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Oprah gave Marion Jones her first interview since being sentenced to six months in prison for lying about her steroid use and check fraud. The disgraced athelete said that she accepts responsibility and has no regrets.

“I think that I absolutely should have to accept responsibility for breaking the law,” she says on the Oprah Winfrey Show. “I have no regrets for doing what I did on October the 5th and pleading guilty and admitting to the world that I lied, that I’ve made mistakes. [It pales] in comparison to seeing my husband cry,” she tells Winfrey, speaking on being stripped of her Olympic medals. “They [pale] in comparison to seeing my mother have to stand there in the courtroom and bawl. You know, those things to me are what mean the most.”

Due to the fact that she has a 4-year-old son at home, Jones told Oprah that she is disappointed to be serving a 6-month jail sentence instead of just being on probation. She went on to say that she and her husband haven’t explained the situation in its entirety to their young son, who was also upset when his mother wasn’t able to drop him off at school one morning.

Jones will begin her 6-month sentence on March 11th.

According to a recent MySpace blog posted by Solange Knowles, she’s having a great time raising her toddler.

“I have been so blessed that my son is the coolest kid ever. He fusses if he doesn’t have a cup of Starbucks coffee with his morning paper. Of course, that first year of not sleeping and just being dedicated to him had tough parts but that’s fine. It’s been a blast for me. A lot of people have doubts, but when you have a child I think it takes a really non-emotional person not to have a blast, no matter what age. I’ve heard stories of people who were 14 that had kids and basically snapped into it and got into the groove of motherhood. I think that emotional attachment, there’s nothing out of it that you could regret.”

Hmm, I wonder how different that blog post would be if she didn’t have the assistance of her rich parents and her famous/rich sister? Teen mothers who don’t have help from rich family members typically don’t “have a blast” in the first few years, and possibly the rest of their life. Take away the ex-Carolina Panthers football playing dad, the mega celebrity auntie, the super-rich grandparents, and the mom who has a little cash on the side too, and what do you get? Exactly…

Page Six, The NY Post’s gossip column, is reporting that Foxy Brown is requesting an early release from prison. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the female rapper says she’s a changed woman after spending five months behind bars, and a judge should release her before she serves the rest of her year-long sentence because of “emergency” health issues. Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, says she should be set free before her expected release date of April 20 “due to her emergency medical condition relating to her progressively deteriorating hearing loss.

“Her condition is worsening in jail since she cannot obtain at Rikers [Island] the proper treatment that is required for her to maintain her post cochlear implant condition,” and she needs to go to Los Angeles by the end of the month to get the situation dealt with, the filing says.

Brown said she hasn’t been able to get maintenance work on her hearing implant while behind bars, and it was damaged when she was attacked by another inmate this past October. “If her hearing is damaged any further, it will affect the way she hears and will affect the way she sings,” the filing went on to say. “It will have dire consequences on her ability to maintain her profession and livelihood.” The filing asks that she be released early or serve the rest of her sentence at home.

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Ike Turner’s death on December 12th of last year has been ruled “a cocaine overdose,” according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s office. “We are listing that he abused cocaine, and that’s what resulted in the cocaine toxicity,” said Paul Parker, the office’s chief investigator. Hypertensive cardiovascular disease and pulmonary emphysema are also being listed as “significant and contributing factors” to Turner’s death.

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Earlier this week, a rumor started circulating that Chris Brown and Bow Wow got into a scuffle and it allegedly ended in Bow Wow spitting on Chris. The reason? “Technical difficulties” … as usual. Now, if you remember correctly, not too long ago, Bow Wow threw a temper tantrum that landed him in the hospital because he hurt his hand. That actually turned out to be true, as confirmed by the mini-rapper himself. But according to the first half of “Bowmarion,” this latest rumor holds no truth. This is what he told MTV.com:

“Man, listen,” Bow said via phone while visiting a mall in Tampa, Florida, where he and Brown performed Monday night. “I just got off the phone with Chris. My mom called me and told me about the rumor. I called him and told him, and he started laughing. We was dying [with laughter]. Anybody who knows me or anybody who’s been around me knows I’m not that kind of person,” he continued. “I [felt bad] for New York [reality-TV star Tiffany Pollard] when she got spit on during ‘Flavor of Love.’ A wise man once taught me, the most vicious thing you can do is spit on somebody. It’s just a rumor. It’s a big rumor. I would never do that. That’s not being a man, that’s a sissy act.”

A sissy act, eh? I’m just gonna leave that alone… Lol

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PEOPLE, the same site who released the first official photos of Eddie and Tracey’s “wedding,” are now reporting that the couple has split. After only 2 weeks, Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds have called it quits. The two participated in a spiritual ceremony New Year’s Day in Bora Bora, and were due to make their relationship as husband and wife official over here in the U.S.A. But it looks like that won’t be happening!

“After much consideration and discussion, we have jointly decided that we will forego having a legal ceremony as it is not necessary to define our relationship further,” Murphy and Edmonds tell PEOPLE in an exclusive statement. “While the recent symbolic union in Bora Bora was representative of our deep love, friendship and respect that we have for one another on a spiritual level, we have decided to remain friends.”

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I don’t like it. I think they should have done a beauty shot or a full body shot (becos she’s tall, this obviously butchers her beautiful figure). And why name the album ‘That Chick’? Nothing about this project phases me. I don’t know…