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Scott Storch Wanted Over 40K Child Support Bill
Published Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:43 PM By Tai Saint Louis Multi-platinum producer Scott Storch is wanted by the Miami-Dade police after missing a court appearance, the Miami Herald reports today (June 11). Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Marc Schumacher issued a warrant for Storch's arrest after he failed to appear at the latest hearing in an ongoing child support battle with the mother of his two-year-old son Jalen. The boy's mother, Dalene Jennifer Daniel, originally filed a complaint in 2006 stating that Storch owed $46,000 in back child support. The balance represents $30,000 in monthly payments and $16,000 in contributions to Jalen's Florida Prepaid College Plan, as set forth in a mediated settlement agreement between Storch and Daniel. Once in custody, Storch would have to pay the full balance in order to be released on bond. Otherwise the warrant authorizes police to keep him in jail until his next court appearance. Storch was also recently hit with a new paternity suit, this one by the mother of Steven Brandon Bedillo, a 16-year-old son whom he had acknowledged and willingly provided financial support for until January of this year. The plaintiff, Vanessa Bedillo, filed an emergency child support petition after she and her son were evicted from their Ft. Lauderdale-area apartment in May. Bedillo further alleges that Storch is $5,000 behind in tuition payments for Steven, who attends the American Heritage School in Plantation, FL. Steven's car, a gift from his father, was also recently repossessed. Bedillio is asking that Storch "be required to pay the monthly rent, private school, and child support." "While he drives around in his Ferrari and Cadillac, [Steven] is sleeping on a couch in the same room as his mother," Bedillo's attorney Paul Leinoff told The Miami Herald. While there is no word on Storch's whereabouts his attorney Guy Spiegelman maintains that his current financial predicament, which also includes a debt of $511,839 in back taxes, came about because Storch was a "victim of mismanagement of his business enterprises. Storch is currently in the process of refinancing his $10.5 million Miami Beach home and plans to fulfill all of his obligations.
LIL WAYNE SLATED TO STILL SELL OVER 900K
Despite Tha Carter III leaking on the Internet over a week ago, New Orleans, Louisiana rapper Lil' Wayne is expected to sell between 850,000 and 950,000 albums in his first week sales. According to Entertainment Weekly, the album is set to surpass both of 2008's highest-selling first week albums, Mariah Carey's E=MC2 and Usher's Here I Stand which sold 463,000 and 433,000. Executive VP of sales for Universal Motown Republic Group Pat Monaco explained the unexpected number of albums sold and why the leaking is helping rather than hurting Weezy's prospected totals. "The sales the first few hours were exceeding the rate that the Kanye album sold a year ago," he said. "[Tha Carter III] was one of these records that, because it was so highly anticipated, with the leaks and everything, it caused more people to go out at eight in the morning to buy the CD." With first week sales looking to possibly beat both Carey and Usher's albums combined, Monaco also explained the impact bootlegging unfinished recordings on mixtapes and Lil' Wayne's non-stop recording habit had on the album. "[We] were like putting a traditional set-up and street date on a guy that was just nontraditional," he affirmed. "It changed dates, changed titles, changed songs, changed the people that were working on it. But sonically, the record bears out." If the reports hold true and Lil' Wayne is able to pass Carey, Tha Carter III will not only be the biggest album of the year but will also regain the top spot for a hip-hop artist since Kanye West last September. As previously reported by SOHH, Tha Carter III was intentionally leaked by various mixtape djs including DJ Chuck T due to negative statements made against them by Weezy.
SOHH has learned that release date for the highly anticipated upcoming album LAX from Compton, California rapper The Game has been delayed yet again.
Black Wall Street New Media and Digital Marketing Director Grego confirmed to SOHH that the album release has been rescheduled to July 22nd. No explanation for the new date was given.
Game was originally scheduled for a June 24th release date along with G-Unit's Terminate On Site before being pushed back twice to July 8th.
"I will drop my album on July 8 in order to clean up the mess 50 made with his new release on July 1st," Game recently told SOHH.
