May 31st, 2008

Lil Kim and Whitney Houston just can’t leave him alone. The “Sexy Can I’ singer, Ray J

Hip Hop’s all starz continue to kick it in Cannes on Diddy’s yacht. Newlyweds, Beyonce and Jay Z

People are really freaking out about the Miley Cyrus “topless” Vanity Fair photographs. Disney is blaming photographer Annie Leibovitz., saying that she and VF created a situation “to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines.” Vanity Fair is standing by the images, emphasizing that Cyrus’s “parents and/or minders were on the set all day,” and Leibovitz is calling the photos “very beautiful.” Cyrus has issued a public apology over the photos, but I guess what bothers me about the situation is not that a 15-year-old has been sexualized, its that the scenario has taken away her agency entirely.