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Post by artemis on May 22, 2011 5:02:11 GMT -5
"Oscar De La Hoya -- "I Have My Flaws"
Oscar De La Hoya checked himself into rehab voluntarily and tells TMZ he feels he will come out "a stronger, healthier person."
As TMZ first reported, De La Hoya entered a rehab facility in California sometime within the last few weeks. We're told De La Hoya is seeking help for substance abuse issues. A source close to the boxing legend tells us he has "voluntarily commenced proactive treatment to address certain health and personal issues."
De La Hoya issued a statement to TMZ that reads, "After doing an honest evaluation of myself, I recognize that there are certain issues that I need to work on. Like everyone, I have my flaws, and I do not want to be one of those people that is afraid to admit and address those flaws.
"Throughout my career and my life, I have always met all challenges head-on, and this is no different. I am confident that with the support of my family and friends, I will become a stronger, healthier person.
"I ask for respect and privacy as my family and I go through this process."
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Post by artemis on May 23, 2011 4:35:21 GMT -5
Finally a scum is gone...
"Joseph Brooks Dead: Academy Award Winner Facing Rape Charges Dies Of Apparent Suicide
NEW YORK — Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of "You Light Up My Life" who was awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women, was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment, police said.
Brooks, 73, was discovered in his Upper East Side apartment around 12:30 p.m. by a friend with whom he had planned to have lunch, police spokesman Paul Browne said. It was not immediately clear how long his body had been there. The apartment door was left unlocked, police said.
Brooks' death comes five months after his son was arrested in an unrelated, high-profile case. The son was charged with murdering his fashion designer girlfriend, whose body was found in December in an overflowing bathtub at a swank hotel in SoHo.
The elder Brooks was discovered slumped over on a couch in the den, fully-clothed, with a plastic dry-cleaning bag around his head and a towel wrapped around his neck, Browne said. A hose attached to a helium tank was hooked up to the bag, he said.
According to police, Brooks told the doorman at his apartment that a friend was meeting him for lunch and had permission to enter the building. Police believe Brooks left the apartment unlocked so his friend could find him.
The medical examiner will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Police said a rambling, three-page suicide note was found that included complaints about his health. They did not elaborate.
Brooks suffered a stroke in 2008, and his lawyer had said the songwriter's health was deteriorating during the court case. He appeared gaunt and shuffled slowly as he came to recent court dates.
Helium is difficult to detect in an autopsy. Using it to commit suicide is outlined in a best-selling suicide manual by British author Derek Humphry.
Brooks was awaiting trial on allegations that he molested women who were lured to his apartment for supposed acting auditions. He pleaded not guilty.
Brooks' lawyer and Manhattan prosecutors had no immediate comment about Brooks' death.
Brooks won the Academy Award for best original song for the 1977 Debby Boone ballad "You Light Up My Life" and directed a movie of the same name. It is about a comedian who has a one-night stand with a director. Brooks also won a Grammy for the song.
He pleaded not guilty in 2009 to rape, sexual abuse and other charges in the attacks on 13 women. His trial date had not been set.
Prosecutors say he lured most of the women to his apartment through an online ad offering auditions for a movie role, then sexually assaulted them after making them drink apparently drugged wine as part of an "acting exercise."
Brooks' son, Nicholas, is charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend, Peruvian-American swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay. She was found dead, half-clothed and face-up, in a tub at the Soho House, an elite club and hotel, after water began leaking through to the floor below. The 24-year-old had little contact with his father in recent years, authorities have said.
Nicholas Brooks has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail at the Rikers Island jail complex."
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Post by artemis on May 23, 2011 4:59:30 GMT -5
What? Shes not even 30 (at least officially, otherwise we know here we deal with clones) and already has a tribute to her? FICHELLE FOBAMA involved in that? Wow, thats really flabbergasting!!!! She must have done a whole deal of things to be "honored". Or better to say she was forced to... "Michelle Obama, Lady Gaga to Pay Tribute to Beyonce at Billboard Music Awards
Bono, Stevie Wonder and Barbra Streisand also among those to honor the singer Sunday in Las Vegas.
