Man claims Diddy punched him at club
Man claims Diddy
punched him at club
NEW YORK — A man has accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of punching him out during a dispute at a trendy Manhattan nightspot, law enforcement officials said Tuesday. Police were investigating the report of an assault early Saturday at the club in SoHo, but declined to identify any suspects. The law enforcement officials confirmed news accounts Tuesday that Combs, 37, was the alleged assailant. .
Aiken joins ‘Spamalot’
NEW YORK — From “American Idol” to Eric Idle’s “Spamalot.” Clay Aiken will join the Broadway cast of “Monty Python’s Spamalot” on Jan. 18, playing one of the leads, Sir Robin, in the Tony Award-winning musical directed by Mike Nichols. “I really couldn’t have asked for a more wonderful group of people to work with,” said Aiken, who became a recording and concert star after his appearances on the TV series “American Idol.”.
Rapper pleads innocent
NEW YORK — Foxy Brown has pleaded innocent to charges that she threw a cell phone at a neighbor who complained about the volume of her car radio. The 28-year-old rapper entered the plea to the assault charges in Brooklyn state Supreme Court on Tuesday after arriving from Rikers Island prison wearing casual street clothing. Brown is in jail for violating probation — skipping her anger management classes and traveling out of the city without permission — in a separate case in Manhattan. She was arrested in the New York City borough of Brooklyn in August and accused of striking Arlene Raymond, 25, after the pair got into a fight July 30 over Brown blasting her car stereo near her home.
DeGeneres in dog house
LOS ANGELES — Ellen DeGeneres is in the doghouse with a pet rescue agency after giving a pooch away to her hairdresser because it didn’t get along with her cats. The talk show hostess and her partner Portia de Rossi adopted Iggy, a Brussels Griffon mix, on Sept. 20. But when things didn’t work out, DeGeneres gave the dog to her hairdresser. In doing so, DeGeneres violated an agreement with the Mutts and Moms dog rescue agency by not informing them of the handoff. When the agency called DeGeneres to ask about Iggy, she said she found another home for the dog. The agency sent a representative to the hairdresser’s home Sunday and took the dog away. DeGeneres went public about the situation Monday while taping her show. She admitted she didn’t read all the paperwork involving the adoption. DeGeneres said she spent $3,000 having the dog neutered and trained to be with her cats. But the dog had too much energy and was too rambunctious, she told her television audience. “I guess I signed a piece of paper that says if I can’t keep Iggy, it goes back to the rescue organization, which is not someone’s home, which is not a family,” she said.
Today’s birthdays
Actress Marsha Hunt is 90. Actress Beverly Garland is 81. Actress Julie Adams is 81. Daredevil Evel Knievel is 69. Singer Jim Seals (Seals & Crofts) is 65. Singer Gary Puckett is 65. Actress Margot Kidder is 59. Actor George Wendt is 59. Country singer Alan Jackson is 49. Movie director Rob Marshall is 47. Animator Mike Judge is 45. Actor-comedian Norm Macdonald is 44. Reggae singer Ziggy Marley is 39. Singer Chris Kirkpatrick (’N Sync) is 36. Rapper Eminem is 35. Singer Wyclef Jean is 35.