Tattle: Meek Mill suing city, cops over car stop

NORTH PHILLY-born and raised rapper Meek Mill is suing Philadelphia and two police officers in federal court over his arrest last Halloween night that caused him to lose $50,000 from a promotional appearance, one of his attorneys said Thursday.

The suit stems from an incident at 11th and Girard, where Officers Andre Boyer and Michael Vargas pulled over the Maybach Music Group rapper. According to the suit, the officers took Mill into custody, held him for nine hours and took pictures of him that they then posted on Instagram.

Dennis Cogan, one of Mill's attorneys, said the officers handcuffed Mill and illegally searched his Range Rover, claiming that they smelled marijuana. No drugs were found. In the car with Mill were a Warner Bros. Records vice president and an off-duty Broward County, Fla., police officer working security for the rapper.

Mill, born Robert Williams, was released at 4:30 a.m. the next day, forcing him to miss an appearance in Altanta, where, Cogan said, he would have earned $50,000. Mill rented a jet to take him there, too. Mill is seeking compensation for the missed gig and for "the anxiety and embarrassment of being seized, detained, confined and imprisoned against plaintiff's will," according to the complaint.

Mill, whose album "Dreams and Nightmares" debuted in November at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, spent six months in jail in 2008 for drug-dealing and gun possession.

The Philadelphia Police Department would not comment on the suit. Lt. John Stanford did say there is a department policy for using social media. "The do's and don'ts if you will," Stanford said, but he would not comment further on that policy.

* Dubstep DJ Skrillex almost lost his most prized possession - his distinctive hair - during his 28th-birthday party Tuesday night. Skrillex's locks are shaved on one side, long and luxurious on the other. The three-time Grammy winner went to blow out his candles and his hair caught fire. Thankfully, he was able to tamp it out before he had a Samsonesque problem on his hands.

* Firefighters were called to La

Casa de Osbourne in Beverly Hills early yesterday morning, after matriarch Sharon Osbourne fell asleep without extinguishing some candles and the place caught on fire. No significant damage was done to the house, though.

Osbourne relayed a warning for fellow candle lovers to TMZ: "Please everybody always check all the candles lit in the house before going to bed. I didn't, and at 5 a.m. this morning I was met with 5 gorgeous men from the BH Fire Department as they put out the fire in my house."

Five gorgeous men, huh? That doesn't sound like a warning so much as a dating service.

Lena Dunham and Howard

Stern have made peace with one another after the mega-popular radio DJ called the recent Golden Globe winner (HBO's "Girls") "a little fat chick who sort of looks like Jonah Hill and keeps taking her clothes off."

Post-backlash, Stern apologized to Dunham, saying he's "addicted to her character." Dunham shot back: "I'm not that fat. I don't mean to take major issue with you about this. I'm not superthin, but I'm thin for, like, Detroit."

And Philadelphia!

* Former "Facts of Life" star

Lisa Whelchel is getting the reality-TV bump. After getting second place (along with the $100,000 prize for fan favorite) on the most recent season of "Survivor," Whelchel will take her talents to the big screen in "Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas."

In the flick, she'll play a country-school principal. It was her first audition in 33 years.

- Daily News wire services

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