A Pasadena radiologist was charged with attempted murder and child abuse after he drove a Tesla 250 feet off a cliff in San Mateo, CA. on Monday, Jan. 2.
According to the California Highway Patrol, Dharmesh A. Patel, 42, of Pasadena, his wife, 41, and two children – ages 4 and 7 – were inside the Tesla when the car plunged off the side of a cliff at a spot known as the Devil’s Slide.
Witnesses say the car was speeding when it veered off the highway and plunged over the cliff. CHP officials said the car made an initial impact before flipping multiple times and landing on its wheels on the rocks below.
All four occupants walked away from the wreckage. Initial reports claimed all 4 occupants were injured. But according to updated reports, the children were unharmed.
The children reportedly told CHP their father tried to kill them.
Rescue teams risked their lives descending down the steep, jagged cliff to airlift the four occupants to safety. CBS News chopper video shows the harrowing rescue from a Tesla at the bottom of a cliff just feet away from the Pacific Ocean.
Teslas have a self-driving feature and a manual option, but investigators don’t know which one was in use at the time of the crash. CHP said the driving mode “does not appear to be a contributing factor in this incident.”
The spot where the car went off the cliff has no guardrail and it is known for fatal accidents.
“We go there all the time for cars over the cliff and they never live. This was an absolute miracle,” CHP said. “CHP investigators worked throughout the night interviewing witnesses and gathering evidence from the scene. Based on the evidence collected, investigators developed probable cause to believe this incident was an intentional act,” the CHP said.
Officials believe the Tesla Model Y’s safety features and airbags may have saved the family. The sticker price of a Tesla Model Y ranges from $65,990 – $69,990.
According to DailyMail.com, the Tesla Model Y has multiple airbags: front airbags, seat-mounted side airbags, and curtain airbags, all of which appeared to have inflated upon impact.
Patel was discharged from a hospital on Wednesday and moved to the San Mateo County Jail where he is being held without bond.
This morning, a vehicle with 2 adults and 2 minors went over cliff at Devil’s Slide in @sanmateoco. Witnesses saw the accident and called 911. The car plunged hundreds of feet down the cliff and landed on the beach. All four patients were successfully rescued. Watch the video! pic.twitter.com/HUM2SJ56Oy
Last year rumors swirled that blogger Tasha K illegally accessed R. Kelly’s prison emails, triggering an FBI investigation. A retired US prisons officer is under a federal investigation for allegedly leaking tons of illegally-accessed information about musician R. Kelly to Tasha K.
Tasha K, posted a number of videos in which she sips wine and shares information to her thousands of followers, quoting verbatim from Kelly’s recorded phone calls, emails and visitor logs, according to a federal search warrant obtained by the Chicago Tribune.
The officer, named in the warrant as Officer A, is accused of illegally accessing Kelly’s private information while he was an inmate at Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center and leaking it to 39 year-old Tasha K, whose real name is Latasha Kebe. She has not yet been charged with any crime.
Now R. Kelly is blaming Tasha for ruining his case by sharing private information to each of his women.
In a jailhouse phone call with blogger Storm Monroe, R. Kelly accuses Tasha of upsetting his girlfriends by leaking his emails and phone calls turning all his women against him right before his trial.
Six years ago NFL star Aaron Hernandez committed suicide in prison after he was convicted on murder charges. Now his child’s mother, Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez, is being accused of draining their daughter’s trust fund at fancy clothing stores and college courses.
The fight started in September when Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez said she couldn’t afford the $10,697 bill for her daughter’s dance lessons.
So the former fiancée of disgraced New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez asked a court-appointed trustee to pay the bill from a trust fund that had been set up for their daughter, Avielle, after Hernandez committed suicide while in prison for murder in 2017.
But the trustee, attorney David Schwartz, said no. By his calculations, Jenkins-Hernandez already was receiving a separate source of funds outside the trust — $150,000 a year or more from Hernandez’s NFL pension and Social Security that was supposed to pay for the 10-year-old’s daily expenses. He couldn’t imagine why she needed more.
Then Schwartz reviewed how Jenkins-Hernandez had been spending the money: $36,858 on clothing, including maternity wear; $39,347 on home goods; $25,577 shopping online; $11,792 in “self care,” including gym fees, and visits to hair and nail salons.
“There is reason to question whether the expenditures were for Avielle’s benefit,” said attorney Robert O’Regan, who is representing Schwartz in the court dispute. “To be fair, this little girl should have a decent life with what her father left for her. No one would complain if there were reasonable expenses. We’re talking about over the top or otherwise unrelated expenses to Avielle.”
