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Usher F**ks With the Wrong Fan

Usher Raymond is determined to sanitize all the Usher news around, even if he's got to strong-arm his biggest fan site with legal action in order to keep it that way. But the webmaster of the site tells TMZ she's willing to slug it out in court with her fave R&B star, just to make her point.
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Erika Jackson, webmaster of usherforever.com, tells TMZ that she's been hit with a full-scale legal blitz from a tag-team of both Usher's personal lawyer and his label's lawyers, and claims that the trouble started earlier this year when she refused to turn her site -- the self-proclaimed "biggest Usher site" on the Internet -- into a sanitized official site. (The legal threats were first reported by the New York Daily News.)

Not long after, says Jackson, the lawyers tried to bring the hammer down on her, demanding that she "assign the url usherforever.com" to LaFace Records, Usher's label, because it might confuse fans into thinking that it had an affiliation to Usher. Jackson points out that other sites -- like Usher.net and UsherRaymond.org -- that are closer in name to the singer -- haven't been accused of being "confusing."

Usher attacked the media and even fans last week in an open letter to People, saying that speculation about his relationship with fiancee Tameka Foster and the reported firing of his mom as manager were "disturbing." A defiant Jackson says that she won't lay down and that she's prepared to go to court with Usher.

Neither Usher's label rep nor his lawyer responded to requests for comment.

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16. I will never buy another Usher anything! He is a DOG to do this to her!

Posted at 6:16PM on Jul 19th 2007 by Unruly

17. His carreer will slide if he continues to hook up with R Kelly.

Posted at 6:19PM on Jul 19th 2007 by Dego mama

18. A womwan who came between him and his momma. Now the Old bat is pregnant. Great carreer move there dude

Posted at 6:20PM on Jul 19th 2007 by Doggy Style

19. A womwan who came between him and his momma. Now the Old bat is pregnant. Great carreer move there dude

Posted at 6:21PM on Jul 19th 2007 by Doggy Style

20. Usher: you goofed. She aint infringing on YOU or YOUR BIG AZZ self. Take her to court.... you aint got nuttin on herz , you lose. You starting to look da fool, bro. Take it on DOWN a notch or ten.

Posted at 6:26PM on Jul 19th 2007 by angel

21. He can not kick everyone's ass that is teasing him about marrying that skank. She must have some good pictures blackmailing him. How can a guy go home to a skank like that each day?

Posted at 9:42PM on Jul 19th 2007 by bulldogi

22. Usher is going to lose his fan base if he doesn't stop this foolishness. So what if people don't like your fiance!!! The sun's not going to stop rising and shining because people don't like Tameka; your world isn't going to come to an end!!! Geez!!!

It would have been better if he had just ignored what people are saying. All he's doing now is drawing more attention to the situation.

People don't like her because she won't shut her BIG MOUTH!!!! She thinks she's the STAR!!! And she's making Usher look like a stupid, pu$$y-whipped "little boy" in the process.

Posted at 6:31PM on Jul 19th 2007 by Bella

23. i will never ever buy one of his cd,s. he is making that old hag transvestite looking chick ruin his relationship with his mother and his fans. how about every fan stop buying his cd,s and stop going to his concerts .

Posted at 6:36PM on Jul 19th 2007 by max

24. 1. Tenth

Posted at 5:41PM on Jul 19th 2007 by Who

^LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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oh and usher is gonna alienate all his fans with this b.s.

Posted at 6:38PM on Jul 19th 2007 by BABESBLINGANDBOOZE.BLOGSPOT.COM

25. I don't know who's managing Usher...wait a minute, I do. He's going to lose many of his fans over this. What he is doing is career suicide.

Usher, go back to your mother man. You messin' up!!

Posted at 6:41PM on Jul 19th 2007 by REALIST

26. It's obvious she will lose. Any fansite can be taken down point blank. She is using someone else's name to make money. If she had pepsiforever or parishiltonforever and pepsi or paris hilton didn't like it, it's gone.

Celebrity sites are not usually messed with as they are"fan" sites, but they are all treading on thin ice.
It's called copyright law.

Posted at 6:56PM on Jul 19th 2007 by akbari

27. Usher needs to relax himself. He can't stop every media or gossip blogger in the world from making negative comments and the more he tries the more bizarro this whole situation gets.

Posted at 7:09PM on Jul 19th 2007 by Shootingstar

28. anything important in the news today???

Posted at 7:17PM on Jul 19th 2007 by JT

29.
Usher, you are an a##hole.

Note: career ends in: 5,4,3,2,1.....over.

Posted at 7:19PM on Jul 19th 2007 by jeri

30. Maneka and Ursher please. You cannot stop people from talking about you and all your lying, dumb ass behavior. You both are putting yoursef out there by doing interviews and then not wanting people to respond. Usher is trying to get people to stop talking about his man-looking fiance and she wants people to believe she hasnt put the roots on him. Usher was one of the biggest r & b singers out there but he felt sorry for Maneka and now she has him under her spell. He fired his mom and other members of his magnificent team because they didnt agree with Maneka. She is the worst stylist for him, has him looking like her ex-husband, check out the pictures! We fans just pray that you come to your senses and dump that he-she before she completely ruins everything that your former team has built. If she has this many enemies, it is probably for a reason, mom always knows when something is wrong. Why is she still drinking and putting herself out there-oh i forgot-SHE IS SUCH A GOOD MOTHER-lol Please dont make the mistake of thinking fans and family dont count because it will come back to bite you in he ass-maybe not as good as Maneka but lol. Also please get a paternity test and sign a iron-clad prenups so that when this train wreck of a relationship ends, she wont take everything. Go Ericka J-keep us informed-Freedom of speech is a bi--h aint it Usher

Posted at 11:22PM on Jul 21st 2007 by Sindy Brownie

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