Speaker 1: The toys.
Speaker 2: I'm a homegrown that knows a little bit about everything,
Speaker 2: and everybody don't know if you don't lie about that.
Speaker 1: Right, Hey, y'all, what's up.
Speaker 2: It's Laura la Rosa and this is another episode of
Speaker 2: The Latest with Laura l Rosa. This is your daily
Speaker 2: dial on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, and all
Speaker 2: of the conversations that shake the wrong baby. Now today
Speaker 2: we're gonna skip getting into the behind the scenes of
Speaker 2: the Grind because we're gonna get right on into the Latest.
Speaker 2: There is a lot going on, and honestly, right now,
Speaker 2: behind the scenes, it's just a lot.
Speaker 1: Happening, h a lot of like stuff.
Speaker 2: I'll give you guys an update of some family stuff
Speaker 2: went down, y'all know. I'll let y'all know the things
Speaker 2: and all of the all of the ins and outs.
Speaker 2: But yeah, my behind the scenes to the ground right
Speaker 2: now is looking like balancing being a daughter, granddaughter, work
Speaker 2: while things that I was gonna say things is going haywire,
Speaker 2: but I wouldn't. I'm not going to claim haywire because
Speaker 2: God is God got us good. But you know, things
Speaker 2: taking place, but we still push through and we believe
Speaker 2: God at the end of the day. So yeah, I'll
Speaker 2: be back with a check it at the top of
Speaker 2: the week. Let's get into the latest. So there's a
Speaker 2: lady that is going viral right now, y'all. This is
Speaker 2: a QBC anchor and this woean. Her name is Tony Bretton. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's crazy because I got a nlessor about Tony Braxton.
Speaker 2: Her name is Tony Bretton. She had a little slip
Speaker 2: up at work. Okay, she made a little oopsie at work.
Speaker 2: Let's take a listen, because she was on air doing
Speaker 2: her live TV hit. She's there, she's promoting you know,
Speaker 2: QBC and for those of you guys who do not know,
Speaker 2: QVC is.
Speaker 1: A shopping network.
Speaker 2: They promote you know, various products from fashion to beauty
Speaker 2: to home throughout their throughout their segments. And it's so
Speaker 2: crazy because I I tried twice to become a QVC
Speaker 2: anchor just because like it was such a stable job
Speaker 2: and you're on TV and it's right there, it's not
Speaker 2: too far from where I'm from in Delaware, so maybe
Speaker 2: fifteen to twenty minutes out, I was like, Okay, I
Speaker 2: could do this. It is a very rigorous audition process.
Speaker 2: They don't play about the look and feel of their host.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so this woman is now going viral because.
Speaker 1: Of a blowjob. Let's take a listen to.
Speaker 3: Show the texture and this waves pattern again. It looks
Speaker 3: like you went and got a blow job at your
Speaker 3: blowout at your salon and it looks beautiful, y'all.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know, baby girl was embarrassed.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think it was more like a funny moment.
Speaker 2: And it's crazy because I'm one of those people that,
Speaker 2: like my mind would be thinking one thing and then
Speaker 2: like I'll literally do a whole another or say a
Speaker 2: whole other thing, and I can't explain why it happened
Speaker 2: sometimes like literally everybody around me. And sometimes this is
Speaker 2: because I'm moving too fast, but everybody around me knows
Speaker 2: this about me, Like that is very likely to happen
Speaker 2: nine times out of ten with me. So her saying
Speaker 2: blowjob over, she was trying to say blow out, like
Speaker 2: hair blowout. They're promoting different hair products, and she's been
Speaker 2: in the business for thirty years, and you know, she
Speaker 2: tried to play it all. She like keeps going. She
Speaker 2: pauses for a second. Y'all heard her like laugh a
Speaker 2: little bit. Now what you guys can't see as she's laughing.
Speaker 2: At one point, she like goes down, like she sinks
Speaker 2: down behind like this like table that is set up
Speaker 2: in front of her, because she immediately.
Speaker 1: Realized it's live. Like you can't take the words back.
