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...Rafiq is desperate to cash in on his 9-year-old's success.' British tabloid NEWS OF THE WORLD, claiming that Rafiq Qureshi, father of Slumdog Millionaire child actress Rubina Ali, tried to sell his daughter for Ł200,000 to undercover reporters...
...rare interview last year, he told the Wall Street Journal, "People write stories about me saying I have a Ferrari, a plane, a yacht. But it's not true. I've got three planes, two yachts, six houses. I've been rich all my life!" In 2004, his daughter Margarita wed Luis Alfonso de Borbón, a cousin of Spain's King Juan Carlos, great-grandson of the late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and a legitimate heir to the non-existent throne of France. They were married at Vargas' palatial mansion in the Dominican Republic, a wedding that...
...really realized, "Wow, my dad's a big shot." My children grew up with a famous name, so it was tough for them. I never tried to push them in any direction other than what they wanted to do. So they both went their own merry way. My daughter has a Masters in psychology and my son went into environmental economics. After proving to themselves that they could do other things, they knocked on the door and said we'd love to be part of the expedition...
...June in which issuers simply pay for rating agencies to review the securities with no requirement to produce a rating. Relieving this pressure to produce could foster objectivity and minimize conflicts of interest. In that case, though, the problem of being paid to judge your boss’s daughter, so to speak, still remains. The Cuomo plan does not change the “corporation-paid” model and its attendant conflicts of interest...
...heart. They still crew and act for Hollywood, but the country now churns out a steady roll of its own excellent small films. The year before Tsotsi won its Oscar, South Africa missed out on one for Yesterday, the story of an HIV-infected mother bringing up her daughter in dirt-poor KwaZulu Natal. In 2007 came Bunny Chow, a hip black-and-white comedy about three comedians traveling to a festival that recalled early Spike Lee. Last year featured Jerusalema, a sophisticated thriller about the rise and fall of a Johannesburg slumlord - a kind of South African American Gangster...