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NYYDragoon

01-14-08, 11:58 AM

It's apparently the new cool thing.

(From http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080114/ap_en_mu/steroid_raid)
Report: Entertainers in steroid report

A number of entertainers were named in connection with an Albany-based steroid investigation, but they are not part of an ongoing criminal probe, according to a published report.

The Times Union of Albany cited unidentified law enforcement officials in reporting Sunday that R&B music star Mary J. Blige, rap musicians 50 Cent, Timbaland and Wyclef Jean, and award-winning author and producer Tyler Perry may have received or used performance-enhancing drugs.

Law enforcement officials have said evidence does not indicate that the celebrities broke the law, but that investigators are focusing on doctors, pharmacists and clinics that provide the drugs.

Albany District Attorney P. David Soares launched the investigation into steroid trafficking last year.

Soares is "not confirming, denying or discussing any of the names" involved in the investigation, said spokeswoman Heather Streeter Orth.

A spokeswoman for Blige denied the singer had taken illegal steroids.

Ken Sunshine, a spokesman for Perry, declined to comment.

There was no response to calls Sunday and Monday seeking comment from representatives of other entertainers.

While athletes use steroids and human growth hormone to get bigger, faster and stronger, the drugs can also lure other people with their supposed anti-aging qualities.

Soares' multistate investigation has focused on Signature Pharmacy of Orlando, Fla. So far, 10 defendants have pleaded guilty and news reports have linked some professional athletes to Soares' probe.

Soares has said Signature was at the center of a web of businesses and doctors that illegally wrote prescriptions for steroids. Authorities raided the company almost a year ago and its owners and operators are awaiting trial in Albany on related charges.

Records shared with the Times Union and information from several cooperating witnesses on Long Island allege the celebrities received prescribed human growth hormone or steroids, the newspaper said.

The newspaper said that Blige received the human growth hormone Jentropin and Oxandrolone, an anabolic steroid, in orders sent to her at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Her spokeswoman denounced the report. "Mary J. Blige has never taken any performance enhancing illegal steroids," Karynne Tencer told the Daily News.

Former Sen. George Mitchell released a report last month on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. That report said former Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski provided steroids and human growth hormone linked to several prominent players. Radomski pleaded guilty last year to charges that he dealt steroids to players for a decade.

Congressional hearings are to begin this month on the Mitchell report.

effdamets

01-14-08, 12:02 PM

It's apparently the new cool thing.

(From http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080114/ap_en_mu/steroid_raid)
Mary J Blige? JHC!

I like the fact that the investigator didn't want to discuss names........

allybear

01-14-08, 12:11 PM

Mary J Blige? JHC!

I like the fact that the investigator didn't want to discuss names........

He's waiting to drag them in front of Congress too! :lol:

Snatch Catch

01-14-08, 12:49 PM

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=655069&category=&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=1/14/2008

ALBANY -- A former doctor from Queens nabbed in a nationwide steroids investigation was sentenced to 3 to 6 years in prison today for rubber-stamping hundreds of drug prescriptions for patients she never examined.

Anna Maria Santi, 69, who hasn't had a valid medical license in New York for more than eight years, had written more than $150,000 in prescriptions for Internet steroid customers, according to authorities.

The probe has uncovered wide spread use of performance-enhancing drugs across the country, from NFL and professional baseball players to recording artists.

On Sunday, the Times Union reported that R&B music star Mary J. Blige, rap artists 50 Cent, Timbaland and Wyclef Jean, and award-winning author and producer Tyler Perry were among the thousands of customers of the pharmacies Soares investigated.

TheDynasty26

01-14-08, 12:50 PM

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=655069&category=&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=1/14/2008

Why would Mary J Blige and Wyclef need steroids....

this stuff gets weirder and weirder

Snatch Catch

01-14-08, 12:51 PM

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=654452

Mary J. Blige, 37
The Bronx native's first album -- "What's the 411?" -- debuted in 1992. Since then Blige has produced seven multiplatinum albums and won six Grammy Awards. In December 2006 Blige won nine Billboard Music Awards for her album "The Breakthrough."

Between August 2005 and January 2007 Blige allegedly received multiple shipments from an Orlando pharmacy of Jentropin, a human growth hormone, and Oxandrolone, an anabolic steroid, in orders sent to her at the Beverly Hills Hotel, MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and Clay Gym in New York City.

At least one of the orders was mailed under the name "Marlo Stanfield," which is the character name of a drug kingpin on the Baltimore-based HBO crime drama "The Wire."

Blige's representative did not respond to a request for comment.

Curtis James Jackson III, 50 Cent, 32
Jackson started dealing drugs at the age of 12 in Queens but an arrest on weapons and drug charges and a sentence in a shock incarceration program led him to abandon the street life and gravitate to a career in rap music. The stage name 50 Cent, Curtis has said, underscores his effort to "change" his life.

Jackson is alleged to have received shipments of steroids at his mansion in Farmington, Conn. in July 2006 an order was mailed to his residence under the name "Michael Jordan" and also at a residence on Oakmont Drive in Los Angeles. Steroids in his name also were mailed to the office of a Long Island chiropractor.

Jackson's representative did not respond to a request for comment.

Timothy Z. Mosley, Timbaland, 35
Mosley was born in Norfolk, Va., and began his musical career in the mid-1990s emerging as a top rap artist. Mosley has become a major record producer and two years ago founded his own label, Mosley's Musical Group. The label's debut, Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous" featuring Timbaland, reached the top of the song charts.

