Category: Hollywood Crime

Love & Hip Hop Star Karen King Arrested


Love & Hip Hop Atlanta’s newest gangster TV mom – Karen “KK” King was arrested in the wee hours of the morning for financial identity theft.

“KK” showed up decked out and ready to party at a Love & Hip Hop promotional event at Atlanta’s Level V nightclub, when the Atlanta Police came and presented her with a list of charges, including forgery, and hauled her away in cuffs.



According to TMZ:

According to docs, King walked into the Saks Fifth Avenue in ATL, and bought $4,946.52 in merchandise under someone else’s name. Cops think she was in cahoots with the employee who rang up the purchase.

No word if “KK” has posted ($30K) bail. *** UPDATE*** KK has since posted bail. 

Ms. KK’s troubles with the law have been well documented on the show and her family is portrayed as “notorious” with KK allegedly at the head of the pack,  as the Godmother. 

Karen “KK” King and sons: Sas (L) and Scrap Deleon (R)
Back in 2012, she was accused of having her son’s father brutally beaten (by her sons and friends) and thrown in the trunk of a car to be left for dead. KK went on the run and was subsequently featured on the show America’s Most Wanted as “Fugitive of the Week.” She was later acquitted of the charges due to “lack of evidence.” KK denies the allegations of her involvement but her ex tells a different story.

Below is an interview with Lyndon Smith, the father of KK’s youngest son Sas, also the man she is accused of having brutally beaten & kidnapped– allegedly at the hands of her own sons.

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Read more about KK’s arrest on NY Daily News  

Love & Hip Hop’s creator, Mona Scott Young has received tons of backlash for allowing KK and family to be on the show due to their extensive criminal history. Critics argue that by casting the King family, that Mona is in some way glorifying their life of crime and ultimately giving them undeserving fame. Fans of the show say Mona Scott is a good business woman.

Anybody that understands show business knows that Hollywood knows no boundaries and reality show members are casted for ratings, not based on moral ethics.

WHAT’S YOUR THOUGHTS?

Mexican Actress Kate del Castillo Explains Flirtatious ‘El Chapo’ Texts With Diane Sawyer 

Mexican actress Kate del Castillo and Hollywood actor Sean Penn have been embroiled in controversy since the revelation that they met with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the most wanted drug lord in the world, in person while he was on the lam last year.

Mexican authorities want to interrogate her as a witness in an investigation and have insinuated they could be potentially investigating her for allegedly taking money from Guzman for her tequila company, Honor del Castillo, according to the newspaper El Universal.

This past January, del Castillo’s private text messages with El Chapo were leaked to the media, suggesting another kind of scandal — that the two of them could be romantically involved.


But del Castillo is now sharing her side of the story and insists in an interview with ABC News’s Diane Sawyer that there was nothing romantic between her and the drug kingpin, whom she met in person last October.

del Castillo told Sawyer:

“Oh, my God, no, not at all. It’s just so not like that, and that’s one of the frustrations I have. That I wish I could have every single text that I sent with me, you know, to tell everybody how out of context they are. There was no reason why we wouldn’t be friendly.”

Del Castillo says the leaked messages were selectively chosen and released out of context.

“They have put them out of context. So it looks like I’m having an affair, almost, with a guy and that’s what makes me so angry.”

 

Del Castillo, 43, became a superstar after she appeared as the lead character, Teresa Mendoza, an ordinary woman who transforms into a fearless drug lord in the telenovela “La Reina del Sur” or “The Queen of the South.”

She said Guzman first reached out to her in summer 2014 through his lawyer, who she said told her that Guzman wanted to give her the rights to make a movie about his life. The drug lord had been re-arrested in February 2014.

She claims she jumped at the chance and told almost no one about the project, except for two movie producers she brought on as she began to assemble her team.

Read more of this article see a video of the 2020 interview on ABCNews.