Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Former CSI star Gary Dourdan seems to be in the midst of a financial crisis.

The 45-year-old actor has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

As cited in documents, the troubled actor has roughly $1.8 million in assets, but owes his creditors $1.73 million.

He reportedly owes $1.6 million to various banks, including Union Bank, which holds the mortgage to his home that may be in default.

The most shocking part of Dourdan bankruptcy filing is that he claims to currently have a disposable income of only $321 a month and says he has $14,562 in monthly bills.

The Scorpion King is returning to the battlefield once again, starring as Hercules in the upcoming film Hercules: The Thracian Wars.

The Brett Ratner-directed film will be co-produced by MGM and Paramount Pictures.

According to Deadline,“the screenplay was adapted by Ryan Condal from Radical Studios’ graphic novel Hercules: The Thracian Wars; Evan Spiliotopoulos did script revisions. Beau Flynn, Barry Levine and Ratner will produce. Peter Berg, Sarah Aubrey and Jesse Berger will executive produce.”

The production is expected to start shooting in early 2013 and is based on the comic book of the same name.

RICHMOND, VA — Major Harris, a former member of the “Philadelphia sound” soul group The Delfonics and singer of the 1975 hit “Love Won’t Let Me Wait,” has died.

His sister, Catherine Thomas, said the 65-year-old passed away Friday at a Richmond hospital from congestive heart and lung failure.

The Richmond native made the rounds with several music groups in the 1960s, including The Charmers, Frankie Lymon’s Teenagers and Nat Turner’s Rebellion.

He then joined The Delfonics in the early 1970s.

He left the group in 1974 and recorded a string on R&B singles, including “Love Won’t Let Me Wait,” which peaked at No. 5 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Thomas said her brother last sang at a reunion show with The Delfonics last year.

Album sales are down all across the board, but thanks to streaming music platforms like Pandora musicians are about to cash out.

According to the streaming music site’s blog site, top earners like Wiz Khalifa and Coldplay are awaiting $1,000,000 payouts at the end of the year. The sites two top earners, Drake and Lil Wayne are looking to cash out to upwards of $3,000,000 at the end of the year as well.

“This revenue stream is meaningful. I remember the many years I spent in a band when earning an additional thousand dollars a month would have been the difference between making music an avocation and a hobby,” says Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora. “We’re talking here about the very real possibility of creating, for the first time ever, an actual musicians middle class.”

EL PASO, TX — Deceased actor Sherman Hemsley’s longtime friend can proceed with his burial and running his estate, a Texas judge ruled Friday over the objections of his half-brother from Philadelphia.

Hemsley, who played George Jefferson on the TV sitcom “The Jeffersons,” died July 24 of lung cancer. His body has been in refrigerated storage at an El Paso funeral home since.

Judge Patricia B. Chew sided Friday with Flora Enchinton Bernal, who was named in Hemsley’s will as the executor of his estate. Chew upheld the validity of his will and granted Enchinton “the authority to dispose, I shouldn’t say dispose, to proceed with the remains of Sherman Hemsley in a manner as she wishes.”

DNA tests showed Friday that 78-year-old Richard Thornton is Hemsley’s half-brother. He wanted to bury his brother at a veterans’ cemetery in Philadelphia, where Hemsley grew up.

Denzel Washington’s acclaimed new film ‘Flight’ is expected to score Oscar nominations, but few prognosticators expected it to open to huge box office numbers, since it was opening in a relatively small 1,884 theaters.

But once again, the A-list actor proved that he is still one of the only truly bankable movie stars around.

Flight opened to an estimated $24.9 million, the third biggest opening ever for a movie opening in less than 2,000 theaters, it’s per screen average of $13,275 was actually the highest of any of other film this week — including the weekend winner kid’s movie ‘Wreck It Ralph’ — and its A- Cinemascore rating suggests audiences will continue to build buzz around the film with positive word of mouth.

This film’s success bookends a strong year for Washington, who had of the biggest hits of his career with February’s action thriller ‘Safe House.’ The popularity of ‘Flight’ adds to an impeccable track record for an actor who at 57 is arguably more popular than he has ever been before.

Being neighbors with Jay-Z has its perks. During the post-Hurricane Sandy struggle that left many lower Manhattan without power, the rapper/mogul brought in a generator to power his building.

Just over 10 years after the release of their last album, TLC is ready to get back in the studio.

The R&B duo, announced during an appearance at the Mobo Awards in the UK last weekend that a new album, and biopic are in the works.

The record, which has no announced release date, comes just over a decade after the death of Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes who lost her life in a car accident.

Given her untimely death, the remaining two members of TLC were said to be putting together a performance with Lopes as a hologram, but have yet to confirm plans to go forward with the idea.

In addition to the album, they are also auditioning actors to portray them in the forthcoming bio to air on VH1.

Lil Wayne is a sore loser, which makes sense because he has to pay the man he sued, over $2 million.

Weezy lost his lawsuit against producer Quincy Jones, III over his depiction in the documentary The Carter, and he’s not exactly elated about the outcome.

Young Money’s fearless leader thinks he lost the case because jurors were “pissed off” that he didn’t show up in court. His reasoning for skipping out was solid, being that he may or may not have suffered two seizures in a 24-hour period.

Thanks to his absence, Wayne’s lawyer was forced to show the jury a deposition video that likely didn’t help his case. Instead, the 30-year-old was reprimanded by the judge, and ordered to pay Jones $2,195,00.00.