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A man accused of running over a woman outside a radio station where a crowd was gathered to see singer Justin Timberlake has pleaded no contest to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, prosecutors said. Cameron Albert Duty, 24, changed his previous innocent plea on Monday, the day his case was to go to trial. He’s expected to be sentenced Nov. 3 to 18 years in state prison, said Deputy District Attorney Shelly Torrealba. Duty was charged in the Sept. 9, 2002, death of 21-year-old Anna White of Bellevue, Wash., who was standing on a sidewalk outside the Burbank studios of… Read more »

Bertelsmann Music Group has completed its Jive lessons. The major label group said Tuesday it has closed its acquisition of Zomba Music Group, home to teen-pop label Jive Records, paying more than $2.74 billion to acquire the stakes in the closely held group it didn’t already own. BMG already held 20% of Zomba’s record labels and 25% of its music-publishing portfolio. The deal, which got rolling in June after Zomba owner Clive Calder triggered a long-standing “put” option to sell his interest, gives BMG full access to Jive’s roster of pop megastars, including ‘N Sync, Britney Spears and the Backstreet… Read more »

Mariah Carey is defending ex-husband Tommy Mottola against accusations hurled by Michael Jackson, according to MSNBC. Mottola’s current wife, Thalia Motolla, claims that Carey called the Sony music chief and told him that she’s on his side, not on Jackson’s, and also said that Motolla’s “anything but a racist,” the network reported. Jackson has called Mottola a racist and “a devil” for allegedly under-promoting his current album Invincible. He also said Carey cried in his arms over Mottola’s treatment of her. Carey’s spokeswoman, Cindi Berger, refutes the claim. “To the best of my knowledge, Mariah has not spoken to Mr.… Read more »

Napster will launch a test version of its new copyright-compliant online music service Thursday, months after legal action brought by the recording industry forced a shutdown of the wildly popular file-sharing network. The test or “beta” version, which lacks content from the major music labels, will not be open to the public. Instead, it will be offered to 20,000 people randomly selected from a group of more than 2 million users who e-mailed Napster showing interest in participating in the beta test. More than 100,000 files will be available on Napster for the beta trial. All are currently licensed to… Read more »

This ninth edition of the KROQ Weenie Roast, which saw the annual all-day charity festival return to its traditional Irvine home after it was held in Anaheim last year, was largely divided into distinct segments representing two contrasting sides of modern rock music. There were the angry young hard rock bands (Disturbed, Papa Roach, Linkin Park, Crazytown), who toiled under the hot afternoon sun, and the superior veteran headliners (Jane’s Addiction, Blink-182, 311, surprise guests Stone Temple Pilots), who brought the better music and benefited from their post-sunset show times. Occupying a mid-day space somewhere between those groupings was the… Read more »

Fat chance Melanie Szepvolgyi is going to forget this year’s HFStival. Out of the 30-plus bands at the two-day musical extravaganza going on at RFK Stadium, she had wanted most to see Coldplay, the up and coming Britpop band. She was as surprised as anyone yesterday when lead singer Chris Martin pulled her up on stage to sing. “I was in the front of the stage, and nobody knew them up there. [People in the crowd] were being so rude and obnoxious,” said the still-glowing 24-year-old who had flown in from Columbus, Ohio. “Then they started playing my favorite song,… Read more »