Back in December, we began to hear the first rumblings that the near 4-year marriage of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony was on the rocks (for various reasons) and a report began to circulate that contended that LopAnthony were planning to announce their break-up and divorce on Valentine’s Day, from the stage of Marc’s VD concert in NYC. In the weeks, since those reports began to spread, LopAnthony have done everything they could to try and show that the couple are still very much together … J. Lo even started wearing her wedding ring again … in public! Well, Marc’s Valentine’s Day concert at Madison Square Garden went off without a hitch and the apparently happily married couple DID not announce their break-up from the concert stage. In fact they did just the opposite — J. Lo and children Max & Emme joined daddy Marc on stage to show the world just how happy they all are together:

And afterward, once the kids were put to bed, the couple hit the streets of NYC to celebrate the rest of Valentine’s Day together. Here are photos of the couple as they made their way to a romantic VD dinner together last night at Cipriani in NYC’s SoHo neighborhood:

Now, just because the family put on happy faces at the concert and the couple made a show of going out together for Valentine’s Day dinner doesn’t necessarily mean that everything is happy in LopAnthonyland … it, at the very least, means that the couple are not interested in playing into the hands of gossips and rumormongers. I personally do not put much credence on these sorts of reports of break-ups … I tend to err on the side of caution and positivity. Then again, I’m never really very surprised when folks break-up after rumors begin to swell. I just tend to hope for the best and wait for the worst. At this point, LopAnthony appear to be happily attached … I guess we’ll have to see if that attachment is everlasting.

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It would seem that Madonna has been able to do the impossible. With just her wiles and influence, she appears to have gotten Jesus (a staunch Christian, natch) to convert to the mystical sect of Judaism known as Kabbalah. I bet his heavenly father is gonna be pissed. Here are a few photos of Madonna, with her son David Banda in tow, making her arrival at the Kabbalah Centre in NYC yesterday afternoon and of Brazilian model (and rumored boytoy) Jesus Luz doing the same … but separately — to throw us off their plan:

Model Jesus Luz added fuel to the rumours of a relationship with Madonna, when he accompanied the singer and her adopted son David Banda to a Kabbalah meeting yesterday. The couple arrived and left the centre separately, no doubt in a bid to hide their budding romance. A dinner à deux, just a few days ago, left us little convinced by their efforts though. And if images from a photo shoot in December for hip US magazine W are anything to go by, the pair are already on very friendly terms. That’s more than can be said for Madonna and her estranged husband Guy Ritchie, who are said to be at loggerheads over where their sons are to be raised. The Lock Stock director has been championing a British education, while Madonna, 50, claims it was part of their divorce settlement for the boys to be based in New York with her. It emerged yesterday that they have already been enrolled in schools stateside. Meanwhile Guy is said to be concerned over Madonna’s near-naked poses with her new boyfriend, Brazilian model Jesus Luz, in America’s W magazine. “Guy is concerned the kids will get teased and he thinks it’s tasteless that she’s flaunting herself with another man all over a magazine,” the source adds.

HMMM. First Maddy introduces Jesus to her children, then she indoctrinates him to her religion … it sounds serious, y’all. I’m not really sure why Madonna & Child are putting on a show by arriving at the Kabbalah Centre separately, as if they each decided independent of one another to go to a Kabbalah meeting. They might as well share cab fare, they ain’t foolin’ anyone. At 22, Jesus appears to be a very impressionable young man … being allowed to “hang out” with (or in?) Madonna is prolly a very heady experience. He is, most likely, in a position to be molded by her in any way she desires, according to any whim she may entertain. I suspect that as long as Madonna is interested, we’ll be seeing poor little Jesus Luz following her around like an enamored puppy begging for attention. Lord have mercy!

