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Spoken Word Artist: Malik Yusef

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Knight, 40, was hospitalized in good condition, police said. He was shot during a celebrity-studded party at the Shore Club, one of the many celebrations in Miami Beach ahead of the MTV Video Music Awards scheduled Sunday night, said Miami Beach Police Officer Bobby Hernandez.

Sonja Mauro, a guest at the club, said a shot in the party’s VIP section rang out shortly before 1 a.m.

“I was in there and I heard a pop and I ran out and got trampled,” she said.

People attending the party began screaming and running for the doors, she said.

Celebrities who attended included West, actress Jessica Alba and comedian Eddie Murphy, but it was unclear whether they were still there when the shooting took place.

Knight co-founded the pioneering rap label Death Row Records and hit the charts in the 1990s with West Coast stars including Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur.

Knight was convicted in 1992 of assault and weapons violations and was placed on probation. In 1996, he was jailed for five years for violating probation after he and several associates, including Shakur, were recorded on videotape beating a gang rival at a Las Vegas hotel. Shakur was later shot to death in Las Vegas.

Relatives of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G. have also accused Knight of involvement in B.I.G.’s death, though police have never named Knight as a suspect.

Knight continues to operate his label, now called Tha Row.

Attempts to reach a spokesman for West early Sunday were unsuccessful. A message left with an MTV representative was not immediately returned.

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The media mogul — who is aggressively trying to purchase West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Paxson Communications Corp., a group of about 60 broadcast TV stations, for $2.2 billion — took the time this summer to do something for his mom: He bought her a gated $5-million house in the Hollywood Hills.

The former comedian, 44, purchased the four-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot home so his mother, Carolyn Folks, could live closer to him. Folks had been living in Allen’s Century City condo since he bought a $3.8-million Hollywood Hills house for himself in February 2004.

Now she has a house that is about the same size as her son’s. His was built in 2001, while hers, constructed in 1961, underwent a total renovation last year. It has Carrara marble floors, a Calcutta marble fireplace mantle, fingerprint recognition security and city-to-ocean views.

Allen also has purchased a place for himself, at $4.5 million, in Trump Towers on 5th Avenue in Manhattan. As founder, chairman and chief executive of Entertainment Studios Corp., an independent producer-distributor of first-run TV programming, Allen splits his time between L.A. and New York.

When not managing his company, Allen appears on camera as host of the talk shows “EntertainmentStudios.com” and “Entertainers With Byron Allen.” Both shows have been on the air for 12 years.

Allen’s interest in show business began when he regularly went after school to his mother’s office at NBC where she worked as a publicist. At 14 he became a stand-up comic at the Comedy Store. At 18 he made his debut on “The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson.” He co-hosted the NBC series “Real People” from 1979 to 1984.

Allen established his production company in 1993. While sitting at his dining room table, he called 1,300 TV stations for more than a year to launch his first show.

His firm has since produced and now owns more than 3,000 hours of TV programming and has 15 syndicated shows on TV. It finances, produces and distributes TV programs around the world.

If he buys the financially troubled Paxson, Allen will target an African American audience, he has said. The Firm, a Beverly Hills talent agency, also has expressed interest in the network.

Terence Hill of BT Equities, Century City, represented Allen in his real estate purchases and manages Allen’s portfolio of residential and commercial properties.

Rapper Beanie Sigel was released from prison in New Jersey on Tuesday after serving one year on federal gun and drug charges, his lawyer said.

Sigel, born Dwight Grant, still faces a Sept. 19 retrial on an attempted murder charge in Philadelphia, defense lawyer Fortunato N. Perri Jr. said.

The 31-year-old South Philadelphia native and Jay-Z protege released his third album, “The B. Coming,” in March while behind bars at a federal prison in Fairton, N.J. Sigel spent at least some of his recent jail stint in solitary confinement, Roc-a-fella label co-founder Damon Dash said in a spring interview promoting the album.

Sigel had pleaded guilty to the federal charges, which stemmed from a 2002 traffic stop in Philadelphia.

The upcoming trial stems from a July 2003 shooting outside a West Philadelphia strip club, when Sigel allegedly shot Terrance Speller repeatedly during a dispute. A jury deadlocked on the charges at an April 2004 trial, which was attended by stars Jay-Z and Beyonce.

Sigel’s three albums _ “The Truth” in 2000, “The Reason” in 2001 and “The B. Coming” _ each hit the top five on the Billboard album chart. Many of Sigel’s songs depict guns, drugs and violence.

EDDIE MURPHY and his wife, NICOLE, are divorcing after 12 years. Nicole filed the petition for divorce Friday morning in Los Angeles, citing irreconcilable differences.

Murphy released the following statement to ET: “The welfare of our children is our main concern and their best interest is our first priority.” The couple has four daughters and one son.

News of the split has stunned many in Hollywood, as DONALD TRUMP told ET exclusively: “I feel very badly for both of them. They’re both wonderful people and I wish both of them well.”

Actress SHERYL LEE RALPH, who attended the couples’ 1993 wedding, said she was “shocked.” “I’m so deeply sorry for the two of them, but especially for the children because in divorce no one hurts as much as the children. And it’s in small ways that you sometimes just don’t see … I’m praying for all of them and I’m so sorry because I remember their wedding day and all of the beauty and care that went into that day.”

Signed to “Saturday Night Live” when he was just 19 years old, the now 44-year-old actor is known for hits like ‘Beverly Hills Cop,’ ‘The Nutty Professor,’ ‘Dr. Dolittle’ and more recently as the voice of Donkey in the ‘Shrek’ films.

