Singer Kelis filed for divorce from her hip-hop star husband Nas today. They married in 2003 and she is seven months pregnant with their first child. Wow. You know it's gotta be pretty bad for a couple to get divorced before the baby is even born. Rumors of marital strife had ...

Jailed hip-hop star DMX (né Earl Simmons) has been ordered to pay $240,000 for assaulting a Connecticut man at JFK International Airport while posing as an FBI agent five years ago. A New York jury also found the rapper liable for causing emotional distress to the man's mother and his ...

Former WBA welterweight boxing champ Antonio Margarito filed suit against the California State Athletic Commission this week. Margarito claims he was unjustly suspended by the Commission for allegedly hiding plaster in the knuckle pad under his gloves in his January 24, 2009 fight against "Sugar" Shane Mosley. As he was preparing ...

Redmond O’Neal appeared in court yesterday for a probation violation hearing. He was ordered to a drug rehab program at Wayside Honor Ranch. It is in-custody treatment. If he fails to complete rehab successfully, O'Neal will face up to four years in prison. Prosecutor Tony Estradas spoke directly to O'Neal in ...

Pittsburgh Steelers receiver and Super Bowl MVP Santonio Holmes was arraigned this week on a misdemeanor marijuana charge he picked up after a traffic stop in October. Holmes' attorney indicated that he planned to challenge the constitutionality of the stop, but did not elaborate. He said that he would be filing ...

Rapper Lil Wayne got sued last year for copyright infringement, accused of failing to get appropriate permissions to sample music from folk singer Karma-Ann Swanepoel's song Once. The samples were used in Lil Wayne's track I Feel Like Dying. Wayne has now dragged a third party into the suit, accusing the ...

Okay, Perez. Twice in one day?! Come on. Perez Hilton is under the false impression that an initial "not guilty" plea is some sort of indication that a criminal defendant wants people to believe he is innocent. And, as we mentioned here earlier, that's just not the case. It makes for ...

Singer Toni Braxton has sued insurer Lloyd's of London for refusing to pay out when she had to cancel her Vegas show due to heart problems. Braxton bought "non-appearance and cancellation insurance" from Lloyd's prior to her extended residency at the Flamingo Hotel in 2006. Braxton later had to cancel the ...

Shauna Sand asked for and got a restraining order this week against her estranged husband Romain Chavent. Sand was previously a Playboy Playmate and wife of Lorenzo Lamas, in case you're trying to figure out who the heck she is. Chavent is now prohibited from being within 100 yards of Shauna. ...

I wouldn't normally post something like this because the entry of an initial plea in any criminal case is normal, uninteresting, no big deal. However, Perez Hilton seems to think it's a big fucking outrage. He says: "The ambulance driver and government official charged with extorting John Travolta for $25 ...