When Mary J Blige filed for divorce from Kendu Issacs in July, she
gave the same excuse of “irreconcilable differences” that most Hollywood
celebs use.
But the singer is now ready to open up on the real reason that her marriage of 12 years came to an end.
Mary gave an interview to Good Morning America, and said the reason for the divorce was a lack of respect.
“The breaking point was when I kept asking over and over
and over again for respect and to be respected. And it just seemed like I
was beating a dead horse,” Mary J Blige
Mary said talking to Kendu was like talking to a wall, and since he
wasn’t ready to meet her needs, she knew she had to “save” herself.
Paris Hilton used the “N-word” in a racy sex and party tape, and now she’s being described with the “R-word”–RACIST!
As The ENQUIRER reported last week, the tape allegedly shows Hilton
calling two black men “dirty n—–,” behind their backs at a party. Since
then, a firestorm has erupted.
Niger Innis, national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality
told The ENQUIRER that Paris’ FOX TV show, “The Simple Life” is bound to
lose viewers.
“The way Paris used the word was clearly racist,” said Innis. “She
intended harm. She is going to pay a price. People are going to be very
cold to her in the future.
“Paris is famous for two reasons. One, she was born filthy rich and
two, she is a bit of a tramp. Her value as a commodity is severely
damaged. I think she will lose viewers from her show ‘The Simple Life’
and that certainly won’t pain me.
“I can only quote Ricky Ricardo as he often said in ‘I Love Lucy’…Paris has ‘lots of explaining to do.’ A lot!”
WHAT DOES LIONEL THINK? Paris’ racist outburst could also jeopardize her friendship with TV co-star Nicole Richie, whose dad is African-American singer Lionel Richie.
Sources say that tension over the slur may be the reason Paris was a
no-show at Nicole’s 23rd birthday party at the Los Angeles restaurant
Ivy last month.
But others say that Paris’ image will recover from the foulmouthed fiasco.
Hollywood celebrity manager Jay Bernstein knows the Hiltons and
Lionel Richie–and while Paris’ comment was stupid, he doesn’t think she
is racist.
“This was a really offensive thing for her to say,” he told The
ENQUIRER. “It was a dumb, thoughtless thing to say. But we all say dumb
things. It doesn’t sound like she did it maliciously.
“I don’t think she really feels that way. If she did, Nicole wouldn’t be her best friend.
“And I don’t think it will affect Paris’ commercial viability. She’ll apologize for it and things will go on for her.”
DAMAGE CONTROL? Carol M. Swain, a professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University Law School agreed.
She said Paris can reinvent herself with the African-American community if she shows support for causes like the NAACP.
NORMAL SPEAK? Others point out that the “N-word” has made its way into young people’s vocabulary because of outrageous rap lyrics.
“Of course, I think the use of that word is offensive, but this may
be the way Paris talks all the time in private conversation,” said
Swain, author of “The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to
Integration.”
WERE TAPES STOLEN? The controversial tapes first
surfaced eight weeks after Paris’ home was burglarized. But the men
behind the tapes, which The ENQUIRER can now reveal are lawyer Ron
Richards and Darnell Riley, insist that the tapes were obtained legally.
Riley, who claims to have dated Nicole, said he was entertaining
offers in the millions of dollars from Internet sites and TV stations
for the 14 hours of tapes that allegedly show Paris using the racial
epithet, smoking pot, and performing a sex act with exboyfriend Nick Carter and model Jason Shaw.
But since our last story, the tapes were abruptly taken off the market.
Paris Hilton has been branded a racist by her former friend. Brandon Davis, who fell out with Paris earlier this year, claims the hotel
heiress regularly refers to black people as "ni****s" and is forever using
racial slurs against other ethnic minorities.
Davis, who dates
'The O.C.' star Mischa Barton, is quoted by America's National Enquirer
magazine as saying: "She was forever using the 'N-word.'
