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Released from jail, is this the reinvention of Foxy Brown.(Cover story)

Article from: Jet Article date: May 19, 2008 Author: Christian, Margena A.

Foxy Brown is free. Amid flashing the rap star was released from New York's Rikers Island after serving eight months of a one-year sentence for violations.

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Foxy, whose real name is Inga DeCarlo Marchand, said that going to jail happened for a reason.

"If this didn't happen and God didn't intervene," she told JET, "my life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person. People haven't stopped to say, 'Is that tittle girl hurting ...

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