Beyoncé will receive a star-studded tribute during Sunday's Billboard Music Awards.
The singer is set to be honored with Millennium Award and, according to Access Hollywood, First Lady Michelle Obama, Barbra Streisand, Lady Gaga, Bono and Stevie Wonder will take part in a tribute during the award show in Las Vegas.
Beyoncé recently contributed a music video to Obama's National Education Foundation, which works to fight childhood obesity. She also sang Etta James' "At Last" during the president's inauguration.
She also collaborated with Lady Gaga for their duets, "Video Phone" and "Telephone."
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Post by goro on May 23, 2011 8:32:44 GMT -5
That Joseph Brooks guy had the typical abusive "exploit would be performers and creative people" manual down pat! Yuck. So if he was arrested way back in 2009 why wasn't a trial date even set for him yet? Sounds really fishy to me, like most of this stuff does - these people are heavily protected by the "system." Look how hard it was to get Roman Polanski on anything. Nobody has ever raised much of a peep about Woody Allen marrying Soon Yi, who was for all intents and purposes his stepdaughter. Bleah!
And yeah, the "Beyonce" brand is bizarre. One thing I'm noticing when I listen to famous black performers, writers, and reporters talk on the radio these days is that most of them slyly mention how they are working with the Obama Administration on something these days. It's like they just hired every famous black person to do -- something -- within the administration. Advisors, arts councils, youth advocacy, yada yada yada.
PS: Because these creeps are usually so heavily protected, you KNOW that there must be a lot of stuff going on with that Dominique Strauss Kahn /IMF guy arrest. Why would the media, the New York Police, and the Sofitel hotel people be so supportive of one maid's claims of being attacked by him? That's not usually the way it goes down. Staff at hotels serving high end dignitary types know where ALL the bodies are buried, literally, and always cover up for the indiscretions of their famous clients. Some hotels even ship the sex slaves in the back door for their clients.
So -- it seems like somebody is making a POINT with his arrest and million dollars bail and so forth. Probably some sort of psy-ops to inflate anti-American sentiment abroad. (As if we don't get enough of that!)
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Post by lucy on May 25, 2011 9:21:20 GMT -5
I haven't been here much lately and I just want to share a few insights and comments on recent things I have seen with "celebrity".
Looking at the situation with "celebrity rehab". I am of the opinion that people who are in the spotlight, whether it be actors, musicians, athletes of the elite level, are exposed to "drug dealers" or "pushers". Perhaps not the stereotypical nasty looking "types" that we see in films or tv, but in the appearance of the "entourage" that one person may accumulate over the course of their rise to "stardom". These people can appear to be "friends" or agents or "handlers" or whatever terminology is used to describe these people that follow or have access to these famous people. They take them to "Parties" or bring "parties" to them with the chemicals needed to bring them up to performance level and take them down to "normal"...these famous people get used to their "dr. feelgoods" who either prescribe their meds or street drugs as they are referred to, to create addictive behavior in these famous people. Whatever "thing" is needed to created this character or athlete to "perform" their tricks and then gets them hooked on this "thing".
I think many of these "rehabs" as they are called by the massed are facilities of perpetuating the addictive behavior rather than truly rehabilitating people of their problems to return to a "normal" life....Sure, they may have their "poster child" of rehab success story, but how often do many of those people return to their bad ways and end up in trouble again...or end up dead. They have their shrinks giving them some "therapy" which is just talking about their behavior, but not really changing them or their habits.. but just keeping them away from it for a while and having these people think they are fine, but end up in worse shape than before, or it's just the same old same old.
Look at the number of people who have been in rehabs and not any more changed than before they went in? Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Mackenzie Philips, to name a FEW....how many more can we list? The point of these rehabs is just to make it appear as if a person is changing, but they are no more "cured" than before. It's like a person going on a fat ranch and eating low fat or fat free diets, exercising all day and losing a ton of weight, and returning to "real life" and the stress of life, and going back and gaining their weight back...they are not "cured", but perhaps isolated from things that trigger addictive behavior, and then put back into regular life, faced with those "trigger" situations and falling back into the problem that they had before.