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People magazine managed to score interviews with the fathers of Rihanna and Chris Brown who have been remained absolutely silent publicly in the week since we first heard of the alleged assault on Rihanna by Chris Brown which reportedly took place a week ago today. Rihanna’s father, Ronald Fenty, spoke to the magazine about his daughter’s current condition while Chris Brown’s father, Clinton Brown, spoke to the mag about his son’s “remorse” and “concern” about “the situation”. Here are the two interviews given to People magazine by the fathers:

In an interview with PEOPLE, Rihanna’s father, Ronald Fenty, said that when he first heard that his daughter had been attacked by Chris Brown, “I didn’t believe it. I know my daughter,” said Fenty, 55. As for Brown, he said, “You think you know somebody, but you really don’t.” Brown, 19, allegedly attacked Rihanna, 20, in Los Angeles last Sunday. He was arrested and may face charges from the district attorney. Describing Rihanna’s current condition after seeing her in Barbados on Thursday, Fenty said, “There is some bruising. She will be all right. I think so.” He adds, “At some point, she will speak out. I hope she will stand up for women all over the world.” Fenty, a salesman and freelance clothing designer, said Rihanna is spending time with her girlfriends in Barbados while she heals. While Fenty said he wouldn’t tell his daughter what to do, he did say, “If it were me, I’d move on.” The last time Fenty had seen Rihanna and Brown together was in July. “They seemed pretty happy,” he recalls. “I don’t know what went wrong.”

So now we have confirmation from Rihanna’s father that she is, indeed, showing signs of injury … which seems to corroborate what we heard from various sources speaking about the on-going police investigation. I’m concerned, tho, by Fenty’s remark that Rihanna should “move on”. I’m not quite clear what he means by that. If he means that she should “get over” the situation and “move on” then I am appalled that a father would say such a thing. His earlier comment that he hopes that his daughter will “stand up for women all over the world” seems to contradict his belief that she should “move on” so mebbe I’m misinterpreting.

Here is what Chris Brown’s father Clinton said to the magazine:

Speaking out for the first time since his son’s arrest, Chris Brown’s biological father, Clinton Brown, tells PEOPLE his son is at home, reflective and filled with concern. “He’s reflecting on this situation,” Brown, 44, a corrections officer, tells PEOPLE in an interview at his home outside Tappahannock, Va. “He’s very remorseful. He’s very concerned about the situation and he wants to make sure that [Rihanna's] okay. This is unfortunate, this stumble, this situation,” Brown continues. “Hopefully, he will get past it. We all have our shortcomings. We all trip.” And Brown – who flew to Los Angeles to attend the Grammys with his son but never made it to the show – says there are “two sides to every story.” “If you are on his side, you are on his side,” he says. “Just because someone trips, if you are truly a fan, you are not going to demonize him instantaneously” … Brown says he spoke to his son in person on Feb. 12. “Let’s just say he’s home,” Brown said, though he never offered a specific location. “Just know that he’s home. He needed some time to get his thoughts together and regroup.” Calling his son a “lovable young man,” Brown says he worries about the public backlash following the allegations of assault his son faces. “This music industry is very unforgiving when it comes to having indiscretions,” Brown says. “He will continue to be a good person. He loves people. And like most of us, most humans, things will occur. And hopefully a person won’t be judged simply on that alone.” Like Chris’s friends, who have spoken about Brown’s easygoing nature, his father says Brown was well liked in school. “He had plenty of friends,” he says. “All the kids gravitated to Chris.” As for how he feels about his son, Brown says, “As a father, I couldn’t be more proud … He’s the light of my life.” And, he notes, as a teenager, he still has a lot of maturing to do. “I think he’s [going to] grow as an individual,” he says. “He’s going to take from this situation and learn from it.”

While I absolutely agree that there are “two sides to every story” I’m having a hard time reconciling the fact that there is confirmed evidence of assault on Rihanna’s person and reconciling that with any scenario. Domestic violence is such a heinous crime, I personally have a hard time rationalizing any behavior that leads to the assault of a woman … no matter what the circumstance. But, again, we still have no idea what really happened one week ago today … so I am merely going by my assumptions of the situation. As I’ve said many times before, I just hope that justice is truly served and any criminal wrongdoing is punished to the full extent of the law.

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