Foxy Brown: No Baby Behind Bars
It turns out the only thing Foxy Brown is expecting to do in jail is promote a record.
Contrary to the buzz set off by the Chyna Doll rapper's own attorneys, Brown is not three months pregnant, according to her manager, Chaz Williams.
"And to the pregnancy rumors, this is the official statement: She is not pregnant," Williams said Wednesday while announcing a Nov. 20 release date, bumped up from Dec. 4, for Brown's fifth studio album, Brooklyn's Don Diva.
Brown is currently behind bars at Rikers Island on New York's East River, her home for the next year for violating her probation in connection with her 2004 throw-down in a Manhattan nail salon.
"This is just a temporary situation," Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, said in a statement. "I made my bed and have no problem lying in it. My will is steady. What doesn't kill me will only make me stronger."
Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson sentenced Brown to a year in jail last Friday, saying she hoped the hip-hop star would learn from this experience and "never again have to stand in a court of law."
Hours before Jackson laid down the law, Brown was indicted for felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon for allegedly smacking Arleen Raymond, her neighbor of 14 years, in the face with her BlackBerry on July 31.
Brown was immediately escorted back to Rikers following her probation status hearing. She had already been in jail since Aug. 22, when Jackson decided Brown needed some time to think about her actions before last week's court date.
"I visited Foxy [in jail] the day after sentencing and her spirits were high," Williams said today. "I expected nothing less. I was in court at sentencing and she didn't blink an eye. She's a strong girl."
Brown has not formally addressed the pregnancy talk, but she was quoted by the New York Post's Page Six on Aug. 20, two days before she was locked up, saying, "I'm getting married in September. I'm pregnant."
And even one of her lawyers said she was expecting.
"She's getting married, she's three months pregnant, she signed a record deal two weeks ago and she is in contract for a reality TV show," New York State Senator John Sampson told Jackson on Aug. 22 to stir up sympathy for the jail-bound entertainer.
Defense attorneys Alan Stutman and Ikiesha Al-Shabazz did not address the aforementioned pregnancy when Brown was sentenced last week, however. Sampson has not commented further on the matter.
And despite Sampson's claim that Raymond, the self-proclaimed assault victim, was "looking for a payday" from his client, Jackson ordered Brown to jail, where the diminutive performer will still be when her new single, "Don't Surrender," hits the airwaves Thursday, and when Brooklyn's Don Diva hits stores.
"I'm sorry, Miss Jackson," Chaz Williams said. "We're not impressed and definitely not stopping musically."

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