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Jacob Arabov, better known as "Jacob The Jeweler" and the "King of Bling," was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and fined $2 million in federal court in Detroit Wednesday. News reports indicated that Arabov was convicted of lying to federal agents about owning jewelry seized from a major cocaine trafficker.Arabov, 43, pleaded guilty in October to falsifying records andgiving false statements as part of a deal with federal prosecutors. "I feel ashamed that I broke the law of thiscountry that's been so good to me and my family," said Jacob to U.S.District Judge Avern Cohn.Arabov immigrated from Soviet Uzbekistan at 14 and built a successful New York jewelry and watch business.Eventually, he opened Jacob and Co., a Manhattan jewelry and watch store whoseclients include countless entertainers and celebrities, especially hip-hop and R&B artists.

The ridiculous bags are always my favorite, be they good or bad in the long run. I've always thought it a greater sin to be boring than to be over-the-top, and sometimes great style is what happens when you get right on the line between just enough and too much.The Marc Jacobs Wrath Studded Bag is somewhere circa that line, although I'm not sure what side it's on. But I am sure that I love it, in spite (or maybe because) of its wealth of personality.We're all well aware that studs and industrial details are THE trend of the moment, and I can't help but think that Marc Jacobs is using this Replica Marc Jacobs handbags to poke more than a little fun at all of the metal-covered fashionistas that are starting to hit the streets.But even when Jacobs does tongue-in-cheek, he does it beautifully. The multicolored, multi-sized studs are attached in swirly lines that cover nearly every inch of the bag. It's over-the-top, in-your-face, and a host of other hyphenated phrases that mean that it's, in the immortal words of Rachel Zoe, BANANAS.My favorite part, however, is the thick, tough, oversized chain handle. The bag is such a statement that nothing less than a handle like that would be appropriate, and I'm glad that designers still have the nerve to do things that not everyone will understand or enjoy.Ever see a handbag you like, and then realize it has one thing so egregiously, terribly wrong with it that it almost makes you palpably upset? Like you were so close to finding a handbag oasis in the desert, and then it turns out that, by a single cruel twist of fate, that it was all just a mirage?Yeah, I kind of feel like that about the Marc Jacobs Frame Wallet Sequined Purse.Marc Jacobs Frame Wallet Sequined PurseThis handbags replica was so close to being the cute, 80s, glam rock evening bag that I so wanted it to be. I can almost taste it. But then it looks like someone stuck your grandmother's mauve billfold wallet to the back of it, and it's ruined.Not only is it ruined, but it's basically a bag mullet, but in reverse. The party is in the front, the business is in the back. And since that idea doesn't work for hairstyles, I'm not sure why any designer would think that a similarly-structured bag is a good idea. Pry the wallet off the back, and I'm absolutely sold on the high-wattage sequin clutch that would be leftover. As it is, I wouldn't touch this with a ten-foot pole.