This one certainly has her father’s “swing on a photographer” spirit already. She was clearly NOT feeling having the cameras in her face while having cones and kicking it with her mama…
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This one certainly has her father’s “swing on a photographer” spirit already. She was clearly NOT feeling having the cameras in her face while having cones and kicking it with her mama…
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Gabourey Sidibe penned an article for Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letter site detailing the time a Chicago Chanel sales lady treated her like a second class citizen because she assumed a girl who looked like her couldn’t possibly have a dime in her pocket.
Gabby says she went in looking for a specific pair of eyeglass frames she had had her eye on for a while…but instead of being helpful, the saleswoman said she should probably hit up a store across the street for her frames:
” I was trying to purchase glasses, and she was trying to get the interaction with me over as soon as possible. Just to be sure of what was happening, I made her tell me to leave, in her pretend-polite way, three times.
I knew what she was doing. She had decided after a single look at me that I wasn’t there to spend any money. Even though I was carrying a Chanel bag, she decided I wasn’t a Chanel customer and so, not worth her time and energy.”
Gabby says that as soon as some of the African American workers at the store recognized her as a famous person, the sales lady straightened her act up and changed her tune.
Gabby went ahead and purchased two eyeglass frames and some sandals for Taraji P. Henson, who was stuck on set filming and wasn’t able to come shopping with her that day. She says she took the incident in stride because frankly, none of it came as a big shock.
“Unfortunately, I’m used to people giving me bad service. Honestly, if I walked out of every store where someone was rude to me, I’d never have anything nice…
I’ve felt unwelcome in many stores throughout my life, but I just kind of deal with it. As a successful adult, sometimes I walk out of the store in a huff, without getting what I want, denying them my hard-earned money. Other times I spend my money in an unfriendly store as if to say ‘F*ck you! I’ll buy this whole damn store!'”
Either way, they win and I lose.
SMH! The fact that the disrespect is so common that she feels inclined to simply accept it is heartbreaking. Of course, Chanel can’t have that bad press hanging over their heads, so they made SURE to issue a public apology to Gabby:
Chanel expresses our sincerest regret for the boutique customer service experience that Ms. Sidibe mentioned in this essay. We are sorry that she felt unwelcome and offended.
We took her words very seriously and immediately investigated to understand what happened, knowing that this is absolutely not in line with the high standards that Chanel wishes to provide to our customers.
We are strongly committed to provide anyone who comes in our boutiques with the best customer service, and we do hope that in the future Ms. Sidibe will choose to come back to a Chanel boutique and experience the real Chanel customer experience.
Sounds like too little too late to us…
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This girl has a whole heap of controversy falling on her these days…at least partially for doing this particular song with the “homophobic” Migos.
Do you think this one’s worth all the uproar?
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These ladies just want to have flithy sex on camera in the most forthright and entrepreneurial way possible, and THIS scumbag defiled their dreams with his shady shenanigans.
According to NYDailyNews, a Kansas City-area man named Mario Antoine, sounds like a pervy porn name, has been arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for scamming DOZENS of women into thinking they were about to become pro hoes.
Antoine created fake social media accounts purporting himself to be a “talent manager, photographer and videographer” who worked for adult film companies across the U.S.
The told women that they would be paid thousands to “rehearse” with him on camera. When no checks were cut, the women complained, and crusty, dusty, musty Mario sent the videos to their employers and boyfriends.
A judge ruled that no only will Mario go to the bing for a decade, he’ll also have to cough up that money.
Dirty d!ck, dirty game.
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Tip-less Tiny is out here and apparently on the prowl!
As you know, Tiny filed for divorce late last year. Despite making some effort to reach a common ground with her husband TI…things haven’t shaken out so well since he decided to let the world know Tiny’s just a distraction from him doing his music thing and smashing well-built vixens while away from home.
Now that the dust is settling and she doesn’t have a hubby at home clocking her moves while she gears up to hit the road with Xscape again, Tiny is comfortably getting cheeky for the ‘gram and setting that body out for her followers.
Tiny posted this pic late Friday night teasing her fan-base, and even teasing a possible solo show entitled “Being Tiny Harris” — before quickly deleting the allusion in the caption, that is.
Well, Tiny is a single lady now! Fellas, will you be diving into her DMs?
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A high school in North Carolina (go figure) is making headlines after a seemingly xenophobic quote made it to senior yearbooks . Somehow the girl thought it was ok to use “build that wall” as a senior quote, referring to Trumps immigration wall he wants us to pay for to keep “bad” Mexican immigrants away.
Race aside, the politics behind the quote stirred hundreds of feathers. One facebook user posted the quote, raising awareness to friends about it.
So Richmond county school system allowed this to be printed in their 2017 year book. I already knew this city was racist. Get a court date you’ll find out. This doesn’t surprise me at all.
