Quiet Riot lead singer found dead in his home

Quiet Riot lead singer
found dead in his home

LAS VEGAS — Kevin Dubrow, lead singer for the 1980s heavy metal band Quiet Riot that scored a hit with “Cum on Feel the Noize,” was found dead in a Las Vegas home. He was 52. The cause was not immediately known. A neighbor summoned police and paramedics Sunday to the house where he was pronounced dead, police and coroner’s officials said. There was no forced entry, and no suspicious circumstances were reported, police Officer Jose Montoya said Monday. Quiet Riot was perhaps best known for its 1983 cover of “Cum on Feel the Noize.” The song, featuring Dubrow’s powerful, gravelly voice, appeared on the band’s album “Metal Health” — which was the first by a metal band to reach No. 1 on the Billboard chart. DuBrow recorded his first solo album in 2004, “In for the Kill,” and the band’s last studio CD, “Rehab,” came out in October 2006.

T.I. has long rap sheet,
says prosecutor

ATLANTA — T.I., who faces federal weapons charges, has previously violated the law by possessing firearms and a silencer while a convicted felon, a federal prosecutor said ins a document filed Monday. The 27-year-old rapper was arrested Oct. 13, just blocks away and hours before he was to headline the BET Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta. T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, was allegedly trying to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers. Harris is charged with possession of unregistered machine guns and silencers and possession of firearms by a convicted felon. He was released on bond, but is under house arrest. In a notice filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, the U.S. Attorney’s office said Monday it plans to introduce evidence of three occasions when Harris unlawfully possessed guns, ammunition and a silencer, “all after having been convicted of a felony offense.” Harris was arrested on charges of selling crack in northwest Atlanta when he was 17. He was sentenced to seven years’

Seinfeld visits Israel,
gets royal treatment

TEL AVIV, Israel — Jerry Seinfeld’s trip to the Holy Land got so much hype it rivaled news of key upcoming Mideast talks. The Jewish comic visited Israel for the first time in decades to promote his new animated movie about bees, and he was treated like royalty — literally. Few entertainers get to meet both the Israeli prime minister and president. Seinfeld saw both, as well as touring the official Israeli Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem — the route taken by visiting world leaders. Newspapers devoted nearly full-pages to his trip. Seinfeld, who arrived Friday and left Sunday, was in Israel as part of a world tour to promote his film, “Bee Movie,” his first major project since the end of his TV series. Seinfeld wrote the script and stars as a bee who is unhappy with his life manufacturing honey for humans.

Pavarotti’s widow sues
over marriage comments

ROME — Luciano Pavarotti’s widow has sued two friends of the late tenor for $44 million, claiming their comments about her marriage were defamatory. Nicoletta Mantovani filed the lawsuit last month after warning that speculation about the state of her marriage to Pavarotti would not be tolerated, her lawyer said Monday. Pavarotti died Sept. 6 of pancreatic cancer at age 71. Soon after, friends close to the tenor told Italian media that he had been unhappy in the marriage, and that Mantovani was fighting his grown daughters from an earlier marriage over his estate. “Since the comments did not cease — and were, in fact, reiterated — Mantovani had no choice but to file the lawsuit,” lawyer Anna Maria Bernini said, confirming weekend reports in the small daily L’Informazione, based in Pavarotti’s hometown of Modena. Mantovani had a daughter with Pavarotti: Alice, who is 4. The tenor also had three daughters from his first marriage. The two people named in the lawsuit are longtime Pavarotti friends Franca Corfini Strata, wife of the singer’s dietitian, and Lidia La Marca, wife of conductor Leone Magiera, who often performed with Pavarotti.

Today’s birthdays

Actor James Avery is 59. TV host Bill Nye (“Bill Nye, the Science Guy”) is 52. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg is 50. Rock musician Charlie Benante (Anthrax) is 45. Rock musician Mike Bordin (Faith No More) is 45. Actress Robin Givens is 43. Rapper Twista is 35. Actor Jaleel White is 31.