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Meet Emmett Murphy, aka “Jackpot”. Jackpot was arrested in his swanky million dollar midtown Atlanta condo one day before Super Bowl 53, charged with trafficking women.
The suspect currently remains in Fulton County jail, ultiple charges, including trafficking of persons for labor servitude and trafficking of persons for sexual servitude after a woman claim she was flown into Atlanta and threatened with bodily harm if she didn’t prostitute herself.
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Producer Will Packer has created a three-part documentary miniseries on the heartbreaking story of the Atlanta child murders for the ID Channel.
The murders took place in the late 70’s there are still quite a bit of unresolved questions surrounding the deaths.
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‘THE ATLANTA CHILD MURDERS’ focuses on a crime that deeply impacted race relations in the deep south, and the story has been a passion project of Packer?s for some time.
Still unsolved, the Atlanta Child Murders took place in the 1970s and 80s, where in the span of two years, 29 black children were tragically murdered.
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[READ: K. Kelly Can’t Make Bail After Arrest on Sexual Assault Charges + New Tape Surfaces…]
Kelly and his attorney walked out of the Cook County jail after paying his $100k bond (10% of his $1 million bail) and were immediately barraged with media questions as they left this afternoon (Feb 25).
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NEWSFLASH!!! Antwan “Big Boi” Patton has landed a role in “The Bobby Debarge Story”.
[READ: Big Boi Releases Official Video for “Doin’ It” ft. Sleepy Brown + Announces Dungeon Family Tour… ]
Big will play legendary songwriter and Motown Records founder, Berry Gordy in the TV One biopic about infamous R&B singer Bobby Debarge.
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Porsha Williams of The Real Housewives of Atlanta recently played host to a very special affair this past weekend.
The popular was on hiatus this week due to the Oscars, but Williams, who is in her nineteenth month of pregnancy, invited a slew of who’s who to attend an ‘all-white’ baby shower.
The event was reportedly filmed for an upcoming Bravo baby special.
Celebrity guests included Cynthia Bailey, Shamea Morton, Marlo Hampton, Kenya Moore and Premadonna (LHHATL).
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Singer R. Kelly posed for the mugshot above as he enters his latest legal battle over the sexual assault allegations that have plagued him for years.
Following his surrender to Chicago police Friday night,?Cook County Judge John Fitzgerald Lyke Jr. set the singer’s bond at $1 million?during a Saturday afternoon court appearance, however he’s still failed to post the $100,000 bail.
Kelly was indicted on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving four underage accusers between 1998 and 2010. While he has denied any wrongdoing, another tape has surfaced today.
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