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The femcee of the girl group Blaque always let her presence be known. Natina, a protege of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, was the rapper in Blaque, whose most famous song was "808." She is survived by her 10 year old son Tren Brown, whose father is rapper Kurupt. The femcee also starred in the hit movie Bring It On alongside Gabrielle Union. Tomorrow would have been her 33rd birthday. Our prayers and condolences are with the Reed family. Developing... Natina pictured here (right)

Lil Wayne was rushed to the hospital after suffering a medical emergency while flying on a private jet. The plane made an emergency landing in Texas, where Weezy was taken to the hospital for treatment. The rapper was suffering “seizure-like symptoms” before the emergency landing. Although it’s not clear whether he is still in the Lonestar State, sources say he’s “doing better.” SOURCE: TMZ

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel may have wed in a lavish, upscale ceremony in Italy, but a video reportedly shown during the affair is getting slammed online for being in poor taste. The video was obtained by an online blog, and features people believed to be homeless, street musicians and transvestites giving the multimillionaire couple blessings and well-wishes has attracted criticism online “Greetings from your Hollywood friends who just couldn’t make it,” the clip begins. “Jessica and Justin, I haven’t seen y’all in a long time,” says a man missing teeth, adding, “My gift is in the mail.” The couple said ‘I do’ at a seaside Italian wedding ceremony last week. The full video is reportedly more than 8 minutes, here is a 20-second clip on its website. The video’s producer was identified as Timberlake’s friend, Justin Huchel, a Los Angeles real estate agent. His attorney , “Specifically, Mr. Huchel made a video to be used and exhibited privately at Justin Timbe...

A CHINESE pre-school teacher has been AXED after sharing pictures online showing her lifting up a young student by their ears. Parents in China’s Zhejiang province complained to the local education department after the cruel image was posted on social networking site Weibo. The picture shows 20-year-old Yan Yanhong smiling as she hauls the screaming youngster several inches off the ground at the school in the city of Wenling. And the sickening shot was just one of more than 700 images Yanhong posted online, apparently taken by another teacher. Other horrifying pictures showed young children with their mouths taped shut and their hands stuck to the desk to make them sit still. Cruel … small boy with his mouth taped shut and his hands taped to desk Silenced … young boy with his mouth taped shut. Another shows a child forced into a bin, with their back awkwardly arched over the side. A final picture shows a youth with a rubbish bin on their head. But ...

A Manhattan nanny stabbed two children to death and then slit her wrists in a failed suicide attempt Thursday afternoon, sources said. The mother of the children — ages 3 and 5 — came home about 5:34 p.m. to find them dead in a bathtub at their tony apartment at The Rochelle on West 75th Street on the Upper West Side, the sources said. The nanny, who has not been identified, is in police custody. She was rushed to New York Presbyterian in critical condition, sources added. A neighbor said she heard “the mother screaming hysterically” when she arrived at the apartment. She said the pediatrician mother also had a third child, who was unharmed and appeared to not have been home during the vicious attack. “It’s horrifying, it’s a very quiet building,” said the neighbor, who met the nanny for the first time yesterday and described her as “very quiet.” “She just stared ahead,” the neighbor added. SOURCE: NYP

A Staten Island teen who pals said had been relentlessly tormented by bullies leaped to her death in front of a train as 200 of her classmates looked on in horror. Felicia Garcia, who attended Tottenville High School, was repeatedly bullied after she had sex with four of the school’s varsity football players at a party at one of the player’s homes Saturday night, police said, adding the sex was consensual. Two of the jocks, both 17, bragged about the encounter, and word spread rapidly; on Monday, in response to the torment, she tweeted: “I cant, im done, I give up.” The Huguenot Staten Island Railway station platform was packed with fellow students from Tottenville HS at around 3:15 when a sobbing Felicia suddenly broke away and jumped. She died at Staten Island University Hospital. “She got bullied in the school, especially by the football players, because she looked different and had piercings,” said senior Amanda Liquori. Sara Brager, 16, witnessed the troubl...

A regional director for Georgia’s child protection division is facing a child cruelty charge involving her daughter. Richmond County Jail records show that 34-year-old Sharonika Wesby Wimberly was being held on a charge of first-degree cruelty to children. The 15-year-old Richmond Academy student told school authorities her mother had hit her in the arm with a broom handle for overuse of a cellphone. Reports say the mother admitted to disciplining her daughter but contended she used a studded belt (oh yeh b/c that’s much better than a broom). Both items were retrieved from Wimberly’s home, he said, but injuries were found consistent with the use of the broom handle. Doctors initially thought the teen’s upper arm was broken as a result of the assault, but after X-rays were taken, it was diagnosed as severe deep tissue bruising. Richmond County sheriff’s Sgt. Dan Carrier said Academy of Richmond County officials called a state agency’s hotline Tuesday to report suspec...

Young Chicago rapper Lil Reese’s career may be in a world of trouble after a video was released showing him beating up his alleged baby mama. Now the young woman on the video is speaking out! She’s been identified as Tiairah Marie, seen below. In the video, you can hear Tiairah tell Lil Reese to “keep your hands to yourself” and “don’t touch me.” Minutes later, Tiairah finds herself in a full on fist fight with Lil Reese, which ended with her being stomped out on the floor. After the video went viral…Tiairah posted this statement on her Facebook page… She said the incident happened over a year ago, and that in her eyes she has moved on from it; however; she wants anyone out there (men in particular) to know that what he did was not honorable, nor should it be looked at as a laughing matter. She also stated that he acted out simply because she asked him and his boys to leave her house. Meanwhile Lil Reese tweeted this after getting word the video was blowing up th...

