For years, Marion Jones angrily denied she was a drug cheat, swearing she was clean and daring anyone to prove otherwise.
Seven years after her triumphs at the 2000 Olympics, the three-time gold medalist has admitted in a recent letter to family and close friends that she used steroids before the Sydney Games, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
She’s scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in White Plains, N.Y., on Friday to plead guilty to charges in connection with her steroid use, a federal law enforcement source told The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, and would not provide specific details about the plea.
“I want to apologize for all of this,” the Post reported Jones saying in her letter, quoting a person who received a copy and read it to the paper. “I am sorry for disappointing you all in so many ways.” [READ MORE]
This really pissed me off. I looked up to her when I was back in school and even did a project on her. What a shame!
BEYONCE JACKING LYRICS?
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals received a copyright infringement case Wednesday filed by a Minnesota woman claiming Beyonce’s 2003 hit “Baby Boy” illegally uses lyrics from her song, “Got a Little Bit of Love for You.”
Jennifer Armour of Shakopee, Minn already had her lawsuit dismissed by a Houston judge, but the woman appealed her case, believing it should be heard by a jury, reports the Associated Press.
Beyonce, 26, did not attend Wednesday’s hearing, which took place before a three-judge panel.
Armour’s attorney, Dana Kirk, told the judges that an expert analyzed Armour’s slow and melodic version alongside Knowles’ song featuring Sean Paul and that the two are substantially similar [READ MORE]
R.KELLY TO GO ON TOUR, NOT TRIAL
SCREEN CAP TAKEN FROM AN EPISODE OF ‘THE BOONDOCKS’
With no start date for his child pornography trial in sight, R. Kelly has laid the groundwork for an upcoming tour to promote his most recent studio album, “Double Up,” which entered The Billboard 200 at No. 1 in June.
Fellow R&B crooners J. Holiday and Ne-Yo are booked as opening acts for the tour, which is scheduled to hit 39 dates across the United States beginning Nov. 14 at the Columbus Civic Center in Columbus, Ga., and wrapping Jan. 12 at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Va. [ click here to read more ]
Wow! I guess he will never go on trial. Ain’t nothing like a good concert though? Who is going to hit that up?
FREEFOXYBROWN.COM
Foxy Brown has launched a new Web site, FreeFoxyBrown.com, that is designed to keep fans updated with her latest news, as well as allow folks to send messages to the rapper while she’s on lockdown at Rikers Island.
“I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that,” Brown said in a statement. “I am in great spirits and very focused, and needed a forum to communicate to the people.”
I wonder what made her come clean?
Marion should be ashamed of herself.
Fuck R.Kelly! He makes good music, but he is a horrible person.
Beyonce doesn’t write anything, so it was bound to happen anyway.
Free Foxy? No, don’t let her ass out!
SMH at Marion Jones, I heard this on the news this morning. I admired Marion Jones very much and she was the main reason why I even watched the Olympics. I am so dissapointed in her.
Sad news from Marion Jones….
Hope that Kellz is goin to tour outside the US…
I remember when some guy said he saw Marion Jones injecting the steroids into her leg or something like that years ago. I think they had some damning evidence on her and she decided to just come clean. After all those years of denial, that can be the only reason.
I wonder why she just up and confessed? Usually people who get away with stuff don’t admit what they did after the fact.
I’m no Beyonce hater, but if she stole those lyrics then she should have to pay some sort of restitution (sp?). She swears she writes her own stuff. She just has to prove it now.
R-uh ain’t never.. ever ever ever…going to jail.
Free Foxy my ass. Break the law, go to jail. It’s that simple. Foxy should have gotten up with R-uh’s lawyers. They got some litigation for yo’ ass.
I heard about this on my way to work!!! I was like no say it ain’t so.
FOXXY NEED TO STOP , SHE WANTED TO BE IN JAIL SO BAD . “FREEFOXXY ” MY ASS YOU WERE NOT DONE AN INJUSTICE, SO PLEASE GO AWAY .
BEYONCE STEALS EVERYTHING . DAMN ,NOT A CREATIVE BONE IN HER BODY .
this is sad about marion jones. i guess now she can finally sleep at nite now that she has a clear conscience.
beyonce….smh. guess she is not as orginal when it comes to material and concepts
r. kelly…CANT WAIT TO GO TO THE CONCERT
foxxy brown is a HAM
Marion you ought to be ashamed!
