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Bernie Ecclestone’s unusual divorce
The wife of Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed she is divorcing her husband after 24 years of marriage, paving the way for the most unusual legal tussle. The reason
being, as reported here a week ago, is that Ecclestone is said to have transferred most of his £2.4bn... [continued]
Bernie Ecclestone’s marriage mystery 
Ecclestone angers Hamilton over race
Selina Scott takes on Channel Five
Selina Scott (pictured), the former BBC newscaster, is taking Channel Five to an industrial tribunal after it allegedly pulled out of offering her a presenting job on the grounds that at 57 she was too old. The Daily Mail reports that the television station has attempted a settlement, but Scott... [continued]
Kylie Minogue picks up £1.5m for playing at Atlantis hotel in Dubai
There was little evidence of a global financial crisis as tycoons and celebrities, among them Robert De Niro and Sir Richard Branson, flew into Dubai last night for the opening of the £1bn Atlantis hotel. The Australian singer Kylie Minogue (left) provided the entertainment, for which she was paid as... [continued]
Billionaire Flick taken by body-snatchers
The body of billionaire German industrialist Friedrich Karl Flick (pictured), whose family fortune was built on Nazi slave labour, has been removed from its mausoleum in an apparent attempt to extort money from his widow. An oak coffin containing Flick, who died in 2006 aged 79 leaving his widow... [continued]
Damien Hirst buys a bed and breakfast
Artist Damien Hirst, who by some calculations is now a dollar billionaire, is to open a seaside bed and breakfast in Ilfracombe, North Devon. During the summer, he paid £450,000 for
Netherleigh, a seven-bedroom house in the centre of the town where he already owns a successful restaurant... [continued]
Hirst admits his art is ‘overpriced’
Steel oligarch is secret Hirst buyer
Damien Hirst’s drinking club row
Jan Krugier, the art dealer who made his fortune from Picasso
Jan Krugier, the renowned international art dealer who survived three concentration camps including Auschwitz, died last week aged 80. The Geneva-based dealer owed much of his fortune (and reputation) to a small kindness he once performed for Pablo Picasso's impoverished grandson, Pablita. Shortly after the Spanish artist's death... [continued]
Ritchie and Madonna reach agreement
Madonna and Guy Ritchie (pictured together earlier this year) appear to have come to an agreement over the terms of their split and will be divorced at the
High Court in London today, according to court lists. A source close to the couple told the London Evening Standard that... [continued]
Madonna issues demand list to Ritchie
Madonna lines up new man A-Rod
Madonna and Guy Ritchie to divorce
In brief: Jackson comes to UK
Michael Jackson (pictured) will give evidence at London's High Court next week to counter allegations that he breached a £4.7m contract to make two albums for a record label
belonging to Sheikh Abdulla, the King of Bahrain's second son. The Sheikh's lawyers were sceptical about Jackson's claim that he was... [continued]
In Town: Gwyneth gets down at Rumble in the Jumble
Gwyneth Paltrow blasted for endorsing fur
Will Charles Moore sue over book?
Charles Moore (pictured), the former editor of the Daily Telegraph and official biographer of Lady Thatcher, appears to have had his tail tweaked in Simon Astaire's debut novel, Private Privilege, a racy yarn set in one of "Britain's finest public schools". Among the book's characters is one Charles Moore,... [continued]
