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Private letters written by Princess Diana to her lover James Hewitt during their 1989-91 affair have been handed over to Kensington Palace after a woman attempted to sell them to a tabloid newspaper. Hewitt's fiancée, Anna Ferretti, 39, tried to sell 62 handwritten letters to editors of the Mirror for $250,000, saying she wanted to sell them before Hewitt did, the paper claims. The letters ("said to be highly personal and emotional," according to the rival Daily Mail, revealing Diana's "innermost thoughts about the collapse of her marriage") reportedly had been taken from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diana's Love Letters Stolen | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

Several are foreigners, and Stein, who brought them together, provides some background: Julio Santo Domingo is a Colombian "whose father runs Avianca Airlines," Giora Rachminov is an Israeli "who does diamonds," and Mimmo Ferretti is the son of a Milanese clothing manufacturer. Ferretti is a last-minute replacement for Baron Roger de Cabrol, who is sick. "We wanted to call the band Euro-trash," Stein says, "but, instead, they're called the Greencards." He is grinning: a green card is the Government document issued to resident aliens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: A Deb Sings at Xenon | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

...boys trudging through a remote cemetery near Scranton, Pa., found the body of a woman who had been stabbed to death. Later that day, a man who identified himself as Roger Ferretti telephoned Scranton police to report that he had just killed a woman-and the call was routinely recorded. The cops located Ferretti, who denied killing the woman or making the call. Two days later police arrested Adam Topa, now 56, a factory worker who knew Ferretti and had been out drinking with the victim the night of the murder. The evidence against Topa was strong but largely circumstantial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Who Confessed? | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...news. Scarcely had Leonardo's Mona Lisa been removed from its shrouding of maroon drapery (which the gallery force had christened "Mona's kimona"), when a courtly ceremony took place in Washington's National Gallery. Italian Chargé d'Affaires Gian Luigi Milesi Ferretti, Chief Justice Earl Warren and Attorney General Robert Kennedy stood before a throng of art enthusiasts to unveil two small paintings on wood illustrating the labors of Hercules by the 15th century Italian painter Pollaiuolo, recently recovered in California after having been stolen from the Uffizi by the Nazis during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Show's the Thing | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

...complete the work of internal reform planned by the bishops at the First Vatican Council of 1869-1870. Last week Pope John XXIII announced that he hopes, during the course of the Council, to proclaim the beatification of the Pope who presided over that last council: Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti. who as Pius IX ruled longer (1846-1878) than any Pope in history. If he is later canonized, a process that might take decades, he will be called St. Pius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: St. Pius IX? | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

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