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When U.S. prosecutors indicted Sotheby's and Christie's, the country's pre-eminent auction houses, in a price-fixing scheme earlier this year, observers were giddy at the prospect of watching the high-toned lead players testify against each other in court. Last week Diana Brooks, Sotheby's elegant, blond ex-president, who was once considered the most powerful woman in the art world, did not disappoint. Brooks, who pleaded guilty last year to antitrust conspiracy and agreed to testify for the government, charged that her former boss, A. Alfred Taubman, was behind the plan that allegedly bilked patrons...
...Chaim Witz to his band's farewell tour--in a new autobiography, Kiss and Make-Up. Along with dirt on drug-crazed bandmates ("No different than your dad, who, when he comes home, gets drunk and becomes a moron," he tells TIME) and his relationships with Cher and Diana Ross ("I loved both women," he says, "and of course my problem, my blessing and my curse is that I love all women"). Still, he hastens to add, "Everything I've ever done is really because America and its people have given me a chance to do it." If his prose...
...trademark oversize glasses and a dog, Magic--in recent TV ads for Old Navy; of pulmonary illness; in New York City. An early advocate of Donna Karan and an editor for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the New York Times, Donovan appreciated highbrow and lowbrow fashion. Her mentor Diana Vreeland once told her, "My dear, you've got the common touch...
...biggest development in the case occurred two days ago, when Diana D. Brooks, Taubman’s former chief executive, testified as to her involvement in the scandal, saying that Taubman solicited her help and cautioned her to remain silent...
...same time, the women’s Atlantic Coast Championships were being held at the United States Naval Academy. There, the quintet of sophomores Jennie Philbrick, Diana Rodin, Emily Nielson, and Caroline Dixon and senior Rehana Gubin, representing the No. 6 Harvard women’s sailing team, did not fare quite as well, placing fourteenth. The young team was hampered by a lack of practice time, due both to darkness and to the fact that Harvard owns only two Flying Juniors and two 420s, the boats used in the competition...