Speaker 2: Now, Let's take a listen to Tony Bratton, who TMC
Speaker 2: did an interview with after this moment.
Speaker 1: Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I've been doing television and the shopping
Speaker 3: channels for like almost thirty years now, so you know
Speaker 3: you would think it's old hat, and usually it is.
Speaker 3: But I know, like in my case, sometimes you never
Speaker 3: really know what's gonna come out out of my mouth.
Speaker 3: I mean, because when we're doing a show, you're always
Speaker 3: your mind is going fifty directions. You're thinking of your models,
Speaker 3: you're thinking of the mannequin heads going through the colors.
Speaker 3: You're thinking of the next positioning to get all the
Speaker 3: information out to the customers that they're wunning. Right, So
Speaker 3: your brain is really kind of multi functioning, and you're
Speaker 3: kind of in autopilot when you're talking because you've said
Speaker 3: this so many times. So the fact that when I
Speaker 3: said what I said, what I meant to say was
Speaker 3: a blow out. Obviously it didn't come out that way,
Speaker 3: and so at the moment it comes out, you almost
Speaker 3: say to yourself, I just say what I think I said, right.
Speaker 3: So it was one of those moments, and of course
Speaker 3: you can't grab those words back. They're out there. So
Speaker 3: at the time I was thinking and I tried to
Speaker 3: real quick correct it and say the correct terminology a
Speaker 3: blowout at Drew's salon. But by then, obviously everyone caught it.
Speaker 3: I was hearing snickering, and then you know, when you're
Speaker 3: not supposed to laugh, it just makes it that much
Speaker 3: more funny. I got this morning the standard, Tony, we
Speaker 3: understand what happened during your show yesterday, and we really
Speaker 3: appreciate and they're so kind. I mean, I've only been
Speaker 3: doing this for almost thirty years, so to have a
Speaker 3: blooper like this just innocently come out, you have to
Speaker 3: go with it. And as long as as we all
Speaker 3: feel like we were respectful that nothing was intentional, and
Speaker 3: of course it wasn't that in hindsight. They said, I
Speaker 3: hope you're able to not be mortified, and that y'all
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 1: Let's say something.
Speaker 2: People don't give it up for the girlies enough, who'll
Speaker 2: be doing this live TV thing? I so we do
Speaker 2: the Netflix live at the breakfast club. But then at
Speaker 2: TMZ we used to have TMZ Live, which was kind
Speaker 2: of live to tape, so certain things could be pulled out.
Speaker 1: But live TV or live hits.
Speaker 2: I used to do a live affiliate hits to like
Speaker 2: the local news channels, to like DC. I did it
Speaker 2: to Philly one time, or I would do Orlando a lot,
Speaker 2: to like some of the Fox affiliates that TMZ had.
Speaker 1: Live hits. Ain't no joke, man.
Speaker 2: Now, granted I would have a prompter and I know what,
Speaker 2: Like QBC, there's like prompter work and stuff like that
Speaker 2: they do as well too. But a lot of it
Speaker 2: is just like you have experienced the products, you've spent
Speaker 2: some time with it, you talking through it.
Speaker 1: It is not no joke.
Speaker 2: This is a pretty funny moment though, And as y'all,
Speaker 2: if y'all couldn't tell by her voice, she's a very
Speaker 2: white lady. I'm glad it was just because when I'm glad,
Speaker 2: it was just blowjob, she said, because y'all know, every
Speaker 2: now and then on a hot mic with a you
Speaker 2: know what, I'm saying, you get some words that ain't
Speaker 2: supposed to be said for really, this is what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about. Literally, that was so on point and not
Speaker 2: even playing that he just walked in here because he
Speaker 2: he poops every day.
Speaker 1: At this time.
Speaker 2: You just never know what's going to happen in this business.
Speaker 2: But she handled it well though. But it's going super superviral.
Speaker 2: Now let's get into Tony Braxton. Okay, Now, I don't
Speaker 2: know if you guys remember, but some like time back,
Speaker 2: Tony Braxton did Oprah, and I remember people were criticizing
Speaker 2: Oprah for this. She was talking to Oprah about well,
Speaker 2: Oprah was talking to her about her spending and.