I think it's just a vicious cycle that these famous people are on. They may be taken out of circulation for a time, so to speak, to be in "treatment", but they are not really cured of anything, but isolated away from the world these people lived. It's easy to not take part in something when you are in a controlled environment isolated from people who trigger bad things in people to resort to self abuse, and appear to have it together, but sent back into that environment and those trigger situations, and it's back to whatever addiction they had before, or something worse.
Regarding the Arnold Schwarzeneggar situation. I think that for some bizarre reason in the past the powers that be was priming Arnold for big political "life". I think the marriage to Maria Schriver was one of arrangement and not "love". I think they were using Maria's family lineage to validate Arnold as a sound candidate, though I can't for the life of me wonder what they were thinking that the "Terminator" would be the image of a political figure...not sure of that mindset. Regardless, I think they were priming him for big things in the political realm, and using the Kennedy political imagery, this would make him acceptable material for political leadership. I think they HAD big plans for him. Somewhere along the line their plans changed and I think this separation and scandal with the housekeeper, or whatever she was, just a way to ruin him. (Though sexual infidelity is not uncommon in the political realm) They "terminated" the Terminator in politics...
That marriage never made any sense to me because she was from a Democratic background and he claimed GOP. Those marriages are arranged, and deranged from the get go.
And if this was the woman Arnie wanted to have a fling with, what was he thinking? He could have any "hot" ticket there was...why would he want this woman???
I think Arnie is being "re-assigned" on some mission, perhaps going back to film and being used by the system to create films that will manipulate the masses. He may have more influence in films than in politics...
Whatever....
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Post by artemis on May 25, 2011 9:31:13 GMT -5
As far as FARNOLD is concerned, I believe its just a publicity stunt and nothing more. Distracting attention once again. I mean smb like him to have an affair with that mutant when he literally could have any woman he wanted? Please, its stinking from the distance. He paid her a lot of money to have her in this mediatic circus, be sure of that. Not for a second I believe he had a relationship and a kid with her. Sorry, I just cant buy this, no reason to.
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Post by goro on May 25, 2011 9:32:58 GMT -5
Every movie and TV set I was on as a performer had loads of drug dealers supplied by the directors and producers - who also enthusiastically "partook" of the drugs. Mixture of pot and cocaine, mostly. On one set where a drama was being filmed the drug dealers even got trailers supplied by MGM to live in so they could be near the actors because the show was being filmed in an extremely remote area. So yeah, everybody in the "biz" is surrounded by these parasites and yes, they are used to help manipulate mood and for women to keep them scary, bony, anorexic thin (cocaine being the drug of choice for that.) Sad stuff.
I agree that rehab isn't really "rehab" and I think it's been discussed here before that probably a lot of "reprogramming" is going on at the famous rehab joints - look at the names of these places, they totally seem like trigger words for mind control - like "Promises," etc.
The phenomenon of TV shows about celebrity rehab are definitely fake, you're right. It's a way to earn some money from "racehorses" that aren't performing well anymore - the C and D list celebs that have already fallen so far into addiction that they could never actually be relied upon to shoot a real movie anymore. Only instead of shooting racehorses after the horse is five years old and underperforming, they subject these "stars" to "rehab" and film them in these brutal ways at the most vulnerable and crazy time in their lives.
Sad stuff all around.
Interesting observations about Arnie. One thing that was so weird was how he was literally forced down everybody's throats with zero vetting and the election period only lasted 60 days, and it was a "total recall"/recall election, when it turns out Arnie has done an even sh*ttier job balancing the budget, etc. than the guy he replaced. I think you're right - Arnie was being chosen and positioned as a Republican bigwig for some reason - but then the powers that be withdrew their support.
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Post by artemis on May 26, 2011 4:27:10 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on May 27, 2011 13:33:24 GMT -5
Poor AMY...
"Amy Winehouse Back in Rehab ... Again
Water is wet, the sky is blue ... and Amy Winehouse has checked into rehab once again. Winehouse is now seeking treatment for "alcohol addiction" at the Priory Clinic, a prestigious UK rehab center.
