NEW YORK (AP) -- A personal assistant will spend up to life behind bars for murdering her boss, a punk-rock manager turned high-powered real estate broker, in a vicious beating at the victim's Fifth Avenue penthouse.

Twenty-eight-year-old Natavia Lowery was sentenced Monday in Manhattan 25 years to life for murder. With additional time for other counts, her total sentence comes to 27 and one-third years to life.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Lil Wayne has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty in a New York City gun case.

The Grammy Award-winning rapper was taken away in handcuffs Monday to start serving his term immediately after his sentencing. He pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon and admitted having a loaded gun on his tour bus in 2007.

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NEW YORK – A Florida woman has sued rapper 50 Cent in Manhattan, claiming he unlawfully distributed her homemade sex tape over the Internet after editing himself into it as a wig-wearing narrator.

Lastonia Leviston filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in Manhattan claiming unauthorized use of her name or image as well as emotional distress caused by the public release of the tape she made with a lover in 2008.

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NEW YORK – A delusional fan who unleashed his crude fantasies about Ashanti in a battery of text messages to her mother was sentenced Thursday to two years in jail, though his judge rued not being able to send him to psychological treatment instead.

A downcast Devar Hurd said he didn't mean to annoy or alarm the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer and her family when he sent the messages. Some included photos of his genitals and

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Cycle 14 of America's Next Top Model premieres Wednesday, March 10, at 8 p.m. Eastern on The CW, and we have brand new photos from the upcoming season, including Tatianna above! Check out all the model wannabes, and tell us which ones are model material!

The hit reality series features Tyra Banks and gives real people an opportunity to prove that they can make it in the high-stress, high-stakes world of supermodeling. The series follows a group of young women of various backgrounds, more...

Rapper Soulja Boy has been sentenced to 12 months' probation stemming from his arrest at a music video shoot in October. The Crank That (Soulja Boy) hit-maker was shooting a clip at an abandoned house in Georgia with a cast and crew of 40 people, including fans he had invited to participate.

However, when authorities arrived to investigate complaints of noise, half the group, including Soulja Boy, fled by foot.

The hip-hop star, real name DeAndre Cortez Way, was said more...

Paul McCartney will be the only solo Beatle not to be among the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame when Ringo Starr is honored on Monday. The drummer will unveil the 2,401st star on the Walk of Fame outside the fabled Capitol Records Building, where George Harrison and John Lennon already have pavement honors.

The Fab Four also have a band star on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea, but McCartney has never claimed his honor.

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