Hardly a month has passed since R&B mogul Jermaine Dupri first presented his birthday present to his lady love, singer Janet Jackson: a large tattoo of her posed as a madonna, emblazoned on his right side.

Too bad the return policy on that gift requires a little more than a receipt.

The National Enquirer is reporting that the couple of four years is splitting after Janet's career decline has left relations between the two unstable. After all, Dupri was also the manager of Ms. Jackson's largely unsuccessful recent tour. According to Access Atlanta, concerts had been repeatedly … Read More

"Let's go over this again: you're going to spend our life savings on dried fruit?" I asked my wife, Noha, in 2004 when she first pitched me the idea of starting Peeled Snacks, a fruit and nut snack company.

Earlier in the year we'd both quit our jobs to go traveling before I started a stint as a public school teacher, but I'd assumed that she'd get back to work with a position lucrative enough to offset the modest teacher's pay I'd soon receive. Instead, she decided to become her own boss and make negative money.

Though those first … Read More

We're willing to wager that nine times out of ten, you couldn't pay a person to walk in on their spouse in bed with another person. For rapper/actor Nick Cannon and wife Mariah Carey, it's a whole different story.

While directing Mariah's newest video which includes a love scene with a man other than her husband, Cannon reportedly "struggled" Who can blame him?

Cannon should take the blame for his failure to anticipate the trauma of watching his partner pretend to do the dirty with a model while making the promo for "I Stay In Love". Er, what exactly did … Read More

Relationships are the ultimate experiment in teamwork. Ideally, a loving relationship is a lifetime contract filled with championship seasons and jewelry that screams happiness. But even the best teams struggle to find harmony—think Shaq and Kobe, George Steinbrenner and Reggie Jackson, Steinbrenner and Billy Martin (who was hired and fired five times), Steinbrenner and Joe Torre. Now think about "us."

Every team—good or bad—gets an off-season, a few months to heal, reflect on wins and losses, make adjustments. For professional athletes that means stepping away from the arenas, toward big-game fishing, rounds of golf, high-priced hookers, and maybe a trial.

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