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Charles Dunstone’s business partner quits
The schoolfriend of Carphone Warehouse tycoon Charles Dunstone, who co-founded the company with him, has dramatically resigned from the high street retailer's board today. David Ross (right in the picture with Dunstone) had pledged more than £150 million worth of Carphone shares as security against personal... [continued]
Schnabel calls Robert Hughes ‘a bum’
Julian Schnabel, the artist turned film director, is known for his sensitivity to any form of criticism, constructive or otherwise. So when he was interviewed by Morley
Safer on the US current affairs show 60 Minutes, and asked to comment on the critic Robert Hughes's famous quote about his... [continued]
Schnabel on 60 Minutes 
Julian Schnabel hit by crunch
In Town: Jay Jopling whoops it up at the Miami Beach Art Fair
Despite the recession, there were no shortages of people wanting to party at this year’s Miami Beach Basel Art Fair, which closed on Sunday. Perhaps the liveliest event was a party hosted on Friday
night by Franca Sozzani, the editor-in-chief of L'Uomo Vogue, which was thrown in honour of Bruce... [continued]
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In pictures: Miami Beach Basel Art Fair
People: Schnabel calls Robert Hughes ‘a bum’
Sunny von Bulow dies with her secret
The death in New York at the weekend of Martha ‘Sunny’ von Bulow, the American heiress and socialite who was in a coma for nearly 28 years, has inevitably refocused the media spotlight on her husband, Claus von Bulow (pictured), the London-based Danish aristocrat who twice stood trial for allegedly... [continued]
In brief: Cheryl Cole becomes an Angel
Pop star, X Factor judge and footballer's wife Cheryl Cole has been immortalised in a painting (pictured) that depicts her as the 'Angel of the North'. The artist,
Lee Jones, trilled: "I feel the overwhelming warmth of the Northern people towards Cheryl Cole... I see her as a new icon... [continued]
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Murdoch’s mother side-swipes Wendi
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, the 99-year-old mother of the Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, does not appear to be greatly enamoured with her daughter-in-law,
Wendi Deng (pictured with Murdoch). Over the weekend, to mark her forthcoming centenary - she turns 100 on February 8 - Elisabeth gave an interview to a... [continued]
People: Who’s smearing Wendi with claims of an affair?
People: Murdoch in a rage about new biography
Have Kate Winslet’s Oscar hopes gone down the plughole?
Many felt that Kate Winslet was certain to get an Oscar nomination for her role in Stephen Daldry's latest film, The Reader, a drama set in post-war Germany
that also features Ralph Fiennes. But this is now thought to be in jeopardy following an attack on the movie by the... [continued]
People: Kate Winslet takes Nicole Kidman’s role in The Reader
People: Revealed: Kidman’s small fee for Reader
People: Is Kate Winslet for real in Vanity Fair photo shoot?
Revealed: Edith Piaf’s big regret
A love letter written by the French chanteuse Edith Piaf suggests that the sentiments of her most famous song, Non, Je ne Regrette Rien, may not be entirely true. The evidence? A four-page letter written by the singer to one of Greece's most famous actors, Dimitris Horn (pictured), which is... [continued]
Speaker’s wife dropped from Palace guest list
Not only is Michael Martin, the beleaguered House of Commons Speaker, under fire for his role (or non role) in the Damian Green affair – the BBC claims that more
than 30 MPs no longer had confidence in his ability to perform his duties – but now his wife has... [continued]
People: The Queen no friend of Michael Martin
