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Bernie Ecclestone’s unusual divorce
The wife of Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed she is divorcing her husband after 24 years of marriage, paving the way for the most unusual legal tussle. The reason
being, as reported here a week ago, is that Ecclestone is said to have transferred most of his £2.4bn... [continued]
Bernie Ecclestone’s marriage mystery 
Ecclestone angers Hamilton over race
Selina Scott takes on Channel Five
Selina Scott (pictured), the former BBC newscaster, is taking Channel Five to an industrial tribunal after it allegedly pulled out of offering her a presenting job on the grounds that at 57 she was too old. The Daily Mail reports that the television station has attempted a settlement, but Scott... [continued]
Kylie Minogue picks up £1.5m for playing at Atlantis hotel in Dubai
There was little evidence of a global financial crisis as tycoons and celebrities, among them Robert De Niro and Sir Richard Branson, flew into Dubai last night for the opening of the £1bn Atlantis hotel. The Australian singer Kylie Minogue (left) provided the entertainment, for which she was paid as... [continued]
Billionaire Flick taken by body-snatchers
The body of billionaire German industrialist Friedrich Karl Flick (pictured), whose family fortune was built on Nazi slave labour, has been removed from its mausoleum in an apparent attempt to extort money from his widow. An oak coffin containing Flick, who died in 2006 aged 79 leaving his widow... [continued]
Greer says Cole and Price are no icons
Germanine Greer (pictured), the redoubtable Australian polemicist and writer, does not think much of the current crop of female role models. Speaking to the foul mouthed
chef Gordon "fucking" Ramsay on his Channel 4 programme Cookalong, she was asked whether she thought Katie Price, aka the model Jordan, and
Cheryl... [continued]
Greer says paying for sex is OK
Designer Marc Jacobs has to pay $1m in fashion bribe case
Marc Jacobs, the US designer, has been forced to pay $1m to extract himself from a case in which his company is said to have used bribes to secure exclusive use of a desirable venue
for his fashion shows. Marc Jacobs International allegedly paid $35,000 in cash and goods... [continued]
In pictures: New York Fashion Week
Ritchie and Madonna reach agreement
Madonna and Guy Ritchie (pictured together earlier this year) appear to have come to an agreement over the terms of their split and will be divorced at the
High Court in London today, according to court lists. A source close to the couple told the London Evening Standard that... [continued]
Madonna issues demand list to Ritchie
Madonna lines up new man A-Rod
Madonna and Guy Ritchie to divorce
Damien Hirst buys a bed and breakfast
Artist Damien Hirst, who by some calculations is now a dollar billionaire, is to open a seaside bed and breakfast in Ilfracombe, North Devon. During the summer, he paid £450,000 for
Netherleigh, a seven-bedroom house in the centre of the town where he already owns a successful restaurant... [continued]
Hirst admits his art is ‘overpriced’
Steel oligarch is secret Hirst buyer
Damien Hirst’s drinking club row
In brief: the Queen in flares
Those who thought Queen Elizabeth II (pictured) was not a follower of passing fashion must think again. This photo, which was taken in the 1970s, shows the monarch sporting
a garish oriental smock and voluminous denim flares (with ironed creases). It is taken from a collection owned by a former... [continued]
Fury at Sergeant's decision to quit
Sheikh sues Michael Jackson for £47m