I told her not to use it. It was offensive. But she just laughed. She is
a racist, plus an idiot. Every black person she referred to was a 'ni****'. "
Davis said he ended his friendship with the reality TV star because of her
attitude.
He added: "She uses the word all the time, and I've known her all of her
life. It's 'ni**** this' and 'ni**** that.' She's a disgrace. She is a
racist!
"She puts down Jews and other minorities, too. And I'm Jewish. I found it
depressing. I finally had enough of her attitude six months ago, and I
finished with her.
I don't want anything to do with her. I don't need
anything from her. She is no longer my friend. She's just not a nice
person."
It was recently reported that Paris used racial slurs in a new 12-hour videotape, in which she stars, by allegedly calling two black men "dumb ni****s".
However, although she has not denied using the word, she did issue a
statement saying: "Anyone who knows me knows that this is not me. I love everybody and am not a person who discriminates against anyone - ever."
So dope I got to hang with with the biggest rockstar of the night.
(Ya,know besides Sting and Green Day) ...the girl with the biggest prize
of all a BIG Heart that she shares with the world.
I'm wearing Season 3 & Versace open toes😬 Thank you to the entire
team at the #AMA's. U guys always show me so much love & I really
appreciate it.
This is how I looked when I beat Trey and the boys bowling, I was like these niggas can't beat me at nothing. Lol #EFFENVODKA
He said I never wear his gifts. These LV slippers 😍
Now boy George was always a personal hero of mine. Don't ask why, he just was. But I was in love with Marilyn! Especially in their early years. Marilyn always was and still is so cute I just dreamed about going to england and meeting him one day. Perhaps going further. I'm so glad he's off the drugs and back to recording music. I've gotten such a positive response from his new video. I hope he comes to America. That's the only way I'll ever meet him since I'm not welcome in britain.
Marilyn Tells HuffPostUK Why He Was Banned From Drag Clubs, How His Friendship With Boy George Endures
Comeback pop star Marilyn says, for all the tolerance and understanding enjoyed now by the gay community, nobody should be complacent.
He tells HuffPostUK:
“I had my share of psychological, verbal, emotional bullying. Has it
changed? Bollocks. They should try popping over to Jamaica for the
weekend and see how tolerant and understanding people really are.”
However, he agrees things are much better than when he first hit the
London scene, teenage Peter Robinson transformed into dazzling Marilyn,
inspired by his screen idol, challenging people’s ideas of gender, with
his beauty and attitude, long before he became a pop star with singles
‘Calling Your Name’ and ‘Cry And Be Free’, and caused tabloid mayhem
with his fellow reveller Boy George.
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Marilyn out clubbing in 1982 with Boy George, who is “like a brother”
“When I used to go out at
the weekends and I was 14,15 I used to do ‘Marilyn’,” he remembers now,
with his 2016 look a lot more uniform but still striking.
“Marilyn used to be dresses, an homage to Marilyn Monroe, that particular kind of glamour.
“And I was banned from every gay club in London. I thought, aren’t I
supposed to be one of you? Everyone I was with was saying, ‘Here we go
again.’
“I was saying, ‘Why can’t I come in?” “You just can’t.” “This is a drag club, what’s going on?”
He chuckles. “It can only be jealousy - what else?”
Fast forward three decades, through which Marilyn has come out the
other side looking impressively good for a man who claims to do no
exercise “or anything at all, really” (never mind the two-decade drug addiction and staying in one room watching ‘Alien’ films), and one thing has remained the same since those heady days – his friendship with Boy George.
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Marilyn (yellow top) with George Michael, Sting and co performing on Band Aid
George produced Marilyn’s forthcoming album and he says now the pair “are like brothers”.
What is the secret to this bond, particularly when they were pitted
against each other in the early years, and both worn down by drug
addiction later on?
“George is family, he’s one of my family,” he says simply. “They say
you can’t choose your family but I absolutely do. The others are… I
don’t know what they are.
“We’re older. Our lives have run parallel to each other. There are so
many similarities, with life experiences, it’s all about caring.
“I care about him and he cares about me. Even when, in years gone by,
we’ve been at loggerheads over some ridiculous thing, we still care. If
you don’t care about someone, you don’t get cross.”
Marilyn
Marilyn is making music again after decades away
As for the music itself,
Marilyn won’t say too much - “I hate having labels attached to things,
everyone should make their own mind up”- but does reveal it’s all
inspired by his Jamaican roots, before he moved to England aged five:
“The album is island-inspired. I’m from Jamaica, and so we’re doing variations on musical themes that come from the islands.
“I don’t like trying to pigeon-hole creativity, trying to label it
and confining it. We’ve got a rough premise. It’s a Marilyn project. Who
is Marilyn? Marilyn is from Jamaica, and that’s the core.”
And, 30 years after he first broke onto the collective pop consciousness, he has one message he wants to come across:
“I’m enjoying working. I see people. I do music. I work. I travel. I just live. I enjoy my life.
“Success is… I’d like other people to hear it, and make a difference,
and maybe get the message that, it doesn’t matter what happens in your
life, if you decide a certain way about how it’s going to be then it
will be, it doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down, it’s not
about getting knocked down, it’s about getting back up again, and
living, and being happy.” Marilyn’s ‘Love and Money’ is available now. His album is on its way.
Long heralded as a female James Brown, Sharon Jones, soul singer and bandleader of the Dap-Kings, has died at 60.
"We
are deeply saddened to announce that Sharon Jones has passed away after
a heroic battle against pancreatic cancer," Judy Miller Silverman, the
singer's representative, told USA TODAY in a statement. "She was
surrounded by her loved ones, including the Dap-Kings."
The
big-voiced performer worked as a backup singer and session musician
before forming the Dap-Kings in the early 2000s. Following debut album Dap Dippin' With Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings in 2002, the band received acclaim for its '60s-style soul and Jones' electrifying live performances.
In 2014, she received her first Grammy Award nomination for her album Give the People What They Want.
The singer attracted a broad demographic audience at festivals and rock shows.
"We
played at the Apollo in Harlem, and people were asking me why most of
the audience was young white college students," Jones told USA TODAY in
2008. "I said, 'All I see are fans screaming 'Sharon, we love you and
the Dap-Kings!' "
Yet even she was surprised by the wide range of
acceptance. "I was totally shocked when they had us at (Telluride)
Bluegrass Festival. These people were a bunch of hippies into blues and
rock. But once people hear us, they are into it."
Jones was diagnosed with Stage 2 pancreatic cancer in 2013, forcing her to take a temporary hiatus from
recording and touring. Even after undergoing extensive surgeries and
chemotherapy, she was back on the road with the Dap-Kings in 2014, soon
after completing her first treatment.
"This cancer is here, and I
have to take the chemo," she told NPR earlier this year, after her
cancer returned. "But I want to perform. I just want to be able to get
onstage and move." Miss Sharon Jones!, a documentary that followed Jones' first seven months post-diagnosis, was released in July.
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Paris Hilton has been branded a racist by her former friend. Brandon Davis, who fell out with Paris earlier this year, claims the hotel
heiress regularly refers to black people as "ni****s" and is forever using
racial slurs against other ethnic minorities.
Davis, who dates
'The O.C.' star Mischa Barton, is quoted by America's National Enquirer
magazine as saying: "She was forever using the 'N-word.'
I told her not to use it. It was offensive. But she just laughed. She is
a racist, plus an idiot. Every black person she referred to was a 'ni****'. "
Davis said he ended his friendship with the reality TV star because of her
attitude.
He added: "She uses the word all the time, and I've known her all of her
life. It's 'ni**** this' and 'ni**** that.' She's a disgrace. She is a
racist!
"She puts down Jews and other minorities, too. And I'm Jewish. I found it
depressing. I finally had enough of her attitude six months ago, and I
finished with her.
I don't want anything to do with her. I don't need
anything from her. She is no longer my friend. She's just not a nice
person."
