Singer Ciara had a brush with cops on Tuesday night, May 11 when a playback of her new songs prompted complaints from local residents. The “Goodies” hitmaker was celebrating a pal’s birthday in Los Angeles when they decided to continue the party in a nearby parking lot.

Ciara insisted it was the perfect time to unveil her latest recordings to her friends – but their raucous reactions resulted in a visit from police officers. In a series of posts on her Twitter she writes, “Tonight was sooo much fun!! I originally had plans to go to the Victoria Secret party, but that changed (at the) last minute… and I headed to celebrate my friend’s birthday party!”

“It was sooo much fun, and the funny thing to top it off was we all decided to go to a parking lot and play a few of the newest songs I recorded and we realized we had the music just a little too loud because the police came by and said they had received reports of loud music!! But thank God we had the music down in time, and there was no trouble with the po po (police).”

And the singer even managed to charm the two cops into posing for pictures:

“We actually ended up taking photos together!!… Here’s a pic of me and the police officers. Thought it (would) be fun to share my night with u!”

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Justin Timberlake is to open his new golf course in his native Memphis, Tennessee in July – and he reveals the place has very special memories for him. The pop superstar and golf fanatic is the brains behind the revamped Miramichi Lakes country club, which was the first place he learned to hit a ball.

He says, “This was the course where my dad taught me to hit a golf ball. I was really young, so all I really cared about was girls at the time. We actually have done some pretty cool things with this course; we had to re-do the whole course. We’re the first course in America to be certified an eco-friendly golf course.”

Golf Course aside, Justin Timberlake has spent some quality time with his girlfriend Jessica Biel last weekend despite being hit with numerous break up reports. They attended Tribeca hand in hand and went to Timbaland concert at Drai’s Hollywood.

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R&B superstar Ne-Yo has written a script for a new movie – and used the film’s storyline to inspire his next album. The “So Sick” hitmaker is in talks with Hollywood bosses to turn his screenplay into a big screen picture, and is hoping to release an album and graphic novel based on its plot.

He tells Britain’s Daily Star, “I developed a script and I’m in the process of getting a Hollywood studio to turn it into a movie. My new album is a series of songs inspired by the script that I wrote, but it’s not a musical.”

“I’ve got a few friends in the graphic novel business, so we will storyboard it but release it as a book first. The underlying question is about your moral fibre. Is love, money and fame more important to you? The movie is really me and my friends answering that question.”

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Lindsay Lohan’s mom Dina Lohan has been named the Craziest Hollywood Mom in a quirky new Mother’s Day online poll. The reality TV star beat the likes of Britney Spears, Courtney Love and Candy Spelling on the list of shame, compiled by website HollyScoop.

Dina Lohan was named top of the crazies because she’s “a total enabler for her easily-influenced daughter Lindsay, who is on yet another dangerous downward spiral of hard partying,” according to the website.

‘Octo-mum’ Nadia Suleman came in second and Courtney Love finished third. Joan Rivers and former U.S. Vice-President candidate Sarah Palin also made the top five.

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American actress/singer Lena Horne has died. She was 92. The star passed away at New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Sunday, May 9, but her cause of death was unknown as WENN went to press. Horne shot to fame in 1943 when she starred in film musical “Stormy Weather” and the title track became her signature song. During her career, she became a voice for the civil rights movement in the U.S. and was one of Hollywood’s first black pin-ups.

She was struck by tragedy in the early 1970s when her husband, son and father died within a period of 12 months. Horne announced her retirement in 1980, but in 1981 she put on an award-winning one-woman show, “Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music”, on Broadway and in London.

She went on to win a string of Grammy awards, was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame by the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site.

Horne is survived by her daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley.

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Jennifer Lopez’s ex-husband Ojani Noa is in talks to star in his own reality TV show in a final bid to avoid bankruptcy, according to U.S. reports. Noa was court-ordered to pay Lopez $545,000 after he tried to publish a tell-all book about their relationship in 2007, and he claims recent legal battles with his former wife have drained his finances

According to the New York Post, Noa is now in talks with network executives for a reality show titled “I Owe J.Lo”, to avoid going broke. The series will reportedly follow Noa as he tries to “land menial jobs to pay off a half-million dollar court judgment that he owes to his ex-wife”.

Noa recently lost out on a role in hit U.S. reality show “Jersey Shore” amid reports potential employers fear the wrath of Lopez’s lawyers, who are fighting to keep him from releasing information and candid home video footage of the singer/actress.

Hip-hop mogul Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs went to prison on Wednesday, April 28, to pay a visit to incarcerated rapper Lil Wayne. The Bad Boy boss was approved by officials to meet with the “Lollipop” hitmaker, who was jailed in March after pleading guilty to gun possession charges.

According to the New York Daily News, Combs visited Wayne, real name Dwayne Carter Jr., at the Eric M. Taylor correctional facility and was given one hour to talk. The publication also reports that he did not have private transportation to the facility and was bused over on the prison’s public bus.

Combs escaped a jail sentence of his own after he was found not guilty of weapons possession and other charges related to a shoot-out at a New York City nightclub in 1999.

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Looks like another group is branching off to do solo projects, Brandon Flowers from The Killers has announced via his website that he’s going solo. The “Human” hitmaker will release his first solo album, “Flamingo”, later this year. The news marked the launch of the rocker’s own website BrandonFlowersMusic.com.

The Killers have laid low from touring and music at the top of 2010 due to the passing of Flowers mother. The Killers drummer Ronnie Vannucci is doing a side project as well. No dates have been confirmed for either project, but you can sign up to Brandon’s website for news. I know I did, The Killers is the best band! Yeah I Said it!

Seems no amount of money can even stop people from missing one another, the same can be said for Rihanna and new boyfriend Matt Kemp. While on her worldwide tour she’s having to settle for video messages and text. With Rihanna trekking around Europe, and Matt’s own busy schedule means they won’t see each other again until June.

Rihanna tells Britain’s Daily Mirror, “I was hoping he would be able to come to London but he’s working. And I’m touring and shooting videos for my next single, so it’s going to be seven weeks before I see him again. It’ll probably be when I get back to America that we can hook up properly.”

“We have to make do with Skype and phone, but I miss him. I can’t wait to see him again.” Kemp is a star slugger for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Imagine you run Concord and get antsy one day. “Everyone else has a crazy one-of-a-kind jewelry watch, why can’t we?” So you take your flagship watch from a couple of years ago an slather it richly with precious diamonds and carnelians just like a deli would put cream cheese and lox on a bagel. In a sense, that is what the Concord C1 EternalGravity tourbillon watch looks like. The diamonds are the cream cheese, and the pink/red carnelians is the smoked salmon. Though it won’t be easy to take a bite out of this massive timepiece that is 48.5mm wide and 18.5mm thick in mostly 18k white gold.

Before it was the EternalGravity, the watch was merely the Concord C1 Tourbillon Gravity watch. The focus being on the tourbillon escapement that was vertically aligned and placed facing outward on the lower right hand of the case.  So perhaps the movement is more interesting because in a sense the artist that made it is dead.

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