Lil' Kim

Grammy-winning hip-hop star Lil' Kim exits Manhattan federal court following her sentencing on perjury and conspiracy charges, July 5, 2005, in New York. She was given a one year and one day sentence and a $50,000 fine for for lying to a grand jury to protect friends involved in a 2001 shootout outside a Manhattan radio station.

Lil' Kim enters Manhattan federal court in New York, March 17, 2005, where she was convicted on three counts of perjury and one of conspiracy. The 29-year-old performer, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, was acquitted of obstruction of justice.

Before her sentence was handed down, Lil' Kim spoke briefly, her voice breaking. She admitted to lying to the grand jury and at her trial. "At the time I thought it was the right thing to do but I now know it was wrong," she said. Here, she is shown arriving at the Carlos Miele Fall 2005 fashion show, held at New York's Bryant Park, Feb. 9, 2005.

Lil' Kim sits in the front row during the Carlos Miele Fall 2005 Collection, held at Bryant Park, Feb. 9, 2005, in New York.

Lil' Kim, right, is escorted by Mary J. Blige following the funeral for rapper Notorious B.I.G at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home in New York March 18, 1997. The Brooklyn-born "gangsta" was gunned down in a Los Angeles drive-by shooting. As B.I.G. became a superstar, Lil' Kim became "Queen Bee," the oversexed gangsta girl in his otherwise all-male clique.

Lil' Kim performs during the MTV Video Music Awards at New York's Radio City Music Hall Sept. 4, 1997.

Lil' Kim arrives for the MTV Music Video Awards at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, in this Sept. 9, 1999, file photo. While presenting an award that night, wearing a pasty over one exposed breast, co-presenter Diana Ross jiggled Kim's bare flesh.

Lil' Cease with Lil' Kim, wearing Chanel clothing at the Chanel SoHo Boutique Opening Party in New York City Dec. 5, 2000. Since then, Lil' Kim testified, she has had a falling out with associates, including Cease, because they were freeloading at her New Jersey town house. "I was just fed up," she said on the stand. "They were taking advantage of me."

She won a Grammy in 2001 for her part in the hit remake of "Lady Marmalade." From left, Lil' Kim, Pink, Mya, and Christina Aguilera, sing that song (from the film "Moulin Rouge") at the 2001 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles, June 2, 2001.

Lil' Kim waves at photographers as she arrives at the Soul Train Lady of Soul awards as a presenter Aug. 28, 2001, in Santa Monica, Calif.

Miguel A. Nunez Jr., second from right, star of the movie "Juwanna Mann," is shown with, from left, Vivica A. Fox, Kim Wayans and Lil' Kim, right, at the world premiere of the film June 18, 2002, in Hollywood.

Lil' Kim shops at the Piaget Boutique on Fifth Avenue during filming for the series "Living Large" July 24, 2002, in New York.

Lil' Kim presents the award for best male athlete during the 3rd annual BET Awards June 24, 2003, in Los Angeles.

Lil' Kim attends the Source Hip-Hop Music Awards 2003 nomination announcements at the Millennium Hotel Aug. 27, 2003, in New York City.

Lil' Kim arrives at the MOBO 2003 awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London Sept. 25, 2003.

Singer Lil' Kim waves as she arrives at the Source Hip-Hop Music Awards Oct. 13, 2003 in Miami.

Lil' Kim, center, leaves Manhattan Federal court accompanied by her lawyer Mel Sachs, right, April 14, 2004, the day she was charged with lying to a grand jury about a 2001 shootout involving her entourage.

Lil' Kim, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, holds a key to the city of Miami, which she received over the weekend, as she poses for photographers before meeting with her attorney Aug. 9, 2004, in New York.

Lil' Kim addresses reporters Aug. 16, 2004, during a news conference in New York to unveil "Royalty by Lil' Kim," a line of watches she designed The watch collection ranges in price from $1,800 to $3,500, with diamond bezels weighing 1.75 to 2.25 carats.

Anna Nicole Smith, left, and Lil' Kim embrace at the Mao Magazine and Mao Space opening night party celebrating the beginning of the Olympus Fashion Week Spring 2005 at the Altman Building in New York City, Sept. 7, 2004.