Speaker 1: It was people basically felt like.
Speaker 2: Because she had Tony Braxton has filed for bankruptcy back
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety eight. You know, she went through a
Speaker 2: battle with her record label over money. There's like people
Speaker 2: you know, talking to her about her spending habits as well.
Speaker 2: But Tony Broxen has always done well for herself. But
Speaker 2: there's a story out right now that Tony Braxon has
Speaker 2: just resolved a six figure taxling years after that infamous
Speaker 2: bankruptcy battle. So there was a federal taxling that was
Speaker 2: placed on June twenty second of this year, saying that
Speaker 2: Tony Braxon owed the irs five hundred and ninety eight
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. Now, the way that the debt was broken
Speaker 2: down was there was a little bit over sixty nine
Speaker 2: thousand dollars that she owed for twenty twenty two, a
Speaker 2: little bit over two hundred and seventy eight thousand for
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, and a bit over two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty thousand that she owed for twenty twenty four, which
Speaker 2: equaled that five hundred and ninety eight thousand, So a
Speaker 2: little bit under six hundred thousand dollars, it's almost a
Speaker 2: million dollars. But a rep for Tony Braxon is speaking
Speaker 2: out saying that she resolved the bill, and I think,
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I know Tony Braxon also filed for
Speaker 2: bankruptcy back in twenty ten because she was saying that
Speaker 2: she owed a lot of money to creditors. It seems like,
Speaker 2: you know, that issue with her label and you know
Speaker 2: that conversation like really kind of messed her up a bit.
Speaker 2: She closed that second bankruptcy in twenty fifteen, though, But
Speaker 2: to me, it seems like whenever I hear these stories
Speaker 2: of people that are like dealing with the bankruptcy things
Speaker 2: and trying to figure out things with money. It's like
Speaker 2: a learning process in real time. Like even me for myself,
Speaker 2: like when you set up business within everything that whether
Speaker 2: you're on camera making these little bloopers, or you on
Speaker 2: camera or behind a microphone like Tony Braxton, Like there's
Speaker 2: a business to all of this, and a lot of
Speaker 2: what you're learning in real time is literally in real
Speaker 2: time because for a lot of us, you know, those
Speaker 2: first hits of success, those first hits of those amount
Speaker 2: of money, it's your first time experiencing it. And even
Speaker 2: if you're in a family like the Braxton family where
Speaker 2: you guys are able to pass down information and knowledge
Speaker 2: and all of the.
Speaker 1: Things, you're still doing things. You know, your situation is
Speaker 1: different than other people's.
Speaker 2: You're having to trust people to handle money, manage money.
Speaker 2: Like that is the most frightening thing for me, Like
Speaker 2: I think about it all the time, Like and right
Speaker 2: now I'm actually trying to figure out you know, like
Speaker 2: accountants and you know who I trust with taxes and
Speaker 2: even with me, I was like I told my manager,
Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, whoever do want my taxes.
Speaker 1: I want the literal proof.
Speaker 2: I want to know. I want to break down, and
Speaker 2: I don't want it from the firm. I want what
Speaker 2: they received from the IRS of what is old and
Speaker 2: what it's to be paid, and then I want proof
Speaker 2: that it was paid like science so delivered.
Speaker 1: And I don't want it just from them.
Speaker 2: I want us to have our own outreach like situation
Speaker 2: we do to the IRS to confirm what the firm
Speaker 2: is telling us. Because most of the people's stories I hear,
Speaker 2: and this isn't the case with Tony Braxon because again
Speaker 2: I mentioned, you know that she went through a battle
Speaker 2: over money with her record label. But like a lot
Speaker 2: of times when I hear people settling, like like you know,
Speaker 2: tax lians and all the things, it's a lot of
Speaker 2: it is like they weren't ain't her taxes because not
Speaker 2: even because they just didn't have the money to pay it,
Speaker 2: but they might have had the money but it was
Speaker 2: being mismanaged or people were taking the money they were
Speaker 2: supposed to be paying. I am so I'm so scared
Speaker 2: to experience what I haven't experienced, although I'm so excited
Speaker 2: about it because I hear stories like this and even
Speaker 2: you know, the battle with Tony Braxtt and the label
Speaker 2: in the late in ninety seven ninety eight, she sued
Speaker 2: the Face Records and Arister Records Babyface, Babyface's label through
Speaker 2: her first two albums, I'm Sorry She's in her contract.
