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.
In late October of 1873 the government of Japan decided against sending a military expedition to Korea to force that nation to open trade relations. Across the government supporters of the expedition resigned immediately. The spectacle of revolt by disaffected samurai began to loom over Japanese politics. In January of 1874 disaffected samurai attacked a senior minister in Tokyo. A month later, a group of pro-Korea expedition and anti-foreign elements from Saga prefecture in Kyushu revolted, driven in part by high food prices stemming from poor harvests. Their leader, according to Edward Drea’s classic Japan’s Imperial Army, was a samurai
Located down a sideroad in old Wanhua District (萬華區), Waley Art (水谷藝術) has an established reputation for curating some of the more provocative indie art exhibitions in Taipei. And this month is no exception. Beyond the innocuous facade of a shophouse, the full three stories of the gallery space (including the basement) have been taken over by photographs, installation videos and abstract images courtesy of two creatives who hail from the opposite ends of the earth, Taiwan’s Hsu Yi-ting (許懿婷) and Germany’s Benjamin Janzen. “In 2019, I had an art residency in Europe,” Hsu says. “I met Benjamin in the lobby
April 22 to April 28 The true identity of the mastermind behind the Demon Gang (魔鬼黨) was undoubtedly on the minds of countless schoolchildren in late 1958. In the days leading up to the big reveal, more than 10,000 guesses were sent to Ta Hwa Publishing Co (大華文化社) for a chance to win prizes. The smash success of the comic series Great Battle Against the Demon Gang (大戰魔鬼黨) came as a surprise to author Yeh Hung-chia (葉宏甲), who had long given up on his dream after being jailed for 10 months in 1947 over political cartoons. Protagonist
Peter Brighton was amazed when he found the giant jackfruit. He had been watching it grow on his farm in far north Queensland, and when it came time to pick it from the tree, it was so heavy it needed two people to do the job. “I was surprised when we cut it off and felt how heavy it was,” he says. “I grabbed it and my wife cut it — couldn’t do it by myself, it took two of us.” Weighing in at 45 kilograms, it is the heaviest jackfruit that Brighton has ever grown on his tropical fruit farm, located