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‘Clinton affair’: Gina demands retraction
Lawyers for the Hollywood actress Gina Gershon (pictured) have demanded a retraction from Vanity Fair magazine following publication of an article which suggested
she was having an affair with Bill Clinton. The LA law firm Lavely & Singer claims the magazine has published innuendo, without checking the facts, and that... [continued]
Gershon's lawyers' letter to Vanity Fair 
US election: Obama claims victory but Clinton holds off formal concession
Bill's been told: no more embarrassments
Neighbours cry foul over Aikens’s fish shop
The pungent smell of burning cooking oil could prove the undoing of Tom Aikens's latest venture, Tom's Kitchen, a traditional fish and chip eaterie in Chelsea. For some time now local residents, among them Sir Michael Jenkins, the former president of Boeing UK, have bombarded the chef with... [continued]
Quinn creates golden Moss for British Museum sculpture show
Following the sale of Damien Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull for £50m, fellow White Cube artist Marc Quinn has produced his own "bling-bling" work of art - a solid gold sculpture of Kate Moss. The piece, called Siren, is part of the same series as Sphinx, the white-painted bronze... [continued]
Hemingway’s rude rhymes unveiled
An example of Ernest Hemingway's poetic skills have been discovered scrawled in the fly leaf of his debut collection of short stories, In Our Time, but anyone expecting the emergence of a new talent will be disappointed. The two poems - unpublishable at the time because of... [continued]
Emin to titillate fusty Royal Academy
Tracey Emin, the superannuated enfant terrible of British contemporary art, has attracted (entirely intentionally, most will assume) the scorn of a number of distinguished
Royal Academicians for an exhibition she has curated as part of this year's RA Summer Exhibition. In keeping with her personal... [continued]
Chapmans knock up a new tent for Tracey
In Town Last Night: Glamour celebrates ‘women of the year’
In honour of those who have inspired the editorial team at Glamour magazine over the last year, the pint-sized glossy hosted its fifth annual 'women of the year' awards last night at
Berkeley Square Gardens. Editor Jo Elvin spearheaded the event which saw Keeley Hawes named as... [continued]
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Morris goes full circle by remarrying wife
Jan Morris, the historian who famously chronicled her sex-change operation in the book Conundrum, has remarried the wife she first wed as a man, when she/he was called James Morris. The civil partnership ceremony took place last month, nearly 60 years after Morris, the author of the... [continued]
In brief: Sven’s £350k hotel bill
Former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson ran up a bill of £350,000 while living in a hotel during his 10 months managing Manchester City, before he was sacked this week and immediately appointed coach for the Mexican national side... Tatum O'Neal, who was arrested buying crack cocaine... [continued]
