New York, August 9 – Lil’ Kim isn’t wasting time while awaiting trial for her involvement in a 2001 shooting incident. The rapper was presented with the key to the city of Miami, because “They love me down there”, she said at a press conference to which she arrived more that two hours late. (Stuck in traffic coming from Alpine, NJ was the official word at the Monday briefing, oddly held in New York.)

Kim’s gold-toned alligator-motif strappy sandals are from a line she’s launching with West 8th Street cobbler Petit Peton. She also showed off a watch of her own design, from her forthcoming jewelry collection. Kim was off to catch a flight to Miami, but not before she showed us her new Bentley, which, she told us, she loves. (So far, Kim has not announced plans for an eponymous line of autos, but we’re hoping.) She promised a near-future press conference about her upcoming court case.