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That's good, Wyclef, keep with the contrite look.

Hundreds of years ago in the mid-1990s, Wyclef Jean, then a member of a dimly-remembered hip-hop group called “the Fugees” along with a madwoman and some other guy, delivered a memorable line in the song “Fu-Gee-La”: “A boy on the side of Babylon tryin’ to front like he’s down with Mount Zion.”

The past couple of months, the Clef has been living up to that credo with verve ‘n’ vigor. First there was the unfortunate revelation that, by all indications, he was skimming a bit of sugar off his personal Haiti charity, Yele Haiti – which came out as he was canvassing for donations in the wake of the catastrophic Port-au-Prince earthquake.

Now it seems that Le Wyclef has dug himself even further into the dog house, and this time, he’s wronged someone far scarier than the people of Haiti: his wife Marie Claudinette (great name). Hell hath no fury like a hip-hop wife scorned (that’s how that goes, right?), and Madame Clef’s beef is juicy: she found a nude picture of Wyclef’s sex-ay manager Lisa Ellis on Wyclef’s cell phone.

Wyclef and Ellis, of course, assert innocence, but some implications just can’t be explained away.

Naturally, Madame Clef has responded in the measured, rational manner characteristic of showbusiness people: by forwarding the nude image to multiple people in the music business. The road doesn’t get any higher than that.

Wyclef, for his part, has reportedly let Ellis go, but a transgression of this nature calls for a sorry that can only be said in diamonds. We’re talkin’ Kobe diamonds, people. And even if you’re so budget-conscious that you take money from your own charity devoted to helping the most impoverished nation in the Western hemisphere, you can afford it.

Here’s our advice: nothing says, “Baby, the only naked pictures I have on my cellular device are of your fine body” like a white gold tennis bracelet studded with 5 carat diamonds. Marriages are at stake!