Entertainment News - 05.21.25

In Entertainment News, the last standing plantation in the south is reduced to ashes after burning for 40 hours… The attorney for the 4 women that accused Smokey Robinson of sexual assault issued a statement… And a lot of Chris Brown fans are upset because he’s in jail in London.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The raging fire that totally destroyed the former fifty three
thousand square foot not Away Plantation in white Castle, Louisiana,
burned for nearly forty hours last week as onlookers took
videos and celebrated as it burned to the ground. The
massive Antebellum estate was the site of atrocious crimes against

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enslaved Black people from many generations. Slaved worked the land
and were tortured, raped, and mutilated there. In an effort
to erase the history of the Notaway Plantation, in recent years,
it was rebranded as a museum, then a wedding venue,
and a tourist attraction. Louisiana Fire marshals are still investigating

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the source of the fire, but it is safe to
say that many many people do not care. They're just
glad is finally gone so much.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
You know, man, what I used to drive in the
South when I was performing. I remember driving one time
in US saw billboard I don't remember where. He said,
come visit the Whitley Plantation, and I'm so I was
so mad, man, because I'm going You know, the audacity

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of these people to turn these places that caused so
much pain and deprivation and turn it into it. It's
a money more world. We used to make money on
it when they were slaves. Let's make money on it now.
Come visit the Whitney plantation. We visit your plantation, man.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
And did you give money to the descendants of the
slaves that worked at the plantation?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Oh? Please?

Speaker 1 (01:37):
What you know? They did not know.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Do African Americans deserve represent reparations? One thousand percent?

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Will we ever get a dollar? One thousand percent? We
will get not a coin, not a.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
That's a fight, period. Yeah. Well, they don't even want
to do that. They they yes, man, long pay you.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well. I don't see how we're gonna find out that's
the old what was that that old senator. I don't
see how we're going to be a track track just
get to us. We're trying.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, but you know, not everything else.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
But you can't see that that part.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I would support it, but I just I think it's
a dead I think it's a dead fight.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
I really do.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I can't imagine this country doing that, writing a check
for their wrongs when.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
They don't don't it. They won't. First of all, you
gotta admit to the wrong. I was going to.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Say them that would make them guilty. They would have
to admit, that would mean they really did this, all right?
Moving on, Well, in case you forgot about the sexual
assault lawsuit against Smokey Robinson, here's what we know so far.
The four women that have accused Smoking of years of
abuse while working at his residents are seeking fifty million
dollars in damages.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
According to the lady's attorney, all four women are Hispanic,
all were undocumented at the time, and all were allegedly
paid under minimum wage while they were being sexually assaulted,
and they were threatened with deportation. These factors reportedly kept
the ladies from coming forward sooner. Smokey Robinson's attorney, meanwhile,

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call the lawsuit a desperate attempt to prejudice public opinion
and manufactured attempt on Smokey's reputation. He expressed confidence that
a full review of the facts will clear the Smokey
Robinson's name. So there you go, clear Smokey Robinson's name.
That's what lawyer said.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Okay, you know, in stories like this, because you're a
public figure, you cannot say what you think. But I
have a question. Okay, if you asked me knowing Smoking
Robinson the way I do and as long as I've

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known him, does this sound believable to you? And I
would say no, it doesn't sound believable to me as
the person that I've sat down and talked with many
times and just the spirit of him as a person.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
But let's let's hypothetically say.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
He gets cleared and let me see that comes out
proof that there's like an extortion or blackmail or whatever
you wanna call it. What happens then? Do the people
who bought the chargers? Do they do they go home?

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Do they just?

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh? Well, I tried, That's that's what happened. So I've
learned how now to form what I'm thinking in the
form of hypothetical questions that way Steve ain't known the hook.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
All right, all right, we're gonna move on now. Finally,
Chris Brown's fans are in an uproar because his tour
is stalled. Right now, Chris is behind bars in London.
Chris has arrested him from an altercation back in twenty
twenty three with a promoter in London. Chris was accused
of assaulting the promoter and there was an arrest of

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warrant for his arrest. When Chris stepped stepped foot back
in the UK for his tour, he was arrested. A
London judge ordered that Chris remain in custody until June thirteenth,
when his next court hearing is scheduled. Yeah, his tour.
Chris's tour is scheduled to kick off June eighth in
the Netherlands, so it looks like he will not make

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that opening.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, we're June thirteenth.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, June thirteenth.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
That's to Marlbret pretty much. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, but hey man, first of all, it's hard to
be in jail out of town.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
That's really hard.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
But let me say this to yeah, Chris has Chris
gonna have to make some changes in his team. Called Hi,
his lawyers and his people don't know that there's a
warrant out for your rest in another country. And then
let this young cat get on this plane and step
off the place because.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
He would have never went right.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, So that's just somebody man just signing, signing for
money and one of his lawyers men should have known this.
It's no way that they didn't get a notice about
this somewhere.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, all right, you should want to jail.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
In New Orleans. He could have broke up with them.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Other gases coming up. Twenty minutes after the hour, something.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Called to hit this show.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
You're listening Harvey Morning Show,