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Rapper Wyclef Jean may soon be fighting diamond legal battles.

According to eonline.com, Jean owes almost $400,000 to diamond retailer, Jacob the Jeweler.

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the company claims that Jean purchased $765,100 worth of jewellery which included several watches between March 2002 and January 2006.

The suit also claims that the company demanded on numerous occasions that Jean pay for the jewels but thus far Jean has only repaid $319,680.

Jean has not yet replied to the suit nor released a statement.

The next Wyclef Jean album will be called “Carnival 2″ and it’s nearly complete, the rapper revealed exclusively to andPOP while in Toronto this month.

“Carnival,” released in 1997, was Wyclef’s debut solo album, which earned him a Best Rap Album Grammy nomination. Ever since then, he has mentioned that he was working on a follow-up, but it appears its release may finally be upon us.

“‘Carnival 2′ is going to be crazy,” Wyclef told andPOP. “It’s going to be the wildest piece of material that you’ve heard from Wyclef since the ‘Carnival’ as a whole piece of music.”

Jean said a big focus has been on writing and musical arrangement.

“I’m like the hip-hop Amadeus,” he said. “Like Dershawin, I’m going to write a lot of crazy arrangements.”

Jerry Wonder, Clef’s longtime producer, couldn’t hold back his excitement for “Carnival 2.”

“Wait ’till you get the 2,” he said. “It’s sort of the same concept as ‘Carnival’ but it’s like the 2020 version.”

Wonder revealed that some of the guests from the first album will be back, perhaps even Lauryn Hill.

Speaking of Hill, what is going on with the Fugees reunion? When Wyclef, Lauryn and Pras hit the studio, they released one single, and another track was leaked, but nothing else has been released since.

Speaking briefly about the Fugees, Jean’s tone didn’t sound too optimistic.

“Tell them hurry up. I’m moving. They gotta get with it,” he said.

“We tryin,’” added Wonder. “It’s probably going to happen but everybody’s busy.”

Angelina Jolie has topped People Magazine’s list of the 100 most beautiful people.

It’s her fourth time on the list, but first time on the cover of the issue that will be on newsstands Friday. The magazine says her charity work is what makes her the most beautiful.

“She looks the most beautiful when she’s in the field natural, no makeup, nothing,” the magazine quotes musician Wyclef Jean, who worked with Jolie on a relief effort in Haiti, as saying. “Because you see Angelina, the angel. It doesn’t get any better than that.”

Boyfriend Brad Pitt and children Maddox and Zahara are also on the list. The Jolie-Pitts were named the most beautiful family.

Halle Berry, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Kirstie Alley, Ryan Seacrest and University of Southern California quarterback Matt Leinart also made the list. All 26 spokesmodels from game show Deal or No Deal are also on the list.

One might say Wyclef Jean is following in the footsteps of Reba McIntyre.

The rapper, who is recording a highly-anticipated new album with The Fugees, has signed a deal with HBO to star in and produce a sitcom based on his life.

Jean will team up with Seth Rosenfeld and Danny Hoch to write the show, which is still in early stages of development.

He will also write and produce music for the show.

Jean told andPOP last year that The Fugees would be getting back together to record a new album. Last week, they released a brand new single, “Take it Easy,” via the web. Their last album together was “The Score,” the Grammy-winning masterpiece, released in 1996.