Gothamist: End of Foxy Brown's Manicurist Smackdown Saga

Miquel

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:13:12 -0500

It'll come around. It always does. Can't wait to see her on Celebrity Boxing. My money's on Lil Kim...

Samantha T

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:32:02 -0500

"“How are you innocent?” Judge Jackson asked..... Unmoved, Judge Jackson sentenced Ms. Marchand to three years’ probation and anger management counseling, and authorized orders of protection for the two manicurists." God, I love stern judges sometimes.

mh

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:52:23 -0500

krunkymunky: i hope the judge pro justice regardless of how much money and sexy a person has. Who cares about Foxy Brown. She did the crime. Now do the time. When you have as much success as she's had along with money, you don't go around pushing and slapping people who work 9am to 9pm for a living. They deserve respect and further more Foxy Brown should have made an appointment. It is OK to be a rich snob. However, a good, rich, snobby bitch, would have made the manicurist go to her house. Not just show up and cause a scene like a little brat, sooo immature. Foxy Brown has money and no class, no manners, and hasn't made good music is a while. Put her out to pasture.

maushead

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:44:58 -0500

Foxy Brown was hit-and-run driver, ex-friend says BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA STAFF WRITER October 28, 2005 A former friend of Foxy Brown came out swinging Thursday, claiming the rap diva conspired to blame her for a Manhattan hit-and-run accident 14 months ago. Clothing designer Ayesha Ouattara, 37, speaking through her lawyer, said Brown -- not her -- was at the wheel of a Land Rover when it struck two bicyclists on West Houston Street during a Critical Mass cyclists' ride on Aug. 27, 2004. At the time, the group in the vehicle was rushing from one Louis Vuitton shop to another, trying to reach the second shop before it closed because Brown, 25, wanted to buy something, according to Ouattara's lawyer, Donald Birnbaum. Ouattara was arrested in October and charged with two counts of leaving the scene of an accident. "Foxy tried to pressure Ayesha," said Birnbaum, who was in State Supreme Court in Manhattan Thursday with his client. "There was influence brought to bear on her. Other people also put pressure on her." But Ouattara is holding her ground, Birnbaum said. He asserted that Brown and others conspired to lie about Brown's involvement and blame Ouattara for the incident. "I am very certain my client is innocent," Birnbaum said. "I am also very certain my client will be vindicated. Foxy put all kinds of pressure on Ayesha for her to take the weight, and Ayesha is not taking the weight for anybody." Brown's lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, disputed the accusations, noting that Ouattara was working as a driver for Brown. After the incident, she was fired, he said. "The bottom line is, Foxy was not driving that car," Tacopina said, describing Ouattara as "the disgruntled employee who's trying to get out-from-under by switching things around." One of the cyclists hit by the Land Rover, Matthew Campau, 36, was not injured. The second victim, Robert Herschenfeld, 38, suffered a minor leg injury. Both are from Williamsburg. Herschenfeld, a building designer, told Newsday on Tuesday that he saw a woman get out of the Land Rover and yell an insulting phrase against white homosexuals. Then the woman got back in the vehicle and the driver hit the gas, striking Herschenfeld and Campau. Herschenfeld remembered someone yelling out, "Hey, that's Foxy Brown." At the time, he said, he knew nothing about Foxy Brown. Later, he saw her picture on the Internet and realized she was the woman who had yelled at the crowd. Herschenfeld said he wasn't sure if Brown had been behind the wheel. Birnbaum said that after the incident Ouattara persuaded Brown to let her drive. Several blocks later, Ouattara was involved in an accident of her own that caused no injuries. The lawyer said she cooperated with police, who at the time ignored other bicyclists who had caught up to the Rover and told officers that Brown had struck two men minutes earlier. Copyright (c) 2005, Newsday, Inc.

krunkymunky

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:44:36 -0500

if foxy inga thinks that judges are anti-hip-hop, she is obviously unaware of the Seventh Circuit's opinion in United States v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n1 (7th Cir. 2005) ("The trial transcript quotes Ms. Hayden as saying Murphy called her a snitch bitch 'hoe.' A 'hoe,' of course, is a tool used for weeding and gardening. We think the court reporter, unfamiliar with rap music (perhaps thankfully so), misunderstood Hayden's response. We have taken the liberty of changing 'hoe' to 'ho,' a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps 'You doin' ho activities with ho tendencies.'")