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Madoff arrest: ‘No innocent explanation’
The sight of the Wall Street legend Bernard L Madoff, shaken and staring at the ground as TV reporters fired questions at him, came as a real shock to New Yorkers. He was one of the
biggest names in the financial services industry and had helped start the Nasdaq stock... [continued]
New York Times report in full 
The second coming of Hunter S. Thompson
Anita Thompson, the widow of 'gonzo' journalist Hunter S. Thompson (pictured), says that her late husband took the precaution of freezing some of his sperm
before he died in 2005 and that she is now considering having his child through artificial insemination. She made her claim... [continued]
Opinion: Fear and Loathing in Raymond's Review Bar
Fifties pin-up and S&M model Bettie Page dies aged 85
Bettie Page, the 1950s pin-up model who was immortalised by the actress Gretchen Mol in the 2005 biopic The Notorious Bettie Page, died on Thursday
aged 85. Page (pictured in her heyday), a harbinger of the tabloid Page 3 girl, began her modelling career in 1950 when she was spotted... [continued]
In pictures: Bettie Page's life
In pictures: 50 years of American pin-ups
Rachida Dati faces Sarkozy’s axe
The impending reshuffle in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government looks bad for two of its most glamorous stars. Both the justice minister, Rachida Dati
(pictured), and the human rights minister, Rama Yade, are said to be facing the axe. Dati, 43, is a controversial figure at the best... [continued]
People: Bernard Laporte denies fathering Rachida Dati child
People: Sarko’s women keep Paris guessing
People: Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy come to life as comic characters
In brief: Jennifer Aniston sans briefs
Two months short of her 40th birthday, actress Jennifer Aniston has posed naked (apart from a necktie) for the cover of GQ, telling the magazine: "I feel more comfortable
today than I ever did in my twenties or early thirties. I'm more at peace in my mind and with my... [continued]
In pictures: Page to Aniston - 50 years of pin-ups
David Blunkett: correction
On Tuesday December 2, The First Post carried an item which stated that David Blunkett had secured a UK work visa for a nanny working for Kimberley Quinn, the former publisher of the Spectator, and that this had subsequently led to his resignation as Home Secretary in... [continued]
Kate Winslet leads the Brits in Golden Globe nominations
British actors have secured more than 20 nominations in this year's Golden Globes, which are looked upon by many as a dress rehearsal for the Oscars. Kate Winslet is nominated twice:
for best actress for her role in Revolutionary Road - in which she and Leonardo DiCaprio (pictured with Winslet)... [continued]
Have Kate Winslet’s Oscar hopes gone down the plughole?
Barclay twins cut up rough in Sark
Sir Fredrick and Sir David Barclay (pictured), the secretive tycoons who own the Daily Telegraph and the Ritz hotel, have reacted badly to
the outcome of the first ever elections on the tiny Channel island of Sark. Instead of voting for the pro-democracy factions, the inhabitants opted to broadly... [continued]
People: The Telegraph is ‘an incontinent old lady’
People: Barclays dragged into Ritz hotel con trick
Dickson Wright feud boils up
The simmering feud between Clarissa Dickson Wright (pictured), who came to fame with her television series Two Fat Ladies, and her sister, Heather Stretton, has flared up again over a claim made by Wright that their father, Arthur Dickson, a distinguished surgeon, was offered a knighthood for performing a colostomy... [continued]
Tony Blair finally decides to ‘do’ God
Tony Blair is to appear on a BBC religious programme, Christmas Voices, on Sunday to express his regrets about not speaking more about his faith while he was Prime Minister. "I think it is sad in the way that people feel you can't talk about something that is obviously important... [continued]
