passed Away in 2016: Gone, But Not Forgotten Pearlman was a diabetic who suffered a stroke in 2010. “It was definitely a wake-up call,” he told The Hollywood Reporter at the time, adding that he had since lost 75 pounds by walking around the prison track. It’s unclear whether this disease contributed to his death. View Slideshow: 90s Boy Bands: Where Are They Now?
After just posting BEYONCE IN YELLOW JUMPING OFF A YACHT , I figure it only makes sense to post some pics of a pregnant Rihanna, the girl who motivates Beyonce to be fit, to keep her man interested in her, because of all the money Rihanna brings into Jay Z…it puts Beyonce in an insecure place….which doesn’t happen when you’re Queen B..bullshit… She’s probably not pregnant, based on drinking the wine, she’s just starting to fill out like the island girl she is, and if you’ve been to any island you’ll know that they don’t take advantage of the ocean to swim fucking laps in, but instead take advantage of the fast food restaurant to become 400 pounds in… She is in Zurich though, FANCY…a long way away from her small little Island town…which should give young sluts with average level talent hope that one day – they too can be scooped up and exploited… The post Pregnant Rihanna by the Pool in a Bathing Suit of the Day appeared first on DrunkenStepfather .
After just posting BEYONCE IN YELLOW JUMPING OFF A YACHT , I figure it only makes sense to post some pics of a pregnant Rihanna, the girl who motivates Beyonce to be fit, to keep her man interested in her, because of all the money Rihanna brings into Jay Z…it puts Beyonce in an insecure place….which doesn’t happen when you’re Queen B..bullshit… She’s probably not pregnant, based on drinking the wine, she’s just starting to fill out like the island girl she is, and if you’ve been to any island you’ll know that they don’t take advantage of the ocean to swim fucking laps in, but instead take advantage of the fast food restaurant to become 400 pounds in… She is in Zurich though, FANCY…a long way away from her small little Island town…which should give young sluts with average level talent hope that one day – they too can be scooped up and exploited… The post Pregnant Rihanna by the Pool in a Bathing Suit of the Day appeared first on DrunkenStepfather .
It looks like Paulie’s game will officially come to an end on Big Brother. The house seems like they are done with Paulie after the way he’s acted recently. He pled with Victor to use the veto on Corey so that he didn’t need to campaign against his ally. It was a nice touch, but Paulie is still ruffling feathers around the house. He’s threatening to quit the jury house if there’s no opportunity for him to return to the game. He’s the worst type of player. Deep down, he knows America is annoyed with him for his actions and doesn’t want to own up to them. There’s still one more chance for someone to return to the game through the round trip twist, but there’s also a special episode airing this week. Might there be a juror allowed to return to the game in the event Paulie does not have the return trip ticket? View Slideshow: 12 Big Brother Houseguests We Loved… Or Loved to Hate If Paulie does somehow return, he has a plan in place to get rid of Victor and Paul. However, America’s next Care Package twist involves another houseguest being voted as co-hoh. Paul’s side of the house still holds the votes, so expect Corey or Nicole to go up and out the door. The events of the last week will no doubt push Nicole and Corey to try win the HOH hard than they have been. Their backs have never been this far against the wall, so it’s time for them to actually play the game before being sent home. The chances of Corey being voted co-hoh are pretty much non existent. He could get a pity vote because of his association with Nicole. Paulie won’t be winning any viewer voted perks. He’s emerging as the villain in all of this. Who do you want to leave the game? Hit the comments with your take on the recent events for the houseguests. View Slideshow: 13 Reality Show Villains You Really Love to Hate
It's time to meet Alia Byrne. And then to feel very badly for Alia Byrne. This British woman has lips that put Kylie Jenner to shame, but thing is… we shouldn't joke. As someone who suffers from body dysmorphia, Byrne clearly has a severe mental disorder. Despite her current appearance, as you'll see and learn about below, she can't stop getting plastic surgery… 1. As a Child This is what Byrne looked like as a child. Take note of lips. 2. As an Adult Now a single mother living in Liverpool, she has always wanted more plump lips. 3. It Begins… For her 29th birthday, Alia’s sister gave her money to get lip injections. 4. The Results? Since then, she’s had 6.5mL (that’s a lot) of fillers injected and spent $2,111 (also a lot of money, to her) on the procedures. 5. She Can’t Stop One procedure was not sufficient, however. Byrne has been unable to stop injecting her lips. 6. Still Not Good Enough Hard as it may be to believe, in her mind, these lips are still not big enough. View Slideshow
