Amy Winehouses’s Husband Receives Jail Sentence

On Monday, a judge sentenced Amy Winehouse’s husband to 27 months in jail for assault and obstruction of justice. Her husband, named Blake Fielder-Civil, admitted to beating up a pub manager, named James King, in a barroom fight in 2006 and offering him $400,000 to be quiet about it. The judge told Fielder-Civil that he had behaved in a gratuitous, cowardly, and disgraceful manner. Amy Winehouse wasn’t present in the courtroom.

Amy Winehouse’s Husband Pleads Guilty

Singer Amy Winehouse’s husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, has pleaded guilty to assaulting a barman and then trying to cover it up. His is on trial in London on charges of attacking a pub landlord, named James King, and then conspiring with him to withdraw as a witness at the trial. He could possibly receive five years in prison for the assault charge. Even though it is unlikely, he could possibly face a life sentence in prison for perverting the course of justice.

Judge Seeks To Let Foxy Brown Out of Jail

Supreme Court Justice Melissa Jackson says that she wants more information on rapper Foxy Brown’s hearing problems before she lets her get out of jail to go to California for the repair of a defective electronic ear implant. She says that she wants proof of the rapper’s deafness. Foxy Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, revealed her hearing issues during a court appearance in 2004. Her petition says that her hearing problems are getting worse in jail and she needs to have the cochlear implant reprogrammed and repaired.

Foxy Brown was sentenced to a year in prison in September of 2007 for violating her probation. She was placed on probation for a misdemeanor assault of two manicurists at a Manhattan nail salon in August of 2004.