A Black reality TV Star (E Network) was in Miami during Super Bowl weekend turning tricks.  She was charging $300-$500 per encounter (with celebrities and non-celebrities) due to her (somewhat) name status. 

A lot of drama went down regarding several high profile couples in Miami but this particular couple had "manufactured drama" because according to sources, they're a "rainbow couple."

Diddy (top photo) was the King Of Miami during Super Bowl weekend but here is a behind the scenes look at other events that took place:

Gabrielle Union, Osi Umenyona and Tigger were invited to a private seated dinner hosted by Hennessy (Black Penthouse).  Only 150 invitations went out for this event and guests enjoyed exquisite cocktails and delectable fare.

Tyson Beckford was spotted in a Miami Beach oceanfront mansion that not only offered food catering but also featured cigar catering where you watch a professional cigar roller- roll expensive cigars. Beckford also co-hosted a Super Seductive party with cutie pie Darren Sharper at Dream.

Kim Kardashian and Rosalyn Sanchez co-hosted the "Leather & Laces," Super Bowl party in Miami Beach.

Rolls Royce hosted a Super Bowl after party sponsored by Dom Perignon, Moet and Belvedere.

L.A. (AFTER DARK)

One of the most feared black men (behind the scenes) in Hollywood boasts that three black actresses chose the fast route of getting put on by hooking for him until their careers took off.  One sleeps around in Black Hollywood, the other one sleeps in millionaire circles and the third one has been considered a jumpoff for years-she is now in her 40's and was in Miami with her girls.

UPDATES ON STORIES FROM LAST WEEK:

Eve denies money laundering allegations:

Rewind:

The US Senate has been investigating Eve for money laundering for the last three years because of her association to Teodorin Nguema Obiang. Obiang has been accused of using middle men such as lawyers and real estate agents to set up shell companies in the US. The money used to set up the dummy corporations is linked to oil and gas reserves. Eve served as the president for one of the companies, “Sweet Pink, Inc,” which was set up in 2005 and she rolled around town in expensive cars, including a Maserati.

Rumors were circulating last week that actor Hill Harper was dating singer Nicole Scherzinger.  At this point, they are close friends although their friendship may develop into a romance since Hill is the same physical type as Nicole's ex-boyfriend Lewis Hamilton. 

But right now, they share a friendship.

The majority of Hill's close friends are female, including his best friend Gabrielle Union (they speak daily) Halle Berry and Rae Dawn Chong.  Hill has friends all over the country, male and female.

His last girlfriend was a black female attorney based in Los Angeles.

Hill is still one of the most eligible bachelors in Hollywood.

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS:

Halle Berry is pressing ahead with her plans to play infamous jewel thief Doris Payne, despite the fact the 79-year-old has been arrested for attempting to steal a coat from a department store.

Payne was arrested as she tried to leave a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Costa Mesa, California last month (Jan10) without paying for a $1,300  Burberry trench coat.

Payne was on parole for past thefts when she was caught.

Berry will portray the career thief, who has robbed gem stores around the world, in new biopic Who Is Doris Payne?

The Oscar winner has been working on the project for over two years with former Malcolm In The Middle star Justin Berfield, who secured the rights to Payne's life story after meeting her in jail in 2006.

Payne, who is known as The Grandmother Thief, has spent much of her adult life pulling off some of the biggest gem heists around the globe.

Berfield says, "We were stunned and saddened to hear of Ms. Payne's arrest on January 27th in Orange County. It has always been the intention of the producers, writer and rest of the film's creative team to chronicle Doris Payne's journey and career accurately, or as accurately as one can without having lived it ourselves.

"We are currently re-evaluating the script and determining the best filmmaker to work with Halle Berry in bringing Ms. Payne's story to the screen."

Rap superstar Jay-Z has urged British music sensation Susan Boyle to launch her own clothing line.

Jay-Z has earned millions through his Rocawear label and insists Boyle could make a fortune designing outfits for other middle-aged women.

The Empire State of Mind rapper explains, "She'll appeal to women of a certain age. They'll see an ordinary person who made the best of herself."

Jill Scott's representative has hit back at the R&B star's record label after executives accused her of breach of contract.

Hidden Beach Recording bosses have named the singer/actress in legal papers filed last week, alleging Scott dismissed the music executives after using them to find fame.

The lawsuit claims the label "poured its heart and soul into making poet and soul and R&B singer and songwriter Jill Scott a superstar," resulting in the singer "becoming one of the most well-known, highly respected recording artists of our time."

Hidden Beach bosses, who are seeking undisclosed damages, insist Scott owes them three more albums.

But a spokesperson for Scott, who left the company after more than a decade in October (09), has blasted the allegations, insisting the case has "no legal merit," citing a local Californian law in her defense.

In a statement, Scott's rep says, "The lawsuit filed on February 3, 2010 by Hidden Beach Recordings against Jill Scott has no legal merit and misrepresents the history of Ms. Scott's relationship with the label.

"Jill Scott has the legal right to terminate her recording contract with Hidden Beach Recordings under California's 7-year rule, where she had been a recording artist for more than 10 years. During her time at Hidden Beach Recordings, she released several highly successful albums.