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Subtle… She’s doing the Taylor Swift – pandering to loser chicks who can’t keep dudes because they aren’t hot enough – and don’t suck dick enough – because there’s always another hot chick around the corner out to use you for your money, celebrity, cock, etc…down to suck your dick because you pay her – or because her dad didn’t love her enough…making putting up with a whiney Selena Gomez, spoiled Disney Kid Selena Gomez…something not worth doing, unless you are an opportunist trying to get your own level of fame and fortune on her back…see cuz it’s hard to go viral on social media these days….. So her song is called “Feel Me”…but people call it the “I dated a fuck boy anthem”… So her lyrics are like : “No one loves you like I love you I never cheated, never lied I never put no one above you I gave you space and time And now you’re telling me you miss me And I’m still on your mind” Shut the fuck up you broken, emotional needy caricature we know is making all that up…trying to connect with other girls who don’t look in the mirror and take responsibility for getting cheated on or dumped… Her lyrics go onto: “Every time your lips touch another I want you to feel me, I want you to feel me Every time you dance with somebody I want you to feel me, I want you to feel me” I mean…by feel me does she mean “jerk off to the sex videos we shot when you’re bored and revisiting the past”…or does she mean “I’ll still fuck you – proven in the fact that I write songs about you”…. There’s more…remember she didn’t even right this song…so it’s all vapid meaningless words that are based on her bullshit relationship – but that have nothing to do with her actual feelings, since she’s a puppet with no feelings – trying to cash in at the expense of dumb girls… So…. “When she ain’t giving you enough to get you through the night I won’t be caught up in the middle Through your highs and your lows Baby, long as you’re not with me, you’ll always be alone.” Pretty much what I already said, go to the ex girl when you don’t want to throw off the new girl, or when you’re in the mood to get off to old pussy, it usually happens on Sunday nights… I love that people are writing about this – like it’s news, like it matters, like it’s real, like it’s not vapid smut – without the close up penetration pictures…garbage.. I love that I just read Selena Gomez song lyrics she didn’t write..like they fucking matter…to prove a point that doesn’t matter…like that Rage Against the Machine was owned by Sony Music which was the Machine…if you know what I mean… Here’s a recap of her instagram fight with bieber – people – not us – but people – care about… The post Selena Gomez Fucks on Stage of the Day appeared first on DrunkenStepfather .
Ever take a look at the Forbes 400 annual listing of Americans with more than $1.7 billion in holdings–there are only two Blacks listed. Even though we keep celebrating the fact that African Americans’ buying power reached $1.1 trillion in 2015, Black wealth still lags woefully behind that of white Americans. Due to a lack a wealth building in the Black community–we tend to spend our money outside the community and don’t save or invest as much–it will take Blacks in America hundreds of years to just to catch up to white wealth. Specifically, it will take a whopping 228 years to close the wealth gap between Blacks and whites in America. This, according to a just released report from the Corporation for Economic Development and the Institute for Policy Studies. Latino families will fair a lot better–it will take them 84 years to close the gap… [ MadameNoire ] This Is The Worst State For Black Americans If you had any plans of moving to Wisconsin, you might want to rethink that. Turns out Wisconsin is the worst state for Black Americans. There are a number of factors making the Badger State a bad place for Blacks, including the fact that is has the biggest wealth gap between Blacks and whites. Blacks in the state have lower median annual incomes, higher unemployment, and lower college graduation rates, according to a new report by financial news and opinion website 24/7 Wall St. The report listed all 50 states on metrics of Black and white inequality. And Wisconsin, which topped the list, was not the only Midwest state that ranked high. Minnesota came in as the second worst state for Blacks, Illinois ranked no. 5, and Iowa ranked the 10th worst state for Blacks… [ MadameNoire ] Tim Westwood Unearths 52 Minute Wu-Tang Clan Freestyle From 1997 Tim Westwood dug deep into his archives and pulled out a vintage freestyle session from members of the Wu-Tang Clan. The year was 1997 and Wu-Tang was riding high off the success of their sophomore magnum opus Wu-Tang Forever. Ol Dirty Bastard, The RZA, Method Man, Masta Killa and U-God stopped by Westwood’s show to shoot some poisonous arts and “bust shots at Big Ben like they got time to kill…” [ HipHopWired ] New Film By Ethiopian Nurse Combats Mental Health Stigmas In Africa [ Huffington Post ] FCC Stops Debt Collectors from Robo-Calling Cell Phones [ Baller Alert ] Gucci Mane Remixes Major Lazer’s ‘Cold Water’ Ft. Justin Bieber & MØ [ iHeart Radio ] Thomas Gibson — Fired From ‘Criminal Minds’ [ TMZ ]
