After being pulled from his halfway house back to prison for allegedly engaging in unapproved business on his tour bus, T.I. has been released from prison once again.
The rapper’s publicist confirms that he is now in an Atlanta halfway house. He will serve out the remaining two weeks of his sentence — caused by a parole violation, which stemmed from a 2008 weapons conviction — there.
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FoxNews.com’s politically focused Twitter page, FoxNewspolitics, caused quite a stir early this morning after sending out messages to its more than 36,000 followers that President Barack Obama had been shot twice and killed at an Iowa restaurant. The assassination reports are false and were apparently sent out after Fox’s account was hacked. President Obama and his family are currently enjoying their July 4 at the White House.
Fox News alerted the Secret Service of the breach, and vice president and general manager of Fox News Digital Jeff Misenti said in a statement, “We will be requesting a detailed investigation from Twitter about how this occurred, and measures to prevent future unauthorized access into FoxNews.com accounts.”
Actress Dana Wynter, 79, died May 5 of congestive heart failure at a hospital in Ojai, Calif., the Washington Post reports. Wynter starred in 1956 sci-fi classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The B-movie was her first as a leading lady and earned critical acclaim.
In addition to her work on the silver screen, Wynter thrived on television, appearing on The F.B.I., Medical Center, and Cannon.
Image Credit: Dave Peabody/Redferns/Getty ImagesBlues legend Eddie Kirkland, 88, was killed in Tampa, Fla., Feb. 27 after his Ford Taurus turned into the path of a Greyhound bus while attempting a U-turn, the Associated Press reports. The 13 passengers on the bus were not harmed. Kirkland, however, was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where he died. The Alabama native, who was referred to as “Gypsy of the Blues,” led Otis Redding’s band years ago and also worked with Little Richard, among other legends.
Two safety violations have been issued by the New York State Department of Labor to Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark after several accidents last year during rehearsals resulted in various injuries, the New York Times reports.
Show producers must continue to follow strict safety regulations set in December and will face unannounced inspections.
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After announcing their engagement last February, Good Charlotte band member Joel Madden, 31, and Nicole Richie, 29, married in Los Angeles, CA on Dec. 11, People reports. The wedding was held at the estate of Richie’s father, legendary R&B singer Lionel Richie. The couple has two children together.
Shadrach Winstead filed a lawsuit — obtained by EW — on Nov. 5 against Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, accusing the rapper of copyright infringement and unfair competition. Winstead says 50 stole the plot and theme of his 2008 book, The Preachers Son — But the Streets Turned Me Into a Gangster for his 2009 album Before I Self Destruct and its companion movie, directed by and starring 50. The case filings site several instances where portions of Winstead’s book had seemingly been lifted. For example, Winstead compared one line in his book: “My father and my mother were arguing a lot and sometimes she would leave and come stay with her mother and there would be just me, my father and my brother,” to 50′s movie dialogue: “It was just me, my mother and my brother. My father went looking for a job and never came back. Now it’s just me, my mother and my brother.”
There other alleged similarities between the the music and the book as well. Winstead’s book reads, “I used to go in the basement and stashed the coke. I had an uncle who used to go in the basement. He found my stash. He started smoking my s— up.” 50′s “Then Day Went By” features the lines, “My uncle smoked my stash up. I had 200 grams left under the porch. How much you going to smoke, man? How much you going to smoke, man?” Winstead is asking that sales of 50′s album be suspended and that he pay forward all the profits earned from the infringement.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios filed for bankruptcy protection this morning in New York City. They have been in serious debt since 2005, Reuters reports. The company expects a federal bankruptcy judge to approve the filing in approximately 30 days. The move comes after Spyglass Entertainment’s heads took hold of MGM last week.
On Tuesday, Mike Skiff filed a lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen for more than $25,000 in damages for alleged physical and emotional pain. In the suit, Skiff says his civil rights were violated when he was harassed by Cohen’s Bruno film crew on Nov. 2, 2008 when he attempted to film the comedian in character during a Proposition 8 gay marriage rally in Los Angeles. The lawsuit claims Skiff was threatened by members of Cohen’s crew — who were allegedly attempting to force him to stop filming — with wooden signs, and was shoved and wrestled.
Cohen’s rep has not returned calls for comment.
More than one month after an extra was injured after a tow cable snapped on the set of Transformers 3, the Indiana Occupation Safety and Health Administration have decided the blockbuster movie’s producers will not be charged with any wrongdoing, Variety reports.
IOSHA rep Marc Lotter says the Sept. 1 accident was, “due to the failure of a weld connecting a car to a tow cable.” And that “the weld was made by a certified welder and all necessary safety precautions were in place.” No penalties or fines will be issued.
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