Archive for October 2nd, 2009

Meet Erika Riker, wife of American Idol Judge Randy Jackson. Erika,  a former ballet dancer, met Randy on the set of a music video shoot. In 1995, the couple got married. Erika and Randy have two children together, a daughter, Zoe and son, Jordan. Also, Randy has a daughter named Taylor from his first marriage with his ex-wife singer-songwriter Elizabeth Jackson.

Currently, Erika Riker is a full-time homemaker.

WARNING: Video contains explicit language.

In this final segment from VIBE’s lost interview with 2Pac, the gone-but-not-forgotten rapper speaks about his movie Gridlock’d, meeting his father for the first time, and his views on God and religion. R.I.P. 2Pac.

White Lady returns black adopted child (Unnatural) The “Today” show on NBC did a shocking segment on Anita Tedaldi, “a woman who adopted a child and then gave him up 18 months later.” Tedaldi is a writer who originally told this story on The New York Times’ Motherlode blog.

She and her husband have five biological children and decided that they wanted more. After going through the approval process, she was able to adopt a baby who was found by the side of a road. Despite her pre-adoption belief that she would “be able to parent this little boy the same way I had done with my biological daughters,” she terminated the adoption after 18 months.