Winehouse leaves rehab to apply for visa

Singer Amy Winehouse left the rehab clinic where she is being treated for a short time yesterday in order to apply for a US visa.
According to reports, Winehouse left her London clinic for a few hours to meet with officials at the US Embassy.
She was accompanied by her father Mitch and a nurse, as the terms of her treatment require her to remain under supervision at all times.
Winehouse sported her custom black beehive, which had not made an appearance in recent weeks, after the star cut her hair and bleached it blonde.
It is thought that Winehouse is seeking a US visa in order to travel to Los Angeles to perform at the Grammys on 10 February. She is nominated for six awards at the ceremony.
The singer's visa application will not be simple due to the fact that she was arrested and fined in Norway for possession of cannabis.
A spokesperson for Winehouse said: "The appointment at the US Embassy was made some time ago and was part of process for obtaining a visa. No decision has been made about the Grammys."
"Amy was accompanied by a nurse as the appointment was under supervision. She has not left rehab and remains under the care of the clinic."

Remy Ma gets 8 years for shooting friend

Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma has been sentenced to eight years in prison for shooting and wounding an acquaintance after discovering money was missing from her purse after a night out in Manhattan.

In sentencing the rapper, criminal court judge Rena Uviller said Remy Ma, whose real name is Remy Smith, was "an extremely angry young woman whose anger is completely out of control".

In March, a New York jury found Smith, nominated for a 2004 Grammy for her part in Terror Squad's song Lean Back, guilty of assault, weapons possession and attempted coercion.

Smith's lawyer, Ivan Fisher, called the shooting in the early hours of July 14, 2007, accidental and suggested the victim, Makeda Barnes-Joseph, was exaggerating the facts to win a large sum in a separate civil suit.

Smith believed her friend had taken $3,000 from her and that her gun went off as the pair struggled over her purse. The bullet pierced Barnes-Joseph's colon and hit her rectum and sent her to a hospital for three weeks.

In appealing for leniency, Smith tearfully described how she had grown up in homeless shelters, "surrounded by poverty and drugs and violence and failure."

"Remy Ma is not even close to who I really am. I'm not a thug," she said. "I'm not a threat or a menace to society, and I still have so much to offer."

But prosecutor Michael McIntosh said that Smith had a habit of traveling with a loaded weapon and said something like this "was bound to happen one day".

The sentence was read aloud to a packed courtroom, including the rapper's fiance, the rapper Papoose.

Smith and Papoose had planned to marry yesterday at New York's Rikers Island jail, but the ceremony was canceled after a handcuff key was discovered on Papoose, officials said.

After the sentencing, as Smith's friends and family gathered outside the courtroom, Papoose had to be restrained as he lurched at one of the 15 court officers who had been stationed in the courtroom.

In a phone interview from prison last week on the satellite radio show with New York DJ Kay Slay, Smith said she was innocent and that there is a "whole conspiracy against rappers right now."

"Don't be mistaken by a jury that was not my peers. Like, there was not tan, dark brown, black, nothin' on that jury," she said.





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Carey, Cannon found love on the sets

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Jennifer Lopez welcomes twin babies

Jennifer Lopez welcomes twin babies

Jennifer Lopez and her hubby Marc Susan Brownell Anthony are celebrating the birthing of twin babies in Newly House of York.
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Myleene Klass to host Classical Brits

Myleene Klass to host Classical Brits

Former Hear'Say vocalizer Myleene Klass is lay out to host this year's Serious music Brit Awards in London.
Oral presentation about the announcement, the presenter said: "The Serious music British is the biggest case in the classical music calendar. To be the legion is a personal highlight in my vocation."
"I'm actually looking forward to presenting a ceremony that is so close to my heart and I'm sure it testament be a magical evening."
Klass, wHO is a classically trained piano player, has simply released her latest album 'Music For Mothers'.
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