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Flavor Flav Looking At 12 years in Jail For Assault With Knife

A Las Vegas judge has that a trial of Flavor Flav will move on, charging that the rapper threatened his fiancé and her 17-year-old son with a butcher knife.
The 54-year-old rapper will stand trial for a pair of felonies and faces up to 12 years in jail. On April 18, the famed Public Enemy hype man will be arraigned formally on felony charges of assault with a weapon and child endangerment.
Flav, real name William Jonathan Drayton Jr., is expected to plead not guilty.
Reports say he pushed his fiancé down to the ground in October and chased her and her son around with butcher knives in their Las Vegas home.

Lisa Vanderpump Targeted in Sexual Assault Lawsuit Over Villa Blanca Restaurant

Lisa Vanderpump
Targeted In
Sexual Assault Suit

An actress/restaurant server claims she was the victim of sexual assault and battery at Lisa Vanderpump's Beverly Hills Restaurant, Villa Blanca, and she's suing Lisa and the man she claims did the dirty deeds for more than $5 million.

Karina Bustillos -- who has appeared in "The Mexican Conspiracy" and "86'd" -- claims in April, a Villa Blanca manager, Michael Govia, told her to close her eyes.  She says when she eventually opened them, Govia's mouth was open with his tongue sticking out, right by her mouth, in an attempt to kiss her.

Bustillos says she complained and then Govia began retaliating, calling her a "bitch" and a "c**t" and telling other servers he could "get her" -- implying he could sleep with her if he wanted.

She says in August, Govia allegedly approached her and aggressively twisted her wrists.  She says when she asked him to stop, he responded, "I will do whatever I want.  I'm the manager."

Bustillos says she complained to others but no action was taken.  Bustillos also says Lisa Vanderpump gave her the cold shoulder after she complained.

Bustillos, who claims she was forced to quit, is suing Lisa, her husband, Ken Todd, the restaurant and Govia for more than $5 mil.

Lisa Vanderpump tells TMZ, "The waitress had a falling out with a manager.  Of course I take that seriously.  We've looked at all the cameras and there's no sexual harassment."  Lisa adds, "This is just a disgruntled employee."

Nano Assault Neo Announced

Nintendo concluded this morning's Wii U Preview Event with a rapid-fire listing of over 50 different titles that will ship for the new system in the "launch window" between November 18 and the end of March 2013, and while we knew about most all of them there was at least one new name snuck into the mix – "Nano Assault Neo" from Shin'en.

Discerning 3DS gamers will recognize the name, as Nano Assault was a brilliant, beautiful shooter that flew well under the radar when it released this past December for Nintendo's newest handheld. We don't yet know whether Nano Assault Neo is a sequel to that title or simply a Wii U version of it, but either way, Nintendo fans are in for a treat – its adventure into the microscopic depths of a human body is seriously intense and visually stunning.

Stay tuned for more details as we get them.