More than six months after pop icon Michael Jackson’s passing, the Los Angeles Police Department has reportedly completed its investigation into his death and is preparing to send the case to the district attorney’s office within weeks.
R. Kelly’s 16-year-old nephew Brayel Kelly has been charged as an adult with attempted murder, according to authorities, after an incident in the Chicago area earlier this month in which the teen was shot. Calumet City police told MTV News that on November 6, Brayel Kelly – the son of R. Kelly’s estranged brother Carey Kelly – went into a barbershop and allegedly tried to rob the owner by producing a gun and demanding that the owner place his money and jewelry in a plastic bag. Though the owner complied, he also took out a weapon. Police said Kelly fired,… Read more »
Prosecutors have again dropped charges against a man accused of shooting Ray Davies during a holdup in the French Quarter, and for the same reason: Davies wasn’t in court. The lead singer and co-founder of The Kinks said prosecutors notified him only a few days earlier that trial was scheduled for Thursday. He just didn’t have time to get to New Orleans from London, he told The Times-Picayune. “I am very disappointed with the way this case has been handled,” Davies said Thursday. “I intend to pursue it further.” Davies was shot in the leg Jan. 4, 2004, when he… Read more »
Apple Inc. added Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Inc. movies for sale on the iTunes Web site, offering customers such classic titles as “The Great Train Robbery” and modern hits like “Rocky.” MGM, owner of the world’s largest film library, will sell about 100 of its movies on iTunes, Derick Mains, a spokesman for Cupertino, California-based Apple said today in an interview. Films from MGM, the fourth studio to sign on since Apple started the movie-download service eight months ago, boost the iTunes catalog to more than 500 films, Apple said in a statement. Except for Walt Disney Co., where Apple Chief Executive… Read more »
London – Rock star Pete Doherty has spent a fourth night in jail after he was imprisoned following charges of robbery and blackmail. The ex-Libertines singer would have been released on 150,000 pounds bail last Friday but he failed to come up with the money in time and a court sent him to prison. Nothing happened Monday, but Tuesday morning a media pack collected outside Pentonville prison in north London amid expectations Doherty will be released when the bail money is paid. Doherty, 25, was arrested last week after police were called to an upmarket hotel in trendy Clerkenwell following… Read more »
The owner of a Detroit studio where Eminem purportedly cut his best-selling debut album, The Slim Shady LP, was found dead Tuesday, the victim of an apparent vendetta, according to local authorities. A business acquaintance discovered the body of Amjed A. Abdallah lying in a pool his own blood on the floor of Studio 8. Investigators said the 36-year-old Jordanian engineer was shot at least twice, most likely on Sunday, based on the bloated condition of the corpse. A bullet casing from a.357-caliber handgun was recovered at the scene. Police do not have a definitive motive in the slaying. Initially… Read more »
The owner of a Detroit studio that advertises itself as the place where Eminem recorded his debut album, The Slim Shady LP, was found murdered inside the building on Tuesday. Though officials have not yet found a motive, Amjed “A.J.” Abdallah was shot twice in the entrance to the studio on famed Eight Mile Road in what appears to be a robbery gone wrong. An associate reportedly discovered Abdallah on the floor of the studio, where police found three casings from a.357 revolver. Officials have determined that Abdallah had been dead for at least two days. Detective Lt. Norman Raymond… Read more »
Eminem’s mother wants to see a 16-year-old punished for carjacking and robbing her, but she’s also distressed to think he could spend the next decade or more in prison. Debbie Nelson said she’s struggling to get over the Jan. 22 gas station robbery on Eight Mile Road, a strip that divides Detroit from its suburbs and was made famous by her son’s movie, “8 Mile.” She said she suffered bruises, a broken foot, neck pain and insomnia. “This is something that doesn’t just go away overnight,” Nelson, 49, said in an interview Monday. She said she was in her car,… Read more »
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a six-year-old theory that a Los Angeles Police officer orchestrated the 1997 shooting death of the Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) on orders from Death Row label head Suge Knight. The murder took place March 9, 1997, outside the Petersen Auto Museum in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Times reports that the FBI is investigating the theory that Amir Muhammad, an associate of imprisoned former Los Angeles Police officer David A. Mack, ambushed the Notorious B.I.G. outside the museum while the rapper was seated in the passenger seat of his SUV. Muhammad, Mack, and… Read more »
Eminem’s mother Debbie Nelson was carjacked on the street made infamous by the rapper’s movie 8 Mile on Thursday (January 22), according to police. Oak Park Police Lt. John McNeilance revealed that 49-year-old Nelson got carjacked as she was sitting in her late model Honda Accord while pumping gas at a BP gas station located at Eight Mile and Coolidge roads at around 11:30 p.m. “She relayed to us that she had stopped at the gas station to get gasoline in her car and was in the process of dispensing the gasoline when she sat down in her car because… Read more »