Now Schwartz and Jenkins-Hernandez are locked in a battle over who controls the money that remained after the death of Hernandez, who hanged himself in prison after being convicted of murdering Odin Lloyd, the boyfriend of Jenkins-Hernandez’s sister. Just a few days before his death, Hernandez had been acquitted of a separate double murder in the South End.
When Schwartz declined to pay Avielle’s dancing bill, Jenkins-Hernandez promptly asked a Bristol County probate judge to remove him as trustee, arguing he was potentially forcing the child to give up her favorite extracurricular activity. Jenkins-Hernandez, who gave birth to a second daughter by another man in 2018, insists she hasn’t improperly spent money and the money from the trust fund should be available when she needs it.
But Schwartz said Jenkins-Hernandez appears to have broken the rules and he has asked that she be removed as Avielle’s conservator, a court-appointment that allowed her to set up the trust fund Schwartz now administers. If she loses that role, a new conservator would receive Hernandez’s pension and Social Security checks and decide how the money should be spent.
The trust administered by Schwartz paid for her current Rhode Island home and all related expenses, as well as Avielle’s school tuition. Separately, Jenkins-Hernandez directly receives Hernandez’s pension and Social Security payments, although Schwartz said those funds, too, are supposed to be spent exclusively for the benefit of her daughter.
As the conservator for her daughter, Jenkins-Hernandez was supposed to file annual disclosures for the last several years as to how she was spending the money, but Schwartz said she only recently began submitting them.
Schwartz was shocked by what he saw on the expenditure forms: tens of thousands of dollars in what he called “questionable” expenses, such as $4,800 in charges at Harrods Department Store, that seemed to benefit her more than her daughter. She made $29,650 in ATM withdrawals and paid $13,778 in bank charges — mostly overdraft fees.
“There is every reason to question whether and how (Jenkins-Hernandez) is applying the significant resources that should be available to pay for Avielle’s daily needs, including dance lessons, especially since all of her basic housing security and educational expenses are paid from the trust,” wrote O’Regan, a partner in the law firm Burns & Levinson, in a filing submitted on Schwartz’s behalf.
Schwartz was particularly concerned that Jenkins-Hernandez reported spending $39,655 on education — including $3,720 for Bay Path University, a private university in Western Massachusetts.
“Avielle is not in college,” wrote O’Regan, and her school bills are already paid for from the trust.
Jenkins-Hernandez also spent $12,830 on something called “Ask My Accountant.” Neither Jenkins-Hernandez nor her lawyer, would explain what that is or discuss any other specific expenditures.
Going forward, O’Regan argues, Jenkins-Hernandez should no longer be entrusted with funds for her daughter, who is eligible to receive the trust funds when she turns 25. Currently, the fund contains around $700,000.
“I believe that (Jenkins-Hernandez) has been co-mingling the child’s funds with her own,” wrote O’Regan in a court filing. ”I believe that Ms. Jenkins-Hernandez’s ongoing conflict, her almost five-year-long record of excessive expenditures, continuous violation of this court’s decree … and her failure to file an inventory and up to date accounts all indicate that despite what might be her best intentions, Ms. Jenkins-Hernandez is not effectively performing her duties as conservator.”
Today, multi-platinum songstress Queen Naija kicks off the new year with “Let’s Talk About It”, a slow-burning but unstoppable new single that calls out all the self-absorbed and drama-obsessed men of the world. Accompanied by a cinematic video that finds Queen taking back her power, “Let’s Talk About It” arrives around the Detroit-bred artist’s milestone five-year anniversary of her breakthrough hit “Medicine” (a double-platinum smash that premiered on New Year’s Day in 2018 and immediately set her meteoric rise in motion).
Co-written by Queen with Mike Woods (G-Eazy, Tink, Ty Dolla $ign) and producer Oak Felder (Kehlani, Nicki Minaj, Pink Sweat$), “Let’s Talk About It”is a powerful piece of R&B-pop built on her ultra-smooth soothing vocals.
On this date in 1996, Busta Rhymes of the almighty L.O.N.S.(Leaders Of The New School) crew dropped his very first single as a solo artist entitled Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check. The frontman of the four-man squad had been expected to come out dolo since the early days of L.O.N.S., but made a few guest appearances on tracks within the circle of Hip Hop royalty, but didn’t officially go for self until 1995.
At the top of the following year, Buss A Bus released the first single “Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check” from his solo debut album The Coming, which was marketed and distributed by Elektra Records. The energetic track borrowed lyrics from The Sugarhill Gang’s impactful “8th Wonder” for the hook and added Busta’s signature animation for one of the most memorable singles of Buss ‘career.