Amy's people released a statement saying, "[Amy] wants to be ready for performances in Europe this summer and decided to seek an assessment. She will remain at the Priory on doctors' advice."
According to reports, Amy's issues are so bad ... she even drank a small bottle of vodka on her way to the facility Wednesday.
Rock bottom, again."
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Post by artemis on May 28, 2011 7:10:17 GMT -5
"Kids Still Being Taken To The Kabbalah Center Which Is Under Investigation For Crimes Against Children
Why are children still being allowed to go to the corrupt Kabbalah Center, considering the fact they are under criminal investigation in an FBI probe, for crimes against children and human trafficking. The Kabbalah Center, led by pop tart, Madonna, is also under criminal investigation by the IRS in a separate federal probe for fraud, theft, money laundering and inappropriate use of tax exempt status, as the cult heads are stealing millions and living lavishly on money publicly solicited in the name of poor people in Malawi. Regrettably, the poor in Malawi have not been receiving the millions Madonna and Kabbalah solicited in their name over the past several years.
The FBI has an initiative called Innocent Images, geared at stomping out child pornography and the exploitation of children in a sexual manner. Yet, here it is, kids are still going to the Kabbalah Centers with their parents, sometimes without, in a cult that has known pedophiles and sexual predators in its ranks, fond of hiring private investigators to illegally spy on families in their homes. This is child endangerment. Furthermore, the so-called curriculum the children are being taught in Kabbalah is fostering severe mental illness. Adults and children are being exposed to this madness.
They further wrote off in their taxes, items of a very illegal nature, such as unlawful surveillance, via wiretaps, hacking and stalking, as legitimate "security" and "internet" expenses, when they are not. The wife of baseball player, Alexander Rodriguez, who Madonna and Kabbalah illegally placed under invasive surveillance, complained of illegal wiretapping in court documents, during their divorce proceedings. Madonna and Kabbalah placed Mrs. Rodriguez and their small children under illegal surveillance, when the pop star became obsessed with him, resulting in a very embarrassing public scandal. This was an egregious abuse of the tax code.
It is very ironic that Madonna illegally adopted two children from Malawi, yet she has abused and exploited their homeland for financial gain. They are not going to feel good when they get old enough to read and hear stories about how a publicity obsessed madwoman adopted them as accessories for attention, while bulldozing their people's village in Lilongwe, full of homes belonging to the poor, to make way for a school she had no intention of building (she bulldozed 200 poor people's homes).
No compensation was given. Madonna and Kabbalah have now been exposed for fraudulently holding a groundbreaking years ago, spending millions in donated charity money on themselves and not even pulling one building permit, which is very unorthodox and corrupt.
The Kabbalah Center has been nothing but a massive financial scam for Madonna and the Bergs, bringing them $300,000,000 in cash and assets, while the people of Malawi go hungry and homeless. This madwoman even roped the United Nations into a star studded benefit for Malawi, held five years ago and millions were donated by private citizens that never made it to the African nation. However, the United Nations knew she was corrupt, but got involved for dubious financial reasons that shall haunt them for a very long time to come, when the truth is revealed.
What we see is a steady pattern of people in authority, from the FBI to the United Nations, consistently failing innocent people that have been grossly exploited by Madonna and Kabbalah. A criminal probe needs to be launched, as to why it was allowed.
Madonna is deeply involved in the criminal misconduct taking placing in the Kabbalah Centre, diverting donated millions for her own personal use. As mentioned previously in Newsweek, Madonna has hidden bank accounts in the Cayman Islands. These accounts contain millions in donated charity money she has stashed away. This is thoroughly unorthodox conduct for any charity, as it is just not done, due to transparency requirements.
