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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
12/9: Michael Johns coming to Infinite Energy Atlanta Slam 12-13-08, reports of Fantasia house auction
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Former Buckhead man MIchael Johns is coming back to Atlanta to sing between tennis matches at the Infinite Energy Atlanta Slam, which features the Jensen Brothers and James Blake. Buy tix here.. Tix range from $29.75 to $200.
Johns was a decent tennis player as a teen who got a scholarship at Abraham Baldwin Agriculture College in Tifton, Ga. about a decade ago. He moved to Atlanta a year later. It doesn’t appear as if Johns will be picking up a tennis racket.
His Christmas song “Another Christmas” is available on iTunes and Amazon today.
And in case you missed it, I shot video of him October 26 at the Pep Boys 500 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway singing “Sweet Home Alabama”:
- The New York Post is reporting that Fantasia is in the middle of a complicated auction of a $1.3 million North Carolina home.
Barrino, whose rags-to-riches rise was chronicled in a Lifetime channel movie she starred in herself, is accused of defaulting on a $58,000 loan from a shadowy Florida corporation, according to court papers.
The company, called Broward Energy Management, loaned Fantasia an undisclosed sum to pay back taxes she reportedly owed the IRS, according to its lawyer, Laurence Goldman.
An AP story notes that the home “is up for auction after a company said Barrino failed to repay money it loaned her to cover her taxes in 2006.”
No response yet from Fantasia or her current attorney.
She bought the six-bedroom home in March 2007 but owns another home she bought in 2004.
-Paula Abdul finally speaks about the super-fan who committed suicide near her home last month to Good Morning America.
“It was devastating and tragic, and there aren’t enough feelings that I can articulate without getting into a whole plethora of things,” Abdul said in an interview today on “Good Morning America.”
Here’s more from “The View,” where she said she’s going to put that house on the block:
And here’s a very shaky (video wise, not the singing) version of Diana DeGarmo’s ode to the troops she wrote after doing a USO Tour called “Thank You” from one of the Athens concerts this past weekend. She gets very emotional partway through and her mom Brenda hears it for the first time, she said. She also has a brother who has served overseas.The audio is good:
