ChRihanna Shop The ‘Short Pump’
Here are a few cute pics sent in by Pink reader Sarah, taken by her friend Blanton, from a recent run-in they had with Rihanna and Chris Brown at a shopping center in Richmond, VA this week:
Sarah writes: I was at Short Pump Town Center (Richmond, VA) yesterday and guess who were there? Chris Brown and Rihanna! They were super cute and holding hands. They also spent a lot of time in the jewelry store so I’m pretty sure he bought her something … you know, because he can.
Awww love it. I suppose it’s possible that Chris bought Ri Ri a ring — a friendship ring, that is. They’re the cutest and seem very cool to take the time to say hello to their fans. Much love goes out to Sarah for sharing the photos.
[thanks Sarah and Blanton]
Tags: Chris Brown, Rihanna, The Short Pump Town Center
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August 20th, 2008 at 10:34 am
THE REAL DEAL Says:
August 20th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Patricia Williams speaks..
“I’m a professional Business Manager, I have a staff of more than a dozen, I have worked for many high profile actors, musicians and multi-million dollar corporations. Why would I steal from Rihanna? I showed her all the paperwork and tried to explain to her the circumstances but she wouldn’t listen. She called me all sorts of horrible names and stormed off. I now feel compelled to share with the world the background story as I will not allow my name to be slandered”
The Barbados born singer has had four back-to-back albums, including a re-release since her debut of “Pon De Replay” in 2005. According to Willliams, Marc Jordan, manager and owner of Rebel One Management has been taking care of Rihanna’s financial situation with her.
“Def Jam doesn’t fund Rihanna properly, so Marc uses the money Rihanna makes from third-party endorsements and from tours to fund her album and music videos.”
“Since 2005, Rihanna has been sponsored by the likes of JC Penny, Samsung, CoverGirl, Secret, Venus Breeze etc, and has gone on two major tours, most recently label-mate Kanye West’s “Glow in the Dark” Tour and with Pussy Cat Dolls across Europe. I don’t want to disrespect Marc’s name. He is a fantastic manager and genuinely believes in Rihanna. But he uses her money to fund her future projects because he believes he can break her in the world-market. Her album sales are not nearly as close to her single sales and he knows that if she is only known as a ‘singles artist’ she will only be as good as her last hit. Unfortunately, he didn’t inform his client and I’m receiving the brunt of it.”
“Her record label Def Jam has put out 3 albums in a time span of 2 years. A lot of that was orchestrated through her management Rebel One. It was never Def Jam’s intention to release so many albums back-to-back but Marc Jordan found loop holes and ways to make it happen.
A lot of the money Rihanna made was through her endorsements between CoverGirl cosmetics, Samsung.. Notice that majority of Rihanna’s videos have a cell phone in it?”
“After the release of Rihanna and Teairra Mari, Def Jam had the intention to drop both acts because their album sales were not successful. Her manager fought to get “S.O.S (Rescue Me)” and quickly tried to negotiate with as many companies as possible. Nike picked up the song and funded a video.”
“This brought the hype back for Rihanna in the company’s New York office. The majority of the official ‘S.O.S’ video was funded by Samsung because the record label was only willing to put up a small amount. Once ‘S.O.S’ picked up digitally and at radio, Def Jam agreed to fund the rest of her album. Jordan instantly got a video shot to ‘Unfaithful’ (he negotiated with video director Anthony Mandler to drop his price and would be given more videos from Rihanna in return).”
“Then they shot ‘We Ride’ which was an extremely cheap video to create. ‘Break It Off’ was released as a third album, but again, Def Jam was unhappy with the sales of her album A Girl Like Me and refused to shoot a video.”
“At this point Rihanna was opening up for the Pussy Cat Doll’s in Europe. She was making 30,000 a show but she didn’t see any of that money because it was needed to fund her next album.” Which is now known to the greater public as a Good Girl Gone Bad.”
“The song “Umbrella” was found & Jordan fought again for Rihanna to have it. They shot the video, which CoverGirl funded half of, and the song became a success. When the record label had their meeting with Music Stores across the U.S to order her album for shipment, the number’s weren’t coming in the way that they expected.”
“When the album’s first week numbers came in at less than 150,000, the label was shocked. Def Jam’s President LA Reid was livid! “Umbrella” was #1 for 11 weeks! Any other artist would have sold way more first week. T-Pain even did better in sales than her that week. Def Jam told Jordan they were no longer funding the album, so Jordan needed money again to pay for music videos ‘Shut Up & Drive’ and ‘Dont Stop The Music’. Almost 250,000 was spent to have those videos created. Plus, an additional 120,000 to shoot ‘Hate That I Love You’.”
“Jordan was noticing that ‘Dont Stop The Music’ was picking up, so he persuaded the label to support it at radio in the U.S and the remaining singles, and they did. Then came for the repackaging of her album Good Girl Gone Bad, which is called Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded, that entire project was funded through Rihanna’s money.
“‘Take A Bow’ was bought through her money, the video was created with her money and so is her most recent video and single ‘Disturbia’. The label didn’t even want to pay a dime for anything! Close to 750,000 was spent on those two songs alone. And now she expects to see money in her account?”
Williams states that Jordan, her publicist from well-respected public relations firm 42-West, Alicia Silverman has built alot of hype around Rihanna’s name but the singer has only made “a little bit above a million” and “all of it was spent on making her as big as she is now.”
“It’s not my fault that she only has 20,000 to her name.”
August 20th, 2008 at 10:45 am
oh my god, who the hell comes to richmond? weird!
August 20th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
christine, i was just thinking that. i used to live in richmond and worked at short pump for a short time. it’s a nice shopping center but one i would not have expected ri ri and chris to go to.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Sorry but you need to think of a new name for Chris and Rirri…ChRihanna is just horrible :(
August 20th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
CHRISTOPHER ROBYN should be their name
August 20th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
THE RUMOUR IS FAKE!!!NO SOURCE NO REPORTS
August 20th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
that’s sweet. i live in RVA and short pump towne center is pretty nice, i could totally see some celebs going there to try and get away from it all..
August 20th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
I could totally see them coming to Richmond. Afterall, Chris Brown is from Tappahanock, VA. That’s not too far from Richmond. He’s probably been to Richmond plenty of times before his celebrity status or wasn’t noticed. I wouldn’t doubt if he was in the area b/c he has family around there.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
wait, really, i think i am more amazed at the fact they are always in “my neck of the woods”. 1st kings dominion and now short pump? is there a movie/ studio/ family around here for either of them? i’m confused. *scratching head*
August 21st, 2008 at 12:17 pm
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August 21st, 2008 at 11:36 pm
He actually bought her diamond earrings at the jewelry store. He was looking for diamond earrings for himself but the store didn’t have big enough ones for him.
December 23rd, 2008 at 5:51 pm
I was there but I missed him I wasthere at that timeee AM SO MAD AT MYSELF!