Richmond country schools have since confiscated the year books according to a statement on Facebook.
Earlier this week, it was discovered by school administration that Richmond Early College yearbooks had errors and inappropriate comments.
The principal immediately collected the distributed yearbooks.
We regret that this incident has occurred and are currently working with the yearbook’s publisher to make corrections.
As a district, we do not and will not tolerate inappropriate conduct toward any of our students.
In each situation, our goal is to provide for the well-being of all of our students and prevent recurrences of inappropriate conduct.
Cincinnati is reporting some disturbing news about the suicide of 8-year-old Gabriel Taye after being violently bullied in the bathroom by his classmates at Carson Elementary School.
2 days after the footage you are about to see, Gabriel hanged himself inside his family’s home.
It is posited that the Cincinnati Public School system was negligent in not supervising the restroom after a homicide detective watched the surveillance tape and described the incident as “bullying bordering on criminal assault”.
Gabriel’s mother said through her lawyer, Jennifer Branch of Cincinnati, that no one at Carson told her about the assault when she collected Gabriel that day. In the evening of Jan. 24, his mother took him to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center because he was vomiting. After a night in the emergency room, his mother kept him out of school the next day, Jan. 25. On Jan. 26, Gabriel went back to school but at home that night, he hanged himself.
Gabriel’s death was officially ruled a suicide, but the investigation has been reopened and new details could emerge. BOSSIP will keep you updated with the developments.
R.I.P. Gabriel Taye
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Remy Ma will be the next guest host on “The Real.” Of course the ladies had to ask about her fading beef with Nicki Minaj. Just when you thought the beef was completely over, Remy came back with one last jab.
“The dust has settled,” Remy explained, “Some people don’t get that the dust has settled. But I can understand. It’s kinda hard to see the dust settling when you’re in the grave under the dirt.” Clearly Remy is insinuating that she indeed shethered Nicki.
Remy Ma dropped two diss tracks, “Shether” and “Another One”, aimed directly at Nicki Minaj in late February. Nicki clapped back with “No Frauds” featuring Lil Wayne and Drake, as well as a 72-hour time frame for Remy to respond. Remy never retorted. Instead, she claimed, “I don’t regret [“SHETHER”], but I’m not particularly proud of it. I just think it’s crazy the way people celebrate women attacking each other as opposed to working together.”
It’s a little too late to jump on the Women’s Empowerment train, don’t ya think? Who do you think had the last laugh in this beef?
For the folks who watch “WWWE Divas” did you know one of the young black women on the show — has such a love of the swirl that she told TMZ cameras she doesn’t do black guys at all?
There’s nothing wrong with having a preference, but when you refuse to date someone because of their color that’s just wrong.
Don’t you agree?
Dr. Dre & Jimmy Lovine have come up the near status of “billionaire” and this HBO documentary details their plight.
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This week on the Bossip Weekly Recap…Tyler Chronicles goes through the motions of detailing Phaedra being kicked off the show, Melo missing shots, and the demise of YesJulz.
James Sparks-Henderson, a 21-yr-old murderer who pled guilty to avoid the death penalty, was attacked in Cleveland courtroom by one of the victim’s brothers.
Henderson pleaded guilty to killing 41-year-old Sherita Johnson; her unborn child; 60-year-old Lemon Bryant; 19-year-old Ja’Rio Taylor; and 17-year-old Shaylona Williams and grazing Williams’ 9-yr-old daughter. The killer smirked at the brother before the attack happened.
Sure wish he would’ve got to him.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE DILLARD UNIVERSITY CLASS OF 2017!! THANK YOU 4 HAVING ME AS YOUR COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER. pic.twitter.com/1wMsUckXmE
— Janelle Monáe, Cindi (@JanelleMonae) May 13, 2017
Janelle Monae had a big weekend in Louisiana on the campus of an HBCU. The songstress/actress was the 2017 commencement speaker at Dillard University Saturday and gave the 166 grads three key tips to success;
“No. 1, the importance of being gracious. No. 2, the importance of being proud. No. 3, the importance of choosing freedom over fear,” said Janelle according to NOLA.com
Janelle who didn’t graduate from college also gushed over the honor of receiving an honorary degree from the school after she was hooded and declared Dr. Robinson for her legal name.
“I never thought that I would see the day … when I would be getting an honorary degree,” she said.
Dorothy Perrault, Hyatt Regency New Orleans general manager Michael O. Smith and, posthumously, civil rights lawyer Lolis Edward Elie were also awarded honorary degrees from Dillard.
Congratulations Janelle!
Dillard University Honorary Doctorate Degree Recipient!!! https://t.co/ck8yYvLfcR
— Janelle Monáe, Cindi (@JanelleMonae) May 13, 2017