Monthly Archives: February 2011

‘ROUND THE WAY: MARY HARVEY SETS US STRAIGHT ONE LAST TIME – WHO DO YOU BELIEVE?

Mary Harvey is at it again. The former wife of Steve Harvey stopped by 102.3 FM last week and did one last interview in response to her former husband, Steve Harvey. Since Mary’s last interview, Steve has since then visited ABC’s The View and has made a national attempt to clear up his name, thus dragging Mary’s name in the dirt. Well Mary Shackelford refuses to keep quiet…yet again. In an exclusive interview with the DC radio station, Mary set the record straight and continues to claim that she is telling the truth. We could’ve sworn there was some kind of gag order preventing her from speaking on the matter again…Either way, she decided to break it down and make her truth clear one last time:

On the $40,000 monthly payments:
He was ordered to pay me $40,000 but I only got it 10 months. So we’re talking about $400,000 that he paid out to me for a 10-month period. So I only got 10 months of those payments. So what we’re back to again is Mary never got a settlement. Like I said, when you look at a document and someone signed off on that document, that’s one thing. A lot of people of been awarded a lot of things but whether they got those things is another issue.

On the three homes she supposedly received:
The first home was a $200,000 home that Steve and I purchased for our housekeeping staff….Eventually, Steve asked them to go to Atlanta with him which left that house sitting there. The personal assistant she is in that house right now. When I hired her she told me she was homeless. The second house he is talking about is a house that he and I bought, that he and I and the boys shared. That house I put on the market because after the divorce I did not want to live in that house. The third home is that we are really talking about was our $5 million mansion. That was the home we were all living in when the divorce happened. Now, when I let the personal assistant have and I mean have that house, and I sold the second house, thinking I would have my mansion to stay in but he waited right until those two homes were gone and I did get awarded that home my separate sole property, it wasn’t two weeks later he and his attorney went back into the courtroom and to say I was causing him a financial hardship. He was ordered to pay that mortgage until the house was paid off or if I sell the house that would be income for me which I really counted on. So when he went back to the court and they actually made me put my house on the market I had to get out of it just so he could satisfy the mortgage. I didn’t get any proceeds from that house. So I said all of that to say anything can be put into a document to say this is what she got but did she get it?

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COUPLED UP: JAY-Z & BEYONCE AT THE NBA ALL-STAR GAME

Jay-Z and his wife, singer Beyonce Knowles play around during the 2011 NBA All-Star game at Staples Center on Sunday (February 20) in Los Angeles, California. Pop star Rihanna was also spotted greeting the high-powered duo during the game (photos below).

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RANDOM PICS: NICKI MINAJ PERFORMS AT NBA ALL-STAR GALA

Rapper Nicki Minaj performed at the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) All-Star Gala over the weekend in Los Angeles, California.

In related news, Nicki is ready to hit the road with Lil Wayne on the “I’m Still Music Tour” beginning March 16 in Providence, Rhode Island.

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ROUND THE WAY: STEVE STOUTE CALLS OUT THE GRAMMYS

Record executive, and the man many say is responsible for Jay-Z’s business success, Steve Stoute took out a full page ad in Sunday’s New York Times to lash out at the GRAMMYs and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences because they “have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture”.

Stoute cites the recent snub of Justin Bieber for Best New Artist and Eminem and Kanye West being overlooked for Albums of the Year, 2001 and 2008, respectively, as examples.

Read Stoute’s letter in its entirety below, and share your thoughts in the comments section.

Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that specializes in in-culture advertising, I have come to the conclusion that the Grammy Awards have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture. My being a music fan has left me with an even greater and deeper sense of dismay — so much so that I feel compelled to write this letter. Where I think that the Grammys fail stems from two key sources: (1) over-zealousness to produce a popular show that is at odds with its own system of voting and (2) fundamental disrespect of cultural shifts as being viable and artistic.

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