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Jermaine Dupri has reportedl
y quit his job at Virgin Records after discouraging sales of his girlfriend Janet Jackson's comeback album. Dupri was partially credited with relaunching Mimi's career with the hit The Emancipation of Mimi, but his work on Jackson's 20 YO has only half a million copies three weeks into its release. The CD also dropped a whopping 77% in sales its second week, prompting Dupri to step down from the company under pressure from management late last week. (Source)Madonna appeared on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' and told of how her new child was doing wonderful despit
e overcoming TB and malaria. She also spoke of meeting little David's father, and said that he thanked her. "I sat in that room, I looked into that man's eyes," she said. Madonna said she was worried that the negative publicity that surrounded her adoption may dissuade other people from adopting children in Africa. "I wanted to go into a Third World country, I wasn't sure where, and give a life to a child who might not otherwise have had one..I'm disappointed because more than anything it discourages other people from doing the same thing..I feel the media is doing a great disservice to all the orphans of Africa, period, not just the orphans of Malawi." She also added, "David is amazing..what really surprises me is how great my children are with him and how he's transitioned so easily from living in Africa in an orphanage to living in our house." (source)
Kurt Cobain has surpassed Elvis Presley as the top money-earner among dead celebrities for the first time in the six years that Forbes magazine has been compiling its list. Kurt's estate earned $
50 million last year. But the estate amount was given a huge boost when Courtney Love sold off a ¼ of her husband's music catalogue to a New York publishing company last year. Presley's estate grossed $42 million, down from $45 million last year. In third place was Peanuts comic strip creater Charles Schultz at $35 million. Fourth place was former Beatle John Lennon at $24 million. And the estate of physicist Albert Einstein came in at fifth with earnings of $20 million. Rounding out the 13 on the list were: pop artist Andy Warhol ($19 million); Dr. Seuss ($10 million); Ray Charles ($10 million); Marilyn Monroe ($8 million); Johnny Cash ($8 million) in 10th; J.R.R. Tolkien ($7 million); George Harrison ($7 million); and Bob Marley ($7 million) in 13th. (source)
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