50 Cent to join Mayweather at WrestleMania

When welterweight boxing champion Floyd Mayweather takes the ring March 30 for a decidedly different sort of battle--against WWE giant Paul "Big Show" Wight at WrestleMania XXIV--he'll have some backup in the form of hip-hop superstar 50 Cent.

In what is being billed as "The Best vs the Biggest," Mayweather will face off with Wight, despite being outweighed by more than 300 pounds. 50 Cent will accompany Mayweather to the ring, just as he did when Mayweather fought Oscar De La Hoya last summer, rapping his single "I Get Money" as he did.

On Friday, when the rapper was hosting New York radio station Power 105.1, Mayweather asked his friend for a favor. "I'd like for you to bring me out [at 'WrestleMania']," he said.

"I'm coming. I'm coming," 50 answered.

WWE has announced that John Legend will start off WrestleMania singing "America The Beautiful," and, also on the 30th, Snoop Dogg will be the master of ceremonies for the all-female throw-down of WWE Divas billed as the BunnyMania Lumberjack Match.

J-Lo, Marc Anthony name twins

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have reportedly named their newborn twins Max and Emme, according to People magazine. Lopez' manager, Simon Fields, confirmed the babies' names to the magazine on Friday. The twins were born at a Long Island hospital on Feb. 22, with 5-pound, 7-ounce Emme arriving about 15 minutes before her 6-pound brother.

Fields said then that Lopez, a first-time mother at 39, was "thrilled" at the babies' arrival. In Touch magazine reported that the couple paid $700,000 to reserve a luxurious birthing suite at Long Island's North Shore University Hospital, where Lopez delivered the twins.

The $175,000-a-week suite reportedly included brown leather couches, a large Apple computer monitor, two plasma-screen TVs, wooden flooring, and a private kitchen, and was reserved by the couple three weeks before the star's due date.

Both Lopez and Anthony won Latin music's "Premio Lo Nuestro" awards last week. Lopez picked up the honor for best solo pop singer, and Anthony was named salsa artist of the year.

Report: Hells Angels sought to kill Jagger

A bizarre epilogue has been added to what was already one of the strangest tales in the history of rock and roll. A new BBC documentary claims that Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger escaped an assassination plot hatched in 1969 by the Hells Angels.

The plot reportedly came on the heels of Jagger's decision not to use Hells Angel members as bouncers following the death in December 1969 of an 18-year-old fan at a notorious free performance at Altamont Speedway in Northern California.

When they learned of the decision, gang members hatched a plan to kill Jagger at his holiday home in Long Island, New York, the BBC claimed.

"The Hells Angels were so angered by Jagger's treatment of them that they decided to kill him," Tom Mangold, the presenter of the program, told Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper. Mangold said he learned of the plot in an interview with former FBI officer Mark Young.

Mangold said the men tried to reach Jagger by sea. "The boat was hit by a storm and all of the men were thrown overboard," he was quoted as saying. They all survived but made no other attempt on his life, Mangold said. It was not clear whether Jagger was ever informed of the alleged plot against him.

Kid Rock pleads not guilty

Kid Rock pleaded not guilty Monday to a misdemeanor count of simple battery stemming from a fight at an Atlanta-area Waffle House last October. Rock, 37, did not appear in court and had his attorney, Darryl Cohen, enter the plea on his behalf.

According to police, a woman in the entourage of Rock--real name Robert Ritchie--got into a heated debate with another Waffle House patron whom she recognized in the wee hours of Oct. 21, following a concert at the Tabernacle concert hall in Atlanta.

The two apparently took their quarrel into the parking lot, where Rock and five members of his entourage became involved before piling onto the rocker's tour bus and departing. Police stopped the bus shortly thereafter and arrested Rock for simple battery. Rock was released later the same day after posting $1,000 bail.

Juvenile mourns daughter

New Orleans rapper Juvenile has faced some trials and tribulations in recent years, including the devastation of his city and some drug-related arrests. But nothing Juvenile has faced could prepare him for the news that his 4-year-old daughter, the girl's mother, and another child were murdered by the woman's 17-year-old son late last week.

The bodies of Juvenile's daughter Jelani; her mother, Joy Deleston, 39; and Deleston's daughter Micaiah, 11, were found Thursday night in their home in Lawrenceville, Georgia, which is near Atlanta. Deleston's 17-year-old son, Anthony Tyrone Terrell Jr., is being charged with the murders. He was arrested Friday.

"It really shocked him and devastated him to the point where I've never seen him before," Juvenile's manager Aubrey Francis told the Associated Press. "Right now he is relaxing and trying to grasp everything of what has happened."

Deleston, 39, was an actress who appeared in locally produced films, as well as a seven-and-a-half-year veteran of the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office. Police have not announced a motive in the killings.

Twitty's kids sue label; widow disagrees

A 14-year battle between the children of the late Conway Twitty and his widow has taken a new twist this week. Twitty's children have sued Sony/ATV for a share of royalties and publishing copyrights for the country star's music, a move that his widow, Dee Jenkins, said dishonors their father's memory.

The lawsuit filed in chancery court this week claims the children didn't understand the agreement when Twitty sold his music publishing and sound-recording interests to Sony-Tree in March 1990, three years before he died.

But Jenkins told the Associated Press that the family knew what they signed 18 years ago. Jenkins and the children fought a 14-year legal battle over Twitty's estate after his death, which the children eventually lost.

"I'm somewhat astounded that they make an allegation that they didn't know what they were doing," Rose Palermo, a lawyer for his estate, told the AP. "He [Twitty] was supporting his children. And at the time, he was giving some of them $50,000 a year in salaries and a free place to live. To make this allegation is a direct slam at Conway, who was one of the most honorable and decent guys that I've known in the music business."