Madonna's career has been over for some time now, as she released flop after flop on the charts over the past 10 years. According to Ticketmaster data, none of her tours have sold out for well over a decade. Yet here it is, Madonna recently bought a $40,000,000 townhouse in New York, a $10,000,000 property in the Hamptons (New York), a $10,000,0000 house in Beverly Hills, maintains a $15,000,000 penthouse in Manhattan, purchased a $20,000,000 townhouse in London, a $15,000,000 country home in England, with a fleet of luxury cars worth millions and keeps a personal staff of two dozen people (not to mention a fortune in failed plastic surgery and she still looks older than her age). Not even America's richest men, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, live that lavishly and they've earned way more money than she has in her fraudulent career that is solely based on criminal copyright theft."
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Post by goro on May 28, 2011 11:41:56 GMT -5
"Madonna's career has been over for some time now, as she released flop after flop on the charts over the past 10 years. According to Ticketmaster data, none of her tours have sold out for well over a decade. Yet here it is, Madonna recently bought a $40,000,000 townhouse in New York, a $10,000,000 property in the Hamptons (New York), a $10,000,0000 house in Beverly Hills, maintains a $15,000,000 penthouse in Manhattan, purchased a $20,000,000 townhouse in London, a $15,000,000 country home in England, with a fleet of luxury cars worth millions and keeps a personal staff of two dozen people (not to mention a fortune in failed plastic surgery and she still looks older than her age). Not even America's richest men, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, live that lavishly and they've earned way more money than she has in her fraudulent career that is solely based on criminal copyright theft."
I've been noticing more and more lately how the income numbers for celebrity and wealthy folks never seem to make sense. There was a rich heiress who died just this past week, and she was supposedly one of the richest women in the world, but she was only worth $500 million. According to the above quote, Madonna has at least $100 million tied up in property alone. Elizabeth Taylor supposedly had a net worth of $608 million at the time of her death. In Morgan Freeman's recent divorce case he was ordered to pay $400 million to his wife and is said to be worth $900 million.
But then when you hear how these celebs are living, with tons of properties and household staff at each place and so forth, it doesn't really add up. I mean, hundreds of millions SOUNDS like a lot, but it's not when you have so much of it overextended into so many properties, residences, etc.
I don't know. I just think a lot of these net worth numbers are really "off" and since so much of Hollywood is a criminal organization, these celebs are making a lot of their money from porn, selling ads in Japan (which pays celebs a lot to appear in ads), or other stuff the American public doesn't know about. They CAN'T be making it from their movies or albums, I don't think - not just those things anyway.
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Post by beatlies on May 28, 2011 16:59:51 GMT -5
"Kids Still Being Taken To The Kabbalah Center Which Is Under Investigation For Crimes Against Children
Why are children still being allowed to go to the corrupt Kabbalah Center, considering the fact they are under criminal investigation in an FBI probe, for crimes against children and human trafficking. The Kabbalah Center, led by pop tart, Madonna, is also under criminal investigation by the IRS in a separate federal probe for fraud, theft, money laundering and inappropriate use of tax exempt status, as the cult heads are stealing millions and living lavishly on money publicly solicited in the name of poor people in Malawi. Regrettably, the poor in Malawi have not been receiving the millions Madonna and Kabbalah solicited in their name over the past several years.
The FBI has an initiative called Innocent Images, geared at stomping out child pornography and the exploitation of children in a sexual manner. Yet, here it is, kids are still going to the Kabbalah Centers with their parents, sometimes without, in a cult that has known pedophiles and sexual predators in its ranks, fond of hiring private investigators to illegally spy on families in their homes. This is child endangerment. Furthermore, the so-called curriculum the children are being taught in Kabbalah is fostering severe mental illness. Adults and children are being exposed to this madness.
They further wrote off in their taxes, items of a very illegal nature, such as unlawful surveillance, via wiretaps, hacking and stalking, as legitimate "security" and "internet" expenses, when they are not. The wife of baseball player, Alexander Rodriguez, who Madonna and Kabbalah illegally placed under invasive surveillance, complained of illegal wiretapping in court documents, during their divorce proceedings. Madonna and Kabbalah placed Mrs. Rodriguez and their small children under illegal surveillance, when the pop star became obsessed with him, resulting in a very embarrassing public scandal. This was an egregious abuse of the tax code.
