Patti LaBelle Gets Sued For Screaming At Toddler

Say it ain’t so Patti! Legendary singer Patti LaBelle gets sued for allegedly screaming at toddler, yes, you read that correctly. She’s also accused of throwing a punch at the child’s mother outside a Manhattan apartment house.

Kevin and Roseanna Monk accuse LaBelle of screaming at their then 18 months old daughter Genevieve, in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court this week. According to the Monks’ lawyer, Samuel L. Davis, while the young child ran around the lobby of an upper West Side apartment building, where LaBelle stayed during her stint in the Broadway show “Fela!” last November, the singer lashed out at the child’s mother saying, ‘What are you doing letting your kid run around like that?’

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Ebony’s Four Cover Summer Issue!

For its four cover summer issue Ebony magazine puts the spotlight on 25 black women who make us sit up and take notice and, as they put it, has the “It factor.”

I am so digging Alicia’s cover! Billy Holiday comes to mind.


Check out the list below.

  1. Naomi Campbell
  2. Jennifer Hudson
  3. Michelle Obama
  4. Tina Turner
  5. Aretha Franklin
  6. Halle Berry
  7. Serena Williams
  8. Condoleezza Rice
  9. Oprah Winfrey
  10. Tyra Banks
  11. Angela Davis
  12. Erykah Badu
  13. Jill Scott
  14. Lil’ Kim
  15. Whoopi Goldberg
  16. Diahann Carroll
  17. Pam Grier
  18. Patti LaBelle
  19. Alicia Keys
  20. Mo’ Nique
  21. Diana Ross
  22. Rihanna
  23. Grace Jones
  24. Mary J. Blige
  25. Beyoncé

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