It’s absolutely no surprise to any of us that Akon is full of shit, right? It’s just sort of crazy that the people at The Smoking Gun, which is really on a roll these days, are the first ones to officially call him on it.
With a little digging, they’ve figured out that Akon’s famed backstory — that he was in jail for 4 1/2 years for being “ringleader of a notorious car theft operation” and wrote songs, like his famous “Locked Up” while he was in jail — was false. And the name of his company, Konvict Music, was more wishful thinking than it was based in reality. In his lifetime, he has spent only a few months in county jail.
Man, do I love The Smoking Gun's section of Artist Backstage Riders. How else would I know of Ashlee Simpson's demand for throat losenges or everyone's specific beer of choice? Or, for instance as we see above, that one of the members of Gnarls Barkley needs a box of Magnum Condoms backstage at every show. The second member, on the other hand, just wants some f-ing tube socks. Rock star. Well, at least I know what I'm bringing to throw on stage if I ever make it to see them live.
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Uh-oh. Look's like someone's in trouble. Lindsay Lohan is getting more than just a slap on the wrist for the way she's been acting lately. See, I guess Linds is putting all of her heart and soul into the partying and not so much into her job and, well, some old dude who happens to be funding the movie she's "working" on is a little bit pissed off. Oops.
The other day, after deciding to play hookey (she's just. so. tired.) she got served a letter from the boss man himself. Thank God for The Smoking Gun:
In a blistering July 26 letter to the 20-year-old actress, James G. Robinson, who heads the L.A. firm producing Lohan's current movie, calls her recent erratic behavior "discourteous, irresponsible and unprofessional." Robinson, the 70-year-old chief executive of Morgan Creek Productions, writes that Lohan has "acted like a spoiled child and in doing so have alienated many of your co-workers and endangered the quality" of "Georgia Rule," a movie now being filmed and which stars Lohan, Jane Fonda, and Felicity Huffman.
So, this letter is fucking awesome. A copy of it is below the jump and I urge you to read it (he uses the word "bogus," for christ's sake), but in case you're too busy, here's my three sentence interpretation:
I hate you. You are a floozy and, quite frankly, not worth the money, you box office menace and all-around stuck-up twat. I will make you pay and, thanks to Brandon Davis, I know you're sort of poor.
[Thanks, Mary and Mollie, Source]
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