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Bush now Conrad Black’s last hope
Lord Black of Crossharbour, the former proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, who is currently residing in a Florida jail, will not be trading his prison fatigues for a
pinstripe suit anytime soon. Yesterday, he lost his appeal against convictions for fraud and obstructing the course of... [continued]
Conrad Black begins prison sentence 
Madonna and Guy consult divorce lawyers
The endless speculation about the state of Guy Ritchie and Madonna's marriage – if reports are to be believed it is all but over – has moved up a gear. According to
today's Times, the singer has decided to seek legal advice from Fiona Shackleton, the divorce... [continued]
Madonna and her 'manny' wow Cannes with AIDS film
In Town Last Night: Tatler’s annual Summer Party
Society magazine Tatler hosted their annual Summer Party last night, held this year in the gardens of flash designer hotel The Hempel in West London. The event drew an eclectic bunch
including art-world royalty Lucian Freud (left) and David Hockney (right), author Kazuo Ishiguro, St Trinian’s... [continued]
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Baynes fights mother’s lesbian lover’s will
The former wife of film director Ken Russell, the actress and erotic writer Hetty Baynes (pictured), is going head-to-head with the Landmark Trust, the building preservation society, in an attempt to get a share of the £2.3 million estate left by her mother's lesbian lover. When... [continued]
Cricketer accused of financing Mugabe
Phil Edmonds (pictured in 1987), the former England test cricketer, has been accused of indirectly providing economic support to the Zimbabwean president Robert
Mugabe. The opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, who on Sunday dropped out of the run-off for the presidential elections, claim that... [continued]
Zimbabwe Today: more from our man in Harare
In brief: Obama did not have textual intercourse with that woman, Scarlett Johansson
Barack Obama has denied Scarlett Johansson's claim that they are in regular email contact. As reported in The First Post, the ripe, 23 year-old actress recently mused on their frequent online communications while talking to the current affairs website Politicos. She said: "You’d imagine that someone like the senator... [continued]
Sir Stuart Rose will have to fight for his job
Sir Stuart Rose is in for a sticky time at the Marks & Spencer’s shareholders' AGM next month. Moves are afoot to take away his recent promotion – in March he was made chairman
of the retail chain, while still retaining his chief executive role – an... [continued]
Rose sells stake in Lane Fox’s Lucky Voice
Hefner book reveals Mr Playboy’s gay tryst
Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy magazine, has revealed that he once had a gay sex encounter. The revelation appears in a new authorised biography of Hefner, Mr Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream by Steven Watts, and occurred in an unspecified time in an unnamed... [continued]
President’s daughter attacks effeminate men
Dariga Nazarbayeva (pictured), the outspoken daughter of the Kazakh President, has launched a withering attack on men, a species she believes are becoming "increasingly effeminate". "Men are now paying more attention to themselves and fashion,” says Nazarbayeva, 45, a highly successful businesswomen and... [continued]