Speaker 2: She sued the Face Records and Arister Records, which people
Speaker 2: you know will instantly associate with Babyface to end her
Speaker 2: contract so through her first two albums. Though her first
Speaker 2: two albums generated and estimated one hundred and seventy million dollars,
Speaker 2: her royalty rate left her making roughly thirty five cents
Speaker 2: per album, so her high career expenses recycled advances kept
Speaker 2: her in debt, leading for her to file Chapter seven
Speaker 2: bankruptcy in ninety eight and then again I mentioned she
Speaker 2: had to fill again in twenty ten, which was closed
Speaker 2: out in twenty fifteen. So she was earning, according to reports,
Speaker 2: thirty three cents to thirty five cents per album. So
Speaker 2: despite being a multi platinum global success. And I say
Speaker 2: that you know people will associate you know, ours, the
Speaker 2: Records in the Face with Babyface and also La Read
Speaker 2: as well too. But it is definitely worth mentioning that
Speaker 2: her issue wasn't with Babyface. Babyface was actually extremely supportive
Speaker 2: of Tony Braxton during the dispute. He actually testified in
Speaker 2: court about her deal being unfair and helped her get
Speaker 2: to a settlement that the two you know, were able
Speaker 2: to help like it helped her, and they later went
Speaker 2: on to collaborate successfully on their Grammy winning debut album, Love.
Speaker 1: Marriage and Divorce and tell that you could put this part.
Speaker 2: And now there were reports during all of this, during
Speaker 2: like you know, that whole back and forth, and you know,
Speaker 2: ninety seven ninety eight when she was suing the label
Speaker 2: of the Face Records and his parent company, ares to.
Speaker 1: Be that.
Speaker 2: La Read had actually stopped taking her calls, that they
Speaker 2: had like you know, fallen out about this, but they
Speaker 2: were able to resolve it. And again, as I mentioned,
Speaker 2: Babyface actually vouched for her and testify for her and
Speaker 2: reported that you know, her multidillion her multi her settlement,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sorry, her contract that she signed was unfair.
Speaker 2: And then there was a multi million dollar settlement that
Speaker 2: people believed to later have been revealed as twenty two
Speaker 2: million dollars in a restructured contract. She's had to sue managers,
Speaker 2: like she's been through a lot. That's what I'm saying, Yo,
Speaker 2: This business is so crazy. I reported a story about
Speaker 2: Dame Dash and trustee over his current bankruptcy, who has
Speaker 2: already stated that they don't really believe that he's bank Druppt.
Speaker 2: And for those of you guys who don't know Dame Dash,
Speaker 2: but you should, but not Dame Dash, you know a
Speaker 2: former music executive he helped create Rockefellow with Jay Z,
Speaker 2: discovered that you know, together they discovered Kanye West and
Speaker 2: so many other major things, rock Aware, so many things. Right,
Speaker 2: he's been dealing with bankruptcy and in those conversations and
Speaker 2: recently as of July sixth, I'm sorry, as of August sixth,
Speaker 2: there was a trustee in the bankruptcy who's been investigating
Speaker 2: it that asks a judge to approve the cell of
Speaker 2: his life rights and to kind of set up some
Speaker 2: stipulations around what the life rights sale and or auction
Speaker 2: would be, you know, when how it would go down,
Speaker 2: if it would be a bid or auction or a sale,
Speaker 2: all of that, and they presented some parties involved. One
Speaker 2: of the parties, I think they're looking at anywhere from
Speaker 2: like thirty two to thirty seven thousand dollars that it's
Speaker 2: been offered for buying it.