Beyonce can’t even articulate one dayum sentence in interivews so how in the hell are we supposed to believe she can write a whole song? The only song I can truly say I believe she wrote was Bootylicious.
R. Kelly needs to be locked away while Bubba pisses on him.
Foxxy, PLEASE! Baby doll, you done lost most of your fans. I was a big fan and I say do your time. I don’t want to talk to you! FreeFoxy? No KeepFoxy!
correction “interviews”
Damn that does piss me off, I know this sounds bad but why confess now? Has it ben on her back that long? She should have just realized it was bad and never did it again, not confess to it years later. You gotta love her honesty though. I guess
Bey, Bey, Bey Why? she is a good songwriter she didn’t have to do that.
I want to go to that concert, it sounds like it’s going to be good.
Glad foxy has some kind of communication to her fans so she could keep her head up in there.
Tsk Tsk. DAMN Marion! Disgraceful.
We all knew Beyonce is a biter…just like her man Jay. Stays swaggger jacking.
SMH @ R.Kelly going on tour. Only performances he needs to be doing is singing Karaoke for Big Swole in Cell Block 8.
I might check out this foxy brown site. If I get bored enough, I’ll shoot her a letter.
This R. Kelly thing is a disgrace to the justice system! Here you have clear evidence of a man on tape, screwing a child, and he has been on tour more times than Cher since the damn thing surfaced! Ridonkulous!
Beyonce and Ashanti stay getting sued behind a song! We’ll see what happens.
Foxy needs to quit playin! We don’t care!
#9 to continue
beyonce….smh. guess she is not as orginal when it comes to material and concepts or style (jlo) or in performing (tina britney and more) or business ventures (jlo)
I can’t knock Marion for doing what she did, I mean people gotta make money somehow right? I don’t approve of what she did but I’m not going to knock her for it either. People do this stuff all the time, people fudge on resumes and job applications to get a higher position to make money, people cheat on exams, people lie… it is what it is…sad.
R kelly is disgusting…
Foxy needs to stay in prision…
and Beyonce is a biter..what else is new?….
I know Remy ma is not part of this post but her ass needs to be locked up, this heifer shot up a person! Its ridiculous how she’s still out and about doing her thing!!!
That whole Marion Jones scandal is crazy. Now she will probably lose her medals.
Does anyone have the lyrics to that Jennifer Armour chick’s song? Just curious…
Sucks for her. I’m disappointed
Beyonce, jacking lyrics? I believe it, artists do it all the time.
LOL @ that R Kelly cartoon.
Damn B all that money and you can’t get a legal team that can for see some of this shit!
Free Foxy, for what. So you can go and break some more laws. These so called wanna be celeberties will learn that you are not above the law.
B – pay up.
R. Kelly – He may be a molester, but the music is HOT. Who wasn’t stepping side to side, spin around, let me see you do the love slide. LMAO
Marion – What the F@#$. I knew something was up. Look at Marion’s shoulders, they are as wide as a man’s. Her husband Tim Montgomery said she was using
roids what they divorced a couple of years ago.
Ashanti writes all her songs fully and she never got sued for lyrics reasons and she has always paid for the remakes she made. She got sued for a breech of contract so # 14 you dont know what da fuck you talking bout and you need to keep Ashanti out of this. This is about BeYAWNce.
Damn, that sucks. I used to like Marion back in high school when I got into athletics myself. She did it for the black girls. At least she’ll live without the fear and anxiety of being caught like she has been living all along.
beyonce seems to get herself into these kind of situations a lot. What can’t she just credit these people if she can’t write her own stuff. Maybe she’s greedy and want the monet all to herself.
I would like to see R. Kelly perform live. That DVD of his is great.
@CaramelTai….”SMH at Marion Jones, I heard this on the news this morning. I admired Marion Jones very much and she was the main reason why I even watched the Olympics. I am so dissapointed in her.”
That was the exact thing that I was going to say!!!!!!
