These few photos have been revealed to have been Michael Jackson’s final images captured on film.The photo above is from a handout photo provided by AEG/Concerts West and was taken May 6, 2009 as Michael prepared for the “This Is It” London concerts. The photos below were taken during his last concert rehearsal at Staples Center on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.
“I am devastated by the sudden loss of ‘The King of Pop,’ who I have photographed numerous times since the Victory Tour in the ’80s. When he hit the stage at rehearsal, I was thrilled that the magical Michael Jackson was BACK!!! I felt the same adrenaline rush as when I photographed him the first time moonwalking. I was so looking forward to shooting the O2 Arena performances with the amazing production that Kenny Ortega and AEG put together with Michael for his fans.” ~ Kevin Mazur, Celebrity Photographer and Founder of WireImage.com
Monica was photographed in Baltimore a few weeks ago while on tour with Keyshia Cole’s “A Different Me Tour.” She looks fabulous as usual even when caught by surprise and she lives for her two beautiful sons Romelo and Lil Rocko. Monica has newly released track from her highly anticipated come back CD. You may remember this track from Mo’s PeachTreeTV reality show “The Single: Monica” a few months back when she was working in the studio with B. Cox tryna find her next single. A snippet of the song was released back then and quickly made the internet rounds. Now the completed version is here for your listening pleasure!
All of Atlanta came out to support Hot 107.9’s annual birthday bash last weekend. The event was somewhat long winded beginning around 5:30 and ending way past midnight but it was a total A-Town celebration. All eyes were on Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane, as everyone expected some kind of drama to pop off but fortunately there was only fun and music and no sounds of gunshots or knife wounds to report.
My birthday bash summary? Keri Hilson rocked a new doo, Lil Duval rocked a “Fake Ass Chain,”Plies blew $50,000 in ones, Trey Songz was caught “backstage pimpin”, and Jeezy and Gucci Mane avoided conflict. That’s about the jist of it. Oh yeah…and there was one helluva finale performance!
Peep a few videos of some of the hottest performances of the night, as well as more flix from Birthday Bash and the Zone 4 skybox party below: (more…)
One of the stars of the Atlanta version of BET’s College Hill series was apparently “hacked” and outed as gay on Twitter this morning. I don’t know who he pissed off, but apparently the person’s *cough* friend decided to do a little bit of detective work around 4:45am while they were sleeping and found nude pics and got a bit upset. All I know is… it ain’t safe to leave your twitter unattended.
Check out the photos below (Click at your own risk….NSFW!):
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