Sunday, June 21, 2026

Reggae Star Shaggy Lands in Hurricane Ravaged Jamaica with Planeload of Supplies, Help for Locals: It WAS Him!

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Reggae star Shaggy’s famous song is “It Wasn’t Me.”

But it IS him– aka Orville Burrell — who landed today in Jamaica with a private plane full of supplies for locals.

Shaggy enlisted his friend Dan Newlin, famed injury attorney from Orlando, to organize the plane and fly down to help victims of Hurricane Melissa. Shaggy’s Instagram pages are full of information for local Jamaicans so they benefit from this largesse.

It’s no surprise that Shaggy is so philanthropic. He spends a lot of time with Sting, founder with wife Trudie Styler of the Rainforest Foundation and supporter of many good works around the world.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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