Salute to Busta, the late Chris Lighty, and the entire Violator family for bringing Buss to us as a solo artist!
According to court documents on public record during jury selection, Young Thug faces eight out of the 65 total charges against the alleged YSL gang in their RICO trial.
The charges against Young Thug, aka Jeffrey Williams, were confirmed during the jury selection for the case, which began yesterday (Jan. 4). Prosecutors alleged that the Young Slime Life collective was a street gang involved in criminal activity, which prompted the 65-count indictment to be handed down in May last year.
Thug’s eight charges include conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, two counts of participation in criminal street gang activity, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of codeine with intent to distribute, possession of cocaine, possession of a firearm and possession of a machine gun.
Out of the 65 charges, #YoungThug is charged with 8 counts. Ct 1: Conspiracy to Violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations. Ct. 56 & 57 : Participation in Criminal Street Gang Activity 1/2 pic.twitter.com/HlbDUG9XJZ
CT 58: Possesion of Marijuana w/intent to distribute Ct. 59: Poss of Codeine w/intent to distribute Ct. 60: Poss of Cocaine Ct. 61: Poss of Firearm Ct. 62: Poss of Machine Gun pic.twitter.com/vtqZ3mCNLD
Thug was one of 28 defendants when the case began, but that number has withered away to just 14 defendants after his other co-defendants, including Gunna, took plea deals to be released from custody. Gunna was released last month after pleading guilty to one count of racketeering.
Thug’s trial will be a fight for his life, as the plea deals taken by his former crew members will make his battle in court even tougher. One of the former co-founders of the crew, Antonio “Mounk Tounk” Sledg, admitted in court that one or more YSL members were behind the 2015 murder of Donovan Thomas after negotiating his plea deal. Sledge testified that he and other YSL associates were paid by Young Thug to “lay low” after the killing.
The case is expected to last at least nine months to a year, with the media pool schedule running through Sept. 23.
Following accusations from an OnlyFans model on he set of his “White Girl” video shoot, Glizzy Gang capo Shy Glizzy has a lot of explaining to do after former Glizzy Gang member Ant Glizzy further supports the accusations made by OnlyFans model Sky Bri on the recently shot “White Girl” video set.
Bri claims that the D.C. rapper coerced her into taking an unknown pill while on the set of the video and even came to her hotel room after the shoot and pulled out his genitals, telling the featured video girl to “lick it” and “suck it”. When she declined his offer, Shy allegedly withheld her pay from the video.
Not long after Adam22 uploaded the Sky Bri interview, Ant Glizzy posted a video on YouTube virtually confirming the featured ‘White Girl” accusations.
Ant Glizzy confesses to & seemingly confirms him & Shy Glizzy spiking drinks and having sex with the unsuspecting women affected by these heinous actions…. https://t.co/SzwZrlYGHOpic.twitter.com/7f7BL6W4qF
“Shy Glizzy is a professional bottle spiker,” Ant Glizzy said as he looked into the camera. “He spikes bottles…it’s about to be the ‘Me Too’ movement, for the last 15 years Shy Glizzy been spiking girls’ [drinks]. He’s been spiking girls’ drinks since I’ve been around him. I’m telling you, that’s his remedy! But this is how he got caught, I’ma give ya’ll the scenario, he thought Sky Bri was a porn star. If she a female adult star, he felt like he could just get it. He off his pivot right now, he’s tripping…he lost his mind…”
On today’s date, 43 years ago, “Rapper’s Delight” became Hip-Hop’s first Top 40 single. “Rapper’s Delight” was released by Englewood, New Jersey’s Sugarhill Gang in August of 1979. As one of Hip Hop’s earliest relics, this single, written by The Cold Crush Brothers’ own Grandmaster Caz, is credited with bringing the art of rap to a multicultural mainstream audience.
In the ’70s, disco and soul still reigned supreme in the clubs and lounges of the country’s urban centers. In its most primitive form, Hip Hop was still misunderstood (and exclusive to New York City and California). Breaking, tagging, rapping, and spinning records were widely recognized as the borderline criminal activities of whatever city’s urban youth. The culture’s cult following was majority made up of housing project residence, the type to not frequent the discos and bars of their respective downtown centers. Every once in and while someone would drop a single that would break through and get some shine on the club scene but never make much of a splash nationally. “Rapper’s Delight” was a different story.
