Rihanna will testify at next month’s hearing in the Chris Brown case, her lawyer has confirmed. Prosecutors have said that they will issue a subpoena calling the singer to discuss the events of Feb. 8, when Brown allegedly assaulted her.
Rihanna’s lawyer Donald Etra said that she will comply with the order and attend the hearing on Monday of next week. This would be the singer’s first court appearance since charges were filed against Brown in March. Etra would not comment on the current relationship between Brown and Rihanna, but said that his client was closely following the case.
Brown is accused of attacking Rihanna in the couple’s rented car on the weekend of this year’s Grammy awards. If convicted, he faces up to five years in jail. Making his first public comments since being charged, Brown said yesterday that he was “not a monster.”
Brown is also confirmed to appear at the June 22 hearing, setting the stage for a tense confrontation between the couple.
Los Angeles superior court judge Patricia Schnegg has also ruled on a motion brought by Brown’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, regarding a police photograph of Rihanna that was apparently leaked to the press.
Judge Schnegg deemed the motion premature, calling it “a fishing expedition.”
A day after fleecing Andorra 6-0, England soccer star David Beckham launched a new underwear campaign for the Giorgio Armani fashion label.
Beckham said he was “proud but a little embarrassed” by the colossal billboard photograph of himself in nothing but a pair of tight, black briefs emblazoned with the Emporio Armani eagle logo, which now looms over London’s Oxford Street retail hub.
The 34-year-old Beckham, currently on loan to AC Milan from the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team, and his Spice Girl wife Victoria, have stripped down before for Armani campaigns.
The photograph shows the English sex symbol naked except for the underpants, perched on a chair with his legs spread. A braided rope is draped around his torso which partially covers his tattooed arms.
“He’s gorgeous,” 18-year-old model Georgia Palmer raved, one of hundreds of fans who turned up to witness Beckham’s three-minute appearance, despite a city-wide tube strike that plunged large parts of the British capital into chaos.
Fans in the crowd were mostly appreciative of the photograph, though some were more impressed by his football prowess.
“I preferred him last night on the pitch,” said eight-year-old Ben-Jasper from Germany, who stumbled upon the crowd of onlookers while exploring London on a family holiday.
Court records show singer Usher has filed for divorce from Tameka Foster Raymond after less than two years of marriage.
The 30-year-old Grammy-winning artist, whose real name is Usher Raymond IV, filed the petition Friday in Superior Court in Atlanta.
The court record did not give any details about the split between the R ’n’ B star and his wife, who were married in August 2007.
Morgan Freeman’s attorney claims a woman who was with the actor when he wrecked a car in Mississippi last August was partly to blame for the accident, though he won’t elaborate.
Demaris Meyer is suing Freeman in US District Court, claiming Freeman was negligent when the car he was driving ran off the road and flipped.
Both Meyer and Freeman were seriously injured in the crash on a two-lane highway about 8km west of Freeman’s home.
Meyer sued Freeman in February for medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost wages, permanent disability and property damage.
Meyer has denied reports she’s romantically linked to Freeman.
Freeman’s attorney, Jack H. Hayes Jr, responded to the lawsuit Friday in a four-page court document denying almost all the allegations or saying Freeman doesn’t know enough about them to form an opinion.
Hayes would not elaborate Friday when contacted by phone.
“It’s just a car wreck case and that’s it,’’ he said.
Last week Joseph Nye, the well-known China scholar, wrote on the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s website about how war over Taiwan might be averted. He noted that years ago he was on a team that met with then-president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), “whose previous ‘unofficial’ visit to the US had caused a crisis in which China fired missiles into the sea and the US deployed carriers off the coast of Taiwan.” Yes, that’s right, mighty Chen caused that crisis all by himself. Neither the US nor the People’s Republic of China (PRC) exercised any agency. Nye then nostalgically invoked the comical specter
April 15 to April 21 Yang Kui (楊逵) was horrified as he drove past trucks, oxcarts and trolleys loaded with coffins on his way to Tuntzechiao (屯子腳), which he heard had been completely destroyed. The friend he came to check on was safe, but most residents were suffering in the town hit the hardest by the 7.1-magnitude Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake on April 21, 1935. It remains the deadliest in Taiwan’s recorded history, claiming around 3,300 lives and injuring nearly 12,000. The disaster completely flattened roughly 18,000 houses and damaged countless more. The social activist and
Over the course of former President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) 11-day trip to China that included a meeting with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping (習近平) a surprising number of people commented that the former president was now “irrelevant.” Upon reflection, it became apparent that these comments were coming from pro-Taiwan, pan-green supporters and they were expressing what they hoped was the case, rather than the reality. Ma’s ideology is so pro-China (read: deep blue) and controversial that many in his own Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) hope he retires quickly, or at least refrains from speaking on some subjects. Regardless
Approaching her mid-30s, Xiong Yidan reckons that most of her friends are on to their second or even third babies. But Xiong has more than a dozen. There is Lucky, the street dog from Bangkok who jumped into a taxi with her and never left. There is Sophie and Ben, sibling geese, who honk from morning to night. Boop and Pan, both goats, are romantically involved. Dumpling the hedgehog enjoys a belly rub from time to time. The list goes on. Xiong nurtures her brood from her 8,000 square meter farm in Chiang Dao, a mountainous district in northern Thailand’s