It is very ironic that Madonna illegally adopted two children from Malawi, yet she has abused and exploited their homeland for financial gain. They are not going to feel good when they get old enough to read and hear stories about how a publicity obsessed madwoman adopted them as accessories for attention, while bulldozing their people's village in Lilongwe, full of homes belonging to the poor, to make way for a school she had no intention of building (she bulldozed 200 poor people's homes).
No compensation was given. Madonna and Kabbalah have now been exposed for fraudulently holding a groundbreaking years ago, spending millions in donated charity money on themselves and not even pulling one building permit, which is very unorthodox and corrupt.
The Kabbalah Center has been nothing but a massive financial scam for Madonna and the Bergs, bringing them $300,000,000 in cash and assets, while the people of Malawi go hungry and homeless. This madwoman even roped the United Nations into a star studded benefit for Malawi, held five years ago and millions were donated by private citizens that never made it to the African nation. However, the United Nations knew she was corrupt, but got involved for dubious financial reasons that shall haunt them for a very long time to come, when the truth is revealed.
What we see is a steady pattern of people in authority, from the FBI to the United Nations, consistently failing innocent people that have been grossly exploited by Madonna and Kabbalah. A criminal probe needs to be launched, as to why it was allowed.
Madonna is deeply involved in the criminal misconduct taking placing in the Kabbalah Centre, diverting donated millions for her own personal use. As mentioned previously in Newsweek, Madonna has hidden bank accounts in the Cayman Islands. These accounts contain millions in donated charity money she has stashed away. This is thoroughly unorthodox conduct for any charity, as it is just not done, due to transparency requirements.
Madonna's career has been over for some time now, as she released flop after flop on the charts over the past 10 years. According to Ticketmaster data, none of her tours have sold out for well over a decade. Yet here it is, Madonna recently bought a $40,000,000 townhouse in New York, a $10,000,000 property in the Hamptons (New York), a $10,000,0000 house in Beverly Hills, maintains a $15,000,000 penthouse in Manhattan, purchased a $20,000,000 townhouse in London, a $15,000,000 country home in England, with a fleet of luxury cars worth millions and keeps a personal staff of two dozen people (not to mention a fortune in failed plastic surgery and she still looks older than her age). Not even America's richest men, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, live that lavishly and they've earned way more money than she has in her fraudulent career that is solely based on criminal copyright theft." It's Fadonna and Faballah, remember. For their CIA media controllers, it's a triple win: they get to encourage false mysticism (Faballah) to get people's heads out of the miserable capitalist reality around them, they get to further beat down Malawi and Black African nationalism, and they get to spread anti-Semitism when they make the news of their Fadonna/Faballah center's abuses go public (and further their longtime goal of driving a wedge between Blacks and Jews in their natural liberal/left minority alliance).
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Post by sherlok on May 30, 2011 14:54:41 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on May 30, 2011 15:15:22 GMT -5
"Atlanta Model LaShawna Threatt Dies After Bizarre Fall Out Hotel Window
A popular model plunged to her death Saturday morning after crashing out a window in the W Hotel in Atlanta.
LaShawna Threatt was celebrating her 30th birthday with friends at the swanky hotel when the bizarre incident occurred.
Other guests at the party told police that LaShawna was "play fighting" with Ciara Williams, a close friend, when the two crashed through the hotel room window, several local news outlets reported.
It was about 3:15 am Saturday, and the women both fell onto the roof of the sun room ten floors below but Ciara rolled off and landed on the hotel's patio area.
LaShawna was pronounced dead at the scene while Ciara, a professional dancer, is currently in Grady Memorial Hospital in critical condition.
"It appears there was no malicious act, no foul play, they were just wrestling each other. They hit the window, the window broke and they fell out," said Atlanta Police Lt. Paul Guerrucci.
"It's really a tragic accident."
LaShawna, who modeled for an Atlanta based promotions company and was a well-known local personality, leaves behind a 15-year-old daughter."
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Post by lucy on May 30, 2011 22:47:48 GMT -5
I heard about the model who "fell" out of a window...so the story goes "play fighting"...sounds like something fishy had really happened, and someone pushed her out the window....but give it a "play fighting" twist....
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