“America’s Next Top Model” judge Rob Evans has become America’s most wanted reality TV star, now that the Beverly Hills, Calif., police department has issued a warrant for his arrest. Evans, a British male supermodel who joined the cast of the hit reality competition show this year, is being sought on charges that include battery with serious injury and assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury. Lt. Lincoln Hoshino said the warrant had been issued in connection with a March 14 incident that took place at the Next Modeling agency in Beverly Hills. Hoshino said that the Beverly Hills police had reason to believe that Evans, a former boxer, was currently in New York, and had notified New York authorities of the arrest warrant. Bail attached to the warrant is set at $150,000, Hoshino said. Evans replaced model and photographer Nigel Barker on the latest season of “America’s Next Top Model.” Rumors have swirled that he and host Tyra Banks are secretly ...

Investigators are still trying to solve six killings at four locations along the Tennessee-Alabama state line have found a common thread: one of the slain knew all the victims. Authorities had been looking for 24-year-old Warren Vincent Crutcher when he was found dead, the victim of a homicide, in north Alabama on Tuesday. He had been wanted since Monday for questioning in the deaths of three women and a toddler a few miles north, in Lincoln County, Tenn. Authorities are still trying to sort out what Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Kristin Helm described as a “tangled web” of relationships between Crutcher, the slain and two young children who weren’t injured in the attacks. “All they know is there are four or five murders involved. And it seems to all center around my grandson,” Warren Crutcher’s grandfather, Lorenzo Crutcher, said Wednesday. The grandfather said he hadn’t seen his grandson in more than a month and didn’t know what he did for a livi...

Kansas City police are searching for a man who robbed a Church’s Chicken late Tuesday night with a samurai sword. Police said the man walked into the restaurant at 55th Street and Prospect Avenue at 9:58 p.m., pulled the sword and demanded money. The robber then ran out and got into a brown two-tone Chevrolet pickup truck and drove off. No one was hurt during the robbery. Anyone who recognizes the man from the surveillance video is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.

Is there anything you can’t buy on the internet? It would seem not… A 20-year-old Brazilian student has reportedly sold her virginity in an auction to raise money for charity. Catarina Migliorini, a 20-year-old Brazilian woman who decided to auction off her virginity as part of a proposed documentary by Australian fimmaker Justin Sisley. The winning bid has now been revealed; a Japanese man, of unknown age, known as “Natsu” has offered $780,000, and been accepted. Migliorini, who has sparked outrage across the globe amid claims she is prostituting herself, is being filmed throughout the process by an Australian crew for a documentary film called Virgins Wanted. In response to critics she said: “I saw this as a business. I have the opportunity to travel, to be part of a movie and get a bonus with it. “If you only do it once in your life then you are not a prostitute, just like if you take one amazing photograph it does not automatically make you a photographer. ...

Zoe Saldana is not backing down from playing famous soul singer Nina Simone, despite the online petition signed by an organization urging her to drop the role. US Weekly magazine has published a photo of Saldana in full Simone character on what appears to be the set of the biopic in the works titled “Nina” in Los Angeles, Calif. The Dominican-Puerto Rican actress is seen donning an afro wig, fake teeth and facial prosthetics. Last month, Saldana got criticized for being too light to portray Simone since the legendary singer had much darker skin color. An online petition on Change.org urged the producers and writers of the film to reconsider having Saldana as the leading actress. The petition gathered over 2,600 supporters. Simone’s daughter has said the biopic has not been authorized by the Simone family. Kelly added that despite being a Saldana fan, she thinks actresses like Viola Davis or Kimberly Elise would have been better choices. This comes after R...

Hip-hop pioneers Run-DMC are back on tour, their first without the backbeat of the group, DJ Jam Master Jay, the victim of an unsolved murder shrouded in mystery and lack of cooperation by witnesses. The platinum-selling band which brought hip-hop to the mainstream with hits like “It’s Tricky,” “King of Rock” and a remake of Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way” kicked off a tour last month even as the NYPD remains frustrated the 2002 execution-style rubout of the hip-hop star, whose real name was Jason Mizell, remains stalled 10 years later. Sources close to investigators say they’ve already fingered one of Mizell’s killers, but making an arrest has been hampered by reluctant witnesses and bad press. “We just never had enough to make it stick,” said one of the sources. Investigators suspect career criminal Ronald Washington was either the lookout or the gunman. The hit was likely ordered after Mizell, who owed up to $500,000 to the IRS — refused to settle a decade-old drug d...

Was that a tear streaming down Oprah Winfrey’s cheek? It looked like it this morning – right after a rousing rendition of Ain’t No Mountain High Enough from the Power in Praise choir, and just before Robin Roberts called in to Good Morning America. The GMA anchor phoned in to her ABC show in her first live chat since her bone marrow transplant. “I’m standing in for you, Robin!” shouted Oprah, who co-hosted the 8 a.m. hour. “Usually I’m watching in between my toes in bed. You got me on my feet. You got me dancing this morning,” said Roberts, who could be heard but not seen. “It’s all about being uplifted.” When Oprah asked her how she’s doing, Roberts replied, “It’s Day 35. Thirty-five days ago I had my bone marrow transplant. It is a journey, my friend, as you have taught me.” Roberts, 51, went on to say, “I am so incredibly blessed to be doing as well as I am. Some days I do feel like I am 35 days old and can’t get my head off the pillow. But those days are becomin...