Filed under: Jamie Foxx, Michael Jackson, Music, Special

A further HUGE addition to the upcoming Michael Jackson tribute concert … TMZ has learned Jamie Foxx has signed on and will perform LIVE in Wales at the October show.

Foxx joins Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo, Smokey Robinson and others who are set to perform at the Oct. 8 show.

Sources connected to the show tell TMZ … show organizers are pumped up about Beyonce’s performance — and insist she did NOT pull out, despite a crash to the contrary.

We’re told B is tape a “unique, by no means before seen performance” that will be played at the show … just as she committed to do.

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Filed under: T.I., Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, Celebrity Justice

T.I.’s wife tells TMZ, prison officials are tiresome to make an example out of her husband by dragging him back to prison — targeting him simply because he’s a well-known rapper.

Tameka "Tiny" Cottle tells us, "It’s vital that the world know how unfair he’s being treated on such minor charges … all because he’s T.I."

According to Tiny, T.I.’s the victim of a vicious double standard — "There are way more perilous and carefree [celebrities] that get slapped on the wrist and sent on their way."

Tiny adds, "Our family needs [him] … and because of someone’s personal vendetta against him, we have to watch our kids’ sad faces everyday when he still doesn’t show up at home."

T.I. — who was hauled back to prison last week on his way to a halfway house — is scheduled for release in a few weeks.

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Filed under: Mel Gibson, Joe Eszterhas, Movies

File under ironic and appealing …  Mel Gibson is producing a movie that triumphs the Jewish struggle against tyranny … a movie about the greatest Jewish hero of all time.

Mel’s publicist Alan Neirob tells TMZ …  Mel is teaming up with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas — who wrote the Jewish-themed movies “Betrayed” and “Music Box” — to produce a movie about Judah Maccabee, the Jewish warrior who defeated the Greek-Syrian armies in the second century B.C.

Mel — who famously directed the arguably anti-Jewish “Passion of the Christ” in 2004 — has signed on with Warner Bros., which won out over several other studios that wanted the scheme.

Neirob says Gibson has been working on the Maccabee scheme for a decade, but now it’s about to become real.

alan neirob  confirmed
tells us, wb will be doing the movie with mel

joe eszterhas
mel has been working on the scheme for more than a decard

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Filed under: T.I., Celebrity Justice, Special

T.I. was hauled back to prison because prison officials believed he had people from his reality show on the bus that took him to his halfway house … this according to official documents obtained by TMZ.

According to the thing crash, when T.I. was released from prison on August 31, he was under specific instructions to be transported to his halfway house — where he would serve the remaining 30 days of his sentence — but he could ONLY travel with his wife … and he wasn’t allowable to conduct business on the bus.

But prison officials say T.I. also had his manager, along with 2 VH1 producers on board.  Prison officials believe T.I. and his crew were yakking about his reality show as well as a book — a violation of the rules.

The VH1 producers and T.I.’s manager have submitted letters claiming they were not conducting business, but prison officials didn’t buy it.

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Filed under: Chaz Bono, Dancing with the Stars

Chaz Bono will make a splash on “Dancing with the Stars,” but people who have known her and him well tell TMZ … it may be more like a belly flop.

Our sources say … as a woman Chaz had NO rhythm, and there’s no prove any of Chaz’ recent changes improved the situation.

The people we spoke with were very surprised Chaz agreed to the DWTS gig, but say it’s more about making a statement than the dancing itself.

On the bright side, our DWTS spies tell us Chaz is well-liked among the professional dancers and contestants — “a very cool dude,” one source says.

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