Terri Williams Addresses Questions About Black Banks, One United In recent weeks we’ve seen tremendous growth in the number of new accounts being opened by black people at black owned banks. We reached out to Terri Williams, President and COO of One United Bank — the largest U.S. black owned bank to discuss what their institution offers account holders and to address fears people may still have about opening an account with a black owned bank . BOSSIP: Talk to us about the upsurge in business as of late? Are the reports being exaggerated or is this real growth you are seeing? Terri Williams: Website visits, branch visits, account generation have all increased tenfold. It’s really fabulous not just for us, but really part of a broader message and vision that we as a community are having a broader awareness of the importance of our dollars. BOSSIP: How does banking black help the community? TW: It’s not just banking black it’s actually buying black. It’s the broader point of buying black. I try to share with people that having dollars circulate through a community is how wealth is built… In any community, not just the black community. In our community, our dollars circulate for six hours on average before they leave. In the Asian American community, they circulate for 28 days. In the Jewish community, 19 days. Within six hours we’re spending our dollar in other communities and building the wealth of other communities. Whereas they’re visiting Asian restaurants, using Asian-American plumbers, etc… We’re the largest black owned bank, but the largest Asian American owned bank is worth something like 19 billion dollars. So other communities understand this much better than we do as a community. To some degree it’s understandable because we had to fight you know, going back to slavery and Jim Crow. I like to focus on the positive and look at how far we’ve come as opposed to looking at it as a negative. We have made a lot of strides from where we’ve come, but we still have a ways to go. And this particularly, the awareness of the importance of our dollars, is so critical to building wealth in our community. So it’s more than putting money in a black bank it’s also buying black. Circulating our dollars more in our community. What a bank does, and this is the other thing that people don’t understand is a bank actually recycles dollars. That’s what our role is. You put your deposit in the bank and those dollars are re-circulated throughout the community by who we hire and the lending that we do, and the investments that we make. So all we do is take the funds that are deposited and deploy them back into the community, that’s what banks do. It is more than banking black it really is buying black. BOSSIP: How have you worked to get that message out? We noticed you offer financial literacy classes. TW: We offer Financial literacy classes, but what I will say is that the message that I have just provided is more important to get that message out even more than financial literacy ,such as how to help yourself build your credit or how you can help prevent getting scammed. Those are more personal messages. But this call to action by Killer Mike , as well as others like Solange is really to me providing an opportunity for us to have a broader conversation about the fact that black money matters. And that it matters to us as a community and it’s just important to us again to not just bank black but buy black. BOSSIP: Are all of the One United Branches located in primarily black poor communities? TW: Yes. All of our branches except for one are located in black minority, low to moderate income communities. In Boston we are in Roxbury and Dorchester; in LA we are in South Central and Compton; in Miami we are in Liberty City. We employ people from the community and we are involved in a lot of community organizations in each of our markets. And we offer products and services that are affordable and that help the community in terms of, we didn’t do any sub-prime lending; we do first time homebuyers lending, we don’t charge outrageous overdraft fees. We are for responsible products and people can trust us. We could make more money if we were doing what the other banks were doing, but our role is not to make the most amount of money, it’s really to serve the community. BOSSIP: We noticed you guys offer secure credit cards as well. Are those rates reasonable? We’ve heard negative things about the rates for prepaid cards and Rush cards TW: The difference between a prepaid card like a Rush card and a secured card, is a secured card can actually help you rebuild your credit, because we report to the credit bureau unlike the Rush card. In addition we don’t charge all of those fees that prepaid cards charge. Our interest rate is a reasonable rate for someone who doesn’t have great credit – cause that’s why you’d get it, to improve your credit. And it’s a fixed rate. A lot of banks that offer these secured cards have a variable rate which can go up, but our rate is fixed. I think another thing that is important for our community is we need to start to trust each other. We are FDIC insured. People can put their money in the bank and not have to be concerned about it’s safety. We offer online banking and mobile banking.You can pay by text with us. You can take a picture of your check and deposit it. People think ‘oh the bank’s Black, I have to accept less services,’ when the reality is we actually have better services than most banks. So we as a