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Friday, January 4, 2019
Yung Joc to Usher Here"s a Hairy Situation ... Let"s Battle for King of Hair & Fleek Style!!!
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Usher Burglary Suspect Arrested ... Cops Find Millions in Stolen Property
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A man suspected of burglarizing celebrity and high-end homes — including Usher‘s — has been nabbed by police, who found lots of stolen property worth millions …TMZ has learned.
Law enforcement sources tell us cops have arrested a guy who they believe...
Usher Burglary Suspect Arrested ... Cops Find Millions in Stolen Property
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Warriors Celebrate On Team Jet by Taunting Cavs Minority Owner Usher
So, the Golden State Warriors celebrated their Western Conf. Championship last night by bumping Usher on the team jet. Funny, since Usher happens to be a minority owner of the Cleveland Cavs … and it’s almost like Nick Young and company…
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Usher and Grace Miguel Showed No Signs of Splitting Up Days Before Separation
Usher and his wife were lovey-dovey just days ago and seemingly unbreakable … which is why their split came as an utter shock to friends. Sources close to the couple tell TMZ … Usher and Grace Miguel were in L.A. for a night at the movies…
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Usher Separates from Grace Miguel; Were Herpes to Blame?!?
Usher is headed for divorce number-two.
In a joint statement the singer made with wife Grace Miguel, the couple has announced that it is separating after two years of marriage (and a decade together overall).
This is what the aforementioned statement says:
After much thought and consideration we have mutually decided to separate as a couple.
We remain deeply connected, loving friends who will continue supporting each other through the next phases of our lives.
The enormous amount of love and respect that we have for each other will only increase as we move forward.
The artist last posted a photo of himself and Miguel on Instagram way back in October, while Miguel did include a snapshot of Usher on her account as a way to ring in 2018.
The pair never spoke much in public about their romance.
They were business partner and lovers and Usher was simply spotted a wedding ring in September of 2015.
It took an insider speaking to E! News to confirm that a wedding had indeed taking place around this time, with the outlet simply reporting the ceremony was “sweet and romantic.”
“He can’t wait to spend the rest of his life with her,” this same source said about two and a half years ago.
So…what changed since then?
No definitive reason was given as a basis for this break-up, but we’d have to imagine that multiple reports of Usher giving ex-lovers Herpes couldn’t have helped the situation.
Last July, a former fling came out and accused the six-packed singer of giving her this STD…and then paying her hush money to not tell anyone about it.
A few days later, another woman came out with the same gross accusation.
Allegations of Usher cheating on Miguel were associated with these charges, specifically by a woman named Lauren Helm who claims she slept with Usher last April.
He was a married man at that time, of course.
This is the second high profile, messy divorce for the performer.
He split from Tameka Foster in 2009 and won primary custody of the former couple’s kids years later.
In between, there were other allegations of infidelity and even some of abuse against Usher.
In response, he said Foster had a mental disorder and the dispute turned very ugly very quickly.
Considering the Herpes chatter that continues to make its way around the Internet, might Usher separation from Miguel follow a similar path.
Stay tuned. Find out!
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Usher Listed Sunset Strip Crib Days Before Announcing Split
Usher was getting his ducks in a row days before he and his wife announced they were splitting up … putting their Spanish home on the market. The singer’s 4,261 square foot home with 5 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms — situated right behind the…
Usher and Wife Announce Separation
Usher and Grace Miguel are separating on the heels of multiple allegations and lawsuits claiming he’d given multiple people herpes. The couple, who married in 2015, released a statement Tuesday, saying … “After much thought and consideration…
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Colin Kaepernick Teams with Usher to Complete $1 Million Pledge
Colin Kaepernick just wrote his LAST check as part of his “$ 1 Million Pledge” campaign — and teamed up with Usher to end it with a bang. Remember, Kaep first started the program back in 2016 … vowing to donate $ 1 MIL of his own money to…
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Usher Herpes Accuser Sues Insurance Company for Releasing Records
One of the the women who sued Usher for allegedly giving her herpes, is now suing insurance companies … claiming they outed her medical records. Laura Helm is going after the insurers because she says her application for insurance ended up in a…
Friday, November 17, 2017
Usher Herpes Lawsuit Dismissed
The lawsuit filed against Usher — claiming he gave a Georgia woman herpes — has been dismissed, but there’s an asterisk. Laura Helm filed a $ 20 million lawsuit against the singer, claiming he had unprotected sex with her and transmitted the…
Usher Herpes Lawsuit Dismissed
The lawsuit filed against Usher — claiming he gave a Georgia woman herpes — has been dismissed, but there’s an asterisk. Laura Helm filed a $ 20 million lawsuit against the singer, claiming he had unprotected sex with her and transmitted the…
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Usher Still Rollin" for His 39th Birthday Despite Herpes Lawsuits
Usher let the good times roll — despite multiple lawsuits against him — by hitting up a roller skating rink for his birthday … with some of his most high-profile pals. The singer was joined by Chris Brown, Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ ign,…
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Usher: Any Time You Have Sex, You Risk Herpes! That"s Not My Fault!
Usher has been contending with multiple very public herpes-related lawsuits and allegations for a few months.
Interestingly, Usher has not denied having herpes in court arguments — though his legal team has made claims that no one can prove that Usher, specifically, infected them. It hasn’t been the most exculpatory argument.
But now Usher’s team is pushing to get one lawsuit in particular dismissed. And the argument that they’re making is nuts … but it might work.