On September 20, 1979, new wave bands Blondie andChic were playing a concert at New York’s renown Palladium with British punk rock band The Clash; Hip Hop’s earliest socialite (and soon to be television host)Fab Five Freddy was on the scene with Sugarhill Gang members Big Bank Hank, Mike Wright, and Master Gee. Having just released a single featuring Chic’s hit single “Good Times” from their recent international album Risqué, it was natural for the gang to hop on stage and start freestyling as soon as Chic dropped the bass line.
Sometime later, Chic’s Nile Rodgers was out at New York’s Club Leviticus and heard a recorded cut of the very song The Sugarhill Gang ever-so-delightfully interrupted his concert weeks earlier. Enraged, Rodgers immediately sought legal action and attempted to sue the Sugarhill Gang for using his band’s instrumental in their single. The lawsuit was settled out of court, and appropriate credit was given to Chic in their part of the song.
With the lawsuit and legal attention came a swarm of popularity. Disc Jockeys in clubs across the country began to spin this record every night of the week. The single gained so much play in the United States that clubs across the globe began to push this song like no tomorrow. Although the single may have peaked at #36 on the Billboard 200, it was #1 in Canada and the Netherlands, #2 in Belgium, France, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and #3 in Germany and the UK. This single song sold platinum in both the United States and Canada, with over 5 million copies sold worldwide.
“Rapper’s Delight” may be the most important single of Hip Hop culture. It didn’t event style, it wasn’t the first to gain mainstream success, it wasn’t even from New York, but it was the biggest of its time. What “Rapper’s Delight” did was make it “ok” to listen to and support rap music out in the open. Before this single, Hip Hop was an urban taboo. Upon its release, the connotation transformed from one synonymous with the ghetto to a new and hip musical genre. In a way, “Rapper’s Delight” gentrified Hip Hop in a way that made it profitable. Without it, the culture would not be a powerful as it is today.
Dwayne Wade’s wife, actress Gabrielle Union is opening up about infidelity in her previous marriage. During a recent episode of Armchair Expert, Gabrielle Union opened up to host Dax Shepard about her first marriage. Union she admits she wasn’t “getting Wife of the Year Awards.”
While Shepard shared his own guilt about his past infidelities, Union admitted she wished she had more guilt for her infidelity, but instead thought of it as “just such a stupid relationship that should never have gotten out of the dating phase.”
“In our first marriage, neither one of us felt like the marriage should get in the way of our dating,” Union explained of her relationship with NFL running back Chris Howard from 2001 to 2006. At the time, the actress described her actions as trying to keep up with her husband’s behavior while also battling her own sense of entitlement.
“I was like, Oh, that’s what you’re doing? You’re gonna feel this one,” she explained.
Union went on to admit that she also felt “entitled” to cheat because she was paying the bills and working hard to get what she had.
“I felt that that’s what comes, the spoils of riches,” she said. “Like my dad before me, whoever has the most gets to do whatever the hell they want, is what I thought.”
As for what she got out of cheating on her husband, Union admitted that she was “horny for validation and having certain kinds of guys like me and want me. That made me feel like I was worthy and good and valuable and deserving.”
Eventually, Union and Howard attended therapy, but Gabrielle said the first thing the therapist noticed was that they had nothing in common except “other people … so why don’t you just go be with other people.” As for her current husband, Dwyane Wade: “I think initially it wasn’t different.” Still, she went on to admit that both she and Wade had to commit to themselves and do the “inner work” to heal themselves so they could be better together.
“We randomly came back around as more healed people and more open to understanding our complicity in some of the challenges that we created for ourselves,” she said.
“We are way easier to point the finger, you did this to me, you caused that, this person did this, and it’s like, okay, we’re grown,” Union added. “I’m super-grown at this– I’m 40+ at this point and it’s like, I don’t want to live like this. None of this feels good and it’s exhausting and I want a love that feels like freedom.”
“Now we’re both free and we are free to choose ourselves and free to choose each other every day, which is a completely different sentiment.”
Keith Murray has created a viral lane for himself after getting on The Art Of Dialogue podcast and telling some untold Hip Hop tales from the 90s that could possibly rival Slick Rick’s “Treat Her Like A Prostitute”, complete with well known female rapper fables. Most recently, The Def Squadian told a story about his run-in with Ludacris’ artist and Disturbing Tha Peace artist Shawnna.
Murray talked about how he and the “Getting Some Head” rapstress linked up at L.A.’s House Of Blues despite, according to him, being warned by Ludacris not to do it. He details performing oral sex on Shawnna in front of two of their friends and another time in his $160K Benz, but he admits that he didn’t get a chance to have intercourse with her.
