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Oprah debunks Private Hawaii Tsunami road closure rumor + Mary J. Blige may be headed to court · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: George.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 2: and everybody.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know if you don't lie about that, right,
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  Speaker 3: la Hey, y'all, what's up.
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  Speaker 2: It's Laura l Rosa and this is the Latest with
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  Speaker 2: Lauren the Rosa. This is your daily dig on all
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  Speaker 2: things pop culture, entertainment, news, and all of the conversations
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  Speaker 2: that shake the room. Baby now today, getting on right
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  Speaker 2: into the latest. So on Tuesday, at eight point eight
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  Speaker 2: magnitude earthquake in Russia's Eastern Peninsula caused huge waves to
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  Speaker 2: reach Hawaii. So the island of Hawaii, which is also
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  Speaker 2: home to you know, like there's there's several celebrities who
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  Speaker 2: live there on Wilson, Jeff Bezos, but outside of celebrity,
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  Speaker 2: you have everyday people who were there. And if you
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  Speaker 2: ever if you've ever been to Hawaii, you know how
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  Speaker 2: beautiful it is. You know how much things are surrounded
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  Speaker 2: by water and you know different encloses, So you can
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  Speaker 2: imagine how much damage a massive earthquake like at eight
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  Speaker 2: point eight magnitude earthquake cause a four foot wave did
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  Speaker 2: to the island and what that means for the people
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  Speaker 2: that are living there now. I mentioned some of the
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  Speaker 2: celebrities that live there, because one celebrity in particular right
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  Speaker 2: now is being dragged, and it is Oprah. Oprah is
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  Speaker 2: being dragged because there were accusations out there that Oprah
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  Speaker 2: closed down a private road near her Hawaii home that
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  Speaker 2: I guess could have helped the Hawaiian locals get to
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  Speaker 2: higher ground as they were trying to evacuate all of
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  Speaker 2: the elements.
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  Speaker 3: And the rumor got so big and so loud that.
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  Speaker 2: A spokesperson for Oprah came out and denied the accusations
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  Speaker 2: that she kept the private road that runs through her
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  Speaker 2: state in Maui closed as locals tried to escape following
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  Speaker 2: a Hawaii tsunami warning that went out. The spokesperson says,
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  Speaker 2: as soon as we heard of the tsunami warnings, we
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  Speaker 2: contacted local law enforcement and FEMA to ensure the road
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  Speaker 2: was open. Any other reports otherwise are false now. The
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  Speaker 2: spokesperson also went on to say local law enforcement are
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  Speaker 2: currently on site helping residents through fitty cars at a
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  Speaker 2: time to ensure everyone's safety. The road will remain open
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  Speaker 2: as long as necessary now. The Maui Police also did
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  Speaker 2: confirm that Oprah cooperated as well. They wrote in a
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  Speaker 2: statement that Oprah's Road is open to get up country.
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  Speaker 2: The full statement actually talked about like other highways that
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  Speaker 2: were congested, It talked about roads that were congested as well.
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  Speaker 2: It talked about roads above a golf course called the
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  Speaker 2: Backinna golf Course providing access to different grounds that you know,
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  Speaker 2: people needed to get to. And then they mentioned that
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  Speaker 2: Oprah's Road is open to get the up country as well.
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  Speaker 2: They also list different shelters where you can stay. Now,
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  Speaker 2: my whole point in bringing this up is and even
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  Speaker 2: in talking about this, I felt crazy bringing up celebrities
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  Speaker 2: that lived in Hawaii because it's like celebrity or regular person,
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  Speaker 2: you don't want anything to happen to anyone at all.
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  Speaker 2: And then when you think about something like this that
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  Speaker 2: is a natural disaster, there's nothing you can do, Like,
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing that any one of the people who are
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  Speaker 2: going to be a feed to buy this and are
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  Speaker 2: currently being affected by this could do to prevent this
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  Speaker 2: from happening. So, whether you have money and resources or
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  Speaker 2: whether you don't, everyone's there who's there trying.
