American Idol’s third season winner and eight-time Grammy nominee, Fantasia
Barrino, is about to get the boot from one of her two Charlotte, North Carolina cribs.

According to property records, the 6-bedroom mansion has been foreclosed on. Unless Ms. Thang can make necessary payments, the 6,232 square-foot home will be auctioned off on Jan. 12.

She better do like Screech of “Saved by the Bell” and get her fans to chip in….

In this day and age, the playbook on what to do when you get dough and fame still hasn’t been read. There are too many articles and resources out there for folks to act like they didn’t know what to do with their money. Folks would rather spend more time on Facebook than Suze Orman’s site…act like you know people.

Fantasia, who y’all know is a single mother to daughter Zion, purchased the home, located on Bevington Place, back in March 2007. The price was $1.3 million. Her other house, also located in Charlotte, was purchased in July 2004 for $740,000 and records show it’s not in financial trouble.

Two houses in the same area……and you’re not renting one out…um…er..rum……

Well, let’s hope that her recent tune, a duet with Jennifer Hudson called “I’m His Only Woman,” which was just nominated for a Grammy for generate some income coming in from the labels.

BOBBY’S BROWN’S BOOK ON SHELVES
Bobby Brown’s tell-all book has hit the bookstore and the net, but I’m trying to figure out why this damn book is still considered unauthorized !

According to Amazon.com, Bobby’s book called, “The Truth, The Whole Truth And Nothing But..” hits up his relationships with Whitney Houston and Karrine Steffans in addition to a reported confession of drug addictions, a near life threatening overdose and the real reason he left New Edition.

However, Bobby is no longer backing the book according to its author and former friend of the “Every Little Step” singer Derrick Handspike.

According to Derrick, Bobby backed out of the book deal when pages of the scandalous book were released online and through several outlets.

Derrick says, “I started to wonder if Bobby’s attorney and/or manager had been paid off by Whitney’s people. After all, they were the ones making it difficult for us to reach an agreement. I then started to wonder if Bobby had been influenced by Whitney not to go through with it. Whitney has been known, is known and will always be known as having a major influence on him.”

For those of you who need your fix or a Xmas gift, “Bobby Brown: The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But …” is available now through Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and Down South Books.

Get ready too, cause author, Derrick Handspike is reportedly on a mission to write another tell-all featuring Andre Rison and of course, detail his life with late-TLC member Lisa “Left-Eye” Lopes! Oh lawd!

DMX SNATCHED BY FBI @ SCOTT STORCH’S CRIB
FBI was hit with a tip on where DMX was hiding out and sure enough they snatched that a** up! Word is that he is also being treated at a local rehab facility, but it is not confirmed.

DMX is expected to be held in a Miami jail and then extradited back to Arizona in the next 15 days. The arrest comes one day after Phoenix, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio offered a $5,000 dollar reward for any information leading to DMX’s arrest.

A woman in Georgia tipped Florida told authorities about DMX’s whereabouts in order to collect the $5000 dollar reward for information leading to his capture. There goes her mortgage money for the month…

DMX is also wanted for animal abuse, drug possession and theft of services charges, for defrauding a local clinic of $7,500 in services. In order to get his freedom, DMX must post a $120,000 cash bond. Damn what a way to go into 2009!

NEWS BLAST
BUSTA IS NOW SIGNED TO T-PAIN’S NAPPY BOY LABEL…

WILL.I.AM POSSIBLY PRODUCING FOR BONO & U2…

LAUREN LONDON’S NEW ROLE OF “CHRISTINA”ON 90210 IS BI-SEXUAL…
MARION “SUGE” KNIGHT MANSION SOLD IN BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR $4.56 MILLION; 7-bedrooms, 9 ½ baths, Mediterranean style house on 8 acres
With ocean views….gone…

JAMIE FOXX “INTUITION” ALBUM DUE DEC 16th featuring T.I., Kanye West,
The-Dream and Tricky Stewart, Ne-Yo, Fabolous, Timbaland and Floetry’s
Marsha Ambrosius…

Big Lez has interviewed everyone from Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. to Mary J. Blige and Tom Cruise. She was host of and producer of BET’s landmark show “Rap City” and has enjoyed an extensive tenure in radio as co-host of The Steve Harvey Morning Show in Los Angeles, plus stints at New York’s WQHT/Hot 97, Atlanta’s WAOK/V103, LA’s Big Boy Morning Show at KPWR/Power 106 and Sirius Satellite Radio. Currently, Lez is partnered with DVA Media + Marketing as producer and host of the syndicated urban radio report, “The Urban Eye,” which launches nationwide first quarter of 2009.

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No words needed y’all as we have all just witnessed history to the fullest! May Obama & his family be protected as he steps into office and beyond. May he say what he means, and mean what he says! Let him be a man of his word in front of the universe and lead with integrity.

Now onto the gritty nonsense we love…

KANYE & NICK CANNON’S EX SELITA..WHO’S ZOOMING WHO?
The Louis Vuitton don, Kanye West, and Victoria’s Secret Model Selita Ebanks were spotted by NY newspapers being extra cozy up in the club. Now you know they are denying reports that they are more than just good friends.

