Posts Tagged ‘domestic violence’

And so the cash grab begins for Lozada…

First Look: Iyanla Vanzant One-on-One with Evelyn Lozada

Part 1 airs Saturday, September 15 at 10/9c. Part 2 airs Sunday, September 16 at 10/9c.

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From E!

The State Attorney’s Office in Broward County, Fla., confirms to E! News that it has charged the former Miami Dolphins wide receiver and VH1 reality star with misdemeanor battery stemming from his domestic violence bust last month when he purportedly roughed up his now-estranged wife, Evelyn Lozada.

Johnson, formerly Chad Ochocinco, could face up to a year behind bars.

More HERE.

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Really Nightline…really?

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And with it, she smashes Kim Kardashian’s record of 72 days for remaining in a sham marriage, with a new record “low” of 41 days.

NEW YORK — Evelyn Lozada is ending her 41-day-old marriage to Chad Johnson after the football star was arrested for allegedly head-butting her over the weekend.

Danika Berry, a rep for the VH1 reality star, confirmed reports that Lozada filed for divorce on Tuesday.

Earlier, Lozada issued a statement saying Johnson — cut by the Miami Dolphinsafter the Saturday arrest — “needs help.” She also said that he was lying when he told police she head-butted him.

The two were married July 4 after their courtship was detailed on VH1′s “Basketball Wives.” Their nuptials were to be part of the VH1 reality show “Ev & Ocho,” but it’s now been shelved.

The altercation allegedly occurred after Lozada questioned him about a receipt for condoms that she found.

On Tuesday afternoon, Johnson released a statement:

I would like to apologize to everyone for the recent events that have occurred. I would like to wish Evelyn well and will never say anything bad about her because I truly love her to death. I will continue to be positive and train hard for another opportunity in the NFL. To all the fans and supporters I have disappointed, you have my sincerest apologies. I will stay positive and get through this tough period in my life.”

ESPN story HERE.

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OF COURSE she “spoke out” to Entertainment Tonight.

 I am deeply disappointed that Chad has failed to take responsibility for his actions and made false accusations against me.”

It is my sincere hope that he seeks the help he needs to overcome his troubles. Domestic violence is not okay, and hopefully my taking a stand will help encourage other women to break their silence as well.”

She conducted an interview with an entertainment gossip television magazine…and she calls that “taking a stand?”

Story HERE.

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Evelyn Lozada

UPDATE:

In the wake of the 34-year-old athlete-turned-reality TV star’s arrest in Florida this weekend on charges he headbutted his wife Evelyn Lozada during a fight — reportedly over a receipt for condoms she found in the trunk of their car – VH1 is yanking his series off the air.

“Due to the unfortunate events over the weekend and the seriousness of the allegations, VH1 is pulling the series ‘Ev and Ocho’ from its schedule and has no current plans of airing it,” the network confirmed in a statement to the Daily News.

Story HERE.

Evelyn Lozada has also made her intentions known to police that she plans to file charges against husband Chad Johnson for allegedly head-butting her during the altercation which led to his arrest.

Johnson was released from the Miami Dolphins yesterday in response to his arrest and other team-related behavior.

According to the police report, Lozada found a receipt for a box of condoms from a local Walgreens in the trunk of Johnson’s car which precipitated the confrontation.

There is no arguing whether domestic violence is either funny or fodder for Reality TV.  There is no question as to its serious nature.  There is a question as to whether Lozada will somehow attempt to profit off of these circumstances.

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Chris Brown is now the resident authority on career self-sabotage. It’s not easy to do and Brown is about the best there is. Lindsay Lohan is up there. T.I. definitely deserves to be in the conversation too but neither had attained the heights of Brown before flushing it down the toilet.

Mo’Kelly – 12.30.2010

Mo’Kelly…right again!

From Entertainment Weekly

Chris Brown flew into a rage on the set of Good Morning America earlier today, smashing a window and storming out of the studio shirtless after the interviewer kept directing the conversation back to his felony assault on his then-girlfriend Rihanna two years ago.

The 21-year-old R&B singer waited until his interview and first performance was over before storming into his dressing room, where insiders say he began shouting and tearing it apart.

Before ABC’s building security arrived, Brown somehow shattered the window in his dressing room, smashing it up enough that glass fell onto the sidewalk below. Brown then tore off his shirt and left the building before a second scheduled performance. Watch the interview below:

The tension started when GMA co-anchor Robin Roberts asked Brown if he had seen Rihanna since she dropped her restraining order against him last month.

“Not really,” answered Brown. “It’s not really a big deal to me now, that situation… I think I’m past that in my life. Today is the album day that’s what I’m focusing on. Everyone go get that album!”

After explaining that his album title F.A.M.E. stood for “Forgiving All My Enemies,” Roberts directed the talk back to his assault, saying, “You can understand how some people… it was very serious what you went through and what happened.”

