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Misa Hylton vs Mary J. Blige: Lawyer Exclusively Reveals Case Details, The Root Of The Issues & More
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Jun 4, 2025
Misa Hylton has filed a lawsuit against Mary J. Blige over a business dispute involving rapper Vado, who is signed to Blige’s label, Beautiful Life Productions. Hylton filed the suit as the rapper's manager. The suit alleges broken promises, including missed tour and project opportunities. Hylton’s lawyer says she tried to handle things privately, but talks broke down — forcing legal action. The case could have significant implications for Vado’s career and their once-strong industry ties. AllHipHop's Chuck Creekmur talked to Misa Hylton's attorney, Nicholas Ramcharitar, and he broke down the case from his client's perspective. He also gives additional context on the serious nuance and details surrounding this confusing matter between two one-time friends. #MaryJBlige #MisaHylton #Vado Subscribe to AllHipHop on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/allhiphoptv?sub_confirmation=1 Check out more of AHH here on social media: https://allhiphop.com https://twitter.com/allhiphopcom https://facebook.com/allhiphopcom https://instagram.com/allhiphopcom Executive Producers: “Grouchy” Greg Watkins and Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur AllHipHop.com, a powerhouse in the Hip-Hop world, was established and brought to life in 1998 by the visionary CEOs "Grouchy" Greg Watkins and Chuck "Jigsaw" Creekmur. Over the years, AllHipHop has solidified its position as an invaluable hub for all things Hip-Hop on the web. With its daily dose of news, exclusive interviews, in-depth reviews, multimedia content, a newly-minted expanding community, and a treasure trove of other engaging material, it has garnered immense praise and a dedicated following. Renowned publications consistently turn to AllHipHop for their news and feature references, attesting to the site's unparalleled accuracy and trustworthiness. Additionally, AllHipHop has fostered strong partnerships with numerous offline print magazines, newspapers, television networks, and radio stations, further cementing its influence and reach in the world of #HipHop. #chuckcreekmur #allhiphoptv #allhiphop #grouchygreg
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what's going on world it's your man
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Chuck Creekmer All hip hop is here and
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we are talking to someone who's
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representing someone in a highly in an
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in a highly publicized case Nicholas Ram
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Chartan did close enough All right All
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right All right It's good to talk to you
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Nick Um we've just briefly talked a
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little bit and you're representing Misa
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Hilton in a lawsuit against Mary J Blige
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the iconic singer And Misa is an icon in
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her own right uh from a fashion
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perspective but this is a business
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lawsuit Um first of all can you give us
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sort of a rundown on what we're what
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we're talking about here there's a lot
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of chatter uh online offline in private
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circles about what's really going on
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here
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So here's what's going on and it's it's
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nothing short of a tragedy Chuck And
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again thanks for having us on We
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appreciate it Um everybody in in the
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world knows especially in the hip-hop
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community and you know if you're an old
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head you understand who these
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individuals are and it is nothing short
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of a tragedy This is not something we
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wanted to do This is something for
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almost a full year we actively try to
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avoid doing Um as the world knows and as
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you know Chuck Misa is a wonderful
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person She's a talented artist a creator
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and her and Mary were closer than
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biological sisters Um and that's what
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the world knew So we unfortunately tried
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every avenue to reach out to the to
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Mary's camp to reach out to people that
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we knew to legal you know Misa did
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everything before even coming to us did
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everything that she could to try to
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figure out how do how do we amicably
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resolve this Let's be family because
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family they don't publicize their mess
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We sit at the dinner table and we hash
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it out and we talk it out and we yell
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and we scream but at the end of the day
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we're family and that's how we wanted to
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do it and that is exactly what Misa
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wanted to do and unfortunately just
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didn't work out that way So was it just
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radio silence were you guys sending
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legal correspondents was she was she
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calling was she
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texting and then it got to this point or
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um and there was no respon there were no
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responses at all Yeah So it was kind of
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interesting how it kind of went down So
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uh the last I can tell you from my
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personal perspective that Misa and Mary
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were together was out in the Amalfi
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Coast probably in the month of August We
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all happened to be out there together
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and they were having a wonderful time
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just like they always do It was from
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that point moving forward Chuck that it
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looked to be as if the relationship was
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somewhat deteriorating but Misa chalked
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it up to Mary's Mary and she's busy and
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she's obviously has all these wonderful
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things going on You know the Hall of
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Fame stuff and everything like that So
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you know Mary chalked it up to all right
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maybe she's just a little bit busy right
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now Unfortunately as time went on the
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text stop the return phone calls stopped
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the invites stop things they used to do
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together all the time that all stopped
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And then communication stopped alto
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together Um so Misa came to us and we
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tried to reach out appropriately to say
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hey listen we're just trying to talk we
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don't want this in the media you know
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come to the table let's sit down and
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that's kind of you know from my
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perception through Misa how their
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relationship kind of unbeknownst to her
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because we're still trying to figure out
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the reasons deteriorated
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You know it's funny When all hip-hop
