Subscribe to the PanacheReport RSS Feed      ,

Most Viewed! Blind Items  Ballin' 1-8 (Black Spy Series) Ballin 9' Highlights  Short Stories

New Premium Channels! Part 2: (Black Celebs Who Died)   Part 3: (Black Celebs Who Died)

Current Top Features! Affluent Report  Scandal & Vice  Black Billionaire Lifestyle

Black Supermodels Past & Present  Scandal Sheet  Spycraft II/Secret Societies   AIDS In Black Hollywood  Notorious/Bombshell Info

Added Features: Manchurian Candidates? (Mind Controlled Assassins)   Double Lives

Old School! Black Cinema And R&B Nostalgia Motown Scandals Where Are They Now?  Old School

Newer Features! Black Hollywood Conspiracies  Black Powerbrokers   Black Unsolved Mysteries & Murders    Supernatural

The Best Of Panache Report/DSOF: Story Behind The Story  Archives  Part II: Archives

Black History, etc! Black History Stories (3 Parts)  White Hollywood Scandals  Political Scandals

Blog Spotlight: Drew Reports  Privacy Policy

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS:

*We will "possibly" be returning on Super Bowl Sunday! Check facebook for updates!

Rihanna has beaten out models Kate Upton and Adriana Lima to be named the Hottest Woman on Twitter in a new magazine poll.

The R&B star's racy tweets and provocative snapshots helped her land the title on Complex magazine's countdown.

Upton comes in second, while Lima is third. Zoe Saldana and Nicole Scherzinger round out the top five.

Beyonce, Cassie, actress Emmanuelle Chriqui, Shakira and model Candice Swanepoel also made the top 10.

Nicki Minaj's tour rider includes three buckets of spicy fried chicken and contact lense solution.

The rapper's backstage demands have been revealed and it seems the musician is happy to live up to her diva reputation.

As well as the chicken-which she specifies must have "no thighs" and "lots of wings" Nicki also asks for 2 dozen pink or white roses, two Space Heaters, one gallon of Simply Lemonade, 12 cans of Red Bull and scented candles.

Food is apparently very important to the 29-year-old star and her crew as she requests different items for throughout the day, including scrambled egg whites, turkey bacon, toast, Belgian waffles, strawberries, assorted juices and a large fruit platter for breakfast and a deli tray with turkey breast meat, grilled chicken breast, whole Wheat bread or rolls, yellow mustard and other condiments (seasoned salt, hot sauce) and a large fruit platter with side of mango and one large cheese platter for after the concert.

Her extravagant demands are revealed in the new issue of Wonderland magazine.

Despite her excessive requirements, Nicki says she isn't a diva off stage and insists she takes on a persona when she performs.

She told the publication: "They're definitely two completely different people. Obviously what I would wear at home is not what I would wear up on stage and I think, when I'm at home it's a way more introspective character and I think the person people see on stage is anything but. I watch a lot of 'Judge Judy'. And I watch a lot of 'Forensic Files. And I cook-I cook spaghetti really, really good; I cook macaroni and cheese really, really good; I cook chicken really, really good."

IN OTHER NEWS:

Diddy on his upcoming TV venture: I haven't made that announcement yet. That's something that kinda leaked to the press," the Bad Boy CEO told Sway in Miami while on a break from shooting French Montana's "Shot Caller" remix video. "When I have everything officially solidified, I'll be able to speak on it more. Only thing I can say is, we're coming with a new energy, we're coming with something that people are going to want to tune in to see."

Michael Jackson's sister La Toya broke down in tears while watching "Glee's" tribute episode to her late brother, because it made her realize how much she misses him.

Tickets for Madonna's upcoming concert tour will be priced at $300 (each).

OLD SCHOOL:

Funk star George Clinton and his band Parliament Funkadelic have been hit with a lawsuit after allegedly failing to stage a show in New York last year.

Aretha Franklin will be immortalized as a wax work to mark the start of Black History Month in the U.S.

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS COMMENTS

"TINSEL CONFIDENTIAL"

Hollywood is still buzzing over the apparent suicide of Don Cornelius.  Don was one of the few African American men who "owned" their own show, he also owned the studio that "Soul Train" was filmed in.

Soul Train gave exposure to numerous black artists.  Don was a pioneer and trailblazer & Don was a great dancer.  He could move on the dance floor.

Walter Payton danced on Soul Train.  Fred "Rerun" Berry and Rosie Perez started off on Soul Train, so did Jeffrey Daniel & Jody Watley (Shalamar) as well as Toni Basil.