community have gotten to a point where we actually do offer things that are better for our community than others, but we’ve come from a history of not trusting each other and we do have to get over that. BOSSIP: What is the fee to have a checking account with One United? TW: With a direct deposit it’s free. Same with savings. No limit on transactions per month. And like I said we have wonderful services. We have free online banking, we bill pay, we have great customer service. If customers are having an issue they can call us, send us a message. People have even sent us messages on Facebook and we’ve gotten right back to them. We also offer interest bearing checking accounts. Now the amount you have to deposit is higher, but we offer one of the highest interest rates on a checking account in the country. BOSSIP: When it comes to the other black owned banks is there any type of community organizing with each other? TW: Yes. The National Bankers Association is a trade organization that is really for minority banks, but it includes all of the black banks, and we meet regularly, at least once a year, but sometimes two or three times a year. So we all know each other. And we’ve all been doing this for many years. Most of the black banks were created during the civil rights era when other banks used to not work with us at all. This idea of banking black and garnering our spending power and channeling it back into our community is age old. You can go back to Marcus Garvey. Our civil rights leaders have been talking about this for decades. It’s just now we have the technology to actually do it. So now if you’re black in America but you live in a small town, you can still bank black. BOSSIP: What would you advise someone who doesn’t live in a city where there is a local black bank? TW: Go to OneUnited.com and open up an account to participate in this movement. It’s very simple. You can open up a savings account and deposit $100. And if we can get a million of us to do that, that’s $100 million dollars. So that’s a great way for people to participate. It’s easy to do. FDIC insured. And become a part of what I’m calling this Black Money Matters Movement. BOSSIP: Just one last question for people who still might be hesitant. The number of black banks has decreased from 48 to 21. Is it decreasing because they weren’t FDIC insured or the doors are actually closing because they don’t see the business? TW: No one has lost money by banking with a FDIC insured bank. There’s no way to lose your money by putting your money in a black bank. We are all FDIC insured. So that shouldn’t be a concern, that should really be off the table. Your money is safe. Banks in general have declined and consolidated. One United Bank is actually four banks that have been rolled up to be the largest black owned bank. So banks are consolidating. Some of them are closing but when they do, people don’t lose their money. What do you think about Ms. Williams’ answers? Have you started banking black yet? Do you plan to?
Quick, name a hit song by Tyga. It’s not easy, is it? We ask this question in order to ask another question: How the heck is Tyga so gosh darn rich?!? Last year around this time, the rapper presented Kylie Jenner with a Ferrari convertible that most car experts estimated to have cost approximately $3200,000. You can see Kylie driving it in this video: Kylie Jenner Birthday Dinner Video That was quite the generous gift from Tyga, but, hey, Kylie was turning 18 years old. At least that marks a milestone occasion. This year, however, Kylie is turning 19 years old on August 10. It’s a pretty random and pointless birthday; one year after the big 1-8, one year prior to hitting one’s 20s. It’s not exactly cause for a major celebration. But try telling that to Tyga. On Saturday, the 26-year-old gave his girlfriend a Mercedes-Benz that cost, at minimum, $189,000. At least now we know why Kylie keeps going back to Tyga, despite him seeming like sort of a douche. On a video posted to Snapchat, Jenner films the black Maybach and gushes over her new vehicle. “Happy early birthday to me,” she says, adding: “Yay! I love you, T.” Jenner later added a picture of the interior, writing as captioned to it: “Almost too boss for me.” Almost . Tyga also purchased for Jenner an insanely expensive Rolex for her high school graduation on July of 2015. There was actually talk soon after Tyga bought these items for Jenner that Tyga was broke . We can’t believe that’s actually the case, although we do refer readers back to the opening of this article. From where is Tyga getting all this money?!? Club appearance? Keeping Up with the Kardashians cameo? The guy isn’t exactly shooting up the Billboard charts with any singles. Last Wednesday, the rapper told Hollywood Today Live that he had a sort of hard time deciding what to give Jenner for her 19th birthday. “She might be watching, so I can’t [say],” he said, when asked about his gift. “It’s really just about what you feel. How do you get someone that has everything, you know?” You could make them something unique and personal, like a ceramic coffee mug or something. Either that… or you could blow six figures on a car Kylie may drive once or twice. View Slideshow: Tyga: 15 Times He Proved He Was a GIANT Dirtbag
