Whitney’s stepmom is suing her. Whitney Houston’s stepmother is suing her, claiming that the singer has not honored her deceased father’s wishes in divvying up his estate. Barbara Houston claims that Whitney improperly kept the proceeds from John Houston’s $1 million insurance policy after he died in 2003. The singer was supposed to use $723,000 to pay off the mortgage on her father’s Fort Lee condominium, alleges the stepmother, who still lives in the condo. (She holds the mortgage on the condo.) Whitney also failed to return the remaining insurance money to her stepmother, according to the suit. Whitney and her stepmother have declined to comment on the lawsuit.

“Atlanta Housewives” is coming back. Bravo network has renewed “Atlanta Housewives,” the Black version of “Real Housewives.” To anybody paying attention to what’s hot on TV these days, any other decision would have been foolhardy. The reality show, which follows the lives of five wealthy African-American women in Atlanta, was regularly drawing the eyes of about 1.3 million adult viewers. The ATL reunion special, which featured fireworks between cast members Kim Zolciak and NeNe Leaks, also produced the biggest single-episode numbers of all three franchises, garnering 2.1 million adults 18-49 and 2.8 million total viewers.

Oprah and friends honor Essence’s Taylor. Oprah, Diddy and Al Sharpton came out to support Susan L. Taylor of Essence magazine. See photos from the exclusive event.
Housewives’ NeNe Leakes was evicted.  The breakout star of the hit Bravo reality series “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” was evicted from her pricey Duluth five-bedroom house, The Atlanta Constitution reports. According to Darryl Pierce, the broker for the 5,000-square-foot home, NeNe and her husband, Gregory Leakes, left in November, three months after Winwood Properties filed an eviction notice. Filed Sept. 24 with the Magistrate Court of Gwinnett County, the notice said Greg Leakes owed $6,240 in past due rent. “The tenant said they would move by Sept. 14 because they could no longer afford the house,” the notice said. The Leakeses moved into the home shortly after it was built in 2006, Pierce said.
Despite running a fever, Tina Turner did the Garden. People are still talking about how the 69-year-old Tina Turner who, despite having had a fever so high on Monday that she was hospitalized, wowed the crowd peppered with celebrities at New York’s Madison Square Garden Monday night. Whoopi Goldberg raved about her the next morning on “The View,” urging every woman in the audience to go see the show. Other celebs attending “An Evening with Tina Turner” Monday night included Anne Hathaway, MTV head Toni DiSanto, Tom Cruise and his wife, Katie Holmes – who were celebrating their second anniversary, and Molly Simms, reports The New York Post’s Page Six.  The celebs, when brought backstage to meet Turner before the show, were told because of her illness, that “no one is to shake her hand, and she cannot talk before performing [because of the illness]. She’s very shy.” But Turner not only shook hands but spoke with each guest, noted the Post. The eight-time Grammy-winner was determined to stick to her tour schedule and pressed ahead with her gig on Monday, reported The San Francisco Chronicle. There was no word on exactly what caused Turner’s illness.