• 'Love & Hip Hop' Yandy Smith Says that Trusting Mendeecees Harris's Loyalty Is Not an Issue

    "Love & Hip Hop" returned for a new season on VH1 last night, Dec. 15, bringing with it a reunited Yandy Smith and Mendeecees Harris. Fans of the show are already familiar with the couple's checkered history. They have been a couple for the better part of eight years and parent to their son as well as Harris's older boy from another relationship.This new season picks up right as Harris has made bail after spending 13 months locked up for his alleged role in a drug ring. The first episode showed fans those first few days of togetherness for Smith and Harris, but the truth is it was all filmed months ago. Smith is currently pregnant with a little girl and planning her wedding to Harris while he is still awaiting trial.The Hip Hop Socialite caught up with Smith by phone recently and asked her a lot of the tough questions, like how she manages to deal with some of the negative press and scandalous rumors that have haunted her in recent years.

  • Yandy Smith and Mendeecees Harris Return to 'Love & Hip Hop New York' with a Daughter on the Way as Drug Trial Looms

    The official cast for the upcoming winter season of VH1's "Love & Hip Hop New York" has finally been announced, and a lot of the regulars have decided to take a season off by leaving the network to add several new faces to the mix. Two who will be returning, though, are Yandy Smith and Mendeecees Harris. If you are a fan of the show, then you already know that Smith spent months fighting to get Harris out of jail after he was incarcerated in upstate New York.Harris was finally released on $600,000 bail last April after being locked up for 15 months, and he is still facing trial based on charges that he allegedly helped to run a drug pipeline from New York City to the Rochester region. Smith may have come up with the money to get her man out, but their troubles are far from over. Add to that the fact that Smith is currently expecting their second child while also raising Harris's older son and you get the makings of an interesting storyline.

  • South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius To Be Sentenced On Tuesday For Death Of Reeva Steenkamp

    After several months of trial and an intense mental evaluation, Oscar Pistorius was finally convicted of culpable murder last September for the shooting death of his then-girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The Olympic blade runner still insists that he believed an intruder was on the other side of that bathroom door when he opened fire, accidentally killing Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. The penalty phase of his sentencing has wrapped up this week with Pistorius' punishment finally being announced next Tuesday. The prosecution is rallying hard for the athlete to be incarcerated.

  • Former MMA Fighter War Machine Selling Merch To Pay Legal Bills, Thinks Christy Mack Got Off Easy With Severe Beating

    Former MMA fighter, Jonathan "War Machine" Koppenhaver has been locked up on 32 different felony charges for a month now in connecting with the brutal beating of Christy Mack. The details of their relationship are a bit sketchy with Mack insisting they split last May while War Machine says that they were still together when he barged in to find her with Corey Thomas. He took a beating before being locked out of the house so that War Machine could pummel Mack, leaving her with multiple broken bones and internal injuries.

  • Hope Solo Allowed To Continue Playing On U.S. Women's Soccer Team While Awaiting Trial For Domestic Charges As NFL Has Deactivated Male Players For The Same Reason

    Last June, Hope Solo was involved in a physical altercation with both her sister and her 17-year old nephew at a party in Washington state. The soccer goalkeeper was charged with 2 counts of domestic violence to which she plead not guilty. A trial is now scheduled to begin on Nov. 4 and if convicted Solo could be facing 6 months in jail. While awaiting trial Solo has been allowed to continue playing for the U.S. Women's team and is expected to start in the CONCACAF championship next month. The fact that Solo has been allowed to play while men facing similar charges in the NFL are being benched has certainly raised some eyebrows because of the double standard that is being presented.

  • Oscar Pistorius Found "Not Guilty" Of Murdering Reeva Steenkamp On Valentine's Day 2013

    A stunned silence washed over a Pretoria, South African court room today as Judge Thokozile Masipa let it be known that she has not found Oscar Pistorius guilty of premeditated murder. In a long, detailed statement the presiding judge informed those in attendance that she didn't believe that the prosecution presented a strong enough case to convince her that Oscar had intentionally fired four shots through a bathroom door intending to kill his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
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