Three employees with the New York Department of Correction resigned from their posts on Friday, several months after being accused of allowing rapper Foxy Brown to have a photoshoot — and other forbidden perks — while the star was incarcerated on a probation violation, The New York Daily News reports.
According to the tabloid: Besides allowing Foxy Brown to conduct a jailhouse interview, the dismissed guards also allowed Orthodox Jewish prisoners to have parties. Chief of Department Carolyn Thomas and Frank Squillante, assistant chief of special operations, both turned in their resignations effective Oct. 31, sources said. George Okada’s resignation as warden of the Manhattan detention complex is effective the middle of next month, sources said. Rapper Foxy Brown, who was serving nine months on Rikers Island for beating two nail salon manicurists in 2006, did a jailhouse interview with a hip-hop magazine.
Foxy Brown has been hit with a lien from U.S. tax officials after running up debts topping $641,558.
The femcee is accused of failing to keep up with her taxes between 2003 and 2006, and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents have taken their case to a court in New York to try to recoup the cash.
Acid-tongued femcee Foxy Brown is blasting a recent NY Post report claiming she and other celebs were given preferential treatment during their stay at New York City’s Rikers Island- insisting her time in prison was “the worst period in my life.” Read the rest of this entry »
New York publisher Simon & Schuster Inc. has sued hip-hop stars Foxy Brown and Lil’ Kim claiming the hip-hop stars were paid advances for books they never delivered. Read the rest of this entry »
Foxy Brown is a free woman. The femcee was released from New York’s Riker’s Island to a crowd of waiting fans on Friday afternoon. Foxy’s new album, Brooklyn’s Don Diva, is scheduled for release on May 13th.
Foxy Brown, who will reportedly be released from New York’s Rikers Island later this month, is in talks to appear in her own VH1 reality show.
“The show will chronicle her life and what’s she’s been doing. The music business has changed, she’s been away for eight months, so the show will show her getting her life back on track.”
Foxy Brown’s request to leave prison to visit a specialist doctor to save her hearing has been denied by a judge in New York. The Brooklyn-bred rapper returned to court last week to seek permission to travel to California for an ear examination and for repair of an electronic ear implant. But during a court hearing on Thursday State Supreme Court Justice Melissa Jackson ruled Brown will not be granted leave to go to Los Angeles’ House Clinic. Prosecutors say the star can get the treatment she needs in New York.
Foxy Brown was back in court on Thursday to determine if she needs to be sent across the country to undergo hearing tests and have her electronic ear implant repaired. The rapper penned a four page letter to the court on Wednesday requesting that she be released from jail prior to her scheduled September release date to undergo ear surgery. Read the rest of this entry »
