Last season on LHHH, Masika Tucker was thrilled to be named the face of Ace of Diamonds, a new and upscale strip club. She modeled in a bathtub filled with diamonds for the club's official billboard and then kind of rubbed it in Nikki Mudarris's face. At that time both women realized they were seeing the same guy, and it led to all sorts of drama and hostility between them. Tucker thought she had the last laugh with the AOD gig, but Mudarris decided to take her old mugshot and put it on another billboard near the club. Apparently now, months later, the owner of AOD is blaming the mug shot billboard for bad business and he has actually filed a million-dollar lawsuit.
According to a report by TMZ, "A guy named Sam Sharif owns Ace of Diamonds in Vegas and Metropolitan Nightclub in WeHo, which has an Ace of Diamonds night every Monday.
"Sharif hired Masika to promote the WeHo AOD, and part of the promotion was a big, splashy billboard on the Strip. It did not sit well with Masika's enemies, Love & Hip Hop stars Nikki and Marcelle Mudarris.
"Nikki and Marcelle actually rent their WeHo building to AOD, so they were really pissed off when they saw Masika's billboard. When Sharif refused to take the billboard down, Nikki and Marcelle put another billboard up nearby, with Maskika's mugshot from 10 years ago with the word T.H.O.T.
"Sharif says that billboard has torpedoed his business because he was catering to high-end clients and now people thinks it's a sleazy club advertised by a whore," said the well-placed source.
While all this drama has been unfolding behind the scenes, Tucker has continued to promote AOD and show up for live club appearances as if nothing was wrong. We have to hand it to her for getting the job done in spite of looking foolish.
Not that it is the first time something good connected to LHHH has turned sour for her. She started dating Yung Berg while doing the show, but shortly after filming the reunion show last November the couple got into a dispute and the police were called after Berg choked her out. VH1 fired him and felony charges are still hanging over Berg's head in connection with the incident.
As far as the billboard goes, do you think business is really bad because of it, or is this just an easy thing to blame it on? Tell us your thoughts in the comments section below.