Could you blame them if it was true? Kanye, fresh off an engagement break-up and Selita probably drinking herself to death watching Mariah & Nick honeymoonin’ it up!

A source close to the Selita says the story is completely false. Hmm, what a co-ink-ee-dink that the old trusty source shows up with a “killer” quote…

The witness said they looked “cozy” when they left the club together. Word is they were trying to be inconspicuous, but they were smiling and walking real close, and they hopped in a waiting car together laughing and took off. They were with a large group that included Serena Williams and Selita’s dad. And no, Serena & Pops were not seen hooking up….

NE-YO GOES TO THE DMX SCHOOL OF DRIVING
Oh lawd, sangin’ ass Ne-Yo has plead no contest to a reckless driving charge in Georgia’s Cobb State Court stemming from a traffic stop in February.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Neyo was sentenced to 24 hours of community service, fined a measley $1,000 (don’t sleep on his songwriting/publishing coins – cha ching) and must attend the dreaded defensive driving class. Shaffer Chimere Smith (yeah that’s his real name) must also perform a concert for the Boys & Girls Club.

Ain’t life rough when punishment from the justice system is performing your hits in front of the people who buy your music?

Ne-Yo & his lead foot was behind the wheel of his Range Rover going 105 mph in a 55 mph zone when he was pulled over at 2:28 a.m. on South Cobb Drive and Cobb Parkway.

He was ticketed for reckless driving and for not having a Georgia license. Now let Ne-Yo tell it, he had been living in Georgia for only one year. I guess 365 days just wasn’t enough time to go down to DMV.

Nevertheless, his upcoming album “The Year of the Gentleman” is scheduled to be released in August. I’m sure he’ll test out some of those new songs while performing during his “community service!”

KEVIN GARNETT SCANDAL IS A BREWING
Now K.G. is my boy, but drama is exactly that…drama.

Now that all eyes are on these NBA Finals, KG can’t sneeze without everybody all up in it. Word on the street is that Kev may have been carrying on a long-term relationship with a former Minnesota Timberwolves dancer named Krissy. Yeah y’all K.G is a married man. But you know how some of these NBA wives get down. The wife may have picked Krissy out for K.G. to “rock” just as long as her Porsche is still parked in front of the crib.

Hey who knows what swingers, I mean couples, agree too, right? Nevertheless, the relationship, according to the rumors, has been going on for nearly 4 years.

And to top it off, scandal has it that Krissy and Kevin are so tight that she moved to Boston when Kevin was traded from Minnesota to the Celtics. When you can pay in cash, you don’t always leave a paper trail. Ya feel me?

Well, with Kevin’s wife Brandi just giving birth to their first child, I guess things on the home front are quite alright!

50 CENT’S HOUSE SET ABLAZE…NOW THAT’S A FIRE
Damn, R. Kelly got it right when he sang “When a Woman’s Fed Up.” He ain’t never lied, and whoever penned the saying “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” was really on to something! Well, that’s the case it seems in regard to 50’s house being stomped out by Smokey the Bear.

Police found a five-gallon gas container on the grounds of a mansion at the center of a grudge match between 50 Cent and his ex-girlfriend. A fire ripped through 50’s $2.4 million dollar Dix Hills, Long Island mansion, sending 6 people, including Tompkins and the superstar rapper’s 10-year-old son, to the hospital.

Arson investigators have yet-to-determine the cause of the inferno that completely destroyed the mansion. Officials had already labeled the fire suspicious, due to the intensity of the blaze, which lasted about 45 minutes. So you know Ms. Thang is an “alleged” suspect right?

God rest her soul, but did we not learn from Left Eye?

Shaniqua Tompkins, (oh lawd that name), who accused 50 Cent of having a role in the incident, also accused him of not checking on his son Marquise in the midst of the aftermath. “Tell him to call his son!” Tompkins shouted at reporters yesterday when she returned to grounds of the property, where she had been living with their son, her new boyfriend and other individuals.

I know the new boyfriend is pissed. I’m sure he’s saying…”Wha..we goin doo now, damn?”

50 Cent…government name, Curtis Jackson, and the boyfriend were involved in a straight up brawl in the office of Shaniqua’s lawyer during a deposition hearing, just days before the house was burned to smithereens.

Curtis denied any involvement in the fire and expressed gratitude that no one was serious injured. He and Tompkins will be in Manhattan Supreme Court over ownership of the mansion this week.

Best believe the insurance company will be in that a**.

See ya’ll next week…

Big Lez has interviewed everyone from Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. to Mary J. Blige and Tom Cruise. She was host of and producer of BET’s landmark show “Rap City” and has enjoyed an extensive tenure in radio as co-host of The Steve Harvey Morning Show in Los Angeles, plus stints at New York’s WQHT/Hot 97, Atlanta’s WAOK/V103, LA’s Big Boy Morning Show at KPWR/Power 106 and Sirius Satellite Radio. Currently, Lez is partnered with DVA Media + Marketing as producer and host of the syndicated urban radio report, “The Urban Eye,” which launches nationwide this summer.

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