The rumor mills is in overdrive about Kobe Bryant’s soon to be ex wife Vanessa joining the Basketball Wives franchise Jerry Springer Show with Stiletto’s & Fake Weaves. Numerous blogs and folks close to VH1 say the execs are putting together a BIG $$$ pitch to add her into the mix. As you know, the divorce is progressing, as Vanessa’s three Newport Beach mansions (valued at a reported…
Rich or poor, educated or not, black women sometimes feel as though myths are stalking them like shadows, their lives reduced to a string of labels. The angry black woman. The strong black woman. The unfeeling black woman. The manless black woman. “Black women haven’t really defined themselves,” says author Sophia Nelson, who urges her fellow sisters to take control of their image. “We were always defined as workhorses, strong….
We know Brandy must be running around singing CeCe Peniston’s “Finally” these days. After several failed attempts at love, the singer has reportedly met the man at last who is ready to make her his wife. The couple was put on blast in a good way in Star Magazine’s January 23 issue: Will wedding bells soon ring for Brandy Norwood? She finally flaunted her hush-hush romance with music producer…
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Your Black World When it comes to Republicans running for president, the only thing worse than a nasty mistress is a disgruntled ex-wife. Newt Gingrich knows this very well, as his second (not first) ex-wife recently told ABC News that Gingrich is not exactly the kind of family values man that America seeks when it comes to the presidency. Marianne Gingrich, who says she is…
Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade talked in the new issue of Essence Magazine about their views on marriage and possibly filming it for a reality show, according to US Weekly. The couple, which has been dating for 3 years, say they aren’t in a rush to get married because they both want to get it right. “We both took failing at marriage hard,” Wade explains. “The next…
By: Nojma Muhammad, Your Black Woman I recently saw a picture on Facebook that had the following words: “If you wouldn’t make her a wife then don’t make her a mother.” I got the message, but to me this yet again another escape from accountability as women. “Make” Really? Make? My perspective is, “If he isn’t willing to MAKE you his wife, then DON’T be WILLING to be…
According to TMZ, Pilar Sanders wants everyone to know she’s NOT an adulterous floozie who cheated on Deion … and now she wants to take a lie detector test to prove it. Pilar is still fuming about the allegations Deion’s daughter Deiondra made about her during an epic Twitter rant last month … in which she claimed Pilar was a “gold digging h*e” who cheated on the NFL…
Despite denying divorce rumors back in August, it appears that Will and Jada Pinkett Smith may be finally going their separate ways — at least according to In Touch Weekly. The magazine is reporting that Jada Smith recently met with celebrity divorce lawyer Laura Wasser, who has represented the likes of Britney Spears, Maria Shriver, and Kim Kardashian. A source tells In Touch that Smith has “finally begun…
Anyone who has been keeping up with Love & Hip Hop knows how complicated the relationship between rapper Jim Jones and his woman Chrissy Lampkin is. DETAILS: Jim Jones Ends Beef With Juelz Santana Over “Love And Hip-Hop” Fight Chrissy has held Jim down for 7 years now, and has been hinting at marriage all throughout the show. She even took the initial step and proposed to him…
One of the dozens of women who helped bring down Tiger Woods’ marriage is five months pregnant. Rachel Uchitel posted tweeted pics of her and husband Matt Hahn “checking out my baby bump at 5 months.” The couple married in Las Vegas in October, shortly after they moved from New York to San Francisco. Uchitel, 36, became a household name in 2009 for being the first mistress to…
According To TMZ, Deion Sanders’ wife says the former NFL star didn’t have the stones to personally tell her he wants a divorce … shockingly, she learned about the move by checking TMZ.com. Pilar Sanders’ lawyer, Larry Friedman, tells us she was “heartbroken and surprised when [she] read … that Deion announced his decision, on his own, to end their marriage.” Pilar’s lawyer adds, “Pilar’s sole focus and…
Carrollton, Georgia (CNN) — Newt Gingrich claims that it was his first wife, not Gingrich himself, who wanted their divorce in 1980, but court documents obtained by CNN appear to show otherwise. The Republican presidential candidate, now in his third marriage, has been peppered with attacks and questions about his divorce from Jackie Gingrich for the past three decades. Questions about his past — and what that past…
By: Nojma Muhammad, Your Black Woman Oftentimes, I read or I hear some Black Women say that “All Black Men are Dogs”. Well if you subscribe to this theory, then who is giving BIRTH to these so called dogs? If you call yourself a B then your ONLY OPTION is a dog. If you are the so called baddest b**** then your ONLY OPTION is the worst dog. As women…
Black Like Moi reports. Troy Stratos likely thought he had a good thing going. He convinced Eddie Murphy’s ex-wife Nicole to give him $7 million of her divorce settlement, only to find himself being charged with money laundering, mail fraud and obstruction of justice. The man persuaded Nicole Murphy to give him a big piece of her divorce settlement and told her that it was invested overseas.
Kobe Bryant should have known his soon-to-be ex-wife would take him to the cleaners in their divorce … because she learned the wallet-raiding playbook from her mother … so says Vanessa’s ex-step dad. TMZ spoke with Stephen Laine — an inventory manager for a food company who was married to Vanessa’s mother from 1990 to 2003 … and helped raise Vanessa from a child into adulthood. Laine tells…