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"Love & Hip-Hop" star Mandeecees Harris' court trial for sexual abuse against a minor began, and the now 19-year-old alleged victim took the stand to speak about the abuse she reportedly suffered at the hand of Mandeecees.

The Cliff View Pilot reported that the woman revealed at the trial that Mandeecees went from being a "father figure" she could trust to someone who forced her into sex for money after moving into his Lodi, New Jersey home in 2009. In over an hour the woman recounted what happened from the very first time Mandeecees allegedly abused her.

"Mendeecees made me feel comfortable. He would give me advice. He'd say 'It'll be okay between you and your mom'," the woman said.

Then came an afternoon when, with no one else home, she realized in the shower that she didn't have a towel.

"I asked him to get me one, and he did," the woman testified. "Then he came into my room and suggested I let him masturbate on me, but I just laughed."

From that point, the woman says the abuse continued as Mandeecees would give her "$15 and $20 for lunch or maybe a ball game." She says that Mandeecees then coerced her into giving him oral sex by using extremely private information only known to the victim and her mother.

"He told me he knew I had been raped when I was 8 years old," she said, "and he found out from my mother."

"'Your mom doesn't want you here'," the woman said Harris told her before exposing himself. The victim said she complied to his request "to get back at my mom."

"I felt betrayed by her," she said. "I didn't tell her about it until I was 14, and it was something I didn't want anyone to know."

Harris defense attorney Brian Neary claims the victim made the entire story up to avoid getting sent to live with her father down South. Neary will cross examine the victim on Thursday.

If convicted of the seven counts of sexual abuse on minor, Mandeecees faces up to 20 years in prison.

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The tabloids are offering upwards to $1.2 million - They want to know if anyone was able to take a cell phone pic of Whitney in the bath tub.

When Cissy Houston first heard the news that her daughter had passed, reportedly, she started trembling and screaming "No! No! My baby! My baby!" as she sunk to the ground. A film is already being planned, based on the life of Whitney Houston, written in the same vain as "Lady Sings The Blues." This will be an A-list project with unlimited financing but who could play Whitney Houston? A great actress lip synching or a Broadway star with a powerful voice? Also, "Unsung," is interested in rushing an episode on the air before their season ends. The tabloids are offering upwards to $1.2 million to members of Whitney's entourage. They want to know if anyone was able to take a cell phone pic of Whitney in the bath tub. When Whitney Houston first arrived on the scene, she was groomed to become the next Diana Ross; she shunned expensive gowns in favor of blue jeans and sneakers.

 Whitney was a Jersey girl at heart and and she loved the New York Giants. She also loved Sylvia's soul food restaurant in New York. Whitney's career closely mirrored Diana Ross's, first the hits and then the big grossing film (The Bodyguard). After "The Bodyguard," Whitney was besieged with offers, including a remake of "Cleopatra Jones," she was also offered $1 million dollars to perform for a royal family, and she was approached to perform in Las Vegas for $1.5 million per month but due to unfortunate circumstances she was unable to undertake any of these projects. What was her attraction to Ray J? Whitney started out as a family friend and considered Brandy a little sister but like everyone else, she saw Ray J's sex tape with Kim and became interested. At the time of Whitney's and Bobby's courtship, people were surprised because Bobby was in hot pursuit of Rosie Perez at the time. Whitney used to date Eddie Murphy and really loved him, but it can only be one star in Murphy's household; she even tried to get Eddie jealous by dating Randall Cunningham but it didn't work. Whitney was a celebrity among celebrities. When Faith Evans had a minor scrape with the law in L.A., Whitney called, is there anything you need? Does anyone need to take your kids to school? Whitney was a good friend to have and Mary J. Blige was her favorite singer. WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU WHITNEY! RIP!



With the deaths of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, we're losing our icon's at an young age.  Jackson and Houston had (true-god given talent).  They were our alternative to all the non-talents currently populating the industry.  I see no hope for the future of the music industry with the current crop of so called superstars (Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Drake and Britney Spears).  I'll stick to my old school music when singers were "real"

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Leaving Grind Time

I’m not usually one to speak out/air out dirty laundry on the internet, but with all the recent controversy surrounding myself and GTN, I feel obligated to. There are many misconceptions, half-truths, blatant lies and weird situations behind the scenes. I am taking this opportunity to tell people the truth about the battle rap world and myself. I have been silent for so long because I don’t like causing drama over the internet, but I have decided to speak on certain situations in light of the fact that I am leaving my own company.

Now before I start going crazy with the world’s longest post ever, please keep in mind that I am not bashing any individuals. I am just being honest; shit has gotten out of hand and I’ve had enough.

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Interview: Don Trip

Don Trip was never an artist that we expected to gain any sort of following, but it’s here now and we couldn’t be happier. He stopped by our offices to talk to us about the surprising success of “Letter To My Son” and what it means to be a successful rapper in Memphis.