Laura Helm is suing Usher for $ 20 million, claiming that they had unprotected sex, that Usher did not caution her that he (allegedly) carries the herpes virus, and that she contracted herpes as a result of his deceitful omission.
Three others have come forward in the past few months to accuse Usher of having unprotected sex with them without warning them that he is (allegedly) an asymptomatic carrier for herpes.
Some aren’t sure how well the claims of emotional distress caused by learning that they’d risked herpes infection will hold up in court.
However, it has been pointed out that multiple people reporting having unprotected sex with Usher could be used to build a pattern to help prove Laura Helm’s case in court.
Usher’s attempts to laugh off these accusations haven’t gone over so well.
One of his accusers claims that they made a sex tape together and was also able to provide a witness — a hotel staffer who confirmed that Usher went into the woman’s hotel room for an extended period of time.
But will Usher’s new legal tactic prove to be a get-out-of-lawsuit-free card for the singer?
E! reports that court documents filed by Usher’s legal team are making a new argument in an attempt to dismiss the lawsuit.
“With a one in six chance that any given partner could have genital herpes, plaintiff assumed the risk of contracting an STD each and every time she chose to have unprotected sex with a casual, consensual party.”
There is more to the document and we’ll get to that in a moment, because we have to talk about this.
Some people make analogies that compare having unprotected sex on a casual basis to playing Russian roulette, but instead of a bullet, you get an STI.
(Some say that it’s like playing Russian roulette even if you’re in a monogamous relationship, since you never know what your partner might have been up to)
That might be a fine way of viewing the world if you want to be careful with your life (please use protection — condoms aren’t fun for anyone but they are infinitely preferable to STIs).
But does knowing that there are risks negate all of a partner’s culpability?
If two people are pulling the trigger on a revolver, does the one who owns the gun have an obligation to tell the other if there might be a bullet?
Breaking away from that analogy, does consenting to do anything with another person suddenly free them from any potential liabilities?
That’s what Usher’s team is asking the court to decide, but stigma against women and against sex might be on their side.
The court documents continue.
“To be perfectly clear, [Usher] is not asking the court to pass moral or societal judgment on plaintiff.”
So they’re not trying to slut-shame Laura Helm … they’re just asking the court to determine if Laura was asking for herpes, seems to be what they’re saying.
“[Usher] is only seeking the correct application of the legal doctrine of assumption of risk as interpreted and construed in Georgia’s appellate decisions.”
In the view of Usher’s legal team, as expressed in these documents, Laura “made the free choice to engage in unprotected sexual activity. In doing so, she failed to exercise ordinary care for her own safety.”
We’re no legal scholars and we’re certainly not familiar with the particulars of Georgia’s history of appellate court rulings.
But we would imagine that the court would be extremely reluctant to set a precedent that consenting to unprotected sex is comparable to consenting to sex with someone known to carry at least one STI.
The potential can of worms that could be opened and the potential for the judge to be overruled by a higher court seems too high for a judge to risk it, but … you never know.
We wonder about the potential ramifications, though. Could a father evade child support by stating that the mother had assumed the risk of pregnancy when the two of them engaged in unprotected sex?
That doesn’t seem like much of a stretch from what Usher’s team is arguing.
Monday, October 9, 2017
Usher Claims Georgia Woman Rolled the Dice by Having Sex in Genital Herpes Case
Usher has just doubled down on his defense in the Georgia herpes lawsuit … when you have sex, you assume the risk of STDs. The singer just filed legal docs disputing the claims of Laura Helm, in which she scoffs at the notion she assumed the risk…
Usher Accuser Said He Always Wore Condoms, But Changed Her Story in Lawsuit
Usher’s herpes accuser in Georgia, Laura Helm, insisted she ONLY had protected sex with him — even though she claimed otherwise in her $ 20 million lawsuit … but she had a good reason for lying, according to her attorney. TMZ obtained a…
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Usher Accuser Loses Bid to Block Him from Moving Money
One of Usher’s accusers has to keep her nose out of his bank accounts … TMZ has learned. Laura Helm wanted the courts in Georgia to block Usher from hiding assets to make sure she could collect if she wins her $ 20 million lawsuit — but the judge…
Usher Accuser Loses Bid to Block Him from Moving Money
One of Usher’s accusers has to keep her nose out of his bank accounts … TMZ has learned. Laura Helm wanted the courts in Georgia to block Usher from hiding assets to make sure she could collect if she wins her $ 20 million lawsuit — but the judge…
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Usher celebrates Jermaine Dupri"s Birthday
Usher is going about his life … seemingly undeterred by 4 people who are suing him for allegedly exposing them to genital herpes. The singer was at Bootsy Bellows in WeHo Saturday night to celebrate Jermaine Dupri’s 44th birthday. Lots of…
Usher celebrates Jermaine Dupri"s Birthday
Usher is going about his life … seemingly undeterred by 4 people who are suing him for allegedly exposing them to genital herpes. The singer was at Bootsy Bellows in WeHo Saturday night to celebrate Jermaine Dupri’s 44th birthday. Lots of…
Friday, September 8, 2017
Jermaine Dupri Says Usher, Lil Wayne Burying Themselves In Music Is A Good Thing
Usher and Lil Wayne have the right idea for coping mechanisms … make more music, according to Jermaine Dupri. We got Jermaine outside of Craig’s in WeHo Thursday night and asked him how Usher has been holding up since news of his herpes…
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