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PARIS: So you thought the wrangling over Princess Diana's tragic death was over? It's just getting warmed up. Former bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of the crash that killed the princess in August 1997, launched a lawsuit Wednesday against the Ritz Hotel and the Etoile-Limousine car service for "endangering the lives of others." As TIME reported in August, Rees-Jones and fellow bodyguard Kes Wingfield consider the hotel largely responsible for the tragic accident. Although Rees-Jones is still plagued by amnesia and doesn't remember what happened that fateful night, Wingfield told crash investigators...
...Jones will likely face each other in French court -- trading barbs over who was responsible for Henri Paul, the Mercedes driver who was found to be legally drunk. Given that Paul was the Ritz security chief, it doesn't look good for Al-Fayed. Then again, the spectacle of Diana's bodyguard doing legal battle with Dodi's grieving father doesn't do much for the princess's memory...
...their efforts to compile as exhaustive a record as possible, the two French judges investigating the death of Princess Diana grilled a controversial figure last week: RICHARD TOMLINSON, 35, a former officer of MI6, Britain's foreign-intelligence service. Tomlinson, who was fired by the agency in 1995, spent six months in jail last year for violating Britain's Official Secrets Act by trying to peddle a book critical...
...judges, related a hodgepodge of allegations, including his suspicion that the driver, Henri Paul, had once been a paid informant of MI6. But according to Tomlinson, the judges seemed most interested in his contention that a free-lance British photographer who covered the royals had regularly briefed MI6 on Diana's doings. The judges are trying to learn the identity of an English-speaking mustachioed photographer who was at the Ritz Hotel the night of the crash, and may have hoped that Tomlinson could shed light on the possibility that an MI6 agent had been following Diana that evening...