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‘I’m not a monster,’ says call-girl Ashley
Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the call-girl at the centre of the Eliot Spitzer scandal, called the New York Times on Tuesday to volunteer the information that she
was 'Kristen', it now transpires. 'Kristen' was the Emperors Club VIP prostitute who Spitzer arranged to have flown from New York to Washington DC... [continued]
Top lawyer Buchwald takes on Ashley's case 
Alexander Cockburn: Did Wall Street nail Gov Spitzer?
How 'Kristen' boosted her music career
Top lawyer Buchwald takes on Ashley’s case
Call-girl-cum-singer Ashley Alexandra Dupre has raised eyebrows in New York legal circles by getting herself one of the top criminal defence attorneys in New York, Don
Buchwald, to represent her before the federal grand jury investigating the Spitzer case. And for free. It turns out she applied for -... [continued]
'I'm not a monster,' says call-girl Ashley
In Town Last Night: Reigate opens Happiness on Paradise Row
Artist Barry Reigate (pictured above with Kim Hersov) launched his characteristically wacky new exhibition Happiness at Bethnal Green's Paradise Row last night -
his first major solo show in London. The trendy crowd of art-world regulars including Jake and Dinos Chapman milled among the riotous paintings and... [continued]
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Blair takes job to boost ‘prestige quotient’
Tony Blair's decision to take on yet another high-profile unpaid role - leading an international campaign to cut carbon emissions by 50 per cent before 2050 - has led to speculation
that he is either preparing himself for not being chosen as the EU's first president (he'll... [continued]
Merkel says nein to President Blair
Blair's new job boosts earning to £7m a year
In brief: Heather Mills to receive £25m
Heather Mills is set to receive a lump sum of around £25m in her divorce settlement from Paul McCartney, according to a preliminary High Court judgment sent to the estranged couple before Monday's official verdict... The daughter of British arctic explorer David Hempleman-Adams, 15-year-old Camilla, hopes to become the... [continued]
NY journalist takes on Armani
What began as a petty feud between the Italian designer Giorgio Armani and a New York Times fashion writer has escalated into a full-blown off-catwalk catfight.
Cathy Horyn was so peeved at being barred from Armani's fashion shows that she dedicated a whopping 1,400 word article to the... [continued]
Fashion world ponders Armani attack
McLaren engineer fired on eve of F1
On the eve of the new Formula One season – the first Grand Prix of 2008 is in Melbourne this weekend – McLaren, the team for which Lewis Hamilton drives, have finally dismissed their
chief designer Mike Coughlan, the British engineer at the heart of the... [continued]
In pictures: the fastest men on earth
Dutch MP plans anti-Islam film
Once again, radical Islam faces off with liberal Holland. This time the controversy surrounds Geert Wilders (pictured), outspoken leader of the Party for Freedom, who is planning to release an anti-Islam documentary called Fitna. Nobody yet has seen it, but sources believe that Fitna contains a scene... [continued]
Shandling takes stand at Pellicano trial
The American comedian and star of The Larry Sanders Show, Garry Shandling, told a Los Angeles court on Thursday of his discomfort at realising that police databases had been
illegally searched for personal data about him and his friends. The information was needed, he claimed, to help fuel a smear... [continued]
Who's who in the Pellicano case