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broke the story uh we were the only one
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that had it up for for quite a while I
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think everyone was collectively in
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disbelief Um really truly uh did not
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want to believe this Uh have you guys
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uh heard anything since it broke have
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have um anyone has anyone from Mary's
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camp reached out
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no one from Mary's camp has reached out
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yet Chuck Uh we've sent letters to legal
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um prior to the lawsuit becoming public
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and prior to his filing Um but as of
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today May 1st 2025 aside from seemingly
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sub subliminals on Instagram that we're
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just catching here and there um we
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haven't heard from anybody yet and we
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look forward to hoping that someone will
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reach out Yeah Okay Now there's a there
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are quite a few jokes uh online and a
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lot of them deal with the fact that the
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center of all of this at least outwardly
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is a rapper named Vado If you're from
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New York if you're in the area you know
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who Vado is He's not a a mysterious
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figure or unknown figure at all Very
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well known actually Absolutely
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However um there's always well there's
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quite a bit
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of wonder
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around 5 mil VTO Um why why is this
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valued at such a high amount of money uh
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considering if you're in another part of
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the country or world you may not not
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have heard of him That's a great
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question Chuck And I that is definitely
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a lot of questions that I've been asked
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you know to myself that we've seen
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online And I believe the most important
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part about answering that question is
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understanding the dynamic of an artist
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So let's let's be honest This suit is
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about VTO And yes the story is Mis's
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relationship with Mary Um but this is
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about VTO And why is it so much Chuck
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it's so much because he's been boxed in
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He's been held back Now listen I
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understand that you know as you put it
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maybe VTO in May 1st of 2025 may not be
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as relevant necessarily and I do not
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mean that in any sort of you know bad
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way but as he was a couple years ago
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even last year And that's the best point
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to make because contractually he was
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supposed to be on tour with Mary
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Contractually he was supposed to be
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featured on Mary's albums and her songs
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Contractually there were music videos
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and albums to be released And you know
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well way way better than I Chuck is that
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how do you do that how do you get that
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exposure it's airplay It's ANR It's you
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know funk flex on Hot 97 You know it's
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that's what we focus on That's what an
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artist needs Whether you're coming up or
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whether you're already up in the
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stratosphere So by VTO getting boxed out
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and not being able to be on tour with
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Mary not being able to record music not
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being able to be featured on anything On
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top of all of that he's losing
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opportunities on the back end from other
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production companies other other
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independent labels you know other labels
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that may want to produce his music And
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we're stopped So if you can kind of
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articulate and speculate the amount of
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money that VTO would have made I mean
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I'm going to be honest with you Chuck I
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think it might be more than $5 million
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Right Gotcha Now most people don't know
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he signed to Mary's uh record label
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Beautiful Life Productions is what the
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name of it is
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Um I hate to ask this
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but did personal and business coingle in
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this situation in any way there been
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rumors that Mary was dating Vado Some
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have speculated maybe he was seeing both
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of them like we you know it's a lot of
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rumor and conjecture online Uh is that
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possible is it possible that um Mary sat
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him
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down in in in in a way that was outside
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of business
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that you know that I know of no Chuck I
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I can't really comment on that I I don't
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know the personal relationships that
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Mary J Blige has with anybody aside from
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what we're dealing with Um I try to stay
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out of you know my client's personal
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lives as much as I can unless I'm
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brought in What I will tell you is that
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I understand that I know Mary has been
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dating an individual for you know for
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quite some time and that's who she's
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been with And when Misa and Mary talk
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business even though I have not been
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there personally for that but I can tell
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you when Misa and Mary talk business is
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business And both Mary J Blige and Misa
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Hilton forever stand on business because
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at the end of the day as fantastic
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friends as they were and hopefully they
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will be in the future Um they are
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beautiful wonderful articulate
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successful black powerful business women
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and I think that that is always
