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Apparently, Foxy Brown was getting some preferential treatment in the slammer as three prison officials at Rikers Island jail have stepped down from their positions after reportedly allowing a promotional photo shoot for the rapper’s new album while she was in jail. Two other workers have already previously left their jobs because of the so-called scandal. Foxy has denied the claims though, saying “It was incarceration, not vacation. I only wore the designer clothing I was allowed to have. There were certain gang colors my sneakers couldn’t be… I didn’t have any special visitation rights.” That can’t even be counted as denial!

It seems that legal drama follows Foxy Brown wherever she goes. The sassy rapper has been slapped with a lawsuit from the IRS for failing to pay over $600,000 in back taxes. According to legal documents, Foxy failed to make tax payments from the years 2003 to 2006. The IRS has already brought the case to a New York court in order to collect the money they are owed from the rapper. If you remember, Foxy served 8 out of a 12 month sentence at Rikers early last year which stemmed from assault charges. You have to wonder where she’s going to get that much money fast.

Foxy Brown is off the hook as the lawsuit that was filed in 2007 against the rapper claiming that she beat down her neighbor with a Blackberry has been dismissed. Even though Foxy pled guilty to the charges of the cell phone assault, the lawsuit was dropped by Justice Robert Miller in a Brooklyn Supreme Court after finding out that Foxy had never been served with the proper legal papers. How the heck did that slip through the cracks and was only found out now? It’s pretty obvious that Foxy got lucky here. Let’s just hope that she doesn’t do it again.

Even though Foxy Brown was once seen everywhere and anywhere pimping out her new album, the formerly incarcerated rapper now thinks that it was a very bad call. Foxy told AllHipHop.com that “This was probably the most illogical business decision I’ve ever made in my entire career … Completely ignoring my intuition.” Foxy has been in a public feud with her former manager ‘Slim’ Williams, who was responsible for putting ‘Brooklyn’s Don Diva’ together while Foxy was still in jail. Foxy has since publicly renounced the album and is now working on a new album which she is calling ‘Black Roses’.

Foxy Brown has landed herself in jail for a year. But that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t have the right to rock out.

The legally embattled rapper is dropping a new album entitled ‘Brooklyn’s Don Diva’ next month. It’s her first release since 2001’s ‘Broken Silence’. And the first single off of it is tight! You just have to love ‘Lights Go Out’. It has to be one of the hottest songs in hip hop right now and Foxy just kills it.

Too bad she can’t do any promotion for it. Maybe she can arrange a live satellite feed of her performing the song from jail.