EdwardKnoxII 0 Report post Posted March 25, 2004 http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13769,00.html Bobby In; Whitney Out by Josh Grossberg Mar 24, 2004, 2:45 PM PT Another head-spinning week in the ongoing soap opera that is Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston. First, Whitney enters drug rehab. Then Bobby gets sprung from jail. Earlier today comes word that the missus has made a fast getaway from rehab. And now Bobby is back behind bars. Dizzy yet? Okay, we'll take it slow. On Wednesday afternoon, a family court judge in Massachusetts tossed a bawling Brown in jail for 90 days after the former King of New Jack Swing said he couldn't come up with child support payments to an ex-girlfriend and mother of two of his kids. Brown was released from a Georgia jail Monday so he could attend the emergency paternity hearing in suburban Boston. A Beantown native, Brown was due in Norfolk County Probate and Family Court at 9 a.m. ET for a contempt of court hearing. His onetime lover, Kim Ward, says Brown owes $63,500 in child support to their two children, a 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son. (Brown and Houston have an 11-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown.) But Brown didn't show up until 12:45 p.m., a move that ticked off Judge Paula Carey. Then, when Brown told the judge that he couldn't come up with the money, Carey ordered him immediately taken to the county jail. He will spend the next 90 days behind bars unless he coughs up the cash. The former New Edition star said he had no job and no income. He said he planned on releasing an album next month and was going to star in a movie but didn't have any ready money. "I never wanted this to happen," he said. His lawyers offered to pay $10,000 now, another $15,000 within 10 days and then negotiate the rest. Attorney Vincent Dimmock said Brown's income was "nowhere near" his late-'80s/early-'90s "My Prerogative" heyday. Carey wasn't buying it, though, saying she didn't find it "credible" that Brown was broke and figured that maybe jail would help him get the payments in order. Meanwhile, earlier Wednesday, the New York Daily News reported that Houston has exited an Atlanta-area drug-rehabilitation center just five days after checking herself in to deal with a substance abuse problem. While Houston's publicist, Nancy Seltzer, was not available Wednesday to comment on the report, she is quoted in the Daily News saying nothing is amiss with Houston's hasty exit. "Miss Houston is continuing the prescribed treatment, as was planned," Seltzer told the newspaper. "Her movements are in total keeping with the program." Seltzer declined to elaborate on Houston's outpatient status and also refused to reveal the whereabouts of the 40-year-old pop diva. However, the Daily News quotes an unnamed source from the Houston camp saying the "I Get So Emotional" singer couldn't stand being cooped up in a facility and opted to work on getting clean in a rented location not far from her Atlanta home. "Whitney got extremely upset and said she felt the walls were closing in on her," the source said. Seltzer has refused to say exactly why Houston sought rehab, but Houston has spoken with Diane Sawyer about abusing alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and pills and was infamously busted in 2000 at a Hawaiian airport for a small stash of pot (the charge was eventually dropped after a drug counselor's report said Houston didn't need treatment for substance abuse). Appearing on CBS' The Early Show Tuesday morning, Houston's spiritual advisor, Prince Asiel Ben Israel, said the Grammy winner was hooked on pharmaceuticals, not street drugs. "When you've got the demands of the press and the demands of your public, you're trying to take a pill to stay up and one to lay down," Ben Israel said. "I think it's that kind of lifestyle." Ben Israel, who brought Houston and Brown to visit African Hebrew Israelites last year, said Houston was in denial for a long time about her problem but agreed to seek help at the urging of her family. "I think that with the support from the family and friends, you come to grips with these kinds of things and finally say, 'There must be something I need to do.' I think that's where we are," he added. While we can't say for sure where Whitney is, we definitely know one place she was not--Bobby's paternity hearing. While she issued a statement saying she supported her husband, she declined to attend the festivities. Brown, 35, had been serving a 60-day sentence in DeKalb County Jail in Georgia for violating his probation on a drunken driving charge. He was granted release three days early to attend to the Massachusetts matter. "This is the last time you'll see me coming out of here or going in," Brown told Extra as he exited the jail. Brown told the syndicated show he planned on going to church and added, "If you can just do us a favor and let us live for a while and enjoy each other. Get some sobriety, you know. Enjoy your lives and we're going to enjoy ours." His docket is far from empty, though. Aside from the Boston mess, Brown is due back in a Georgia courtroom on May 5 to answer to domestic battery charges after he allegedly hit Houston, leaving her with a cut lip and bruised cheek. Despite Whitney's pleas to authorities to let them work it out privately, Brown was charged. It's not immediately known whether Brown will be allowed to leave the Boston area to attend the May 5 preliminary hearing. During his TV appearance, Ben Israel defended the R&B star. "At 20 years old, he was a millionaire and married an icon, a musical icon. That kind of pressure brought about another kind of mental and spiritual change," he said. "I think again with those of us who love, we're trying to work both of them through the social issues, which many couples who are high profile experience. "You must remember, married to Whitney Houston, it's got to be great, but it's got to be a lot of pressure." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OldSchoolWrestling 0 Report post Posted March 25, 2004 I heard this on the radio this morning. The played some soundbites from the courtroom. The judge was hilarious. She told him that she wasn't letting him go on bail because she know she'd never see him again. And when they tried disputing paying the high amount she told him that she didn't care if he had to put on a Home Depot apron and get to work he was going to be paying the money. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EdwardKnoxII 0 Report post Posted March 25, 2004 Yeah I find it hard to believe that someone that is married to Whitney Huston has no money unless Whitney has cut him off. Of course, taking in how much Bobby must spend on drugs then I can kinda see it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ripper 0 Report post Posted March 26, 2004 In all honesty, that is bullshit. If he hasn't filed taxes and can prove that he has had no income(which I'm sure he can) they can't say he should pay the whole amount now. Now do I believe that he can pay? Probably. But I think he could prove that he can't. Crackheads in love...ain't it grand. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kkktookmybabyaway 0 Report post Posted March 26, 2004 Fuck Bobby and Whitney -- these two deserve each other... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EdwardKnoxII 0 Report post Posted March 26, 2004 http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13784,00.html Bobby Brown Free Again by Sarah Hall Mar 25, 2004, 5:20 PM PT Bobby Brown is back on the streets. After spending a night in a Massachusetts slammer, the former New Edition star came up with the $63,500 in child support payments he owed the mother of two of his children. Norfolk Family Court Judge Paula Carey found Brown in contempt of court Wednesday and ordered him jailed for 90 days or until he made the back payments to Kim Ward, the mother of two Brown offspring, aged 12 and 14. Brown testified that he was unable to come up with Ward's money, and was led away to jail, weeping as he went. "I never wanted this to happen," Brown said. It was unclear who paid the support payment that led to "My Prerogative" singer's release. Brown said in court Wednesday that he didn't have any sources of income until his next album comes out in a month and he begins work on a movie project. As he left the courthouse Thursday, Brown dismissed the matter as a "misunderstanding" to reporters. "I thought it was paid," he said. "Things happen like that when other people are dealing with your business." He was due to reappear in court Friday morning for a postpayment hearing. Brown's incarceration Wednesday came just days after he told reporters that his Monday release from a Georgia prison was the last time they would see him behind bars. Brown was released three days early from the Georgia jail in order to make his appearance in Boston. He had been serving a 60-day sentence for numerous violations of his probation on a drunk driving charge. The transgressions included refusing to provide proof that he completed counseling and his house arrest, defaulting on his probation fee payment and declining to take drug tests. He still faces misdemeanor battery charges after he allegedly smacked wife Whitney Houston, leaving her with a bruised cheek and cut lip. Houston claimed that she did not want to press charges against her husband, but police booked him anyway. A hearing on the charges has been scheduled for May 5 in Fulton County, Georgia. Houston did not make the journey north to Boston to join her husband. Though her publicist refused to comment on her whereabouts, reports placed her in a rental apartment near her Atlanta mansion following her departure from a rehab program after spending only five days in the treatment facility. Houston's camp had denied that the "I Get So Emotional" singer was hooked on street drugs, claiming that run of the mill pharmaceuticals were her weakness. "When you've got the demands of the press and the demands of your public, you're trying to take a pill to stay up and one to lay down," Houston's spiritual advisor, Prince Asiel Ben Israel told CBS' The Early Show Tuesday. "I think it's that kind of lifestyle." Houston's publicist, Nancy Seltzer, told the New York Daily News that her client was sticking with her treatment. "Miss Houston is continuing the prescribed treatment, as was planned," Seltzer told the newspaper. "Her movements are in total keeping with the program." As far as Brown's plan for the immediate future, he told Extra earlier in the week that he wanted to lay low. "If you can just do us a favor and let us live for a while and enjoy each other," Brown begged reporters. "Get some sobriety, you know. Enjoy your lives and we're going to enjoy ours." We're willing to bet that the Brown-Houston family won't fly under the radar for long. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Anglesault Report post Posted March 28, 2004 Brown must have hit the lotto. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EdwardKnoxII 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2004 Yeah the Huston lotto. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
