Amy Winehouse Would Have Been 29 Today Winehouse Foundation Marks First Year!
Amy Winehouse at Eurockéennes de Belfort (Festival Eurockéennes) ; Photo V. Gable (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today would have been singers Amy Winehouse‘es 29th birthday!
Today marks an important day as the Amy Winehouse Foundation has marked its first year of being open.
The foundation was set up to help people with addition and help them come off drink and drugs.
In its first year of being open it’s raised over £232,000 with a target of donating £500,000 by the end of 2012.
Some of the money donated has gone to other charity’s like New Horizon Youth Centre, Fitzrovia Youth, The Pilion Trust – Crash Pad Shelter, London Irish Centre, Focus 12, MS Society, Laura Lynn Children’s Hospice, Hopes & Dreams, Little Havens Hospice and Chestnut Tree House Hospice.
Nicki Minaj Says That Her Back-Up Dancer Was Involved In Rape/Murder Are Lies!
You may rember that we told you yesterday about one of Nicki Minaj‘s back-up dancers and another man sexually assaulted and strangled a young woman to death and raped her friend after her concert in Japan, the rapper has fiercely denied the involvement of anyone with whom she is associated, and took to Twitter to inform PerezHilton.com of this directly!
She said:
> @PerezHilton my dancers had nothing to do w/this tragedy. No one in my entourage was questioned or arrested. They all flew home from Japan
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) May 31, 2012
@PerezHilton that person on your sight is NOT my dancer. We do NOT know the men in custody. Too much misleading information.
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) May 31, 2012
Its sad to know that trhese people have just made a load of lies up about this its so day and horrible.
We are thinking of the friends and family of the victim at this sad time.
Nicki Minaj’s Backup Dancer Arrested As Suspect In Murder Case!
English: Nicki Minaj live on Femme Fatale Tour in 2011. Português: Nicki Minaj ao vivo na turnê Femme Fatale Tour em 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Its been reported that one of Nicki Minaj’s backup dancers has been arrested for rape AND murder!
Nicola Furlong, a 21-year-old Irish foreign exchange student, attended one of Nicki’s shows in Tokyo last Wednesday and was found dead the next morning.
Nicola was with her friend Sarah Maher had gone back to backup dancerJames Blackston and musician Larry Perry’s hotel rooms after the show, when things took a turn for the worst.
She was reportedly found strangled to death in the hotel room and Sarah, who survived, reported that she was sexually assaulted by both of the men.
Both Larry and James are currently in custody, with details still emerging.
Dragons’ Den star Hilary Devey Says That She Was Raped At The Age Of 12 And Kept It A Secret For 43-Years
Dragons’ Den star Hilary Devey has revealed that she was raped when she was just 12-years-old.
She reviled this in her new autobiography that she was sexually assaulted several times in just one night when she was a schoolgirl.
She also said about younger girls who she could trust lured her to meet with an Italian man who then kept her locked up over night.
She keep it to herself for 43 years after he threatened to come after her if she told anyone about it, according to The Sun.
She said in her book:
‘He kept me there with him all night – the b****** who thought that raping a child was his due at the end of the night.’
Its just so sad who could do this to a child it just so wrong.
We hope that now she has got over it the best she can.
