Florida Sentinel Bulletin

R&B singer Cecil Womack and one half of the famed singing ’80s duo Womack and Womack, passed away at 65 years old on Friday from an undisclosed cause.

Cecil, who was also the brother of famed soul singer Bobby Womack, was living in Africa with his wife, Linda (pictured above) when he passed away.  The couple, who performed together as Womack and Womack, recorded six albums together and will forever be remembered for their R&B chart-topper “Baby, I’m Scared Of You.”

On Saturday night, the highly anticipated Betty and Coretta debuted on the Lifetime Movie Network, which was somewhat of a biographical film that highlighted the unique friendship between the widows of  Human and Civil Rights activists Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

However, Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of Betty Shabazz and Malcolm X, is urging the public not to be fooled by Lifetime’s inaccurate portrayal of her mother.

LOS ANGELES  — Chris Brown is set to return to court Wednesday to face a prosecutor who is asking a judge to revoke the singer’s probation because investigators say they could not find credible evidence he completed his community labor sentence for the 2009 beating of Rihanna.

A motion filed Tuesday raises for the first time in Brown’s felony assault case several incidents that prosecutors say demonstrate Brown has continuing anger management issues.

They cited a Jan. 27 fight between Brown and fellow R&B star Frank Ocean, and a 2011 outburst in which Brown threw a chair through a window after he was asked about the Rihanna attack on “Good Morning America.”

Chris Brown just caught another break. Frank Ocean took to his Tumblr to announce that he will not be pressing charges against his fellow R&B crooner.

“As a child I thought if someone jumped me it would result in me murdering or mutilating a man,” reads Ocean’s all caps post. “But as a man I am not a killer. “I’ll choose sanity. No criminal charges. No civil lawsuit. Forgiveness, albeit difficult, is wisdom. peace, albeit trite, is what I want in my short life. Peace.”

Last weekend, Ocean, Brown and their respective entourages got into an altercation at Westlake Recording Studios in Hollywood. Brown allegedly sucker punched Ocean after being either being laughed at when he offered to shake the Odd Future member’s hand or over a parking spot. Probably both.

Drake is almost officially back, even though he never really left. The Toronto rapper will be releasing a new single called “Started From The Bottom” on Grammy night, February 10.

 Drizzy’s record label reps have confirmed the new song’s impending release. No word on who handles the production on the new song.

Willow Smith has dropped out of the forthcoming remake of Annie. The tween was set to star in the film, to be produced by her parents, Will and Jada, through their Overbrook Entertainment company; with Jay-Z holding down the music section.

Rumor has it that little Willow believes she’s too old to sink her teeth into the role of the lovable orphan.

DAYTON, Ohio — Leroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner, frontman for the hit-making funk music band the Ohio Players, has died. He was 69.

A spokeswoman for an Ohio funeral home confirms he died last Saturday. There is also a posting about his death on his current band’s Facebook page.

The Ohio Players topped music charts in the 1970s with hits such as “Love Rollercoaster,” ”Fire,” ”Skin Tight” and “Funky Worm.” They were known for their brassy dance music, catchy lyrics and flamboyant outfits. Bonner helped form the Ohio Players in the 1960s. He had remained active in recent years with a spinoff called Sugarfoot’s Ohio Players.

NEW YORK — Cissy Houston has a few words, and a few more, for Bobby Brown. In “Remembering Whitney,” the mother of the late Whitney Houston writes that from the start she had doubted whether Brown was right for her daughter. And she thinks that Whitney might not have ended up so “deep” into drugs had they not stayed together.

“Remembering Whitney” came out Tuesday, two weeks short of the first anniversary of Houston’s death. During an interview, Houston said she has no contact with Brown and didn’t see any reason to, not even concerning her granddaughter, Bobbi Kristina. Houston said she wanted the book published so the world would not believe the worst about her daughter.

LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors say a man who was detained by Taye Diggs after the actor found him at his home has been charged with felony burglary.

Hassan Omar Juma faces up to six years in prison if he is convicted and is scheduled to be arraigned in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday afternoon. Diggs detained the 20-year-old after he and his wife found him in their garage on Sunday night.

The “Private Practice” star was returning from the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where he was a presenter.

Police say Diggs caught Juma after chasing him and neither man was hurt in the incident.