LAX will follow-up the Compton rapper's '06 release, The Doctor's Advocate, and will supposedly be his final album before retiring from music.
Game's L.A.X. is set to release July 22nd and will feature artists including Lil' Wayne, Busta Rhymes and Common.
R. KELLY TRIAL UPDATE!
Testimony ended in the R. Kelly trial yesterday but the prosecution and defense were disputing the tape at the center of the trial, which is the key piece of evidence for both sides.
According to The Chicago Sun-Times, the dispute was initiated by a DVD copy of the alleged sex tape the prosecution gave to Kelly's team. Prosecutors told the defense it was an exact copy of the original when it was a lower quality duplicate. Kelly's team used this copy to question their DVD expert.
Judge Vincent Gaughan said, "This is the rotten tomato in the barrel."
Prosecutors called to the stand two rebuttal witnesses, including their video expert Grant Fredericks, who originally testified the man on the tape had a dark spot on his lower back which would correspond with the mole on Kelly's back.
Video forensic expert Charles Palm told jurors that the black mark on the lower back of the man on the tape is not a mole but a result of video distortion. Palm said since the video has been duplicated numerous times it appears and disappears. Fredericks testified yesterday, the DVD he analyzed during his first testimony was not an accurate reproduction.
"Half the information I was showing was not on Exhibit 78," Fredericks told jurors. "None of the detail I was presenting in court would be present."
While defense lawyer Ed Genson admitted he had "no doubt that it was a mistake," he also said "we used [the DVD] as a basis for putting Mr. Palm on the stand."
The prosecution and defense later resolved the dispute privately but it was not revealed how.
Atlanta prosecutor Bobby Wolf also took the stand yesterday to rebut defense claims that the prosecution's key witness, Lisa Van Allen testified in Kelly's trial as part of a plea bargain for her fiancée in a separate criminal case. Van Allen testified to having multiple three way sexual encounters with Kelly and the alleged victim. Her fiancé Yul Brown was arrested on gun and drug charges in February and faced up to 22 years in prison. He received probation after pleading guilty and the defense believed he then arranged for Van Allen to testify against Kelly.
Wolf said he was not contacted by anyone from the Cook County State's Attorney's Office about Yul Brown. He also said he recommended Brown receive prison time but an Atlanta judge gave him probation.
"There was absolutely no connection" between Van Allen's testifying and Brown's sentencing, Wolf told jurors.
When asked by Judge Gaughan if he knew he had the constitutional right to take the stand, Kelly told him, "I decided not to testify."
Closing arguments are scheduled to begin tomorrow.
The multi-Grammy award winning R&B singer faces 14 counts of videotaping, producing, or soliciting child pornography. He pled innocent to all charges and if convicted could face up to 15 years in prison.
10 Reasons Jermaine Dupri must be a Leprechaun a.k.a.
The Luckiest Little Man in Hip Hop
By Charlamagne Tha God (Fellow Shadyville DJ)
10) Money Ain’t a Thing Video - This video was all the Luck of the Leprechaun. Using his Leprechaun luck, a phone book, and pedal extensions, he was lucky enough to be able to reach the pedals of those hot ass cars he was driving in this video. This video did a lot for the Leprechauns image and had him mentioned in the same breath as Sean Combs, but only when people said damn JD trying to be like Puffy.
9) Kris Kross - This was one of the Leprechauns first pots of gold. He was lucky enough to discover two childhood friends, Chris Kelly and Chris Smith in 1991 at an Atlanta shopping mall. Dupri thought the two “looked like a rap group” and proceeded to gas these twelve-year olds to wear their clothes backwards. There debut album “Totally Krossed Out” went 4 xs platinum in the US and to this day nobody really knows why? I also always wondered if he encouraged them to wear there boxers backwards? If he did, with the hole in the back instead of the front, their album should have been called “Totally Assed Out”.