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  Speaker 3: To figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: I hate that when things like this happen, people turn
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  Speaker 2: these conversations into ways to target celebrities, whether it's about
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  Speaker 2: how much money or support they are or not giving
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  Speaker 2: what they're physically doing or not. Y'all, these natural disasters
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  Speaker 2: happen and people are just trying to survive.
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  Speaker 3: That should be the conversation right now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad that, you know, police were able to make
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  Speaker 2: the statement and the outlets picked it up, so that
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  Speaker 2: people there in the midst of all of this chaos
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  Speaker 2: and this, you know what I mean, You're trying to
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  Speaker 2: make sure.
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  Speaker 3: Their family is straight, their kids are straight.
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  Speaker 2: Know the information and know that they have these escape
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  Speaker 2: routes and you know, these shelters available and things of
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  Speaker 2: that nature. And if you're listening to the podcast and
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  Speaker 2: you are in the area of these natural disasters that
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  Speaker 2: are happening over there in Maui, if you go to
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  Speaker 2: Maui County dot gov and then go to their Alert center,
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  Speaker 2: you can get all this information because we do want
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  Speaker 2: to be helpful and talking about this, so you can
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  Speaker 2: find out about shelters, traffic, evacuation routes, water and the
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  Speaker 2: water systems and the damage and where that's at, you know,
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  Speaker 2: parks and facilities and how those are you know, being affected.
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  Speaker 2: It's closed, it's open transportation, any public transportation that is available,
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  Speaker 2: Like the Maui County dot gov website is talking about
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  Speaker 2: how all Maui bus services will cease operations by six
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  Speaker 2: thirty PM or earlier based on the route according to
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  Speaker 2: the County Department of Transportation, and they give you a
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  Speaker 2: dispatch number as well in case you have any questions.
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  Speaker 2: There's updates on the tsunami and just the county's response,
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  Speaker 2: like how you know FEMA in the county and local
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  Speaker 2: LA enforcement they're working together to make sure people are okay.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that we are even talking about Oprah, and
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  Speaker 2: I love Oprah.
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  Speaker 3: Oprah can do no wrong.
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  Speaker 2: In my household you grow up with older black women,
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  Speaker 2: Oprah does no wrong.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time, I just think it's.
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  Speaker 2: Ridiculous that people are literally staring down the barrel of
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  Speaker 2: a natural dis like this, fighting for their lives, trying
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  Speaker 2: to figure things out.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the conversation that we are having.
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  Speaker 2: But the fact that Oprah had to come out and
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  Speaker 2: even make that statement goes to show you just how
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  Speaker 2: much people care about celebrity for all the wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Reasons and in all of the wrong times.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, remember when We had that conversation here about
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  Speaker 2: Mary J. Blige and a very long time friend of hers,
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  Speaker 2: fashion stylist, fashion architect, legend icon and the fashion lane
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  Speaker 2: Amisa Hillton, who was you know, stylist for Mary J. Blige,
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  Speaker 2: stylist for Little Kim. She actually dressed Little Kim for
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  Speaker 2: the legendary met Gala. Look that Little Kim wore when
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  Speaker 2: she went to the met Gala and became the first
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  Speaker 2: female rapper to attend the met Gala.
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  Speaker 3: They had, you know, they were in the midst of
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  Speaker 3: a legal back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that back and forth is still going on, and
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  Speaker 2: we have some updates here because now Mary J. Blige
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  Speaker 2: is finally speaking out, fighting back via her attorneys, and
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  Speaker 2: she is saying that the lawsuit is frivolous and that
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  Speaker 2: this is you know, she's a legend, that this is
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  Speaker 2: basically harassment.
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  Speaker 3: It's all about money.
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  Speaker 2: But before we get into the new details, I want
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  Speaker 2: to take a listen to the conversation that we had
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  Speaker 2: when I first spoke to you guys about this lawsuit,
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  Speaker 2: just to kind of give you some background for anybody
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  Speaker 2: who may not have heard the episode. We spoke to
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  Speaker 2: the lawyer for Mesa Hilton, who explained to us what
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  Speaker 2: Mesa Hillton what her issue was at the time that
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  Speaker 2: the lawsuit was originally filed. Now this was some months ago,
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  Speaker 2: and this was such a big shock to a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people because Misa Hilton, who is also the mother
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  Speaker 2: of Justin Colmes, Sean Diddy Combs's son, his second oldest
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  Speaker 2: son after Quincy. It was a big shock because they've
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  Speaker 2: been friends and I mean best friends for decades.
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  Speaker 3: So so so long.
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  Speaker 2: So people just could not understand what would make her
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  Speaker 2: file a lawsuit against Mary J.
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  Speaker 3: Blige. And then we got some of the details.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a listen to Mesa Hillton's attorney giving me
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  Speaker 2: Society the story of why this lawsuit was originally fouled
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  Speaker 2: in the first place, from some months ago.
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  Speaker 1: One of the main parts of this lawsuit, not the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing, but the main part is that why would
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  Speaker 1: she stifle her own artist. And in fact, from what
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  Speaker 1: I understand, the allegations go as far as that they
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  Speaker 1: told allegedly Misa, well, if you stop managing him, then
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  Speaker 1: we'll put him back on, which is a complete material
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  Speaker 1: breach of the contract. And again we found that very
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  Speaker 1: strange because of their long standing family relationship. So we
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  Speaker 1: were reaching out with the hope said hey, listen, let's
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  Speaker 1: just settle this.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just figure this out.
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  Speaker 1: More importantly, the one who's suffering here, besides Mesa's relationship
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  Speaker 1: with her sister is Vado. Unfortunately, what is he doing
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  Speaker 1: is the entire career has now been.
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  Speaker 2: Stifled now when all has happened. At the time, you know,
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  Speaker 2: of course we had tried. I had tried anyway to
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  Speaker 2: reach out to Mary J. Blige to just hear her
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  Speaker 2: side of things, but there was enough. I got no
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  Speaker 2: statement or response, there was nothing filed back in response
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  Speaker 2: or anything whatsoever.
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  Speaker 3: But this week Mary J.
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  Speaker 2: Blige decided to speak out and she filed documents in
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  Speaker 2: response to the lawsuit, and she's asking for.
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  Speaker 3: A judge to drop the lawsuit. Now.
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  Speaker 2: According to the legal docs that were filed by Mary J.
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  Speaker 2: Blige's lead attorney, her name is Lisa Moore. Lisa Moore,
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  Speaker 2: mary J. Blige's attorney, is saying that they believe they
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  Speaker 2: include Mary J. Blige, believe that this lawsuit originally filed
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  Speaker 2: by Mesa Hillton for the sole purpose of harassing and
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  Speaker 2: causing malicious injury to Mary J.
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  Speaker 3: Blige.
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  Speaker 2: They called the lawsuit, as I told you guys, patently frivolous.
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  Speaker 2: They also say that this is all about money. Now,
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  Speaker 2: according to these docs, Mary J. Blige's team has been
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  Speaker 2: pushing for this lawsuit to be dismissed since May. They
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  Speaker 2: say that, you know, because the lawsuit is baseless under
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  Speaker 2: the governing contracts that they alleged they had between them
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  Speaker 2: and Mesa Hillton, including you know, text messages. Because at
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  Speaker 2: the heart and the root of all of this is
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  Speaker 2: an artist, Saint Votto. He is a rapper out of
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  Speaker 2: New York that Mary J. Blige, that Mesa Hilton is.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she's saying that she manages him and it
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  Speaker 2: is helping to craft and build his career. She at
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  Speaker 2: one point was doing that in partnership with Mary J. Blige,
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  Speaker 2: which included him opening up allegedly, you know, for Mary
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  Speaker 2: J Oblige on different tours and different shows and things
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  Speaker 2: of that nature. And then all of that stopped, as
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  Speaker 2: we heard from Nick, all of that stopped and allegedly,
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  Speaker 2: according to uh, you know, Missa Hill's team once Vodo
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  Speaker 2: would not solely sign with Mary J. Blige and take
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  Speaker 2: Mesa Hilton out of the mix. Now, this is all
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  Speaker 2: alleged and according to Massa Hillton's team, but Mary j.
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  Speaker 2: Blige is saying that according to the governor governing contracts
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  Speaker 2: that they had between the parties and actual texts that
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  Speaker 2: she has and she's alleging are from Vodo himself raising
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  Speaker 2: the issue and wanting to fire Mesa in the management
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  Speaker 2: company that was managed him, none of that can be true.
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  Speaker 2: This lawsuit just does not hold up. And I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: the money. Now, what they're actually saying in regards to
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  Speaker 2: the money is that all of these things, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: the lawsuit is filed allegedly, there's these narrative running online
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  Speaker 2: now because of the lawsuit and the things that were
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  Speaker 2: alleged in the lawsuit, and Mary je Oblige's attorneys and
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  Speaker 2: you know, her team are saying that they believe that
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  Speaker 2: this is all going down because they alleged that meets
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  Speaker 2: the hill in in Vodo are just looking for a
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  Speaker 2: favorable settlement, like they just want money. And Mary j
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  Speaker 2: Oblige is saying, I'm fighting back and that is not
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  Speaker 2: going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: So Judge, please dismiss this lawsuit.
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  Speaker 2: If not, we will go forward in court, but we
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  Speaker 2: are not going to buckle to what they allege is
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  Speaker 2: a shakedown. This is very disheartening because, as I told
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  Speaker 2: you guys, they've been friends for a very long time.
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  Speaker 2: It's been like thirty some years that they've been friends,
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  Speaker 2: and from everything that I've known, you know, they've always
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  Speaker 2: had each other's backs because they've been through so much together.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously this lawsuit is not reading this that way at all.
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  Speaker 3: All.
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  Speaker 2: I have reached out to Mesa Hillton's team just in
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  Speaker 2: response to MARYA je Obliges recent filing and her coming
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  Speaker 2: back out and fighting back against the claims that are
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  Speaker 2: out there against her and all the things that I've
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  Speaker 2: told you guys that she is now alleging, But I
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  Speaker 2: haven't her back. I mean, right now, I would say
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  Speaker 2: that if I am Mesa hill and if I am
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  Speaker 2: Mary J. Blige, you want this to be settled in
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  Speaker 2: a way where you know, me and my friend don't
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  Speaker 2: have to be in court or a former friend, because
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  Speaker 2: at this point I don't think there's any way that
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  Speaker 2: they would call each other friends, which is so insane, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Like I can't even describe to you guys how insane
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  Speaker 2: it is that Mesa hill In and Marriag j A
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  Speaker 2: Blige just are at this point. But I wouldn't wanted
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  Speaker 2: to get to a point where I'm even having to
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  Speaker 2: deal with court.
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  Speaker 3: But it seems like both parties are not backing down.
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  Speaker 2: So unless this is thrown out by a judge, which
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  Speaker 2: has not happened yet, nothing has been decided. This filing
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  Speaker 2: just literally just happened. But we'll keep you guys up
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  Speaker 2: the date to let you know how it goes down,
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  Speaker 2: because if it goes to court, those things get nasty.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's evidence that is inputed, there's conversations that
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  Speaker 2: are made public and things put on blast. That you're
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  Speaker 2: dealing with two women who have been known figures. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Mary J. Blige is the Mary J. Blige for some time.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a huge spotlight, a huge spotlight on this
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  Speaker 2: because of all of those things and because of those
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  Speaker 2: variables that just make things worse, to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 2: like one hundred percent worse. So I'll keep you guys
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  Speaker 2: up to day on how that goes down and what
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  Speaker 2: goes down if anything, all right, y' Also, that's all
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  Speaker 2: we got for you today and the latest I know,
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  Speaker 2: we kind of were all over the place. We was
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  Speaker 2: hip hop we in your we're talking Mary J. Blige,
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  Speaker 2: and then we take it all over to Maui and
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  Speaker 2: is you know, give you guys some updates, make sure
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  Speaker 2: Ready is good, and letting you know Oprah ain't blocking
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  Speaker 2: and oprahin's stopping the show. It's not happening, but that is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's the latest. The latest is there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot going on.
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  Speaker 3: Because I tell.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all every episode at the end of the day, there's
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  Speaker 2: always a lot to talk about. But you guys, my lowriders,
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  Speaker 2: being right here with me to talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate you guys so much.
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  Speaker 2: I will see you guys in my next episode.