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John Edwards and the mistress mystery
The mud being slung at the two-times Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards – last week the US scandal rag the National Enquirer claimed he had a mistress and a
"secret love child" – appears to be beginning to stick. When the story originally broke no major news... [continued]
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Brideshead goes down badly in US
The movie version of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited has already attracted criticism from Sir John Mortimer (he wrote the script for the highly acclaimed 1981 British TV
version) who claimed the film’s producers were shying away from the novel’s integral themes - God, homosexuality and Aloysius the... [continued]
Brit actress saved by outraged Emma
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Damien Hirst unleashes the beasts
Damien Hirst is expecting his biggest pay day yet – and he’s had more than a few whoppers over the years – when he sells 223 artworks at Sotheby’s in September. Today’s London
Evening Standard reports that the ageing enfant terrible, who is putting the work directly... [continued]
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The sad lament of Barbara Amiel
No one can accuse Barbara Amiel, wife of the Canadian fraudster Lord Black of Crossharbour, of not standing by her man. In a 4,000-word article for the Canadian
current affairs journal Macleans, Lady Black sets out a forensic analysis of the former Daily Telegraph owner’s ongoing attempts... [continued]
Conrad hopes for Bush pardon
Oxford fundraising hurt by clash of egos
Oxford University’s attempt to raise as much as £1.25bn to help it compete with American Ivy League colleges appears to have run into problems, with a clash of egos between Michael Moritz (right), the California dotcom millionaire appointed head of fund-raising in North America, and Jon Dellandrea,... [continued]
Donald Trump reveals comb-over secrets
Someone has finally plucked up the courage to ask Donald Trump about his gravity-defying coiffure - famously described by the New York Times as "an elaborate structure best
left to an architecture critic". The brave man was journalist Nigel Farndale, who interviewed the 62-year-old US property tycoon... [continued]
Flying Scotsman Trump drops in for tea
In Town Last Night: Cartier’s annual polo party
Cartier upheld a popular summer tradition by hosting their annual International Polo Day at Great Windsor Park yesterday. The turnout was a glamourous mix of high society lovelies and celebrity names
including burlesque queen Dita von Teese (left), buxom actress/ model Kelly Brook (centre) and Emma... [continued]
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Mosley to set up fund to fight libel
Max Mosley, who won £60,000 in exemplary damages from the News of the World last week after proving that the sado-masochistic orgy in which he had participated back in March
was not Nazi-themed, has truly got the bit between his teeth. In yesterday's Sunday Telegraph he revealed his plans to... [continued]
Mosley has the right to enjoy S&M in private
Was S&M fan Max Mosley set up?
In brief: Gayle Hunnicutt divorces
Simon Jenkins, the newspaper columnist and former editor of the Times, and chairman of the National Trust, has split up with his wife, the American-born actress
Gayle Hunnicutt (pictured here) after 30 years of marriage. Hunnicutt, who was previously married to the late actor David Hemmings and appeared in the... [continued]
I'm not a monster, says call-girl Ashley
Coppers locked Rushdie in a cupboard
One of the Special Branch officers assigned to protect Salman Rushdie during his fatwa years has revealed how a group of his fellow officers once locked the Booker Prize-winning
author in a cupboard so that they could go down to the pub. The revelation appears in a... [continued]
Salman Rushdie, the autograph-hunter
