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New York – Aaliyah’s record company cannot sue the video producer that arranged the 2001 airplane flight from the Bahamas in which the singer was killed, an appeals court has ruled. The Manhattan court dismissed the lawsuit brought by Blackground Records, saying only the singer’s parents had a right to sue for her wrongful death. The court said the parents did so and were compensated. Blackground’s appellate lawyer, Frank Penski, said Thursday he had not seen the decision and did not know whether his client planned to pursue the case. Aaliyah had just finished a music video when she and… Read more »

The parents of R&B singer and actress Aaliyah have reached an undisclosed settlement in a negligence lawsuit over her death in a 2001 plane crash, family attorneys said. A chartered Cessna 402B carrying Aaliyah and eight others crashed shortly after takeoff on a flight from Marsh Harbour in the Bahamas to the Miami suburb of Opa-locka. Investigators believed the plane was 700 pounds overloaded. Attorneys for Aaliyah’s parents, Diane and Michael Haughton, filed a notice in federal court Thursday to say the case has been settled with an agreement to keep details confidential. Calls to attorneys in the case were… Read more »

The Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has ruled in favor of the Goo Goo Dolls after the act launched proceedings against a pornographic Web site with a “confusingly similar” domain name. The Goo Goo Dolls filed a complaint March 4 against John Zuccarini of the Bahamas, who had registered a site at googoodols.com, a practice known as “typo-squatting.” His site automatically linked to another with sexually explicit content and advertisements. WIPO declared that the domain name was registered in bad faith. Zuccarini – who has been involved in similar cases in the past, according to WIPO – was ordered… Read more »

A posthumous CD is planned for Aaliyah, the singer and actress who died in a plane crash in August 2001. The as-yet-untitled new CD, due to be released by Blackground Records and Universal in November, will feature an undetermined number of new Aaliyah songs, as well as old hits such as “Try Again” and remixes of other songs in her catalog. The new tracks, according to Blackground, are a mix of up-tempo numbers and ballads the singer recorded before her death, Time.com reported Saturday. Aaliyah, a two-time Grammy nominee for best female R&B vocalist, was leaving the Bahamas following a… Read more »

Most families spend the end of summer gearing up for school. The Carters are spending it preparing for the pop charts. Seven weeks before Nick Carter’s debut solo album is due, his younger brother Aaron will shake up the teen scene with Another Earthquake. Due September 3, Aaron’s fourth full-length will feature a collaboration with the Baha Men on “Summertime,” the album’s first single. Carter and the Baha Men shot a video for the song in the Bahamas last weekend, according to the singer’s Jive Records spokesperson. Another Earthquake also features production work from Rick Rock (Will Smith), Alex G… Read more »

Authorities are investigating how cocaine and alcohol found in blood tests may have affected the pilot of a small plane that crashed in the Bahamas last year, killing nine people – including 22-year-old singer and actress Aaliyah. Aviation officials on Tuesday said an autopsy performed on Luis Antonio Morales Blanes showed he had cocaine in his urine and traces of alcohol in his stomach. The autopsy findings were released for the first time along with the crash investigation report, the Bahamas Department of Civil Aviation said. Investigators are trying to figure how out the substances may have affected the pilot… Read more »

Virgin Records and Blackhawk International Airways are among the companies accused of negligence in a lawsuit filed late Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court by Aaliyah’s mother and father. Michael and Diane Haughton allege that the companies’ carelessness led to the death of the R&B singer, who was killed in a twin-engine plane crash after a video shoot in the Bahamas for “Rock the Boat”. An investigation determined that the Cessna 402B, which was operated by Blackhawk and chartered by Virgin, was close to 700 pounds over its maximum weight when it crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all nine people… Read more »

Virgin Records was negligent in chartering a small plane in which singer-actress Aaliyah and eight other people died last year, according to wrongful death lawsuits filed Wednesday on behalf of two victims’ families. The survivors of Aaliyah, who was among Wednesday night’s Grammy Award nominees and the star of last weekend’s top-grossing film, “Queen of the Damned,” were not among the plaintiffs. Family members of Los Angeles-based hair stylists Eric Forman, 29, and Anthony Dodd, 34, filed their respective lawsuits in Los Angeles Superior Court against Virgin Records America, affiliated music and video production units, the plane’s owner and the… Read more »

Album sales of the music of George Harrison and the Beatles surged following his death last week at age 58 of cancer, album retail tracker SoundScan reported Wednesday. The Beatles’ “1” – a collection of the 27 Fab Four singles that reached No. 1 in the United States or Britain – sold nearly 31,000 copies in the week ended Dec. 2, almost double the previous week’s total. Those sales drove “1” to No. 73 on the latest U.S. pop album charts, up from No. 146 a week earlier. The album topped charts around the world when it was released last… Read more »

Just a little over a year after dropping his multiplatinum third LP, My Name Is Joe, the album’s namesake is preparing to release a follow-up, Better Days, on December 4, his quickest album turnaround ever. “I’m at a good label now,” he said with a smile. “The freedom there is a lot better than it was before. I wasn’t happy where I was, which was Mercury [Records].” The strife caused by recording for Mercury was nothing compared to the anxiety he suffered in the wake of the September 11 attacks. On that unforgettable day, he was sitting in his new… Read more »