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separated from you know their personal
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life and whatever may be going on
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personally Okay And where is Vital in
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all of this is he still with Misa's
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management company is is he still signed
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to Mary like are they you know are they
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still working together it's a good
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question So he is contractually still
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obligated to Mary's label Uh which is
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why that puts you know stunts his growth
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from you know not just from the filing
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of the lawsuit but you know years prior
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to that where he didn't get acclimated
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didn't get the opportunities that was
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afforded to him in the contractual
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agreement between him and Mary So um he
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is still tied to Mary J Blah and her
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label Misa is still his manager and VTO
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is on the side of right and the side of
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right is hey listen you have a contract
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listen I know it's Mary Jay blah and
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it's Misa Hiltan and all this wonderful
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stuff but listen at the end of the day
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it could be nobody it could be you and I
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this is a contract or contractual terms
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and those terms were violated and that's
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just the bottom line regardless of how
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you know salacious the names are yeah
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what exactly was violated um the did
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Mary go on tour and exclude clude him
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like what parts of the contract were
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violated exactly So I can't talk
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specifically to that because it's on
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it's ongoing litigation but I can tell
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you some specific examples that are
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already out there you know publicly and
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the contract is out there publicly so
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it's free to be viewed and give you an
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example he was supposed to open for Mary
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on tour Has that happened no He was
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supposed to be featured on certain songs
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and albums Has that happened no you know
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have people from allegedly from you know
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Mary's circle Mary's camp I'm not
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alleging they were directly related but
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seems so asked him to drop Misa Hilton
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as a manager
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It's quite possible You know there's
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some things again it's all in the in the
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papers that we filed but there was a lot
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of fire Um there was smoke at first and
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then you know the messages that he was
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getting and he felt offended because he
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thought he was with family and he was
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until whatever happened And the biggest
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question mark Chuck is what happened And
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that's what everybody's asking online
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Even Misa doesn't know what happened We
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don't know why the relationship turned
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non-existent And that that's really
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what's bothering her the most And
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obviously this is a separate business
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transaction But at the end of the day
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we're just we're curious If we're not
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mixing business with pleasure then what
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are we doing here
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yeah it's it's really strange On a
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personal note I just you know we we all
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look to them
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as almost like big sisters but sort of
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like goals almost like goals you know we
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saw them growing together through
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decades decades and decades And it's uh
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it's unfortunately unfortunately turning
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out this way Do you see any hope for
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their friendship i I hope so Chuck I
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know there's a lot going on in
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everybody's life but you know just like
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you said growing up I'm 41 years old You
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know growing up it was it's Mary it's
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Misa it's Biggie it's Puff it's those
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are the heads that we knew and we held
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them to the highest level And it is
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always an amazing thing to see a woman
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of color get to that status like Misa
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and Mary And that is one of the reasons
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I respect Misa Hilton so much One of the
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reasons I respect Mary J Blah so much is
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because they built this empire They
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standed on they they were stood on their
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own twos and and they did this And it is
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sad to see what we know as a long-term I
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was explaining this to my wife uh the
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other day about why this was so
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upsetting to Miss Hilton and and to the
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world is because we looked at their
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their relationship as two strong black
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women holding it down forever and ever
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and consistently elevating themselves So
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to see them have to go at it it's just
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it's sad Yeah Well I can say I had a the
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pleasure of meeting both of them last
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year Both of them at two separate events
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One with Mary at a power event and one
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with Misa at a Timberland 50 event And
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uh it was it was awesome I I mean Misa
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was really awesome because she actually
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gave me some
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time Mary was on the go She was out Um I
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think her feet hurt or something But
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um you know kind of final final thoughts
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on this um in terms of what's next um
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what do what are you thinking as far as
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uh you know you haven't heard anything
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is does this just do we start
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subpoenaing people or what so just a
