Lil' Kim charged

Lil' Kim charged
NEW YORK -- Lil' Kim, the rapper known for her outrageously revealing outfits and sexually charged lyrics, was charged Wednesday with lying to a grand jury about a 2001 shootout involving her entourage.
The 29-year-old star, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, surrendered in federal court. She pleaded innocent and was released on $500,000 bail. Her attorney, Mel Sachs, called the charges "baseless." She declined to comment. Also charged were her manager, Damion Butler, bodyguard Suif Jackson and a friend, Monique Dopwell. All pleaded innocent.
Authorities said the shooting apparently happened as Lil' Kim's entourage was leaving the hip-hop radio station WQHT, or Hot 97, and the entourage of the rival rap group Capone-N-Noreaga was arriving. One man in the duo's entourage was wounded.
The indictment said Jackson, Butler and at least one other person fired guns. Police said the shooting resulted from a feud between Jones and rap rival Foxy Brown, who appeared on a Capone-N-Noreaga album.
Prosecutors said Jones refused on the day after the shooting to tell police the identities of anyone who had accompanied her to the radio station.
On three occasions last year before a federal grand jury, she testified falsely, saying Butler was not at the radio station the day of the shooting and that she did not know Jackson, prosecutors said.
Clark takes spokesman role
LOS ANGELES -- Dick Clark, renowned as "America's oldest teenager," has diabetes.
Clark, 74, has had type 2 diabetes, formerly called adult-onset diabetes, since 1994, but kept it a secret from everyone except close friends and family, according to the Ogilvy public relations firm, which is promoting his new role as a spokesman for the American Association of Diabetes Educators and the pharmaceutical maker Merck & amp; Co.
Clark is working with the firms to launch "Diabetes: Know the Heart Part," a national public education campaign to alert Americans to the link between diabetes and heart attack and stroke.
Clark, the former host of "American Bandstand" and producer of the American Music Awards, declined to speak to The Associated Press on Tuesday after word of his illness was first reported in a gossip column in the New York Daily News.
Love, daughter in magazine
PHILADELPHIA -- Editors at Blender magazine probably thought it was a cute idea. But the Q & amp;A between Courtney Love and her 11-year-old daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, which appears in the May issue, is anything but cute, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Like so many things the ex-Hole singer has been doing lately, it's creepy.
The idea: Have Frances Bean ask Mom all sorts of frank questions for the Mother's Day issue.
The reality: When the preteen says Janet Jackson's breast-baring at the Super Bowl was inappropriate, mommy dearest counters, "But I've shown my [unpublishable word for breasts] in front of people."
Moving right along, Love tells Frances Bean that she's lonely: "Sometimes, mommies need to have sex, too," she says.
Daughter shoots back: "But Mommy, you intimidate men!"
Today's birthdays
Actor Michael Ansara is 82. Country singer Roy Clark is 71. Rock singer-guitarist Dave Edmunds is 60. Actress Lois Chiles is 57. TV producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason is 56. Actor Michael Tucci is 54. Actress Amy Wright is 54. Columnist Heloise is 53. Actress-screenwriter Emma Thompson is 45. Singer Samantha Fox is 38. Rock musician Ed O'Brien (Radiohead) is 36. Actor Flex is 34. Actress Emma Watson ("Harry Potter" films) is 14.
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