Atlanta rapper T.I. [click to read], real name Clifford Harris, is expected to turn himself in on May 26th to begin serving his one year and one day sentence for federal gun charges. According to TMZ, T.I. will be held in a low security prison in Forrest City, Arkansas, where he will live alongside 1,500 other inmates and will be assigned to work detail.
As DX recently reported, T.I. held an anti-gun violence rally earlier this week [click to read] as part of the 1,500 hours of community service he committed to through his plea agreement. T.I. will serve his entire sentence at the Forrest City Federal Correctional Institution.
In other news, Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s former agent Jarred Weisfeld has filed a $10 million libel suit on freelance writer Jaime Lowe over the contents of her book Digging for Dirt: The Life and Death of ODB [click to read].
The two have been at odds since 2003, when Lowe had approached Weisfeld and ODB for a Rolling Stone interview. Questionably, after the interview was published in the Village Voice, Weisfeld had found out Lowe never intended to write the story for Rolling Stone. After ODB’s death, Lowe had asked Weisfeld if he would assist her in creating the now-controversial book Digging for Dirt, which he declined because of their past encounter.
The contents of Digging for Dirt, which Weisfeld alleges is disproportionally false, also includes antisemetic remarks such as, “Jarred slinked onstage looking like he had just been bar mitzvahed,” referring to the press conference that was held when ODB announced his alignment with Roc-A-Fella Records.
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According to the lawsuit, Weisfeld claims, “the words written and published by [Lowe] were false and defamatory and were written and published willfully and maliciously with the intent to damage [Weisfeld’s] good name, reputation and credit as an entrepreneur in the entertainment industry.”
Lowe has declined to comment on the book until Weisfeld drops the lawsuit.
