Wyclef Jean is going back to school.
The former Fugees star announced his plans to study songwriting and music at Boston’s Berklee College during an appearance the Congressional Black Caucus Convention in Washington last weekend.
“I am enrolling in Berklee College in Boston to get my bachelor’s degree in music! That’s how important education is to me. I plan to work with Rev Al Sharpton because that’s how important stressing the importance of education to children is to me.”
Wyclef Jean’s Miami mansion has fallen into foreclosure. The singer reportedly owes over $2 million in mortgage payments on unfinished home.
According to TMZ.com, Miami-Dade County will auction off the house on December 12.
And it wasn’t just the mortgage that wasn’t paid — court docs show there were plenty of people working on the house that haven’t gotten paid either.
Tennis phenom Venus Williams and enterprising former Fugee Wyclef Jean are hanging out on this week’s episode of ICONOCLASTS. Check out the fun these two get into as they take turns schooling one another in their areas of talent.
Venus and Wyclef will appear on Inconoclasts this Thursday, Nov 13 at 10p E/P on the Sundance Channel.
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Jacob the Jeweler sued Wyclef Jean in Manhattan on Tuesday claiming the rapper owes Jacob and Company Incorporated $319,680 money for watches and jewelry he bought between March 2002 and January 2006.
Clef still owes the corporation despite “repeated demands for payment, according to the suit.
The company’s founder, Jacob Arabov, was sentenced in June to 21/2 years in federal prison for lying to investigators about a drug ring.
Wyclef Jean is being sued for $50 Million after New York rapper BLAHZ accused him of illegally sampling his 1996 hit DANGER on the new single Welcome to the East.
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