Puff daddy’s 2nd baby mama, Kim Porter, was spotted leaving Trousdale Nightclub in West Hollywood, CA last night. I remember when I photographed Kim’s 38th birthday party at Justin’s in 2004. Click here to see the pics. Puffy seemed so in love with her. Kim blew out the candles on her cake too quickly and I wasn’t able to get the shot. I will never forget the look of disgust on Puffy’s face when I missed that shot. He glared at me disapprovingly, then he shook his head slowly and walked away.
Even though I photographed private parties for him and Kim over the years, Puff has never once referred to me by my name. I was always “hey, miss” to him. If Puffy thought you were beneath his status, he made you feel like you were the smallest person in the room. A great man realizes that he is a man among giants, and he treats everyone accordingly. Puff is not that man.
What had Rihanna so spooked in Atlanta?
I guess Rihanna doesn’t like Atlanta very much? According to my spies, Rihanna was so leery about being in Atlanta that she booked her flight into the city for the last possible minute so she could dash into Atlanta for her concert at Chastain Park on Tuesday, and dash right back out.
Did I mention that tickets to Rihanna’s concert at Chastain were far from a sell out?
Attempts to reach her label rep were successful (at least he wasn’t ducking our calls. He gets kudos for that).
My source tells me that after a month of negotiations, Rihanna politely declined to sign a contract to host a party at the new Vision nightclub (Reign) after her concert at Chastain on Tuesday (July 12). Apparently she thinks she’s too good to host parties? Another source who begged to remain anonymous tells Sandrarose.com that the money wasn’t right and that Rihanna “definitely” wasn’t worth the kind of money she was asking to host the party at Reign.
My spy says Rihanna was “rattled” about hosting a party in Atlanta, since the last time she hosted a party here, things didn’t go well. I have no idea what party she hosted in Atlanta where things didn’t go well.
My spy said security around Rihanna at Chastain Park was “unusually tight” and that “absolutely no photographers” were allowed into the venue while Rihanna was performing.
My source also confirmed that, while hotel rooms were booked for Rihanna and her entourage in Atlanta, she got on the first thing smoking and flew right out of Atlanta immediately after her concert at Chastain. Wow, she sounds scary. The label rep insists that Rihanna wanted to get to Miami to prepare for her next concert. Yeah, right.
I think she was scared of staying one minute later in Atlanta, but I have no clue why.
We Break Down the Nicki Minaj Police Report: Who is witness #2?
Rapper Nicki Minaj, real name Onika Tanya Miraj, 28, got into a heated argument with her boyfriend/hypeman Safaree “SB” Samuels, 30, in a hotel room they shared in Dallas on Monday night. This was probably one of many fights that the couple have had over the 8 years that they’ve been together.
According to the police report — that Nicki repeatedly asked police not to write — there was another man involved in the incident who took possession of the suitcase that Onika and Safaree were battling over.
Questions abound, such as: (1) Who was the uncooperative witness #2 that refused to turn over the suitcase to Nicki or the police? And (2) what was in the suitcase that he was trying to conceal? Cocaine, weed?
Let’s break down the police report, shall we?
Police responded to a “property attack” at the upscale Palomar hotel at 5300 E. Mockingbird Lane in Dallas, TX, on July 11, at 9:55 p.m. The responding officer, Joshua Boykin, encountered witness #3, Michael Frankel, a 37-year-old hotel employee, who told him he called police on behalf of the complainant, Nicki Minaj.
The responding officer spoke with Nicki who told him a “verbal altercation” took place at the hotel’s pool area. When Nicki returned to her room, witness #1, Safaree Samuels, was back in the room. The police report notes that Nicki and Safaree were sharing the same hotel room.
Nicki told Safaree she didn’t want him “taking anything out of the room.” Safaree had some of his belongings in Nicki’s suitcase (drugs perhaps?)
As Nicki was looking in the suitcase, Safaree grabbed the suitcase with such force that it collided with Nicki’s face and Nicki’s “teeth struck the inside of her lower lip causing the inside of the lower lip to cut and start to bleed.”
The Dallas Fire and Rescue was called to provide medical treatment to Nicki. Dallas Fire & Rescue 8 (paramedics) responded to the scene and evaluated Nicki for treatment. Realizing the gravity of the situation if any of this got out, Nicki told the responding officer that she didn’t want to make a police report about the incident — she just wanted her suitcase back.
Here’s where the story takes a strange turn:
Witness #2, Rex Chevalier, who is employed by Nicki, was described as “very uncooperative with responding officers” and would not let responding officers into his hotel room to retrieve the suitcase.
The report states that Rex Chevalier (witness #2), was “very vague” while answering responding officer’s questions and refused to provide any information regarding Nicki or Safaree.
Safaree was not at the hotel when officers arrived at the scene, and officers were unable to locate him.
Despite the fact that they shared a hotel room and, apparently, the same suitcase, Nicki stressed to officers multiple times that she was not in an intimate relationship with Safaree, and, in fact, they were not related at all.
The hotel room in which Nicki and Safaree were staying was re-keyed by the hotel staff and only Nicki was provided with a new key card. Nicki refused to have pictures taken and refused to make a police report.
But an incident report was written anyway, as required by law.
Keri Hilson, Timothy Bloom & V. Bozeman Stand up to Cancer
From Rap-Up.com:
Keri Hilson stands up to cancer in the latest “Celebration 4 a Cause” campaign orchestrated by Polow Da Don’s label Zone 4 and non-profit organization Foundation F.O.C.U.S. In her PSA, Miss Keri sports a black T-shirt that reads “F.O.C.U.S. 4 Life.”In addition to the “Pretty Girl Rock” singer, Timothy Bloom and his “‘Til the End of Time” duet partner V. Bozeman also appear in the series of ads, along with Lloyd, model Jessica White, and others.The 4th Annual “Celebration 4 a Cause: Where Music Meets Fashion for a Cure” benefit will be held in Atlanta on Friday, with performances by Keri and Lloyd.