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quick little insight into like how this
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is going to work Great question Um you
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know a lot of people file lawsuits every
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day but when you're physically in court
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in front of a judge how does that happen
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that happens by the way of what we call
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an RJI a request for judicial
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intervention And all that means Chuck is
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that you're saying "Hey court we can't
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figure this out Please assign us a judge
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so that the judge can tell us what to do
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and we can pursue you know the
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litigation going forward like you see on
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TV." But that doesn't happen until that
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one document gets filed And just so in
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light of being amicable I even spoke to
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this about you know with this with Miss
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Hilton is that we want to give them the
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opportunity We're not trying to rush to
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court to start you know going back and
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forth and doing discovery and
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depositions and we're not trying to do
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that So whoever's out there listening to
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this and I hope Mary's team is listening
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to this and I'm sure that they will
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reach out I mean they're going to have
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to at some point let's try to figure
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this out and let's try to make sure that
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Vad gets back into the position that he
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could have been you know he's going to
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have a substantial loss but let's try to
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remedy that Let's put him back Let's
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prop him up Let's let's respect our
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brother and give him what you told him
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you were going to give him and then
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we'll figure it out from there This
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isn't about money Both of these both of
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these women have money right this isn't
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about getting $5 million This means
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nothing to Mary I'm sure and it means
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nothing to Misa Hilton I'm sure This is
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just about standing on principle And we
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want to be able to have that family
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conversation We want to sit at the table
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Let's break bread Let's figure it out
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And let's put this to bed
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in a in a in another world What if what
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if or maybe this world what if Mary
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comes back and says "Hey look I'll okay
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great I'll do everything I'll put him on
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tour I will let him uh record or write
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or whatever." Um does this lawsuit go
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away uh it's a real good question Chuck
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I think there's a lot more to it than
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that I think we're going to have to you
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know Misa obviously has been affected
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financially by this for you know
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multiple different fronts um you know
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we're not very cheap to to handle to do
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this And on top of that there's there's
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just a lot of other uh you know
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goarounds But yeah I mean I think
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there's that's an absolute possibility
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that if we can you know put VTO back in
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the place that he was that Misa you know
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that Misa would be like "All right let's
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let's keep this moving." Okay Uh last
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question All of this is being all this
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is happening to the backdrop of the
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Diddy trial Obviously Misa's got a
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personal uh uh blood connection with
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Diddy and Mary and Diddy go way back Uh
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friends work music hits everything Is Is
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this impacting her personally that you
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know of yeah I mean listen Misa is the
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number one thing I can say about Misa
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Hilton is that she is a wonderful mother
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She has beautiful kids You know both
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Christian and Justin are I got to tell
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you man I you know when I met them when
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I did and been in contact with them and
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helping them or whatever we can help
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them with these are two fantastic kids I
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mean it is it is I think a testament to
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Misa and to Sean about what a wonderful
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job they did raising these kids So on
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top of dealing with that and these they
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you know Christian and Justin are very
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close with their father and Mises
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obviously has a wonderful working
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relationship with Shawn So on top of all
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of that with the trial with the kids
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having to deal with this it's taken a
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toll on her This again this is I'll tell
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you honestly Chuck we tried everything
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Misa would call me five six times a day
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Call my office staff five six times a
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day We have that relationship How do we
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not include her in this how do we keep
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her out of this because this is not what
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she needed right now right but it wasn't
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needed but unfortunately it was
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warranted and it's it's taken an
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emotional toll on her She's not happy
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about it Well it's unfortunate but
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that's that's where we are right now
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Well Nick I appreciate your time Um I
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know you're busy and
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uh you guys are keeping us
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busy But thanks a lot for your time Um
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if you need anything from us just let us
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know We appreciate you Chuck Thanks for
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having us on again on behalf of Miss
17:19
Hilton Thank you very much And we'll
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keep you guys updated so we can stay
17:23
together on this Awesome
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