What a disgrace!!!! Frist Barry Bonds now her…
foxxy380*Out My Socks:
“Beyonce can’t even articulate one dayum sentence in interviews so how in the hell are we supposed to believe she can write a whole song? The only song I can truly say I believe she wrote was Bootylicious. ”
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
LMAO in agreeance (even though I’m a Beyonce fan)!
correction: “Why can’t she….”
Wow! Hostel no. 21?!
lol#13 big swole
Jennifer aint lettin it go either…..It would be funny if the US supreme court had to decide this. Clarence would probably be sick that day.
That’s sad about Marion. She’ll definitely lose her medals, and her name will be removed from the olympic records. Damn shame.
SMH at Marion. She didnt need steroids BEFORE the 2000 Olympics, and she still was winning races. Along with the recent news of her being bankrupt, things aint too rosy for her.
Beyonce, UGH, BITCH SIT DOWN AND MAKE SOME KIDS AND TAKE A BREAK WITH YO OVEREXPOSED SELF!! Your ass can’t even read and write, so how the hell can you write your own lyrics?
How can ANYONE seriously support the digusting child-molesting R Kelly? What a piece of shit, he thinks everythings cool, cause he makin music and is not ONE BIT remorseful of his shameful, sexual criminal acts. What a shame to the American fuckin justice system. His ass hasnt made a hot record since Tp2. C’mon, the man had sex with an underaged girl and urinated on her!! And people STILL support his ass? LOL, isn’t it funny how people call Brandy a murderer for a car ACCIDENT, but are still suckin on R Kelly’s old ass nuts??!!
uhmm BK do tell which songs were Ashanti sued for?
don’t free foxy brown! she needs to stay in jail and realize wat she have done was wrong just because she’s famous that doesn’t mean she needs to be free. break the law, do ur time like a woman. you thought u was a woman when u acted a fool, well take ur lick like a woman!!!!!
That Marion Jones situation is just sickening – She will likely be stripped of all of her medals and awards. I enjoyed watching her smoke the competition in 2000, but I have to admit, her physique was a little suspect – she lost everything feminine.
Her chest was so flat you could see her back from the front.
Yea, I know everybody is using, but when you so emphatically deny – it looks really bad when you are caught. And in addition to being a cheat, she and Tim Montgomery are crooks too – money laundering and check scheming. Damn Shame.
oh DEE thank you that’s what i thought i should of read down a little more before leaving my comment… I have never heard of Oh girl being sued for lyrics…
I’ll tell you the truth people. As ashamed as I am, I have been searching for R. Kelly tickets since the cd dropped. Not so much for this particular cd, but has anybody ever seen this man in concert? He gives a staright up GREAT performance!!!
The last time I saw this molester in concert, he sang EVERY SINGLE WORD! I mean EVERY WORD!! From “How y’all doin tonight?” to “G’night.” Now THAT’s how you give the people their money’s worth!
I can’t lie, I’ve been fiending for another performance like that from an r&b male.
*rocks, sways and sings what do we do when the dj palys our favorite song?…*
did Beyonce even graduate from High School? does anyone know?
Not surprised Beyonce is jacking lyrics really, I have always said she doesn’t write her own songs because let’s face it she’s not even capable of stringing together an intelligent, coherent sentence in an interview without completely fucking everything up for herself. This and the fact she ripped off “Resentment” and “Irreplaceable” just goes to show.
Its fucking disgusting R. Kelly is out there partying it up, shooting videos and going on tour. We’ve all seen the video people, how can anyone even consider supporting this paedophile? And is no one else sick of celebrity justice?
…Oh, and Foxy Brown, I cant hate. Shes done some stupid ass shit and is delusional as hell, but deep down I think shes a good person, and a very talented MC. She got involved with the wrong crowd of people, in her life. Her ass aint rapin no-one like R Kelly, who some trippin ass bitches STILL love and support despite being a pedophile and sexual deviant (listen to the words of his songs since 2003–AFTER he got charged).
#36 i don’t think she did she never mentioned it!
How exactly can you continue to be sued over songs that you claim you write yourself? Beyonce needs to get off of that “I write all of my songs” – because in too many instances it has come back to haunt her. Give credit where it’s due, and even if you don’t know the original author – you know you didn’t think of those lyrics sitting up in your room.
