Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Oakland, California rap legend Too $hort has been hit with a lawsuit by a woman who claims he grabbed her breasts during a concert.

The incident allegedly took place in March, during a concert that Too $hort held at Yoshi’s Jazz Club in San Francisco.

The 41-year-old woman, Kenya Winston, claims that Too $hort made vulgar comments to her while performing. He then allegedly reached off the stage and grabbed her breasts during the concert.

According to the San Francisco Gate, Winston filed a police report against Too $hort four days after the concert, but police declined to press charges.

Halle Berry’s ex, Gabriel Aubry, called her a “ghetto n-word” during an argument according to court papers.

Berry and Aubry are currently in court for a custody battle over their three-year-old daughter, Nahla.

The U.K. Daily Mail reports: He screamed that she was a ‘’ghetto n****r’’ and threw a chair against the wall,’ the witness is quoted as saying. ‘Halle was shaken and sobbing.’

Gabriel hated that Nahla was mixed race,’ a colleague of Halle’s claimed according to The Star. ‘He never wanted her hair to be braided, and he always said that Nahla was white.

Shonda Rhimes, the woman who brought us Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice, is at it again.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the award-winning writer just sold another show to ABC. The show is being billed as an hour-long drama that is part soap opera and part conspiracy thriller.

The show, titled The Circle, is about “ten friends, adopted as children by a billionaire philanthropist, who begin to question their past when one of their own is murdered.”

Director John Singleton is suing Paramount Pictures and MTV Films for failing to follow through on their promise to two of his films.

According to the lawsuit, Singleton claims he allowed Paramount to distribute Hustle & Flow in 2005 for $9 million, a fraction of what he could have made.

The tradeoff, according to the lawsuit, is that Paramount agreed to finance two more Singleton films in the future. The only stipulation was that the budgets would not exceed $3.5 million.

NEW YORK — Tyler Perry has gotten plenty of criticism from some who feel his popular movies don’t reflect well on the black community. But Al Sharpton says Perry’s critics are “proper Negroes” who don’t understand regular black folk.

Sharpton’s National Action Network honored the filmmaker Wednesday night in New York City at its second annual Triumph Awards with its Chairman’s Award.

Sharpton lauded the creator of movies including Madea’s Family Reunion and Why Did I Get Married, saying he “never lost his authenticity.”

Perry said he was grateful for the honor, and chastised those who have criticized his characters as stereotypes. He said he has the “ear of the people” and his critics need to stop running from “our parents and our grandparents and our uncles.”

Nicki Minaj continues to expand her brand partnering with OPI Nail Lacquer to start a collection of exotic colored finger nail polish.

The collection comes with half a dozen colors named after tracks on Minaj’s debut album Pink Friday including, “Metal 4 Life,” “Pink Friday,” “Save Me,” “Fly,” “Did It On Em,” and “Super Bass.”

The set is due in stores in 2012.

PHILADELPHIA — In the end, the scene looked straight out of an ultimate Broadway encore. One and two owners on the stage turned into seven, eight, nine, all single file and holding enough personalized 76ers jerseys to fill a few racks at the merchandise store.

All that was missing was a bow.

Among the lengthy list of new owners and investors include co-managing owner David Blitzer, former NBA player agent and Sacramento Kings executive Jason Levien, GSI Commerace CEO Michael Rubin, real estate investors, film producers, and Hollywood power couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.

DETROIT – Cirque du Soleil’s new show is based on the music of Michael Jackson.

“Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour” made its U.S. debut Saturday night at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, only a handful of miles away from the old Motown Records headquarters where Jackson got his start as a member of The Jackson 5.

As previous shows have done with the music of The Beatles and Elvis Presley, the two-hour Jackson-themed performance is designed to give audience members the flair and showmanship of Cirque coupled with the flair and showmanship of the late artist in concert.

ATLANTA – The late soul legend James Brown has been inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

Brown’s daughter, Deanna Brown Thomas, accepted the honor for him at an awards ceremony on Saturday in Atlanta.

Brown died in December 2006 at age 73. He purchased WRDW-AM in Augusta, Ga., in the late 1960s, where he had shined shoes as a boy. He also operated or owned radio stations in Atlanta, Baltimore and Knoxville, Tenn.

The “Godfather of Soul” was among several honorees to receive their award posthumously. Other awardees include Ernie Harwell, the legendary voice of the Detroit Tigers, who died last year and Ben Porter, a Macon radio station owner who got his radio start in south Georgia as “Jack the Bellboy.” Porter also died in 2010.

The Georgia Hall of Fame was established in 2007.