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...brother, Earl Spencer, is lashing out at Mohammed Al-Fayed, her lover's father. Al-Fayed claims that Diana asked a witness to her crash to pass along her last words to him. Nonsense, says the Ninth Earl. "There were no last words," Spencer insisted in a BBC interview Wednesday. "Her injuries were such that it was impossible to say anything... It's very upsetting that some people have tried to suggest otherwise. It's monstrous, really...
...parents didn't do it, who did?" With those words, Louise Woodward came out swinging in her battle with the Eappen family over the death of Baby Matthew. In what she promises will be her only interview, Woodward used the BBC's 'Panorama' program to cast herself as the Eappen's scapegoat: "There was the whole feeling that somebody had to pay and that somebody had to be me," she said. She accused the police officers who questioned her of misconstruing her testimony as a confession...
...Britain's tabloids are not impressed, however. The Daily Mirror led the chorus slamming the interview, citing everything from the choice of interviewer and setting to Woodward's attire and demeanor as an attempt to echo a famous Princess Diana BBC. More important, is the issue payment for her story. "The issue has assumed a lot more importance here than it would in the U.S.," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "Reports that her family may have received money for her story have hurt her credibility." The Daily Mail may have more cause than most of its rival tabloids...
...Eappen's wrongful death lawsuit is unlikely. That case opens October 5. Louise is not compelled to attend, nor will any financial penalty be enforceable in England. And unlike O.J., she won't have any millions to lose: The only interview Louise is doing is a freebie for the BBC. Chances are the first-class treatment ends here...
...again and again on Oprah and Dateline and Geraldo, before it was retold (and often mistold) in papers from the New York Times to the tabloids. Letourneau's relationship with Vili, who turns 15 in June, as well as her conviction and imprisonment, have drawn international attention. The BBC has come to Seattle to film a documentary. Her image has been an alluring paradox: at once darling suburban teacher and predatory monster; so blond, so pretty, so...dangerous to children? She is more complicated, of course, and soon several magazines will render her in brushstrokes instead of spray paint...