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<!– –> <!– –> Jailed Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina has started a hunger strike to protest having been denied access to her own parole hearing. The 24-year-old Russian artist was scheduled for a hearing today, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, she was not allowed to attend. In response, she barred her attorney from [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Eminem’s music publisher has filed a lawsuit against Facebook and its ad agency, claiming the social media site lifted the rapper’s music for an online ad. Eight Mile Style filed a complaint yesterday in Detroit federal court alleging that Facebook copied music from Eminem’s 2000 track “Under the Influence” for an online [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Chris Brown has drawn criticism from his neighbors over the murals he had painted on a curbside wall at his home in the Hollywood Hills. The Los Angeles Times reports that local residents are complaining that the images in the street art-style murals are too scary. “There are lots of babies, [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for failing to pay taxes on approximately $1.8 million in earnings. She received her ruling in federal court in Newark, New Jersey. Hill received the one-year maximum sentence for her three counts of tax evasion, and told the judge that she [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for failing to pay taxes on approximately $1.8 million in earnings. She received her ruling in federal court in Newark, New Jersey. Hill received the one-year maximum sentence for her three counts of tax evasion, and told the judge that she [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was denied parole on Friday from the penal colony where she is serving a two-year sentence on charges of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred. Tolokonnikova, who was arrested in March 2012 along with two other members of the band for their “punk prayer” protest against Vladimir Putin [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> 2 Chainz was found not guilty on Wednesday on marijuana charges stemming from a traffic stop in Maryland in February. The rapper, born Tauheed Epps, beat the marijuana possession and possession of paraphernalia charges due to uncertainly about who owned a marijuana grinder found in his van. The van the MC [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Dionne Warwick’s long and complicated relationship with the IRS is coming to a close. On March 21st, the soul singer filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy over tax liens dating back to the 1990s. “Ms. Warwick had a business manager who mismanaged her affairs,” her attorney Daniel Stolz tells Rolling Stone. “Before [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> RZA is striking back against sampling infringement allegations that have resulted in lost income. The Wu-Tang Clan leader is unhappy with Island Def Jam for withholding over $50,000 in royalties based on allegations that his 2010 song with Kanye West, “Dark Fantasy,” contains uncleared recordings from Teichiku Entertainment. RZA filed a [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Lindsay Lohan has lost the defamation lawsuit she filed against Pitbull for using her name in a lyric, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The judge handling the case dismissed her suit on Thursday, ruling that the song was protected under the First Amendment as a work of art. Lohan filed suit [...]

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