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Pavarotti heirs reach agreement over will
The unseemly squabble over Luciano Pavarotti's will has finally been resolved - sort of. When the great Italian tenor died last September he left half of his £250m estate to his 38-year-old second wife, Nicoletta Mantovani (pictured together with their daughter Alice), and divided the rest between... [continued]
Jeffrey Epstein jailed in teen sex scandal
Jeffrey Epstein (pictured), the US billionaire pal of Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton, has received an 18-month jail sentence – to be followed by a year of house arrest – after being found guilty of soliciting under-age girls in Florida. The 55-year-old financier, who started life as... [continued]
Galliano aims thigh-high at Dior
The thigh, glimpsed through a semi-sheer skirt, was the new erogenous zone in John Galliano's latest collection for Christian Dior, which kicked off the Paris couture season on
Monday. The sexy look drew cheers from a star-studded audience which included actresses Liv Tyler and Marisa Berensen, singer Janet Jackson and... [continued]
Pic of the Day: Galliano's sheer elegance 
Cholmondeley hawks memoirs from cell
Tom Cholmondeley (pictured in 2006), who is awaiting trial in Nairobi after shooting dead a poacher on his 50,000-acre Kenyan estate, is attempting to sell a memoir based on his experiences. According to the Daily Telegraph, Cholmondeley, 40, has approached the London literary agency William Morris with... [continued]
Super-rich save the world, says Busson
Arpad Busson, the French-born hedge fund manager who popped the question to Uma Thurman (pictured together) last week, claims that contrary to what the public sometimes thinks, the people he works for - the super-rich - have made the world a safer and better place. In an... [continued]
Charles fuels Aston Martin on wine
Reports today reveal that the Prince of Wales has upped the income of his Duchy of Cornwall estate last year to £1.1m (total: £16.3m). Perhaps this is why he has chosen to crown the news by revealing that he runs his treasured 38-year-old Aston Martin, a 21st birthday... [continued]
Polish war hero to be exhumed
A Second World War murder mystery with a cast of characters including Winston Churchill, the British double agent Kim Philby and Joseph Stalin could be solved after the Polish government called for the body of one its national heroes, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, to be exhumed. Sikorski, the... [continued]
In brief: McKellen to star in Prisoner remake
Sir Ian McKellen (pictured) is to star in a television remake of the cult 1960s thriller The Prisoner. He will play the part of Number Two alongside the US actor Jim Caviezel, who has been chosen to reprise the role of Number Six, first made famous by Patrick... [continued]
