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CONVICTED. LYLE MENENDEZ, 28, and his brother ERIK, 25; of first-degree murder in the 1989 shotgun killings of parents Jose and Kitty; in Los Angeles. The first time, the brothers were tried in simultaneous courtroom proceedings with separate juries. Deliberations were deadlocked, and a mistrial was declared. This time, a single jury accepted the prosecution's argument that the pair executed their mother and father in order to tap into the family fortune, rejecting the defense's contention that the killings were a response to abuse...
...divorce today, ending a 38-year marriage which had survived his 27 year imprisonment. In granting the divorce, the court ruled that wife Winnie had failed to counter charges of adultery. On the first day of the divorce proceedings, the leader of the African National Congress told the packed courtroom that he had wished to resolve his marital problems in the privacy of their bedroom, "honorably and quietly, without washing our dirty linen in public." But Mandela said that since his release from prison, his wife had never even entered his bedroom while he was awake. Winnie Mandela had refused...
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: President Nelson Mandela told a divorce court today what had been rumored for years -- that wife Winnie Mandela had cheated on him during his 27-year imprisonment. On the first day of the divorce proceedings, the leader of the African National Congress told the packed courtroom that he had wished to resolve his marital problems in the privacy of their bedroom, "honorably and quietly, without washing our dirty linen in public." But Mandela said that since his release from prison, his wife had never even entered his bedroom while he was awake. Winnie Mandela has refused...
...testimony on Monday, Womack--who has a virtually inaudible voice and a unique, long-armed gait that has spawned his courtroom nickname, "Thumper"--told the jury, "I stole those books as...retaliation against the system...
Whichever side prevails, the courtroom shenanigans and attendant publicity threw uncommon, and some would say unwelcome, light on one of publishing's oddest sidelines. The rise of the celebrity novel--of books that may or may not have been written by the famous names on the covers--can be traced back to the mid-1960s. Then, Jacqueline Susann and her husband-- press agent Irving Mansfield so relentlessly promoted her on TV and wherever else prospective readers could be buttonholed that Susann's novel Valley of the Dolls (1966) became a monster best seller. Other novels followed from her teeming...