Not willing to let the conversation drift back to his felony, Brown responded, “Definitely this album is what I want to talk about and not stuff that happened two years ago.”

After he left the studio, Brown pulled a classic Tweet-then-delete: “I’m so over people bringing this past s**t up!!! Yet we praise Charlie Sheen and other celebs for there [sic] bulls**t.”

Aside from wondering exactly from what quarters Brown is hearing praise for Charlie Sheen, what do you think of his behavior? Will it affect the sales of his new album, out now? Should it?

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For all those of you who wanted to argue tooth and nail with Mo’Kelly that Michael Vick should have done the interview with Oprah…let the latest failing of Chris Brown prove Mo’Kelly’s point.

Chris Brown first should have known his audience. Good Morning America is not and will not be interested in having Brown on simply because he’s releasing a CD. If Brown didn’t know that, his management team should have made it clear to him. It’s Good Morning America, not BET’s 106th and Park. The program’s demographic (like The Oprah Winfrey Show) would better know  “Brown the batterer” than “Brown the musician.”  Brown’s domestic violence case transcended age and race demographics, his music does not and will not.

Know your audience.

Teeny boppers and college-age adults don’t largely watch Good Morning America. They are either in school (as they should be) or watching BET/MTV to find out the latest goings on in music…NOT GMA. GMA does not cater its programming to the interviewee, but to its audience.

Know your audience.

Most importantly, it is an interview and that is far different than a paid advertisement. The Rihanna incident was a huge one and will be forever connected to Brown’s career and musical obit. Robin Roberts has a professional duty to ask the question. He is free not to answer or tap dance around it, but the media is not a one-way street. You can’t come on GMA and “only” sell your CD. Roberts has an ethical duty to ask the question because it is newsworthy and of importance to her GMA audience which tunes in every morning to see what she brings to the table too, not just the guest. Otherwise GMA is just BET, licking the boots of Brown…again.

Know your audience and know who is interviewing you.

Without belaboring the point, Brown once again proved Mo’Kelly right. He has serious emotional issues and is unfit for superstardom. If you are busting out windows because you were ASKED questions about Rihanna, then clearly your anger management certificate means nothing and doubts about your apology have been confirmed.

Like Mo’Kelly said before…nice way to throw away a career. Will he sell CDs? Yes. Will he ever become the mainstream star he thinks he is? Absolutely not and it’s nobody’s fault but his own.

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Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan again stoked the fires of

Minister Farrakhan posing with Karrine "Superhead" Steffans

controversy recently with some terse remarks and criticism of pop singer Rihanna. The remarks were part of a much longer speech as part of the organization’s annual Saviour’s Day celebration.

Over the years I’ve both praised and criticized Minister Farrakhan as his career has been full of moments worthy of both. The Mo’Kelly Report has acknowledged both. His reticence to inject himself into the campaign of then-Senator Barack Obama was admirable. The work of the Nation of Islam in rehabilitating African-American men is inarguable and also admirable. On the other hand, his most recent remarks of Rihanna’s performances being “filthy” and her “fans” akin to “swine” must be viewed in a critical light and acknowledged for their self-serving nature.  He crossed the line.

Here’s why…

Minister Farrakhan can never and should never ever claim ignorance as to how the media operates. The remarks were made with full understanding of their inherent viral nature.  They might have been made to a specific and particular audience but invariably were meant for a much wider consumption.

Rihanna

His criticisms of Rihanna were, in a word…”strange;” full of inherent contradictions. They were also troublesome and disrespectful for many reasons unacknowledged by the minister.

It seems more than just odd to single out Rihanna’s performances as being “filthy,” when hers typify the whole of popular music. Rihanna is no more or less sexually suggestive in her presentation than Nicki Minaj, Ciara, Lady Gaga or even Beyoncé once upon a time. If the minister is “knowledgeable” about the wayward performances of Rihanna, then surely he’s heard of all of them…right?

And speaking of Beyoncé, isn’t that the same Beyoncé presently receiving considerable criticism for having performed for embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi?

Farrakhan has also criticized Beyoncé for her alleged negative influence on women but it also bears mentioning that praising Gaddafi and rebuking Rihanna in the same Saviour’s Day speech is inherently contradictory when done without criticizing also Gaddafi’s fandom of Beyoncé.

If we can agree that Rihanna and Beyoncé are more similar than not, and thus Rihanna’s “filth” is little different than Beyoncé’s “filth”…then how are the “swine” fans of Rihanna different from the “swine” of Gaddafi, who is an unabashed Beyoncé fan?

These are contradictions which can’t be ignored.

Maybe they are connected to the fact that Farrakhan not-so-coincidentally received the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights in 1996.

Just maybe…

If a non-Black political figure made these same comments and only called out Rihanna in the process, we in the African-American community would be up in arms with chants of racism.  The comments cross the line, irrespective of the orator and we should not lose sight of that.