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Though DJay, a streetwise Memphis pimp, has always had a way with words, that gift has long been misused; this philosopher-hustler lives a dead-end life at the fringes of society. Still, DJay wonders what happened to all the big dreams he had for his life. A chance encounter with an old friend, Key, a sound engineer who has always wanted to make it in the music business, spurs DJay: if he’s ever going to make his mark, it has to happen now. He begins to write down his freestyle raps – his flow – and the two team up with Shelby, a church musician with a beat machine, to lay down bass-thumping crunk tracks. DJay’s metamorphosis affects his entire house, as the women in his life – Shug and Nola – find ways to contribute to the creative process. With the impending visit to Memphis of hometown platinum-selling rapper Skinny Black, DJay has to make one last hustle if he’s ever going to flow.

Genres: Drama

Running Time: 1 hr. 54 min.

Release Date: July 22nd, 2005 (wide).

MPAA Rating: R for sex and drug content, pervasive language and some violence.

Distributor: Paramount Classics

Movie Website: Hustle And Flow

Rapper Lil’ Kim escaped a stiff prison sentence Wednesday after telling a judge she was a “God-fearing good person” who regretted lying to a federal grand jury about a 2001 shootout outside a Manhattan radio station.

The Grammy winner was sentenced to one year and one day for perjury and conspiracy — a term far less than the three years and seven months sought by prosecutors.

U.S. District Judge Gerard Lynch said he had weighed the public perception of sending a young black entertainer to prison far longer than Martha Stewart, who spent five months in prison and remains under house arrest after a false statements conviction.

Lynch suggested Lil’ Kim (real name: Kimberly Jones) deserved more time because she had lied about a violent crime, not a white-collar scheme. He also noted that unlike Stewart, she took the witness stand at her trial earlier this year and repeated her lies.

“You sat right next to me there and stared in the eyes of the jurors, and you tried to charm them and you tried to fake them out,” Lynch said.

But the judge also credited Lil’ Kim with returning to court Wednesday and admitting she had lied all along to protect members of her entourage.

“At the time I thought it was the right thing to do, but I now know it was wrong,” she said, her voice breaking.

Lil’ Kim said she wanted to “take complete blame” for the actions of her assistant, Monique Dopwell, who’s awaiting sentencing for the same crimes.

She also asked the judge “to consider my entire life’s work and not just the days in the grand jury and on the witness stand in the courtroom. I’m a God-fearing, good person.”

Lil’ Kim, who was ordered to report to prison Sept. 19, left the courthouse without speaking to reporters.

Some fans who showed up outside said they were relieved that the sentence wasn’t harsher.

“I’m just excited ’cause it’s not that long,” said Alfredo Borbon, 22, a waiter who wore a pair of boots with the rapper’s name on them. “We can wait; us fans can wait that long.”

The artist, who turns 30 next week, was the sidekick and mistress of the late Notorious B.I.G. As a solo artist, she has become known for her revealing outfits and raunchy lyrics.

The case stemmed from a gun battle that erupted outside WQHT-FM, known as Hot 97, when Lil’ Kim’s entourage crossed paths with a rival rap group, Capone-N-Noreaga.

Lil’ Kim’s group confronted the others about the Capone-N-Noreaga song “Bang, Bang,” which contained an insult to Lil’ Kim from rival Foxy Brown. One man was hurt in the shootout that followed.

Before the grand jury and at the trial, the rapper claimed she did not notice two of her close friends at the scene of the shootout — her manager, Damion Butler, and Suif Jackson, known as “Gutta.” Both have pleaded guilty to gun charges.

Jurors at Lil’ Kim’s trial saw radio station security photos that depicted Butler opening a door for the rap star, and two witnesses who once made records with Lil’ Kim said they saw her at the station with Butler and Jackson.

Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey was denied entry into an exclusive Paris boutique. Winfrey was denied entry into Hermes in Paris. When she tried the door, they refused her entry because they have been having trouble with North Africans.

THIS IS THE BULLSHIT RESPONSE FROM HERMES

“Hermes regrets not having been able to accommodate Ms. Winfrey and her team and to provide her with the service and care that Hermes strives to provide to each and every one of its customers worldwide,” the store said in a statement.

“Hermes apologizes for any offense taken due to such circumstances.”

BULLSHIT

The store said the incident occurred on June 14 around 6:45 p.m., about 15 minutes after the store closed. It said Winfrey and her team arrived at a time when “a private PR event was being set up inside.”

Harpo Productions spokeswoman Michelle McIntyre said Winfrey “will discuss her ‘crash moment’ when her show returns from hiatus in September.”

“Crash” is a film dealing with race relations. The phrase “crash moment” refers to situations where a party feels discriminated against on the basis of skin color.

The New York Daily News cited sources close to Winfrey as saying the talk show host was first rebuffed by a clerk and then a store manager. The Daily News reported Winfrey had gone to the store to buy a watch for singer Tina Turner, her dining partner that night.

McIntyre confirmed that account for CNN.

The New York Post, in its Monday Page Six gossip column, reported she was turned away because the store had been “having a problem with North Africans lately.”

In comments to CNN, an Hermes spokeswoman categorically denied that allegation.

“There was never any discussion of North Africans,” she said. “The story is not true.”

The spokeswoman said Winfrey came to the store 15 minutes after closing and a security guard informed her the store was closed and gave her a card, telling her she could come back the next day.

Surveillance videotape of the encounter supports the store’s account, according to the spokeswoman.

She said the CEO of Hermes has called Winfrey’s people to explain “the situation” and invited her to come back to shop in the store.