Don also drove a Rolls Royce and lived in a multi-million dollar mansion.

In 2008, Don sold the rights to Soul Train for millions.

Will his ex-wife try to make a claim on the estate? 

Don's son (Tony) is the rightful heir to the estate.

Don was like a father figure to Heather Hunter; he was also her confidant.  He kept her on Soul Train (she filmed several episodes) and he tried to ease the way regarding her commercial endeavors.

Flip The Script:  Don could be very helpful to your career or he could allegedly destroy a career.  Unfounded rumors continue to circulate that he "blackballed" O'Bryan' after they had a disagreement over royalties.  O'Bryan became involved with a popular black model; she would give birth to a daughter who is now in her 20's.

O'Bryan is currently preparing for a 40 city tour and "Unsung," is interested in doing an episode on him.

Don also had favorites among his dancers: Damita Jo Freeman, Sharon Hill, Tyrone Proctor, Glen Sanford, Fawn & Shabba-Do, Bobcat, Jeffrey Daniel, Rosie Perez, Jody Watley, and Big Louie but he also embarrassed a well known (female) dancer at the Soul Train Music Awards when he asked her and her boyfriend to vacate their seats for his friends. They were humiliated as they fled the theater.  Oddly, Don couldn't understand why she never taped another episode of Soul Train.

Don was best friends with Barry White.  He was also a fixture in the recording studio with Marvin Gaye. Behind the scenes, he suggested that Barry White produce Marvin Gaye's follow-up to "Sexual Healing."  Sadly, Gaye died before the album went into production.

Don was also good friends with Howard Hewett and Frankie Crocker.  When Crocker flew to Hollywood, he often stayed at Hewett's house, they would often hang out with Don Cornelius.

Don was allegedly a chain smoker. 

Starting in the early 90's, (allegedly) Don flew out to a hospital in Oakland, CA. to have "secret" brain treatments, early Alzheimer's?

In the last few years, according to sources, Don was rambling in conversation and he appeared to be in pain; and he seemed depressed.

RIP.

COMMENT

PART II: "ATLANTA'S MURDERED & MISSING"

by: David Thorstad

On March 15, 1981, the New York Times published its first in-depth analysis on Atlanta's twenty child murders then included in the official police investigation list. The Times played up the Atlanta police theory that they were the work of “many killers, acting separately.” It noted that the FBI and police were very interested in the theory that one or more of the killers were murdering for sexual gratification.”

A white gay man from Atlanta who was working with the police gave credence to the theory that a gay man was involved. Frank Scheuren, national president of the gay Catholic group Dignity, told Gay Community News (April 25, 1981) that there was a “strong possibility” that one of the killers was homosexual. “From what I know as a gay man, many of the things they are looking at they need to look at.” He expressed the conviction that “the gay community is not being manipulated.” Scheuren’s statement left the impression that there was something about being gay that might lead a man to murder boys.

Reports of a hunt for a “sex ring” increased following the discovery of the body of 13-year-old Timothy Hill on March 30. Hill, described as a repeat runaway, was said to have been friends with gay men.

In early April, Larry Marshall, a black man, was arrested in Connecticut and extradited to Atlanta. DeKalb County Sheriff Dick Hand reportedly leaked the story that Marshall was to be used as an informant on a “homosexual ring” in Atlanta.

On May 4, Francis Nathaniel Hardy (mentioned last night), was a 49-year-old man from a disadvantaged section of Atlanta, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex with minor males, all of them white. Authorities claimed he had run a “child sex ring” for at least 17 years.

But the Atlanta Gazette quoted a 31-year-old resident of the area as saying that sex with Hardy was a tradition among boys. “I’ve lived here most of my life and I did it, my brother did it, and my dad did it. Everybody we knew did it. The men who pay young guys whatever amount for a little play are usually well-known by not only the boys involved but by their families—who are generally grateful for the extra financial help and the opportunity to get their kids out of their hair for a time.”

Earl Caldwell implied: “In the view of some, what Atlanta was actually becoming was the homosexual capital of the South.” The main street, now called Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, was “filled every night with hundreds of men, almost all of whom dressed as women.” This was the area “where many victims lived.

According to a forensic psychologist from the defense team—who did not testify—Wayne Williams was “more asexual than homosexual.”

“It takes 28 murdered black boys to make up one murdered white boy,” observed Camille Bell, mother of one of the victims.

