Billy Ray and Jason "King of All Pimps" Itzler

Such a bizarre story that my friend Shannon at Nashville Gab dug up:  Apparently there’s a guy in New York called “The King of All Pimps.”  He’s been arrested, and is being held for $200,000 bail.  In court, for some bizarre reason, he decided to tell a story about Billy Ray Cyrus.

“I sent a companion, a non-sexual companion — a baby sitter, not a prostitute — to Billy Ray Cyrus, who was staying at the Trump International Hotel,” Itzler said.  ”They decided in front of me to get and use heroin for the first time in their life. He wanted to die!” Itzler claimed.  ”This is Miley Cyrus’s father, by the way.”

Luckily, a cop stepped in and cleared things up.  The guy just LOOKED like Billy Ray, but was NOT Billy Ray.  The judge noted that Billy Ray would be happy to hear that.  Totally nutty, and totally irrelevant, but I just had to share.



But he did make it on a list of crappy songs from the 90s.  Rolling Stone proclaims that Billy Ray Cyrus’ mega-hit Achy Breaky Heart was the third worst song of the 1990s, with “Barbie Girl” and “Macarena” getting the #1 and #2 spots.   Not quite as bad, but still awful, would be “Ice Ice Baby” and “Tubthumping” by…and I hate to even type this…Chumbawumba!

He’s tatooed from head to toe, and his name is Trace Cyrus.  He and the woman in the photo with him, Brenda Song, are expecting a baby together after dating for several months.  And because Trace is the adopted son of Billy Ray Cyrus (Tish’s son from a previous marriage), that means Billy Ray’s gonna be a grandpa!  Brenda Song might look familiar if you have kids, since she played spoiled hotel heiress London Tipton on “Suite Life of Zack and Cody” for a million years.  And maybe I’m confusing real-life Brenda with her TV character London, but I can’t help looking at this picture and thinking this girl is in serious rebellion mode.  ”Mom, Dad, meet Trace Cyrus.  We’ve been dating for two months and we’re pregnant!!!”  (stunned silence.)  Anyway, congrats to the two of them.

Correction:  I guess they’ve been going out for about a year.  And she’s 23, btw.