Speaker 1: And this would mean I mean, this would mean everything.
Speaker 2: This would mean you get his image, his likeness, his voice,
Speaker 2: you get to tell his story. The doc says, you
Speaker 2: get rights and ownership over him, his likeness, his image,
Speaker 2: his characteristics, and events of his life from his childhood until.
Speaker 1: The petition date.
Speaker 2: And they also believe that he has a ton of
Speaker 2: different photos videos from the nineties up until twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: which would include a lot of that Rockefeller era. So
Speaker 2: it's a really big deal if this goes through and
Speaker 2: if this is sold. And the reason why they're doing
Speaker 2: this is because he is over twenty million dollars in
Speaker 2: debt at this time, across tax you know, unpaid taxes,
Speaker 2: the child support that is unpaid as well too.
Speaker 1: To one of his children's mothers.
Speaker 2: Like Dame Dash claimed that the reason why he was
Speaker 2: seeing so much debt, especially when it came to the taxes,
Speaker 2: because of what I mentioned earlier, he had somebody paying
Speaker 2: his bills that wasn't this is what he's clinton. Let's
Speaker 2: sake a listen of when Dame Dash was on the
Speaker 2: Breakfast Club some months ago. It's one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: K and child support that's listed in the bankruptcy. That's
Speaker 2: child support, right, Yeah, how did you get there with
Speaker 2: having that amount unpaid?
Speaker 4: I've been paying two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a
Speaker 4: year in child support for the last twenty five years.
Speaker 3: Tew you.
Speaker 4: All my kids went to college for free. They all
Speaker 4: living houses, and I pay a two fifty a year
Speaker 4: in child support. So my kids salary is probably as
Speaker 4: much as yours. And I'm broke. Yeah, I'm broke because
Speaker 4: I give it all to my family. Rich people have
Speaker 4: family offices. You don't put things in your name. You
Speaker 4: have a family office. When I'm behind on child support,
Speaker 4: it always gets paid, right. It went to jail.
Speaker 1: The last time I was behind, it was a million.
Speaker 1: I paid it.
Speaker 4: That sounds broke to you. If all my children and
Speaker 4: I pay their colleges up front, they don't have that,
Speaker 4: that sounds broke to you. Every one of my baby
Speaker 4: mothers has two or three houses, that sounds broke to you.
Speaker 4: It's not about me. Are certain people I know, I'll
Speaker 4: google them they have no money. I google the family
Speaker 4: office ten billion dollars. Rich people don't put anything in
Speaker 4: their name, but you don't know that, and I feel
Speaker 4: sorry for you because you don't get to see the
Speaker 4: day life.
Speaker 1: I am not trying to get here.
Speaker 2: But you know the guys Charlamagne Envy, they always say,
Speaker 2: you don't laugh, you learn, And that's what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like when I read these stories, always like okay, so wait,
Speaker 2: what happened? What happened? Like how can I make sure
Speaker 2: these things don't happen? And I always hear, you know,
Speaker 2: you just gotta get really good people around you and
Speaker 2: trust people. But it's like I've heard stories of people
Speaker 2: trusting people for years and years and years and still
Speaker 2: getting you know what I mean, like things done to
Speaker 2: them that shouldn't have been done when it comes to
Speaker 2: their money and their money management.
Speaker 1: Man, Like this is such a.
Speaker 2: You have to trust industry full of people you don't
Speaker 2: know if you can trust. That is the that's the
Speaker 2: thing that is the you know, the conversation here in
Speaker 2: the in today's episode. So yeah, we're all navigating, we're
Speaker 2: all figuring it out at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: I'm Laura la Rosa.
Speaker 2: This has been another episode of the Latest with Laura
Speaker 2: La Rosa.
Speaker 1: I tell you, guys, every single episode.
Speaker 2: Y'all could be anywhere with any old body talking about
Speaker 2: all of the things, but you guys choose to be
Speaker 2: right here with me, my Lowriders.
Speaker 1: I'll catch you in my next episode.