Less than three weeks before the arrest of Wayne Williams, the New York Times was still reporting the “many killers” theory. Public Safety Commissioner Lee Patrick Brown and other top law officials in Atlanta, it said, “are generally in agreement that the slayings were not committed by one killer. The deaths are marked by several varying patterns that indicate the involvement of more than one person, probably acting separately. Nine of the victims were found nude or virtually nude in rivers; 19 have died by asphyxiation; two were young girls; five were adults” (June 5, 1981).

According to the New York Times (January 3, 1982), “At the height of the crisis” Mayor Maynard Jackson “met with scores of his black friends and supporters and urged them to tell others that they thought the killer was black in order to dispel myths about the possibility of a white conspiracy and calm any racial tension that might be building.”

In the Atlanta murder case, the state combined fear of homosexuality with racism as its main tool of social control. The media played up the notion of “black on black racism” by stressing that Williams was light-skinned and all victims on the official list were dark-skinned. They heightened the level of inter-generational conflict. They fostered division between gay and straight, between gay and perverted queer. Divide and conquer.

It was politically correct to assume that the killer was a white racist. But in the Atlanta context, this seemed improbable. You could hardly expect street-smart black boys to allow themselves to be coaxed into the car of a white man—even a policeman or other authority figure—at a time when the bodies of their age-mates were being dragged out of rivers and woods. They knew it could mean death.

Some of the sharpest criticism was reserved for Special Agent Michael Twibell, head of the Macon FBI office. In April 1981 he told reporters that “some of the kids were killed by their parents” because they were “nuisances.” Twibell’s comment was met with outrage by many blacks, who accused the FBI of playing on negative stereotypes of the black family.

A few papers analyzed the arrest of Williams. The Guardian (July 8, 1981) wondered if he was “merely a ‘fall guy’ singled out by the authorities to allay public criticism of their investigation.” It noted that the only evidence against Williams appeared to be his presence on a bridge over the Chattahoochee River when a police stakeout team heard a “loud splash” two days before Cater’s body was pulled from the river, and cloth fibers and dog hairs found in his home and car. It pointed out that the police officer who heard the splash later admitted that he was sleeping at the time.

COMMENT

"COLD CASE-SERIAL KILLER"

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Police say they have linked a convicted murderer to DNA evidence found on the body of a 29-year-old who was among more than a dozen young women killed in Fort Worth over a 21-month period two decades ago.

Curtis Don Brown, 46, has been charged with capital murder in the death of Terece Gregory.

A fisherman found Gregory's body in the Trinity River in 1985, a day after she was last seen leaving a popular downtown Fort Worth nightclub just before daybreak. She was shot in the face.

Investigators say they linked Brown to Gregory through a DNA database in February while working on cold-case killings. Police say that Brown's DNA matches semen taken from Gregory's body and stored in a crime lab freezer.

Since then, investigators have re-examined 25 unsolved slayings of women in Tarrant County and say 18 of those deserve a closer look, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in its Thursday editions.

Over a period of 21 months in the mid-1980s, more than a dozen young women were slain, including a popular radio station employee who disappeared after buying gas at a convenience store in southwest Fort Worth and a middle school teacher strangled in her apartment. Most of the deaths remain unsolved.

"The DNA hit caused us to look at several other cases to determine whether Brown may be possibly involved in those," police Sgt. J.D. Thornton, head of the homicide unit, told the newspaper. "Whether he is or not, the evidence available in those cases will be processed to determine whether we can make a link to any suspect."

Brown was brought back to Fort Worth from a prison in Angleton, where he is serving a life sentence for the 1986 murder of Jewel Woods.

Woods was a 51-year-old nurse attacked in her apartment. Her body was found nearby the following day. She was beaten to death with a rock.

At the time of his arrest in Woods' death, Brown was free on bond after police say he crawled into one woman's apartment and tried to break into another.

COMMENT

"INSIDE THE BLACK MARKET"

Up to 1 billion in potential revenue from the extraction of diamonds in Zimbabwe was reported missing. Blood diamonds are also lucrative on the black market.

Drug trafficking cartels in Mexico are reported to be diversifying into other criminal black markets to increase revenue. One such industry is the steel industry. In 2010, $240 million worth of steel was stolen from producers by drug trafficking cartels.

Black market gold trafficking in South Africa, Peru and The Congo creates a yearly loss of $2.3 billion a year.

The black market value of metals and minerals smuggling is $2.5 billion dollars.

Oil is also sought after on the black market.

