Rihanna Accused Of Ripping Off Photographer For "S&M" Video, Gets BANNED In 11 Countries + Juelz Santana Released From Jail

Rihanna is in hot water with fans who have been accusing her off ripping off the imagery of David LaChapelle for her "S&M" video.  Get the deets inside plus get the deets on Juelz Santana's release from jail.

The provocative "S&M" video Rihanna just released has been banned in 11 countries and continues to cause controversy.  Most recently, the video became a trending topic on Twitter because fans accused Rihanna of copying images and concepts take from David LaChapelle's previous work.
A well-placed source in David LaChapelle’s studio told RadarOnline.com that David wasn't involved in any way with the video.  However, their office became aware of the similarities between the video and David's work when staffers who handle his fan page, Twitter, and Facebook account began receiving a lot of messages regarding the video.

“Interns told us that fans were buzzing about the video and wanting to know if David had directed it.  Then the phone in the office started ringing off the hook, everyone was like ‘wow it’s amazing – it’s the exact same."

The source claims that Melina Matsoukas, the director of the video, had photographs from past Italian Vogue shoots by David, ranging from 1995-2002, laying around the set of the music video shoot.  This may have had some type of influence.  (side-eye).
So far, neither spokespersons from David LaChapelle or Rihanna have responded to the accusations. 

Juelz Santana was released from jail earlier today and he had a mouthful to say about the New Jersey police department raiding his studio and setting him up.

"Jersey, their laws is a little bit different. I'm definitely a target out here just because of who I am. They pull me over... [there's] only one way to get to my studio, so every day I gotta take that route when I'm going to my studio in Jersey, so I get pulled over at least three times a week, 'cause they know all my cars. They looking to get me, regardless," he said. "I don't know why. I haven't done anything. I do music. I'm not selling drugs like they said I was doing. I'm not doing none of those things. So at the end of the day, I just don't understand their need to imply all the things that they trying to imply."

He says the Jersey cops have been looking to set him to up to drain him of his cash.

"It's about money. They don't care about the criminals, they want that money. They said, 'We gon' get him, he can get high bail.' Whether the charges stick or not, they gon' get their money," said Juelz.

He continued,

"If they saying they had an investigation ... 125 percent they ain't got me doing or saying anything," he said. "They can tap my phones right now. At the end of the day, I don't care, because that's not my business. I've been done with that, that life. Especially selling weed. It ain't like they said, 'Oh we raided his studio, we found 100 pounds of marijuana.' ... They found less than a half a ounce of weed in a studio. In a studio? That's what people do — go to the studio, smoke weed. So why would you assume that's being sold instead of being smoked? Then at the end of the day, I wasn't even there, so how would you pin some charges on me?"

Seems like Juelz is taking the stance that the people caught in the studio with the drugs should shoulder the charges.  Afterall, he was not at the studio during the raid. 

"They gotta go by sessions. At the end of the day, I own the studio, I rent the studio out. That's like ... if I go to a studio right now downtown, and I bring my weed and my guns down there — not to say that that's what I'm doing — and I go down there and they run in the studio and they gonna let me go and lock the people from the studio? They had no idea what I was doing. That's the same situation I'm in."

Juelz almost seemed to boast about his relationship with the Bloods street game, another claim brought up by the Jersey cops. 

"I been gang-affiliated since day one. Everybody knows that, everybody know we got a heavy affiliation with the Bloods since day one. They just try to amp things up. The media, they amp things up [and] make it sound more than what it is. Gang affiliation, I'm around Bloods. People around me happen to be around more Bloods than anything else, so they assume that's what I'm doing. But I know Crips too. I know Latin Kings," he said, adding that police "don't really all the way do their job, they just vibe off of information."

And despite being a target, Juelz said he plans to continue to record in his studio.

"I'm [going to] record in that studio. At the end of the day, why should I move? I didn't do nothing!" he maintained. "I ain't gonna have them run me out of somewhere 'cause they got it out for me. I'm just gonna have to, at the end of the day, make sure things that ain't supposed to be happening while I'm not around just ain't happening. Besides that, I'm going right back to work. Like, leave me the f--- alone. Y'all wanna run in here, run in here. I ain't doing nothing. Ain't got nothing to hide."