8) Whoever introduced him to Bow Wow - In 1998 at the age of eleven, Bow Wow was introduced to JD who sprinkled a little Leprechaun luck on Bow Wow’s young career. Now I don’t know who introduced Bow Wow to the Leprechaun but half of this pot of gold should have gone to them. Nobody gave a damn about Slow Slow Death in 1998. I mean nobody cares now, but they where damn near dead then. It was rumored that Bow Wow was a Leprechaun, but nobody would really knew until he got older. Those rumors have been shot down now that he’s older because he’s too tall to be a Leprechaun and has established himself pretty well in the music and film industry (without the Leprechaun’s assistance).
7) His Braids - JD was lucky enough to wear cornrows years after going bald. This combined with his natural Leprechaun height kept up his youthful appearance so he didn’t look like Bow Wow’s vertically challenged father in Bow Wow’s videos.
6) Da Brat - Now this is when rumors of JD being a lucky little Leprechaun really started. He swagger jacked Snoop and reincarnated his style in the form of a female MC and Da Brat was born. Even though much better MCs like Queen Latifah and MC Lyte came before her and had commercial and critical success none of them ever went platinum, but Da Brat did. She was the first female solo artist to ever go platinum. The Leprechaun strikes again.
5) The Street Single - This is what Greg Street was talking about when he said the Leprechaun was a BDS A&R. He goes and grabs pots of gold that are already out there and claims them as his own for example: Bone Crusher (Neva Scared), J-Kwon (Tipsy), Youngbloodz (Damn), Franchise Boys (I think They Like Me) and Rocko (Umma Do Me). A deaf man could hear these where going to be hits, but JD was lucky enough to sign these artists at key periods in Slow Slow Deaths existence. These records have served as life support for a label that should have been dead years ago.
4) Michael Mauldin - The Leprechauns father and former President of Columbia Records. What, you thought JD worked his way into the game? No! He was lucky enough to get handed his position in the game. This explains why he doesn’t really have an ear for talent most of his artist where introduced to him by someone else (see # 8) or they where more gimmick than talent i.e., Kris Kross, Da Brat and Bow Wow, or they already had a single buzzing (see # 5) and JD just stamped So So Def on it and called it his own. Who needs an ear for talent when your father was a president for a major record label? Lucky bastard!
3) The Emancipation of Mimi - Mariah Carey’s comeback record went 6 xs platinum, fueled by the singles “It’s Like That”, “We Belong Together” and “Shake it Off”, all co produced and co written by JD. This had to be the luck of the Leprechaun (see # 2).
2) Janet Jackson - This is the moment when people realized JD was not human, but was an actual real live Leprechaun living among us. How did he bag Janet Jackson? The Luck of the Leprechaun!! This is how we know the Emancipation of Mimi was pure leprechaun luck because he had two chances to bring Janet back with 20 Y.O. and Discipline and couldn’t do it. He used all his pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers to bag Janet in the first place. He had no more luck left as far as she was concerned to make pots of gold appear at the end of the rainbows of her last two albums.
1) DJs playing Slow Slow Death Records - If it wasn’t for the DJ, not one record JD produced or wrote would have ever been played! If it wasn’t for the DJ, Da Brat and Bow Wow would be nobodies! If it wasn’t for the DJ, he would have never established the So So Def DJs even though we know he did this just to have a coalition of people to force his latest batch of hot garbage down the world’s throats! Now since his, “The DJ is dead” comments, the Leprechaun’s luck has run out. The DJ has no reason to support a mediocre talent, with a mediocre roster of artist and a very mediocre label. R.I.P. to the Leprechaun’s career, sadly it was already dying a Slow Slow Death.
PLIES MAKES THE LADIES CRY!!
Plies might be the dirtiest rappin' ass cat in the game but the man has a good heart. Most of these new rappers come out of the gate so happy that they're makin' loot that they make it rain in strip clubs...Plies is cut from a different cloth!
He really is from the streets but is eloquent as hell when he speaks...either way a woman called into the interview to thank him because his music is keepin her goin through her rough time of being a single mother...then the big homie decided to come out of pocket to help out the family! real big!! The audio's below:
