The Commercial Appeal

Congressma­n, celebs push for A$AP Rocky’s release from jail

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Soccer player celebrates World Cup win with dance from J. Lo

Carli Lloyd of the U.S. women’s national soccer team celebrated her team’s recent World Cup victory with a lap dance from J. Lo.

Jennifer Lopez pulled Lloyd from the audience to the stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Friday night, working her sensual moves on the soccer star.

After Lopez told the crowd that Lloyd was in attendance, her fiance Alex Rodriguez escorted Lloyd to security guards who walked her to the stage, where she sat on a chair shaped like a stiletto shoe.

“Carli, you doing OK?” Lopez asked, then sitting on Lloyd’s lap as she sang a slowed-down version of “If You Had My Love,” her debut single released in 1999.

Following an outcry from celebritie­s and a Change.org petition with half a million signatures, U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat is pushing for the release of A$AP Rocky, who has been behind bars in Sweden while police investigat­e a fight involving the rapper.

A Swedish court ordered Rocky to spend two weeks in pre-trial detention while police investigat­e the June 30 fight in downtown Stockholm. Espaillat, a New York Democrat, said he was pushing to help Rocky come home.

“I will continue fighting until A$AP Rocky is released from Swedish prison and brought back. Everyone deserves to be treated equally and A$AP Rocky’s rights continue to be violated,” the congressma­n says.

Barbie goes glam to honor David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust

Barbie has been many things. Now, she’s dressed as Ziggy Stardust.

In celebratio­n of the 50th anniversar­y of the release of David Bowie’s iconic “Space Oddity,” Barbie overseers at Mattel released a collectibl­e version of the doll dressed as Ziggy Stardust, one of his most beloved alter egos.

Barbie wears the metallic Ziggy space suit with red and blue stripes, flared shoulders and cherry red platform boots. Mattel spared no makeup, featuring the astral sphere smack in the middle of Ziggy Barbie’s forehead. The doll’s hair is fiery red.

The $50, limited edition doll was created in collaborat­ion with The David Bowie Archive.

The rocker died in 2016 of cancer.

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