February 5th, 2009 / Author: OK! Staff
Not only does Madonna have to worry about young pop stars crowding her spotlight, she also has to contend with competition from an unlikely source: her 12-year-old daughter, Lourdes Leon!
"I think Madonna can’t stand that Lourdes is growing into a beautiful teen," a source tells OK! of the 50-year-old singer. "She seems envious of her youth and looks. She knows Lourdes is going to be gorgeous and will get the attention of the opposite sex. Knowing Madonna’s taste for younger guys, it’s a matter of course that they’ll be dating men the same age. It’s disturbing."
Not surprisingly, the superstar is desperately trying to keep her daughter in a permanent state of girlhood. Last year, the beauty team on Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet Tour had strict orders not to touch Lourdes’s bushy eyebrows.
"That was a battle Madonna eventually gave in to," the source says. "Lourdes recently had them shaped."
Cracks in the once cozy mother-daughter relationship first started to show at a Gucci gala benefiting UNICEF and Malawi last Feb. "Madonna refused to let Lourdes have a hairdresser. She probably didn’t want her daughter to look better than her," the source tells OK!.
For the entire scoop on Madonna and Lourdes’ rocky relationship, pick up the new OK! — on newsstands everywhere!
December 30th, 2008
The man accused of killing Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew has been formally indicted on murder and home invasion charges.
William Balfour, 27, was indicted on the same four counts he was formally charged with earlier this month–three counts of first degree murder and one count of home invasion, E! online is reporting. Balfour appeared in court on Tuesday where he continued to deny any involvement in the Oct. 24 slayings of Darnell Donerson, 57, Jason Hudson, 29, and Julian King, 7 in Chicago.
Balfour’s attorney has asked that he be transferred to the Cook County Jail in order to be nearer to his family. The next hearing is set for Jan. 20.
December 3rd, 2008
William Balfour, the man charged with murdering Jennifer Hudson’s family members, may have had one of the oldest motives in the book for killing.
Just hours after his bail was denied on Wednesday, prosecutors say Balfour, 27, may have been plain jealous that his estranged wife Julia (Hudson’s sister) was seeing another man. He reportedly threatened to "harm" her family if she continued to see a new man and confronted them, prosecutors say, on the day of the murders.
TMZ is reporting that Balfour was just brought to Cook County Jail, booked and is now being housed in the general population.
