Gladys Knight says that her son has stooped so low in their legal battle over her chicken & waffles restaurant, that he attempted to extort her. As previously reported, Gladys and her son Shanga Hankerson have been fighting over the restaurant, and when he didn’t respond to the suit, the clerk entered a default victory for the music […]

Gladys Knight’s divorce from her ex-husband record manager Barry Hankerson devastated their son, Shanga, she said in her memoir. At 11 years old, he weighed 320 pounds. Knight may have believed he’d recovered from that childhood trauma, but years later, Hankerson is accused of running the restaurants that carry his mother’s name into financial ruin, […]