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You people saying you would like to go see a molester in concert are fucked up, man. He needs to be sent to prison and fucking raped like he raped those little girls.
So R. Kelly doesn’t have a trail date, but he’s going on a tour to promote his album? Does anyone else think that’s f’d up. Well if he makes a trip up North I will not be going to that concert, I don’t support pedophiles.
INTERESTIN FACT:
FOXY AND MARION ARE BOTH MENTIONED IN THIS SAME POST, AND IRONICALLY FOXY USED MARION’S NAME IN HER SONG “OH YEAH”:
“I’m like Marion Jones, what, who the FLUCK wan’ race?”
Just an observation folks
I guess Fox is gonna have to take that lyric back cause of the steroids news, now.
@ #42. myghettopoplife, yeah I 100% agree with what you’re saying. Even if I was a fan of R Kelly before, I sure as hell wouldn’t spend my money on this criminal.
Some people are so hypocritical if R Kelly did that to your daughter would you think it was okay that he is going about his business like he is above the LAW????? NO!!! you would want justice.
I checked the area where I live here in Texas and there are 495 sex offenders in the surrounding areas I told my husband that I would like to sell our house and move. One of those sick people live on my street. I look at his house on my way to work every morning.
I like Beyonce – True she can’t speak to save her life – she needs a speech coach or something…..but when it comes to talent she has it – I mean, put her on stage with Ashanti and have them sing a live set…………we will definitely see where the talent is…..
GOD’S BEST TO mARION…i JUST LUV AND ADORE HER. A LIL DISAPOINTED THOUGH
The next time Beyonce has legal troubles, she’ll probably get sued by the English Language for crimes against public speaking.
I really believe most athletes use some type of illegal performance enhancers, but slip thru the radar. I was really upset by the Marion story yesterday. It’s amazing how you could be on top one minute (the Nike endorsements, all the accolades, fame, glory, medals) and then fall to this level. She must be really hurt right now.
re: b’s lawsuit
I wonder if the one’s we’ve heard about over the last couple of years are just the law of averages. I mean the girl is a hitmaker. And no song, thought, or idea is never REALLY COMEPLETELY original. Just like fashion–its always some reinterpretation of something already done.
***damn my life could have been so different if I answered ALL the LSAT questions: and stayed for the whole exam”. lol
FOXXY NEED TO STOP , SHE WANTED TO BE IN JAIL SO BAD . “FREEFOXXY ” MY ASS YOU WERE NOT DONE AN INJUSTICE, SO PLEASE GO AWAY .
I think Marion made a mistake hopefully she can overcome it all!!!
I think R is innocent till proven guilty. Thats the way it should be!! Can’t wait till the concert.
BEYONCE IS SO OVERRATED…
I CANT WAIT TO GO TO R KELLY CONCERT ON NOV 25…I’M SO THERE
FOXY NEED TO STAY IN PRISON…
MARION WHY WHY WHY…SMH
Karma is a bitch! She had a husband who was a shot putter and cheated with Tim Montgomery and ended up marrying him. Now he has been banned for cheating, and has a money laundering trial, while she is going to jail also.
#20 didnt marion jones’ ex-husband try to expose her? as for beyonce, if bootylicous is the best she can do can you blame her? as for foxy and r kelly no comment.
LMAO @ #48!
karma, i did’nt know she is with tim montgomery wow
Fox Boogie – shawty is in prison..so i ain’t got nothing mean to say.. i’ll drop a line on her website
Marion – dayum DAYUM dayum! ..Looks like you are going to give back those gold medals..
Bounce (whoops)…Beyounce – Her lawyers will find a way to win the case.
R. Kelly – Your lawyers are trying the “delay the trial” thing and so far it’s working.. It wouldn’t surprise me if they dismiss the charges…
this is so sad, I fell bad for her.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3GVTGNcGNeY
YOU DUMBASS WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU COME CLEAN NOW. IF YOU WEREN’T CAUGHT DOING IT ON TAPE. I GUESS ITS TRUE… MONEY CAN’T BUY YOU BRAINS. EVERY MILLIONAIRE NEEDS A DOPE BOI TO HELP THEM MAKE DECISIONS. HOLLA AT MY NIGS ON DA GRIND.