Showing posts with label Tyler Perry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tyler Perry. Show all posts
Friday, January 25, 2008
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Monday, January 14, 2008
STARS ON STEROIDS...NOT MARY J. BLIGE...WTF??
An investigation of HGH and steroid trafficking in Albany, NY included the names of some of our favorite stars. Tyler Perry, Wyclef Jean, Timbaland, 50 Cent and even Mary J. Blige were some of the names mentioned in the report. Although, HGH is not illegal, steroids is. How did Dr. Dre not make the list?
PATCHOGUE — The names of R&B music star Mary J. Blige, along with rap artists 50 Cent, Timbaland and Wyclef Jean, and award-winning author and producer Tyler Perry, have emerged in an Albany-based investigation of steroids trafficking that has already rocked the professional sports world, according to confidential sources.
Information has surfaced recently showing those stars are among tens of thousands of people who may have used or received prescribed shipments of steroids and injectable human growth hormone in recent years. Law enforcement officials have said they have no evidence in their sprawling multistate probe that customers, including Blige or other entertainers, violated any laws. Instead, they are targeting anti-aging clinics, doctors and pharmacists who prescribed the drugs.
Still, medical experts say that use of steroids and human growth hormone — an estimated $10 billion-a-year operation worldwide — reaching into the entertainment industry illustrates how pervasive steroids use in the United States has become. It is not unique to athletics, where performance-enhancing drug use has marred many sports. For many celebrities, the lure of hormonal drugs is their supposed, unproven anti-aging effects.
While Congress is preparing to focus on baseball players alleged to have taken the drugs, medical experts are warning that steroids and human growth hormone are being illegally prescribed nationwide at an alarming rate under the misconception they will aid healing, enhance looks, strength and speed, or slow aging.
Records shared with the Times Union and information from several cooperating witnesses on Long Island indicate Blige and other stars were shipped prescribed human growth hormone or steroids — sometimes under fictitious names — at hotels, production studios, private residences, an upscale Manhattan fitness club and through the Long Island office of Michael Diamond, a chiropractor affiliated with the celebrities, sources said.
Diamond, who has not been identified as a target in the case or accused of breaking any laws, helps run an anti-aging program at Clay Gym in Manhattan, according to the company’s Web site.
The Albany investigation became a nationwide spectacle last February when authorities raided a Palm Beach County wellness center and the offices of Signature Compounding Pharmacy in downtown Orlando. The wellness center’s owners and the pharmacy’s operators are awaiting trial in Albany on charges related to the sale of millions of dollars worth of prescription drugs, mostly steroids, through a suspected criminal enterprise involving allegedly corrupt physicians and a series of anti-aging “clinics” that advertised predominantly through the Internet.
In the past year the case has netted 10 guilty pleas, including felony convictions of three physicians and several operators of anti-aging clinics in Texas, Florida and New York.
Along the way it has exposed allegations of steroid use by Major League Baseball players, pro wrestlers, NFL figures, police officers, prison guards, top-ranked body builders, people with ties to high school and college wrestling programs, and now, celebrities.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
NEW VIDEO: JANET JACKSON AND TYLER PERRY INTERVIEW
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
MOVIE TRAILER: TYLER PERRY'S "WHY DID I GET MARRIED"
A group of couples who go away every year to examine their marriages in a group setting. Troubles grow when one of the wives brings along a sexy young temptress. Check out the trailer here:
Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married starring Tyler Perry, Janet Jackson, Sharon Leal, Jill Scott and more is set to hit theaters October 12th. Make sure you go to the movies to support it.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Jill Scott Builds Resume!
R&B singer Jill Scott will be starring in the upcoming HBO movie No.1 Ladies Detective Agency as well as the new Tyler Perry project Why Did I Get Married?.
In No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Scott will play a private investigator named Precious Ramotswe, who opens up her own agency after the death of her father. With the help of her assistant, played by Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls), Scott will take on a cheating husband, insurance fraud, witchcraft and a kidnapper.
The flick, which is based on a bestselling book of the same name, will also star Idris Elba ("The Wire," 28 Weeks Later) and will begin production this month in Botswana and South Africa.
The movie's release date has yet to be announced.
Scott will also be making her big screen debut on October 12 in Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? The movie centers around a group of happily vacationing couples confronted with the ensuing chaos created by a flirtatious single woman who is thrown in their midst.
Scott, who wears a prosthetic "fat" suit in the flick, plays an extremely obese woman in an unhappy marriage.
"It's like she's born to do this," Perry said via a statement. "Her acting is so natural, I was shocked. When this woman smiles, she lights up a room."
In related news, Scott is currently putting the finishing touches on her third studio album The Real Thing, which hits shelves on September 18. She recently dropped Collaborations in January, showcasing her work with other artists like Mos Def, Common, Will Smith and Lupe Fiasco.
Courtesy of: Sohh
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