Financial value of the current black market is $38.09 billion dollars annually.

COMMENT

For Morning Gossip, visit our partner site: The Dark Side Of Fame.Com

Myra Panache-Panache Report: Jay-Z & Beyonce (Future Billionaire Couple)  Scandal & Vice  Model Industry (Fashion Sense)

Myra Panache-Panache Report: Nostalgia Part 2 & Human Interest, etc.   Secret Societies, Conspiracy Theories & Espionage  

Myra Panache-Panache Report: The Unexplained, Fascinating True Stories & Mysterious Vanishings

WELCOME TO THE PREMIERE OF BALLIN' 8 (BLACK OPERATIONS):

EDITOR'S CUT: (A BLACK ESPIONAGE THRILL RIDE-GLOBALLY)

New characters:

Vail: (Black supermodel turned-intelligence broker/assassin-in-training).

Ryder: (CIA agent who went rogue/current enforcer and assassin for an illegal spider network).

Andreas Xavier: (The General of an illicit invisible empire named "Shadow Syndicate." This criminal conglomerate is involved in every illegal endeavor known to mankind.

Dominique Desiree: (Superstar attorney who unwittingly gets entangled in a web of deceit & deception).

Also starring: Jacks (CIA), G-Mac (Weapons Specialist), Dayna (HIV Assassin), Lear (CIA/Hollywood Fixer), Nikki (Freelance Assassin), Phelps (3-Charley/Sweeper), Lauryn (heads a cocaine banking cartel) and Cartier, (Former Black Hollywood drug kingpin/International Fugitive).

Click Here To Get Started: Ballin' 8

The Panache Report premium t-shirt is finally here! This shirt comes in black, brown, blue, gray, red, etc. Sizes include: small, medium, large, XL, 2XL, and 3XL. 

We also have a less expensive white value t-shirt in stock.  More items will be added in the near future. 

Click the link below to get started.

Panache Report Merchandise

SKY VILLA PRESENTS: "BALLIN 5-7 EXTRAVAGANZA"

By popular demand!  Please join us for a private screening of Ballin 5-7, available on PR for a limited time only!

Ballin 5-7, features: Jacks (CIA), G-Mac (Weapons Specialist), Dayna (HIV Assassin), Lear (CIA/Hollywood Fixer), Nikki (Freelance Assassin), and Phelps (3-Charley/Sweeper).

*Lauryn Allen (Cocaine Banking Kingpin) and her brother Cartier Allen (Black Hollywood Drug Lord) from the short story "Cocaine Banking Cartel," will be making a special appearance in Ballin' 7©.

You will be taken on an espionage thrill ride with a black shadow team of covert operatives from Dubai to Hollywood.

Click Here to read Ballin 4 (free) and: Ballin' 5-7

OUR MAY EDITION IS ONLINE NOW! LINKS BELOW!

TO READ SCANDALOUS, BOMBSHELL & EXPLOSIVE CELEBRITY GOSSIP, CLICK THE LINKS BELOW:

SKY VILLA HIGHLIGHTS  SCANDAL SHEET

*For The Black Elite: THE AFFLUENT REPORT

*To read about Hollywood Damage Control Experts (Fixers), International Intrigue and Movie Star Coverups, click the following link: SPYCRAFT & EYES ONLY

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

TO READ ABOUT THE CELEBRITIES PICTURED ABOVE & OTHER OLD SCHOOL ARTISTS, CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?  OTHER RELATED OLD SCHOOL LINKS:  OLD SCHOOL TIDBITS  OLD SCHOOL UPDATE LINKS (SCROLL DOWN)  JET MAGAZINE ARCHIVES

"MOTOWN ARTISTS: STORIES & SCANDALS"

*Past " Special Reports & Features," can be found in one of the following 14 categories: Rap Classified    Black Data Archives   Mainstream Classified & Scandals   Declassified   Scandal Sheet   Blackballed Affluent Report  Missing & Unsolved  Downfall  Coverups  Celebrity Tragedies  Spycraft/Eyes Only   Little Known Information   Bizarre & Unusual (Human Oddities)

Additional Old School Features: Motown Era & Scandals   Old School Tidbits   Where Are They Now?   Nostalgia Archives

*We are "NOT," to be held accountable, nor do we endorse nor are we responsible or liable regarding websites/bloggers who publish photos accompanying "our" blind items, suggesting the person(s) in the photo(s) accompanying the blind item(s) is the correct answer to the blind item(s).