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Nat Rothschild, from playboy to tycoon
George Osborne's spectacular falling-out with his one-time friend Nathaniel Rothschild (pictured), who alleged in a letter to the Times on Tuesday
that the shadow chancellor had solicited a £50,000 donation from the Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, has certainly made Osborne persona non grata with the powerful and super-rich
Rothschild... [continued]
The Mole: Rothschild ‘witness’ claim confirms fears that this will not go away 
Oleg Deripaska, last man standing
Osborne drawn into Deripaska row
Sarah Palin’s expensive tastes revealed
No wonder John McCain's presidential campaign is strapped for cash. It has emerged that Sarah Palin's expensive taste in clothes and beauty treatments has cost the
Republicans $150,000 since she came aboard as vice presidential candidate in early September. Financial disclosure records show that the Republican National Committee has... [continued]
People: Larry Flynt's 'Palin porno' film released
Sarah Palin's life in pictures
In brief: Penelope Cruz attends Woody Allen premiere in London
Penelope Cruz (pictured) attended the premiere of her latest movie, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, at the London Film Festival last night. Directed by Woody
Allen, it is a spoof on the Don Juan myth, with Cruz playing her part to perfection alongside her boyfriend Javier Bardem and fellow actresses Scarlett... [continued]
Woody Allen’s Barcelona film caught up in new row in Catalonia
In pictures: Pick of the London Film Festival
Gillian Anderson to whack Giorgio Armani in film about fur
Matt Lucas enlists celebrity divorce lawyers in split with partner
Larry Flynt’s ‘Palin’ porno film released
Why Lessing turned down damehood
While she was happy to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature last year, and the £750,000 cheque that came with it, Doris Lessing (pictured) has proved less interested in
becoming a Dame of the British Empire, a title that has been conferred on fellow writers Edith Sitwell, Freya Stark and,... [continued]
Lessing: Nobel prize was ‘bloody disaster’
Sarkozy to sue over voodoo doll
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has demanded the immediate withdrawal from French bookshops of a voodoo doll in his image (pictured). The effigy, which comes replete with a set of pins and a manual on how to put the evil eye on the President, has become a big seller in... [continued]
David Beckham and Victoria are off to Milan - for soccer and shopping
David Beckham (pictured with his wife Victoria) , the England football player come clothes-horse, has been placed on a free loan from his American club, Los Angeles Galaxy,
to the Italian club A C Milan. Although the announcement comes as the US Major League Soccer season closes this weekend,... [continued]
Victoria Beckham’s designer debut confounds New York fashionistas
David Beckham: world star, LA deadbeat
Conrad Black gets a job on the Beast
Conrad Black (pictured), the disgraced former proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, or Prisoner Number No 18330-424 as he is known at the Coleman Correctional Center
in Florida where has served six months of a six-and-a-half year sentence for fraud, has been given a job. Tina Brown, former editor of... [continued]
Conrad Black recounts his career highlights to prisoners
The sad lament of Barbara Amiel
Shatner fumes over Takei’s wedding snub
William Shatner (pictured as Captain Kirk in the TV series Star Trek) has aimed his phaser at George Takei, the actor who played his former
shipmate Mr Sulu - and it's definitely not on stun. Why? Shatner is furious at not being invited to Takei's gay wedding, which takes... [continued]
William Shatner's video attack on George Takei
