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Started by: John P on Jan 24, 2004 at 4:17pm
Eminem's Mother Attacked on 8 Mile
OAK PARK, Mich. (Jan. 24) - A 16-year-old boy dragged Eminem's mother from her car on the street made infamous by the rapper's movie "8 Mile," according to police.
The teenager was arrested shortly after the carjacking Thursday night as he tried to flee from police on foot in this northern Detroit suburb, and the car was recovered.
Police said Debbie Nelson, 49, was sitting in her Honda Accord at a gas station on Eight Mile Road at about 11:30 p.m. when a person approached her window with a silver handgun and demanded she get out.
Nelson told Detroit's WXYZ-TV the attacker grabbed her by the hair and arm.
"For this to be a kid - it broke my heart," she said.
Nelson said she tried to contact her son, whose real name is Marshall Mathers III, but "he apparently must not be in town."
Nelson's rocky relationship with her son has been no secret since the Detroit rapper became a star. Eminem has disparaged his mother in songs such as "Cleaning Out My Closet." Nelson brought and settled two defamation lawsuits over Eminem's statements about her in magazines and on radio talk shows.
Police arrested James Antonio Knott of Detroit about a mile from the gas station after he became stuck in traffic and attempted to flee, Pousack said.
The teenager was charged as an adult with carjacking and armed robbery Friday and is being held in lieu of $150,000 cash bond, said police, who did not believe the carjacker recognized Nelson.
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Started by: J.C. on Jan 24, 2004 at 6:48pm
Nets accept Jay-Z's Bid on the Team
(January,22-2004)-The New Jersey Nets' owners accepted developer Bruce Ratner's $300 million bid for the basketball franchise late Wednesday night, according to team officials. It clears the way for his group, which includes hip-hop impresario Jay-Z, to attempt to move the Nets to Brooklyn.
Jay-Z officially joined Ratner's group in early December, though his exact financial stake has not been made public. Jigga's presence lent credibility and conviction to Ratner's mission to relocate the Nets from New Jersey's swamplands to the New York City borough that no major-league sports franchise has called home since baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1957. The sale will also mark the first time anyone in hip-hop has held an ownership stake in a professional sports franchise, a watershed moment for hip-hop culture.
The only other serious bid for the Nets franchise under consideration was that of a group led by real estate developer Charles Kushner and New Jersey Sen. Jon Corzine.
The sale still needs to be ratified by the team's holding company, YankeeNets, which could happen as early as Friday morning, and by the NBA, which could approve the sale within a month.
Bringing the team to Brooklyn, however, is anything but a slam-dunk for Ratner. Though his group has a detailed plan for commercial and residential development around a proposed arena, it faces community opposition from neighborhood people and businesses facing displacement.
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