Gaddafi

This rant against Rihanna wasn’t “personal” was it? Either Minister Farrakhan thoroughly knows pop music and he can comment knowledgeably about all the pop “filth” or he does not and should not have in the first place.

It’s one or the other.

If the goal is bringing an end to the hyper-sexuality of pop music, does it really begin and end with Rihanna of all people?

Is the minister concerned only with Black female pop artists who are “filthy;”…given his omission of anyone and everyone else of a similar ilk? Does he even know Rihanna on any level or seen the multitude of her performances? “Filthy” is a quite personal and extreme adjective. I would want to know what concerts he’s attended and who exactly purchased his tickets.

Having an opinion on a subject opens the door for discussion as to how one managed to form it.

In addition, if we are going to discuss the social relevance of music and its impact on the image and self-respect of women; then we must also be honest enough to discuss Minister Farrakhan’s career as a calypso singer in the 50s and his songs such as Ugly Woman.

Comparatively and ironically, Rihanna is about the same age now as when Louis Farrakhan was originally best known musically as “The Charmer.” Minister Farrakhan could have offered wise words of counsel, speaking from one generation to another in an uplifting tone; yet instead openly disrespected her. He disrespected her as a woman in a way similar to his criticisms of her actions as a woman. Disrespecting Black women is not the pathway to increasing the cumulative respect of them.

It never has been and never will be.

His insults were borderline vulgar, to assail the supposed vulgarity of her performances.  The fullness of the pop genre deserved the critique but it was unfairly levied at just Rihanna.  The fullness of the hip-hop genre deserved the critique but it was unfairly and only levied at just Rihanna.

Just Rihanna.

I don’t get it…not even a little bit.

Conversely, where were the public remarks vilifying the reprehensible behavior in the BEATING of Rihanna in previous years? Should I take that to mean that the Honorable Minister cares less about who BEATS Black women and more about how ONE dresses and dances? It’s a reasonable question to ask in any discussion about any and all things “harmful” to Black women and the examples set.

I’m in no way unclear; beating a woman is worse than any widely viewed music concert by that same woman. So, shouldn’t fans of Chris Brown then too be akin to “swine?” Also, if we are to have any meaningful discussion about the negative influences impacting Black women; it requires being honest about the historical treatment of women within the Nation of Islam. That too is relevant.  Rihanna is clearly too “free” and too single-minded in the minds of many in the NOI.

Don’t get Mo’Kelly started…

I’m all for cleaning up the imagery in pop music.  But I’m more for intellectual honesty and consistency in the process.

If women are to be respected and protected, we must acknowledge that the remarks of Minister Farrakhan were neither respectful of Rihanna personally nor protective of the honor of women more broadly. Farrakhan should be consistent and also condemn the misogyny and buffoonery in hip hop as ardently as in his rebuke of Rihanna.

Publicly.

By name.

To offer “constructive criticism” of hip hop over the years but not singularly call out artists by name (as he did Rihanna and Beyoncé) for sending the image of African-American women straight to hell, it’s hypocrisy, plainly stated.

Gaddafi is praised, Rihanna is condemned and Chris Brown is summarily ignored in their respective behaviors.

I don’t get it…not even a little bit.

Lil Wayne

If Rihanna is setting a bad example for women in her music, what does that say about Lil Wayne’s and 50 Cent’s treatment of them in theirs…just for starters?

That’s not a rhetorical question.

Lil Wayne…jail, multiple and simultaneous baby-mamas, a career of musical misogyny.

No public commentary from Minister Farrakhan on the egregious behavior of Lil Wayne…for starters and he’s been around arguably longer than Rihanna.  No personal insults about the nature of his performances or the alleged “pork” nature of the fans who support him.

If this is going to be roll call…then call all of the roll.  Don’t only take convenient shots at one woman.

Minister Farrakhan historically has chosen to say little publicly and vehemently on the incessant and overt “filth” of misogyny in hip hop, other than bemoaning the supposed Jewish corporate influence on the  industry; in effect excusing hip-hop artists for their behavior.

Farrakhan should attack any and all purveyors of “filth” consistently and with a consistent level of vitriol. Until he does, his remarks pertaining to Rihanna reek of chauvinism wrapped in misogyny.  Hip hop has been far more harmful to women than anything Rihanna has worn or performed and that’s not even up for debate.

It is unfair, unrighteous and intellectually dishonest to present Rihanna as the largest and sole offender of Black female sensibilities and it needs to be called out for what it is.

Somebody has to do it; might as well be The Mo’Kelly Report. Somebody needs to defend Black women, might as well be The Mo’Kelly Report.

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If the goal is respecting the honor of Black women, then the fullness of Minister Farrakhan public commentaries (both actual and absent) are worthy fodder for discussion. You can’t speak up for women while in the same breath disrespecting a woman and those who look up to her.  He could have counseled, respected and also protected.  Instead he opted for disrespect to get his message across.  Minister Farrakhan needs to be held accountable for his actions, irrespective of his intentions.