Mosley allegedly received shipments of human growth hormone and anabolic steroids between October 2005 and September 2006 at his Miami residence and at the office of a Long Island chiropractor.

Mosley could not be reached for comment.

Wyclef Jean, 35
Co-founder of The Fugees. The Haitian-born rapper and Grammy Award-winning musician is a producer and self-described social activist.

Jean splits time between New York City and Haiti, where he has spearheaded humanitarian efforts with stars such as Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

Prescriptions in Jean's name for human growth hormone and Oxandrolone, an anabolic steroid, were shipped to the office of a Long Island chiropractor in August 2005.

Jean's publicist declined to comment.

Tyler Perry, 38
An award-winning playwright, actor, director and producer. In 2005 Perry wrote, produced and starred in the box office hit, "Diary of a Mad Black Woman." Last fall, his television comedy series "House of Payne" debuted on TBS.

Perry's biography on his Web site touts his rags-to-riches story from being homeless on the streets of New Orleans to now owning a mansion outside Atlanta.

Prescriptions for anabolic steroids and growth hormone were shipped in Perry's name to his business and studio headquarters on Krog Street in Atlanta in 2005 and 2006.
Perry could not be reached for comment.

Sylvester Stallone, 61
Stallone paid a nearly $3,000 fine in Australia in May 2007 to settle criminal drug possession charges after 46 vials of human growth hormone and several vials of testosterone were discovered in his belongings during a customs inspection. Stallone, the chiseled star of the highly successful Rocky and Rambo movies, was in Sydney for a promotional tour. According to the Australian Associated Press, Stallone said he takes human growth hormone regularly because of damaged tendons and thin bones. Stallone has no known connection to the Albany steroids investigation.

Hitman23

01-14-08, 12:52 PM

ok so a couple of minutes has gone by and no thread police.

Time to loot

brosiusbuddy

01-14-08, 12:53 PM

Mary J. Blige does look pretty jacked...

Snatch Catch

01-14-08, 12:54 PM

ok so a couple of minutes has gone by and no thread police.

Time to loot

I looked but didn't see it...

PinstripePride

01-14-08, 12:55 PM

Not shocking at all. Blige is a little odd, but I can't say it's not believable.

Hitman23

01-14-08, 12:58 PM

I looked but didn't see it...It's in the sports bar.
http://forums.nyyfans.com/showthread.php?t=108852

How dare you clutter up the forum! :lol:

Mark19

01-14-08, 01:00 PM

It isn't shocking. A lot of these rappers and actors have these effortless tremendous physiques. How does one get to look so fit when they eat out every meal and seemingly guzzle endless quantities of champagne and liquor.

Snatch Catch

01-14-08, 01:01 PM

It's in the sports bar.
http://forums.nyyfans.com/showthread.php?t=108852

How dare you clutter up the forum! :lol:

DAMMIT!

(Why is it in the SB?)

Hitman23

01-14-08, 01:05 PM

DAMMIT!

(Why is it in the SB?)You got me. It's better here.

Stick Michael

01-14-08, 05:47 PM

You got me. It's better here.

I agree. Lets hope none of them shatter any long revered records!

yankeeschic12324

01-14-08, 05:48 PM

3 threads on this topic..cool.

CallOfTheCrow

01-14-08, 05:49 PM

3 threads on this topic..cool.

This one has the best subject title though.

Sam18

01-14-08, 05:51 PM

3 threads on this topic..cool.

Mmmmmmmmerge

gdn

01-14-08, 05:51 PM

Is this a joke or not?

yankeeschic12324

01-14-08, 05:57 PM

This one has the best subject title though.
Absolutely :D

NYYDragoon

01-14-08, 06:08 PM

DAMMIT!

(Why is it in the SB?)
I post news articles in either SB or JC depending on my mood :-P.

Mitchell needs to get ready to fire up his pen again.

CallOfTheCrow

01-14-08, 06:18 PM

I post news articles in either SB or JC depending on my mood :-P.

Mitchell needs to get ready to fire up his pen again.

I think Snoop Dogg will lead the charge this time.

penfold

01-14-08, 06:21 PM

I post news articles in either SB or JC depending on my mood :-P.

Mitchell needs to get ready to fire up his pen again.

His head would explode from listening to 50 Cent.

DontHateOnNumber2

01-14-08, 07:54 PM

This by far has the coolest title lol I heard about this whole thing on CNN this morning. The first thing I said, was I was right. I knew 50 Cent was on the juice.

Panamaniac42

01-14-08, 09:07 PM

50 Cent was obvious. Timbaland not too shocking either, going from a doughboy to jacked in his mid-30's (and I suspect LL Cool J for the same reason though he's not named...just my opinion). Mary J Blige being linked is pretty crazy though.

Mezmerize

01-15-08, 11:28 AM

RhodeyYankee2638

01-15-08, 12:27 PM

I love how on award and TV shows, they always say "Mary is looking beautiful." No she isn't, she looks like a horse

Slavenka

01-15-08, 10:37 PM

I was thinking that Mary was linked because of the husband.

I love how on award and TV shows, they always say "Mary is looking beautiful." No she isn't, she looks like a horse
Looking beautiful for her? Since What's the 411? I've found her unfortunate looking.

yankeesAZ

01-15-08, 10:46 PM

I would like to go on record saying, I never posted once while using performancing enhancing drugs.

Hitman23

01-16-08, 03:20 PM

I would like to go on record saying, I never posted once while using performancing enhancing drugs.Don't point that finger at me, pal.

CallOfTheCrow

01-16-08, 04:50 PM

lol @ peter abraham's post on this.