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What do you think about the fish pedicure. You know the one where fish nibble off the dead skin from your feet? I love pedicures although it’s been a minute but I can’t see sticking my feet in a bowl, dish or whatever and have something that has to be a close relative to the piranha family chew at my feet. They do it in Tokyo and at a spa in Virginia. Maybe it’s just me, but hell to the naw!
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Shows you how much I’d been paying attention. They’re divorced. Officially. I think it happened sometime in June. *shrug* I think they needed to be apart. Whenever you act like that together then apart is the best remedy. Reports said that they ended their nearly six-year marriage after a tense hearing in divorce court. The proceedings were stopped at one point when Bynum admitted the two had sex after their separation. In the settlement Weeks was ordered to return artwork and silverware while Bynum agreed to pay up to 40k of Week’s attorney fees. Neither got alimony.
What a nasty mess. Like the Christie Brinkley divorce, why does everything have to be so public?
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I’ve been looking for updated information but haven’t found any except the excerpt below. I don’t believe in the death penalty but I don’t think people should die senselessly either.
Prosecutors announced Tuesday that the state will seek the death penalty for a Chicago man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and leaving her naked body in Calumet City.
Reginald Potts Jr., 31, was charged in December with the murder of Nailah Franklin, 28, a pharmaceutical representative from the Near South Side reported missing more than a week before her badly decomposed body was found late September.
Cook County Assistant State’s Atty. Maria McCarthy said two factors qualify capital punishment. First, Franklin was killed during the commission of a felony. In addition to murder, Potts is charged with robbery, kidnapping and vehicular hijacking. Second, the slaying was committed in a “cold and calculated,” or premeditated, manner, she said.
In Circuit Judge Thomas Gainer Jr.’s courtroom Tuesday, private attorney Robert Johnson said he would be taking on the case.
Later that day, Johnson said he decided to represent Potts after his family approached him. Potts had considered representing himself.
“I do this type of work, and I’ve done it for a long time,” said Johnson, who worked for the public defender’s office for 13 years. “He just doesn’t seem like the type of person who would do it.”
Although prosecutors have said Potts was caught lurking around Franklin’s residence the nights leading up to her disappearance, Johnson said his client was trying to break off the relationship.
“They painted a picture like he was stalking Ms. Franklin, and that’s just not the case,” Johnson said. “He didn’t want anything to do with her.”
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Source: NewsDay.com
Three detectives were acquitted Friday morning in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell in November 2006.
In a packed courtroom in Queens State Supreme Court in Kew Gardens, Judge Arthur Cooperman ruled that the detectives — Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc Cooper — bore no criminal responsibility for Bell’s death or the wounding of his two friends, Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman.
Two of the three New York Police Department detectives involved in the shooting death of the unarmed Bell, who was killed in a hail of gunfire outside a Jamaica club just hours before he was to be married in 2006, had faced a maximum of 25 years in prison if convicted.
As word filtered out moments after 9:15 a.m., people in the large crowd outside the courthouse began to shout and scream.
“They’re saying not guilty, sisters and brothers,” yelled Carl Dix, 59, of Brooklyn. “That is intolerable!”
The three undercover detectives charged in the case elected to have a judge decide their fate, rather than a jury.
The trial of the officers resulted in seven weeks of often-conflicting testimonies about the death of Bell, 23, who was killed in a 50-bullet barrage outside the Kalua Cabaret in Jamaica in the early morning of Nov. 25, 2006.
Guzman and Benefield were shot and injured.
Oliver, 36, fired at the car Bell was in 31 times. Isnora, 29, fired 11 times, Cooper, 40, fired four. Police have said that during their undercover investigation of the Queens strip club, the officers believed someone in the group with Bell had gone to the car to get a gun.
During the trial Isnora testified that following a dispute between patrons, he heard Guzman say: “Yo, go get my gun.”
The officers claimed they only began shooting after Bell bumped Isnora, who had identified himself as a officer, with his car — slamming him into an unmarked police van.
But Guzman and Benefield testified they were unaware police had been watching them — and said the gunfire erupted without any warning.
No weapon was ever found.
Oliver and Isnora had faced felony first-degree and second-degree manslaughter charges, as well as assault and reckless endangerment, and were eligible to get 25 years in state prison if they had been convicted.
Cooper faced a misdemeanor reckless endangerment charge.
If Oliver and Isnora are convicted of felonies stemming from the incident, they face not only the immediate loss of their jobs but also their police pensions — though they would keep money they contributed.
Police officers convicted of felonies automatically lose their jobs by law, said Rae Koshetz, former NYPD deputy commissioner for trials.
If a conviction is later reversed on appeal, an officer can apply for reinstatement.
Convictions on the misdemeanor charges wouldn’t necessarily mean jail time for the officers. But it could lead to a departmental trial if a firearms review board finds they violated tactical guidelines.
City officials, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg, have downplayed the potential for demonstrations and conflicts in the wake of the verdict announcement.
Bloomberg said that while the NYPD and other agencies will be prepared to handle potential demonstrations, he believes there will be no violence.
A bevy of news conferences will greet the verdict.
The Rev. Al Sharpton plans a conference outside the Queens Boulevard courthouse with members of Bell’s family.
Within an hour, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, whose office prosecuted the detectives, will hold his own media event. At 1 p.m. Michael Palladino, head of the Detectives Endowment Association which has supported the trio throughout the trial, will address reporters at his downtown Manhattan office.
Staff writers Tony Destefano and Matthew Chayes contributed to this report.
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They are dropping like flies. Celebrities and divorces or simply breaking up having never made it to the altar. Reading The Plural Thing could help them out, but they’re probably too blinded by the bling to order a copy.
Ashanti and Nelly weren’t married and she denies that her latest song The Way That I Love You is about him. They issued the standard press release statement. We will remain friends. Uh, right.
You’ve heard about the Alexis Phifer and Kanye West break up. Here are a few others who bit the dust:
Jasmine Guy and her husband of 10 years Terrence Duckett. I barely knew she was married. She is said to be seeking spousal support from him and custody of their daughter Imani.
“There is no villain in this scenario and that she is ending her marriage due to irreconcilable differences,” says Guy’s rep Paul Gendreau in a statement. “Jasmine would also like to thank everyone who wishes her and her family well, and asks that the press and the public allow her and her husband their privacy to work through what is a very difficult time.
Wayne Brady and his wife are splitting too. I knew they were married. I remembered he used to talk about her all the time on his show back 3 or 4 years ago. He’s been playing musical wives so I don’t even know her name here in the photo. Mandie. That’s it. Her name is Mandie.
Thank God I believe in love for myself, otherwise I would be sorely disillusioned counting on Hollywood as my example.
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