*A lawsuit accusing singer Brandy of skipping out on a $3,576 landscaping bill was settled this week after the singer finally made good on the payment, reports WENN. A rep for Brandy said the bill went unpaid because she never received a bill from Raymond Soriano Landscape, which filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles alleging she owed the company unspecified "landscaping expenses" for work done at her property between July 2007 and February 2008. But the 29-year-old claims she was nev... Read Full Story
*The family of singer Sean Levert has asked that the FBI get involved in the investigation of his death following an episode at Ohio's Cuyahoga County jail. Warden Kevin McDonough had described Levert as "out of control," "hallucinating" and pounding on his cell door right before guards placed him in a restraining chair. But Levert's cousin, Michael Gibson, said he never had any such outburst, according to the Associated Press. The 39-year-old Levert died Sunday night at Cleve... Read Full Story
*The Billboard 200 album chart's number one spot has been occupied by two different Diddy-backed groups in the past two weeks. Day26, the boy band assembled on the mogul's MTV series "Making the Band," knocked off their fellow "MTB" cohorts Danity Kane with the No. 1 debut of their self-titled album. Danity Kane's "Welcome to the Dollhouse" falls back to No. 4. Bad Boy's "Day 26" moved 190,000 copies this week, according to Nielsen SoundScan, a marked decline from Danity... Read Full Story
*June 3rd marks the arrival of Ashanti's new album "The Declaration," a collection of songs tied together under the theme "womanhood and empowerment," according to Billboard.com. "It's been a long time coming for change, and the timing was just right," she tells Billboard.com. The album "touches on those low points in life that determine whether you're strong enough to go on. It reminds women that they can't let things get the best of them." The Inc./Universal Motown proje... Read Full Story
Whitney Houston has responded to accusations that appear in her ex-husband's new tell-all book, "Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But." In one chapter, Bobby claims that it was Whitney who introduced him to cocaine, and not the other way around as people have long suspected. "I never used cocaine until after I met Whitney. Before then, I had experimented with other drugs, but marijuana was my drug of choice," wrote Brown, who shares 15-year-old daughter... Read Full Story
*A stint cleaning toilets and attending anger management classes apparently was not enough to calm down Naomi Campbell. The supermodel was arrested at London's Heathrow Airport Thursday for allegedly spitting at a police officer. At 5:11 p.m., officers were called to the newly opened Terminal 5, where chronic baggage delays had been causing folks to lose their tempers all week, according to People.com. But it appears as if Naomi took her frustration a bit too far. After ... Read Full Story