"At this time, with many creative projects in the works which include music, film and television roles and product development, Ms. Scott looks forward to continuing to further her artistry and building the Jill Scott brand in other creative environments."

Billie Holiday's manager was a former fight-fixer, whoremonger, and running dog in Al Capone's pack. Allegedly, he was the one who offered her up to the FBI.

In 1948, Billie Holiday hooked up with John Levy, an "Italian-looking," yellow Lincoln Continental–driving, opium-addicted, self-described "half-Negro, half Jew" from Chicago. One of her piano players characterized Levy as a "sadistic pimp," then added, "and Billie admired pimps." Levy became her "manager," and kept her humping, kept her high, and kept her broke, since he was handling all her business and he was the one her employers paid. "If she asked him for fifty dollars," another of her piano players recalled, "he'd say, 'Don't ask for money in public,' and he'd knock her down literally, with his fist in her face, in the stomach, anywhere." 

At a party hosted by Harlem Godfather Bumpy Johnson, Levy forcibly removed Holiday's diamond earrings which left her earlobes bloody.  Levy went around the party trying to sell the earrings for quick cash.

Four days into 1949, federal agents broke in on the couple in their San Francisco hotel room, catching Billie in the act of trying to flush away the opium and pipe John Levy had put in her hands. Clad in white silk pajamas, Levy, an inveterate police informer, bargained, while she "sat there... sober and clear-headed...very quiet and passive." He avoided prosecution and fled California, leaving Holiday in San Francisco to finish her engagement there, and face her trouble alone.

"We could have indicted Levy if we had wanted to," the district attorney there reportedly told her lawyer, "but Billie Holiday is the name and we want to get some publicity." She appeared for trial, two months later, with an eye blackened by Levy, and "no trace of drugs...in her system." Holiday's lawyer contended that Levy had conspired with a federal agent in her arrest, and produced a photograph of the two men chatting amiably at a table in the local night spot where she was working at the time of the raid. "[Levy] was turning Billie over," he suggested. "[He] wanted to get rid of her. He had cleaned her out of money...."

In court, she "act[ed] dumb," Blackburn reports, and "simply said that John Levy was her man and she loved him so." She beat the case. A month and a half later, when she was back in town, working at the same place, she was arrested again on the charge for which she'd already been acquitted. "The police and other government agents were always at her shows," Blackburn says, "...heckling, threatening, raiding her dressing room, making embarrassing enquiries at her hotel and spreading rumors at the clubs where she was booked to sing."

"I came out [of jail] expecting to be allowed to go to work and to start with a clean slate," Holiday told Ebony magazine. "But the police have been particularly vindictive, hounding... and harassing me.... They have allowed me no peace...."

Source: "Street Diva," by: Arthur Kempton

IN RELATED NEWS:

Rewind: Louis McKay portrayed by Billie Dee Williams in the film "Lady Sings The Blues," is pictured above with Billie Holiday in 1951. He was a feared mob enforcer and like Levy, he was a brutal pimp. In a 1959 taped phone conversation, while discussing Holiday, he made the following comments: "If I got a whore, I get some money from her, or I don't have anything to do with the bitch," he also threatened to beat Holiday during the conversation. His only redeeming quality: He tried to get Holiday off drugs.

It's always been rumored that Don King was allegedly once affiliated with Louis McKay.  Unconfirmed rumors indicate: When Louis McKay did business in Cleveland, OH., King was part of his crew at the age of 15.  Allegedly, King was one of the most feared African Americans in Cleveland during this era, despite his young age.

"NOSTALGIA TIDBIT"

Rewind:

Booker T. & the M.G.'s are an instrumental R&B band that was influential in shaping the sound of Southern Soul and Memphis Soul. In the 1960s, as members of the house band of Stax Records, they played on hundreds of recordings by artists such as Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla and Rufus Thomas and Johnnie Taylor. They also released instrumental records under their own name, such as the 1962 smash "Green Onions," a classic standard that continues to generate millions in publishing revenue.

Fast Forward:

The groups leader Booker T. (above-center) was business savvy.  He self managed and self promoted the band.  He also maintained a large share of the royalties and masters.

Booker T. currently resides in a Bel Air mansion and drives a Rolls Royce Phantom.

TRUE STORY: (COLLEGE BASKETBALL TRAGEDY)

Luke Recker (above) was living the dream. As a McDonald's and Parade All-American and Indiana's Mr. Basketball in 1997, Recker had decided to stay home and attend Indiana to play for coach Bobby Knight. As a freshman in 1997-98, he ended up being second on the team in minutes while averaging 12.8 ppg, 4.0 rpg, and 2.9 apg and also leading the team in steals with 48. Recker was named honorable mention All-Big 10.

