Inga Marchand aka Foxy biography

Real biography: When Foxy Brown found out that her boyfriend was a pimp she dumped him, but you don't just dump a pimp and expect that to be the end. Three of his hos bum rushed her. They beat her up, smashed her hearing aid and ripped out her weave.

Life Story

Born Inga Marchand in Flatbush, Brooklyn, she burst onto the hip-hop scene as Foxy Brown after winning a talent contest in Park Slope. She was invited to rap on stage at a KRS-One concert where she impressed the Trackmasters who were in attendance. They let her rap over the LL Cool J song "I Shot Ya".

Career

She began appearing on other artist's tracks then in 1996 released her debut album Ill Na Na. The album sold over 109,000 copies in the first week, and debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200 album charts. She joined Nas, Az, and Nature to form the hip-hop supergroup The Firm. Her second solo album Chyna Doll made history when it became the first album by a female rap artist to enter the charts at #1, selling 179,000 copies in its opening week. She released her third album, Broken Silence in 2001. It didn't do as well as Chyna Doll but was considered a moderate success.In 2004 she revealed that she has suffered rapid hearing loss that has left her near deaf.

Legal Trouble

Foxy Brown has suffered a number of minor infractions and misdemeanors over her career, most notably the following:

On January 25, 1997, Brown spat on two hotel workers in Raleigh, North Carolina when they told her they didn't have an iron available. When she missed a court appearance, an arrest warrant was issued. She received a 30-day suspended sentence and was ordered to perform 80 hours of community service. On March 6, 2000, Brown crashed her Range Rover in Flatbush, Brooklyn. She was charged with driving without a license, since her license had been suspended for not paying two parking tickets. On July 26, 2002, Brown was arrested in Kingston, Jamaica for an altercation with a policewoman at Norman Manley International Airport. She missed a court appearance and Jamaican authorities announced that she would be arrested if she returned to the country.On August 29, 2004, Brown allegedly attacked two manicurists in Chelsea, Manhattan during a dispute over a $20 bill that she refused to pay. She was not charged for the incident until March 7, 2005. On October 25, 2006, Brown was sentenced to three years probation and anger management counseling. Orders of protection were authorized by the court for the manicurists.On December 23, 2005, Brown was handcuffed in a Manhattan, New York courtroom after a verbal confrontation with the judge. Brown was in court to finalize a plea deal stemming from the August 2004 incident. On February 15, 2007, Brown was arrested for an incident in Broward County, Florida. According to the arrest report, Brown was applying beauty products in the bathroom of the Queen Beauty Supply store when an employee knocked on the door and told her the business was closed so it was time to leave. She refused and threw hair glue at the employee, the report said. Brown then spat on the man as he called 911, staining his shirt. On March 1, 2007, Foxy Brown pleaded guilty to a probation violation for leaving New York state without permission.On August 14, 2007, Foxy Brown turned herself in for the felony assault charge resulting from hitting her neighbor with a BlackBerry.On October 12, 2007, Brown refused three times to board a Rikers Island bus for a Brooklyn court date related to the BlackBerry incident - once because "she needed more time to primp", authorities said. She finally appeared before the Court on October 16, 2007 and pleaded not guilty.On October 23, 2007, Brown was given 76 days in solitary confinement due to a physical altercation that took place with another prisoner. According to the prison authorities, Foxy Brown, was also verbally abusive toward correction officers and refused to take a random drug test.

Also worthy of note, although not a crime, is that she lied about being pregnant to gain sympathy from the judge during one of her trials. Classy.