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Chris Paul trade to Lakers off

On the eve of the sport's formal re-opening for business after a five-month lockout, NBA commissioner David Stern sent shockwaves throughout the league Thursday night by nixing the league-owned New Orleans Hornets' plans to trade guard Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers.

Within an hour of the Hornets striking an agreement in principle with the Lakers andHouston Rockets on a three-team trade that would have landed Paul in the same backcourt as Kobe Bryant, Stern informed the Hornets that they couldn't make the trade, stunning team officials who had been working around-the-clock for days in hopes of bringing an end to the Paul saga before the season officially started.

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Amid a stream of reports that angry owners were demanding the trade be vetoed, on the same day those owners had gathered in New York to ratify a new labor pact purportedly designed to foster competitive balance and prevent small-market teams from being raided for their stars, league officials tried to dispute claims of a revolt by insisting that the decision was Stern's.

"It's not true that the owners killed the deal," NBA spokesman Mike Bass said. "The deal was never discussed at the Board of Governors meeting and the league office declined to make the trade for basketball reasons."

Yet in an email to Stern obtained by Yahoo! Sports and The New York Times, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert called the proposed deal "a travesty" and urged Stern to put the deal to a vote of "the 29 owners of the Hornets," referring to the rest of the league's teams.

The proposed trade would have sent Paul to the Lakers, Pau Gasol to the Rockets and furnished New Orleans with three top-flight NBA players in Kevin Martin, Luis Scola and Lamar Odomas well as playoff-tested guard Goran Dragic and a 2012 first-round pick that Houston had acquired from the Knicks. The general reaction among rival executives was that Hornets general manager Dell Demps did as well as he could under the circumstances after Paul told the Hornets on Monday he would not sign a contract extension this season and instead planned to become a free agent July 1, 2012.

But Stern stepped in to nix the swap and leave all three teams with several shell-shocked players and officials heading into Friday's scheduled start of training camps, after the commissioner insisted for months that Hornets general manager Dell Demps and the rest of the team's front office had autonomy over basketball decisions. Sources close to the situation said Demps and teams that have pursued Paul had been assured the Hornets had the clearance to trade Paul as they saw fit.

"WoW," was Paul's reaction on Twitter.

Said Odom via his Twitter feed: "When a team trades u and it doesn't go down? Now what?"

In Paul's case, sources told ESPN's Stephen A. Smith that the angry All-Star will not be reporting to Hornets camp on Friday and will instead explore his legal options with NBA Players Association executive director Billy Hunter, while maintaining the stance the deal is merely "on hold" as opposed to squashed.

The Los Angeles Times, meanwhile, reported that Odom also intends to skip the first day of Lakers camp, while the Rockets were said to be crestfallen after missing out on Gasol, who was targeted to fill the void created by Yao Ming's retirement.

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AP Photo/Patrick SemanskyKobe Bryant and Chris Paul will continue to play against each other, after a trade to send Paul to the Lakers was stopped by the NBA.

"Maybe I'll see you there tomorrow [at practice]," Odom told the Times in a telephone interview. "But I doubt it. You don't want to go to no place you're not wanted. I'll try to give them what they want as much as possible."

Yet numerous sources close to the process expressed skepticism that the deal has a chance of being revived, amid a growing sense the league is now determined to keep Paul in New Orleans for an unspecified length of time -- perhaps even for the entire season -- to support the notion that lockout wasn't for naught and that the new labor deal has improved small-market teams' ability to retain star players.

The problem there, of course, is that the Hornets -- thinking they had avoided the drama that engulfed the Denver Nuggets for months last season until they finally traded Carmelo Anthony -- are left with a disgruntled star who can still opt out of his contract and leave the franchise with nothing as of July 1, 2012. Stern's decision to block the deal has likewise raised the question of whether New Orleans can trade Paul anywhere until a new buyer for the team is found, since any deal that does go through could create the appearance that Stern hand-picked the destination.

At a news conference, before word of the blocked deal had spread, Stern was asked if the pending Paul deal to the Lakers was a signal that the new labor pact was already failing on the issue of improving competitive balance.

"I'm happy that people are back to talking about basketball," Stern said. "Superstars, under any collective bargaining agreement, will always have tremendous leverage in this league, because an individual player can be so impactful on a franchise. But we'll see how it plays out.

"With a new deal that's six or 10 years (long), I wouldn't look to a 24- or 48-hour period (as evidence how it will work)."

Said NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver on how involved the league is in Hornets decision-making: "Ultimately the buck stops with the league office. But we're relying on the management -- Jac Sperling, Dell Demps, Hugh Weber -- we're relying on the management of that team to make decisions that are in the best interest of that franchise. But ultimately the decision rests with the league office. The final final say."