But that's when the dream turned into a nightmare for Recker. As a schoolboy legend, he was expected to follow in the footsteps of guys like Steve Alford and Damon Bailey, leading the Hoosiers for four years. But Coach Knight's style of play was not conducive to the way Recker played. Recker was a shooter that liked to get out and run the floor and make plays (for example, his biggest knock had always been his man to man defense, but he still managed to average more than 1.5 spg for his career). Bobby Knight's Hoosier teams played at a slower, more deliberate pace, which Recker felt hindered his ability to showcase his talents for the NBA. So Recker decided to transfer to Arizona to play under Lute Olsen. The decision to transfer was not an easy one for Recker, as he became public enemy #1 in Indiana basketball circles.

But just weeks before he was to go to Arizona, Recker was in Colorado with his high school sweetheart, Kelly Craig, and her family. Recker and Craig (the lead cheerleader) met on campus and were the golden couple.

One night, on the way home from a carnival, the car Recker and Craig were riding in was struck head on by a drunk driver in a pick-up (he also side-swiped the pick-up in front of them, which was carrying 11 people, 9 in the bed of the truck). All told, 14 people were seriously injured and 1 died. Recker almost lost his left ear, sliced his temporal artery, had a gash running from his ear and along his jaw down to his neck, and he crushed his left wrist and thumb. He needed more than 200 stitches to close him up, and would probably have ended up bleeding out had a nurse not happened to drive by minutes after the accident.

Craig broke her neck and severely bruised her spinal cord, leaving her paralyzed. She was able to gain some mobility back in her shoulders, left arm and wrist, and some feeling in her legs, but she will be in a wheelchair the rest of her life. Recker eventually broke up with Craig.

Craig's brother was left in a coma with permanent brain damage (with the mentality of a 4-year-old). Recker never played a game for Arizona.

After his hospital release, Recker attended the University of Iowa; he played alongside Gilbert Arenas (above).

Recker, who was a better than average athlete before the accident but he was never was really able to gain that athleticism back, and thus went undrafted after graduating. Recker is currently playing overseas.

"BLACK HISTORY MONTH" (SLAVE GIRL'S STORY REVEALED)

Nearly 250 years ago a 10-year-old African girl was kidnapped and transported to South Carolina, where she was renamed Priscilla and sold into slavery.

Unlike the ancestors of many African Americans who were brought to North America as slaves, Priscilla left a paper trail that tells her story and connects her to her living descendants.

Thomalind Martin Polite is Priscilla's seventh-generation granddaughter. At the invitation of the Sierra Leone government, the Charleston, South Carolina, speech therapist recently visited her ancestor's homeland. There, Polite met with other descendents of Priscilla during a celebration last week.

"What makes Priscilla's Homecoming so special, and likely not to be repeated, is that Thomalind can trace her ancestry literally from the day the slave ship left Sierra Leone on April 9, 1756, to the present moment," said Joseph Opala, a historian at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. "We're dealing with a 249-year paper trail."

That paper trail includes correspondence, a ship log, financial accounts, and plantation records.

"For an African-American family to have all of these records forming an unbroken chain is probably unique," said Opala, who is working on a documentary about Priscilla's story. "It's like lightning striking twice in the same place."

More than 12 million Africans were forced from their homelands and transported across the Atlantic between 1530 to 1880. Of these, around 500,000—roughly 4 percent—were brought to North America.

It's impossible to say where Priscilla lived prior to being kidnapped, or where she was sold. The African slave trade was aided and abetted by African kings, who sent men into the interior of their countries to capture men, women, and children. These captives who were later traded to European slave traders for guns, beads, cloth, rum, horses, and other goods.

Ship records reveal that Caleb Godfrey, captain of the Newport, Rhode Island-based ship the Hare, traveled up and down Africa's "Rice Coast" collecting captives. The West African region stretched from Senegal in the north to Benin in the south and had a rice-growing tradition stretching back thousands of years.

Denizens of the Rice Coast were highly prized as slaves by slave owners in South Carolina and Georgia during the 18th century.

Priscilla left Africa from Sierra Leon's Bunce Island, site of one of about 40 European slave-trading castles along the coast of West Africa. The voyage began on April 9, 1756, with the Hare carrying 84 slaves. Records indicate that 16 people died on the ten-week journey to Charleston, South Carolina.

Elias Ball II, a wealthy South Carolina rice plantation owner, purchased four boys and two girls for 600 pounds. He estimated their ages and gave each an English name.

The newly named ten-year-old Priscilla was taken to Ball's Comingtee Plantation, where she lived the rest of her life.

Plantation records unearthed by Edward Ball, a descendant of Elias and the author of the recent prize-winning book Slaves in the Family, show that Priscilla eventually married a man named Jeffrey. The two had 10 children, at least four of which reached adulthood. Priscilla died in 1811, leaving 30 grandchildren.

Source: Hillary Mayell @ National Geographic News

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The first black man who would have reached billionaire status if he would have lived; he was worth $500 million at the time of his death.  He was the first black man to head a law firm on Wall Street, he also owned TLC Beatrice, a global company worth billions and he's the only black man to have a building named after him at an Ivy League University (Harvard).

He was trying to purchase the Baltimore Orioles before he died of brain cancer. In this book, Lewis offers the keys to success and tells you  how he succeeded in international business.  "Investing For Dummies," is a good read for novice investors.  Click here to get started: Finance Bookstore

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