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...death but thought it would be a quiet affair, presided over by a single judge. On Friday, however, Mohamed Al Fayed, the millionaire owner of Harrod's, won an unprecedented legal battle to have a jury hear the inquests into the 1997 deaths of Princess Diana and his son Dodi Fayed. Al Fayed believes Diana and his son were murdered by British intelligence. Three judges at London's High Court overturned a previous ruling by deputy royal coroner Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss in which she decided she would hear the case alone: "We quash the decisions to conduct the inquests...
...judges said that the main reason for their ruling was to protect the interests of public safety. Diana and Dodi Fayed were killed in Paris when their driver, trying to escape the paparazzi who had followed them from the Ritz Hotel, crashed into a pillar in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel. The judges argued that only a jury would be able to make appropriate recommendations on changing the law to stop paparazzi from harassing celebrities in the future. They also said that the "immense public interest" in the case worldwide called for transparency and made a jury necessary...
...Motive? Mohammed al-Fayed, the father of Dodi, who was also killed in the crash, contends the British establishment bumped off Dodi and Diana to hide her pregnancy or to keep them from getting married. But Stevens concluded on the basis of hospital records, tests on blood in the destroyed car and talking to Diana's friends who knew her menstrual cycle that she was not pregnant at the time of her death. And as for engagement to Dodi, he had bought a ring, but had not yet proposed, "and we believe she never saw that ring," said Stevens...
...Opportunity? The helter-skelter movements of Dodi Fayed and Diana in the hours before the crash, with last-minute changes of plan - Paul had been off duty until shortly before he got in the car, which left from the back of the hotel instead of the front, as expected - meant a murder operation of this complexity, to provoke a crash on an unanticipated route, could not have been mounted...
...Issey Miyake's admirers [LIVING, Oct. 21]. I have finally put away my Ivy League classics and am thrilled to be liberated by his exquisitely crafted clothes. I used to despise shopping, but no more. Now with every new season I am on the trail of Miyake's designs. Dodi Fromson Los Angeles Cosell's Confessions...