Odom said the league's action left him disoriented.

"I don't know what to do for the Lakers," Odom told the Los Angeles Times. "I'm even weirded out by the league doing what they did. I don't know what to do."

A "somber" Odom told the newspaper he thought it was a lie when he was first told about the trade to the Hornets.

"And then it doesn't go through," Odom said. "Oh, lord. I don't know what I'm going to do. I'll pray about it."

Odom also said he felt bad for Gasol.

"Imagine how Pau feels," Odom told the Times. "Pau came to the Lakers and played here for four years, went to the Finals and lost, won two NBA championships and then got swept [by the Mavericks this year]. Wow! Imagine how he must feel.

"Man, I'm just in total disbelief about all of this," Odom added. "They don't want my services, for whatever reason. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I was proud to be a Laker, so I'll try to help them in the process as much as possible."

Despite the 149-day lockout, uncertainty over Paul's future and the fact that the league had to step in to buy the team last December from floundering owner George Shinn, fan support has been building in New Orleans, where the team has advertised their season-ticket drive as an effort to lure a permanent local buyer who is committed to keeping the team in Louisiana. The Hornets had increased their season ticket base from just over 6,000 last season to 10,019 as of Thursday afternoon.

Paul was drafted No. 4 overall by the Hornets out of Wake Forest in 2005. He's been an All-Star in the West for the past four seasons and also was a member of the United States' Olympic gold medal-winning team in Beijing in 2008.

Marc Stein is senior writer for ESPN.com. ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard, ESPN's Stephen A. Smith and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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City man charged with sex assault, kidnapping

NEW BRITAIN — A city man was held on a $250,000 bond following his arraignment Wednesday on charges he tried to sexually assault and kidnap a woman who he later dropped off at a hospital.

Jehad Smith, 40, of 42 Smith St., is accused of trying to force the 39-year-old woman into having sex with him at a park early Tuesday, police said.

The woman had gone out with Smith and another man for drinks and then the three went to Chesley Park, Detective Harold Gannon said.

Smith tried to force himself on the woman, who resisted his advances, according to the account she provided police.

The victim was eventually pushed from the moving vehicle, according to the police report.

The men stopped when they saw the woman appeared to be unconscious and put her back into the car, Gannon said. After dropping off his male passenger, Smith brought the unresponsive woman to the hospital around 5:25 a.m. Tuesday, claiming he found her on the street.

The woman was able to give police an account of what happened, Gannon said.

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New Britain police investigating shooting

NEW BRITAIN - Police are investigating an early Saturday morning shooting on Clark Street that left a 31-year-old resident of the address with a life threatening injury.


Officers responded to a report of an injured person in a third floor apartment at 109 Clark St. at 12:37 a.m. The victim, who lives at the address, suffered a "very serious" gunshot wound and was taken to an area trauma hospital.


Investigators believe the man was assaulted "by one or more people" and the shooting "was not random," Acting Captain James Wardwell said. Police have been on the scene throughout the night interviewing others who live in the building, he said. Detectives are waiting for search warrants to gather evidence at the residence, he added.


The victim is undergoing surgery Saturday afternoon and is reported to be in stable condition, police said. His name is being withheld pending notification of family.

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Big Boi from Outkast Arrested

According to the Miami-Dade County Corrections Department, Big Boi (real name

Antwan Patton) was charged with three counts of possession of a controlled substance

and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia. The controlled substances were

listed as ecstasy pills, MDMA powder and Viagra. Law enforcement sources tell us he

was busted by customs and border patrol dogs as he was exiting a cruise ship. We’re

told Big Boi didn’t have a prescription for the Viagra. He was booked into jail at 1:35

Police: Two city men shot BB gun at an unmarked cop car

Two city men are facing numerous charges after they allegedly shot a BB gun at an unmarked police cruiser late Thursday afternoon.

Jamel Pope, 37, and Nasiech Morgan, 18, both of 14 Prospect St., saw officers sitting in an unmarked police cruiser parked near their address around 4:30 p.m. and then headed inside an apartment building, police Sgt. Jeanette Saccente said.

A few minutes later, “the officers heard the noise and heard the cruiser being struck and saw the BB gun out a third-floor window,” Saccente said. “They called for backup and then approached the apartment.”

Pope was taken into custody as he was leaving the building, she said. Morgan was found inside .

After the officers received permission to search the home they found the BB gun in a bedroom, Saccente said.

The unmarked car was struck three times with pellets from the gun. The officers were not injured.

Pope and Morgan were charged with breach of peace, possession of a dangerous weapon, first-degree reckless endangerment, conspiracy to commit first-degree reckless endangerment, third-degree criminal mischief, conspiracy to commit third-degree criminal mischief, and possession of a BB gun.